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  • 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

    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 Leadership of Teams

    How to Develop and Inspire High-performance Teamwork

    Teams are everywhere - business, industry, schools, hospitals and government. There are executive, management and cross-functional teams, as well as teams formed for specific tasks and projects. But when a team can succeed or fail on the quality and effectiveness of its leader, everyone will have a view on the leadership qualities that are most important.So what makes a successful team? And what ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • The Leadership of Teams

    How to Develop and Inspire High-performance Teamwork

    Teams are everywhere - business, industry, schools, hospitals and government. There are executive, management and cross-functional teams, as well as teams formed for specific tasks and projects. But when a team can succeed or fail on the quality and effectiveness of its leader, everyone will have a view on the leadership qualities that are most important.So what makes a successful team? And what ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Leader's Guide to Managing People, The

    How to Use Soft Skills to Get Hard Results

    Mike Brent is a Client and Programme Director at Ashridge. He has worked as a management trainer and consultant with many international companies such as GE, HP, Ericsson, France Telecom, ICI, Volvo and Bang & Olufsen. Fiona Dent is a Director of Executive Education at Ashridge. She has worked with a range of organisations and clients on a national and international basis. Mike and Fiona are ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Leader's Guide to Influence

    How to Use Soft Skills to Get Hard Results

    Series series Financial Times Series
    Shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year 2011, Practical Manager CategoryA Leaders Guide to Influence will show you how to step up your people skills and improve working relationships so you can get the business results you want.Combing the hugely popular areas of influence and leadership, this book will show you how to step up your interpersonal effectiveness by learning how to work ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • Health Professionals and Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare

    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

  • 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

    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

  • The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism

    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

    $65.99 USD

  • Leadership in the Public Sector

    Promise and Pitfalls

    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