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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"white collar"”.
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Positive work-family spillover amongst white-collar employees
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-67).
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White Collar Crime and Morality: How Occupation Shapes Perception
White-collar crime is on the rise in the United States and globally. The general public has historically been seen as apathetic to white-collar criminals and their crimes; however more recent studies have shown that prior conclusions on perceptions of white-collar criminals may have been …
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White-collar men and masculinities in contemporary urban China
… economic success, and of which the figure of the white-collar man is emblematic. Based on fieldwork observations, interview and media publications, it examines the gendered practices, aspirations and attitudes of men who identify with or aspire to white-collar status alongside discursive …
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Reskilling white-collar workers : what's in it for firms?
Increasing rates of skill obsolescence amongst white-collar workers resulting from rapid technological and organizational shifts within firms, coupled with an insufficient supply of workers proficient in technical areas such as software engineering and data science, has meant that firms are …
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White Collar Automation: A Study in Technological and Social Change
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T20:15:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6711919.pdf: 13044711 bytes, checksum: 43d29d154cfe59eb2a54278ad84d6b1e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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White-collar workplace : interior form and definition in office building design.
Thesis. 1978. M.Arch--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Bartleby's Descendants: The Theme of The White-Collar Worker in Modern Literature
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T13:49:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004300.pdf: 13083990 bytes, checksum: 364bfdc9d7f80615e76696f598e120bd (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Groomed For Business: Constructing the White-Collar Man’s Body in Contemporary Japan
… him from debates about the male body. Yet, the white-collar man, who remains an ideological reference for masculinity, has in fact also been incorporating various social changes into his identity. This thesis places the focus back on white-collar men by investigating their everyday grooming …
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Development of a quantitative performance measurement prototype system for a white collar organization
The project involved the development and evaluation of a prototype individual performance measurement system. The system was designed to be used on research personnel in a technical consulting firm. Before the system was developed, literature in the field of performance appraisal and the company …
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PROSECUTION AND SENTENCING OF WHITE COLLAR CRIME IN FEDERAL COURT: UNDERSTANDING PATHS AND PROCESSES
The question of whether ‘white collar’ crimes are treated more leniently by society dates to the first use of the phrase by Edwin Sutherland in 1939. One of the most important ways in which this leniency may manifest is in the criminal prosecution and sentencing of violations of law. And yet, the …
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The White Collar Republic: Patronage and Interest Representation in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1889-1930
The purpose of the dissertation is to study the ascent of the state of Minas Gerais in federal politics during the Brazilian First Republic (1889-1930), with a special attention to the role played in this process by the internal unification of Mineiro politics that occurred a decade after the …
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The investigation of white collar crime in England and Wales and France: a comparative study
The investigation of white collar crime in England & Wales has traditionally been conducted by the police. As the need for specialisation has increased the police forces have responded with the formation of fraud squads. These departments comprise of detective officers who have been trained to …
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Heart rate variability and neurocognitive performance in blue- and white-collar workers: Implications for cardiac risks
… HRV and neurocognitive performance in blue- and white-collar workers. Data was obtained from n = 101 participants aged between 19-61 years comprising of n = 48 white-collar workers (male: n = 25, female: n = 23) and n = 53 blue-collar workers (male: n = 42, female: n = 11). The experimental …
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Examining the impact of changes in sentencing guidelines and offender demographics on sentencing of white collar offenders
Using the most recent data compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission and conducted within the conceptual framework of the focal concerns perspective, the current study investigates the impact of offender characteristics, case characteristics, and legally relevant factors on the sentencing …
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The Financial Crisis and White-Collar Crime: An Examination of Brokerage-Failure and Its Link to Ponzi Schemes
… are over 50 years of age and predominantly White-males, in keeping with most studies on White-collar crime perpetrators.</p> <p>In conclusion, the study provides an overall perspective on Ponzi schemes and Ponzi perpetrators never before quantified to this degree. It establishes typologies …
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New technology, industrial relations and white collar trade unions : the case of the National and Local Government Officers Association
… of this new technology to the area of white collar work has meant that it is a sector where trade unions have been confronted with major challenges. However the application of this technology has also provided trade unions with opportunities for exerting influence to reshape traditional …
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White Collar Read: The American Public Library and the Left-Led CIO: A Case Study of the Chicago Public Library, 1929--1952
This research participates in the ongoing debate about the degree of engagement of public librarians in challenges to dominant social and cultural constructs. This research demonstrates that public librarians involved with the left-led CIO during the late 1930s and through the 1940s collaborated to …
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The South African bread cartel: a single case study exploring the scope for responsive regulation of white-collar crime in a developing country
… In 1939, Sutherland introduced the concept of white-collar crime, which encouraged criminologists to turn their attention to crimes of the rich and powerful. In particular, Australian researcher John Braithwaite has produced a large body of work on white-collar crime. Braithwaite is critical of …
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