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Professional Work: A Sociological Approach is an introduction examining recent trends in the world of professional work. Authors Kevin Leicht and Mary Fennell review the history and theory of managerial and professional work, and then describe specific contemporary changes in professions and work-settings. Provides overview of recent organizational changes in the workplace. Analyzes current history and theory of managerial and professional work. Includes definitions of key terms, original tables and figures.

"Mary Lu Fennell, Professor Emerita of English and world literature, directed the writing program and served a term as Dean of Faculty at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. While at Principia, she taught British, CHinese, and Japanese literature, introduced women's literature into the college's curriculum, co-directed a number of overseas programs for college students, and established an ESL program. Since retiring to Empire, Michigan, in 2000 she has become a full-time writer. Her poems have appeared in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Japanophile, Of Moonlight and wishes, way station magazine, River Run, and Dunes Review." (Publisher's description).

Bobby is an adventurous boy. He has been dreaming of the day he can finally play with the bb gun he got for Christmas, but his father has it hidden. His parents are not home and he and his sisters have a baby sitter. Bobby decides this is the opportune time to find the gun and sneak it outside to play with it. When nobody is looking Bobby finds the bb gun and plots to carry out his plan but is caught with the watchful eye of his younger sister Mary. Not knowing what else to do, Bobby invites Mary to join him and together they plan a day of adventure with the bb gun. The day starts with excitement but ends in a big life lesson that they will remember forever. Siblings Robert Lee Long Jr. and Mary Fennell share an unforgettable childhood memory that impacted their lives forever and that can be applied to all of our lives. The Forgiveness Balloon is a story about how some childhood events can leave lasting impressions. We are praying our story of a childhood memory brings you some humor and some healing. We want to encourage you by saying, with complete certainty, God is a loving God and He forgives all who ask with a pure and contrite heart. God is a loving God!

Crisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age presents a wide, panoramic view into the state of modern professional work in the United States. Struggling labor markets, growing inequalities, and increasing amounts of cultural and political mistrust are but a few major changes undermining the people seen as essential in society and needed to compete in a globalized, highly skilled world. The authors explore this profound dilemma through a variety of methods, each one allowing them to identify significant areas of change and concern. They address macro-level social, political, and economic forces at the root of these changes and pair these explanations with illustrative vignettes of young, would-be professionals to paint a comprehensive, albeit complicated picture of professional work in the 21st century. Amid a backdrop of increasing globalization, technological advance, and cultural devaluation of expertise, the authors point attention to the mounting implications these shifts have for new generations of professionals and consider alternative models to address signs of precarity and instability within the professions. With piercing insight and compelling evidence, Crisis in the Professions probes deeply enough to stimulate scholars and researchers invested in the sociological study of work and provides a valuable, versatile read for advanced students in these areas as well.

This book has several objectives. Most basically it presents an approach to assessing interorganizational innovation diffusion. To do this we have tried to link contempo rary organizational theory with more person-centered diffusion theory. We have also combined contingency theory with the resource dependence perspective to explain why organizations might choose to initially consider an innovation, re define it to suit their particular environmental context, and then implement it. Another objective has been to examine how environmental constraints can limit the ways in which diffusion channels form, and can determine when diffusion can be truly organizational and when it will depend upon individuals. In doing so, we have tried to indicate how organizational structures emerge to manage re sources in ways that are consistent with those environmental constraints. We have borrowed the notion of boundary management from resource dependence, and we have used it to examine how organizations use various boundary management strategies to preserve their autonomy in exchange relationships with other organi zations. We have done this both at the network level and at the level of individual organizations.