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A qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with 31 people with disabilities and 32 carers in the state of Queensland, Australia, found that their experience of supportive service delivery had not improved despite reforms of the service delivery system driven by a version of the...
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This paper draws on Japanese, British and other material for a comparative analysis of name-calling. Naming the other is a means of identification, helping to establish definitions of self. Definitional power is socially distributed: the power of the mainstream is orchestrated by expert...
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In the early 2000s, nearly two million men – and less than one million women – were eligible for disability benefits in … article interrogates the identity shifts of men who very often became « ill » after having been made redundant. It focuses on … social identity? The advisers invite the beneficiaries to describe their « dream job » all the while instructing them to be …
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theoretical consideration of organisational transformation and power and their relationship to the identity of social workers. …
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management of diversity that is implied in it and it lacks a standard for properly handle each organization. It also deals with … positions), ethnicity, age and disability including forcing the company to consider developing strategies leading to offer the …
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disability (visual disability in this case). The names and the characters are fictitious though the overall inspiration of the … affecting the treatment of individuals with disability in the organization. These factors can be broadly divided into two … issues like due diligent efforts that need to be made to accommodate the individuals with disability, the acceptance of the …
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suggest that cultural diversity has little influence on identity issues of co-operation, whereas it is mostly linked to …This paper aims at understanding what the consequences are of cultural diversity on co-operative relationships. Co …-analysis framework combining the two modes of co-operation and six dimensions of intercultural diversity. Counter-intuitively, results …
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European cultural identity reflects both the image of homogeneity and that of cultural diversity. This double … ensemble but also the local, regional, or national structures. “Identity revenge”, “the feeling of return to historic, national … and cultural identity” are terms that ask for redefining the national and European identity space that was forced to open …
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identity area. The specific of the European culture is provided precisely by diversity and multiculturalism as means of … features beyond a certain European culture. Thus, we identify at least two cultural identity constructions on the European … level: a culture of cultures, that is a cultural area with a particular, local, regional and national strong identity, or a …
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identified mainly four issues: a narrow or broad definition of diversity, a stable or dynamic conception of identity, the role of …Theories on diversity and diversity management within the field of Organisation Studies started to develop in the 80s …, mainly under the influence of managerial reports pointing towards the increasing diversity of the future workforce. The …
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