Working Communally

Working Communally
Author: David G. French
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1975-06-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1610441796

Examines an alternative to the old patterns of living and working in the prevailing social system—the communal work place where work, recreation, and living space are brought together in a unified setting. The authors deal with a number of questions the communal work group faces, including the selection of projects, the choice of technologies and legal structure, and the means for determining economic viability. Past American and European communitarian movements are traced, as well as the nature and limitations of the new community experiments of the 1960s and 1970s.

Workplace Communication

Workplace Communication
Author: Leena Mikkola
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2019-11-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429589476

This book provides insights into communication practices that enable efficient work, successful collaboration, and a functional work environment. Maintaining a productive and healthy workplace is predicated on interpersonal communication between people. In organizations, efficient communication is the foundation of all actions. Contributors to this book cover communication issues in relationships, teams, meetings, leadership, competence, diversity, organizational entry, social support, and digital environments in the workplace. The book illustrates all these issues in detail by presenting both relevant research findings and their practical implications in working life. Workplace Communication is ideal for current and future employees, directors, supervisors and managers, instructors, and consultants in knowledge-based expertise work. The book is appropriate for courses in organizational and leadership communication or interpersonal communication in a workplace setting.

Perspectives on Workplace Communication and Well-Being in Hybrid Work Environments

Perspectives on Workplace Communication and Well-Being in Hybrid Work Environments
Author: Duarte, Alexandre
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2023-05-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1668473550

The world has been facing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic for over two years now. Daily life changed dramatically, and social distancing and remote working have become the new normal. Research about how people are facing these challenges points to common findings and concerns. The pandemic has enhanced inequalities, taken a toll on mental health, and increased the use of digital technologies. Many workers are suffering from “digital fatigue” and struggle to self-regulate their life/work balance, as the permanent digital connection to work is reinforced and they struggle with the blurred borders concerning privacy, leisure, and rest. In this context, it is vital to research how organizations have reinvented themselves to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and understand which of the reactive workplace communication practices and improvised solutions were considered advantageous. Perspectives on Workplace Communication and Well-Being in Hybrid Work Environments presents different approaches that explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on workplace communication, focusing specifically on internal communication, mapping new communication practices, and assessing their consequences, namely the well-being of the workers who are coping with these changes. The book combines a scientific exploration of these ongoing changes as we transition to a post-COVID-19 world with a collection of examples and best practices that help organizations in supporting their members through these transformations and in nurturing their well-being. Covering topics such as cross-department process dependencies, hybrid work environments, and wellbeing strategies, this premier reference source is a vital resource for business leaders and managers, IT managers, human resource professionals, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Workplace Communication for the 21st Century

Workplace Communication for the 21st Century
Author: Jason S. Wrench Ph.D.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 790
Release: 2013-01-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0313396329

Written in clear, non-technical language, this book explains how employees and employers can maximize internal and external organizational communication—for both personal benefit and to the entity as a whole. Workplace Communication for the 21st Century: Tools and Strategies That Impact the Bottom Line explains and simplifies what organizational communication scholars have learned, presenting this knowledge so that it can be easily applied to generate tangible benefits to employees and employers as they face everyday challenges in the real world. This two-volume work discusses internal organizational and external organizational communication separately, first explaining how communication functions within the confines of a modern organization, then addressing how organizations interact with various stakeholders, such as customers, clients, and regulatory agencies. The expert contributors provide a thorough and insightful view on organizational communication and supply a range of strategies that will be useful to practitioners and academics alike.

The Business of Marketing, Entrepreneurship, and Architecture of Communal Societies in the 1960s and 1970s

The Business of Marketing, Entrepreneurship, and Architecture of Communal Societies in the 1960s and 1970s
Author: Rahima Schwenkbeck
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2021-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 303088354X

This book provides an in-depth history of three US-based communal societies that operated in the late 1960s and 1970s—Soul City, Stelle and Twin Oaks—with an emphasis on their financing, marketing, and entrepreneurship processes. These communities reflect the diversity of people who were dissatisfied with the direction in which American society was heading—often underpinned by concerns over racism, sexism, the environment, and capitalism—and decided to take the radical step of joining a communal society. A moral economy approach offers a lens on how these communities were prevented from fully realizing their visions due to the confines of capitalism, as embedded in banking practices, zoning laws, and systemic racism.

Communication and Political Change

Communication and Political Change
Author: Henner Barthel
Publisher: Röhrig Universitätsverlag
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2004
Genre: Communication
ISBN: 3861103672

Der Band enthält Vorträge, die beim International Colloquium on Communication, Berlin 2002 gehalten wurden. Das Konferenzthema "Communication and Political Change" bot die Gelegenheit, die Beziehung zwischen Kommunikation und politischem Wandel unter Einbeziehung historischer, kultureller und sozialer Kontexte zu analysieren. Der englischsprachige Band wendet sich damit an Fachleute aus den Gebieten Anthropologie und Philosophie, Ethno- und Politikwissenschaft, Pädagogik, Psychologie und Soziologie, Kommunikationstheorie, Medienpädagogik und Sprechwissenschaft.

Working with the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community

Working with the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community
Author: Phillip J. Vaughan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-12-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1489928537

In the past forensic psychiatry has been a sub-speciality of general psychiatry without its own, separate identity. However, since the mid-1980s there has been a growing in terest in the application of community care principles to mentally disordered offenders. A new set of attitudes have developed which have enabled the mentally disordered offender to emerge from relative institutional obscurity to a much higher profile in the community. Although numerically small in relation to the general psychiatric population, forensic patients tend to attract the public' s attention by virtue of their greater propensity for troublesome behaviour. Such a group needs expert community support in order to maintain an accepta bie public face. Unfortunately these developments have outstripped the creation of training opportunities for community staff charged with their support and supervision. Most community practi tioners have had to learn 'on the job' with inadequate support and supervision from senior staff, who of ten have less direct experience of working with this client group than themselves. Just such a situation prompted the authors, in 1990, to establish a module on 'Working with Mentally Disordered Offenders in the Community' as part of an MA in Social W ork at the University of Reading. As the course developed it became clear that the topic and content had equal application to other community professionals working in the field.

Undoing Work, Rethinking Community

Undoing Work, Rethinking Community
Author: James A. Chamberlain
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1501714880

This text argues that the civic duty to perform paid work in contemporary society undermines freedom and justice.

The Values of Working in the Alberta Oil Sands

The Values of Working in the Alberta Oil Sands
Author: Matthew E. McLaren
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2014-10-25
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1496947142

This book is an open house that will allow the world to view my experience working in the Alberta oil sand industry. I am a retired senior, who has been working in this phenomenal industry for many years and who has seen and experienced the technological changes that have been engineered to provide a safer and more productive environment for the exploration of Northern Alberta buried treasure. Distribution of wealth is a loaded statement in our democratic society. In the Alberta oil sand, I can safely use this statement because I have experienced the distribution of wealth in this remarkable industry. Oil sand companies are developing the oil sand industry, providing opportunity, where seniors like me and others, can become a member of the industries working family and share in the distribution of health and wealth. Equal opportunity does not mean equal pay. However, we are all given the opportunity to work and share in the development and distribution of this industrys most valuable buried treasure.

Industrial Buildings

Industrial Buildings
Author: Michael Stratton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135807817

This book gives guidance as to the types of building stock offering greatest potential for conversion, that are likely to be viable and sustainable. Chapters are contributed by key experts in the field.