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Publisher: Routledge
Date: 28-11-2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-09-2013
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 27-02-2007
DOI: 10.1108/09653560710729820
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present research findings on how the threat of terrorism to Australia affects managers and employees in workplaces in a large city. It investigates the various workplace impacts of the terrorist threat and examines how this affects organizational efficiency and effectiveness and employee wellbeing. A literature review of the impact of the terrorist threat to workplaces is presented using academic research and journalistic commentary. This review informs research collected in seven organizations via in‐depth interviews of 40 minutes length conducted with staff and management in the administrative, legal, retail, sporting and services sectors. In total, 55 interviews were conducted with an additional 50 respondents who were unavailable for interviews completing surveys. A number of significant negative impacts of the threat of terrorism on Melbourne workplaces are identified. The most significant were workplace discrimination and ersity management, cultural change to be security oriented, and increased occupational stress. The s le population for the research is quite small so the conclusions cannot be considered generalizable. Rather, the research represents specific cases where the impacts are felt and, as such, may exist in other sectors and cities. The results are highly concerning and suggest that terrorism has a detrimental effect at work and on life. The findings can assist organizations in preparing management responses and actions in preventing the negative impacts of the threat of terrorism. Research of this kind is extremely limited yet of the highest importance to organizations in large cities.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-12-2021
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 24-04-2009
DOI: 10.1108/09653560910953180
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present research findings that improve our understanding of the role for business in the “War on Terror”. This paper is not about examining counter‐terrorism commodities or products. Rather, this paper aims to examine management attitudes and techniques for creating images of security that work to reduce the risk of terrorism. A brief literature exploration informs research that was carried out in Melbourne, Australia in 2005 with managers in organisations located in Melbourne's central business district (CBD). This research comprised in‐depth interviews of 40‐60 minutes in length. In total, 12 managers were interviewed. Two key respondents emerged and their views are presented in this paper. It is argued in this paper that managers are compelled to engage in counter‐terrorism in order to protect customers, clients and the public. Yet counter‐terrorism security is often not what it seems. When businesses are engaged in countering terrorism they are engaged in creating images of security. The s le population for this research is quite small and is not intended to be representative or generalisable to a larger population. Rather, this research represents special cases where counter‐terrorism has become an important consideration for business security. The results highlight effective and tangible mechanisms that managers can adopt to play a key role in the “War on Terror”. This research can assist managers in preparing their response to terrorism and the threat it poses to their business. Research on terrorism and business is rare and often under‐developed. This research contributes to our understanding of how businesses must confront and respond to terrorism.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-06-2016
DOI: 10.3109/11038128.2015.1057521
Abstract: Client-centred practice is well established as a core foundation of occupational therapy however, there is little research evidence concerning the client experience. To understand client-centred practice from the perspective of adults with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) participating in community-based occupational therapy. Six adults with a moderate-severe TBI participated in two semi-structured, qualitative interviews each. In total 12 interview transcripts and additional data were coded using constructivist grounded theory methods. Data analysis produced three main themes and sub-themes: (i) Experiencing the client-therapist relationship: Seeing me as the person I was Getting to know me in the now Making a positive connection (ii) Actively participating in therapy: Valuing the therapist Being partners in therapy and (iii) Finding my place in life: Adjusting to who I am now and Sharing my journey. The results present a framework for understanding client-centred practice as a person-centred process of engagement between the client and the therapist, as informed from the client perspective. Occupational therapists are encouraged to value and invest in the development of relationships with clients whilst the importance of seeking and integrating the client perspective into practice and research is affirmed for the profession.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-03-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-12-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-06-2020
DOI: 10.1111/NANA.12616
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2014
Abstract: Fantasy sports are played by millions of people throughout the world. By 2017, it is predicted to be an industry with a turnover measured in billions of dollars. Recent scholarly attention has focused on the motivations for participating in fantasy sports leagues. In this article, we report on ongoing qualitative research being conducted with fantasy sports enthusiasts and their wives and partners in Australia. There has been little previous research into the attitudes of wives and partners toward the fantasy sports habits of enthusiasts. The enthusiasts studied here play in a long-running fantasy National Basketball Association (NBA) league that began in 1999 and continues in a relatively unchanged format. We argue that social factors are the primary motivation for participants in this league in terms of enhancing and maintaining existing friendships. How those social factors are practiced, however, has significant consequences for managing workplace and relationship demands.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-09-2013
Abstract: Witnessing is never merely watching or seeing. Witnessing is never a passive practice. Witnessing is active, a performance, an embodied experience. Given the hypermediated nature of the contemporary social world witnessing is particularly common when practised large distances from events. Contemporary terrorists, and their counterparts waging the so-called global ‘war on terror’, depend on near and distant witnesses to spread their violent messages and influence target audiences. Witnessing, however, shows itself to be contradictory and unreliable just like the people who do it, all of whom endure disowned desires and fears. Drawing on the Smithsonian, the September 11 Digital Archive and the story of lower Manhattan graphic novelist Art Spiegelman, I argue that witnessing is what is most at stake in any attempt to understand the meanings and consequences of contemporary terrorism.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-03-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-06-2021
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 19-11-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-01-2014
Abstract: The first decade of the 21st century will be remembered as a time of terror and war. As the toxic dust clouds settled over the people of New York City and strategies were developed for the wars to come, it may have been difficult to imagine the terrible violence that would be exacted against the civilian population in Iraq. Following the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraqi women took up a place in the blogosphere to write about their experiences of the war. In this article we tell stories about young women in Iraq and how they blogged their experiences in post-invasion Iraq and the ways in which digital spaces enabled them to write a self during a time of war. We argue that digital fields of possibility offer bloggers possibilities for reflexive thinking, for engaging with and critiquing social limits, and for shaping a digital self.
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-11-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-01-2015
Abstract: In the years following 9/11, we spoke to residents of an Australian city who had witnessed the attacks on television in a research process that we came to describe as holographic. This metaphor emerged as we struggled to represent data generated in these interviews. This struggle over meaning provoked us to ask fundamental questions about the collection of knowledge in sociologies of terrorism – about the encounter of Self–Other in interviews the embodied, situated location of researcher and researched in such encounters how this location exists in particular configurations of time and space but is continually re-animated in other configurations of time and space as processes of meaning-making unfold in the production of a variety of texts (recordings, transcripts, papers, articles). To study terrorism, researchers grapple, knowingly or not, with an unstable and volatile concept. It is a volatility that should be embraced, not marginalised, in sociological research into terrorism.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2012
Location: Australia
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