This proactive guide brings the relationship between work life and mental well-being into sharp focus, surveying common challenges and outlining real-life solutions. The authors’ approach posits managers as the chief mental health officers of their teams, offering both a science-based...

Introducing a theory of workplace dignity into the field of management studies, this innovative new book presents an alternative paradigm based on principles of human dignity which is integrated into a theoretical approach to the topic. The author addresses and analyses the causes and...

This work explores everyday face-to-face interactions between expatriate and host national employees in cross-cultural offices of transnational organizations and corporations. Applying the concepts of cosmopolitanism, social capital, and network theory, the book highlights both “closure” and...

This book explores the experience of China's migrant laborers in Shanghai from economic, anthropological, and gendered analyses, offering extraordinary insights into the life-world of the marginalized people. China has hundreds of millions of internal migrants coming from the countryside to the...

This comprehensive study provides a perceptive portrait of workplace employment relations in Britain and France using comparable data from two large-scale surveys: the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) and the French Enquête Relations Professionnelles et Négociations...

Chapter 1: Impacts of ICT on Work: Introduction -- Part I: Looking Back Past for Future: Reviewing Researches -- Chapter 2: The New Way of Working: Bricks, Bytes and Behavior -- Chapter 3: Telecommuting: What, Why, When and How? -- Chapter 4: Drivers and Consequences in Transforming Work...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Spiritual Leadership Today -- Chapter 2 What is Leadership? -- Chapter 3 Work Factors that Inhibit Doing Leadership -- Part II Problems and Possible Solutions -- Chapter 4 Leadership and Informal Small Groups.- Chapter 5 Failures of Workplaces in Multiple...