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Publication date: 1 March 1996

Haydn Bennett

Examines the impact of corporate disposal on the staff of TSB Bank Northern Ireland plc (TSBNI). Specifically, focuses on the major areas of concern for employees of TSBNI…

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Examines the impact of corporate disposal on the staff of TSB Bank Northern Ireland plc (TSBNI). Specifically, focuses on the major areas of concern for employees of TSBNI together with an assessment of how successful TSBNI management have been in allaying staff fears. Also looks at the effectiveness of various communication media. Suggests that a differential approach should be adopted by management in relation to the dissemination of information in the period immediately following the announcement of disposal. Bases this idea on the findings that disposal generates different concerns for differing groups of employees. Furthermore, presents evidence indicating that different grades of employees benefit from different communication strategies.

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Corporate Communications: An International Journal, vol. 1 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1356-3289

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Publication date: 1 March 2000

Haydn Bennett and Mark Durkin

Employee commitment is a concept which has attracted much attention in recent years. Research has focused on relationships between commitment and various facets of individual…

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Employee commitment is a concept which has attracted much attention in recent years. Research has focused on relationships between commitment and various facets of individual performance and on the psychological basis of the commitment itself. Profiles the pattern of employee commitment found in an exploratory study of employees of a large retail bank which is undergoing a process of both structural and cultural change. Three bases of employee commitment – internalised commitment, identification commitment and compliance commitment – are profiled against the pattern of commitment which the literature suggests will be found across various employee grades. Evidence from the exploratory research is presented which suggests that major change may result in the (at least partial) dissolution of internalised commitment on the part of employees, coupled with a corresponding increase in compliance commitment. Implications for the organisation and the future success of the change process are examined, together with recommendations for further research.

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Journal of Managerial Psychology, vol. 15 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0268-3946

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Publication date: 9 March 2010

Fiona Lettice and Martin McCracken

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Team Performance Management: An International Journal, vol. 16 no. 1/2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1352-7592

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Publication date: 3 October 2008

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Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues, vol. 1 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1753-7983

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Publication date: 22 February 2017

Garth Stahl

In terms of education attainment in the United Kingdom, the white working class remains the lowest performing ethnic group, and their academic underperformance has ominous…

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In terms of education attainment in the United Kingdom, the white working class remains the lowest performing ethnic group, and their academic underperformance has ominous implications for their long-term life chances. This chapter investigates how white working-class boys experience pathologization and deficit discourses in their schooling as they negotiate the discipline structures in three educational sites in South London (two state comprehensive schools and one Pupil Referral Unit). Drawing upon empirical data from an in-depth sociological study of 23 white working-class boys (Stahl, 2015), this chapter makes theoretical connections between how pathologization – both within the school and wider society – contributes to how these young men become constructed with and through deficit discourses contributing significantly toward low academic achievement. Where whiteness often equates to power and entitlement, in the schooling contexts of this study whiteness was often socially constructed as undesirable and equated with low aspirations, stagnation, and antieducational stances.

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The School to Prison Pipeline: The Role of Culture and Discipline in School
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ISBN: 978-1-78560-128-6

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Publication date: 21 October 2013

Stuart Hannabuss

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Reference Reviews, vol. 27 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0950-4125

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Publication date: 7 November 2019

Kevin Pon and Anne-Laure Duncan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the state of French medium sized business schools in the Grandes Ecole sector of education and how networks and alliances help business…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the state of French medium sized business schools in the Grandes Ecole sector of education and how networks and alliances help business schools survive in an ever-changing and global environment.

Design/methodology/approach

The material for empirical research for this paper was gathered by using a case study method of four small to medium sized provincial Institutions of Management Education in France.

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The paper demonstrates that all of the business schools studied rely on networks and alliances to face globalisation and internationalise their strategy and seems to follow the three typologies of mergers and acquisitions set down by Napier (1989): extension mergers, collaborative mergers and redesign mergers. At present, the networks and alliances are used on a marginal or peripheral way by networking only a part of the institution at one time.

Research limitations/implications

Further research at a later date needs to be carried out in order to observe if the pattern will remain or if there may be networks which will start from the core of the institution since the organisations will in the future have more of an international or global culture.

Originality/value

The value of this paper is to demonstrate that medium-sized business schools can compensate their limited resources and compete in the global education market. Alliances and networks appear as key ways in achieving goals of sustainability and survival.

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Journal of Management Development, vol. 38 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0262-1711

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Publication date: 1 June 1924

WITH this issue we are commencing the twenty‐seventh year of our career as an independent Library Journal and trust that we shall carry on the tradition of our illustrious founder…

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WITH this issue we are commencing the twenty‐seventh year of our career as an independent Library Journal and trust that we shall carry on the tradition of our illustrious founder and continue to criticise or praise without fear or favour. During the past twelve months our editorial staff has successfully produced special numbers dealing with Bookbinding, Book Selection, Children's Departments, Classification, and Colonial Libraries. Judging by the correspondence we have received, our efforts have been greatly appreciated by the majority of our readers. Naturally we have not pleased everybody and we have even been dubbed the “little contemporary” in some quarters. However, we can point to an unbroken record of twenty‐six years' endeavour to serve the library profession and we ourselves are justly proud of the contemptible “little contemporary” that did not cease to appear even during the darkest hours of the dread war period.

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New Library World, vol. 27 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 October 2008

Rutledge M. Dennis

I don’t remember exactly when I began to be interested in music, but my mother and godmother would laughingly recall when they knew I would be musically inclined. Though I was…

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I don’t remember exactly when I began to be interested in music, but my mother and godmother would laughingly recall when they knew I would be musically inclined. Though I was then in diapers, whenever Tommy Dorsey's recording of Boogie Woogie was played, I would immediately begin to pat my feet. My first conscious memory of reacting to music when I was very young were the times my father would sing little ditties and play his banjo. He could carry a tune, and he played the banjo quite well. His greatest musical feat, however, was as a whistler, and I would try to imitate his whistling style, without success as I grew older. Then too, my siblings and I would sing and recite little nursery rhymes before our parents, and I would compose songs for my sisters to sing. Before he died an early death at 37 my father gave me a mouth harp and a harmonica which I kept for many years; I later misplaced it while in college. I later bought another harmonica which I kept throughout my years in the U.S. Army, my travels throughout Europe, and throughout my years in graduate school. How and why we each possess the talents and skills we have are questions I’ve never fully understood. So I’ve concluded that we just have them, and we’ll never be able to explain it. Throughout this chapter four reference points will be used to explain my exposure to music and my music biculturality: schools, churches, home, and my neighborhood. If I make very few references to whites, it is simply because during my early life my contact with whites was minimal, and white individuals played a minor role in my life, as at home my world centered around my parents and godparents, siblings, and other family members, and neighborhood friends; at school my world was a completely black world. The first white I got to know outside of my early work experiences was the white Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church who visited St. John's Episcopal Church at least six or seven times a year.

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Biculturalism, Self Identity and Societal Transformation
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ISBN: 978-0-7623-1409-6

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Publication date: 1 May 1968

David Gunston

THE WAY WRITERS WORK has always interested readers of their books. There is no doubt that in the various foibles of literary men there is something reflective of their approach to…

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THE WAY WRITERS WORK has always interested readers of their books. There is no doubt that in the various foibles of literary men there is something reflective of their approach to their craft.

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Library Review, vol. 21 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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