Описание: Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing. Burnout has become our go-to term for talking about the pressure and dissatisfaction we experience at work. But because we don't really understand what burnout means, the discourse does little to help workers who are suffering from exhaustion and despair. Jonathan Malesic was one of those workers, and to escape he quit his job as a tenured professor. In The End of Burnout, he dives into the history and psychology of burnout, traces the origin of the high ideals we bring to our dismal jobs, and profiles the individuals and communities who are already resisting our cultural commitment to constant work. In The End of Burnout, Malesic traces his own history as someone who burned out of a tenured job to frame this rigorous investigation of how and why so many of us feel worn out, alienated, and useless in our work. Through research on the science, culture, and philosophy of burnout, Malesic explores the gap between our vocation and our jobs, between the ideals we have for work and the reality of what we have to do. He eschews the usual prevailing wisdom in confronting burnout ("Learn to say no " "Practice mindfulness ") to examine how our jobs have been constructed as a symbol of our value and our total identity. And beyond looking at what drives burnout--unfairness, a lack of autonomy, a breakdown of community, mismatches of values--this book highlights groups that are addressing these failures of ethics. We can look to communities of monks, employees of a Dallas nonprofit, intense hobbyists, and artists with disabilities to see the possibilities for resisting a "total work" environment and the paths to recognizing the dignity of workers and nonworkers alike. In this critical yet deeply humane book, Malesic offers the vocabulary we need to recognize burnout, overcome burnout culture, and find moral significance in our lives beyond work.
Pentagon spending has been the target of decades of criticism and reform efforts. Billions of dollars are spent on weapons programs that are later abandoned. State-of-the-art data centers are underutilized and overstaffed. New business systems are built at great expense but fail to meet the needs of their users. Every Secretary of Defense for the last five Administrations has made it a priority to address perceived bloat and inefficiency by making management reform a major priority. The congressional defense committees have been just as active, enacting hundreds of legislative provisions. Yet few of these initiatives produce significant results, and the Pentagon appears to go on, as wasteful as ever.
In this book, Peter Levine addresses why, despite a long history of attempted reform, the Pentagon continues to struggle to reduce waste and inefficiency. The heart of Defense Management Reform is three case studies covering civilian personnel, acquisitions, and financial management. Narrated with the insight of an insider, the result is a clear understanding of what went wrong in the past and a set of concrete guidelines to plot a better future.
Автор: Marc Fleurbaey Название: A Manifesto for Social Progress: Ideas for a Better Society ISBN: 1108424783 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108424783 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6494.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Amidst today`s threats to the environment, human dignity, and democratic institutions, this book offers a new vision. Based on the work of over 300 social scientists, it shows how to rethink and reform society`s key institutions - markets, corporations, welfare policies, democratic processes and transnational governance - to create better societies.
Автор: Wagenaar Hendrik, Prainsack Barbara Название: The Pandemic Within: Policy Making for a Better World ISBN: 1447362233 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447362234 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 4948.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers a blend of moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome the defects COVID-19 has exposed in our political-economic order. It shows how hegemony and complexity prevent societies from envisioning better practices and institutions and presents feasible solutions.
Автор: Weaver Karol W. Название: Striving for Better Jobs ISBN: 0821395351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821395356 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While economic growth has been sustained for a number of years in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, this has not resulted in the creation of an adequate number of jobs and has succeeded, at best, in generating low-quality, informal jobs. While there is a great deal of heterogeneity across countries, informality in MENA is widespread, and some countries in the region are amongst the most informal economies in the world. The book looks at informality through a human development angle and focuses specifically on informal employment. In line with this approach, the working definition for informality adopted in the book is “lack of social security coverage” (usually understood as pensions, or if a pension system does not exist, as health insurance), which captures well the vulnerability associated with informal employment. Informal workers in MENA are generally engaged in low productivity jobs - more so than in comparator countries -, are paid less for otherwise similar work in the formal sector, and self-report low levels of satisfaction at work. Also, informal workers in MENA face important mobility barriers into formal employment and thus lack of social security coverage against health, unemployment, and old-age risks. Formal employment in the MENA region is strongly associated with public sector employment. Opportunities for formal employment in the private sector in the region remain very limited. The book identifies 5 strategic directions to promote long-term inclusive growth and formality, namely: (i) fostering competition; (ii) realigning incentives in the public sector; (iii) moving towards labor regulations that promote labor mobility and provide support to workers in periods of transition; (iv) enhancing the productivity of informal workers through training and skills upgrading; and (v) reforming existing social insurance systems and introduce new instruments for coverage extension. This book is addressed to policy makers, academics, and practitioners who wish to understand the phenomenon of informal employment, and policy options for promoting more inclusive and productive labor market opportunities.
Автор: Rossi Arianna Название: Towards Better Work ISBN: 1137377534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137377531 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers. This volume provides solutions-oriented approaches for promoting improved working conditions and labour rights in the apparel industry.
Описание: Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers. This volume provides solutions-oriented approaches for promoting improved working conditions and labour rights in the apparel industry.
Pentagon spending has been the target of decades of criticism and reform efforts. Billions of dollars are spent on weapons programs that are later abandoned. State-of-the-art data centers are underutilized and overstaffed. New business systems are built at great expense but fail to meet the needs of their users. Every Secretary of Defense for the last five Administrations has made it a priority to address perceived bloat and inefficiency by making management reform a major priority. The congressional defense committees have been just as active, enacting hundreds of legislative provisions. Yet few of these initiatives produce significant results, and the Pentagon appears to go on, as wasteful as ever.
In this book, Peter Levine addresses why, despite a long history of attempted reform, the Pentagon continues to struggle to reduce waste and inefficiency. The heart of Defense Management Reform is three case studies covering civilian personnel, acquisitions, and financial management. Narrated with the insight of an insider, the result is a clear understanding of what went wrong in the past and a set of concrete guidelines to plot a better future.
You don't need another budget. You need a money makeover that works.
Reformed spendthrift and cred-card junkie Sara Blacksmith successfully turned her finances around. Now, she shares her own techniques, sound financial principles who went from being in the red to having more money, assets, and financial security than they ever dreamed possible.
It's all here in this upbeat, user-friendly guide including:
A self-diagnosis quiz to help you become lean, mean, and in control
The amazing single step that will transform your financial situation
A customized rapid-repay plan for debts
Special help for self-employment, bankruptcy, credit report problems...
and much more
This book will definitely guide you to learn how you can live out of debt.
You don't need another budget. You need a money makeover that works.
Reformed spendthrift and cred-card junkie Sara Blacksmith successfully turned her finances around. Now, she shares her own techniques, sound financial principles who went from being in the red to having more money, assets, and financial security than they ever dreamed possible.
It's all here in this upbeat, user-friendly guide including:
A self-diagnosis quiz to help you become lean, mean, and in control
The amazing single step that will transform your financial situation
A customized rapid-repay plan for debts
Special help for self-employment, bankruptcy, credit report problems...
and much more
This book will definitely guide you to learn how you can live out of debt.
Автор: Kleinbard Edward D. Название: We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money ISBN: 0190496681 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190496685 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8079.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States. Author Edward D. Kleinbard explains how the public's preoccupation with tax policy alone has obscured any understanding of government's ability to complement the private sector through investment and insurance programs that enhance the general welfare and prosperity of our society at large. He argues that when we choose how government should spend and tax, we open a window into our "fiscal soul," because those choices are the means by which we express the values we cherish and the regard in which we hold our fellow citizens. Though these values are being diminished by short-sighted decisions to starve government, strategic government spending can directly make citizens happier, healthier, and even wealthier. Expertly combining the latest economic research with his insider knowledge of the budget process into a simple yet compelling narrative, he unmasks the tax mythologies and false arguments that too often dominate contemporary discourse about budget policies. Large quantities of comparative data are succinctly distilled to situate the United States among its peer countries, so that readers can judge for themselves whether contemporary budget choices really reflect our aspirational fiscal soul. Kleinbard's presentation takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on economics, finance, law, political science and moral philosophy. He uniquely weaves economic research and moral philosophy together by emphasizing our welfare, not just our national income, and by contrasting the actual beliefs of Adam Smith, a great moral philosopher, with the cartoon version of the man presented by proponents of the most extreme forms of private market triumphalism.
Автор: Kleinbard Edward D. Название: We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money ISBN: 019933224X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199332243 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5226.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In We Are Better Than This, Edward D. Kleinbard explores how budget debates in the United States are overly focused on tax policy. What is missing, according to Kleinbard, is a rational and serious debate about spending policy. At the heart of this debate is an important question: what`s our government good for? In other words, what can be achieved through governmental spending?
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