Macroeconomics or The Business of Employee Empowerment

Macroeconomics: A European Text

Author: Michael Burda

Building upon the considerable success of previous editions, Macroeconomics 4/e provides a comprehensive analysis of modern macroeconomics within both a European and a global context. Competing theoretical approaches are presented in a clear and balanced manner with continual reference to data and case study examples from the real world. Burda and Wyplosz have produced another excellent textbook, that will guide students through challenging and complex issues with clarity and simplicity. The excellent teaching and learning aids include chapter overviews, summaries of key concepts, end of chapter exercises, and suggestions for further reading accompanying each chapter.

See also: The Prince or In Defense of America

The Business of Employee Empowerment: Democracy and Ideology in the Workplace

Author: Thomas A A Potterfield

The popular and influential concept of employee empowerment may have the emancipatory potential its supporters claim, but it also is subject to constraints and inhibitions. Potterfield calls for actions to cut through the ideological inhibitors at the corporate level and also for ways to alter the prevailing socioeconomic structure, ways to enhance the relative strength of employees in various types of organizations. His book provides a synthesis of major empowerment theories and viewpoints, a discussion of its historical and intellectual roots, an inquiry into empowerment practices at a Fortune 100 company, and a discussion of both the emancipatory potential and ideological constraints in empowerment theories and practices. With specific recommendations for corporate and societal action, Dr. Potterfield's book will be important for professionals, teachers, and students in management, organizational studies, human resources, and organizational change.

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Synthesizes the major theories and perspectives on employee empowerment, discusses its historical and intellectual roots, looks into the practices of major companies, and considers both the emancipatory potential and the ideological constraints in the theories and practices. Advocates cutting through ideological barriers to empowerment and altering the prevailing power structure to enhance the relative strength of employees. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Social, Political, and Economic Antecedents of Empowerment	17
2	The Theories and Practices of Empowerment	49
3	Ideas in Action: Empowerment at a Fortune 100 Corporation	61
4	Integrating Theory and Practice: Reflections on the Farbrook Technologies Interviews	93
5	The Emancipatory Potential of Empowerment	99
6	Ideological Influences within the Theories and Practices of Empowerment	115
7	Overcoming Ideological Influences and Advancing the Cause of Freedom	133
	App.: Research Methods	155
	References	163
	Index	169