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New demographics, new workspace : office design for the changing workforce
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ISBN: 1315597926 1317088573 1317088565 128261472X 9786612614729 0754692124 Year: 2010 Publisher: Burlington, VT : Burlington, VT : Gower ; Ashgate,

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This book alerts top managers on how to design a work environment that supports an ageing workforce to avoid feeling burnt-out, bottle-necked and bored in the knowledge economy.


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New demographics, new workspace
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ISBN: 9781409458784 1409458784 9780754692126 0754692124 9780566088544 0566088541 Year: 2010 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England Burlington, Vt. Gower

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"Offices shape the lives of millions of people. How we plan, design and equip them says a great deal about the culture of organisations, the mentality of managers and the motivations of staff. But getting the right balance between management efficiency and individual wellbeing is as elusive as ever. New Demographics New Workspace looks for answers in some new places. The authors address ways in which the office environment can be redesigned to offer greater levels of comfort, flexibility and fitness for purpose in the new age of the older knowledge worker. Based on the findings of the authors' 'Welcoming Workplace' research project at the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre, New Demographics New Workspace examines the impact of two of the most significant shifts in the workplace: the ageing of the workforce and the changing nature of work itself in the knowledge economy. By examining the movements and motivations of older knowledge workers in the UK, Japan and Australia, the authors have generated new conceptual approaches to office design that offer an alternative to the current outdated model derived from the factory floor. In particular they question the value of open-plan offices that favour collaboration over concentration and contemplation. Given the growing pensions crisis and anticipated knowledge gap in the workforce in many developed countries, this book has real political, economic and social resonance. If we are all going to have extended working lives in the 21st century, the places in which we work will need to flex and adapt to make us want to keep on working"--Provided by publisher.


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New demographics, new workspace : office design for the changing workforce.
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ISBN: 9780566088544 Year: 2010 Publisher: Farnham Gower

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Promising practices to support family involvement in schools
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ISBN: 1617350257 1607524910 9781607524915 9781617350252 9781607525448 1607525445 1617350230 9781617350238 1617350249 9781617350245 1607524899 1607524902 9781607524892 9781607524908 1281373540 9786611373542 Year: 2010 Publisher: Charlotte, NC Information Age Pub.


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Intellectual capital
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ISBN: 9780511778971 9780521763264 9781107507296 9780511902376 0511902379 0511799225 9780511799228 0511850751 1107208319 1282770756 9786612770753 0511901585 0511797826 051177897X 0511900791 0521763266 1107507294 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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There is arguably no award more recognized in the academic and professional worlds than the Nobel Prize. The public pays attention to the prizes in the fields of economics, literature, and peace because their recipients are identified with particular ideas, concepts, or actions that often resonate with or sometimes surprise a global audience. The Nobel Prize in Economic Science established by the Bank of Sweden in 1969 has been granted to 64 individuals. Thomas Karier explores the core ideas of the economic theorists whose work led to their being awarded the Nobel in its first forty years. He also discusses the assumptions and values that underlie their economic theories, revealing different and controversial features of the content and methods of the discipline. The Nobelists include Keynesians, monetarists, financial economists, behaviorists, historians, statisticians, mathematicians, game theorists, and other innovators.

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