This book brings together current research on stigma, stigma management, and stigma theory as applied to business and management at the micro, meso, and macro levels. It provides a comprehensive perspective of the literature on stigmas and is relevant to those working in organizational behavior,...

Examining women’s diverse experiences of male-dominated work, this ground-breaking book explores what sexuality and gender means to women working in the construction and transport industries. Using accounts from heterosexual women and lesbians working in professional, manual and operational...

In diesem Fachbuch beleuchten renommierte Autorinnen und Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, wie sich das Thema Identität unter dem Fokus der Zugehörigkeit in neuen Organisationsformen wandelt. Aus den Blickwinkeln verschiedener Disziplinen wie Ökonomie, Soziologie, Geschichte, Philosophie...

Einführung -- Die Bedeutung von Wissen für Unternehmen -- Wissensaustausch als zentraler Prozess des Wissensmanagements -- Unternehmenskultur – von anthropologischen Ursprüngen zum Unternehmenskontext -- Der interaktive Zusammenhang zwischen Unternehmenskultur und Wissensaustauschprozesse...

Hintergrund und Perspektive der Arbeit -- Bereiche und Perspektiven der Hochleistungsforschung -- Theoretische Grundlagen der verlässlichkeitsorientierten Hochleistungsforschung -- Verlässlichkeitsorientierte Forschungen -- Empirische Untersuchung -- Untersuchte Organisationen -- Methodik der...

Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place...

Introduction -- A RECIPE for Meaningful Gamification -- Studying Gamification: the Effect of Rewards and Incentives on Motivation -- A Conceptual Framework for Gamification Measurement -- Implementing Game Design in Gamification -- Applied Behavioral Economics: A Game Designer’s Perspective --...

This book explores the social history of training and development and describes how ordinary training systems were linked to extraordinary events. Using instrumental case studies, the author explores the direct and indirect motives behind famous and infamous training systems of history such as...

This book develops John Rawls’s theory of justice by adding reality-based analyses. This is accomplished by answering the question of who makes rules and how, and by providing new answers to three of today’s most practical and critical issues. The question of who and how makes rules is...