Detroit to Flint and Back Again: Solidarity Forever

For several years the authors have been working in Detroit with grassroots coalitions resisting Emergency Management. In this essay, we focus on how community groups in Detroit and Flint advanced common struggles for clean, safe, affordable water as a human right, particularly during the period of 2014 to 2016. We explore how, through a series of direct interventions – including public meetings and international gatherings, independent journalism and social media, community-based research projects, and citizen-led policy initiatives – these groups contributed to challenging neoliberal governance, to undermining the legitimacy of state officials and their policies, and to shifting public consciousness around the human right to water

Adaptive Self-regulation And Organizational Politics: Investigating The Effects In The Accounting Profession

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate whether or not perceptions of organizational politics mediate the relationships between accountants\u27 personality and interpersonal traits and their perceptions of a superior\u27s leadership ability and performance. An accountant who has a higher degree of confidence in his or her superior\u27s abilities is more likely to be committed to a given project, resulting in a better project outcome. This benefits the client and ultimately society as a whole. This study contributes to the accounting and psychology literatures because extant research views perceptions of leadership ability and performance from the perspective of the individual agent, with little or no recognition that social action and interaction shape and mold both the individual agent\u27s actions and perceptions of those actions. Perceived leadership and perceived performance are important in accounting for several reasons. First, individuals act in part in relation and response to the expectations of others. Thus, the perception of effective leadership and performance is gained by meeting the expectations of others. Secondly, accountants with reputations for effectiveness have been found to be more successful in their careers. Finally, the reputation for effectiveness in performance and leadership ability has been shown to increase those abilities. This study draws on the adaptive self-regulation framework as well as other theoretical models of perceived performance. The study results indicate that certain manageable personality, interpersonal, and contextual variables affect how accountants view the level of organizational politics within the workplace. In turn, the accountant\u27s view of the organizations\u27 politics is shown to very strongly affect how the accountant perceives his or her superiors\u27 performance and leadership ability

The Production of Knowledge in Work Teams: The View from Below

This paper examines the experiences of entry level hourly wage workers in a workplace shaped by the excellence movement. Their micro-level encounters with the new work order are set within the macro-level economic, political and cultural context that structures the work experience

Marketing God: A Critical Inquiry into Spirituality in the Workplace

This paper examines the way spirituality is co-opted and commodified to serve the interests of marketplace from a faith-based perspective

Static Footprint Local Forces, Areas, and Aspect Ratios for Three Type 7 Aircraft Tires

The National Tire Modeling Program (NTMP) is a joint NASA/industry effort to improve the understanding of tire mechanics and develop accurate analytical design tools. This effort includes fundamental analytical and experimental research on the structural mechanics of tires. Footprint local forces, areas, and aspect ratios were measured. Local footprint forces in the vertical, lateral, and drag directions were measured with a special footprint force transducer. Measurements of the local forces in the footprint were obtained by positioning the transducer at specified locations within the footprint and externally loading the tires. Three tires were tested: (1) one representative of those used on the main landing gear of B-737 and DC-9 commercial transport airplanes, (2) a nose landing gear tire for the Space Shuttle Orbiter, and (3) a main landing gear tire for the Space Shuttle Orbiter. Data obtained for various inflation pressures and vertical loads are presented for two aircraft tires. The results are presented in graphical and tabulated forms

Circuit of Culture: A Critical Look at Dilbert and Workplace Learning

As a cultural artifact, the Dilbert comic strip has generated both amusement and consternation, particularly for corporate trainers. This paper summarizes a year of research on Dilbert and its surrounding discourse in order to extend the critique of corporate education and Human Resource Development (HRD) into the cultural realm

Shaping Self-Disciplined Workers: A Study of Silent Power in HRD

The intent of this case study was to examine power theories in a singular HRD context in such a way that problematizes the consequences of power

Education as Function of Productivity: An Hermeneutic Study of Standards on Ethics and Integrity in Human Resource Development Texts

This critical hermeneutic analysis of the AHRD Standards on Ethics and Integrity and six HRD textbooks identifies unexamined assumptions and silences related to the practice of HRD

Knowledge as quality non-conformance : A critical case study of ISO 9000 and adult education in the workplace.

The study focused on the impact of the process seeking ISO 9000 registration and the way in which learning processes come to be defined as defective