Sosiologi: Arbeid og arbeidskraft

What is a global market? How does it work? At a time when new crises in world markets cannot be satisfactorily resolved through old ideas, "Market Threads" presents a detailed …

Are leaders born or made? Does each society get the leaders it deserves? How-and why-is leadership 'rhetoric' different from leadership in reality? l l Leadership is one of the …

In Organizational Learning and Performance: The Science and Practice of Building a Learning Culture, Ryan E. Smerek offers practitioners and organizational scholars a solid …

Presents portraits and profiles of sixty-five unique jobs in the United States, including a page turner, a bugler, a golf ball diver, and a doll doctor.

What makes an engaging presentation or a useful meeting? How can companies motivate and inspire people to do their best at work? Who are the most effective leaders? Bestselling …

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the …

In this volume, first published in 1983, the editors aim to achieve an understanding of performance from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The papers in this volume will not …

This book, first published in 1998, is an attempt to better understand the human resource programs utilized by small firms and the basis for their choice. Much of the study is …

First published in 1973, The Symmetrical Family combines evidence about the family of the past with information from a sociological survey in the London region and uses both as the …

This seminal work tells the story of Ghana's gold miners, one of the oldest and most militant groups of workers in Africa. It is a story of struggle against exploitative mining …