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What the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us about Work and Family
Drawing on hundreds of interviews from around the country, original survey research, and national labor force data, Moe and Shandy refocus the discussion of women who opt out from one where they are the object of scrutiny to one where their aspirations and struggles tell us about the far broader swath of American women who continue to juggle paid work and family. Moe and Shandy examine the many pressures that influence a woman's decision to resign, reduce, or reorient her career. These include the mismatch between child-care options and workplace demands, the fact that these women married men with demanding careers, the professionalization of stay-at-home motherhood, and broad failures in public policy. But Moe and Shandy are equally attentive to the resilience of women in the face of life decisions that might otherwise threaten their sense of self-worth. Moe and Shandy find, for instance, that women who have downsized their careers stress the value of social networks—of “running with a pack of smart women” who've also chosen to emphasize motherhood over paid work.
Articles, Forecasts, and Studies
A compendium of the work of Vladimir L. Kvint, Global Emerging Market in Transition: Articles, Forecasts, and Studies is an essential guide to understanding the intricacies behind global trends and emerging markets. Starting with the explanations and definitions of global trends, classifications of different perspectives of emerging markets, and the general understanding of the nature of modern global emerging markets, Professor Kvint moves the reader through the current emerging markets in Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America, providing analyses and forecasts. He then presents an in-depth analysis of today's largest emerging market-Russia. Professor Kvint stresses the importance of Russia's move from a communist command system to a free-market economy, and how this will affect the business community politically, socially, and economically.
The History of Newmont Mining Corporation
Culture, Gender, and Authority in the Japanese Subsidiary of an American Corporation
In this intriguing ethnography, Ellen Fuller investigates how issues of gender and identity as they relate to authority are addressed in a globalizing corporate culture. Going Global goes behind the office politics, turf wars and day-to-day workings of a transnational American company in Japan in the late 1990s as employees try to establish a comfortable place within the company.
Fuller looks at how relationships among Asians and between Asians and Americans are tested as individuals are promoted to positions of power and authority. Is there pressure for the Japanese to be more “American” to get ahead in business? Do female employees have to subscribe to certain stereotypes to be promoted or respected? How these American and Japanese workers assess one another raises important questions about international business management and human resources.
En sciences humaines et au quotidien
Gérer son projet vise à adapter la gestion de projet aux besoins des chercheurs, des étudiants et des professionnels qui travaillent dans le domaine des sciences humaines. Il offre une vision d'ensemble des méthodes, des outils, des techniques et des principes utilisés en gestion de projet en 7 étapes simples et pratiques.
À travers le cycle complexe qui régit la production et l'administration d'une revue de presse, Lise Chartier approfondit les notions qui la sous-tendent telles la collecte des nouvelles, le droit d'auteur et l'évaluation des besoins et s'intéresse aux contenus, aux formats et aux fournisseurs. Elle explore les outils de consultation, d'évaluation et de recherche et propose des modèles de budget, de profils d'intérêts et d'appels de propositions. Enfin, elle fournit des références utiles présentées dans les banques d'articles, sur Internet et sur diverses autres sources mises à la disposition des communicateurs.
L'évolution du cas Steinberg
La réorganisation et ses retombées de 1974 à 1982 - Contexte et origine - Caractéristiques structurelles et fonctionnelles du groupe semi-autonome - Retombées économiques et sociales - La réorganisation comme enjeu de pouvoir pour les travailleurs - Tensions internes - Structuration des rapports internes de pouvoir dans les premières années - Dynamique conflictuelle du groupe semi-autonome au moment de l'enquête.
Plusieurs cours invitent les étudiants à effectuer des tâches et des travaux en équipe. Aussi, ce guide peut servir à prévenir et à faciliter la résolution de conflits dans le travail en équipe. Il a été conçu comme un moyen d’auto-apprentissage qui permet à l’étudiant de cheminer à travers les exercices proposés et de vivre le processus d’apprentissage mis de l’avant pour la résolution de conflits. Pour favoriser la collaboration, élément essentiel dans le travail en équipe, ce guide s’inspire, entre autres de l’apprentissage coopératif, notamment des valeurs mises de l’avant par cette approche : soit le partage, l’engagement, le respect des différences, etc. Certaines habiletés interpersonnelles et cognitives sont aussi nécessaires telles que : participer activement, suggérer des moyens de travail efficace, partager les idées et les informations, demander et recevoir de l’aide, exprimer son désaccord, critiquer les idées plutôt que les auteurs, etc. Ces habiletés et ces valeurs ajoutées aux différents rôles joués en équipe tels que gestionnaire du temps, porte-parole, secrétaire, etc. favorisent la responsabilisation des membres de l’équipe et leur interdépendance. Publié particulièrement pour les étudiants inscrits aux programmes des sciences du développement humain et social, le document s’adresse également à l’ensemble des étudiants.
Impacts and Policy Implications from Thailand's Manufacturing Industries
This book provides complete, yet non-technical, analyses of production fragmentation effects and thus targets a wide range of readers - including academics, researchers, policy-makers, students, entrepreneurs, and anyone who is interested in this subject. It investigates the economic impacts of production fragmentation in Southeast Asia with a focus on Thailand’s experience as an emerging global hub of fragmentation and outsourcing. This elucidates new evidence in connection with production, industrial organizations and labour economics theories, providing interesting insights for formulating industrialization and labour development policies.
Clayton Wheat Williams and the Transfsormation of the Trans-Pecos
Clayton Wheat Williams—West Texas oilman, rancher, civic leader, veteran of the Great War, and avocational historian—was a risk taker, who both reflected and molded the history of his region. His life spanned a dynamic period in Texas history when automobiles replaced horse-drawn wagons, electricity replaced steam power in the oilfields, and barren and virtually worthless ranch land became valuable for the oil and gas under its surface. The setting for Williams’s story, like that of his father before him, is Fort Stockton in the rugged Trans-Pecos region of Texas. As a youngster accompanying his father on surveying trips through the land, and subsequently as a cadet at Texas A&M, he developed a toughness that served him well in France and Flanders. His letters home provide an unusually nuanced picture of what life was like for an American officer in Europe during the Great War. After the war, he returned home, where he taught himself petroleum geology—so effectively that he picked the site of what would become in 1928 the deepest producing oil well in the world. With his brother, he mapped the structure of what later became the Fort Stockton oil and gas field, and he went on to hammer out a successful career in the boom and bust cycles of the West Texas oil industry. On the civic front, Williams served for fourteen years as a Pecos County commissioner, and he held offices in a number of social and civic organizations. Imbued with a deep love for the history of his region, he wrote (with the editorial help of historian Ernest Wallace at Texas Tech University) Texas’ Last Frontier: Fort Stockton and the Trans-Pecos, 1861–1895, published by Texas A&M University Press in 1982. Nonetheless, by some of his neighbors he may be best remembered for his role in drying up the town’s famous Comanche Springs by pumping water feeding the spring’s aquifer to irrigate his and others’ farms west of town. Williams left behind a treasure trove of letters, personal papers and writings, and interviews with his family, helping document in rich detail the history of an unforgiving land as well as what life was like during a pivotal period of American history. These materials, which form the core of the present manuscript, reveal a life that made a difference in the economy and history of the region and the nation at large.
