Author: Terrence Sullivan Publisher: UBC Press ISBN: 0774841370 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 369
Book Description
Over the last fifty years the nature of work and work injury has changed dramatically. Since the 1980s, workers' compensation claims have grown steadily and insurance institutions are feeling the crunch. In Injury and the New World of Work, Terrence Sullivan emphasizes the precarious line between the expansion of needs-based justice and the preservation of work-based prosperity. The contributors to the book examine a broad range of research solutions and policy options for dealing with the critical state of workers' compensation. The essays draw on recent case studies and original empirical work from Canada, situating the book within a comparative international frame of reference.
Author: Terrence Sullivan Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1482288176 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
This unique reference reveals what works best in preventing workplace disability. Preventing and Managing Disabling Injury at Work examines the changing nature of the workplace and work force and includes recent information on effective early and staged multi-modal interventions in the workplace. The text also explores psychological risk perception and the essential linking of the workplace, clinician, insurer, and worker in the recovery process and in the prevention of subsequent disability events. Well-illustrated with case studies and practical examples, much of the book focuses on the common musculoskeletal disabilities and regional disorders along with other, broader applications.
Author: Keith Ferrazzi Publisher: Harvard Business Press ISBN: 1647821967 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 149
Book Description
A Wall Street Journal bestseller The #1 New York Times bestselling author on how to use radical adaptability to win in a world of unprecedented change. You've shed antiquated systems and processes. You went all-in on digital. Your teams settled into new, often better, ways of doing things. But did your organization change enough to stay competitive in the post-pandemic world? Did you fully leverage the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to leap forward and grow stronger? Are you shaping the new environment to your advantage? If not, it's not too late to learn from the best. New York Times #1 bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi, along with coauthors Kian Gohar and Noel Weyrich, shows leaders how to shape their organizations and practices to remain competitive in a new, post-pandemic context. Based on an ambitious global research initiative involving thousands of executives, innovators, and changemakers who redefined their strategies, business models, organizational systems, and even their cultures, Competing in the New World of Work: Offers a bold new vision for the organization of the future Reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic Defines the new model of leadership—radical adaptability—for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and transformation Competing in the New World of Work is both your inspiration and your road map to embracing new realities, motivating talent, and winning bold frontiers.
Author: Jonathan D. Karmel Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501714376 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
In Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving family members across the country, the stories in this book are introduced in a way that helps place them in a historical and political context and represent a wide survey of the American workplace, including, among others, warehouse workers, grocery store clerks, hotel housekeepers, and river dredgers. Karmel’s examples are portraits of the lives and dreams cut short and reports of the workplace incidents that tragically changed the lives of everyone around them. Dying to Work includes incidents from industries and jobs that we do not commonly associate with injuries and fatalities and highlights the risks faced by workers who are hidden in plain view all around us. While exposing the failure of safety laws that leave millions of workers without compensation and employers without any meaningful incentive to protect their workers, Karmel offers the reader some hope in the form of policy suggestions that may make American workers safer and employers more accountable. This is a book for anyone interested in issues of worker health and safety, and it will also serve as the cornerstone for courses in public policy, community health, labor studies, business ethics, regulation and safety, and occupational and environmental health policy.
Author: Patrick Loisel Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1461462142 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 519
Book Description
This book addresses the developing field of Work Disability Prevention. Work disability does not only involve occupational disorders originating from the work or at the workplace, but addresses work absenteeism originating from any disorder or accident. This topic has become of primary importance due to the huge compensation costs and health issues involved. For employers it is a unique burden and in many countries compensation is not even linked to the cause of the disorder. In the past twenty years, studies have accumulated which emphasize the social causes of work disability. Governments and NGOs such as the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have produced alarming reports on the extent of this problem for developed and developing countries. However, no comprehensive book is presently available to help them address this emerging field where new knowledge should induce new ways of management.
Author: Nate Holdren Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108488706 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 311
Book Description
Combining archival research, critical theory, and gender- and disability-analysis, Nate Holdren argues that Progressive Era reform to employee injury law created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally.
Author: Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 1800888058 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 672
Book Description
Actors in the world of work are facing an increasing number of challenges, including automatization and digitalization, new types of jobs and more diverse forms of employment. This timely book examines employer and worker responses, challenges and opportunities for social dialogue, and the role of social partners in the governance of the world of work.
Author: Anne Marie Feyer Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1135739145 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 298
Book Description
Occupational injury is a major and often preventable health problem in the work environment. Each year throughout the world millions are affected by traumatic occupational injuries and many thousands are actually killed in work-related incidents. This book provides a diverse and multi-faceted look at some of the themes directing late-1990s research
Author: Ada P. Kahn Publisher: Infobase Publishing ISBN: 0816066280 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 449
Book Description
Presents articles on health in the workplace including injuries, physical and mental illnesses, worker's compensation, and social issues.
Author: Terrence Sullivan
Author: Terrence Sullivan
Author: Keith Ferrazzi
Author: Jonathan D. Karmel
Author: Patrick Loisel
Author: Nate Holdren
Author: Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel
Author: Anne Marie Feyer
Author: Ada P. Kahn
Author: National Safety Council