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The Changing Paradigm of Consulting
Adjusting to the FastPaced World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The 13th volume in the RMC series, The Changing Paradigm of Consulting, is based on the best papers presented at the Academy of Management’s Management Consulting Division’s fourth international conference (2009) on the underlying dynamics within the fastpaced world of business and management consulting....
Emerging Trends and Issues in Management Consulting
Consulting as a JanusFaced Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The ninth volume in the Research in Management Consulting (RMC) series—much like the volumes that preceded it—underscores that management consulting is a multifaceted field with a truly eclectic nature. Management consultants range from sole practitioners and those working in small boutique firms...
FullSpectrum Strategic Leadership
Being on the Cutting Edge through Innovative Solutions, Integrated Systems, and Enduring Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
FullSpectrum Strategic Leadership: Being on the Cutting Edge through Innovative Solutions, Integrated Systems, and Enduring Relationships articulates how strategic leaders, senior managers, business professionals, aspiring young business leaders, and management students can make dramatic improvements...
Higher Education in Development
Lessons from Sub Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This book will interest readers learning about or developing strategies for improving higher education systems and institutions in developing countries. It provides an insight into subSaharan African higher education systems and sets out the ways that they are developing and changing. It explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This volume is a joint publication in the Research in Management Consulting and Contemporary Trends in Organizational Change and Development series. This dual focus reflects the reality that consulting for organizational change is a special type of management consultation, a complex field of endeavor...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
This book presents innovative approaches to reducing poverty through the commitment, involvement, and leadership of individuals, forprofit businesses, and notforprofit organizations. Many of these approaches are making significant contributions to reducing poverty right now. Some of these approaches...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The Pew Charitable Trusts defines civic engagement as “Individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern. Civic engagement can take many forms, from individual volunteerism to organizational involvement to electoral participation. It can include efforts to...
The Pursuit of Sustainability
Creating Business Value through Strategic Leadership, Holistic Perspectives, and Exceptional Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The Pursuit of Sustainability: Creating Business Value through Strategic Leadership, Holistic Perspectives, and Exceptional Performance focuses on the hierarchical levels of sustainability, strategic leadership, holistic perspectives, strategic and financial performance. It also focuses on management...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
(Published in Cooperation with the Laboratory for Student Success, Temple University)
Bhutan
Ways of Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
There is a mistyeyed vision of Bhutan which has popularized it as ‘the last Shangrila’, the hidden Himalayan jewel, the travel destination of celebrities and uniqueexperiencehunters. We are not entirely comfortable with this image. Bhutan has undoubtedly become the focus of considerable media...
Western Structures Meet Native Traditions
The Interfaces of Educational Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
As Western educational practices have become global, the cultural aspects and the problems associated with them have become more apparent as they are contrasted with local ways of learning and knowing in the widely diverse societies around the world. The Western world has tended to assume that its...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Broadbased, inclusive decisionmaking is the historical foundation for determining what should and can be taught, how institutions should grow, and who should become a part of the academic community. This text brings together authors to examine faculty governance from a historical perspective, tracing...
Understanding Organizational Fitness
The Case of China
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The focus if this book has two dimensions: theoretical and empirical. The theoretical dimension is concerned with the fitness of an organization to satisfactorily address processes of transformational change. Such fitness, it will be argued, can be expressed in terms of the coherence (degree of integration)...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
As globalization brings different cultures together, human performance interventions and training solutions may be strained by cultures, policies and other lines of thinking specific to a particular country, region or continent. What is considered a systematic process of discovering and analyzing important...