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Title Professional identities : policy and practice in business and bureaucracy / edited by Shirley Ardener and Fiona Moore
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 165 pages) : illustrations
Series Social identities ; v. 3
Social identities ; v. 3.
Contents Matters of the heart : the business of English Rugby League / Margaret Groeneveld -- When worlds collide : British bureaucracy meets German bureaucracy in the global financescape / Fiona Moore -- Image and reality in an Israeli "Absorption Centre" for Ethiopian immigrants / Esther Herzog -- Loyalty and politics : the discourses of liberalisation / Simone Abram -- Indentities under construction : the case of international education / Hilary Callan -- Portrait of an aid donor : a profile of DFID / Anne Coles -- Identity construction in development practices : the government of Ghana, civil society, private sector and development partners / Lindsay Whitfield
Summary "This volume examines the diverse ways in which individuals' ethnic, gender, corporate and professional identities interact. It should interest those concerned with practical management of institutions, as well as those of us who find ourselves working within them."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Stimulated first by a workshop organised by the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women (now named the International Gender Studies Centre) at Queen Elizabeth House; then mainly by a series of talks on "Corporate Images and Bureaucratic Identities," presented at the ongoing Ethnicity and Identity seminar at the Institute of Social Anthropology at Oxford University
Print version
Subject Professional employees -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
Businesspeople -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
Civil service -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
Identity (Psychology) -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Businesspeople
Civil service
Globalization -- Social aspects
Identity (Psychology)
Professional employees
Beruf
Identität
Unternehmen
Verwaltung
Form Electronic book
Author Ardener, Shirley, editor.
Moore, Fiona, editor.
ISBN 9780857458865
0857458868
Other Titles Policy and practice in business and bureaucracy