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In The World's Newest Profession Christopher McKenna offers a
history of management consulting in the twentieth century. Although
management consulting may not yet be a recognized profession, the
leading consulting firms have been advising and reshaping the
largest organizations in the world since the 1920s. This
groundbreaking study details how the elite consulting firms,
including McKinsey & Company and Booz Allen & Hamilton,
expanded after US regulatory changes during the 1930s, how they
changed giant corporations, nonprofits, and the state during the
1950s, and why consultants became so influential in the global
economy after 1960. As they grew in number, consultants would
introduce organizations to 'corporate culture' and
'decentralization' but they faced vilification for their role in
the Enron crisis and for legitimating corporate blunders. Through
detailed case studies based on unprecedented access to internal
files and personal interviews, The World's Newest Profession
explores how management consultants came to be so influential
within our culture and explains exactly what consultants really do
in the global economy.
A lot can happen in 24 hours, Just ask Des Watkins. He's been
assaulted by a ladyboy, pistol whipped by the jealous husband of
his holiday romance, and stolen half a million pounds worth of
heroin from the apartment of a dead rent boy. Most would have
called it quits there and then, but then Des isn't most people.
This book examines the antipoverty effects of unemployment
insurance (UI) benefits over the past three recessions. The
analysis especially focuses on the most recent recession, from
which the economy has only just begun to recover. It highlights the
impact of the additional and expanded benefits available to
unemployed workers in response to the most recent recession. A
period of unemployment greatly increases the odds that a worker and
members of the worker's family will be counted among the nation's
poor. A variety of social insurance benefits may be available for
unemployed workers. UI benefits provide a cash supplement to
replace a portion of lost wages to qualified unemployed
individuals. Two main objectives of the joint federal-state
unemployment insurance program are to provide temporary and partial
wage replacement to involuntarily unemployed workers and to
stabilize the economy during recessions.
In The World's Newest Profession Christopher McKenna offers a
history of management consulting in the twentieth century. Although
management consulting may not yet be a recognized profession, the
leading consulting firms have been advising and reshaping the
largest organizations in the world since the 1920s. This
groundbreaking study details how the elite consulting firms,
including McKinsey & Company and Booz Allen & Hamilton,
expanded after US regulatory changes during the 1930s, how they
changed giant corporations, nonprofits, and the state during the
1950s, and why consultants became so influential in the global
economy after 1960. As they grew in number, consultants would
introduce organizations to 'corporate culture' and
'decentralization' but they faced vilification for their role in
the Enron crisis and for legitimating corporate blunders. Through
detailed case studies based on unprecedented access to internal
files and personal interviews, The World's Newest Profession
explores how management consultants came to be so influential
within our culture and explains exactly what consultants really do
in the global economy.
A thoroughly revised edition of the much-sought-after early work by Terence and Dennis McKenna that looks at shamanism, altered states of consciousness, and the organic unity of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching.
This money-saving package includes Mosby's Advanced EMT Text and
Virtual Patient Encounters Study Guide.
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