This paper examines the opportunities for the unemployed to access information technology jobs. Based on original research, it indicates that, despite initial expectations about an expanding sector of high skill, high wage jobs, recent developments indicate a tight labour market, which has...

The voluntary sector in Scotland, as across the globe, is becoming increasingly business like. Resultantly, there is an increasing demand for graduates to work in business and support functions. In Scotland, however, despite an oversupply of graduates in the labor market, the voluntary sector...

Retail is now a significant part of the UK economy, accounting for £256 billion in sales and one-third of all consumer spending (Skillsmart, 2007). Indeed, it is the largest private sector employer in the UK, employing three million workers, or 1 in 10 of the working population. Retail though...

If, as Adam Smith once famously suggested, Britain was a nation of shopkeepers then it is now a nation of shopworkers. Retail is now a significant part of the UK economy, accounting for £256 billion in sales and one-third of all consumer spending (Skillsmart, 2007). It is the largest private...

In the style labour market, employers require a matrix of skills - technical, social and aesthetic. The first is provided ,,in-house”, the middle and thedast filtered into companies through recruitment and selection processes. It is the middle and last skills that are encompassed by the term...

A globalizáció minden térnyerése ellenére a nemzetközi üzleti élet inkább multinacionális, mint transznacionális (globális) jellegű. Ezen sem a kereskedelem nemzetközi, sem a beruházások határokon átnyúló volta lényegében nem sokat változtat.

In this study we explore how versions of organizational reality and gender are constructed in management discourse and whether such patterns change over time. Specifically, we examine management explanations and accounts of the gendered nature of their organizations through their commentaries on...

Books reviewed in this article: Ian Watson, John Buchanan, Iain Campbell and Chris Briggs (eds), Fragmented Futures: New Challenges in Working Life Barbara Pocock (ed.), The Work/Life Collision: What Work is Doing to Australians and What to Do About It Siobhan Austen (ed.), Culture and the...