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Despite continuing equal opportunity approaches, women are still
significantly under-represented at senior management levels and
earn less than male colleagues. The author questions whether
competence systems - developed and implemented in the workplace to
provide objective measurement of management performance -
contribute to, rather than improve, women's disadvantaged position
in the workplace. Drawing together the threads of critical theory,
feminism and post-modernism into a new conceptual framework, the
book provides an exciting departure from existing methods of
analysis and points a new and challenging way forward for future
researchers in management. The Construction of Management is a rich
and lively work, providing innovative theoretical and
methodological approaches as well as practical solutions. In this
way, the book will appeal to scholars of business and management,
industrial relations and gender studies as well as business
managers and consultants.
Every year thousands of people compete for employment in the UK.
Employability and the ability to demonstrate the skills, attributes
and behaviours required in a full-time job have become integral to
securing employment and developing a career. This book aims to
offer a one-stop guide to becoming employable and to careers in the
Criminal Justice Sector and beyond, exploring the key organizations
and employers in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland,
explaining how they operate and detailing how they are changing.
Written in an engaging and accessible style by four experts on
employability and the Criminal Justice Sector, this book combines
useful hints on becoming employable with helpful insights from
those working in specific sectors. The book covers careers in:
probation, the police, prisons, the courts, prosecution services
and advocacy, youth justice. Packed with hints and tips, advice
from current students, useful web links and lists of recommended
reading, this book provides a clear guide to the career
decision-making and transition processes and covers the essential
elements required to making the first step towards securing a job
in the above sectors. It will be essential reading for those who
want to forge a successful career in any area of the Criminal
Justice Sector.
Using Australian history as a case study, this collection explores
the ways national identities still resonate in historical
scholarship and reexamines key moments in Australian history
through a transnational lens, raising important questions about the
unique context of Australia's national narrative. The book examines
the tension between national and transnational perspectives,
attempting to internationalize the often parochial nation-based
narratives that characterize national history. Moving from the
local and personal to the global, encompassing comparative and
international research and drawing on the experiences of
researchers working across nations and communities, this collection
brings together diverging national and transnational approaches and
asks several critical research questions: What is transnational
history? How do new transnational readings of the past challenge
conventional national narratives and approaches? What are
implications of transnational and international approaches on
Australian history? What possibilities do they bring to the
discipline? What are their limitations? And finally, how do we
understand the nation in this transnational moment?
Using Australian history as a case study, this collection explores
the ways national identities still resonate in historical
scholarship and reexamines key moments in Australian history
through a transnational lens, raising important questions about the
unique context of Australia's national narrative. The book examines
the tension between national and transnational perspectives,
attempting to internationalize the often parochial nation-based
narratives that characterize national history. Moving from the
local and personal to the global, encompassing comparative and
international research and drawing on the experiences of
researchers working across nations and communities, this collection
brings together diverging national and transnational approaches and
asks several critical research questions: What is transnational
history? How do new transnational readings of the past challenge
conventional national narratives and approaches? What are
implications of transnational and international approaches on
Australian history? What possibilities do they bring to the
discipline? What are their limitations? And finally, how do we
understand the nation in this transnational moment?
Every year thousands of people compete for employment in the UK.
Employability and the ability to demonstrate the skills, attributes
and behaviours required in a full-time job have become integral to
securing employment and developing a career. This book aims to
offer a one-stop guide to becoming employable and to careers in the
Criminal Justice Sector and beyond, exploring the key organizations
and employers in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland,
explaining how they operate and detailing how they are changing.
Written in an engaging and accessible style by four experts on
employability and the Criminal Justice Sector, this book combines
useful hints on becoming employable with helpful insights from
those working in specific sectors. The book covers careers in:
probation, the police, prisons, the courts, prosecution services
and advocacy, youth justice. Packed with hints and tips, advice
from current students, useful web links and lists of recommended
reading, this book provides a clear guide to the career
decision-making and transition processes and covers the essential
elements required to making the first step towards securing a job
in the above sectors. It will be essential reading for those who
want to forge a successful career in any area of the Criminal
Justice Sector.
This book brings together leading researchers of British and Irish
rural history to consider the role of the land agent, or estate
manager, in the modern period. Land agents were an influential and
powerful cadre of men, who managed both the day-to-day running and
the overall policy direction of landed estates. As such, they
occupy a controversial place in academic historiography as well as
popular memory in rural Britain and Ireland. Reviled in social
history narratives and fictional accounts, the land agent was one
of the most powerful tools in the armoury of the British and Irish
landed classes and their territorial, political and social
dominance. By unpacking the nature and processes of their power,
The Land Agent explores who these men were and what was the wider
significance of their roles, thus uncovering a neglected history of
British rural society.
This book brings together leading historians and writers on British
and Irish rural history, to consider the role of the land agent, or
estate manager, from c. 1700 to 1920. Land agents were an
influential and powerful cadre of men, who managed both the day to
day running and the overall policy direction of landed estates; as
such, they occupy a controversial place in both academic
historiography and popular memory in rural Britain and Ireland. But
who were these men? It is this question the book seeks to unpack,
re-framing the academic field, uncovering a neglected history and
making a significant contribution to the historiography of rural
Britain and the empire.
Involution- An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God. This book has
been called '...a brilliant and profoundly erudite epic...a heroic
intellectual tour de force...' (by David Lorimer, the Director of
the Scientific and Medical Network) and both 'brave...and totally
insightful (by Ervin Laszlo) but the book defies description; it
breaks all the rules and is unlike any other. It is so
comprehensive in its sweep, original in its writing, and its
synthesis, that to isolate any aspect is to misrepresent all the
others. Two companions, Reason and Soul, invite the reader to
accompany them on a light-hearted poetic journey through the
chronology of Western thought to uncover a bold hypothesis: that
the evolution of science has been shaped by its gradual and
accelerating recovery of memory (involution). That recovery has
been led by the inspired maverick genius, moving backwards through
time (usually called the past), but which has provided science's
future at every moment of new creative thought. Scientific
inspiration and its chronology mirrors evolution. This incremental
excavation and transfer of memory to intellect implies the
pre-human encoding (involution) of consciousness in the structure
of matter, and the interconnected consciousness of all life. DNA is
the likely encoding and mediating molecule, or resonant coherence
of this information, through both time and space. The sweep of
history is needed to expose this proposal and its evidence: It
requires all the disciplines of science, all the epochs of thought:
which only a poetic economy 'woven together with extraordinary
subtlety' (Lorimer) could convey. Yet, paradoxically, through
involution the collective journey has been lit by individuals,
unique in their subjective contributions to the discipline that
claims only 'objective' validated truth. The same pattern is
mirrored in the congruent history of painting and musical
composition. Genius differs only in the languages of expression.
This book loosely weaves them all, using familiar material to
arrive at an art, a science and divinity behind science. In nine
swift Cantos the work travels through pre-human involution, the
enfolding of consciousness in matter, and then early man's
emergence on the Serengeti. Through the recorded civilizations of
Greece, Rome, the Dark Ages, the Renaissance, into the
Enlightenment and finally Modernism the success of science
progressively obscures the internal story, the story of direct
intuition, nous, experience, and the complement to Darwin that this
collective involution provides. But there is more to it than merely
science; for science is a language through which to follow a deeper
journey, Mankind's collective journey inwards, to the nature of
himself: which is why the scientific signposts are confined to
end-notes to leave the poetic journey unencumbered. They take no
scientific knowledge for granted: they are not essential to the
poetic narrative but instead caulk the ship from which we view an
alternative journey. By adding involution to evolution, mind and
matter become two sides of a single coin, only perceived as
distinct through the intellect's division from its deeper self,
from consciousness, experience, and understanding. The co-creation
of God and the universe is what this book restores and is about. It
has been called a 'heroic tour de force, a brilliant and erudite
epic...' but also 'clearly written and easy to read' It slaughters
a few sacred cows, 'brave and a lot of fun.
This spiritual classic by Ann Ree Colton on dreams is now available
in Spanish for the first time. (Este cl sico espiritual por Ann Ree
Colton sobre los sue os ya est disponible en espa ol por primera
vez.) The science of dream symbology includes numerous symbols and
combinations of symbols. Perceptive individuals may derive great
benefit from their dreams through a cognitive understanding of the
different levels and nuances to be found in their dream symbols.
This book will become for them a valued key toward a better
understanding of their dreams, visions, inspirational creativity
and spiritual experiences. (La ciencia de la simbolog a en los sue
os incluye numerosos s mbolos o combinaciones de los s mbolos. Los
individuales perceptivos pueden derivar grandes beneficios de sus
sue os a trav?'s de la comprensi n cognitiva de los diferentes
niveles y matices que se encuentran en los s mbolos de los sue os.
Este libro se convertir para ellos en una llave atesorada para
mejor entender sus sue os, visiones, creatividad inspiracional y
experiencias espirituales.)
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