Public Sector Strategy explores how strategic decisions are developed and implemented in the public sector, and examines the psychology underpinning strategic decision-making.Combining knowledge from traditional perspectives with contemporary insights on strategic management, this book considers how managers make their decisions and provides key concepts and practical tools to aid delivery of strategy within highly institutionalised settings. This book provides theoretical...

This impactful book explores what it means to feel seen, valued and connected in our working lives. International experts adopt a multidisciplinary approach to analyse the implementation and impact of workplace belonging measures across various sectors and contexts.Pairing conceptual frameworks with case studies, contributing authors examine timely topics such as AI and disability inclusion, humour and status, wellbeing during grief and cultural integration in global teams. Authors...

Emotional Self-Management in Academia draws on new empirical research from academics' own personal accounts of emotional experiences from their everyday practice to illustrate how their emotional work is adapting in response to a constantly changing workplace.Marilena Antoniadou and Mark Crowder re-examine Hochschild's notion of emotional labour and combine it with emotion regulation strategies and emotional boundaries as utilised into the everyday practices of modern acad...

Exploring contemporary challenges and opportunities for the realisation ofDecent Work, this edited collection reviews the origins of the concept and helps to demonstrate its working in practice. Using a Decent Work lens to explore the realities of eroding work conditions in typical and atypical work, the analyses presented here argue that urgent action is required to address these issues for the benefit of individual workers, and society as a whole.Prepared by researchers and colla...