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  • Health Professionals and Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare

    by Danielle Hitch, Rosalie A. Boyce, Jonathan Gabe, Joana Almeida, Junji Kayukawa, Guido Giarelli, Takuya Matsushige, Nelson Barros, Pamela Siegel, Elaine Marasca Garcia da Costa, Renata Carnevale, Mohammad Akram, William C. Cockerham ...
    Series series Sociology of Health Professions
    Across the globe, patients are no longer passive recipients of care — they are active participants, decision-makers and collaborators.This timely volume explores the evolving landscape of patient and public involvement (PPI) in healthcare, focusing on its intersection with the healthcare professions. Drawing on international perspectives, the book examines how patients and professionals navigate ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Professions and Professionalism

    A Research Overview

    by Mike Dent ...
    Series series State of the Art in Business Research
    Professions have long provided a dependable body of expertise that organisations have relied upon to fulfil goals. Issues around equality and diversity alongside challenges to expert knowledge in the neo-liberal era have created profound challenges for this type of worker, even while creating opportunities for newer varieties of expert labour to establish themselves as professionals.This shortform ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Support Workers and the Health Professions in International Perspective

    The Invisible Providers of Health Care

    by Miwako Hosoda, Raisa Deber, Whitney Berta, Adrian Rohit Dass, Audrey Laporte, Nelson Barros, Joana Almeida, Mirko Noordegraaf, Elisabeth Olin, Anna Dunér, Andreas Liljegren, Susan Nancarrow, Judith Allsop, Mike Dent, Janet M Lum, Paul Williams, Katherine Zagrodney ...
    Series series Sociology of Health Professions
    Health care support workers (HSWs) play a fundamental role in international health care systems, and yet they remain largely invisible. Despite this, the number of HSWs is growing fast as governments strive to combat illness and address social care issues in a world of finite resources.This original collection analyses the global experience of HSWs in the UK, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism

    Edited by Mike Dent, Jean-Louis Denis, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Ellen Kuhlmann ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism is a state-of-the-art reference work which maps out the current developments and debates around the sociology of the professions, and how they relate to management and organizations.Supported by an international contributor team specializing in the disciplines of organizational studies and sociology, the collection provides extensive ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Professional Health Regulation in the Public Interest

    International Perspectives

    by Sumit Kane, Fiona Pacey, Nelson Barros, Joana Almeida, Adalsteinn Brown, Judith Allsop, William R. Roche, Rubén Flores, Richard B. Saltman, Michael Calnan, Marie Bismark, Jennifer Moore, Jennifer Morris, Stephanie D Short, Ruth Horowitz, Kathryn Jones, Karsten Vrangbaek, Patrick Brown ...
    Series series Sociology of Health Professions
    There are significant variations in how healthcare systems and health professionals are regulated globally. One feature that they increasingly have in common is an emphasis on the value of including members of the public in quality assurance processes. While many argue that this will help better serve the public interest, others question how far the changing regulatory reform agenda is still ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Managing Professional Identities

    Knowledge, Performativities and the 'New' Professional

    Edited by Mike Dent, Stephen Whitehead ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
    This book addresses the nature of current shifts in professional and managerial knowledge and practice, particularly in relation to power and accountability. Connecting with current debates concerned with work and identity, the book will present a range of theoretical and empirical accounts of the dilemmas and issues facing specialists in various organizational arenas as they seek to adapt to the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Questioning the New Public Management

    by John Chandler ...
    The book contains a wealth of detailed and fascinating case studies of New Public Management (NPM) in practice in the UK, exploring the enactment of NPM in its specific organizational contexts. A range of public services are covered including local government, education, social work and the police, with particular attention paid to the National Health Service. The editors introduce the case ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Gender and the Public Sector

    Edited by Jim Barry, Mike Dent, Maggie O'Neill ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
    Drawing on sociology and social policy, this intriguing volume considers various aspects of gender and professional identity. Contributors explore the inter-relationship between managerialism, professionalism and gender identity in Britain, and examine the processes and impacts of change on those working in public sector organizations in other countries as they come under varying managerial ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Leadership in the Public Sector

    Promises and Pitfalls

    Edited by Christine Teelken, Ewan Ferlie, Mike Dent ...
    In view of the approaching age of austerity for the public sector, leadership is likely to continue to become a key theme. This edited volume brings together a host of material from the public sector to analyze the issue internationally.Teelken, Dent & Ferlie lead a team of contributors in examining three key aspects of this increasingly important theme:the meaning of public sector leadership, and ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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  • Education Policy

    Process, Themes and Impact

    by Les Bell, Howard Stevenson ...
    Series series Leadership for Learning Series
    The study of educational leadership makes little sense unless it is in relation to who the leaders are, how they are leading, what is being led, and with what effect. Based on the premise that learning is at the heart of leadership and that leaders themselves should be learners, the Leadership for Learning series explores the connections between educational leadership, policy, curriculum, human ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment

    Edited by Heidi Gottfried, Stephen Edgell, Edward Granter ...
    The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment is a landmark collection of original contributions by leading specialists from around the world.The coverage is both comprehensive and comparative (in terms of time and space) and each ‘state of the art’ chapter provides a critical review of the literature combined with some thoughts on the direction of research. This authoritative text is ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • Managing Modernity

    Beyond Bureaucracy?

    Edited by Stewart R. Clegg, Martin Harris, Harro Höpfl ...
    Bureaucracy has long been a cornerstone of advanced industrial societies, and a defining feature of modernity. At the same time, many commentators from all quarters argue that it is on the wane in this post-this or that world; or that if it isn't, it should be dismantled to free up organizations, enterprise, and innovation. But do we live in a more or less bureaucratic world? Do contemporary forms ... Read more

    $41.39 USD