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Essential Skills for Management Research

Mapping Strategic Knowledge

New technologies are altering the relationship between knowledge, power and learning. This book considers the influence of 'information age' on changing relationship between power and knowledge and how this affects learning in a range of situations, from the school to the learning organization and from the musical conservatoire to the workplace.

Much managerial activity is achieved through language and a vital task for any manager is to generate with others an intelligible account of the various feelings that surround the contested issues in the organization. This work explores and develops the image of the manager as one who is aware of, and attends to, the way in which language is used.

Combining institutional textual and audience analysis, this book introduces students to the factors which have shaped television's development in contemporary Europe, and invites them to assess the issues that are at stake in its future. It also features boxes of key facts, activities and notes for further reading.

Examines the fundamental knowledge needed to become a skilled and effective supervisor. This book explores the triangular relationship which exists between supervisor, therapist and the absent patient or client. It is intended for those who are in the process of becoming supervisors and for those who are already practising.

Using the interview form, the author tells about a vast assortment of cultural and theoretical topics, including architecture and 'speed-space', 'chronopolitics', art and technoculture, modernism, postmodernism and 'hypermodernism', the time of the trajectory and the 'information bomb'.

Death, Dying and Bereavement

What impact does gender difference make to political decision-making? Will the political empowerment of women contribute to a more peaceful world? This book explores the key role of gender in peace research, conflict resolution and international politics.

The screenplays and films of Quentin Tarantino raise profound comic and ethical dilemmas. Developing ideas from Lacanian psychoanalysis, the authors explore ethical issues in relation to Tarantino's work, postmodernity and recent cultural theory. They argue that Tarantino's texts provide a provocative and telling contribution to theorized accounts of contemporary culture.

Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important and provocative writers in the contemporary era. Widely acclaimed as the prophet of postmodernism, he has famously announced the disappearance of the subject, meaning, truth, class and the notion of reality itself. His writing has enjoyed a wide interdisciplinary popularity and influence.

Provides an introduction to health promotion and public health developments in the UK. This text presents both an outline of health promotion theory and draws on the experience of practitioners to demonstrate health promotion practice and provide students, policymakers and practitioners with practical and theoretical inspiration.

With a student-friendly tone and concrete examples, the highly-regarded authors make the topic of cognitive modeling much more accessible than the current intimidating and mathematically sophisticated books on the market.

Examining the historical and contemporary context, this title provides an analysis of professional self-regulation and the implications of regulatory change for the future of health care. It is intended for students, educators and researchers in a range of disciplines including sociology, social policy, politics and health studies.

Provides an overview of the contemporary theory and practice of the central concept in political science: power. This book explores the many structures of power in the contemporary world from theories of its construction and use, to its operation in policy networks, and its wider exercise at different levels in the political process.

Management of Safety

This book provides an indispensable introduction to the most significant figures in contemporary social theory. It provides detailed accounts of the development of the work of major social theorists and charts the relationship between different traditions of social, cultural and political thought.

Educational Management brings together contributions from thinkers in the field.

`This is an ambitious book attemping to be relevant to a wide range of professionals in the health and welfare fields and to move from the macro policy context for change to the micro concerns of individual professional client relationships... There is much that will be of use and/or interest to both practitioners and researchers alike' - Social Policy

Using Evidence in Health and Social Care

This major textbook will take a fresh look at professions and professionalism - what these terms mean and what they need to mean in the future in the health and social care field. This a course text for The Open University course Critical Practice in Health and Social Care (K302).

Offers an introduction to the main arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of Ulrich Beck's thought.

This book offers a theoretical framework to link psychoanalytical group work with racial and cultural factors.

Innovative Forms of Organizing

Beginner's Guide to Training in Counselling & Psychotherapy

`A notable resource for both researchers and practitioners as they continue to understand the cross-disciplinary nature of the dialogue on organizations' - Leadership and Organization Development Journal

Counselling