1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910708628503321

Titolo

Defense logistics, greater awareness of recommendations and improvements in data quality needed to resolve container-management challenges : report to the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Government Accountability Office, , 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ii, 34 pages) : color illustrations

Soggetti

Unitized cargo systems

Containerization

Materials management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"GAO-15-114."

"November 2014."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777400703321

Titolo

Beyond rationality [[electronic resource] ] : feminist imaginings on postmodern management/organisations as praxis / / guest editor, Ngaire Bissett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Bradford, England], : Emerald Group Pub., 2004

ISBN

1-280-51525-2

9786610515257

1-84544-383-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (97 p.)

Collana

Journal of organizational change management ; ; v. 17, no. 3, 2004

Altri autori (Persone)

BissettNgaire

Disciplina

338

338.04

Soggetti

Management

Businesswomen

Feminism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Abstracts and keywords; Guest editorial; "Don't write about it"; Entrepreneur-mentality, gender and the study of women entrepreneurs; Powerful discourses for social service; Screwing diversity out of the workers? Reading diversity; Unravelling Woomera: lip sewing, morphology and dystopia; Contested rationalities, contested organizations; Diversity writ large; Book review

Sommario/riassunto

This paper uses ethnographic data from an Australian university to explore constructs of "otherness" focusing on women in lower-level university work. The work of these women, who hold both academic and non-academic staff positions, takes place in the spatial and symbolic locale we call the "ivory basement". Poststructural feminism provides the basis for an examination of the contradictions and subtleties of their identity work as they respond to the pressures of restructuring and managerialism. Faced with a request from these women for certain aspects of their relational work to remain unseen