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The workplace within :psychodynamics of organizational life
In this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with change. Using extended ease studies from offices, factories, and social services, he describes why these often irrational practices that fragment and injure individuals within the workplace exist, how they operate, and how they can be reshaped to enhance people's work experienc…
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- 0262275449
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The working landscape :founding, preservation, and the politics of place
Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis, Harvard University, 2000.In America today we see rampant development, unsustainable resource exploitation, and commodification ruin both natural and built landscapes, disconnecting us from our surroundings and threatening our fundamental sense of place. Meanwhile, preservationists often respond with a counterproductive stance that rejects virtually any chang…
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- 9780262269803
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 425 pages).
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Without justification
"A Bradford book."In the contentious debate among contemporary epistemologists and philosophers regarding justification, there is one consensus: justification is distinct from knowledge; there are justified beliefs that do not amount to knowledge, even if all instances of knowledge are instances of justified belief. In Without Justification, Jonathan Sutton forcefully opposes this claim. He pro…
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- 1 online resource (vi, 180 pages).
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Without a map :political tactics and economic reform in Russia
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585263787
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- 1 online resource (ix, 223 pages) :illustrations
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Stochastic Equations: Theory and Applications in Acoustics, Hydrodynamics, Ma…
This monograph is revised and more comprehensive translation of my Russian monograph in 2 volumes [56, 57]. For reasons of usability, the material is divided into two practically independent volumes. Volume 1 gives the theory of stochastic equations (including ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, boundary-value problems, and integral equations) in terms of the fu…
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- 978-3-319-07587-7
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Stochastic Equations: Theory and Applications in Acoustics, Hydrodynamics, Ma…
In recent time, the interest of both theoreticians and experimenters has been attracted to the relation between the behavior of average statistical characteristics of a problem solution and the behavior of the solution in certain happenings (realizations). This is especially important for geophysical problems related to the atmosphere and ocean where, generally speaking, a respective averagi…
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Web Information Systems and Technologies 10th International Conference, WEBI…
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2014, held in Barcelona, Spain, April 2014, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), and technically sponsored by the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). The purpose o…
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The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy
The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy ventures into a territory that is still widely unexplored. It contains 30 academic contributions that aim to provide a better understanding of whether, why, and how philanthropic initiatives, understood as voluntary contributions for the common good, can and should be fostered by states through tax incentives. The topic has been addressed from…
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Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2014 Workshops 15th Internation…
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the combined workshops on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2014, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 2014. The 19 selected papers presented were carefully revised and report from the four workshops: computational social networks, IWCSN 2014, enterprise social networks, Org2 2014, personalization and context-awareness in cloud an…
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- 978-3-319-20370-6
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The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership tho Lead Our Organizations in a Conscien…
Performance at all costs, productivity without regard to consequences, and a competitive work environment: these are the ethical factors discussed in The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership, which highlights issues in workplace culture while looking into a brighter future for labour ethics. Langlois maintains that an enhanced awareness of the process of ethical decision making in difficult situations…
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- 978-1-897425-74-9
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