Demands made on the management skills of Britain's 2.5 million managers increase continually. Each year 90,000 people take courses to improve their management skills. Colleges and universities are expanding to meet this demand for better qualified managers. Employers increasingly regard training as an investment in people. But companies often do not fully understand the challenge of combining a career with study and individuals may underestimate the demands of part-time study. Study Skills for Managers has been developed with all managers in mind. It emphasizes the needs of those beginning a part-time MBA or Diploma, but is also relevant to all managers concerned with self development and with keeping up-to-date. The author brings together practical ideas and advice for busy managers wishing to improve the effectiveness of their self-development and study skills. The book covers a wide range of topics including: information and memory; diagrams as an aid to thinking and learning; reading and report writing; time management; and stress management. Readers are encouraged to test and develop their own skills at every stage and to assess their own strengths and weaknesses. A series of exercises increases the reader's self-confidence and builds links between the world of work and the world of management learning.
Laurel Richardson uses her own experiences to explore strategies for writing up the same research in different ways. By showing the reader the stylistic and intellectual imperatives and conventions of different writing media, she prepares the writer for approaching and addressing diverse audiences. Set in a framework which highlights the importance of a self-conscious approach to ethnographic writing, Richardson's book will be of interest to ethnographers, researchers and teacher of language and writing, and to all social scientists trying to present their material in different ways.
What determines the loyalties of voters? The factors identified by social scientists range from a last-minute television appeal by a politician to the social class of the voter's parents. But which of the many influences are most important electorally? "Loyalties of Voters" offers an answer based on an analysis of three decades of electoral behaviour. A sophisticated lifetime learning model is developed. Family loyalties absorbed as a child, adult socio-economic interests and enduring political values cumulate to shape the voter's judgement of the government of the day, the party leaders of the moment. Marshalling evidence from British elections from 1964 to the present, Rose and McAllister determine the critical steps in a lifetime of learning. They tabulate the influence (or lack of influence) of each potentially formative factor. The book illuminates the transition from the regular two-party pendulum of the 1960s: for the left and centre, the need to meld voters with differing values about the economy, the environment and international affairs into a winning coalition; for the right, what happens when Margaret Thatcher steps down.
What kind of choices does a hardened criminal make? What belief systems are these choices based on? The Criminal Lifestyle approaches these questions by examining how various biological, sociological and psychological factors interact to bring about criminal behaviour. Walters develops a model of crime as a lifestyle and shows that this concept is historically, cross-nationally and empirically valid. This groundbreaking book will be of interest to psychologists and sociologists as well as criminologists.
Looking at the various reactions people have to the pace and pervasiveness of new technology in their lives, this book, the product of the 1989 Claremont Symposium on applied social psychology, focuses on computerization of offices, use of robots in factories, and advanced technology in the aerospace industry. Perspectives on how technology infiltrates every day life are provided, as well as stimulating reports on the latest research in this rapidly changing field.
Well-organized and well-referenced, this book gives a clear presentation of heuristic methodology as a systematic form of qualitative research. Investigators of human experiences will find this book invaluable as a research guide. The author illustrates how heuristic concepts and processes form components of the research design and become the basis for a methodology. There is a clear explanation of how heuristic inquiry works in practice and the actual process of conducting a human science investigation is described in detail.
Looking at the various reactions people have to the pace and pervasiveness of new technology in their lives, this book, the product of the 1989 Claremont Symposium on applied social psychology, focuses on computerization of offices, use of robots in factories, and advanced technology in the aerospace industry. Perspectives on how technology infiltrates every day life are provided, as well as stimulating reports on the latest research in this rapidly changing field.
This analysis offers an explanation of the changing nature of the State. The author argues that the state is not being transcended; the architecture of politics is not moving beyond the nation-State despite the emergence of transnational structures. He points to the movement of many states towards the model of the "Competition State", and away from the model of "Welfare State", as the major contemporary change in the role of the state. He asserts that new forms of political action will have to evolve if the state itself is to be controlled and used for the pursuit of deeper human values in the 21st century.
This collection of essays brings together the current work on the concept of audience in written communication. The historical views of audience are first examined, then current theories are explored and sythesized. Finally, the contributors report on new qualitative and quantitative research on audience in written discourse.
