Download or read book Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace written by Beatrice Quarshie Smith and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana by Beatrice Quarshie Smithexplores the conditions that underlie the outsourcing of US data-processing work in Ghana. Here Beatrice Quarshie Smith describes the convergence and interplay of at least four different socio-economic forces: (1) the digital and satellite technology enabling virtual environments for global outsourced data-processing; (2) the historical development of Ghana as a politically-stable Anglophone society with a relatively strong tradition of public education; (3) the neoliberal economic restructuring policies advanced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; and (4) the ready availability of women seeking to enter the formal wage economy either to seek independence from their roles within traditional families, or in order to support their families. The author’s comparative study of two distinctly different workplaces reveals significant insights about problems of organizational hierarchy and management-employee relations in the cross-cultural environments of out-sourced business and IT process work. Through extensive interviews, the book sheds light on the educational backgrounds, day-to-day struggles, fears, and aspirations of the workers. Quarshie Smith develops this multi-faceted analysis with keen insights into the representational limitations and ethical responsibilities of the researcher. This pioneering study about outsourced data-processing work in West Africa opens up a new area for research and offers a fresh perspective from which to consider outsourcing in other regions of the globe.
Download or read book Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace written by Beatrice Quarshie Smith and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana by Beatrice Quarshie Smith explores the conditions that underlie the outsourcing of US data-processing work in Ghana. Here Beatrice Quarshie Smith describes the convergence and interplay of at least four different socio-economic forces: (1) the digital and satellite technology enabling virtual environments for global outsourced data-processing; (2) the historical development of Ghana as a politically-stable Anglophone society with a relatively strong tradition of public education; (3) the neoliberal economic restructuring policies advanced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; and (4) the ready availability of women seeking to enter the formal wage economy either to seek independence from their roles within traditional families, or in order to support their families. The author's comparative study of two distinctly different workplaces reveals significant insights about problems of organizational hierarchy and management-employee relations in the cross-cultural environments of out-sourced business and IT process work. Through extensive interviews, the book sheds light on the educational backgrounds, day-to-day struggles, fears, and aspirations of the workers. Quarshie Smith develops this multi-faceted analysis with keen insights into the representational limitations and ethical responsibilities of the researcher. This pioneering study about outsourced data-processing work in West Africa opens up a new area for research and offers a fresh perspective from which to consider outsourcing in other regions of the globe.
Download or read book Business English written by Dona Young and published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education. This book was released on 2008-01-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Work written by Mary Ellen Belfiore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores changing understanding of literacy and its place in contemporary workplace settings. It highlights questions and dilemmas to consider when planning and teaching workplace education and challenges traditional thinking about workplace literacy as functional skills.
Download or read book Business English written by Dona J. Young and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business English: Writing for the Global Workplace takes the approach that local language has value in informal environments with Business English being the best choice in formal environments. With this text, students will use their local language (or dialect) to become more proficient with Business English. The text achieves this by comparing and contrasting the two language systems, "building a wall" between Business English and local language. Because technology has made the world smaller, the ability to speak and write Business English has never been more important. Just about every job in the marketplace now includes writing e-mail and speaking to people from diverse cultures. This book provides the tools needed for the global workplace. A student who has mastered the principles presented here will have a solid foundation in speaking and writing Business English to people from around the world.
Download or read book Going Global written by Kyle Lundby and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s global organizations operate at an extraordinary level of complexity. They not only contend with diverse languages, cultures, and political/legal situations, they must also deal with differences based on national boundaries, organizational size, product and services mix, functional specialization, and customer sets. Going Global offers human resource professionals and I/O psychologists a comprehensive resource for meeting the challenges of the global work environment. Edited by Kyle Lundby, along with Jeff Jolton and a team of leading-edge practitioners, this comprehensive volume uses the employee lifecycle as an underlying framework and is organized into three sections: Practical considerations for HR and OD practitioners in a global environment; Attracting and selecting global talent; and Maximizing performance in the global workplace. Within each section, authors explore key cornerstones of I/O practice (e.g., selection, leadership development) applied to the global workplace. Going Global outlines the best practices in the field and is filled with down-to-earth advice from those who have worked in the field. The book not only provides insightful analysis of such broad topics as what it means to be global and HR’s strategic role in global organizations, it examines the undercurrent of culture and its pervasive influence on organizations and the people that comprise them. Going Global also contains valuable information on global employee attraction, selection, and retention strategies, as well as current thinking about intercultural competence training, work-family balance, and the expatriate experience. Going Global doesn’t offer a one-size-fits-all approach but rather includes many strategies and solutions that can apply to a wide variety of situations and organizations. Going Global offers firms a roadmap for creating a winning program for international success.
Download or read book Writing in the Workplace written by Jo Allen and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1998 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing at work is made easier with this all-inclusive guide. Offering a practical approach to writing in print and electronic formats, these pages explore organizational images and cultures, a writing strategy; researching; revising; incorporating graphics; letters and memos; design; employment communication; reports, proposals and instructions; and oral communication.
Download or read book Writing in the Real World written by Anne Beaufort and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we prepare the work-force of tomorrow for the increasing writing demands of the Information Age? Anne Beaufort provides a multidimensional response to this critical question. Offering a vital view of the developmental process entailed in attaining writing fluency in school and beyond, and the conditions that contribute to acquiring such expertise, Beaufort illuminates what it takes to foster the versatility writers must possess in the workplace of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Diversity and Inclusion in the Global Workplace written by Carlos Tasso Eira de Aquino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection offers a nontraditional approach to diversity management, going beyond gender, race, and ethnicity. Examining ageism, disability, and spirituality, the book provides a discussion of different D&I applications and introduces a framework consisting of a diagnostic phase, gap analysis, and an action plan, which can be modified to attend to specific needs of organizations. Researchers and practitioners will learn a viable way to address diversity in global organizations.
Download or read book State of The Global Workplace written by Gallup and published by Gallup Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only 15% of employees worldwide are engaged at work. This represents a major barrier to productivity for organizations everywhere – and suggests a staggering waste of human potential. Why is this engagement number so low? There are many reasons — but resistance to rapid change is a big one, Gallup’s research and experience have discovered. In particular, organizations have been slow to adapt to breakneck changes produced by information technology, globalization of markets for products and labor, the rise of the gig economy, and younger workers’ unique demands. Gallup’s 2017 State of the Global Workplace offers analytics and advice for organizational leaders in countries and regions around the globe who are trying to manage amid this rapid change. Grounded in decades of Gallup research and consulting worldwide -- and millions of interviews -- the report advises that leaders improve productivity by becoming far more employee-centered; build strengths-based organizations to unleash workers’ potential; and hire great managers to implement the positive change their organizations need not only to survive – but to thrive.
Download or read book Writing for the Workplace written by Janet Mizrahi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employers consider communication one of the most critical skills for workers today. Writing for the Workplace: Business Communication for Professionals is an easy- to-follow guide that provides strategies for effective professional communication. Written to address the needs of both students entering the workforce and business professionals looking to improve their written communication, the book offers guides to compose typical workplace documents, from effective e-mails and convincing reports to winning presentations and engaging resumes. This concise book offers busy readers concrete strategies to improve their workplace writing.
Download or read book Writing in the Workplace written by Rachel Spilka and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology containing 19 previously unpublished contributions, some reporting on workplace writing studies completed since the mid-1980s, and others introducing new arguments about research to date and future research directions. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Workplace Skills Reading for Information Student Workbook written by Contemporary and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Drills is a three-level series, with classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction readings, designed to teach students how to improve their reading speed while building valuable comprehension and critical thinking skills.
Download or read book Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2008 written by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working towards the 2015 millennium development goals, this global report marks the midterm point and provides a rich evidence-based assessment of the provision of education on a global scale. Based on specialized commissions, extensive consultations and multiple research sources, the report provides an authoritative, comparative reference.
Download or read book Writing for the Workplace written by Howard Wills and published by EDINFO Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing At Work written by Edward L. Smith and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1997-03-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for all levels of writing used at work, including memos, e-mail, status reports, lab reports, and marketing materials, this book offers a guide to the rules of grammar and style that are required to achieve quality writing
Download or read book Writing Workplace Cultures written by Jim Henry and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing Workplace Cultures: An Archaeology of Professional Writing, Jim Henry analyzes eighty-three workplace writing ethnographies composed over seven years in a variety of organizations. He views the findings as so many shards in an archaeology on professional writing at the beginning of the twenty-first century. These ethnographies were composed by either practicing or aspiring writers participating in a Master’s program in professional writing and editing. Henry solicited the writers' participation in "informed intersubjective research" focused on issues and questions of their own determination. Most writers studied their own workplace, composing "auto-ethnographies" that problematize these workplaces' local cultures even as they depict writing practices within them. Henry establishes links between current professional writing practices and composition instruction as both were shaped by national economic development and local postsecondary reorganization throughout the twentieth century. He insists that if we accept basic principles of social constructionism, the text demonstrates ways in which writers "write" workplace cultures to produce goods and services whose effects go far beyond the immediate needs of its clients.
