Educational strategies and policy

Written by an internationally renowned team of experts and underpinned by cutting-edge research, International Human Resource Management tackles a broad range of controversial and often marginalised issues associated with globalisation and its impact on multinational companies and employees.

Planning in Reverse is an innovative concept designed to make organizations more successful by altering the perspective utilized in the strategy process.

What is the link between scholarship and democracy?

"e;The Politics of Educational Decentralisation in Indonesia: A Quest for Legitimacy is a well written, analytically sharp, and compelling study of educational decentralisation in Indonesia.

This book empowers teachers to support student activists.

In an unpredictable world, how do we go about supporting leaders to develop more democratic and inclusive ways of working and living?

Unlocking Business is a new kind of textbook for business students in their first and second year of a degree.

Greta Thunberg.

Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Girls in Patriarchal SocietiesSince 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh.

The author takes a long look at what goes on in schools, and the roles played by people specifically concerned with them: but finally the problems of the school are seen as indissolubly bound up with the changes that have overtaken urban life.

This book brings critical perspectives towards questions of how precarity and precariousness affect the work of leaders and educators in schools and universities around the world.

Gruppentherapie gewinnt in Kliniken und Praxen zunehmend an Bedeutung: Sie hat gegenüber der Einzeltherapie zusätzliche Wirkfaktoren und ist insbesondere als verhaltenstherapeutische Gruppentherapie sehr gut evidenzbasiert.

Diversity at Work: The Practice of Inclusion How can organizations, their leaders, and their people benefit from diversity?

Social scientists and legal scholars from different disciplines and perspectives explore the intersection of labor and democracy.

New edition of a classic guide to ensuring effective organizational performance Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of Managing and Measuring Performance in Public and Nonprofit Organizations is a comprehensive resource for designing and implementing effective performance management and measurement systems in public and nonprofit organizations.

Public Service Motivation (PSM) beschreibt eine besondere Motivation von Mitarbeitenden im öffentlichen Dienst, auch ohne externe Anreize einen Beitrag zum Gemeinwohl leisten zu wollen.

Der Fehlzeitenreport 2000 stellt auf der Grundlage umfassender Datenbestände der AOK ausführlich und verständlich die Ausfallzeiten in der deutschen Wirtschaft dar.

The concept of "e;funds of knowledge"e; is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge.

School playtimes account for 20% of a child's school life, but how can schools ensure that this time is as beneficial as possible for primary school pupils?

Extraordinary performance from ordinary people is a must read for the high performing manager with the ambition to reach corporate leadership status.

Is educational research chasing the trends one can observe in big sciences, mimicking what happens, some would say successfully, elsewhere in academia?

International literacy assessments have provided ample data for ranking nations, charting growth, and casting blame.

Learning and Teaching in the Early Years provides a comprehensive, practical introduction to early childhood teaching in Australia.

The pandemic wave of Covid 19 made many organizations in different sectors rethink their business strategy.

This book addresses a significant gap in the research literature on transitions across the school years: the continuities and discontinuities in school literacy education and their implications for practice.

How we provide equal educational opportunity to an increasingly diverse, highly urbanized student population is one of the central concerns facing our nation.

This book offers strategies for the transfer of knowledge through combining information technology and visual arts, and examining how to visually enhance and convey knowledge.

Given the urgency of environmental problems, how we communicate about our ecological relations is crucial.

Originally published in 1996 Religious Higher Education in the United States looks at the issue of higher education and a lack of a clearly articulated purpose, an issue particularly challenging to religiously-affiliated institutions.

Globalization, European integration, and migration are challenging national identities and changing education across Europe.

How can learning initiatives contribute to employee and organizational success?

This volume places Social Innovation between Human Resource Management (HRM) and Technology.

Design for Wellbeing charts the development and application of design research to improve the personal and societal wellbeing and happiness of people.

Are cultural centers ethnic enclaves of segregation, or safe havens that provide minority students with social support that promotes persistence and retention?

Reflection is a critical skill which can enhance the quality of our professional and domestic lives.

This book focuses on the partnership between nursing and human resource management in hospital administration.

In A Place for Wonder, Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough discuss how to create a landscape of wonder, a primary classroom where curiosity, creativity, and exploration are encouraged.

Equipped with the #1 guide to help kids (and their parents) with science homework, students will be able to quickly find the definitions and illustrated examples that will enable them to solve many of the science challenges they face.

Global rankings and the Geopolitics of Higher Education is an examination of the impact and influence that university rankings have had on higher education, policy and public opinion in recent years.

Originally published in 1972.

Readings for Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module is highly recommended for use by teacher-educators and professional development specialists who use Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module.

This book offers a critical and deconstructive account of global discourses on education, arguing that these overblown 'hypernarratives' are neither economically, technically nor philosophically defensible.

This book develops and applies a unified interpretation of John Rawls' theory of justice as fairness in order to clarify the account of citizenship that Rawls relies upon, and the kind of educational policies that the state can legitimately pursue to promote social justice.

 This book presents the findings of three studies on the use of diagrams in civic education.

This original and ambitious work provides a fascinating examination of organizations from both a post-modern and new organizational economics perspective.

Through a witty and engaging style the author invites readers to consider their character authenticity at work.