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Webs of Resistence in a Newly Privatized Polish Firm

Workers React to Organizational Transformation

By: Jennifer Lynn Roney

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Webs of Resistence in a Newly Privatized Polish Firm

Workers React to Organizational Transformation

By: Jennifer Lynn Roney

First Published in 2000. This is a research study that includes deep description, supported by research in organizational studies as well as Polish history, sociology and anthropology, of the perceptions of employees in a single Polish factory. This factory is experiencing the uncertainties and opportunities of tremendous change in external contingencies and internal operations. The employees in this factory are trying to adjust to a new owner and many new managers, the fear of lay-offs and confusion about the world in which they now find themselves.

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1000525651

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Wow The Dow!

The Complete Guide To Teaching Your Kids How To Invest In The Stock Market

By: Pat Smith,Lynn Roney

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Wow The Dow!

The Complete Guide To Teaching Your Kids How To Invest In The Stock Market

By: Pat Smith,Lynn Roney

In the tradition of "Learn to Earn", the founders of an innovative parent/child investment club present a cutting-edge, step-by-step guide for parents who want to teach their children to become stock market savvy. Charts, graphs & sidebars.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684871491

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Webs of Resistance in a Newly Privatized Polish Firm

Workers React to Organizational Transformation

By: Jennifer Lynn Roney

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Webs of Resistance in a Newly Privatized Polish Firm

Workers React to Organizational Transformation

By: Jennifer Lynn Roney

This study examines how the shared cultural values of employees in a Polish firm influenced management attempts to transform organizational practices in a newly privatized factory. By introducing a foreign management approach, Total Quality Management (TQM), the management of this factory presents a potential conflict of values between the employees and the management philosophy. Tracing the historical and contemporary impact of traditional, political and religious influences in Poland and utilizing ethnographic techniques of observation, interviews, and secondary source data, the author identifies four patterns of shared mindsets. These mindsets, insecurity and instability, distrust, reluctance to assume responsibility and a struggle between individualism and collectivism generate resistance to the successful implementation of TQM in this factory.Organizational studies research has identified cultural differences in values but previous studies have not examined the congruence assessment that employees make when confronted with a management intervention, such as TQM. The author finds that an incongruence between societal values and the values the employees perceive are embedded in the TQM approach produced actual outcomes that are not consistent with TQM objectives of empowerment, teamwork, visionary leadership and continuous improvement of quality. Employees demonstrated a reduced sense of empowerment, team goals that are counterproductive to organizational goals, autocratic leadership and an increased focus but not sustainable effort toward improving quality.The book examines the reasons for these results through detailed description and extensive quotations from employees bothinside the Polish firm and throughout Polish society.

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Taylor & Francis

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0815333900

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The Seven Deadly Virtues and Other Lively Essays

Coming of Age as a Writer, Teacher, Risk Taker

By: Lynn Z. Bloom

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The Seven Deadly Virtues and Other Lively Essays

Coming of Age as a Writer, Teacher, Risk Taker

By: Lynn Z. Bloom

This volume contains 15 eye-opening essays which probe the assumptions and values - ethical, intellectual, social, aesthetic, and inevitably political - of what Bloom has found to be the most complicated, challenging, and satisfying aspects of her loves and labours.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570037302

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Changing Women, Changing History

A Bibliography of the History of Women in Canada

By: Diana Lynn Pedersen

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Changing Women, Changing History

A Bibliography of the History of Women in Canada

By: Diana Lynn Pedersen

Changing Women, Changing History is a bibliographic guide to the scholarship, both English and French, on Canadian's women's history. Organized under broad subject headings, and accompanied by author and subject indices it is accessible and comprehensive.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0886292808

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Unstately Power

Local Causes of China's Intellectual, Legal and Governmental Reforms

By: Lynn T. White, III

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Unstately Power

Local Causes of China's Intellectual, Legal and Governmental Reforms

By: Lynn T. White, III

A critique of America's flawed Asia policy that centres on US-Japan relations but harkens back to the same disastrous views that drew America into Vietnam. The technique is a narrative flow of short vignettes woven into longer chapters; the main strands are personal reflections and interviews.

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Routledge

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1317478363

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The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka

By: Aldon Lynn Nielsen

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The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka

By: Aldon Lynn Nielsen

The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka examines the full length of Baraka’s discography as a poet recording with musicians as well as his contributions to jazz and R & B, beginning with his earliest studio recordings in 1965 and continuing to the last year of his life, 2014. This recorded history traces his evolution from the era of Beat poetry and “projective verse,” through the period of the Black Arts Movement and cultural nationalism, and on to his commitments to “third world Marxism,” which characterized the last decades of his life. The music enfolding Baraka’s recitations ranges from traditional African drumming, to doo wop, rhythm and blues, soul and the avant garde jazz that was his great love and the subject of so much of his writing, and includes both in-studio sessions and live concert performances. This body of work offers a rare opportunity to think about not only jazz/poetry, but the poet in the recording studio and the relations of text to score.

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Springer Nature

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3030757587

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9783030757588

Sandals of the Basketmaker and Pueblo Peoples

Fabric Structure and Color Symmetry

By: Lynn Shuler Teague,Dorothy Koster Washburn

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Sandals of the Basketmaker and Pueblo Peoples

Fabric Structure and Color Symmetry

By: Lynn Shuler Teague,Dorothy Koster Washburn

The decorated sandals worn by prehistoric southwesterners with their complex fiber structures and designs have been dissected, described, and interpreted for a century. Nevertheless, these artifacts remain mysterious in many respects. Teague and Washburn examine these sandals as sources of information on the history of the people known as the Basketmakers. The unique sandals of early southwestern farmers appear in Basketmaker II and reach their greatest elaboration with the complex fabric structures and colorbanded designs of Basketmaker III. The appearance of this footwear coincides with the transition to fully sedentary maize agriculture. The authors address the origins of these sandals and what they may reveal about population movements onto and around the Colorado Plateau and about the cosmology of early farmers.

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UNM Press

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0826353312

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9780826353313

Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama

By: Lynn Forest-Hill

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Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama

By: Lynn Forest-Hill

This title was first published in 2000: Insults, abuse, oaths, scatological and bawdy language - these form the subject of Lynn Forest-Hill's study on "bad" language in the late Middle Ages. She demonstrates how, in mediaeval mystery plays and morality plays, dramatists used outrageous language with great sophistication and subtlety to create characterizations and define characters' moral status, to reflect on social conditions, to condemn social evils, and to comment upon sensitive cultural, political and religious topics of the 16th century. The author begins by defining what constitutes sinful or transgressive language in the later mediaeval period, and establishes its moral significance. She then illustrates how the moral significance of language is used in drama to define the spiritual and social status of characters, and introduces the concept of sinful language as a sign of spiritual change. In later chapters the book explores the use of "bad" language in mystery and morality plays, focusing specifically on Skelton's "Magnyfycence", Heywood's "The Play of the Weather", and Bale's "King Johan". The study shows the extent to which the moral significance of language in drama shifted during the 16th century under pressure from cultural and political change, paving the way for less morally rigorous and more socially sensitive definitions of "bad" language.

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Routledge

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135176490X

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9781351764902

Writers Without Borders

Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times

By: Lynn Z. Bloom

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Writers Without Borders

Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times

By: Lynn Z. Bloom

In Writers Without Borders: Writing and Teaching Writing in Troubled Times, Lynn Z. Bloom presents groundbreaking research on the nature of essays and on the political, philosophical, ethical, and pragmatic considerations that influence how we read, write, and teach them in times troubled by terrorism, transgressive students, and uses and abuses of the Internet. Writers Without Borders reinforces Bloom’s reputation for presenting innovative and sophisticated research with a writer’s art and a teacher’s heart. Each of the eleven essays addresses in its own way the essay itself as one way to live and learn with others.

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Parlor Press LLC

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1602350612

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9781602350618

Numerology for the New Age

By: Lynn Buess

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Numerology for the New Age

By: Lynn Buess

Our own vibrations and cyclical patterns are numerologically determined by our dates of birth and given names. By understanding these cycles, we can learn to more efficiently express our potential, human and divine. This volume concentrates more on the experiential value of numerology than the historical.Lynn Buess has come into national prominence since the success of his first book The Tarot and Transformation. His popularity as a speaker and instructor has taken him across the country many times to universities, churches, professional organizations, and New Age Centers of Light. He has appeared on numerous television shows and on radio talk shows from coast to coast.Although his work with Tarot and Numerology causes most people to associate him with symbolical studies, Lynn spends most of his time today working with various alternative metaphysical healing methods. Since his gift of healing awakened years ago, he has demonstrated and taught numerous techniques of psycho-spiritual healing. He is also the author of Synergy Session(R), which teaches an entirely new system of multiple-level wholistic counseling/healing.Along with his national tours, he has taught courses on parapsychology, healing, Tarot, meditation, and self-awareness at several colleges and one university within the University System of Georgia. As a tireless worker, Lynn is dedicated to bringing sincere seekers into a deeper awareness of the LIGHT within.

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Light Technology Publishing

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0929385314

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9780929385310

Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays

By: Lynn Riggs

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Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays

By: Lynn Riggs

Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays bundles critically edited texts of three thematically allied plays with an extensive primary, secondary, and textual apparatus. The Cherokee Night (1932), comprising seven asynchronous scenes set between 1895 and 1931, is Riggs’s most experimental play. Its Cherokee characters inhabit a history of dispossession and violence, including the dissolution of the Cherokee Nation with Oklahoma statehood in 1907. Their daily survival constitutes the apex of resistance. Not so for the Indigenes of The Year of Pilar (1938), the most radical American Indian text prior to the Native American renaissance that began in the late 1960s. Here, Yucatecan Mayans take a government program of land reform as an opportunity to reclaim their homeland and punish settler-colonialists for centuries of enslavement, torture, and sexual violence. Riggs returns to Indian Territory in The Cream in the Well (1941), set on the eve of Oklahoma statehood. The Cherokee Sawters family responds to the onset of statehood by lamenting lost opportunities and fretting about an uncertain future.

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Broadview Press

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1770489207

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9781770489202

Unstately Power: Local causes of China's economic reforms

By: Lynn T. White

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Unstately Power: Local causes of China's economic reforms

By: Lynn T. White

China's dramatic reforms are usually said to have been caused by the policies of state leaders under Deng Xiaoping. This fascinating new study by one of the West's leading authorities on contemporary China shows, however, that reforms began and are maintained by local networks. They emerged first in the economy -- partly as unintended results of previous policies. Agricultural extension in Mao Zedong's time freed so much labor from the land in rich areas, such as the Shanghai delta, that peasant leaders set up rural industries to employ clients. Many of these leaders were avowed "state cadres", but they acted for local constituencies more than for Beijing. Their initiatives can be documented in the early 1970s, long before the 1978 proclamation of new enterprises, which the central bureaucracy could not monitor, taking materials and markets away from state industries. This caused socialist control of input prices and commodity flows to collapse by the mid-1980s. As a result, shortages and inflation bedeviled the economy, the state ran deficits, management decentralized local banks proliferated, and immigration to cities soared.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765600447

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9780765600448

Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding

By: Scott Lilienfeld,Steven Jay Lynn,Laura Namy,Nancy Woolf,Graham Jamieson,Anthony Marks,Virginia Slaughter

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Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding

By: Scott Lilienfeld,Steven Jay Lynn,Laura Namy,Nancy Woolf,Graham Jamieson,Anthony Marks,Virginia Slaughter

Psychology: from inquiry to understanding 2e continues its commitment to emphasise the importance of scientific-thinking skills. It teaches students how to test their assumptions, and motivates them to use scientific thinking skills to better understand the field of psychology in their everyday lives. With leading classic and contemporary research from both Australia and abroad and referencing DSM-5, students will understand the global nature of psychology in the context of Australia’s cultural landscape.

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Pearson Higher Education AU

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1486016405

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9781486016402

Exploring the Invisible

Art, Science, and the Spiritual – Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Lynn Gamwell

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Exploring the Invisible

Art, Science, and the Spiritual – Revised and Expanded Edition

By: Lynn Gamwell

How science changed the way artists understand reality Exploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred years of scientific discoveries that inspired French Impressionist painters and Art Nouveau architects, as well as Surrealists in Europe, Latin America, and Japan. Lynn Gamwell describes how the microscope and telescope expanded the artist's vision into realms unseen by the naked eye. In the nineteenth century, a strange and exciting world came into focus, one of microorganisms in a drop of water and spiral nebulas in the night sky. The world is also filled with forces that are truly unobservable, known only indirectly by their effects—radio waves, X-rays, and sound-waves. Gamwell shows how artists developed the pivotal style of modernism—abstract, non-objective art—to symbolize these unseen worlds. Starting in Germany with Romanticism and ending with international contemporary art, she traces the development of the visual arts as an expression of the scientific worldview in which humankind is part of a natural web of dynamic forces without predetermined purpose or meaning. Gamwell reveals how artists give nature meaning by portraying it as mysterious, dangerous, or beautiful. With a foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson and a wealth of stunning images, this expanded edition of Exploring the Invisible draws on the latest scholarship to provide a global perspective on the scientists and artists who explore life on Earth, human consciousness, and the space-time universe.

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Princeton University Press

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0691191050

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9780691191058

The Beat Generation

A Gale Critical Companion

By: Lynn Marie Zott

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The Beat Generation

A Gale Critical Companion

By: Lynn Marie Zott

This title in Gale's Literary Criticism Series presents comprehensive collections of criticism related to particular literary movements and themes throughout history. This set focuses on the Beat Generation, covering the major topics, authors and works of the period complete with reprinted full-text literary criticism. Volume 1, a topics volume, opens with an overview of the period followed by topical essays covering the Beat Generation and its relationship to publishing, visual and performing arts. Volumes 2 and 3 (authors A-H and authors I-Z) include entries on 28 major literary figures associated with the movement. Author entries include introductions, a representative list of major works, primary source documents, reprinted criticism and lists of further reading sources. Authors featured include:William S. BurroughsNeal CassadyGregory CorsoLawrence FerlinghettiAllen GinsbergJack KerouacKen KeseyKenneth RexrothAnd othersAdditional features include: Foreword written by Anne Waldman, noted Beat author, scholar, and educatorBlack and white photographs of authors, other notable people, places, and eventsChronology of key events in the history of the Beat GenerationComprehensive author, title, and subject indexes in each volume

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