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Meeting Expectations in Management Education: Social And Environmental Pressures On Managerial Behaviour
by Elizabeth ChristopherThis book brings together a variety of international, cross-cultural case studies of management education programmes and discusses the results in light of the present higher social expectations on managerial behaviour. It presents both traditional and unusual approaches to management education, examining concept mapping, transformational learning theory, the practice-theory gap, cultural indoctrination and business students’ increased concern with socio-ecological sustainability. It moves from restating the purpose of university business schools to discussing the construction of conducive learning environments on introductory courses and of communities of learning through ‘harmonised teaching’. In addressing the social and ethical problems that will soon confront all managers, Meeting Expectations is a valuable resource for teachers, students and practitioners.
Meeting Funder Compliance
by Paul Steinberg Sandraluz Lara-CinisomoFunders financially support nonprofit organizations to further mutual goals of implementing programs and providing services; as such, nonprofits must meet certain compliance requirements. This case study, the first of its kind, examines the management processes of one nonprofit as it strives to meet funder compliance requirements, and presents recommendations and survey instruments to assess and improve the quality and efficiency of these processes.
Meeting Global Challenges
by Charles W. WessnerWhile nations have always competed for territory, mineral riches, water, and other physical assets, they compete most vigorously today for technology-based innovations and the value that flows from them. Much of this value is based on creating scientific knowledge and transforming it into new products and services for the market. This process of innovation is complex and interdisciplinary. Sometimes it draws on the genius of individuals, but even then it requires sustained collective effort, often underpinned by significant national investments. Capturing the value of these investments to spur domestic economic growth and employment is a challenge in a world where the outputs of innovation disseminate rapidly. Those equipped to understand, apply, and profit from new knowledge and technical advances are increasingly able to capture the long-term economic benefits of growth and employment. In response to this new, more distributed innovation paradigm, the National Academies Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) convened leading academics, business leaders, and senior policymakers from Germany and the United States to examine the strengths and challenges of their innovation systems. More specifically, they met to compare their respective approaches to innovation, to learn from their counterparts about best practices and shared challenges, and to identify cooperative opportunities. The symposium was held in Berlin and organized jointly by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and the U. S. National Academies with support of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) and the American Embassy in Berlin. Both U. S. and German participants described common challenges on a wide variety of issues ranging from energy security and climate change to low-emissions transportation, early-stage financing, and workforce training. While recognizing their differences in approach to these challenges, participants on both sides drew out valuable lessons from each other's policies and practices. Participants were also aware of the need to adapt to a new global environment where many countries have focused new policy measures and new resources to support innovative firms and promising industries. Meeting Global Challenges: U. S. -German Innovation Policy reviews the participants meeting and sets goals and recommendations for future policy.
Meeting Globalization's Challenges: Policies to Make Trade Work for All
by Maurice Obstfeld Luís CatãoLeading economists propose solutions to the problems of globalizationGlobalization has expanded economic opportunities throughout the world, but it has also left many people feeling dispossessed, disenfranchised, and angry. Luís Catão and Maurice Obstfeld bring together some of today's top economists to assess the benefits, costs, and daunting policy challenges of globalization. This timely and accessible book combines incisive analyses of the anatomy of globalization with innovative and practical policy ideas that can help to make it work better for everyone.Meeting Globalization's Challenges draws on new research to examine the channels through which international trade and the diffusion of technology have enhanced the wealth of nations while also producing unequal benefits within and across countries. The book provides needed perspectives on the complex interplay of trade, deindustrialization, inequality, and the troubling surge of nationalism and populism—perspectives that are essential for crafting sound economic policies. It tackles the vexing issue of how to most effectively compensate globalization's losers and reintegrate them into job markets. The book also explores how to design social insurance policies that can mitigate the risks posed by automation and offshoring, such as mass unemployment and its inherent dangers to democracy.With a foreword by International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and a history-rich synthesis by Catão and Obstfeld of main policy takeaways, Meeting Globalization’s Challenges features contributions by Ufuk Akcigit, Edward Alden, François Bourguignon, Angus Deaton, Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Jeffry Frieden, Gordon H. Hanson, Keyu Jin, Lori G. Kletzer, Anne Krueger, Paul Krugman, Nina Pavcnik, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Dani Rodrik, Michael Trebilcock, Laura D. Tyson, Martin Wolf, and Ernesto Zedillo.
Meeting God Face to Face: Daily Encouragement to Seek His Presence and Favor
by Bill JohnsonPURSUE A LIFE DEVOTED TO THE PRESENCE OF GOD Did you know that you have the same access to God the Father that Jesus has? Meeting God Face to Face is a 365-day devotional based on Bill Johnson&’s best-selling book Face to Face With God. Each day&’s reflection contains a Scripture verse, a short reading, a highlighted point to ponder, and lines for journaling. Much of the content of this devotional and its companion book, Face to Face With God, was first preached by Bill Johnson in 2002. This message became his whole life—a life devoted to discovering and hosting the presence of God. Pursuing this goal has been costly, but it did not prevent him from making it his sole reason for living. If you desire to grow in intimacy with God and develop a stronger sense of and appreciation for His presence, this book is for you! Deepen your relationship with God by pursuing His favor and continuing the spiritual journey you started through Face to Face With God.
Meeting Needs: NGO Coordination in Practice
by Jon BennettThis critical analysis of aid organizations illustrates the expanding role of NGOs in international relief operations, and highlights the problems confronted by humanitarian groups. The book presents an overview of recent trends in the international relief community. Various relief operations are compared, to demonstrate why NGO co-ordination has become such an important issue. Case studies show how enhanced international co-ordination could improve the overall performance of NGOs and the United Nations.
Meeting Wise: Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Educators
by Kathryn Parker Boudett Elizabeth A. CityThis book, by two editors of Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning, attempts to bring about a fundamental shift in how educators think about the meetings we attend. They make the case that these gatherings are potentially the most important venue where adult and organizational learning can take place in schools, and that making more effective use of this time is the key to increasing student achievement. <p><p> In Meeting Wise, the authors show why meeting planning is a high-leverage strategy for changing how people work together in the service of school improvement. To this end, they have created a meeting-planning “checklist” to develop a common language for discussing and improving the quality of meetings. In addition, they provide guidelines for readers on “wise facilitating” and “wise participating,” and also include “top tips” and common dilemmas. <p> Simple, succinct, and practical, Meeting Wise is designed to be read and applied at every level of the educational enterprise: district leadership meetings with central office staff, charter-school management summits, principals’ meetings with teachers, professional development sessions, teacher-team meetings, and even teachers’ meetings with parents and students.
Meeting Wise: Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Educators
by Kathryn Parker Boudett Elizabeth A. CityThis book, by two editors of Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning, attempts to bring about a fundamental shift in how educators think about the meetings we attend. They make the case that these gatherings are potentially the most important venue where adult and organizational learning can take place in schools, and that making more effective use of this time is the key to increasing student achievement. In Meeting Wise, the authors show why meeting planning is a high-leverage strategy for changing how people work together in the service of school improvement. To this end, they have created a meeting-planning &“checklist&” to develop a common language for discussing and improving the quality of meetings. In addition, they provide guidelines for readers on &“wise facilitating&” and &“wise participating,&” and also include &“top tips&” and common dilemmas. Simple, succinct, and practical, Meeting Wise is designed to be read and applied at every level of the educational enterprise: district leadership meetings with central office staff, charter-school management summits, principals&’ meetings with teachers, professional development sessions, teacher-team meetings, and even teachers&’ meetings with parents and students.
Meeting at Grand Central: Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation
by Beth L. Leech Lee CronkA revolutionary approach to the study of cooperation that unites evolutionary biology and the social sciencesFrom the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be—snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ignored. The benefits to oneself of a free ride on the efforts of others mean that collective goals often are not met. But compared to most other species, people actually cooperate a great deal. Why is this?Meeting at Grand Central brings together insights from evolutionary biology, political science, economics, anthropology, and other fields to explain how the interactions between our evolved selves and the institutional structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation, coordination, and collective action. The book persuasively argues that cooperation and its failures are best explained by evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms, and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation.Meeting at Grand Central will inspire researchers from different disciplines and intellectual traditions to share ideas and advance our understanding of cooperative behavior in a world that is more complex than ever before.
Meeting the Challenge of 9/11: Blueprints for More Effective Government
by Thomas H. Stanton9/11 revealed serious public sector shortcomings in such areas as border security and immigration control, cybersecurity, and first responses to hostile acts. This book focuses on how to make government more effective, especially in our post-9/11 era of heightened concern for national and homeland security. "Meeting the Challenge of 9/11" is a top-to-bottom guidebook for improving government organization and performance. While it specifically addresses the key issues of homeland security (biodefense, border security, immigration control, and infrastructure protection), it has a broader agenda - the renewal of an effective, well-managed government. The chapter authors have extensive senior-level experience in managing government organizations or in analyzing government organization and management. Most are Fellows of the National Academy of Public Administration and active participants in NAPA's Standing Panel on Executive Organization and Management.
Meeting the Challenge of Human Resource Management: A Communication Perspective
by Michael E. Gordon Vernon D. MillerWhile communicating is a vital skill for managers at all organizational levels and in all functional areas, human resource managers are expected to be especially adept communicators, given the important interpersonal component of their roles. Practitioners and scholars alike stand to benefit from incorporating an updated and more nuanced view of communication theory and practice into standard human resource management practices. This book compiles readings by thought leaders in human resource management and communication, exploring the intersection of interests, theories, and perspectives from the two fields to highlight new opportunities for research and practice. In addition to covering the foundations of strategic human resource management, the book: offers a critical review of the research literature on topics including recruitment, selection, performance management, compensation, and development uses a communication perspective to analyze the impact of corporate strategy on human resource systems investigates the key human resource management topic of the relationship between a company's human capital and its effectiveness directly discusses the implications of communication literature for human resource management practice Written at the cross-section of two established and critcally linked fields, this book is a must-have for graduate human resource management and organizational communication students, as well as for high-level human resource management practitioners.
Meeting the Diversity Challenge at PepsiCo: The Steve Reinemund Era
by David A. Thomas Stephanie J. CrearyThis case profiles PepsiCo's diversity journey under the leadership of former chairman and CEO Steve Reinemund who instituted diversity as one of the company's strategic imperatives. It demonstrates the ways in which Reinemund partnered with his leadership team and employees throughout the organization to make diversity a key factor in PepsiCo's culture and performance. It also reveals how, regardless of the success, PepsiCo employees were openly speculating what it would mean for the diversity strategy that Reinemund would be turning the helm of PepsiCo over to Indra Nooyi, a 50-year old Indian-born woman, who would need to find her own voice and approach to leading the company and its diversity efforts.
Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow
by Craig E. JohnsonEthics is at the heart of leadership. All leaders assume ethical burdens and must make every effort to make informed ethical decisions and foster ethical behavior among followers. The Sixth Edition of Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow explores the ethical demands of leadership and the dark side of leadership. Author Craig E. Johnson takes a multidisciplinary approach to leadership ethics, drawing from many fields of research to help readers make moral decisions, lead in a moral manner, and create an ethical culture. Packed with real-world case studies, examples, self-assessments, and applications, this fully-updated new edition is designed to increase students’ ethical competence and leadership abilities.
Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow
by Craig E. JohnsonEthics is at the heart of leadership. All leaders assume ethical burdens and must make every effort to make informed ethical decisions and foster ethical behavior among followers. The Sixth Edition of Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow explores the ethical demands of leadership and the dark side of leadership. Author Craig E. Johnson takes a multidisciplinary approach to leadership ethics, drawing from many fields of research to help readers make moral decisions, lead in a moral manner, and create an ethical culture. Packed with real-world case studies, examples, self-assessments, and applications, this fully-updated new edition is designed to increase students’ ethical competence and leadership abilities.
Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow
by Craig E. JohnsonUsing the metaphor of light or shadow, Craig E. Johnson shows how leaders have the power to do significant good or harm. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to leadership ethics, and balancing theory and research with opportunities for application, the book provides self-assessments, cases and films to analyze, and exploration exercises.
Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow
by Craig E. JohnsonEthics is at the heart of leadership. All leaders assume ethical burdens and must make every effort to make informed ethical decisions and foster ethical behavior among followers. The Seventh Edition of Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow explores the ethical demands of leadership and the dark side of leadership. Author Craig E. Johnson takes a multidisciplinary approach, drawing from many fields of research to help readers make ethical decisions, lead with integrity, and create an ethical culture. Packed with real-world case studies, examples, self-assessments, and applications, this fully-updated new edition is designed to increase students&’ ethical competence and leadership abilities.
Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow
by Craig E. JohnsonEthics is at the heart of leadership. All leaders assume ethical burdens and must make every effort to make informed ethical decisions and foster ethical behavior among followers. The Seventh Edition of Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow explores the ethical demands of leadership and the dark side of leadership. Author Craig E. Johnson takes a multidisciplinary approach, drawing from many fields of research to help readers make ethical decisions, lead with integrity, and create an ethical culture. Packed with real-world case studies, examples, self-assessments, and applications, this fully-updated new edition is designed to increase students&’ ethical competence and leadership abilities.
Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow
by Craig E. JohnsonEthics is at the heart of leadership. Leaders must make every effort to make ethical decisions and foster ethical behavior among followers. The seventh edition of Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow 8th edition explores the ethical demands of leadership and the dark side of leadership. Bestselling author Craig E. Johnson takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from many fields of research to help readers make ethical decisions, lead with integrity, and create an ethical culture. Packed with dozens of real-world case studies, examples, self-assessments, and applications, this fully-updated new edition is designed to increase students’ ethical competence and leadership abilities.
Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow
by Craig E. JohnsonEthics is at the heart of leadership. Leaders must make every effort to make ethical decisions and foster ethical behavior among followers. The seventh edition of Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow 8th edition explores the ethical demands of leadership and the dark side of leadership. Bestselling author Craig E. Johnson takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from many fields of research to help readers make ethical decisions, lead with integrity, and create an ethical culture. Packed with dozens of real-world case studies, examples, self-assessments, and applications, this fully-updated new edition is designed to increase students’ ethical competence and leadership abilities.
Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow, 4th Edition
by Craig E. JohnsonUsing the metaphor of light or shadow, Craig E. Johnson shows how leaders have the power to do significant good or harm. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to leadership ethics, and balancing theory and research with opportunities for application, the book provides self-assessments, cases and films to analyze, and exploration exercises.
Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow, 5th Edition
by Craig E. JohnsonMeeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow, Fifth Edition identifies the unique ethical demands of leadership and equips readers to meet these challenges. Written in a conversational, accessible style, author Craig E. Johnson takes an interdisciplinary approach to leadership ethics while blending research and theory with practical application. This unique text offers a realistic look at the "dark side of leadership"-- metaphors of shadow and light are woven throughout the text as a creative pedagogical tool--and promotes ethical decision-making and action through skill development, self-assessment, and application exercises.
Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT: A Guide to the ITTNC
by Steve Higgins Nick PackardThis practical guide to using ICT in the primary classroom addresses all the concerns of student teachers and provides plenty of ideas and advice on how to incorporate ICT into classroom practice on a daily basis. The authors bring together theory and practice to help prospective and new teachers acquire and develop the skills required for using ICT effectively.Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT is split into three sections which will: help assess the readers' ICT skills, knowledge and understanding discuss ways of incorporating ICT for teaching across the primary curriculum help the reader to think about ICT and their own professional learning and development. This book will be an invaluable resource for all student teachers on primary training courses, lecturers and mentors supporting trainees on these courses and newly qualified teachers (NQTs).
Meetings - das überfällige Praxishandbuch: Lösungen für erfolgreiche Besprechungen
by Bernd SteffensBernd Steffens bietet ein ganzheitliches und umfassendes Buch zum Thema Meetings. Ausgehend von der vorhandenen Führungs-Un-kultur in Unternehmen werden die Möglichkeiten der Entwicklung einer optimalen Besprechungskultur dargestellt, in der die Rahmenbedingungen einerseits und die Person des Moderators im Umgang mit Autorität, Emotionen, Konflikten und geeigneten Methoden zur kooperativen Entscheidungsfindung andererseits zentral sind. Denn das beste Handwerkszeug taugt nichts, wenn die Besprechungskultur nicht stimmt und die Haltung des Moderators ungeeignet ist. Themen sind weiterhin die Auseinandersetzung mit bekannten Meeting-Mythen, die richtige Planung und Entscheidungsprozesse. Meetings werden in dem Maße besser, wie Führungskräfte / Moderatoren diese nicht über autoritären Stil (Befehlsketten, Menschen als Maschine) führen, sondern als soziales Netzwerk ernst nehmen, in dem auch emotionale Belange moderiert und zur Auflösung geführt werden. Im Buch wird lösungsorientiert das Grundproblem angegangen, dass das Verhalten der Teilnehmer oft von Angst (vor Misserfolg, vor Autorität, vor Gesichtsverlust), Ärger (über Abteilungs- und Claimdenken, über eigene unberücksichtigte Bedürfnisse, über das Verhalten anderer) und Eitelkeiten (Beiträge dienen der Selbstdarstellung, Rechthaberei herrscht vor, mangelnde Vorbereitung wird maskiert) geprägt ist. Wird damit konstruktiv umgegangen, helfen auch die genauso wichtigen Handwerkszeuge, zum Beispiel zur Entscheidungsfindung, damit das Meeting zum gewünschten Erfolg führt.
Meetings That Get Results (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
by Brian TracyLearn how to make meetings shorter, more effective, and more satisfying to everyone in attendance!In most workplaces today, meetings have become dreaded, meaningless, and at best, a necessary evil. Neither should be acceptable to management. All meetings should be powerful tools for solving problems, making decisions, exchanging ideas, and getting results fast.What is the secret to turning pointless into production? Based on years of experience consulting for companies around the world, Brian Tracy has learned firsthand what works in meetings and what doesn&’t.In Meetings That Get Results, Tracy will help you learn how to:Structure different types of meetingsEstablish meeting prioritiesSet an achievable agendaSummarize discussion points and decisionsGain agreement on action steps, assign responsibility, and set deadlinesMaximize the return on time invested, and much more!When you are leading a meeting, both your superiors and your subordinates are assessing your performance. This invaluable pocket-sized guide reveals simple, proven ideas for managers and other leaders to impress your coworkers with your improved skills.Meetings That Get Results shows you how to use structure, purpose, presentations, and more to make your performances more effective and compelling.
Meetings That Get Results: A Facilitator's Guide to Building Better Meetings
by Terrence MetzA comprehensive guide to designing and running meetings that use time effectively, encourage collaboration, and yield measurably improved outcomes. There&’s nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting—except when it leads to another unproductive meeting. This book offers a structured method to ensure that meetings will produce clear and actionable results, whether they occur in person or online. Best of all, these productive and profitable meetings will ultimately lead to fewer meetings. Management expert Terrence Metz shares a significant edge by: Empowering readers to help their groups create, innovate, and break through the barriers of miscommunication, politics, and intolerance Making it easier for them to help others forge consensus and shared understanding Providing them with proven agenda steps, tools, and detailed procedures Readers will learn how to handle common problems, inspire creativity, and transfer ownership of meetings to their participants while managing interpersonal conflicts and other disruptions that arise. In a world of back-to-back meetings, this book explains the how-to details behind game-changing tools and techniques.