The name of William Foote Whyte is most frequently associated with Street Corner Society, the sociological study of life in Boston's North End during the late 1930s, but his research spanned another sixty years in a range of settings on three continents. This article traces his achievements over...

The paper presents a synthesis of an analysis made with the personnel of the railway employees in Craiova and Timiș areas, regarding the opinions on various aspects involved in this field. The opinion viewed aspects such as: motivation of the career options for railway activity; advantages and...

The basic objective of this study was to investigate the role of risk management in human relations from the perspective of high school teachers in Department of education of Zanjan during the 2013-14 academic year. To accomplish the mentioned goal, in addition to theoretical studies and...

Quality of work life (QWL) refers to the level of happiness or dissatisfaction with one’s career. Those who enjoy their careers are said to have a high QWL, while those who are unhappy or whose needs are otherwise unfilled are said to have a low QWL. QWL is the quality of relationship...

This article argues that the prevalence of schisms and divergences regarding the adoption of human relations and industrial democracy principles as well as the role of labour unions and collective bargaining in industrial relations practices provide fecund breeding grounds for labour problems....

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on industrial sector employment of woman workers in Mauritius - based on interviews and a 1977 survey, examines the conditions (lower minimum wages, higher labour productivity, less absenteeism and easier human relations) dictating employer preference for female...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the appropriate models Education Managers could use to enhance the performance of teachers in the teaching and learning process through supervision in Bulawayo Central District. The epistemological foundations informing this study was a...

“Migrations have been part of human history since the dawn of time”. Yet, in the wake of long-term economic transformations over the past five hundred years, human migration and mobility have assumed a dimension which has proved new both in scale and in character. The gradual transformation...

The kind of managerial regime shapes motivation as well as internal institutions and people's lives within the organizations. As a consequence, it makes organizational wrongdoings more likely or unlikely to occur. On the one hand, in the regime of command and control, the structure of the...

Women managers who have broken the glass ceiling in medium-sized, nontraditional organizations have proven that effective leaders don't come from one mold. They have demonstrated that using the command-and-control style of managing others, a style generally associated with men in large,...