There has been extensive research in the last few years on adapting teaching to differences among learners, on the social and institutional context of teaching in higher education and, more recently, on the theory and methods of research on teaching. Less attention has been paid to how academics from different discipline areas actually prefer to engage in teaching-scholarship. The terms ‘teachi...

Initiatives to address the human resource crisis in African health systems have included expanded training of mid-level workers (MLWs). Currently, MLWs are the backbone of many health systems in Africa but they are often de-motivated and they often operate in circumstances in which providing high quality care is challenging. Therefore, assuming that introducing additional people will materially...

Study of the professions, and the process of professionalisation as an occupational strategy, has mainly concentrated on investigating structures of power, rather than individual and deliberate use of power. This chapter provides a microanalysis of power relations by examining professional power and hierarchy in interpersonal relations within the workplace. It makes links across the spectrum of...

In his paper Bridging the gap between politics and techniques: On the next practices of participatory design, Morten Kyng (2010) identifies a number of elements which, taken together, amount to a substantial change in the character and environment of participatory design (PD) from the 1970s to the 2000s. Almost without our noticing, what many of us actually do in the name of PD has deviated fro...

A subject that eludes a consensus definition, security is an amalgam of disciplines that is moving inexorably towards professionalisation. Yet identifying who or what defines a security professional remains as difficult and elusory as a comprehensive definition of security that captures all of its modern facets and many actors. The view of elevating such a discipline as security to the status o...

The knowledge economy has been characterised by the proliferation of new forms of expert labour such as IT (Marks and Scholarios, 2007), advertising (Alvesson, 2004), and as discussed in this paper, project management (Hodgson and Muzio, 2010), management consultancy (Fincham, 2006; Kirkpatrick et al, 2011) and executive search (Faulconbridge et al., 2008). Many of these occupations would lay c...

The 1990s generation of the fall communism has reached retirement age by now, so time come for a generational transition. Studies on succession family enterprises mainly focus internal factors such as professionalisation, involvement external managers, successors’ socialisation, or issue asset values. However, institutional environment shaping options including inheritance law, formal intermedi...

This article explores the increasing professionalisation of school business practitioners in state system England. Often referred to a ‘school managers’ or leaders’, this cohort workforce have been increasingly tasked with leading crucial site-based management functions schools, such as finance and budgeting, human resources operations. As area practitioner activity has grown over last two deca...

Abstract In recent times, the need for food systems that, in addition to being economically viable and socially equitable, use environmentally friendly production processes has made sustainable one of olive oil sector's main concerns priorities. this context, evaluation economic, social environmental performance companies design management alternatives have become fundamental activities compani...

The work is devoted to the analysis of features reliability and effectiveness educational professional activities college students, their interrelations, identified on basis empirical methods mathematical statistical analysis. Reliability as a parameter activity efficiency defined by author an important integral characteristic subject. article points out importance formation development this in...