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Academic literature has to a large extent ignored how leaders
present themselves physically. This volume invites leadership
scholars to inquire rigorously into the physical aspect of leading
and leadership. By noticing and dwelling with the visible facets of
leading, the book suggests new possibilities for how leadership can
be created and studied.
Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice is the
definitive resource for HRM students and professionals, helping
readers understand and implement HR to align with business needs.
This book provides detailed coverage of all areas essential to the
HR function such as employment law, employee relations, learning
and development, performance management and reward management. It
also covers the HR skills needed to ensure professional success,
including leadership, managing conflict, interviewing and using
statistics. It is illustrated throughout in full colour and has a
range of pedagogical features to consolidate learning such as
source review boxes, key learning points and case studies from
international organizations such as IBM, HSBC and Johnson and
Johnson. This fully updated 16th edition includes new chapters on
managing remote workers and developments in digital human resource
management practices. There are also updates to reflect the changes
throughout the HR function, such as performance leadership, 'smart'
reward and employee wellbeing. Armstrong's Handbook of Human
Resource Management Practice is suited to both professionals and
students of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. It is also
aligned with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
(CIPD) profession map so can be used by those studying the
Associate Level 5 and Advanced Level 7 qualifications. Online
supporting resources include comprehensive handbooks for lecturers
and students, lecture slides, all figures and tables, toolkits, and
a literature review, glossary and bibliography.
Work and Employment in a Changing Business Environment is the
definitive textbook for the new CIPD Advanced Level 7 module. It
provides students with an understanding of the major contemporary
trends in the HR business environment and discussion of significant
areas of HR and Learning and Development (L&D) activity that
derive from or are given additional prominence as a result of
environmental developments. It provides students with an
understanding of ways in which major, long-term environmental
developments affect employment, work and people management in
organizations as well as a thorough grounding in current and
short-term developments in the people management environment. These
areas include globalisation, technology, the economy, labour
markets, society, politics, public policy and employment
regulation. This book also includes expert coverage of how change,
innovation and creativity can promote improvements in
organisational productivity. Most importantly, this brand new
textbook covers the key elements that students on HR masters
courses will need in their future careers including flexibility,
agility and resilience. productivity, ethics and values,
sustainability, equality, diversity and inclusion, wellbeing and
working internationally. Case studies and examples demonstrate how
the theory applies in practice and pause and review boxes will help
students think critically about the content. Work and Employment in
a Changing Business Environment is ideal reading for all
postgraduate students on both CIPD and non-CIPD accredited courses.
Online supporting resources include powerpoint slides for every
chapter.
Famously dubbed 'Bandit Country' by a UK government minister in
1975, South Armagh was considered the most dangerous part of
Northern Ireland for the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary
during the years of violence known as the 'Troubles' that engulfed
the province in the last three decades of the twentieth century.
This was also true for the helicopter crews of the RAF, Royal Navy
and Army Air Corps who served there. Throughout the 'Troubles' the
Provisional IRA's feared South Armagh brigade waged a relentless
campaign against military aircraft operating in the region, where
the threat posed by roadside bombs made the security forces highly
dependent on helicopters to conduct day-to-day operations. From
pot-shot attacks with Second World War-era rifles in the early days
of the conflict to large scale, highly co-ordinated ambushes by
PIRA active service units equipped with heavy machine guns,
rocket-propelled grenade launchers and even shoulder-launched
surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), the threat to British air
operations by the late 1980s led to the arming of helicopters
operating in the border regions of Northern Ireland. Drawing on a
wide range of sources, including official records and the accounts
of aircrew, this book tells the little-known story of the battle
for control of the skies over Northern Ireland's 'Bandit Country'.
Human Resource Management: People and Organisations provides
thorough coverage of key HR topics and their context to enable
students to excel in their academic studies and begin a successful
career as a people professional. Now fully updated for a third
edition, Human Resource Management: People and Organisations covers
everything from essential UK employment law and managing the
employment relationship through to resourcing and workforce
planning, employee engagement and reward management. There is also
expert discussion on organisation design and development as well as
advice on how to improve organisational performance. This edition
now includes brand new chapters on people management in an
international context, wellbeing at work and equity, diversity and
inclusion This book is fully supported by a range of pedagogical
features including learning outcomes to summarise the content that
will be covered in each chapter and track progress, reflective
activities to consolidate learning and further reading suggestions
to aid wider engagement with areas of particular interest. Case
studies throughout also help students understand how the theory
applies in practice. It is ideal reading for anyone studying the
CIPD Associate Diploma in People Management as well as those in the
early stages of their career in HR.. Online resources include
PowerPoint slides, a lecturer guide and annotated web links.
Studying Human Resource Management is an ideal textbook for anyone
studying the CIPD Associate Diploma in People Management. Fully
updated throughout, this book provides thorough coverage of the
study of HRM including the people management contribution and
business environment as well as discussing the strategy and
structure of the HR function. Written by experts in the field with
both academic and practitioner experience, Studying Human Resource
Management includes invaluable discussion on professional
behaviours for people professionals and guidance on how to manage
HR data and information and most importantly, how to use it to make
evidence-based decisions. There is also now a brand new chapter on
shaping people practice to benefit your organisation. Each chapter
includes key learning outcomes to summarise the content that will
be covered and to help students track their progress, reflective
activities to consolidate learning and further reading suggestions
to support wider engagement with areas of particular interest. This
book also includes case studies to help students understand how the
theory applies in practice. Online resources include slides, a
lecturer guide and annotated web links.
Expand your learning in HR Management from theory to practice,
using academic research and developing the practical skills
necessary for your career in the field. Human Resource Management,
11th Edition, by Torrington, Hall, Taylor, and Atkinson, is an
acclaimed, market-leading text, well known for its comprehensive
scope of topics, coverage of important HR Management issues, and
reader-friendly content. A complete introduction to Human
Resources, this text is ideal for students pursuing Undergraduate
Business and Management Courses alongside those on CIPD-accredited
courses. Human Resource Management is an accessible text aiming to
help those aspiring to or working within HR or Management roles.
The latest version of the text, thoroughly updated with the
economic, social, and legal employment practice changes, is
specifically designed to cover issues and debates HR Management
faces today. The contribution of academic research further supports
the theory and content reflecting the recent developments in the
field, making this text a must-read on the principles and aspects
of the discipline.
Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is the fear of anxiety sensations which
arises from beliefs that these sensations have harmful somatic,
social, or psychological consequences. Over the past decade, AS has
attracted a great deal of attention from researchers and clinicians
with more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles published. In
addition, AS has been the subject of numerous symposia, papers, and
posters at professional conventions. Why this growing interest?
Theory and research suggest that AS plays an important role in the
etiology and maintenance of many forms of psychopathology,
including anxiety disorders, depression, chronic pain, and
substance abuse. Bringing together experts from a variety of
different areas, this volume offers the first comprehensive
state-of-the-art review of AS--its conceptual foundations,
assessment, causes, consequences, and treatment--and points new
directions for future work. It will prove to be an invaluable
resource for clinicians, researchers, students, and trainees in all
mental health professions.
Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is the fear of anxiety sensations which
arises from beliefs that these sensations have harmful somatic,
social, or psychological consequences. Over the past decade, AS has
attracted a great deal of attention from researchers and clinicians
with more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles published. In
addition, AS has been the subject of numerous symposia, papers, and
posters at professional conventions.
Why this growing interest?
Theory and research suggest that AS plays an important role in the
etiology and maintenance of many forms of psychopathology,
including anxiety disorders, depression, chronic pain, and
substance abuse.
Bringing together experts from a variety of different areas, this
volume offers the first comprehensive state-of-the-art review of
AS--its conceptual foundations, assessment, causes, consequences,
and treatment--and points new directions for future work. It will
prove to be an invaluable resource for clinicians, researchers,
students, and trainees in all mental health professions.
Work and Employment in a Changing Business Environment is the
definitive textbook for the new CIPD Advanced Level 7 module. It
provides students with an understanding of the major contemporary
trends in the HR business environment and discussion of significant
areas of HR and Learning and Development (L&D) activity that
derive from or are given additional prominence as a result of
environmental developments. It provides students with an
understanding of ways in which major, long-term environmental
developments affect employment, work and people management in
organizations as well as a thorough grounding in current and
short-term developments in the people management environment. These
areas include globalisation, technology, the economy, labour
markets, society, politics, public policy and employment
regulation. This book also includes expert coverage of how change,
innovation and creativity can promote improvements in
organisational productivity. Most importantly, this brand new
textbook covers the key elements that students on HR masters
courses will need in their future careers including flexibility,
agility and resilience. productivity, ethics and values,
sustainability, equality, diversity and inclusion, wellbeing and
working internationally. Case studies and examples demonstrate how
the theory applies in practice and pause and review boxes will help
students think critically about the content. Work and Employment in
a Changing Business Environment is ideal reading for all
postgraduate students on both CIPD and non-CIPD accredited courses.
Online supporting resources include powerpoint slides for every
chapter.
Aristotle's Politics is widely recognized as one of the classics of
the history of political philosophy, and like every other such
masterpiece, it is a work about which there is deep division. Many
readers of Aristotle are uncertain whether his Politics has any
contribution to make to contemporary debates about political life
and political theory. The essays in this volume aim to address,
implicitly or explicitly, this very question about the relevance of
Arisotle's thinking in contemporary political philosophy. Written
by leading scholars in lucid and accessible style, the nine essays
in this volume will be a critical resource for newcomers to
Aristotle.
Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite
simply the greatest frigate captain in the age of sail. An
incomparable seaman, ferociously combative yet chivalrous, a master
of the quarterdeck and an athlete of the tops, he was as quick to
welcome a gallant foe into his cabin as to dive to the rescue of a
man overboard. He is the likely model for the heroic but
all-too-human Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's novels. Pellew was
orphaned at eight, but fought his way from the very bottom of the
Navy to fleet command and a viscountcy. Victories and eye-catching
feats won him a public following. Yet as an outsider with a gift
for antagonizing his better-born peers, he made powerful enemies.
Redemption came with his last command, when he set off to do battle
with the Barbary States and free thousands of European slaves.
Contemporary opinion held this to be an impossible mission, and
Pellew himself, in leading from the front in the style of his
direct contemporary Nelson, did not expect to survive. Pellew's
humanity as much as his gallantry, fondness for subordinates and
blind love for his family, and the warmth and intimacy of his
letters, make him a hugely engaging and sympathetic figure. In
Stephen Taylor's magnificent new life he at last has the biography
he deserves.
A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age
of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare
"No other book resurrects the wooden world of Jack Tar in such
captivating and voluminous detail."-Roger Ekirch, Wall Street
Journal "[A] rollicking narrative . . . Superb"-Ben Wilson, Times
British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of
officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain,
"illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and
unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including
court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their own
words. In this exhilarating account, ordinary seamen are far from
the hapless sufferers of the press gangs. Proud and spirited,
learned in their own fashion, with robust opinions and the courage
to challenge overweening authority, they stand out from their less
adventurous compatriots. Taylor demonstrates how the sailor was the
engine of British prosperity and expansion up to the Industrial
Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with Cook to establishing
the East India Company as a global corporation, from the sea
battles that made Britain a superpower to the crisis of the 1797
mutinies, these "sons of the waves" held the nation's destiny in
their calloused hands.
Poet and musician, artist and hostess, Lady Anne Barnard lived at
the heart of Georgian society. High-born yet egalitarian, she
travelled to France to observe the Revolution, rejected numerous
suitors, and lived independently. Her curious ways attracted gossip
right into her final years when she raised an illegitimate child at
her home in Berkeley Square. Written with full access to her
previously unseen private papers and unpublished memoirs, Defiance
shows Lady Anne to be one of the unheralded chroniclers and
pioneering women of her time.
Where do you go for help when no one believes you're really sick?
The doctors can't explain your symptoms, but you know there's
something wrong because you can sense it in your body. Living with
the specter of an unresolved health issue isn't just painful, it's
isolating. The preoccupation and stress it causes can disrupt your
career or interfere with personal relationships. If you continually
experience symptoms of illness, or worry a lot about disease, you
may be suffering from health anxiety--a condition that can produce
physical effects of its own, including muscle tension, nausea, and
a quickened heart rate. In this compassionate and empowering book,
noted psychologists Gordon J. G. Asmundson and Steven Taylor
provide simple and accurate self-tests designed to help you
understand health anxiety and the role it might be playing in how
you feel. Concrete examples and helpful exercises show you how to
change thought and behavior patterns that contribute to the aches,
pains, and anxiety you're experiencing. The authors also explain
how to involve friends and family--and when to seek professional
help--as you learn to stay well without worry. Association for
Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Book of Merit
’Livingstone’s Tribe is excellent… Taylor is an intelligent and stimulating companion’ Financial Times’At the book’s heart is a riveting examination of Livingstone’s tribe… the whites of post-independence Africa’ Independent on Sunday’Taylor’s expedition into the interior of the continent’s colonial past has got everything that such a book should have’ Guardian’Stephen Taylor, a third-generation émigré of British descent, finds a melancholy collection of white misfits and failures… as well as a heroic, dwindling clutch of missionaries still holding the line. The catalogue of theft, corruption, murder and superstition that Taylor chronicles makes appalling, fascinating reading. Yet Taylor is no Colonel Blimp, rather an anti-apartheid liberal who fled the old South Africa and welcomed independence for Mugabe’s Zimbabwe’ Daily Mail’Sights and travel experiences are vividly described and people both from Livingstone’s and from the other tribes are handled particularly well’ Sunday Times
The Indian Ocean, 1809. At stake: Britain's commercial lifeline to
India and naval supremacy. In one fatal season, the natural order
of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. Storm and Conquest
brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women and children
caught at sea in hurricanes, and those who survived to drive the
French from the Eastern seas. All shared a need to prove themselves
- to make a career, or a fortune, or a marriage - in places which
could be at once magnificent and terrifying.
After decades of neglect there has been a resurgence of interest in
the history of the Church of England in 'the long eighteenth
century'. This volume of essays brings together the fruits of some
of this research. Most of the essays have been written, not by
traditional ecclesiastical historians, but by political, social and
cultural historians, a fact which reflects the diversity of
approaches to the study of the Church of England in the eighteenth
century. As a whole, the volume demonstrates that religion and the
Church can no longer be regarded as a discrete subject in the
history of eighteenth-century England, but are central to a full
understanding of its life and thought.
Studying Human Resource Management is an ideal textbook for anyone
studying the CIPD Associate Diploma in People Management. Fully
updated throughout, this book provides thorough coverage of the
study of HRM including the people management contribution and
business environment as well as discussing the strategy and
structure of the HR function. Written by experts in the field with
both academic and practitioner experience, Studying Human Resource
Management includes invaluable discussion on professional
behaviours for people professionals and guidance on how to manage
HR data and information and most importantly, how to use it to make
evidence-based decisions. There is also now a brand new chapter on
shaping people practice to benefit your organisation. Each chapter
includes key learning outcomes to summarise the content that will
be covered and to help students track their progress, reflective
activities to consolidate learning and further reading suggestions
to support wider engagement with areas of particular interest. This
book also includes case studies to help students understand how the
theory applies in practice. Online resources include slides, a
lecturer guide and annotated web links.
Human Resource Management: People and Organisations provides
thorough coverage of key HR topics and their context to enable
students to excel in their academic studies and begin a successful
career as a people professional. Now fully updated for a third
edition, Human Resource Management: People and Organisations covers
everything from essential UK employment law and managing the
employment relationship through to resourcing and workforce
planning, employee engagement and reward management. There is also
expert discussion on organisation design and development as well as
advice on how to improve organisational performance. This edition
now includes brand new chapters on people management in an
international context, wellbeing at work and equity, diversity and
inclusion This book is fully supported by a range of pedagogical
features including learning outcomes to summarise the content that
will be covered in each chapter and track progress, reflective
activities to consolidate learning and further reading suggestions
to aid wider engagement with areas of particular interest. Case
studies throughout also help students understand how the theory
applies in practice. It is ideal reading for anyone studying the
CIPD Associate Diploma in People Management as well as those in the
early stages of their career in HR.. Online resources include
PowerPoint slides, a lecturer guide and annotated web links.
After decades of neglect there has recently been a resurgence of interest in the history of the Church of England in "the long eighteenth century." This volume of essays brings together the fruits of some of this research, and reflects the diversity of approaches to the study of the Church of England in the eighteenth century. As a whole, the volume demonstrates that religion and the Church can no longer be regarded as a discrete subject in the history of eighteenth-century England, but are central to a full understanding of its life and thought.
This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of
children and young people certified as insane in England during the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It uses a range of
sources from Victorian institutions to explore regional
differences, rural and urban comparisons, and categories of mental
illness and mental disability. The discussion of diverse pathways
in and out of the asylum offers an opportunity to reassess
nineteenth-century child mental impairment in a broad
social-cultural context, and its conclusions widen the parameters
of a 'mixed economy of care' by introducing multiple sites of
treatment and confinement. Through its expansive scope the analysis
intersects with topics such as the history of childhood,
institutional culture, urbanisation, regional economic development,
welfare history, and philanthropy.
Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice is the
bestselling and definitive resource for HRM students and
professionals, which helps readers to understand and implement HR
in relation to the needs of the business. This book covers in-depth
all of the areas essential to the HR function such as employment
law, employee relations, learning and development, performance
management and reward, as well as the HR skills needed to ensure
professional success, including leadership, managing conflict,
interviewing and using statistics. Illustrated throughout in full
colour and with a range of pedagogical features to consolidate
learning (e.g. source review boxes, key learning points, summaries
and case studies from international organizations such as IBM, HSBC
and Johnson and Johnson), this fully updated 15th edition includes
new chapters on the HRM role of line managers, evidence-based HRM,
e-HRM and the gender pay gap, further case studies and updated
content covering the latest research and developments. Armstrong's
Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice is aligned with the
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) profession
map and standards and is suited to both professionals and students
of both undergraduate degrees and the CIPD's level 5 and 7
professional qualifications. Online supporting resources include
comprehensive handbooks for lecturers and students, lecture slides,
all figures and tables, toolkits, and a literature review, glossary
and bibliography.
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