PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to critically examine the imagery of flexible work arrangements in professional accounting employment, as presented in the Australian professional accounting journals from 2004‐2007.Design/methodology/approachThe approach takes the form of a critical analysis of discourse in articles in professional accounting journals.FindingsWhile talk of “balance” and “flexibility” is widespread in the professional accounting journals in Australia, accountancy is portrayed as an environment dominated by a “work hard, play hard” culture. Flexible work arrangements are presented as acceptable work practices when they provide a means of facilitating this culture, rather than as an alternative method of working.Research limitations/implicationsThe Australian accounting professional bodies continue to actively portray the long hours culture of professional work (and play) as the foundation of success, despite widespread concern about, first, the long‐term implications of such a lifestyle for employees’ personal wellbeing and, second, the lack of appeal of such working conditions for both existing and potential employees.Practical implicationsDespite the rhetoric of the need for flexible work practices to attract/retain accounting talent, accountants may find that there is limited support within the profession to facilitate career development while utilising such arrangements as part‐time work.Originality/valueThe imagery of the contemporary accounting work environment as presented in the professional journals has not been examined in the accounting literature. As these journals are a primary means by which the profession communicates with its members, they present a good basis for examining how the accounting profession wishes itself to be perceived.
Inevitably, reading is one of the requirements to be undergone. To improve the performance and quality, someone needs to have something new every day. It will suggest you to have more inspirations, then. However, the needs of inspirations will make you searching for some sources. Even from the other people experience, internet, and many books. Books and internet are the recommended media to help you improving your quality and performance.
The SciencesVolume 11, Issue 4 p. 5-10 Chemotherapy of Cancer Joan Solomon, Joan SolomonSearch for more papers by this author Joan Solomon, Joan SolomonSearch for more papers by this author First published: April 1971 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2326-1951.1971.tb00862.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume11, Issue4April 1971Pages 5-10 RelatedInformation
SIR,-I can only concur with Dr. C. Watson (27 September, p. 783). The situation at present would appear to be that if you don't collect the requisite number of " signatures " your seniority pay is forfeit. But what about the ne6xt artifice-that is, that you must pay for such education, whether you take it or not, for fear of losing your registration ? Are we still schoolboys? Which other intelligent group of people agrees to such pressures? Which other section of the community is so beset ? Does not " general practitioner" mean something? If all this goes through, which heaven forbid, our little outposts will have to go unmanned, and the local contentment that we have been trying to foster will revert to distress and anger.-I am, etc.,
DARWIN and his contemporaries, at the time of publication of the second edition of his Descent ofman in 1874, were unaware of Mendle's work on the gene mechanism and therefore considered inheritance in general terms. It was not Darwin's fault that his analysis was misunderstood by his successors who became aware of the genetic basis for inheritance of physical characteristics but ignored or were apparently unaware of what Huxley (1942) subsequently called the cultural component of man's evolution and whose characteristics are inherited indirectly by non-genetic means.
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A SURVEY was carried out in a rural practice in an attempt to discover undiagnosed diabetics. The practice has four partners and 9,400 patients. The method chosen was to deliver Clinistix to each patient together with a letter indicating the importance of the early detec¬ tion of diabetes, and simple instructions how to use the Clinistix. Patients were asked to test their urine one-and-a-half to two hours after a main meal. All those whose Clinistix turned blue were asked to report to their doctor with another sample of urine collected as above.
THE RESEARCH on which this paper was based started when I was asked by the Tavistock Clinic to form and lead a group of general practitioners who had already had several years experience in the Tavistock Training Scheme. Early in our work this group decided to study the ordinary run of cases in general practice. f The first stimulus for the research arose as a logical sequence out of the work done during the training of general practitioners which was started by Michael Balint at the Tavistock Clinic in 1949. In those seminars general practitioners met with Balint and later with other psychiatrists, to discuss cases which were presenting them and their patients with problems, usually of an overt emotional kind. The aim of these seminars was to study the causation and handling of the emotional disturbances chiefly by studying the doctor/patient relationship. In this way it was hoped to enable the doctors to become more flexible observers of themselves and thus to achieve some skill in treating their patients. From time to time, however, it
THIS paper was compiled from an analysis of all x-rays and pathological investigations requested by myself upon patients seen throughout the year 1965. Qualified five years ago, my practice is a mixed type in a London suburb of predominantly social classes II and III. I am the junior partner in a practice of seven doctors. My total list of patients is approximately 1,850 and private patients make up less than one-half per cent. There are facilities for almost all radiological and pathological investigations likely to be needed by a general practitioner. I am on the staff of a local general-prac-titioner hospital, and this list does not include those investigations ordered for inpatients or for those patients seen in the casualty department. CommentIt investigation is a of the number of investigations patients investigated.
The writers are at great pains to point out that acupuncture seems simple, but great skill is required in actual practice to get good results. Fo il points differ in the depth to which the needle may be in there are forbidden points-which are unsuitable for atu d moxibustion. The methods of moxibustion are varied and the selection of points is the same as for acupuncture. The patient should not be burned, he should only feel a comfortable warmth, and the time required for moxibustion at each point should be 30 minutes, but may vary. My translation goes on at great length, to list the diseases that benefit from acupuncture and moxibustion and include nervous, gynaecological, skin or parenchymal disease. The final words read, Medical scientists have not yet found a definite explanation of their therapeutic value . Were the Ching emperors correct when they issued the edict painted in red with the vermilion brush The body of royalty must not be needled. Pay attention to your Emperor and tremble?
