Developing leaders for positive organizing

Leadership is not about individuals; it is a complex, relational, socially co-constructed and emergent process. This book brings together the latest thinking from business and positive psychology research to provide new insights into leadership, organizational development and change.

Developing leaders for real

Developing Leaders For Real: Proven approaches that deliver impact presents chapters from international experts analysing approaches to developing leaders that have actually delivered results, capturing how executives at all levels really learn to become better organizational leaders.

Developing multicultural leadership using knowledge dynamics and cultural intelligence

Combining organizational context, knowledge dynamics and cultural intelligence, the chapters here provide guidance on not only how to lead effectively in a multicultural context, but to leverage these global workforces to increase bottom-line results and improve employee satisfaction.

Developing people's information capabilities

Developing People's Information Capabilities: Fostering Information Literacy in Educational, Workplace and Community Contexts is Vol 8 of the well regarded Library and Information Science Series. This book hones in on accessible issues across different work and educational contexts and is of valu...

Developing power

Founders of the global women's movement share personal accounts about the trials and challenges of their work.

Developing practice guidelines for social work intervention

This book bridges the gap between social work knowledge and empirically based practice. Although there is a significant need for the use of empirically tested and verified knowledge in social work practice, the empirical basis of support is nearly absent from practitioners'considerations as they ...

Developing pronunciation teaching for international intelligibility

This book offers principled guidance for teachers and researchers in World English(es) and English as a Lingua Franca contexts on developing a feature-based approach to teaching English pronunciation for international intelligibility. Using Hong Kong English as a case study, it offers inquiry tas...

Developing public managers for a changing world

Volume 5 of Critical Perspectives in International Public Sector Management is comprised of three parts. The need for experimental learning in public management development, experimental learning formats and innovative teaching and transfer and value creation.

Developing self and self-concepts in early childhood education and beyond

Drawing on analysis of children at home and in school, including transcripts of conversations at home, and teachers’ notes based on their observations and response to each child’s school experiences, Bridie Raban presents a cutting-edge insight into the adjustment of the first experience of schoo...

Developing social competency in young children

Teach young children to navigate the seven Cs of social competency: communication, community building, coping, confidence, conflict resolution, control, and curiosity.

Developing the prosocial entrepreneur

The research underpinning this book shows that business owners want to know how they can use their entrepreneurial skills to ensure progress for themselves, the business, and society at a meaningful level.

Developing trauma-informed teachers

This book challenges traditional paradigms, encouraging educators to shift their perspectives from 'what is wrong with you?' to a holistic understanding of 'what has happened?' Explore essential tools, strategies, and approaches to empower teachers in creating safe, sustainable classroom environm...

Development and democracy: relations in conflict

Development and Democracy: Relations in Conflict examines the conflicting relations between technological development and democracy as they unfold in a new and ever more challenging environment.  

Development and dystopia

This book dissects—from both philosophical and empirical viewpoints—the peculiar developmental challenges, geopolitical contexts, and dystopic stalemates that post-Soviet societies face during their transition to new political and cultural orders. The principal geographical focus of the essays is...

Development cooperation in times of crisis

Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt. While productive in and of themselves, these solutions were effective because t...

Development economics

A landmark textbook on development economicsThe study of development in low-income countries is attracting more attention around the world than ever before. Yet until now there has been no comprehensive text that incorporates the recent huge strides made in the subject. Development Economics does...

Development in latin america

In Development in Latin America, Maristella Svampa explores the contemporary development and resistance dynamics of capitalist development — the workings (on people and societies) of the world capitalist system — in the context of Latin America, where these dynamics have had their most notable ou...

Development macroeconomics

The global financial crisis triggered severe shocks for developing countries, whose embrace of greater commercial and financial openness has increased their exposure to external shocks, both real and financial. This new edition of Development Macroeconomics has been fully revised to address the m...

Development of international entrepreneurship based on corporate accounting and reporting according to ifrs

Development of International Entrepreneurship based on Corporate Accounting and Reporting According to IFRS: Part B provides insights into practical experiences with IFRS application in corporate accounting and reporting adding to ongoing discussions on international trade development through IFR...

Development, democracy, and welfare states

This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman trace the historical origins of social policy in these regions to crucial political changes in the mid-twentieth century, and show how the legacies ...

Development, learning, and community

Development, Learning, and Community uses data drawn from a study of pluralistic Jewish high schools to illustrate the complex and often challenging interplay between the cognitive and socio-affective elements of education. Throughout, Kress grapples with questions such as: How can the balance be...

Developmental milestones of young children

Current developmental domains and improved strategies for assessing children’s progress

Developmental neuroscience

A concise introductory textbook on the development of the nervous systemThis textbook offers a concise introduction to the exciting field of developmental neuroscience, a discipline concerned with the mechanisms by which complex nervous systems emerge during embryonic growth. Bridging the divide ...

Developmental peace

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of China's role in international peacebuilding.

Developmental theories through the life cycle

In this bestselling textbook, contributors describe theories of normal human development advanced by such pioneers as Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Jean Piaget, Nancy Chodorow, Daniel Levinson, Erik Erikson, and Margaret Mahler. Beginning with infancy, toddlerhood, and preschool, each chapter examin...

Developmentalist cities?

Bringing together inter-disciplinary research into the subject of urban developmentalism, this indispensable collection fills gaps in research on both East Asian developmentalism and urbanization.

Developmentally appropriate practice

Filled with information and inspiration for applying DAP in your work with children in grades 1–3.

Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs serving children from birth through age 8, fourth edition (fully revised and updated)

Clear, Relevant, Evidence-Based Guidance to Support Early Childhood Educators*Academic's Choice Awards Smart Book Winner*Developmentally appropriate practice is the foundation on which quality early learning is built. The fourth edition of this classic, influential text addresses developmentally ...

Developments in sustainable manufacturing management

The book examines Sustainable Industrial Development (SID) and Inclusive Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID) initiatives, and how these can contribute to the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.

Devi

The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have severely limited the portrayal of the divine as feminine. But in Hinduism "God" very often means "Goddess." This extraordinary collection explores twelve different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the...

Devil in the stack

From internationally-bestselling author and journalist Andrew Smith, an immersive, alarming, sharp-eyed journey into the bizarre world of computer code, told through his sometimes painful, often amusing attempt to become a coder himself Throughout history, technological revolutions have been dri...

Devilfish

Devops for trustworthy smart iot systems

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This book reports on the ENACT project work to empower the development and operation as well as the continuous and agile evolution of Smart IoT Systems.

Devoted to nature

Devoted to Nature explores the religious underpinnings of American environmentalism, tracing the theological character of American environmental thought from its Romantic foundations to contemporary nature spirituality. During the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, religious sources were centra...

Devotion to the administrative state

Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practiceOver the past decade alone, religious communities around the world have demanded state recognition, exemption, accommodation, or protection. They make these appeals both in s...

Dewey and education in the 21st century

This book makes a strong case for the abiding relevance of Dewey’s notion of learning through experience, with a community of others, and what this implies for democratic 21st century education. Curricular and policy contexts in Spain, Cameroon, the US and the UK, explore what reading Dewey contr...

Dexter and philosophy

What explains the huge popular following for Dexter, currently the most-watched show on cable, which sympathetically depicts a serial killer driven by a cruel compulsion to brutally slay one victim after another? Although Dexter Morgan kills only killers, he is not a vigilante animated by a sens...

Di-bayn-di-zi-win (to own ourselves)

Explores an Ojibway-Anishinabe world view and way of life through the cultural, political, social, and academic events in Canada over the past fifty years.