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Managing Work and Relationships at 35 000 Feet A Practical Guide for Making Personal Life Fit Aircrew Shift Work Jetlag and Absence from Home

Managing Work and Relationships at 35 000 Feet A Practical Guide for Making Personal Life Fit Aircrew Shift Work Jetlag and Absence from Home

This book seeks to contribute to a psychological perspective to aircrew wellbeing and help aircrew to acquire an understanding of how to better manage the many challenges arising from sleep deprivation and frequent absence from friends and loved others at home. | Managing Work and Relationships at 35 000 Feet A Practical Guide for Making Personal Life Fit Aircrew Shift Work Jetlag and Absence from Home

GBP 130.00
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Work Design: Occupational Ergonomics

Work Design: Occupational Ergonomics

This book gives readers the tools they need to achieve work design that is ergonomically effective while remaining economically feasible. Whether studying work design/ergonomics in a college classroom preparing for the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE) exam or working as a professional in the field readers can depend on this book to provide them with the information they need. Work Design is a single source for ergonomics work design and work measurement. Its engineering orientation equips readers with practical design information and procedures; its explicit organization conversational style and clear explanations make it easy to read and understand. The book's many charts and graphics dynamically illustrate important concepts and principles and its extensive references give readers confidence in the material. | Work Design: Occupational Ergonomics

GBP 175.00
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Social Work and Social Care

Social Work and Social Care

Social Work and Social Care has been revised and updated to take into account the profound changes that have occurred in social work over the past two years in particular the extensive legislative changes to childrens and community care services. A new chapter examines the relevance of social exclusion for social work and continues to affirm the importance of equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice within social work. Social Work and Social Care: outlines the importance of social policy for social work describes the powerful ideological forces that underpin current practice considers the future of social work and social care within altered social and political contexts covers all main areas of social work includes a glossary and useful website addresses. This book is essential reading for students approaching the study of social work social care and social policy and includes the most current research available.

GBP 120.00
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Women in Social Work

Women in Social Work

Women have always played an important and dominant role in social work. Originally published in 1975 their special contribution to the profession is the theme of this book in which demographic data biographical material and records of social work organizations are skilfully used to show how women shaped the development of social work from 1860 to the 1970s often in the face of strong male resistance. Covering the earlier years of the period Dr Walton examines the links with the general movement for women’s rights as well as differences in the attitudes of women social workers to those of the suffrage movement. He shows how the growing influx of men into social work in more recent times has affected the position of their female colleagues. He discusses variations in the proportion of sexes in probation psychiatric social work child welfare and medical social work analyses typical patterns of employment for women social workers and evaluates the appointment in 1971 of directors of the social services. The author also looks into the future exploring the potential contribution of women to the social work profession with suggestions as to how the problems of women’s employment in social work might be overcome. | Women in Social Work

GBP 115.00
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The Meaning of Work Papers on Work Organization and the Design of Jobs

The Meaning of Work Papers on Work Organization and the Design of Jobs

The author has spent forty years working on the twin themes of the practice of social science in organizations and the importance of work and work organization. Papers on the first of these were published as Working Across the Gap (catalogue number 20169). This volume brings together papers covering the second theme the meaning and organizati | The Meaning of Work Papers on Work Organization and the Design of Jobs

GBP 130.00
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Work and Unemployment 1834-1911

Work and Unemployment 1834-1911

This volume explores primarily late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century efforts to solve the problem of unemployment in the context of the new understandings of ‘unemployment’. The sources show the continuing power of discovering men’s commitment to work by finding ways to make them work. This volume focuses on emigration to put unemployed men to work in the British colonies the various projects to employ urban men without work on the land and the increasing ‘Intervention of the State’ in efforts like emigration and labour colonies. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary this volume will be of great interest to students of British History. | Work and Unemployment 1834-1911

GBP 120.00
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Regulating Gig Work Decent Labour Standards in a World of On-demand Work

Regulating Gig Work Decent Labour Standards in a World of On-demand Work

Digital revolution demands new approaches to regulating work. The ‘Uberisation’ of work is not in reality a new phenomenon. It reintroduces the practices of ‘on-demand’ engagement of labour common prior to the development of continuing employment. What is new however is the capacity of digital technology to engage labour in ways that avoid characterisation as employment according to the legal tests developed in the 20th century. This book tackles the challenge of ensuring that the emerging tribes of ‘gig’ workers in labour markets across the globe are afforded decent standards of work. This book discusses how to provide decent conditions and safe working standards for on-demand workers engaged through digital platforms. It interrogates the rise of gig work and the legal strategies that might be engaged to deal with the risk that on-demand work will fall and remain outside of employment protections. It draws on observations of practices across the globe but focusses particularly on regulatory solutions developed in Australia. The book will be a useful reference to policy making and legal reforms to address vulnerabilities of gig workers. | Regulating Gig Work Decent Labour Standards in a World of On-demand Work

GBP 130.00
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Standard Work for Lean Healthcare

Standard Work for Lean Healthcare

Proven to increase efficiencies in the manufacturing sector Standard Work has become a key element in reducing process waste ensuring patient safety and improving healthcare services. Part of the Lean Tools for Healthcare Series this reader-friendly book builds on the success of the bestselling Standard Work for the Shopfloor. Standard Work for Lean Healthcare explains how to apply this powerful Lean tool to increase patient safety and reduce the cost of providing healthcare services. It illustrates how standardization can help you establish best practices for performing daily work and why it should be the cornerstone for all of your continuous improvement efforts. Presented in an easy-to-assimilate format the book describes work in terms of cycle time work in process takt time and layout. It also: Defines the key concepts of standard work and explores the essential elements of a continuous improvement culture Provides detailed guidance through the process of creating maintaining and improving standards Illustrates the application of standardization and standard work in healthcare with a range of examples Includes access to helpful websites and further reading on standardization standard work the 5S System and Lean healthcare A joint effort between the Rona Consulting Group and Productivity Press this book presents invaluable insights from pioneers in Lean thinking to help you avoid common mistakes that can lead to unnecessary wastes of time and resources. Each richly illustrated chapter includes a chapter summary reflection questions and margin assists that highlight key terms how-to steps and healthcare examples making this an essential resource for healthcare professionals starting out on their Lean journey.

GBP 170.00
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Motivation to Work

Motivation to Work

Quality work that fosters job satisfaction and health enjoys top priority in industry all over the world. This was not always so. Until recently analysis of job attitudes focused primarily on human relations problems within organizations. While American industry was trying to solve the unsolvable problem of avoiding interpersonal dissatisfaction problems with the potential for solution such as training and quality production were ignored. When first published 'The Motivation to Work' challenged the received wisdom by showing that worker fulfillment came from achievement and growth within the job itself. In his new introduction Herzberg examines thirty years of motivational research in job-related areas. Based on workers' accounts of real events that have made them feel good or bad on the job the findings of Herzberg and his colleagues have stimulated research and controversy that continue to the present day. The authors surprisingly found that while a poor work environment generated discontent improved conditions seldom brought about improved attitudes. Instead satisfaction came most often from factors intrinsic to work: achievements job recognition and work that was challenging interesting and responsible. The evidence marshaled by this volume called into question many previous assumptions about job satisfaction and worker motivation. Feelings about intrinsic and extrinsic factors could not be validly averaged on a single scale of measurement. Motivation and performance are not merely dependent upon environmental needs and external rewards. Frederick Herzberg and his staff based their motivation—hygiene theory on a variety of human needs and applied it to a strategy of job enrichment that has widely influenced motivation and job design strategies. 'Motivation to Work' is a landmark volume that is of enduring interest to sociologists psychologists labor studies specialists and organization analysts.

GBP 145.00
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Psychology and Work Today

Psychology and Work Today

Psychology and Work Today 11th Edition is an exciting update of a well-loved textbook that introduces industrial and organizational psychology explaining how industrial-organizational psychologists make work and working better. This accessible and informative text explains how industrial-organizational psychologists help organizations hire the best people by designing tests and interviews that uncover the skills and abilities of applicants make work better by removing or reducing safety issues and sources of stress so that personnel are motivated and able to perform to their abilities and work with managers and leaders to be more effective at leading others. This book also describes how industrial-organizational psychologists work with organizations to embrace diversity in the workforce and celebrate the strengths that employees from many backgrounds bring to organizations. In addition this text includes how psychologists help organizations to design the physical work environment to best suit employees while other psychologists help organizations to market their products and services to consumers. This text covers both the essential and traditional industrial-organizational psychology topic areas such as job analysis employee selection and work motivation as well as topic areas that are important in workplaces today such as stress and well-being human factors and preparing for jobs of the future. The chapter on consumer psychology remains unique to this textbook. This new edition includes coverage of employable skills desired by hiring managers and executives; the ways the highly publicized replicability crisis has affected the science and practice of industrial-organizational psychology; online and mobile employment testing; diversity and inclusion throughout the workplace including microaggressions; preparing people and organizations for jobs of the future; incivility and harassment at work including abusive supervision; safety climate and employee health; and advertising on social media and video games. Including many illustrative examples of industrial-organizational psychology in real-world workplaces the 11th Edition is thoroughly updated to include the latest theory research and practice on each key topic. Each chapter features defined key terms a chapter outline a chapter summary review questions annotated additional reading and engaging Newsbreak sections. The book will be of interest to undergraduate students in introduction industrial-organizational psychology or psychology of work behaviour courses.

GBP 170.00
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Nursing Home Social Work Research

Nursing Home Social Work Research

This book focuses on the characteristics roles and training needs of social service delivery providers in leadership roles in U. S. skilled nursing facilities. The chapters in this volume explore a range of issues salient to nursing home social workers and social work practices such as realistic staffing ratios qualification levels dementia training needs involvement in care transitions and admissions and barriers to psychosocial care. The book also addresses the Social Service Directors’ involvement in and preparation for disaster care planning suicide risk management and serious mental illness. This edited collection will greatly benefit students academics and researchers in nursing psychology health and social work. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Gerontological Social Work. | Nursing Home Social Work Research

GBP 130.00
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Decent Work-Life in Business Essential Tool for Sustainable Development

Decent Work-Life in Business Essential Tool for Sustainable Development

Decent Work-Life in Business: Essential Tool for Sustainable Development presents a detailed discussion of the concept of decent work-life and its application in business for sustainable development. It discusses decent work-life culture in a business environment. The book makes a strong case for decent work which not only provides work opportunities but also delivers a fair income fair treatment security at the workplace and social protection for families. With the help of empirical data and statistical indicators it explores themes such as: ILO and decent work agenda opportunities for work and dignity at work social dimensions of globalization and sustainable development poverty reduction through decent work work-life balance and social protection unacceptable work and social dialogue economic and social context of decent work This book will be an indispensable resource for the students scholars and teachers of business management and especially those pursuing a career in human resource management. It will also interest scholars of political economy sociology of work business management human resource management labour studies public policy and social anthropology alongside industry experts. | Decent Work-Life in Business Essential Tool for Sustainable Development

GBP 130.00
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Decolonising and Reimagining Social Work in Africa Alternative Epistemologies and Practice Models

Decolonising and Reimagining Social Work in Africa Alternative Epistemologies and Practice Models

This book explores contemporary debates on decolonisation and indigenisation of social work in Africa and provides readers with alternative models values and epistemologies for reimagining social work practice and education that can be applicable to a wide range of countries struggling with similar concerns. It examines how indigenisation without decolonisation is just tokenistic since it is concerned with adapting modifying Western models to fit local contexts or generating local models to integrate into the already predominantly contextually irrelevant and culturally inappropriate mainstream Western social work in Africa. By exploring decolonisation which calls for dismantling colonialism and colonial thinking to create central space for indigenous social work as mainstream social work especially in Africa it goes beyond tokenistic decolonisation to articulate some of the indigenous social work practice and social policy models values ethics and oral epistemologies that should take centre stage as locally relevant and culturally appropriate social work in Africa. It also addresses the question of decolonising research methodologies highlighting some of the methods embedded in African indigenous perspectives for adoption when researching African social work. The book has been written with both the coloniser/colonised in mind and it will be of interest to all social work academics students and practitioners and others interested in gaining insights into how colonisation persists in social work and why it is necessary to find ways to disrupt it. | Decolonising and Reimagining Social Work in Africa Alternative Epistemologies and Practice Models

GBP 130.00
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Social Work Practice in Mental Health An introduction

Social Work Practice in Mental Health An introduction

'An invaluable resource for social workers in all practice settings not just mental health and a core text for social work students. ' - Dr Valerie Gerrand former AASW representative and board member of the Mental Health Council of Australia'An outstanding and very original contribution to the scholarship on mental health policy research and service. ' - Associate Professor Maria Harries AM University of Western AustraliaDeveloping the skills to work effectively with people who have mental health problems is fundamental to contemporary social work practice. Practitioners face new challenges in a rapidly changing work environment including working with consumers and their families and in multidisciplinary teams. Now more than ever social workers need discipline-specific mental health knowledge and training. This second edition of Social Work Practice in Mental Health continues the guiding principles of the first edition - an emphasis on the centrality of the lived experience of mental illness and the importance of embracing both scientific and relational dimensions of practice. The new edition reflects the latest developments in best practice including the emergence of recovery theory and the importance of evidence-based approaches. This is a comprehensive guide to social work practice in specialist mental health settings as well as in other fields of practice covering the most commonly encountered mental health problems. It features information on assessment case management family work and community work and reveals how the core concerns of social work - human rights self-determination and relationships with family and the wider community - are also central to mental health practice. | Social Work Practice in Mental Health An introduction

GBP 130.00
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Doing Critical Social Work Transformative Practices for Social Justice

Doing Critical Social Work Transformative Practices for Social Justice

Critical social work encourages emancipatory personal and social change. This text focuses on the challenge of incorporating critical theory into the practice of social workers and provides case studies and insights from a range of fields to illustrate how to work with tensions and challenges. Beginning with an outline of the theoretical basis of critical social work and its different perspectives the authors go on to introduce key features of working in this tradition including critical reflection. Part II explores critical practices in confronting privilege and promoting social justice in social work examining such issues as human rights gender poverty and class. Part III considers the development of critical practices within the organisational context of social work including the fields of mental health child and family services within Centrelink and prison settings. Part IV is focused on doing anti- discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice in social work with particular populations including asylum seekers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples domestic violence survivors older people and lesbian gay and transgender groups. Finally Part V outlines collectivist and transformative practices in social work and beyond looking at environmental issues social activism the disability movement and globalisation. 'A highly valuable addition to social work education and practice literature in Australia and beyond its shores. ' Ruth Phillips Associate Professor Faculty of Education and Social Work University of Sydney | Doing Critical Social Work Transformative Practices for Social Justice

GBP 130.00
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Social Organization of Medical Work

Social Organization of Medical Work

Today we face the painful reality of the prevalence of chronic rather than acute diseases. The technologies developed to manager long-term incurable illnesses have radically and irrevocably altered the organizational structure of health care presenting us with a frequently bewildering array of medical specialties. Social Organization of Medical Work offers essential insight into this new era of health care. Through richly documented often gripping case studies Anselm Strauss and his co-authors show us exactly how health workers are confronting the problems created by chronic disease and coping with today's highly technologized hospitals. They guide us through the various hospital work sites describing in detail the kinds of tasks performed by medical personnel the interactions of staff members with each other and with patients and the overall resulting patient treatment and response. Focusing on the concept of illness trajectory the authors vividly illustrate the complex contingent nature of modern medical work. For example open heart surgery keeps ill persons alive and may even improve them symptomatically but those who do survive must face an uncertain future in terms of the physiological consequences of the surgery and the drugs required. They also have to adjust t altered lifestyles. In the new introduction Anselm Strauss discusses the continuing importance of this work to sociologists medical scholars and medical professionals.

GBP 130.00
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New Horizons in Standardized Work Techniques for Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement

New Horizons in Standardized Work Techniques for Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement

Enabling management to verify that processes are being performed correctly and in an efficient manner standardized work provides limitless opportunities for process improvements. So much so that it has become a vital component of improvement efforts in Lean enterprise systems. New Horizons in Standardized Work: Techniques for Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement is an all-inclusive guide to applying standardized work principles to virtually any business in any industry. It facilitates a fundamental understanding of standardized work principles and the logic behind their development so readers can successfully extend and adapt them to their own work situation. It also: Supplies an accessible introduction to standardized work from a cyclic perspective Explains how to instill and maintain quality in work processes right from the get go Provides the foundational basis required to apply standardized work concepts to a wide range of work situations Includes several appendices with helpful tips and problem-solving tools In a step-by-step format this book discusses the relationship of the work period and the takt time as well as the importance of the three main worker interface levels in job design. It includes an array of examples that demonstrate how the concepts discussed can be applied across a range of industries including health care construction business processes and food services. | New Horizons in Standardized Work Techniques for Manufacturing and Business Process Improvement

GBP 170.00
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Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals) Selected Papers

Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals) Selected Papers

Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe was first published in English in 1967. Throughout the work the idea that Marc Bloch was not only a historian but a great teacher is exemplified as is his ability to ask interesting and original questions through his writing. Topics covered include medieval Germany technical problems in the medieval economy and society and the medieval class structure. | Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals) Selected Papers

GBP 89.99
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Using Language Fiction and Story in Social Work Education

Using Language Fiction and Story in Social Work Education

This book provides an accessible research-informed text for social work educators students and practitioners interested in the use of story to engender the connection of human experiences with ideas theories and skills. A broad lens is also taken to the ways in which fiction has been used as a teaching tool in other degrees ranging from medicine to engineering to philosophy and economics. Although the research explored is social work specific this text has applicability for any educator looking for creative methods to teach complex theories skills and concepts. Showing how fiction can be used in social work education it explains why story matters to social work and how fiction can emulate these stories as well as the capacity of fiction to evoke empathy. Ways in which educators can enlist fiction to create a ‘safe space’ for the exploration of complex emotional terrain are explored as are the ways in which a community of practice can be created through fiction. Woven within the end of every chapter are some practice examples and author conversations which work to locate the research into a practice context. The text concludes with examples of how fiction has been effectively utilised by the authors in order to provide a starting point for those interested in exploring this pedagogical approach further. | Using Language Fiction and Story in Social Work Education

GBP 130.00
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Industrial Housewives Women's Social Work in the Factories of Nazi Germany

Industrial Housewives Women's Social Work in the Factories of Nazi Germany

Focusing on women and their work this valuable historical study traces industrial social work from its inception through the Nazi period. Author Sachse provides an analysis of policies applied to women workers rather than developed by and for them-as an example of how social policy treats women. This thorough book examines the continuities and discontinuities of industrial social work and assesses the effect on the industrial welfare system of developments within National Socialism. Within this framework the study examines the role of women in industrial social work and labor relations the attitudes of various groups toward the proper relations between industry and government and the well-documented relationship between industrialists and the German Labor Front (DAF) the organization that replaced the outlawed labor unions. | Industrial Housewives Women's Social Work in the Factories of Nazi Germany

GBP 175.00
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Older People Ageing and Social Work Knowledge for practice

Older People Ageing and Social Work Knowledge for practice

'Essential reading for practitioners educators and researchers within the general field of social work with older people. ' - From the foreword by Mark Lymbery Associate Professor of Social Work University of NottinghamThe reality of our ageing population means all social workers need to be confident in working with older people. Social workers are engaged in ongoing practice with older people in a variety of contexts from hospitals aged care assessment teams and mental health services to employment services housing services and rehabilitation services. Older People Ageing and Social Work draws on theoretical research policy and practice knowledge to inform contemporary practice with older people. Hughes and Heycox demonstrate that high level professional skills are required in this area as well as detailed knowledge of the issues affecting older people's lives. They argue that practitioners need to take into account the social and emotional needs of the older people they work with as well as the practical and administrative aspects of their roles. They emphasise understanding the diversity of the older population and enabling older people to make the most of their strengths and capacities. | Older People Ageing and Social Work Knowledge for practice

GBP 130.00
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