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The Professionalisation of Human Resource Management

Personnel, Development, and the Royal Charter

By: Ruth Elizabeth Slater

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The Professionalisation of Human Resource Management

Personnel, Development, and the Royal Charter

By: Ruth Elizabeth Slater

Evolving economies, the emergence of new technologies and organisational forms are all features of late capitalism. Among this milieu, a marked feature has been the emergence and recognition in society of new occupations. The claim upon a body of knowledge and practice, and a societal domain in which to exercise expertise characterise these occupations. Status and recognition may ensue; in short, they claim ‘professionalism’. ‘Professionalism’ is a word resonant with allusions to a particular time and place, loosely located in the United States and England in the twentieth century, although its roots are far earlier, and its present branches are far-reaching. The text is an account of the Human Resource Management occupation’s search for status, legitimacy, and "professionalism" and illustrates how key agents wove a purposeful plan in pursuit of goals through changing socio-economic and political contexts. The text also discusses the changed meanings of and opportunities for professionalism for individual agents, as members of a social grouping that is the occupation. This text is an analysis of the recent development of the Human Resource occupation, against the backdrop of changing meanings and models of professions and professionalism and the traditional signifier of professionalism in the U.K., the Royal Charter. The original research from the UK outlines the efforts undertaken between 1968 and 2000 by the professional body, the present day Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD, the Institute), to attain a Royal Charter. This text addresses the following: • The role of key agents and institutions on shaping social structures and practice regimes • The changing construction and meanings of professionalism and professional occupations • The role of the collective professional body in shaping occupational practices in Human Resource Management and Human Resource Development and their effect upon working lives • The continuing significance of the Royal Charter as an ancient institution with deep societal effect

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Slum Clearance

The Social and Administrative Context in England and Wales

By: John English,Ruth Madigan,Peter Norman

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Slum Clearance

The Social and Administrative Context in England and Wales

By: John English,Ruth Madigan,Peter Norman

Originally published in 1976. Slum clearance is a particularly significant process because it places the ordinary citizen in a state of extreme dependence on his local authority. The local authority not only destroys his existing environment but controls access to a replacement council house. This book highlights both the control over the life chances of individual citizens which local government can exercise and the potential impotence of citizens caught up in a complex bureaucratic process. It investigates the difficulties faced by individuals in exercising even the rights and choices which are ostensibly provided by the existing structure. The book also seeks to apply theories of urban sociology in exploring the control of access to public housing. The essential objective of this study is demystification of the administrative processes of slum clearance and rehousing through analysis of local authority bureaucracy and its impact on individuals.

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The Professionalisation of Human Resource Management

Personnel, Development, and the Royal Charter

By: Ruth Elizabeth Slater

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Personnel, Development, and the Royal Charter

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Greenbrier Pioneers and Their Homes

By: Ruth Woods Dayton

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Greenbrier Pioneers and Their Homes

By: Ruth Woods Dayton

This new publication provides a list of the major genealogy and local history collections throughout the state of New Hampshire. The arrangement is by county and immediately thereunder by municipality. For each of New Hampshire's ten counties the compiler gives the addresses and phone numbers of the Registrar of Deeds and Registrar of Probate. In the majority of cases, the information listed under the towns and cities consists of the community's date of foundation, mailing address and phone number of the city or town clerk, prior names for that community, and a succinct listing of the city/town's principal genealogy repositories.

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The Professionalization of Human Resource Management

Personnel, Development, and the Royal Charter

By: Ruth Elizabeth Slater

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The Professionalization of Human Resource Management

Personnel, Development, and the Royal Charter

By: Ruth Elizabeth Slater

Evolving economies, the emergence of new technologies and organisational forms are all features of late capitalism. Among this milieu, a marked feature has been the emergence and recognition in society of new occupations. The claim upon a body of knowledge and practice, and a societal domain in which to exercise expertise characterise these occupations. Status and recognition may ensue; in short, they claim 'professionalism'. 'Professionalism' is a word resonant with allusions to a particular time and place, loosely located in the United States and England in the twentieth century, although its roots are far earlier, and its present branches are far-reaching. The text is an account of the Human Resource Management occupation's search for status, legitimacy, and "professionalism" and illustrates how key agents wove a purposeful plan in pursuit of goals through changing socio-economic and political contexts. The text also discusses the changed meanings of and opportunities for professionalism for individual agents, as members of a social grouping that is the occupation. This text is an analysis of the recent development of the Human Resource occupation, against the backdrop of changing meanings and models of professions and professionalism and the traditional signifier of professionalism in the U.K., the Royal Charter. The original research from the UK outlines the efforts undertaken between 1968 and 2000 by the professional body, the present day Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD, the Institute), to attain a Royal Charter. This text addresses the following: - The role of key agents and institutions on shaping social structures and practice regimes - The changing construction and meanings of professionalism and professional occupations - The role of the collective professional body in shaping occupational practices in Human Resource Management and Human Resource Development and their effect upon working lives - The continuing significance of the Royal Charter as an ancient institution with deep societal effect

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The Doctor Rode Side-saddle

The Remarkable Story of Elizabeth Matheson, Frontier Doctor and Medicine Woman

By: Ruth Matheson Buck,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

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The Doctor Rode Side-saddle

The Remarkable Story of Elizabeth Matheson, Frontier Doctor and Medicine Woman

By: Ruth Matheson Buck,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

The remarkable story of Elizabeth Matheson, one of Canada's first woman doctors, stands out as a biography of an extraordinary woman and a compelling picture of pioneer life on the prairies.

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University of Regina Press

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Their Day in the Sun

Women of the Manhattan Project

By: Ruth H. Howes,Caroline L. Herzenberg

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Their Day in the Sun

Women of the Manhattan Project

By: Ruth H. Howes,Caroline L. Herzenberg

The public perception of the making of the atomic bomb is an image of the dramatic efforts of a few brilliant male scientists.

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Temple University Press

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1592131921

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Writing the Stage Coach Nation

Locality on the Move in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

By: Ruth Livesey

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Writing the Stage Coach Nation

Locality on the Move in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

By: Ruth Livesey

Why is it that so many of the best-loved novels of the Victorian era take place not in the steam-powered railway present in which they were published, but in the very recent past? Most works by Dickens, Brontë, Eliot, and Hardy set action neither in the present nor in a definitively historical epoch but rather in a 'just' past of collective memory, a vanishing but still tangible world moving by stage and mail coach. It is easy to overlook the fact that Jane Eyre, Bleak House, and Middlemarch, for example, are in this sense historical novels, recreating places and times that are just slipping from the horizon of here and now. Ruth Livesey brings to the surface the historical consciousness of such novels of the 'just' past and explores how they convey an idea of a national belonging that can be experienced through a sense of local place. The journey by public coach had long been an analogy for the form of the novel as it took shape in the eighteenth century; smooth engineered roads and the rapid circulation of print was one means by which Britain was reimagined as a modern, peaceable, and communicative nation in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars. But by the later 1840s the end of the stage coach was assured and that made it a highly charged figure of a lost national modernity. In its halts, relays, stops at inns, and crossing points, the stage and mail coach system offered a different experience of mobility and being-in-place--passages of flight and anchoring points--from the vectors of the railway that radiated out from industrial and urban centres. This book opens by examining the writing of the stage coach nation in Walter Scott's fiction and in the work of the radical journalists William Hazlitt and William Cobbett. Livesey suggests that in turning to the 'just' past of the stage coach imaginary, later novels by Dickens, Brontë, and Eliot reach out to the possibility of a nation knitted together by the affect of strongly felt local belonging. This vision is of a communicative nation at its liveliest when the smooth passage of characters and words are interrupted and overset, delivering readers and protagonists to local places, thick with the presence of history writ small.

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Oxford University Press

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0191082260

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The Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders

By: Carol Turkington,Ruth Anan

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The Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders

By: Carol Turkington,Ruth Anan

Autism is a baffling brain disorder that profoundly affects children's communication and social skills. This work provides a reference guide to this disease. It includes approximately 500 entries that address the different types of autism, causes and treatments, institutions, associations, leading scientists and research, social impact, and more.

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Infobase Publishing

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0816075050

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Telling Stories of Pain and Hope

Museums in South Africa and Ireland

By: Mary Elizabeth Lange,Ruth Teer-Tomaselli

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Telling Stories of Pain and Hope

Museums in South Africa and Ireland

By: Mary Elizabeth Lange,Ruth Teer-Tomaselli

The histories of South Africa and Ireland have been tumultuous and traumatic. Both countries have experienced political repression, sectarian violence and oppression that still impact the spiritual well-being of people today. Their parallel histories are of colonialism, displacement and division, and a fight for land and sovereignty. Both countries have embarked on a process of healing and reconciliation, yet there is an ongoing struggle for reparation and/or reversal of previous injustices. Recognising that museums of the 21st century have the potential to contribute to catharsis and mutual understanding, this book reflects on selected museums in South Africa and Ireland that commemorate the pain of the past and the hope for the future. The primary focus of the book is the way in which museum guides, curators and managers share their stories and the stories of their ancestors, and the stories of other people’s ancestors who were caught up in the conflict while interweaving the stories of the authors as well. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

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Taylor & Francis

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104003862X

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Art Et Architecture Au Canada

By: Loren Ruth Lerner,Mary F. Williamson

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Art Et Architecture Au Canada

By: Loren Ruth Lerner,Mary F. Williamson

Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802058566

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Leap Before You Look

Black Mountain College, 1933-1957

By: Helen Anne Molesworth,Ruth Erickson

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Leap Before You Look

Black Mountain College, 1933-1957

By: Helen Anne Molesworth,Ruth Erickson

La exposición refleja la historia del Black Mountain College (BMC), fundado en 1933 en Carolina del Norte y concebido como universidad experimental que situaba al arte en el centro de una educación liberal que pretendía educar mejor a los ciudadanos para participar en la sociedad democrática. La educación era interdisciplinaria y concedía gran importancia al debate, la investigación y la experimentación, dedicando la misma atención a las artes visuales –pintura, escultura, dibujo- que a las llamadas artes aplicadas –tejidos, cerámica, orfebrería, así como a la arquitectura, la poesía, la música y la danza.

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Yale University Press

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0300211910

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Alice Freeman Palmer

The Evolution of a New Woman

By: Ruth Birgitta Anderson Bordin

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Alice Freeman Palmer

The Evolution of a New Woman

By: Ruth Birgitta Anderson Bordin

First biography of a prominent figure in women's higher education

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University of Michigan Press

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047210392X

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Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945

By: Carole Ruth McCann

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Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945

By: Carole Ruth McCann

In a disturbing behind-the-scenes history of the early achievements of Margaret Sanger's American birth control movement, Carole R. McCann scrutinizes the movement's compromises as well as its successes.

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Cornell University Press

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0801486122

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Mrs. Russell Sage

Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America

By: Ruth Crocker

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Mrs. Russell Sage

Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America

By: Ruth Crocker

This is the biography of a ruling-class woman who created a new identity for herself in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America. A wife who derived her social standing from her robber-baron husband, Olivia Sage managed to fashion an image of benevolence that made possible her public career. In her husband's shadow for 37 years, she took on the Victorian mantle of active, reforming womanhood. When Russell Sage died in 1906, he left her a vast fortune. An advocate for the rights of women and the responsibilities of wealth, for moral reform and material betterment, she took the money and put it to her own uses. Spending replaced volunteer work; suffrage bazaars and fundraising fÃates gave way to large donations to favorite causes. As a widow, Olivia Sage moved in public with authority. She used her wealth to fund a wide spectrum of progressive reforms that had a lasting impact on American life, including her most significant philanthropy, the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Indiana University Press

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0253112052

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When My World Was Very Small

A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch

By: Ruth Rakoff

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When My World Was Very Small

A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch

By: Ruth Rakoff

In the whirlwind of life with three young sons, an active member in her tight-knit community, Ruth Rakoff felt in supreme control of her wide world. But when a routine mammogram revealed a tumor, that world rapidly shrunk down to the size of one breast. And so begins the journey of biopsy, surgery, chemotherapy, all accompanied by tidal waves of anxiety and grief: how to tell the children? Should she consider having a healthy breast removed, in case the cancer returns? Will food ever taste good again? Amid all the worry and change, there is also overwhelming gratitude for a stalwart network of family and friends who strive to help and support, to comfort and delight — even as everyone longs for the old normal of daily life. Through stories, confessions and anecdotes, Ruth Rakoff shows just what is at stake when cancer shows up at the party uninvited. There is no sugarcoating of either the physical or emotional pain of dealing with the disease or the effects of the poisons used to combat it. But for Rakoff, a life without laughter is not worth living. Brazen and irreverent, Ruth tells us that socks, no matter how luxurious, are not a cancer present. That no number of crystal-waving shamans can beat the healing power of good food, good friends and a raucous night on the town. And that just because you have cancer, you don’t have to be a better person. Far more than just a recounting of disease and recovery, When My World Was Very Small is an intimate, colorful, one-of-a-kind memoir that celebrates life, love and family.

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Random House Canada

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0307358194

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The Language of Love and Guilt

Mother-daughter Relationships from a Cross-cultural Perspective

By: Ruth Wodak,Muriel Schulz

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The Language of Love and Guilt

Mother-daughter Relationships from a Cross-cultural Perspective

By: Ruth Wodak,Muriel Schulz

Although mother and daughter are two central female roles, they have rarely been investigated. The relationship is specific, certainly different than the motherson or fatherdaughter relationships. And this difference manifests itself in sex-specific language behavior. Despite 'eternal' features of the motherdaughter relationship, its quality is affected by individual psychological and by sociocultural variables. Thus, investigations took place in two big cities with very different structures and traditions: Vienna and Los Angeles. This is the first cross-cultural study which reflects and combines multiple linguistic, socio-psycholinguistic and text linguistic categories, approaches and methods to be able to investigate such an important topic as family relationships and the 'place' of women nowadays in our societies.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027220220

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Bertrand's Brother

The Marriages, Morals and Misdemeanours of Frank, 2nd Earl Russell

By: Ruth Derham

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Bertrand's Brother

The Marriages, Morals and Misdemeanours of Frank, 2nd Earl Russell

By: Ruth Derham

Frank Russell was the grandson of Prime Minister Lord John Russell and elder brother of philosopher Bertrand. He was, in his own right, a radical political reformer and outspoken self-determined moralist. He was also a serial adulterer and convicted bigamist, sent down from Oxford for supposed homosexual practices.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1398102849

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The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936

Shaping a Nation's Tastes

By: Jennifer Ruth Doctor

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The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936

Shaping a Nation's Tastes

By: Jennifer Ruth Doctor

This book, first published in 2000, examines the BBC's attempts to manipulate critical and public responses to contemporary music between 1922 and 1936.

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