Bøger af Eric Patton

This interdisciplinary work explores creating more inclusive workplaces around neurodiversity. It focuses on how organizations can promote true inclusion for neurominorities, a large segment of the emerging workforce while underlining the difficulties as well as the strength-based characteristics faced by this population.Beyond social, learning or communication challenges, neurominorities are often highly intelligent, honest, authentic, hyper-focused, innovative, skilled in various forms of perception, reliable, and resilient. Discovering ways for true inclusion can add value to organizations, helping all employees to learn and develop as colleagues while also helping neurominorities fulfill the goals of achieving dignity, respect, independence, and flourishing through work. This volume connects neurodiversity to disability in the workplace and examines the factors that contribute to the successful employment and integration of neurodiverse workers, including the transition from school to the labor market. It also highlights barriers and challenges faced by neurominorities. This book will appeal to scholars across business and the social sciences looking to better understand how neurodiversity should be addressed in organizational contexts. The multidisciplinary approach will accelerate management research and practices by providing insights already captured across a wide variety of disciplines, rather than prompting management researchers to build upon what currently exists solely in the management literature

A Bag with No Secrets is the story of two gay loves in the life of Terry Devlin, a student at the University of Arizona in the 1950s. He remembers them when he is an elderly man dying in a Tucson hospice. The first was a wild, passionate, adolescent affair with Ian Tolson, a high-school football player. Ian moves away, leaving Terry disconsolate at a vulnerable time of his life. Ian's unexpected return years later leads to Terry's exposure to a series of robberies and murders, which nearly caused his death. His second love was with Kevin Morrison, an acerbic engineer of American Indian descent. Kevin, for his part, looks on Terry as only a friend. So Terry has to conceal his love, or risk his friendship. Kevin would never be able to return his affections, or so Terry thinks until one memorable night on a hike in the Santa Rita Mountains. There he learns the difference between love and infatuation.