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In recent years, a new movement has emerged within organizational psychology, transposing the established principles of the field onto arenas of more pressing humanitarian need, including the humanitarian treatment of all workers in all work settings. Humanitarian Work Psychology (HWP) stretches the parameters of the discipline to focus on regions, communities, and groups of workers that can potentially benefit most from its research and insights. Humanitarian Work Psychology and the Global Development Agenda is the first book to provide a collection of case studies of HWP in action. Edited by some of the leading scholars in the field, it benchmarks HWP against the developmental goals set ou...
Contextualizing Humanitarian work in history, justice, methods and professional ethics, this book articulates process skills for transformational partnerships between diverse organizations, motivating education, organisational learning and selecting the disaster workforce.
Written by experts, inspired by practitioners, focused on challenges: an authentic introduction to management in an ever-changing world.Introduction to Management is a uniquely accessible and engaging companion to managing in the real world. Placing issues of digital, environmental, and social disruption at centre-stage, it guides students through the varied and complex reality of management with ease, encouraging them to develop their own critical view of this dynamic area. Key features· Each chapter is authored by an expert who is an active researcher in their field, providing insights into the disruptions and challenges faced by managers today, from those on the forefront of current thin...
This volume argues for the development of a macro perspective within psychology that more effectively incorporates social structures, systems, policies, and institutions. The book emphasizes how social structures and systems can ultimately promote, or erode, psychological wellbeing. Macropsychology is concerned with “understanding up,” or how we can influence the settings and conditions of the society in which we live. Psychology has traditionally been more interested in “understanding down,” that is, with the behaviour of individuals and groups; in inter-psychic and intra-psychic and in neurological and biological processes. This volume argues that psychology can more effectively co...
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- PART I Working in the Sector -- 2 Theories of the Nonprofit Sector -- 3 Trends in Nonprofit Employment -- 4 Legal Aspects of Nonprofit Employment -- PART II Building an HRM Infrastructure in a Nonprofit Organization -- 5 Strategic Human Resource Management -- 6 Recruitment and Selection for Nonprofit Organizations -- 7 Succession Planning and Management in Nonprofit Organizations -- 8 Talent Management -- 9 Compensation Practices in Nonprofit Organizations: Examining Practices Adopted by High Performing Nonprofits -- 10 Labor Relatio...
Tackling precarious work has been described by the United Nations (UN)’s International Labour Organization (ILO) as the main challenge facing the world of work. In this ground-breaking book, leading applied research scholars, advocates, and activists from across the globe respond to this challenge by showing how Industrial and Organizational (I/O) psychology has a significant contribution to make in humanity moving away from precarious work situations towards sustainable livelihoods. Broken down into four key parts on Sustainable Livelihoods, Fair Incomes, Work Security and Social Protection, the book covers a multitude of topics including the role of poor pay, lack of work-related securit...
Multinational enterprises continue to rely heavily upon expatriates as part of their global workforce. These expatriates, whose exact employment contract may take different forms, are assigned to help them develop global skills as well as to foster knowledge transfer. But managing this expatriate workforce is extremely complex, requiring a questioning of assumptions and sensitivity to new social and cultural dynamics. This book sets out to examine the problem of expatriate management through an I/O Psychology lens. Each chapter draws upon the expertise of scholars from around the world to provide insights into the latest research findings and remaining needs, pertaining to a wide variety of ...
This collection of brief essays by thought-leaders, scholars, activists, psychologists, and social scientists imagines new workplace structures and policies that promote decent and fair work for all members of society, especially those who are most vulnerable. The world of work has been deteriorating for decades and the very institution of work needs to be systematically understood, critiqued, reimagined, and rebuilt. This book offers thoughtful suggestions for new work arrangements, individual strategies for enhancing one’s work life, and recommendations for innovative systemic and institutional reforms. The collection offers critical analyses in conjunction with constructive solutions on rebuilding work, providing direction and context for ongoing debates and policy discussions about work. The book will be of interest to activists, policy makers, management and leaders, scholars, professionals, students, and general readers interested work-based reform efforts and social change.
International Human Resource Management is a core text for undergraduate, specialist Master's and MBA students taking a module in international or comparative human resource management. It provides and introduction to both the theory and practice of managing HR in an international context. It discusses the development of mainstream HRM and analyses the significance of the international contexts, processes and issues pertaining to the effective employment of people in different geographical locations. The book is underpinned by a clear analytical framework of key aspects of international HRM and contains some contributed chapters from experts in the field.
This is an exciting, comprehensive compilation of letters, petitions, songs, poems, cartoons and a fatwa composed by Malawi’s foremost martyrs and struggle heroes. The documents lay bare the chequered march of Malawi’s political and social history and give a glimpse into the minds of some of Malawi’s most notable figures and the challenges they faced in their time as they fought for change. They are accompanied by rich commentaries by respected authors on Malawian political history: Klaus Fiedler, John Lwanda, Isabel Phiri, and Kenneth Ross.