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Publication date: 1 June 2005

Justin Lewis

Advises bosses of firms large and small about how to prevent their talented staff leaving mid‐career now that employees are increasingly reluctant to work long hours.

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Purpose

Advises bosses of firms large and small about how to prevent their talented staff leaving mid‐career now that employees are increasingly reluctant to work long hours.

Design/methodology/approach

Discusses changing employee attitudes and how HR managers should react to these changes.

Findings

Urges organizations to put in structures that ensure all staff are working efficiently and fairly. Suggests that, with the right structure, regular monitoring and “policing”, enormous amounts of time will be liberated, enabling staff to reduce their working hours and take longer holidays. Argues that there is a balance to be struck in giving employees the right amount of responsibility: they should have enough, so that their judgment and intelligence are fully used, but not so much that they feel overburdened and are unable to relax after work. Contends that holiday cover should be provided so that employees do not return to a mountainous in‐tray.

Practical implications

Stresses the key role of HR managers in ensuring that employees do not become overburdened with work and opt to leave the organization.

Originality/value

Provides a viewpoint from the front line – the chief executive of City of London stockbroking firm Corporate Synergy, who has had to confront the issues about which he writes.

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Human Resource Management International Digest, vol. 13 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0967-0734

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Publication date: 14 September 2015

Ewa Bińczyk

The paper surveys selected standpoints in the Polish humanities that are visibly critical toward neoliberal assumptions and claims of economics. The resources used in the text…

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The paper surveys selected standpoints in the Polish humanities that are visibly critical toward neoliberal assumptions and claims of economics. The resources used in the text are: Andrzej Szahaj’s philosophical postulates and assertions; Tadeusz Kowalik’s view; criticism and postulates of social economics articulated by the quarterly magazine Nowy Obywatel (The New Citizen). The purpose of this paper is to construct a possibly cohesive picture of this type of criticism by indicating important similarities between the approaches mentioned above, its strongest arguments, philosophical premises and political inclinations.

Design/methodology/approach

A conceptual synthesis and interpretation of theoretical standpoints and its philosophical premises, a comparative analysis of the text/content of the magazine (The New Citizen).

Findings

Each of the three standpoints discussed in the paper proves to be an interesting example of social economics. It is also symptomatic that they share a similar, critical attitude toward the way in which the transformation of the Polish economy from a socialist to a capitalist system had been carried out. The transformation is thereby interpreted as a process that is not accomplished at all from the point of view of the ideals of social justice and integrity.

Practical implications

The popularization of Polish normative views of economics taking into account the problem of social justice, and the possible transformation of the way in which economic problems are publicly understood in Poland.

Originality/value

The discussion of non-standard interpretations of Polish transformation and its effects that undermine and challenge neoliberal ideology in economics.

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 42 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0306-8293

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Publication date: 1 February 1995

Stuart Hannabuss

With intellectual convergence between the information andcommunication professions, there is an increasing need to understand theconstruction and dissemination of news, a product…

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With intellectual convergence between the information and communication professions, there is an increasing need to understand the construction and dissemination of news, a product common to both domains. Discusses major approaches to the study of news. Identifies sources useful for the study of news in the context of higher education library and information studies courses. Defines news as product and process as socially constructed, sourced and created within complex organizational frameworks. It is an ongoing professional responsibility for information specialists to investigate news as information made up of fact and opinion, objectivity and bias.

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Library Management, vol. 16 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-5124

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Publication date: 9 December 2003

Valerie Karno

Small Claims Court Television Shows offer spectators an opportunity to re-envision their relationship to legal and civic judgment. Through presenting racial and regional judges…

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Small Claims Court Television Shows offer spectators an opportunity to re-envision their relationship to legal and civic judgment. Through presenting racial and regional judges, these shows re-imagine legal judgment as a necessary and inclusive component of everyday citizenship. Reflecting Reality TV, Tabloid TV Talk Shows, and the History of African-American representation on television, shows like Judge Mathis and Judge Judy demonstrate the contradictions inherent in racial representations on television. By showing the ways in which television performance reflects the performative aspect of legal discourse already operating upon us, the judges use stupidity as a way to pedagogically energize a lower class, disenfranchised viewership into newly rehearsing their roles as active citizens.

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Punishment, Politics and Culture
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-76231-072-2

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Publication date: 25 October 2021

Justin A. Coles and Maria Kingsley

By engaging in critical literacy, participants theorized Blackness and antiblackness. The purpose of this study was to have participants theorize Blackness and antiblackness…

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Purpose

By engaging in critical literacy, participants theorized Blackness and antiblackness. The purpose of this study was to have participants theorize Blackness and antiblackness through their engagements with critical literacy.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors used a youth-centered and informed Black critical-race grounded methodology.

Findings

Participants’ unique and varied revelations of Blackness as Vitality, Blackness as Cognizance and Blackness as Expansive Community, served to withstand, confront and transcend encounters with antiblackness in English curricula.

Practical implications

This paper provides a model for how to engage Black youth as a means to disrupt anti-Black English education spaces.

Social implications

This study provides a foundation for future research efforts of Black English outer spaces as they relate to English education. Findings in this study may also inform existing English educator practices.

Originality/value

This study theorized both the role and the flexible nature of Black English outer spaces. It defined the multi-ethnic nature of Blackness. It proposed that affirmations of Blackness sharpened participants’ critical literacies in Black English outer spaces as a transformative intervention to anti-Black English education spaces.

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English Teaching: Practice & Critique, vol. 20 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1175-8708

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Publication date: 7 May 2019

Hans-Michael Trautwein

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Including A Symposium on 50 Years of the Union for Radical Political Economics
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78769-849-9

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Maturing Leadership: How Adult Development Impacts Leadership
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78973-402-7

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Publication date: 8 March 2017

Margaret Ann Hagerman

How can researchers develop methods that are both child-centered and grounded in the “epistemology of racial emancipation” given the unique challenges associated with conducting…

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How can researchers develop methods that are both child-centered and grounded in the “epistemology of racial emancipation” given the unique challenges associated with conducting research with young people and white people? The purpose of this chapter is to examine the use of an innovative child-centered visual research method within the context of a larger ethnography focused on how white children come to form ideas about race in America. As part of a broader ethnographic study, white children between the ages of 10 and 13 were presented with photographs of celebrities. Children were asked questions about how to racially classify these popular culture icons, an activity that led to further discussion about race and racism in America. Drawing upon photographs of popular cultural icons and celebrities is one strategy for approaching uncomfortable topics with children in way that is less intimidating and that also brings new data to the study. Children made this aspect of the interview their own, bringing their unique perspectives to bear. This chapter discusses at length unique methodological issues, strategies, and innovations involved in research with white children about race. This chapter makes original contributions to the field of developing innovative, child-centered methods for conducting research with children and youth as well as existing scholarship on whiteness, privilege, and the social reproduction of racial ideology/racism.

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Researching Children and Youth: Methodological Issues, Strategies, and Innovations
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78714-098-1

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Publication date: 26 June 2020

The party almost won the last election, reducing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to a minority government. However, Trudeau’s party is now gaining popularity due to the…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB253539

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Publication date: 4 April 2013

Justin Newell

After 10 years of teaching, my feelings, and opinions are based on experiences in the classroom and my own life. By no means am I an expert with immense amount of statistics and…

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After 10 years of teaching, my feelings, and opinions are based on experiences in the classroom and my own life. By no means am I an expert with immense amount of statistics and graphs. I teach from the heart and in these pages, I wrote from the heart. I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of children in three different school districts. These districts had varying demographics, but in each the black or African American population was a significant number. I currently teach in a city that has been ranked among some of the worst in the country in terms of both crime and education and academic performance. However, each child that walks through my classroom door is as precious as any other on the planet. They deserve my best!

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Black Male Teachers
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78190-622-4

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