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Global Leadership Talent Management
Successful Selection of Global Leadership Talents as an Integrated Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
In times of globalization, global labor markets and increasingly diverse workforces, Global Leadership, Global Talent Management and integrated management systems belong to the most urgent issues and challenges for the next decade. Hence, it is not a surprise that Global Leadership and effective,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
At a time when the public discussion of mental illness in society is reaching a high point, athletes and other sports insiders remain curiously silent about their private battles with a range of mental illnesses. While a series of professional athletes have exposed the deep, dark secret related to...
Contested Belonging
Spaces, Practices, Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies contributions by well-known international scholars from different disciplines address the sites, practices, and narratives in which belonging is imagined, enacted and constrained, negotiated and contested. Belonging is viewed from the perspectives...
The "M" in CITAMS@30
Media Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume is the second of a two-part series that celebrates the section’s 30th anniversary. Casey Brienza leads the second of the two volumes - *The M in CITAMS@30:...
Mastering Brexits Through The Ages
Entrepreneurial Innovators and Small Firms - The Catalysts for Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Brexit is arguably the most significant UK foreign and economic policy event since at least 1945. Opinion is bitterly divided between whether to leave, when to leave, how to leave and even on what Brexit is. Mastering Brexits Through the Ages: Entrepreneurial Innovators and Small Firms - The Catalysts...
Talent Management in Practice
An Integrated and Dynamic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Talent Management (TM) is an issue of critical importance for today’s senior managers. Employers acknowledge that an engaged, skilled and motivated workforce is key to achieving growth and competitive advantage. Organizations are hiring TM officers and implementing TM strategies and programs to...
The Globalization of Foreign Investment in Africa
The Role of Europe, China, and India
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The 21st century era of globalization has opened up many investment alternatives for Africa. There is now a rush by governments and private companies to expand in the rapidly growing region, to the extent that we can begin to talk of a process of world-wide investment. Both traditionally powerful...
Latin America
Management Education's Growth and Future Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Latin American business schools have grown in scale and quality in recent decades, yet they have received a relatively low level of attention globally when compared to schools from other parts of the world. This book seeks to address this dearth of attention and provide an in-depth examination of...
Africa
The Future of Management Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Africa is commonly perceived as a global growth region and a continent on the move, with a huge demand for managerial skills to ensure sustainable economic growth. In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the challenges to management education development in Africa, it is important to understand...
Governance and Regulations
Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Contemporary Issues in Economic and Financial Analysis 99 includes fourteen studies on contemporary issues within governance and regulations by authors invited from various universities and institutions. The chapters are a mix of discussion-based studies and empirical research studies aimed at understanding...
Gender, Sex, and Sexuality among Contemporary Youth
Generation Sex
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Researchers, practitioners, and parents have increasingly become concerned about issues related to sex, gender, and sexuality among children and adolescents. With access to the Internet, young people around the globe can readily obtain virtually any and all information they seek concerning sex and...
How Social Science Can Help Us Make Better Choices
Optimal Rationality in Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
In a world beset with problems, how can we encourage people to act differently? It seems almost daily that new studies emerge telling us how human action is causing planetary degradation, how changes to our diets could lead to us living longer healthier lives, or that financially we are in danger...
by Chris Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The potential for research evidence to improve educational policy and practice is immense. Yet internationally, research used by teachers and governments is currently sporadic rather than systematic. In response, this book brings together seven chapters that encompass a range of research projects...
Formalise, Prioritise and Mobilise
How School Leaders Secure the Benefits of Professional Learning Networks
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Professional learning networks (PLN) of teachers and others (such as university researchers) collaborating outside of their everyday community of practice are considered to be an effective way to foster school improvement. At the same time, to generate change, PLNs require effective support from...