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ISBN: 9781857530452 - Breaking Ranks
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Breaking Ranks

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Social Change in Military Communities

Christopher Jessup

ISBN: 9781857530452
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Anova Books


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Breaking Ranks explores the complex inter-relationship of domestic and working lives in the context of the British and American armed forces, where families are required to manage particularly turbulent and demanding lifestyles…

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This volume is based on the experience of the military, but it uses this base as a cue from which to make recommendations about the conduct of human relations in any organization, subject to change, mobility and stress. The UK Armed Forces are undergoing a massive re-structuring and the need to recruit and, more importantly, retain a workforce educated to a higher level has become even more critical and a a vital test of managerial competence. The book explains why a more effective understanding of the relationship between workplace and the family is essential. All managers whose orders can affect the private lives of individual service personnel need a heightened awareness of the normal process of family development, of the tensions in negotiating the transition from the home background to the work environment, of the processes involved in entering marriage and parenting children, and of the stresses to which older relationships are exposed. Using real-life case studies, the author provides support for individuals and families passing through the most important stages in their lives.
 
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