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Societal Dynamics: Understanding Social Knowledge and Wisdom (Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management #11)
by Frederick BetzAt both a micro-information level and a macro-societal level, the concepts of “knowledge” and “wisdom” are complementary – in both decisions and in social structures and institutions. At the decision level, knowledge is concerned with how to make a proper choice of means, where “best” is measured as the efficiency toward achieving an end. Wisdom is concerned with how to make a proper choice of ends that attain “best” values.At a societal level, knowledge is managed through science/technology and innovation. And while science/technology is society's way to create new means with high efficiencies, they reveal nothing about values. Technology can be used for good or for evil, to make the world into a garden or to destroy all life. It is societal wisdom which should influence the choice of proper ends -- ends to make the world a garden.How can society make progress in wisdom as well as knowledge? Historically, the disciplines of the physical sciences and biology have provided scientific foundations for societal knowledge But the social science disciplines of sociology, economics, political science have not provided a similar scientific foundation for societal wisdom. To redress this gap, Frederick Betz examines several cases in recent history that display a fundamental paradox between scientific/technological achievement with devastating social effects (i.e., historical events of ideological dictatorships in Russia, Germany, China, and Yugoslavia). He builds a new framework for applying social science perspectives to explain societal histories and social theory. Emerging from this methodological and empirical investigation is a general topological theory of societal dynamics. This theory and methodology can be used to integrate history and social science toward establishing grounded principles of societal wisdom.
Strategic Business Models: Idealism and Realism in Strategy
by Frederick BetzStrategy needs to be partly idealistic and partly realistic. On the one hand, it exists to help managers and executives envision the most beneficial future possible—one that is optimally competitive and profitable. But such visualizing needs to go hand-in-hand with concrete planning. In order to formulate a strategy that will really work, organizations need to master the technique of modelling in order to plan what can properly be called strategic business model, a model that both depicts the operations of a business and that provides the analytical basis for examining and formulating the plan for the future operations of a firm. Here leading expert Frederick Betz reviews the strategic modelling technique and applies it to diverse kinds of businesses, both productive and financial, and including banks and hedge funds. He illustrates the possibilities of this technique—and the pitfalls of using it incorrectly—by applying it to real business cases, some successful and some problematic. As strategic business models are important to understand the transformative operations of an enterprise system for present and future competitiveness, Betz’s exploration into both manufacturing and financial firms, along with retailing firms and conglomerates, broadens the business literature. Strategic Business Models: Idealism and Realism in Strategy is essential reading for managers and strategists wishing to optimize the effectiveness of their strategic planning.
Strategic Business Models: Idealism and Realism in Strategy
by Frederick BetzStrategy needs to be partly idealistic and partly realistic. On the one hand, it exists to help managers and executives envision the most beneficial future possible—one that is optimally competitive and profitable. But such visualizing needs to go hand-in-hand with concrete planning. In order to formulate a strategy that will really work, organizations need to master the technique of modelling in order to plan what can properly be called strategic business model, a model that both depicts the operations of a business and that provides the analytical basis for examining and formulating the plan for the future operations of a firm. Here leading expert Frederick Betz reviews the strategic modelling technique and applies it to diverse kinds of businesses, both productive and financial, and including banks and hedge funds. He illustrates the possibilities of this technique—and the pitfalls of using it incorrectly—by applying it to real business cases, some successful and some problematic. As strategic business models are important to understand the transformative operations of an enterprise system for present and future competitiveness, Betz’s exploration into both manufacturing and financial firms, along with retailing firms and conglomerates, broadens the business literature. Strategic Business Models: Idealism and Realism in Strategy is essential reading for managers and strategists wishing to optimize the effectiveness of their strategic planning.
Urbane Events (Erlebniswelten)
by Gregor Betz Ronald Hitzler Michaela PfadenhauerIn unterschiedlichen sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen werden aktuell Events als Elemente posttraditionaler Vergemeinschaftungsformen, als massenmediale Phänomene, als organisationale und koordinatorische Aufgaben sowie als Instrumente oder auch Resultate der Stadtentwicklung und Reurbanisierung diskutiert. In Gegenwartsgesellschaften stehen beziehungsweise stellen sich folglich insbesondere Städte und Regionen unter Eventisierungsdruck. Die Beiträge dieses interdisziplinär angelegten Bandes greifen den Diskurs über „Urbane Events“ auf, führen aktuelle Entwicklungen zusammen und tragen dergestalt zur Vertiefung der einschlägigen Reflexionen bei.
Vergnügter Protest: Erkundungen hybridisierter Formen kollektiven Ungehorsams (Erlebniswelten)
by Gregor J. BetzIm Fokus dieser Studie stehen als Protest gerahmte Ereignisse, bei denen politische Forderungen mit kollektivem Spaß, Erlebnis, Spektakel und Vergnügen verbunden Ausdruck verliehen wird. Zu den längst tradierten kulturellen und Spaß betonenden Protestelementen werden aktuell vielfältige neue Ausdrucksformen und Programmelemente in das Repertoire der Organisierenden von Protest aufgenommen. Dabei werden häufig in anderen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen tradierte Rituale übernommen, modern interpretiert und neu miteinander verknüpft. Diese ‚hybridisierten‘ Formen kollektiven Ungehorsams werden anhand von drei Fallbeispielen ethnografisch und wissenssoziologisch fundiert erforscht und dabei die Bedeutung von Vergnügen, Freude und Spaß herausgearbeitet.
Hybride Events: Zur Diskussion zeitgeistiger Veranstaltungen (Erlebniswelten)
by Gregor J. Betz Ronald Hitzler Arne Niederbacher Lisa SchäferSchnippeldiskos, Kopfhörerpartys, BarCamps, Star Wars-Gottesdienste: Als Hybride Events bezeichnen wir solche inszenierten Ereignisse, die aus augenfälligen Kombinationen mindestens zweier Arten von Ereignissen bestehen, die als verschiedenen kulturellen Bereichen zugehörig angesehen werden (z.B. Fest und Feier, Ernst und Spaß, Information und Unterhaltung, Action und Comedy, Wissenschaft und Sport usw.). In dem Band untersuchen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler unterschiedlicher geisteswissenschaftlicher Disziplinen Fallbeispiele solcher Ereignisse, versuchen diese theoretisch zu fassen und gesellschaftsdiagnostisch auszuwerten.
Internet Governance: Wer regiert wie das Internet?
by Joachim Betz Hans-Dieter KüblerÜber die politische Einschätzung und den Regelungsbedarf des Internets ist im Laufe seiner kurzen Geschichte weltweit schon viel und unterschiedlich debattiert worden. Wiederholt sind diverse Themen in den Vordergrund geschoben worden: etwa digital divide, Netzneutralität, Cyberkriminalität, Datenschutz etc. Jeweils verschiedene Akteure haben sich dafür engagiert und ihre Interessen vertreten. Diese Einführung arbeitet die relevanten Handlungsfelder, die maßgeblichen Akteure international, regional und national sowie die getroffenen Regelungen und die sich aktuell und künftig abzeichnenden Regelungsbedarfe systematisch auf und erläutert sie an Fallbeispielen. Damit leistet sie zugleich einen grundsätzlichen Beitrag zur anhaltenden Globalisierung medial-digitaler Kommunikation.
Frankfurt am Main - eine Stadt für alle?: Konfliktfelder, Orte und soziale Kämpfe (Urban Studies)
by Johanna Betz Svenja Keitzel Jürgen Schardt Sebastian Schipper Sara Schmitt Pacífico Felix WiegandProzesse der Stadtentwicklung sind immer auch von sozialen Kämpfen begleitet. Die Beitragenden des Bandes beleuchten aus Perspektive der Wissenschaft, sozialer Bewegungen und zivilgesellschaftlicher Initiativen aktuelle Konfliktfelder in der Global City Frankfurt am Main und diskutieren in anschaulichen Formaten, welche strukturellen Bedingungen, gesellschaftlichen Kräfteverhältnisse und machtvollen Akteure die Mainmetropole prägen. Sie analysieren, wie neoliberale und autoritäre Tendenzen soziale Ausschlüsse produzieren. Durch den Fokus auf die vielfältigen Kämpfe werden zugleich Wege für eine solidarische und demokratische Stadt für alle aufgezeigt.
Organisierte Zerrissenheit: Emotionsregimes und Interaktionsarbeit in Pflege und Weiterbildung (Arbeit und Organisation #14)
by Sigrid Betzelt Ingo Bode Sarina Parschick Andreas AlbertInteraktionsarbeit im Bereich personenbezogener (sozialer) Dienste ist von hohem Engagement, aber auch vielen Belastungen geprägt. Inkonsistente wohlfahrtsstaatliche Rahmenbedingungen sorgen systematisch für Spannungen, die das Personal strapazieren und vielfach in Zustände der Zerrissenheit führen. In Fallstudien aus der Altenpflege und der geförderten Weiterbildung demonstrieren die Autor*innen, dass Emotionen hierbei eine kritische Rolle spielen. Sie zeigen zudem, wie diese Zustände darauf einwirken, mit wem sich die Beschäftigten in welcher Weise verbunden fühlen und wie es um deren Widerstandsbereitschaft bestellt ist. Wie die bestehenden Verhältnisse sich ändern ließen, wird anhand sozialpolitischer Alternativen und Veränderungspotenziale durch neue Formen kollektiver Interessenvertretung diskutiert.
Deformation oder Transformation?: Analysen zum wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Wandel im 21. Jahrhundert
by Sigrid Betzelt Thilo FehmelDer Sammelband verfolgt die Idee, beobachtbare De- und Transformationen der Wohlfahrtsproduktion sichtbar zu machen und daraufhin zu prüfen, wie grundlegend und wie nachhaltig sie jeweils sind. Analytisch werden dabei verschiedene Aspekte des Wandels resp. Ebenen unterschieden, auf denen sich De- und Transformationen der Wohlfahrtsproduktion manifestieren (können): der Wandel sozialpolitischer Ziele, Normen und Leitbilder, der Wandel von Akteurs- und Steuerungskonstellationen bei der Wohlfahrtsproduktion, Transformationen auf Ebene der Subjekte im transformierten Wohlfahrtsstaat und schließlich alternative Modelle der Wohlfahrtsproduktion und der sozialen Sicherung.
The Neuroscience of Organizational Behavior
by Constant D. BeugréThe Neuroscience of Organizational Behavior establishes the scientific foundations of organizational neuroscience, a nascent discipline that explores the neural correlates of human behavior in organizations. This timely and insightful book draws from several disciplines including the organizational sciences, neuroeconomics, cognitive psychology, social cognitive neuroscience and neuroscience to review the neuroscientific methods and techniques that organizational scholars can use to study the neural basis of organizational behavior. The topics discussed include the neural foundations of decision-making, leadership, fairness, trust and cooperation, emotions, ethics and morality, unconscious bias and diversity in the workplace. Organizational neuroscience can provide valuable insights for organizational scholars to develop new theories, refine existing theories, ask new questions or reformulate old questions. This book will not only serve as a resource for scholars and graduate students studying organizational behavior, it could also provide guidelines to managers in helping them to better understand and manage employees and organizations.
SuburbiaNation: Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth Century American Film and Fiction
by R. BeukaThe expansion of the suburban environment is a fascinating cultural development. In fact, the United States is primarily a suburban nation, with far more Americans living in the suburbs that in either urban or rural areas. Why were suburbs created to begin with? How do we define them? Are they really the promised land of the American middle class? The concept of space and how we create it is a concept that is receiving a great deal of academic attention, but no one has looked carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film.
Data Analytics and Digital Transformation (Business and Digital Transformation)
by Erik Beulen Marla A. DansUnderstanding the significance of data analytics is paramount for digital transformation but in many organizations they are separate units without fully aligned goals. As organizations are applying digital transformations to be adaptive and agile in a competitive environment, data analytics can play a critical role in their success. This book explores the crossroads between them and how to leverage their connection for improved business outcomes. The need to collaborate and share data is becoming an integral part of digital transformation. This not only creates new opportunities but also requires well-considered and continuously assessed decision-making as competitiveness is at stake. This book details approaches, concepts, and frameworks, as well as actionable insights and good practices, including combined data management and agile concepts. Critical issues are discussed such as data quality and data governance, as well as compliance, privacy, and ethics. It also offers insights into how both private and public organizations can innovate and keep up with growing data volumes and increasing technological developments in the short, mid, and long term. This book will be of direct appeal to global researchers and students across a range of business disciplines, including technology and innovation management, organizational studies, and strategic management. It is also relevant for policy makers, regulators, and executives of private and public organizations looking to implement successful transformation policies.
Data Analytics and Digital Transformation (Business and Digital Transformation)
by Erik Beulen Marla A. DansUnderstanding the significance of data analytics is paramount for digital transformation but in many organizations they are separate units without fully aligned goals. As organizations are applying digital transformations to be adaptive and agile in a competitive environment, data analytics can play a critical role in their success. This book explores the crossroads between them and how to leverage their connection for improved business outcomes. The need to collaborate and share data is becoming an integral part of digital transformation. This not only creates new opportunities but also requires well-considered and continuously assessed decision-making as competitiveness is at stake. This book details approaches, concepts, and frameworks, as well as actionable insights and good practices, including combined data management and agile concepts. Critical issues are discussed such as data quality and data governance, as well as compliance, privacy, and ethics. It also offers insights into how both private and public organizations can innovate and keep up with growing data volumes and increasing technological developments in the short, mid, and long term. This book will be of direct appeal to global researchers and students across a range of business disciplines, including technology and innovation management, organizational studies, and strategic management. It is also relevant for policy makers, regulators, and executives of private and public organizations looking to implement successful transformation policies.
Evolutionary Governance Theory: Theory and Applications (Springerbriefs In Economics Ser.)
by Raoul Beunen Kristof Van Assche Martijn DuineveldThis volume presents empirical studies and theoretical reflections on Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT), its most important concepts and their interrelations. As a novel theory of governance, EGT understands governance as radically evolutionary, which implies that all elements of governance are subject to evolution, that these elements co-evolve and that many of them are the product of governance itself. Through this book we learn how communities understand themselves and their environment and why they create the complex structures and processes we analyze as governance paths. Authors from different disciplines develop the EGT framework further and apply it to a wide rage networks of power, governance of agricultural resources etc. The contributors also reflect on the possibilities and limitations of steering, intervention, management and development in a world continuously in flux. It bridges the gap between more fundamental and philosophical accounts of the social sciences and applied studies, offering theoretical advancements as well as practical recommendations.
Taking the Floor: Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room
by Daniel BeunzaDebates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn’t depend solely on how it is structured—organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives-trading room, Taking the Floor considers how the culture of financial organizations might change in order for them to remain healthy, even in times of crises. In particular, Daniel Beunza explores how the extensive use of financial models and trading technologies over the recent decades has exerted a far-ranging and troubling influence on Wall Street. How have models reshaped financial markets? How have models altered moral behavior in organizations?Beunza takes readers behind the scenes in a bank unit that, within its firm, is widely perceived to be “a class act,” and he considers how this trading room unit might serve as a blueprint solution for the ills of Wall Street’s unsustainable culture. Beunza demonstrates that the integration of traders across desks reduces the danger of blind spots created by models. Warning against the risk of moral disengagement posed by the use of models, he also contends that such disengagement could be avoided by instituting moral norms and social relations.Providing a unique perspective on a complex subject, Taking the Floor profiles what an effective, responsible trading room can and should look like.
Taking the Floor: Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room
by Daniel BeunzaDebates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn’t depend solely on how it is structured—organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives-trading room, Taking the Floor considers how the culture of financial organizations might change in order for them to remain healthy, even in times of crises. In particular, Daniel Beunza explores how the extensive use of financial models and trading technologies over the recent decades has exerted a far-ranging and troubling influence on Wall Street. How have models reshaped financial markets? How have models altered moral behavior in organizations?Beunza takes readers behind the scenes in a bank unit that, within its firm, is widely perceived to be “a class act,” and he considers how this trading room unit might serve as a blueprint solution for the ills of Wall Street’s unsustainable culture. Beunza demonstrates that the integration of traders across desks reduces the danger of blind spots created by models. Warning against the risk of moral disengagement posed by the use of models, he also contends that such disengagement could be avoided by instituting moral norms and social relations.Providing a unique perspective on a complex subject, Taking the Floor profiles what an effective, responsible trading room can and should look like.
Human Centered Organizational Culture: Global Dimensions (Human Centered Management)
by Nicholas J. Beutell Peter Essens María Teresa Lepeley Nicolas Majluf Oswaldo MoralesThis book is part of the Human Centered Book Trilogy, the 2021 volumes of the Routledge Human Centered Management HCM Series. HCM books are pioneering transformation from the traditional humans-as-a-resource approach of the industrial past, to the humans at the center management and organizational paradigm of the 21st century. HCM is built on talent and wellbeing of people in the workplace driving work engagement, quality standards, high performance and productivity for long-term organizational sustainability in the global VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment. This book was carefully crafted by recognized international human centered scholars from four continents. Although all organizations seek to have an optimal culture, unstoppable disruptions in the VUCA environment easily derail even the best efforts. Conventional assumptions of culture as a unifying organizational force are hardly defendable today. HCM maintains that culture is not only about cohesiveness and consensus but effective management of conflict and disagreements continuously testing the capacity of people to work together. This book is about organizational transformation positioning people at the center. Complementary chapters integrate as antidotes to overcome disruptions in the VUCA environment and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting people and organizations worldwide. This and its two complementary titles Soft Skills for Human Centered Management and Global Sustainability and Sensible Leadership: Human Centered, Insightful and Prudent are timely readings for leaders, managers, researchers, academics, practitioners, students and the general public responsible for organizations across industries and sectors worldwide pursuing quality standards and organizational transformation to attain sustainability.
Soft Skills for Human Centered Management and Global Sustainability (Human Centered Management)
by Nicholas J. Beutell María Teresa Lepeley Nicolas Majluf Nureya AbarcaThis book is part of the Human Centered Book Trilogy, the 2021 volumes of the Routledge Human Centered Management HCM Series. HCM books are pioneering transformation from the traditional humans-as-a-resource approach of the industrial past, to the humans at the center management and organizational paradigm of the 21st century. HCM is built on the talent and wellbeing of people in the workplace driving work engagement, quality standards, high performance and productivity to attain long-term organizational sustainability in the global VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment. This book was carefully crafted by recognized international human centered scholars from four continents. Models presented bridge persistent Soft Skills gaps in management and business and particularly between education and the workforce due to excessive testing and hard/technical skills. In contrast with hard skills, Soft Skills are transferable across jobs, industries and applicable to all dimensions of life. Soft Skills are the common language of empathy, collaboration, team building, resilience and agility transforming organizations. Human and social challenges cannot be solved only with hard skills. This is a "must read Soft Skills manual" for survival and success based on attributes all human beings possess but not everybody is optimizing to excel in life and work. This and its two complementary titles Human Centered Organizational Culture: Global Dimensions and Sensible Leadership: Human Centered, Insightful and Prudent are timely readings for leaders, managers, researchers, academics, practitioners, students and the general public responsible for organizations across industries and sectors pursuing quality standards, organizational transformation and sustainability.
The Routledge Handbook of Global Perspectives on Homelessness, Law & Policy
by Chris BevanThis handbook provides a comprehensive global survey and assessment of the law and policy relating to homelessness prevention. Homelessness is regarded internationally as one of the most pressing issues facing humanity and one of the greatest social challenges of our times. This has been further amplified as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Across the globe, there is an enormous divergence in both experiences of and responses to homelessness from governments and state actors. This handbook examines how different jurisdictions from across all five continents of the world have encountered, framed and responded to homelessness. Written by expert scholars and leaders in their field, the book engages in a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of homelessness as an issue of acute social concern. Understandings of homelessness are geographically, culturally and historically situated, making analysis of each jurisdiction’s approach by a national expert deeply insightful. The collection examines legal and extra-legal policy interventions targeted at reducing or preventing homelessness from across the globe. Drawing on diverse perspectives, differing cultures and welfare regimes, it thus constitutes a timely evaluation of current approaches to homelessness internationally. This book will appeal to students and scholars of homelessness, sociology, social policy, anthropology, and urban sociology, as well as international and national policymakers.
21st Century Workforces and Workplaces: The Challenges and Opportunities for Future Work Practices and Labour Markets
by Stephen Bevan Ian Brinkley Cary Cooper Zofia BajorekWhat does the future of work look like? Every day, workplace decisions are made that directly impact and change the workforce of tomorrow. From the way we are managed to the rewards we receive, all aspects of our work life are determined by the changing dynamics of the workplace. Recent concerns about globalisation, productivity and the introduction of new technologies have raised questions about the future of the workforce and job security. But are these concerns really justified? 21st Century Workforces and Workplaces charts, explains and analyses the past five years, which has seen the rewriting of much of what we thought we knew about employment and how workplaces respond to pressure. The book also outlines what hasn't changed and, in doing so, distinguishes myth from reality.Stephen Bevan, Ian Brinkley, Zofia Bajorek and Cary L. Cooper combine their considerable expertise to discuss the critical questions for any member of any workplace, including:· Are permanent, long-term jobs a thing of the past?· Does work have to be a 'place'?· How will future managers be selected, educated and developed?· What is the future for trade unions? · Beyond pay, how will rewards evolve to incentivise workers alongside responsible capitalism?· Are we seeing the end of retirement? This book takes what we know and projects how the future labour market will develop. 21st Century Workforces and Workplaces asks what sort of work environments we want to see in 2025 and what we can do today to help bring about the necessary changes.
21st Century Workforces and Workplaces: The Challenges and Opportunities for Future Work Practices and Labour Markets
by Stephen Bevan Ian Brinkley Cary Cooper Zofia BajorekWhat does the future of work look like? Every day, workplace decisions are made that directly impact and change the workforce of tomorrow. From the way we are managed to the rewards we receive, all aspects of our work life are determined by the changing dynamics of the workplace. Recent concerns about globalisation, productivity and the introduction of new technologies have raised questions about the future of the workforce and job security. But are these concerns really justified? 21st Century Workforces and Workplaces charts, explains and analyses the past five years, which has seen the rewriting of much of what we thought we knew about employment and how workplaces respond to pressure. The book also outlines what hasn't changed and, in doing so, distinguishes myth from reality.Stephen Bevan, Ian Brinkley, Zofia Bajorek and Cary L. Cooper combine their considerable expertise to discuss the critical questions for any member of any workplace, including:· Are permanent, long-term jobs a thing of the past?· Does work have to be a 'place'?· How will future managers be selected, educated and developed?· What is the future for trade unions? · Beyond pay, how will rewards evolve to incentivise workers alongside responsible capitalism?· Are we seeing the end of retirement? This book takes what we know and projects how the future labour market will develop. 21st Century Workforces and Workplaces asks what sort of work environments we want to see in 2025 and what we can do today to help bring about the necessary changes.
The Healthy Workforce: Enhancing Wellbeing and Productivity in the Workers of the Future (The Future of Work)
by Stephen Bevan Cary L. CooperMental health issues, stress and chronic illness are the biggest causes of absence from work and loss of productivity in most Western economies. Research and public awareness of this epidemic of physical and mental ill-health among working age people is growing, but our understanding of its impact on company performance and productivity and possible solutions for the future is less advanced. The Healthy Workforce: Enhancing Wellbeing and Productivity in the Workers of the Future examines current challenges and future solutions to understand issues around how we can improve the health of today's and tomorrow's workforce. This book will look at why workforce health is such an important challenge for businesses, governments and for employees today and how this will increase in the future with an ageing workforce. Closely linked to the authors' exploration of health issues in the work context is a focus on the impact of worker health on direct and indirect productivity costs. This book offers practical guidance for professionals on getting started in the delivery of an effective and evidence-based workplace health plan which can enhance and sustain productivity growth in business now and for the future.
The Healthy Workforce: Enhancing Wellbeing and Productivity in the Workers of the Future (The Future of Work)
by Stephen Bevan Cary L. CooperMental health issues, stress and chronic illness are the biggest causes of absence from work and loss of productivity in most Western economies. Research and public awareness of this epidemic of physical and mental ill-health among working age people is growing, but our understanding of its impact on company performance and productivity and possible solutions for the future is less advanced. The Healthy Workforce: Enhancing Wellbeing and Productivity in the Workers of the Future examines current challenges and future solutions to understand issues around how we can improve the health of today's and tomorrow's workforce. This book will look at why workforce health is such an important challenge for businesses, governments and for employees today and how this will increase in the future with an ageing workforce. Closely linked to the authors' exploration of health issues in the work context is a focus on the impact of worker health on direct and indirect productivity costs. This book offers practical guidance for professionals on getting started in the delivery of an effective and evidence-based workplace health plan which can enhance and sustain productivity growth in business now and for the future.
The Development of British Immigration Law (Routledge Library Editions: Immigration and Migration #8)
by Vaughan BevanThe Development of British Immigration Law (1986) examines the policies and laws of immigration law in the UK. It demonstrates that many modern issues have historical precedents. The justifications for immigration control are examined and linked to a discussion of nationality law and race relations. It is argued that the laws and practices of immigration are unnecessarily rigid and racist, both in design and in effect; that the record of the UK is a sorry chapter in the field of human rights but one which is consistent with international state practice; that immigration is an ideal model to illustrate the UK’s general treatment of civil liberties. Particular aspects of the subject are examined in depth to illustrate the attitudes of government, the courts and civil servants.