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Beating the Union : Union Avoidance in the US 1945 to the Present
Moody, Kim (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013-08)Chapter 8 -
Becoming an academic for the twenty-first century : What will count as teaching quality in higher education
Jasman, Anne; Blass, Eddie; Shelley, Steven (2013-12-01)This article explores quality in university teaching using a 'futures' perspective. In a recent article by Blass and colleagues, a number of scenarios were developed to explore the type of higher education workforce that ... -
The Benefits and Challenges of Developing Collaborative Writing Skills to Support Students’ Learning
Cubric, Marija; Luz, S. (University of Hertfordshire, 2009)While the 2008 Educause Horizon report states that collaboration webs and collective intelligence tools, such as wikis, are one of the key emergent technologies that are likely to enter the mainstream use in education ... -
Between a rock and a hard place : the shaping of employment in a global economy
Huws, Ursula (2010-05-13)Introducing this volume, this article discusses how employment practices are shaped in a global economy, asking to what extent national policies and institutions still play a role and the importance of other social, economic, ... -
Beyond Agile Project Management : The Way Forward
Dalcher, Darren (2008-05) -
Beyond Knowledge: : Growing Capability for an Uncertain Future
Dalcher, Darren (2014-03-24)The quest for knowledge has played a major part in the intellectual development and evolution of individuals, societies, and cultures. Socrates viewed knowledge as a virtue, a path to perfection. Prometheus was punished ... -
Beyond normal failures : Dynamic management of software projects
Dalcher, Darren (2003-12)The skillset focusing on the life cycle of projects is critical to both understanding and practising sound management. In practice, attention is often paid to the actions and procedures required to build the system to the ... -
Beyond Offshore Outsourcing of Business Services
Hollinshead, Graham; Capik, Pawel; Micek, Grzegorz (2011-08) -
Blockbusters or Bridge-Builders? The Role of Western Trainers in Developing New Entrepreneurialism in Eastern Europe
Hollinshead, Graham; Michailova, S. (2001)Since the start of the transformation in Eastern Europe in late 1989, there has been a marked increase in training programmes and activities designed to modernize human capital in the region. Many of the initiatives are ... -
Board Characteristics and the Presence of Women on the Board of Directors: The Case of the Greek Shipping Sector
Gkliatis, Ioannis; Koufopoulos, Dimitrios; Pastra, Aspasia (Springer Nature, 2015)Shipping is a vital sector of the Greek economy. According to the Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (2013), more than 52 % of the shipping companies listed in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the NASDAQ ... -
Break or Weld : trade union responses to global value chain restructuring; introduction
Huws, Ursula (2008) -
Bridges and barriers : globalisation and the mobility of work and workers
Huws, Ursula (2012)This article starts by discussing the global division of labour. To what extent can its spatial patterns be explained by simple economic logic and to what extent is it shaped by specific features of national and local ... -
The business case for diversity: The impact of top management diversity on organisational culture.
Georgiadou, Andri (2013) -
CABLE2 – Getting Blended Learning Right from the Start
Martin, Susan; Taylor, Mary (University of Hertfordshire, 2009)The University of Hertfordshire Business School (UHBS) CABLE 2 project has had a significant strategic impact on the business school, delivering effectively on its main objective: To inspire and empower new academic staff ... -
CanariCam: a multimode mid-infrared camera for the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS
Telesco, C.M.; Ciardi, D.; French, J.; Ftaclas, C.; Hanna, K.T.; Hough, J.; Julian, J.; Kidger, M.; Packham, C.; Pina, R.K.; Varosi, F.; Sellar, R.G. (Int Soc for Optical Engineering, 2003)The University of Florida is developing a mid-infrared camera for the 10.4-meter Gran Telescopio CANARIAS. CanariCam has four science modes and two engineering modes, which use the same 320 x 240-pixel, arsenic-doped ... -
Capitalist Care : Will the Coalition Government's reforms move the NHS toward a US-style healthcare market?
Moody, Kim (2011-10)The Coalition government’s plans for reform are meant to transform the NHS into a more privately run, competitive system, raising the question as to whether or not the NHS is likely to resemble the US capitalist healthcare ... -
Case Study - Leading Co-production : The case of Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service's Community Volunteer Scheme
Imani, Yassaman; Schlappa, Hans (Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-04-04)This case study illustrates the shifting leadership and control in co-production of preventative services by a voluntary scheme in HFRS (Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Services). More specifically, it demonstrates how citizen ... -
CBSE Life Cycles
Dalcher, Darren (EDS-SCICON, 1992) -
Changing values? : Early retirement and the new universities
Shelley, Steven (1998)This article examines the potential impact of the recent changes to the Teachers Superannuation Scheme (TSS) and the resulting wave of early retirements, on the nature of academic work and cultures in the ‘new’ universities. ... -
The Chaos Frontier : Creative Strategic Control for Business
Stacey, Ralph (Butterworth Heinemann, 1991)