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Publication date: 1 March 1993

Wendy Lord

Sets out the various categories of psychometric assessment toolsand explores how they might be used by the employment counsellor.

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Sets out the various categories of psychometric assessment tools and explores how they might be used by the employment counsellor.

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Employee Councelling Today, vol. 5 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0955-8217

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Publication date: 15 June 2009

Susan R. Komives, Susan D. Longerbeam, Felicia Mainella, Laura Osteen, Julie E. Owen and Wendy Wagner

The leadership identity development (LID) grounded theory (Komives, Owen, Longerbeam, Mainella, & Osteen, 2005) and related LID model (Komives, Longerbeam, Owen, Mainella, &…

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The leadership identity development (LID) grounded theory (Komives, Owen, Longerbeam, Mainella, & Osteen, 2005) and related LID model (Komives, Longerbeam, Owen, Mainella, & Osteen, 2006) present a framework for understanding how individual college students develop the social identity of being collaborative, relational leaders interdependently engaging in leadership as a group process (Komives, Lucas, & McMahon, 1998, 2007). Challenges to applying and measuring this stage based developmental theory are discussed and recommendations are included.

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Journal of Leadership Education, vol. 8 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1552-9045

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Publication date: 6 July 2021

Jurika Groenewald and Elza Odendaal

Considering the benefits that gender diversity could bring to audit firms, especially in a time when the audit profession faces criticism and the COVID-19 pandemic has widened the…

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Considering the benefits that gender diversity could bring to audit firms, especially in a time when the audit profession faces criticism and the COVID-19 pandemic has widened the gender inequality gap, this study aims to explore the lived experiences of female former audit managers from a social role theory and role congruity theory perspective, to understand the factors that contributed towards their resignations.

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An exploratory qualitative research approach and an interpretative phenomenological analysis design were used. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with senior female audit managers who had resigned from Johannesburg Stock Exchange-accredited audit firms.

Findings

The female former audit managers reported their unique experiences in terms of a lack of transparent career progression discussions, audit firms being run by “old boys’ clubs” and unfair treatment linked to bias, job overload and indistinct ambitions to become audit partners.

Research limitations/implications

The homogeneous sample included a small number of female participants from a limited number of audit firms.

Originality/value

The findings could inform audit firms how to address the factors contributing to female audit managers’ resignations and to challenge stereotypes to retain more women for promotion to audit partner-level, thereby capitalising on the benefits of a diversified management structure that could lead to higher quality audits and address gender inequality.

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Publication date: 7 December 2017

Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds

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The Stalled Revolution: Is Equality for Women an Impossible Dream?
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ISBN: 978-1-78714-602-0

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Publication date: 1 January 1981

Jennifer Corcoran

Decisions have recently been given by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg which are of vital importance for the cause of equality between men and women. They demonstrate…

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Decisions have recently been given by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg which are of vital importance for the cause of equality between men and women. They demonstrate the relevance of the European provisions on equal pay and opportunity and serve to warn that no one who has a complaint on this subject can afford to be unaware of the European law. Five cases have been referred by the UK courts to the European court and each concerns equal pay and opportunity between men and women. The individuals have been assisted by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), a statutory body in the UK. The individual's trade unions have also given assistance in some of the cases.

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Equal Opportunities International, vol. 1 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0261-0159

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Publication date: 5 June 2007

Wendy Gay and David Bamford

The purpose of this research is to explore the apparent ambivalence towards the management of racial diversity.

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Purpose

The purpose of this research is to explore the apparent ambivalence towards the management of racial diversity.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper is based on a case study undertaken in a large London NHS teaching hospital. Having reviewed the dichotomy in the available literature, the case study focuses on identifying drivers and barriers to the management of racial diversity within the organisation.

Findings

Findings are that the drivers towards the management of racial diversity, and the barriers and resisting forces against the management of racial diversity that are to be found in the literature, were all discovered at the hospital. However, there were additional drivers towards the management of racial diversity found at the hospital that were not present in the literature. Some of the literature presents a rather simplistic vision of how to achieve the successful management of racial diversity. Research at the hospital has indicated that the achievement of the management of racial diversity is highly complex and not likely to be easily attained in a short time frame.

Research limitations/implications

The methodology applied is appropriate, generating data to facilitate discussion and draw specific conclusions from. A perceived limitation is the single case approach; however Remenyi et al. argues this can be enough to add to the body of knowledge.

Practical implications

Recommendations for the management of racial diversity at the hospital and elsewhere are suggested. Specific recommendations for future research are made.

Originality/value

The research questions have attempted to draw out the ambiguity towards the management of racial diversity within the organisation. Lord Taylor of Warwick describes the management of racial diversity as “a journey, not a destination”. This paper explores how far the hospital has travelled on that journey.

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International Journal of Public Sector Management, vol. 20 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0951-3558

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Publication date: 8 July 2021

Rebecca Bednarek, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Jonathan Schad and Wendy Smith

Over the past decades, scholars advanced foundational insights about paradox in organization theory. In this double volume, we seek to expand upon these insights through…

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Over the past decades, scholars advanced foundational insights about paradox in organization theory. In this double volume, we seek to expand upon these insights through interdisciplinary theorizing. We do so for two reasons. First, we think that now is a moment to build on those foundations toward richer, more complex insights by learning from disciplines outside of organization theory. Second, as our world increasingly faces grand challenges, scholars turn to paradox theory. Yet as the challenges become more complex, authors turn to other disciplines to ensure the requisite complexity of our own theories. To advance these goals, we invited scholars with knowledge in paradox theory to explore how these ideas could be expanded by outside disciplines. This provides a both/and opportunity for paradox theory: both learning from outside disciplines beyond existing boundaries and enriching our insights in organization scholarship. The result is an impressive collection of papers about paradox theory that draws from four outside realms – the realm of belief, the realm of physical systems, the realm of social structures, and the realm of expression. In this introduction, we expand on why paradox theory is ripe for interdisciplinary theorizing, explore the benefits of doing so, and introduce the papers in this double volume.

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Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox: Learning from Belief and Science, Part A
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ISBN: 978-1-80117-184-7

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Publication date: 8 August 2023

Mary Carlson, Wendy Krueger and Amy Van Hecke

This paper discusses the elements of successful university-level, cross-disciplinary course development using best practices to foster richer relational networks and to meet the…

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Purpose

This paper discusses the elements of successful university-level, cross-disciplinary course development using best practices to foster richer relational networks and to meet the complex demands of education and treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Design/methodology/approach

The three authors created and taught a class on best practices in autism nine times. The authors assessed the knowledge base and attitudinal changes of undergraduates (most in psychology, speech pathology and audiology, and education) for two of the nine cohorts who were being prepared to work with individuals with ASD.

Findings

Pre- and postmeasures indicated significant improvement in knowledge and a predisposition to working in interdisciplinary teams. Anecdotally, a number of students indicated in course evaluations that this was their best undergraduate course.

Practical implications

The program development and research have pertinent implications for faculty who are preparing students for professions in which teamwork will be expected, for faculty preparing students to work with individuals with ASD and for any faculty who wish to engage in cross-disciplinary, collaborative teaching.

Originality/value

This is a unique look at best practices of college course development and best practices of the multiple professional fields for which students were being prepared. It was done across three different colleges within a university.

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Publication date: 1 August 2018

Holly Panting, Charlotte Swift, Wendy Goodman and Cara Davis

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the Stages of Change (SOC) model can be applied to working with offenders with learning disabilities (LD), and furthermore, to…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the Stages of Change (SOC) model can be applied to working with offenders with learning disabilities (LD), and furthermore, to determine if it might be efficacious for this approach to be incorporated into a wider service model for this population.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper reports on the results of a consultation to a specialist forensic LD service in the South West of England. A two-pronged approach was taken to consult to the service in relation to the research questions. First, a comprehensive literature review was undertaken, and second, other forensic LD teams and experts in the field were consulted.

Findings

There is a dearth of research that has examined the application of the SOC model to working with offenders with LD, and as such, firm conclusions cannot be drawn as to its efficacy in this population. The evidence base for the SOC model in itself is lacking, and has been widely critiqued. However, there are currently no other evidence-based models for understanding motivation to change in offenders with LD.

Research limitations/implications

There is a clear clinical need for more robust theory and research around motivation to change, which can then be applied to clinical work with offenders with LD.

Originality/value

There has been a historical narrative in offender rehabilitation that “nothing works” (Burrowes and Needs, 2009). As such, it is more important than ever for the evidence base to enhance the understanding of motivation to change in offending populations.

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Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, vol. 9 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2050-8824

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Publication date: 1 February 1970

Reports of a number of countries imposing a limited ban on the use of D.D.T. have appeared from time to time in the B.F.J., but in the last few months, what was a trickle seems to…

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Reports of a number of countries imposing a limited ban on the use of D.D.T. have appeared from time to time in the B.F.J., but in the last few months, what was a trickle seems to have become an avalanche. In Canada, for example, relatively extensive restrictions apply from January 1st, permitting D.D.T. for insect control in only 12 agricultural crops, compared with 62 previously; there is a reduction of maximum levels for most fruits to 1 ppm. Its cumulative properties in fat are recognized and the present levels of 7 ppm in fat of cattle, sheep and pigs are to remain, but no trace is permitted in milk, butter, cheese, eggs, ice cream, other dairy products, nor potatoes. A U.S. Commission has advised that D.D.T. should be gradually phased out and completely banned in two years' time, followed by the Report of the Advisory Committee on Pesticides and Other Toxic Chemicals recommending withdrawal in Britain of some of the present uses of D.D.T. (also aldrin and dieldrin) on farm crops when an alternative becomes available. Further recommendations include an end to D.D.T. in paints, lacquers, oil‐based sprays and in dry cleaning; and the banning of small retail packs of D.D.T. and dieldrin for home use in connection with moth‐proofing or other insect control. The Report states that “domestic users are often unaware that using such packs involve the risk of contaminating prepared food immediately before it is eaten”.

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British Food Journal, vol. 72 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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