Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Careers - General

The unifying theme of this book is women's employment success with the objective of profiling supportive public policy for women in global contexts from Atlantic Canada to Western Europe, Australia and China. It studies the example of first generation women's careers in the Atlantic Canada region, rapidly undergoing economic restructuring. In the cases of Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, Switzerland and Finland, active state policy in support of diverse workforces includes women's advancement beyond middle management and professional positions. The collection of cases combines a view...

People 's work orientations and attitudes to paid work are highly important for the welfare of any country. Still, little is currently known about how such attitudes are distributed among different countries, men and women, classes, occupations, age groups and so on. Even less is known about how work orientations have changed during the dramatic social transformations of economies and labour markets during recent decades. What happened, for example, to work orientations in Iceland when the country went bankrupt? The answer is quite surprising. Or, is it true that work is losing its...

Drawing on the author s extensive experience training mentors, The Mentor s Way outlines eight rules for engaging in a mentoring relationship. Nemanick examines the ways in which mentoring differs from managing or leading, and details the various roles of the mentor as a role model, motivator, confidant, coach, and more. Readers will learn how to develop successfully in each of these roles while helping a protege to develop his or her own skills.

Clear and elegant chapters, each prefaced with a real-world example, emphasize to readers that their role as a mentor lies...