http://books.emeraldinsight.com/rss.asp Emerald Bookstore - Subject Browse en Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762308538 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762308538 Continuing to provide forward-thinking industrial relations research, this volume includes studies of EEOC and FMCS mediation approaches and effectiveness; union organizing, political effectiveness and internal democracy; and 21st century prospects for a new baby boom generation. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762310289 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762310289 Volume 12 of this title contains eight papers that deal with contemporary and historical aspects of unionism and other forms of union and labour representation. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762311521 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762311521 Contains eight papers dealing with European responses to high unemployment rates; the effects of alternative types of staffing arrangements; the adoption and use of alternative dispute resolution procedures in the nonunion workplace; building and sustaining labor-management partnerships; and other aspects. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762312658 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762312658 Contains 10 papers dealing with HR versus finance in the control of corporate health care decisions; a theory of workplace conflict grounded in US municipal bargaining; creative compliance in, or union defiance of, labor regulation in Australia; and more. This title is for industrial relations and human resource scholars and practitioners. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762313860 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762313860 Contains ten papers, four of which deal with human resource management and six of which deal with unionization. This work presents a global perspective with data from the UK, France, Asia, Canada, and the US. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781781903773 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781781903773 This volume explores various issues in the environment of employment relations, from contributors across the globe. Contexts explored include the aviation industry, the public sector, forestry, automobile manufacture, and care. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762305865 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762305865 Includes papers which represent the evolution of worker attitudes at Mitsubishi Motors, pay satisfaction and skill acquisition under skilled-based pay systems, payment systems for British telephony personnel, and dual and unilateral employee loyalty. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781848553965 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781848553965 Highlights various aspects of industrial and labor relations. This title includes: alternative approaches to establishing an ownership culture, accounting for union collective action through resource acquisition and mobilization, union avoidance through double-breasting, and competing ethical conceptions of the minimum wage. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780444884282 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780444884282 Dealing with the topic of international user interfaces, this book presents both general guidelines and a number of detailed case studies on the many aspects entailed. It is of interest to project managers, lecturers, students, developers of basic software and user interface designers. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781780528762 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781780528762 Investigates the interactional procedures used by children and young people as disputes arise in varying contexts of their everyday life. This book offers an ethnomethodological focus that bring a fine-grained analysis and understanding to disputes and related interactional matters. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781848550520 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9781848550520 Diversity results from the constellation of individual traits, characteristics, identities, experiences, and knowledge that individuals bring to a group. This volume helps to promote research on diversity in groups by identifying and integrating various areas of research related to diversity across multiple disciplinary traditions. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762305292 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762305292 Three important issues have attracted researchers to study the economics of disability such as: the availability of sophisticated "data sets"; the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1991; and growth in public and private costs of disability support programs. This work brings together studies dealing with these three issues. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762311118 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762311118 While gender has so often been found to be an important determinant of prevalence and outcomes of mental illness, economists have rarely focused on gender differences as a central element of their analyses. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762300143 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762300143 This work on employee management explores the area of the management of expatriates. It discusses issues such as personality determinants in the prediction of aspects of expatriate job success, spousal assistance programmes, and assessing expatriate success. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762302475 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762302475 Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762302482 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762302482 Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762302499 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762302499 Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780080447131 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780080447131 Presenting research evidence and company examples, this title shows how to create organizations that add value to investors, customers and employees. It illustrates why and how human resource management practices become a competitive advantage. It also reviews these practices in an international context. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762309511 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780762309511 This fifth volume of "Research on Managing Groups and Teams" focuses on the relationship between identity issues and individual and group functioning. It looks at a range of phenomena involving the individual identities people bring to the groups they join and collective identities. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780444511300 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?ISB=9780444511300 Proponents of free trade argue that a benefit for developing countries is that it provides economic opportunities for their asset-less workers. To what extent have workers benefited? This book attempts to piece together evidence on the effects of trade liberalization on labor markets in developing countries and selected countries from Asia. Mon, 13 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT