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Human Resource Management
Contemporary Issues, Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
The contributors in this book identify and clearly discuss contemporary and critical issues, challenges and opportunities in HRM. The book attempts to achieve the delicate balance between basic HRM functions, and the new world of HRM. Moreover, in a dynamic field like HRM, a complete look at contemporary...
Ethical Leadership and the Community College
Paradigms, DecisionMaking, and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This book is designed to aid community college leaders in becoming ethical leaders. This aim is essential, as ethical leadership is needed to address the continual ethical quandaries and persistent leadership dilemmas (e.g., funding, governance, accountability, shifting student demographics) facing...
The Moral Compass
Leadership for a Free World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The Moral Compass presents a model of morality as a guide to valuesbased leadership. In a free, pluralist society, diverse stakeholders with competing moral claims present serious challenges to the strategic momentum of business, government, NGOs, and community organizations. Leaders need to know...
Reforming (Transforming?) a Public Human Resource Management Agency
The Case of the Personnel Board of Jefferson County, Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This book offers a firsthand look at the importance of human resource management (HRM) processes to not just one public agency but a large group of public administration entities that rely on a public HRM agency (the Personnel Board of Jefferson County) for its HRM processes. More specifically, the...
Human Resources Management Issues, Challenges and Trends
"Now and Around the Corner"
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Human Resources Management Issues, Challenges and Trends: “Now and Around the Corner” explores and provides an updated look at some of the challenges, trends and issues HRM professionals will need to focus on now and around the corner. Like other departments in the broader organization HRM professionals...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
“Change (Transformation) in Government Organizations” discusses recent efforts to bring about change in government organizations. The book brings together contributions by a number of managers, practitioners, academics and consultants in the study of international, federal, state, and local government...
by Ronald R. Sims
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
This book is written with the belief that HRD professionals will continue to learn, change and find ways to reinvent themselves and the profession individually and collectively as we move further into the 21st century. A major point of this book is that HRD will continue to become more and more important...
Trends and Issues in Distance Education
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
This book provides a broad treatment of current distance education trends and issues from an international vantage point. The book includes some twenty authored chapters that provide insight into specific implementations of distance education worldwide, as well as analyses of crossnational distance education...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This edited book is intended to address the need for an updated look at the HRM legal and regulatory environment. Contrary to existing books which address legal issues in HRM from a narrower focus or specific issue (like sexual harassment, performance appraisal or employment termination), this book...
More than a Curriculum
Education for Peace and Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Exploring the field of peace education, the bulk of the book analyzes and critically evaluates contemporary schools and universities. Providing some successful and notsosuccessful alternative school and university projects and experiments, the book proposes peace and development education as a life...
The Emperor Has No Clothes
Teaching About Race And Racism To People Who Don't Want To Know
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race and Racism to People Who Don’t Want to Know offers theoretical grounding and practical approaches for leaders and teachers interested in effectively addressing racism and other oppressive constructs. The book draws both on the author’s extensive...
Instructional Designer Competencies
The Standards (Fourth Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book provides the most current and complete version of statements defining a competent instructional designer, for those who are or aspire to practice in virtually any context, anywhere in the world. The research conducted to update and validate these standards included obtaining feedback from over...
ClientConsultant Collaboration
Coping with Complexity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The tenth volume in the Research on Management Consulting series—ClientConsultant Collaboration: Coping with Complexity and Change—draws on papers presented at the Academy of Management’s Management Consulting Division International Conference on this theme in Copenhagen, Denmark in June 2007....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Hailed as a landmark in the development of experimental methods when it appeared in 1975, Design and Analysis of TimeSeries Experiments is available again after several years of being out of print. Gene V Glass, Victor L. Willson and John M. Gottman have carried forward the design and analysis of...