Higher education, tertiary education

As individuals, we can be creative and ambitious in both our personal and professional lives.

Shortages and downtime are deadly for businesses.

This book, originally published in 1985, examines the practical effects of management buy-outs in terms of improvements in financial and managerial performance and sets them in their general theoretical context.

What is FIT Teaching?

This book presents a comprehensive account of the educational experiences of community college students in Hong Kong, analyzed through a theoretical lens that intersects sociological theories of inequality, including Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital.

"e;This definitive work on HR competencies provides ideas and tools that help HR professionals develop their career and make their organization effective.

"e;A fascinating litany of the mistakes that can happen when buyers get it wrong"e; - Luke Johnson, The Sunday Times"e;Packed full with amazing examples' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2"e;Colossal, costly disasters could be averted if those holding the purse strings read this book.

Supervisory Studies: Technical Aspects of Supervision focuses on the technical aspects of management and their relationship to the job of the foreman.

Nach etwa einem Drittel der Schlaganfälle entwickeln die Betroffenen einen Neglect: Sie verhalten sich so, als ob eine Raum- und Körperhälfte für sie nicht mehr existiere – so als haben sie sie einfach vergessen.

Demand for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Malaysia has been growing extensively, involving various involvement from industry and academia.

This essential guide offers a practical framework for developing a successful Post-Secondary Education (PSE) program for students with intellectual disabilities-one of the fastest-growing areas in higher education.

This new, revised, and expanded edition of the popular Academic's Handbook is an essential guide for those planning or beginning an academic career.

In a deeply unequal world, our economic status shapes our pursuit of virtue whether we have enough resources to live comfortably or struggle to surviveOur understanding of inequality as a moral problem is incomplete.

This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to those who have worked for many years in industry, illustrating key principles that will secure higher quality, more sustainable design in accessible, jargon-free language.

Featuring fifteen new essays, this book is the only volume devoted to a scholarly study of Kant''s lectures on ethics.

This collection brings together pedagogical memoirs on significant topics regarding teaching race in college, including student resistance, whiteness, professor identity, and curricula.

This book takes up the challenge of examining the thorniest educational issue from a global perspective.

AP Teachers' #1 Choice!

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the similarities and differences of contemporary human resource management systems, processes and practices in the two increasingly important economic great powers in Asia.

This second edition of Developing Organizational Simulations provides a concise source of information on effective and practical methods for constructing simulation exercises for the assessment of psychological characteristics relevant to effectiveness in work organizations.

The definitive guide for people wanting to make a positive difference in the world.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning to Read brings together different disciplinary perspectives and studies on reading for all those who seek to extend and enrich the current practice, research and policy debates.

Patient Safety: Perspectives on Evidence, Information and Knowledge Transfer provides background on the patient safety movement, systems safety, human error and other key philosophies that support change and innovation in the reduction of medical error.

This book addresses what teachers and school leaders from a dozen countries see as the social and emotional strengths, interests and needs of adolescents in their schools and communities; how they innovate their programs and practices to respond to their students' lives.

A military journalist shines a light on the unsung heroism and contributions of enlisted combat reporters in the Vietnam War in these revealing interviews.

Dieses Fachbuch richtet sich an junge Führungskräfte, denen es ein hilfreicher, wegweisender Begleiter durch den Führungsalltag sein will.

Information and its management is central to modern society.

Through its unique theoretical framework - a cultural understanding of teaching and learning - this book develops a new way of understanding educational improvement, one which focuses on the formation and transformation of the practices through which students learn.

In the last few decades, managerial and business studies have shown an increasing inability to explain and forecast emergent dynamics in society, economics, and the environment.

Digital Technology and the Contemporary University examines the often messy realities of higher education in the 'digital age'.

An inspiring, practical and progress-oriented blueprint for energetic achievement.

Teaching is becoming increasingly complex in the 21st Century, creating a need for more sophisticated frameworks to support teachers' professional learning.

In this volume, Richard Hiers challenges the popular assumption that the Bible has a low view of women and that biblical law either ignores women or requires them to be subject and subservient to men.

Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries takes an integrated look at HRM policies and practices in the tourism and hospitality industries.

How can we transform the school experience for all stakeholders?

Since the mid-1980s, the development of competitive strategies based on intensive innovation has deeply transformed the design of new products and services.

Today's digital economy is uniquely dependent on the Internet, yet few users or decision makers have more than a rudimentary understanding of the myriad of online risks that threaten us.

Advances in digital technology have driven large decreases in the costs of data transfer and telecommunications.

This book covers a variety of topics in material, mechanical, and management engineering, especially in the area of machine design, product assembly, measurement systems, process planning and quality control.

Fraud: The Counter Fraud Practitioner's Handbook looks at fraud investigation methods and explores the practical options for preventing and remedying fraud.

Markets in Third World countries are growing rapidly and in the next several decades will offer tremendous business opportunities.

Examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job through an Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective.

President Bush's number-one management initiative for the federal government is the Strategic Management of Human Capital.

Welcher Zusammenhang besteht zwischen der Entwicklung von Kompetenz in der Hochschullehre und den Bedingungen, unter denen diese Kompetenzen umgesetzt werden?