Understanding Barriers To Workplace Equality A Focus On The Target S Perspective

Understanding Barriers to Workplace Equality: A Focus on the Target’s Perspective

Organizational Behavior

This volume presents the complex dynamics of organizational behavior. It sheds light on the interplay between working relationships, leadership, management, and political influence, offering fresh insights into how these elements shape organizational culture and performance. Leaders and managers will gain valuable strategies for navigating power structures and interpersonal relationships, while employees will find guidance on advancing their careers through strategic political awareness. Topics such as group behavior, diversity and inclusion, cultural and emotional intelligence, and ethical decision-making are thoroughly examined. Each chapter is designed for clarity and emphasizes practical application. By doing so, the volume equips readers with the skills to implement effective strategies in the workplace. The book further provides a better understanding of organizational behavior and enables readers to drive positive change in the workplace. By blending theory with actionable insights, the book will appeal to students, academics, and professionals alike, interested in learning how to address real-world challenges.

Social Issues in Sport, Leisure, and Health

This book examines how social issues shape and influence our engagement with sport, leisure time physical activity, and health-promoting exercise. Connecting the personal with the public, it helps the reader understand how individual exercise, leisure, and sport participation are both facilitated and constrained by their social contexts. Presenting a series of in-depth descriptions of grassroots sport, urban lifestyle sport, physical activity across the life course, sport for children with special needs, and the development of creative climates in sport, this book seeks to encourage what C. Wright Mills described as the “sociological imagination”. Every chapter begins with an individual-level account centred on everyday challenges with accessing sport, partaking in leisure activities, and meeting guidelines for daily exercise before exploring the larger, socially determined patterns in which those experiences are located, establishing a vital template for the social scientific study of sport, leisure, and health. Touching on key contemporary themes including diversity, inclusion, health inequalities, and physical inactivity, as well as selection and intensification in sports, this book offers new case material and theoretical tools for understanding the relationships between sport, leisure, health, and the wider society. This is an indispensable companion for any course on the sociology of sport, exercise, leisure, or physical activity and health.