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Today qualitative researchers are increasingly using arts-based,
embodied and creative methods because they facilitate richer,
deeper and more honest stories. This engaging book explores the
porous borders of research with art, therapy and education, helping
researchers reflect on their practice and consider more carefully
the potential consequences and impacts of their work.
Almost every manager today knows that satisfying customers by
meeting their quality demands is a critical component of business
success. Quality management is a given in modern companies - a
competitive imperative. Yet it was not always so. Back when the
quality movement was getting started, few managers really
understood either the importance of quality to customers or how to
manage for quality. Much the same could be said today about
managing responsibility. Why and how should responsibility be
managed? What is responsibility management? Total Responsibility
Management answers these questions while at the same time providing
a systemic framework for managing a company's responsibilities to
stakeholders and the natural environment that can be applied in a
wide range of contexts. This framework uses managerial familiarity
with quality management to illustrate the drivers for
responsibility management. Companies know that product or service
quality affects their customer relationships and the trust
customers have in the company's products and services. So, too, a
company's management of its responsibilities to other
constituencies affects its relationships with those other
stakeholders and the natural environment. But why bother? The
answer is quite simple. Never has it been easier for employees,
reporters, activists, investors, community members, the media and
other critical observers to find fault with companies and their
subsidiaries. A problem identified, even in a remote region or
within a remote supplier, can instantaneously be transmitted around
the world at the click of a mouse. Ask footwear, toy, clothing and
other highly visible branded companies what their recent experience
with corporate critics has been and they will tell you about the
need to manage their stakeholder responsibilities (human rights,
labour relations, environmental, integrity-related) or face
significant consequences in the limelight of public opinion.
Managers will discover that whether they do it consciously or not,
they are already managing responsibility, just as companies were
already managing quality when the quality movement hit. This manual
makes the process of managing responsibilities to and relationships
with stakeholders and nature explicit. Making the process explicit
is important because too few of today's decisions-makers yet
understand how they are managing stakeholder responsibilities as
well as they understand how to manage quality. Managing
responsibilities goes well beyond traditional 'do good' or
discretionary activities associated with philanthropy and
volunteerism, which are frequently termed 'corporate social
responsibility'. In its broadest sense, responsibility management
means taking corporate citizenship seriously as a core part of the
way the company develops and implements its business model. The
specifics of responsibility management are unique to each company,
its industry, its products and its stakeholders, yet, as this
manual illustrates, a general approach to managing responsibility
is feasible - indeed, is increasingly necessary. Based on work
undertaken by Boston College and the International Labour Office,
Total Responsibility Management is the first CSR manual. Its
original case studies add value to a range of tools and exercises
that will make it required reading for all managers in need of a
practical guide to managing responsibility and to students and
researchers looking for an overarching framework to contextualise
the changing responsibilities of global business.
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)
disciplines face a gender gap that has been exacerbated during
COVID-19. Drawing on research carried out by the Women in
Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) network, this essential book sets
out the extent to which women working in STEM face inequality and
discrimination. The authors use approaches more commonly associated
with social sciences, such as creative and reflective research
methods, to shed light on the human experiences lying behind
scientific research. They share fictional vignettes drawn from
research findings to illustrate the challenges faced by women
working in science today. Additionally, they show how this approach
helps make sense of difficult personal experiences and to create a
culture of change. Offering a path forward to inclusivity and
diversity, this book is crucial reading for anyone working in STEM.
Increasing numbers of researchers are using arts-based, embodied or
creative methods. They promote rapport and connection, facilitating
research that reaches beyond surface understanding to expose
authentic stories and hidden, richer truths. Whilst powerful, these
methods can have unintended consequences and the potential for
harm. Drawing on case studies and lessons learned from programmes
and work across research, therapy, education, art and science, this
engaging book explores and demonstrates the porous borders of
research. It invites researchers to reflect and consider the
boundaries and consequences of their work in order to deepen and
widen its applicability and impact across science, art, education
and therapy.
"Embodiment" is a concept that crosses traditional disciplinary
boundaries. However, it is a contested term, and the literature is
fragmented, particularly within Higher Education. This has resulted
in silos of work that are not easily able to draw on previous or
related knowledge in order to support and progress understanding.
Conversations on Embodiment Across Higher Education brings a
cohesive understanding to congruent approaches by drawing on
discussions between academics to explore how they have used
embodiment in their work. This book brings academics from fields
including dance, drama, education, anthropology, early years,
sport, sociology and philosophy together, to begin conversations on
how their understandings of embodiment have impacted on their
teaching, practice and research. Each chapter explores an aspect of
embodiment according to a particular disciplinary or theoretical
perspective, and begins a discussion with a contributor with
another viewpoint. This book will appeal to academics, researchers
and postgraduate students from a diverse range of disciplinary
areas, as evidenced by the backgrounds of the contributors. It will
be of particular interest to those in the fields of education,
sociology, anthropology, dance and drama as well as other movement
or body-orientated professionals who are interested in the ideas of
embodiment.
Essential reading for management educators seeking to embed
responsible management practicesProvides examples of best practice
from practitioners and scholarsGround-breaking research on areas
such as service learning and action research in relation to RME
Essential reading for management educators seeking to embed
responsible management practicesProvides examples of best practice
from practitioners and scholarsGround-breaking research on areas
such as service learning and action research in relation to RME
Demands for excellence and efficiency have created an ableist
culture in academia. What impact do these expectations have on
disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent colleagues? This
important and eye-opening collection explores ableism in academia
from the viewpoint of academics' personal and professional
experiences and scholarship. Through the theoretical lenses of
autobiography, autoethnography, embodiment, body work and emotional
labour, contributors from the UK, Canada and the US present
insightful, critical, analytical and rigorous explorations of being
'othered' in academia. Deeply embedded in personal experiences,
this perceptive book provides examples for universities to develop
inclusive practices, accessible working and learning conditions and
a less ableist environment.
"Embodiment" is a concept that crosses traditional disciplinary
boundaries. However, it is a contested term, and the literature is
fragmented, particularly within Higher Education. This has resulted
in silos of work that are not easily able to draw on previous or
related knowledge in order to support and progress understanding.
Conversations on Embodiment Across Higher Education brings a
cohesive understanding to congruent approaches by drawing on
discussions between academics to explore how they have used
embodiment in their work. This book brings academics from fields
including dance, drama, education, anthropology, early years,
sport, sociology and philosophy together, to begin conversations on
how their understandings of embodiment have impacted on their
teaching, practice and research. Each chapter explores an aspect of
embodiment according to a particular disciplinary or theoretical
perspective, and begins a discussion with a contributor with
another viewpoint. This book will appeal to academics, researchers
and postgraduate students from a diverse range of disciplinary
areas, as evidenced by the backgrounds of the contributors. It will
be of particular interest to those in the fields of education,
sociology, anthropology, dance and drama as well as other movement
or body-orientated professionals who are interested in the ideas of
embodiment.
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more
at www.luminosoa.org. The relationships between female sex workers
and their noncommercial male partners are often assumed to be
coercive and anchored in risk, dismissed as "pimp-prostitute"
arrangements by researchers and the general public alike. Yet,
these stereotypes unjustly erase the complexity of lives we imagine
to be consumed by social suffering. Dangerous Love centers a
framework of love to rethink sex workers' intimate relationships as
commitments to collective solidarity and survival in contexts of
oppression. Combining epidemiological research and ethnographic
fieldwork in Tijuana, Mexico, Jennifer Leigh Syvertsen examines how
individuals try to find love and meaning in lives marked by
structural violence, social marginalization, drug addiction, and
HIV/AIDS. Linking the political economy of inequalities along the
border with emotional lived experience, this book explores how
intimate relationships become dangerous safe havens that
fundamentally shape both partners' well-being. Through these
stories, we are urged to reimagine the socially transformative
power of love to carve new pathways to health equity.
Embodied inquiry is the process of using embodied approaches in
order to study, explore or investigate a topic. But what does it
actually mean to be 'embodied'? This book explores why and how we
use our bodies in order to research, what an embodied approach
brings to a research project, and the kinds of considerations that
need to be taken into account to research in this way. We all have
bodies, feelings, emotions and experiences that affect the
questions we are interested in, the ways in which we choose to
approach finding out the answers to those questions, and the
patterns we see in the data we gather as a result. Embodied Inquiry
foregrounds these questions of positionality and reflexivity in
research. It considers how a project or study may be designed to
take these into account and why multimodal and creative approaches
to research may be used to capture embodied experiences. The book
offers insights into how to analyse the types of data emerging from
embodied inquiries, and the ethical considerations that are
important to consider. Accounting for the interdisciplinary nature
of the field, this book has been written to be a concise primer
into Embodied Inquiry for research students, scholars and
practitioners alike.
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