In this paper we fuse HRM and KM perspectives in order to explore the detrimental impact of age discrimination or “ageism” prevalent in UK organizations on the development of social capital, considered to be so vital for improved organizational performance in knowledge-based economies. We discuss the potential impact of new age discrimination legislation in the UK in overcoming ageism, highligh...

Workplace Smoking Policies Approximately 30 percent of all private sector workplaces have a formal smoking policy, while a majority of Americans support smoking policies. Governments at all levels and the private sector are increasingly adopting or strengthening such policies and there is no evidence of retrenchment. In addition, the protection of nonsmokers, who account for 67 percent of the p...

The United States construction industry experienced 151 fatalities resulting from workers colliding with objects and equipment in 2009. These fatalities accounted for approximately 18% of the total construction fatalities and 3% of the total workplace fatalities experienced that year. Construction workers and equipment are often required to function at close proximity on construction jobsites. ...

We consider the role of ‘workplace studies’ in design and specifically, what it means to use ethnography to ‘inform’ design. We suggest that there is a need for a foundational change in the configuration of the practical relationship between ethnography and design if the approach is to be of lasting utility: from the traditional product-oriented configuration where ethnography attempts to infor...

Prologue I. Education as a Human Right: The Trojan Horse of Recolonization The Different Faces arid Facets of Education Freedom and Mobility for the Individual Professional Careers for Growth, Security and Satisfaction Cultural Survival, Enrichment, and Diversity Reform, Revamping, Radicalization The Crassly Competitive Slayers of Savage Inequalities Cultural Literacy Promoters Multicultural Li...

Infusing multicultural content into courses and curricula presents an important challenge for college and university campuses across the U.S. All students benefit from exposure to diverse cultures and perspectives, while those from traditionally underrepresented groups are supported when their special needs and contributions are recognized. This section provides resources for designing curricul...

Infusing multicultural content into courses and curricula presents an important challenge for college and university campuses across the U.S. All students benefit from exposure to diverse cultures and perspectives, while those from traditionally underrepresented groups are supported when their special needs and contributions are recognized. This section provides resources for designing curricul...

This study examined the relationship between multicultural personality dispositions and trait emotional intelligence. The sample included 152 graduate education students enrolled at a university in a large northeastern city of the United States. The multicultural personality dispositions of Cultural Empathy and Social Initiative predicted variance in trait emotional intelligence above and beyon...

gabbeh is one type of different types of hand-woven carpets of qashqaei tribes (south and center of iran) which is woven by the women of these tribes. in fact this hand-woven rug is kind of carpet woven to be slef-consumed which was woven from old times with creative and subjective patterns in a two dimensional and abstract format. the patterns are taken from the nature and environment where th...

Infusing multicultural content into courses and curricula presents an important challenge for college and university campuses across the U.S. All students benefit from exposure to diverse cultures and perspectives, while those from traditionally underrepresented groups are supported when their special needs and contributions are recognized. This section provides resources for designing curricul...