1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450773703321

Titolo

Enhancing social work management [[electronic resource] ] : theory and best practice from the UK and USA / / edited by Jane Aldgate ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007

ISBN

1-280-92964-2

9786610929641

1-84642-590-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AldgateJane <1945->

Disciplina

361.3068

361.32

Soggetti

Human services - Great Britain - Management

Human services - United States - Management

Social work administration - Great Britain

Social work administration - United States

Electronic books.

Great Britain Social policy 1979-

United States Social policy 1993-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The Open University; University of Connecticut."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-309) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Current Trends in Human Services Management; Chapter 2 New Leadership for the Human Services: Involving and Empowering Staff through Participatory Management; Chapter 3 Improving Performance in Social Work through Positive Approaches to Managing Change; Chapter 4 Ethical Issues for Social Work and Social Care Managers; Chapter 5 Managing across Interagency Boundaries: A Learning Agenda for Change; Chapter 6 Managing Diversity in Social Services Settings

Chapter 7 Liability and Safety Issues in Human Services ManagementChapter 8 Managing Care Environments: Reflections from Research and Practice; Chapter 9 Active Service-User Involvement in Human Services: Lessons from Practice; Chapter 10 The Impact of New Technology: Implications for Social Work and Social Care Managers;



Chapter 11 Managing Diverse Sources of Funding; Chapter 12 From Policy Visions to Practice Realities: The Pivotal Role of Se

Sommario/riassunto

This book looks at the nature of management in the human services sector and examines the prevailing issues affecting both the UK and USA. Contradictory forces affect the act of management, such as the imperatives driving the introduction of new control systems which exist alongside the requirement to cut resources. In this book, contributors present both the problems and opportunities associated with the growth of management in the social care sector. They cover key topics including the implementation of change in the childcare sector; diversity &ndash; looking at the ways in which care manag

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822586003321

Autore

Méndez Cota Gabriela <1982->

Titolo

Disrupting maize : food, biotechnology and nationalism in contemporary Mexico / / Gabriela Méndez Cota

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , [2016]

ISBN

1-78348-608-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Disruptions

Disciplina

338.17315

Soggetti

Corn - Mexico

Corn - Social aspects - Mexico

Corn - Genetic engineering - Environmental aspects - Mexico

Transgenic plants - Environmental aspects - Mexico

Transgenic plants - Risk assessment - Mexico

Transgenic plants - Social aspects - Mexico

Indigenous crops - Social aspects - Mexico

Agrobiodiversity - Mexico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Mexican maize : a biotechnological story -- colonial legacies, constitutive disruptions -- Resisting technoscience : the nationalist trap -- The people of maize and the technoscience of culture -- The



gift of biotechnological disruption.

Sommario/riassunto

Theorizes the disruptions precipitated by corporate agricultural biotechnology in Mexican cultural politics.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIOMIL0269729

Autore

ISMEA

Titolo

Un anno di PAC : gli effetti della riforma sull'economia agricola italiana \ [rapporto realizzato da Ismea con il contributo di C.S.I.A., Consorzio per il sistema informativo dell'Aima]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[s.l., : s.n.], 1994 ( (Roma) : Dimensione stampa

Descrizione fisica

119 p. : ill. ; 30 cm

Disciplina

338.181

Soggetti

Economia agraria - Italia

COMUNITA EUROPEE - POLITICA AGRARIA - EFFETTI SULL'ECONOMIA ITALIANA

ITALIA - ECONOMIA - EFFETTI DELLA POLITICA AGRARIA COMUNITARIA

Collocazione

POZZO LIB.ECON MON                10040

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In copertina: Veronafiere.