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Humanitarian Work Psychology
by Stuart C. Carr, Malcolm MacLachlan and Adrian FurnhamContextualizing Humanitarian work in history, justice, methods and professional ethics, this book articulates process skills for transformational partnerships between diverse organizations, motivating education, organisational learning and selecting the disaster workforce.
Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining Its Suitability as a Model (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee)
by Karl Widerquist and Michael W. HowardContributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores whether other states, nations, or regions would benefit from an Alaskan-style dividend. The book also looks at possible ways that the model might be altered and improved.
Employee-Driven Innovation: A New Approach
by Steen Høyrup Kirsten MøllerPresents research in Employee-Driven Innovation, an emergent field of study that meets the demand for exploiting new innovative potentials in organizations. There is a growing interest in creating new knowledge in innovation, emphasizing human resources and social processes. The authors intend to take the global lead in research on these areas.
Exchange Entitlement Mapping: Theory and Evidence (Perspectives from Social Economics)
by A. CharlesThe main aim of this book is to develop and implement an innovative tool: exchange-entitlement mapping, or E-mapping for short. This tool enables us to look at the economic and social opportunities to develop human capabilities for different groups of individuals, depending on their group identity such as age, ethnicity or gender.
Leadership and Global Justice (Jepson Studies in Leadership)
by Douglas A. Hicks and Thad WilliamsonWhat does global justice look like, and how can leadership help get us there? The contributors explore justice in various spheres: citizenship, the marketplace, health, education, and the environment. And they provide creative and constructive moral approaches for evaluating and promoting global justice.
Executive Power in Theory and Practice (Jepson Studies in Leadership)
by Hugh Liebert, Gary L. McDowell, & Terry L. PriceSince September 11, 2001, long-standing debates over the nature and proper extent of executive power have assumed a fresh urgency. In this book eleven leading scholars of American politics and political theory address the idea of executive power.
Essential Quantitative Methods: For Business, Management and Finance
by Les OakshottQuantitative techniques are fundamental to the correct interpretation of commercial reality, and can aid practical business decision making and problem solving.The fifth edition of Essential Quantitative Methods has been updated to suit the changing needs and environment of the contemporary student. It offers revised coverage of associated software, new case studies and expanded student material, yet retains its concise accessible approach, building on its established position as a core text on quantitative methods modules. New to this edition:• New case studies have been added, and others revised and updated.• SPSS and Excel techniques have been thoroughly updated in line with new software releases.• 'Did you know?' features provide additional information on related topics.• Expanded 'Key Points' sections at the end of each chapter reinforce learning. • Extended 'Further Reading' materials, a summarized bibliography and new advice on web searches and online source materials, offer added guidance. Essential Quantitative Methods is ideal for undergraduate and MBA students studying Quantitative Methods, Statistics and Managing Data.
Housing Finance Systems: Market Failures and Government Failures
by S. PhangThe term 'housing crisis' has recently been associated with rising foreclosure rates and tottering financial institutions, particularly in the US and Europe. However, in many emerging countries, the housing crisis is about urban poverty, unplanned settlements, overcrowded slums and homelessness.
Practising Social Work in a Complex World
This classic textbook provides the clearest and most authoritative introduction available to working in situations characterised not only by risk and change but also by high pressure to deliver successful outcomes. Edited by three of the leading names in Social Work, Robert Adams, Lena Dominelli and Malcolm Payne provide an indispensable guide to successful social work practise. Its coherent and thoughtful coverage of practice situations involving complexity, tension and uncertainty is uniquely geared to the needs of students in the final stages of their qualifying Social Work course, professionals returning to study, or those simply wishing to deepen their professional understanding.
Monetary Economics: Policy and its Theoretical Basis
by Keith Bain Peter HowellsThis fully revised second edition of Bain and Howells' Monetary Economics provides an up-to-date examination of monetary policy as it is practised and the theory underlying it. The authors link the conduct of monetary policy to the IS/PC/MR model and extend this further through the addition of a simple model of the banking sector. They demonstrate why monetary policy is central to the management of a modern economy, showing how it might have lasting effects on real variables, and look at how the current economic crisis has weakened the ability of policymakers to influence aggregate demand through the structure of interest rates. The second edition: features a realistic account of the conduct of monetary policy when the money supply is endogenous provides a detailed and up-to-date account of the conduct of monetary policy and links this explicitly to a framework for teaching macroeconomics includes recent changes in money market operations and an examination of the problems posed for monetary policy by the recent financial crisisMonetary Economics is an ideal core textbook for advanced undergraduate modules in monetary economics and monetary theory and policy.
Leadership Craft, Leadership Art
by S. TaylorTaylor leads readers through creativity and how it relates to leadership followed by the five stages of theory behind the idea: 1) preparation, 2) time-off (or incubation), 3) the spark, 4) selection, and 5) elaboration.
The New IT Outsourcing Landscape: From Innovation to Cloud Services
by Leslie P. Willcocks and Mary C. LacityWritten by the world's leading academics in the outsourcing field, this books gives the most recent overview of developments in research and practice. It focuses on new practices in innovation, offshoring, onshoring, capabilities, project management and cloud services, offering a distinctive theory of outsourcing.
The New Chinese Economy: Dynamic Transitions into the Future
by Elias C. GrivoyannisThe most recent account of what is going on in the fast changing world and Chinese economics. Topics in the book include economic development, banking and finance, education reform, consumption patterns, the impact of social networking, population dynamics, policy making, and the challenges ahead for the rising economic global superpower.
Organizational Innovation in Public Services: Forms and Governance (Governance and Public Management)
by Pekka Valkama Stephen J. Bailey Ari-Veikko AnttiroikoIn the wake of the economic crisis, many public services are facing a challenging environment in which they receive less funding but are expected to deliver better services. Organisational Innovation in Public Services develops new theoretical models and analyses case studies to provide an important insight into how to modernise public services.
The 2012 French Presidential Elections: The Inevitable Alternation (French Politics, Society and Culture)
by J. Evans G. IvaldiWas the victory of François Hollande, the Socialist challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy, inevitable in the 2012 French Presidential elections? This book argues that a combination of economic downturn, policy choices and personal unpopularity meant that the Right-wing incumbent faced an almost impossible task in holding onto power for another five years.
Managing Climate Change Business Risks and Consequences: Leadership for Global Sustainability (Global Sustainability Through Business)
by James A. F. Stoner, Charles Wankel, Neil Washington, Matt Marovich, and Kyle MillerAlthough the title of this volume and its major focus will be on one major aspect of global sustainability - climate change - this volume continues with the overall framing of the series: global sustainability is a multi-faceted, global, multi-generational, economic, social, environmental, and cultural phenomenon and challenge to our species.
Campaign Strategy in Direct Democracy (Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century)
by Laurent BernhardIn the first study of comparative direct-democracy, Laurent Bernhard explores the nature of direct-democratic campaigning in Switzerland. The author examines four policy areas: immigration, healthcare, welfare and economic liberalism focussing on interviews with campaign managers to provide a comprehensive analysis of direct-democratic campaigning.
Pentecostalism and Prosperity: The Socio-Economics of the Global Charismatic Movement (Christianities of the World)
by Katherine Attanasi and Amos YongWhile there are a growing number of researchers who are exploring the political and social aspects of the global Renewal movement, few have provided sustained socio-economic analyses of this phenomenon. The editors and contributors to this volume offer perspectivesin light of the growth of the Renewal movement in the two-thirds world.
National Identity and Economic Interest: Taiwan's Competing Options and Their Implications for Regional Stability
by Peter C. Y. ChowThe book covers the legal, economic, socio-political and international aspects of economic integration and the contending forces of national identity and economic interests after the economies between Taiwan and China are integrated and the trading bloc is emerging across the Taiwan Strait.
Sustaining Industrial Competitiveness after the Crisis: Lessons from the Automotive Industry
by Luciano CiravegnaAdopting a multi-disciplinary approach and using the case of the automotive industry as a starting point this volume discusses how industrial companies can remain competitive in spite of the current economic downturn.
Communication Across Cultures
by Elizabeth ChristopherA new textbook exploring communication in international management. Provides a comprehensive overview of the field, summarising the key theoretical perspectives and introducing students to the multi-cultural 'big picture' in which global business operates. Experts provide a wealth of cases and other learning and teaching resources.
Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era
by P. SeibIn light of the events of 2011, Real-Time Diplomacy examines how diplomacy has evolved as media have gradually reduced the time available to policy makers. It analyzes the workings of real-time diplomacy and the opportunities for media-centered diplomacy programs that bypass governments and directly engage foreign citizens.
Policing in Africa
by D. FrancisThis wide-ranging collection offers fresh insights into a critical factor in development and politics on the African continent. It critically examines and illustrates the centrality of policing in transition societies in Africa, and outlines and assesses the emergence and impact of the diversity of state and non-state policing agencies.
The Vitality of Taiwan: Politics, Economics, Society and Culture (The Nottingham China Policy Institute Series)
by Steve TsangAs a country, Taiwan is one of the most vibrant, exciting, colourful and entrepreneurial on earth. The contributors reveal what underpins the vitality of Taiwan, examining the relevance of its democratic politics, civil society and the presence of an existential threat from China, as well as the importance of its international business nexus.
Private Development Aid in Europe: Foreign Aid between the Public and the Private Domain (EADI Global Development Series)
by Paul HoebinkThe authors present an overview of private development aid in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the EU as a whole. They illustrate how private aid organisations receive support as well as the relations they have with their respective governments.