Employees and Employers in Service Organizations: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities
About this ebook
This new book, Employees and Employers in Service Organizations: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities, the first volume in the 21st Century Business Management book series, provides an in-depth exploration of recent concepts and trends in business management in the service industries. It looks at the changing expectations and loyalties of young workers and others and the challenges and opportunities presented for service employers. The book considers theory and research findings, providing a plethora of practical implications and applications for these new workplace behavior dynamics.
Exploring the different perspectives and concepts from the book’s researchers and authors, Employees and Employers in Service Organizations: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities cover themes such as
• work-life balance
• spirituality in the workplace
• emerging positive psychology concepts, such as psychological capital, knowledge management, and mindfulness
• expectations, motivation, and behavior of different generations, such as Generation Y
This informative volume will be valuable for faculty teaching courses in management and self-improvement for leaders and executives as well as for those in service industries.
About the author
Arvind K. Birdie, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Acting Principal at the IIMT School of Management (Oxford Brooks University), Gurgaon, India. Dr. Arvind has been consistently recognized for her teaching abilities. For more than thirteen years she has taken post-graduate and graduate courses of management. As an avid reader her strength lies in teaching various interdisciplinary subjects with equal ease. Besides academic teaching and training, she has organized management development programs for corporate and academicians. She is a regular part of paper presentations in various international and national conferences and has published papers in referred journals.
