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There should be an affirmative philosophy of organisation that rejects the negative tendency characterising organisation studies, and its failure to grasp the fundamental function of organisation as the oblique means to express and satisfy desires. Organisation and organisation studies should be joyful practices. This book offers a deep and detailed analysis of the problem and its solution. It opens with a definition of the human being as an impossible animal, ill-equipped to survive in any ecological niche, and traces the development of culture, it describes how communities have been built upon metaphors of the body, drawing upon extended examples from the history of pathological anatomy, medical institutions and medical technology. The central problem is to understand how our thinking, feeling and acting bodies relate to the processes and phenomena of social organisation. The argument then applies Gilles Deleuze's influential early works in the history of philosophy to the problem of organisation. Developing Michael Hardt's groundbreaking work, an extraordinary and rigorous intellectual adventure unfolds into a world of bodies and organisations. Here there are no abstractions and nothing held in reserve. Abstract conceptions of power, dialectics and consciousness are rejected: What matters is the body/organisation and what it can do. For readers interested in the problems of human bodies and social organisations, including organisational scholars, sociologists, philosophers, anthropologists and human geographers.

Foreword / by Frances "Mama" Scott -- A game of inches -- The wrestler -- Teet -- Pivotal moments -- Tim Scott for president -- Grit and innovation -- These heroes rise -- Champion our differences! -- Three generations -- Hail to the chief -- President Trump -- Opportunity -- Honor the blue -- January 6 -- This little light -- The black experience -- Blind spots -- America, a redemption story.

Sharing the authors' extensive experience in working at the interface between academia, industry and government, this book is designed to enable powerful university-industry partnerships that can play a pivotal role in achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: A Theory of Organisational Culture -- Part 2: Tools for Measuring Organisational Cultures -- Part 3: Culture and Performance -- References -- Index

Organizational culture is widely considered to be one of the most significant factors in reforming and modernizing public administration and service delivery. This article documents the findings of a literature review of existing qualitative and quantitative instruments for the exploration of organizational culture. Seventy instruments are identified, of which 48 could be submitted to psychometric assessment. The majority of these are at a preliminary stage of development. The study's conclusion is that there is no ideal instrument for cultural exploration. The degree to which any measure is seen as "fit for purpose" depends on the particular reason for which it is to be used and the context within which it is to be applied.

Abstract. The two primary causes of surf zone injuries (SZIs)
worldwide, including fatal drowning and severe spinal injuries, are rip
currents (rips) and shore-break waves. SZIs also result from surfing and
bodyboarding activity. In this paper we address the primary environmental
controls on SZIs along the high-energy meso–macro-tidal surf beach coast of
southwestern France. A total of 2523 SZIs recorded by lifeguards over 186 sample days
during the summers of 2007, 2009 and 2015 were combined with measured and/or
hindcast weather, wave, tide, and beach morphology data. All SZIs occurred
disproportionately on warm sunny days with low wind, likely because of
increased beachgoer numbers and hazard exposure. Relationships were
strongest for shore-break- and rip-related SZIs and weakest for surfing-related SZIs, the latter being also unaffected by tidal stage or range.
Therefore, the analysis focused on bathers. More shore-break-related SZIs
occur during shore-normal incident waves with average to below-average wave
height (significant wave height, Hs = 0.75–1.5 m) and around higher water
levels and large tide ranges when waves break on the steepest section of the
beach. In contrast, more rip-related drownings occur near neap low tide,
coinciding with maximised channel rip flow activity, under shore-normal
incident waves with Hs >1.25 m and mean wave periods longer
than 5 s. Additional drowning incidents occurred at spring high tide,
presumably due to small-scale swash rips. The composite wave and tide
parameters proposed by Scott et al. (2014) are key controlling factors
determining SZI occurrence, although the risk ranges are not necessarily
transferable to all sites. Summer beach and surf zone morphology is interannually highly
variable, which is critical to SZI patterns. The upper beach
slope can vary from 0.06 to 0.18 between summers, resulting in low and high
shore-break-related SZIs, respectively. Summers with coast-wide highly
(weakly) developed rip channels also result in widespread (scarce) rip-related drowning incidents. With life risk defined in terms of the number of
people exposed to life threatening hazards at a beach, the ability of
morphodynamic models to simulate primary beach morphology characteristics a
few weeks or months in advance is therefore of paramount importance for predicting
the primary surf zone life risks along this coast.