1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910807804303321

Titolo

The SAGE handbook of conflict communication : integrating theory, research, and practice / / editors, John G. Oetzel, Stella Ting-Toomey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks : , : SAGE Publications, , 2013

ISBN

1-4833-1542-8

1-4833-0998-3

1-4522-8198-X

1-78268-875-7

1-4129-8779-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 898 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

303.6

Soggetti

Conflict management

Social conflict

Communication in the social sciences

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 at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1 - Definitions and Approaches to Conflict and Communication ; Chapter 2 - Quantitative Methods for Conflict Communication Research ; Chapter 3 - Qualitative Research on Communication and Conflict ; Section 1 - Interpersonal Conflict ; Introduction to Interpersonal Conflict ; Chapter 4 - Emotion and Communication in Conflict Interaction ; Chapter 5 - Social Cognition and Conflict ; Chapter 6 - Conflict in Dating and Marital Relationships; Chapter 7 - Intimate Partner Violence

Chapter 8 - Family Conflict Communication ; Chapter 9 - It Happens in Real Life: The Complexities of Conflict and Mental Health Within Families ; Chapter 10 - Managing Conflict in a Competent Manner: A Mindful Look at Events That Matter ; Section 2 - Organizational Conflict ; Introduction to Organizational Conflict ; Chapter 11 - Negotiation ; Chapter 12 - Perspectives on Workgroup Conflict and Communication; Chapter 13 - Conflict Motivations and Tactics of Targets, Bystanders, and Bullies: A Thrice-Told Tale of Workplace Bullying ; Chapter 14 -



Work-Life Conflict

Chapter 15 - Building Constructive Conflict Communities Through Conflict Resolution Education ; Chapter 16 - Conflict Management in Health Care Settings ; Chapter 17 - Systems Within Systems: Law, Management, and Participation-Based Conflict Management Systems Within Organizations; Section 3 - Community Conflict"; "Introduction to Community Conflict"; "Chapter 18 - Community Conflict, Ethics, and Civic Engagement"; "Chapter 19 - Environmental Conflict Communication"

Chapter 20 - Trust in Community-Academic Research Partnerships: Increasing the Consciousness of Conflict and Trust Development ; Chapter 21 - Religion and Conflict: An Emerging Field of Inquiry ; Chapter 22 - Moral Conflict and Transcendent Communication ; Chapter 23 - Communities, Conflict, and the Design of Dialogic Conversations ; Section 4 - Intercultural/International Conflict ; Introduction to Intercultural/International Conflict ; Chapter 24 - The Identity Factor in Intercultural Conflict

Chapter 25 - Interracial and Interethnic Conflict and Communication in the United States ; Chapter 26 - Intercultural and Intergroup Conflict Resolution: Nonviolence and Middle Way Approaches ; Chapter 27 - Conflict in the Global Workplace ; Chapter 28 - Building Cultures of Peace: The Role of Intergroup Dialogue ; Chapter 29 - Culture-Based Situational Conflict Model: An Update and Expansion ; Chapter 30 - Transforming Intercultural Conflict Through the Context of Relationship ; Chapter 31 - Conflict Communication in Contexts: Organizing Themes and Future Directions

Sommario/riassunto

The means to express conflict is through communication, and the means to manage and address conflict is also via communication. This handbook emphasises constructive conflict management from a communication perspective which places primacy in the message as the focus of conflict research and practice.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969222403321

Autore

Brooks Robert Andrew

Titolo

Cheaper by the hour : temporary lawyers and the deprofessionalization of the law / / Robert A. Brooks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2011

ISBN

9781439902875

1439902879

9781439902851

1439902852

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

331.25/729

Soggetti

Lawyers - Employment - United States

Temporary employment - United States

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

Degraded and insecure : the "new" workforce -- "Basically interchangeable" : the creation of the temporary lawyer -- Life on the concourse level : doing document review -- Box shopping in "Nike town" : struggles over work -- "Keeping count of every freakin' minute" : struggles over time -- "A glorified data entry person" : struggles over identity -- "I would rather grow in India" : the emerging legal underclass.

Sommario/riassunto

Recent law school graduates often work as temporary attorneys, but law firm layoffs and downsizing have strengthened the temporary attorney industry. Cheaper by the Hour is the first book-length account of these workers.Drawing from participant observation and interviews, Robert A. Brooks provides a richly detailed ethnographic account of freelance attorneys in Washington, DC. He places their document review work in the larger context of the deprofessionalization of skilled labor and considers how professionals relegated to temporary jobs feel diminished, degraded, or de