WEBLINKS
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http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
Discover your personality by completing this online test based on the Myers-Briggs
personality type indicator. Rather crude, but it is fun to do. Best taken with a large
dose of salt!
http://www.colorquiz.com/
An even more simplistic modelling of personality based on the idea that colour
preference can give clues to your personality. Again, quite amusing, albeit a little
superficial; the principles upon which this is based remain rather unsound both
theoretically and methodologically.
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/perscontents.html
This website provides material on all the major theorists and writers we have been
looking at in this chapter. You will find material here on Freud, Jung, Eysenck,
Erikson and Fromm.
http://www.radpsynet.org/
A critical and radical organization committed to exposing and examining the politics
and ideologies that inform most mainstream psychology. Papers, essays, critical
reviews and an online discussion forum provide a space for people to question and
interrogate many aspects of psychology. Includes important essays relevant to the
study of personality.
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Social psychology and cultural studies sources:
http://www.socialpsychology.org/social.htm#group
http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/index.html
Radical and critical sources:
http://www.marxists.org/index.htm
http://www.wsws.org/
http://www.workersworld.net/
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/
http://foucault.info/
http://www.thefoucauldian.co.uk/
Examples of teams and COPs consultants’ sites:
Belbin: http://www.belbin.com/game-co-operate.html
Katzenbach: http://www.katzenbach.com/
COPs: http://www.solonline.org/
http://www.ewenger.com/
Portals and sites with resources, games and exercises on teambuilding and
development:
http://www.grouprelations.com/
http://www.wilderdom.com/games/InitiativeGames.html
http://www.queendom.com/tests/career/team_roles_access.html
http://www.hrgopher.com/category/377.php
http://reviewing.co.uk/toolkit/teams-and-teamwork.htm
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Two interesting articles comparing learning theories, by Fenwick:
http://www.ualberta.ca/~tfenwick/ext/pubs/ERIC-new2.htm
http://www.ualberta.ca/~tfenwick/ext/pubs/print/aeq.htm
A tutorial on situated learning:
http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000323/00/139.htm
On behaviourism:
www.bfskinner.org/operant.asp
www.uib.no/People/sinia/CSCL/web_struktur-836.htm
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Robert C. Heterick, Getting Organized – a short article on leadership and
organizational theory
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/31260.html
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http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/article.asp?id=1194
Office of National Statistics (2005) Patterns of Pay; Results of the Annual Survey of
Hours and Earnings 1998 to 2004 by Clive Dobbs, Employment , Earnings and
Productivity Division, Office for National Statistics
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http://www.eoc.org.uk/cseng/research/factsgreatbritain2003.pdf
Equal Opportunities Commission (2003) Facts about Women and Men in Great
Britain 2003, January.
http://www.bpwuk.org.uk/
Business and Professional Woman UK website
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http://www.wired.com/
Wired magazine is a good source of technologically deterministic reflections on
‘cutting edge’ technological developments.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/css/jlsts.htm
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/css/antres/antres.htm
John Law’s site has a lot more on ANT (but also on social shaping and social
construction) – including frequently asked questions and further readings.
http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/
For more on actor-network theory and its recent evolution,
Bruno Latour’s website has a number of accessible articles and
opinion pieces on the topic.
http://www.computing.co.uk/specials/1156350
Article for more information on the failed UKeU scheme
http://www.rpi.edu/~winner/apm1.html
Langdon Winner’s ‘Automatic Professor Machine’ website (or APM for short). What
are the concepts of knowledge and technology being satirized here?
http://www.ideo.com/dilbert/
Dilbert’s ultimate cubicle
http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/publications/viewpdf/002697/
Lucas Introna and Louise Whittaker (2005) ‘Power, cash and convenience: The
political space of the ATM’, - an alternative approach to the concept of ‘social
shaping’
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http://www.british-franchise.org/index.asp
The website of the British Franchising Association
http://www.geert-hofstede.com/geert_hofstede_resources.shtml
A website displaying the comparative country profiles mapped out in Geert
Hofstede’s research
http://www.nikebiz.com
Nike’s corporate website
http://www.maketradefair.com
Make Trade Fair campaign website
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/trade/trading_rights.htm
A recent report published by Oxfam entitled Trading Away Our Rights looked at the
export of apples from South Africa to the United Kingdom
http://www.nao.org.uk/pn/05-06/0506961.htm
a comprehensive account by the National Audit Office about the liquidation of Rover
Cars in April 2005.
http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/drug_industry/contribution/articles.cfm?ID=9922.
A 2003 report published by the campaigning organization Public Citizen on drug
companies and their lobbyists in the US – an example of the power of multinational in
a political arena
http://www2.europarl.eu.int/lobby/lobby.jsp?lng=en&sort=byorg&index=ALL.
In Europe, there are 4803 people who have accredited lobbyist status to the
European Parliament.
http://www.unglobalcompact.org/Portal/
the UN itself set up a Global Compact bringing together multinationals, government
and labour organizations to discuss and agree forms of regulation and control.
Websites critiquing Nike
David Boje’s website at:
http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/nike/nikemain.html
The adbusters website at:
http://www.adbusters.org/home/
Behind the label website at
http://www.behindthelabel.org/
Campus campaigns against sweatshops at:
http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org/
Global exchange campaign at:
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/sweatshops/nike/
Oxfam’s community action abroad campaign maintains a Nikewatch at:
http://www.caa.org.au/campaigns/nike/
Nike’s own site also provides a lot of detail about their side of the story:
http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jhtml?page=0.
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www.corpwatch.org
A website that pulls together critiques of contemporary business practice. A great
resource for finding a wealth of unethical organizational behaviour
www.McSpotlight.org
Similar to the above, with a strong focus on critiquing McDonald’s restaurants in
particular.