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Age Diversity in the Workplace

Discusses unique responsibilities of managing a diverse workforce and addresses differences in employment expectations of the four major generational groups (the Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y).

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Why do Highly Skilled People from Developing Countries Migrate to the UK?

This study explores the rational decisions and the real motivations of highly skilled migrants who have immigrated to the UK since March 2003.

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Careers and Contingencies: Constructing Careers in the Music and Building Industries

An exploration of the physical work in the orchestra and the building industry, and the impact of objectification on participants.

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Surface Acting as a Predictor of Emotional Exhaustion in Portuguese Social Workers

Approaches used to manage one's emotions in the workplace and to experience emotional exhaustion.

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Supporting Social Meanings and Constructs within Social Communities of Learning: Living Dictionaries Focused upon Enhancing Learner Understandings Related to Tacit and Explicit Knowledge within a Communicative Learning Environment

Living dictionaries support and enhance the learner’s understanding within online social communities of learning, through supporting the learner’s conceptual framework of understanding while enhancing subject-specific social meanings and constructs.

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The NWICO Debates Revisited: A Contraflow from the Arab World?

This paper aims at engaging with debates from the MacBride Report published by UNESCO, and relating it to Arab media’s position in contemporary global media.

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Radio in Three Dimensions: A Comparative Analysis of RFO Guyane, France Musiques and BBC World Service

This research tests, via content analyses and case studies, which elected radios RFO-Guyane, BBC-WS and France Musiques is the most representative of local, global and neutral orientation.

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Digitally Democratizing the New Ethnographic Endeavour: Getting Thicker Around the Geertz?

This paper explores the application of various 'commonplace' digital technologies in ethnograhic research. Emphasis is given to the democratising potential these technologies present in the research process.

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The Antinomy of a Dropout Phenomenon: A Qualitative Synthesis of Durkheim’s Suicide and Allport’s Propriate Functioning Theories

The aim of this study is to uncover the various associations of factors that could ultimately explain the different dropout situations.

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Communicating Health: Theoretical Connections for Communication and Health Science

This paper takes a broad theoretical perspective on communication to incorporate useful links to both the construction and interpretation of health messages

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