Download or read book Innovate Bristol written by Sven Boermeester and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovate Bristol highlights and celebrates those companies and individuals that are actively working at building a better tomorrow for all. Innovation Ecosystems thrive through the involvement and support of companies and individuals from all industries, which is why the Innovate series not only focuses on the innovators but also those people whom the Innovation Ecosystem, would not be able to thrive without.

Download or read book Designing Successful e Learning written by Michael W. Allen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of six in Michael Allen’s e-Learning Library—a comprehensive collection of proven techniques for creating e-learning applications that achieve targeted behavioral outcomes through meaningful, memorable, and motivational learning experiences. This book examines common instructional design practices with a critical eye and recommends substituting success rather than tradition as a guide. Drawing from theory, research, and experience in learning and behavioral change, the author provides a framework for addressing a broader range of learner needs and achieving superior performance outcomes.

Download or read book Let s Read Together written by Andrea DeBruin-Parecki and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only tool to measure the quality of adult and child interactions during joint book reading, ACIRI helps parents promote the development of emergent literacy skills.;

Download or read book Who Gets What written by Frank Stilwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2007 book addresses important contemporary concerns about social justice. It presents detailed economic evidence, but analyses it in a manner that is engaging and readily accessible to the non-specialist reader. Who Gets What? examines what has been happening to incomes and wealth in Australia, what causes increased economic inequality, and the possibility of creating a more egalitarian society. It looks at who is rich, which social groups are still in poverty, and the policies that could redistribute income and wealth more effectively.

Download or read book Education Economy Society written by Salim Vally and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education, Economy & Society is a compelling and comprehensive antidote to the misconstrued nature of the relationship between education and society in South Africa. It provides a constructive critique of conventional discourses, but also alternative approaches to understanding the connections between education and the triple scourge of unemployment, inequality, and poverty. The book's contributors passionately argue that South African education finds its value and purpose in a focus on social justice, transformation, and democratic citizenship. The joy of education is to capture human imaginations and unleash their creativity towards a more humane and compassionate society. This rich resource explores the possibilities for a new pedagogy in post-school education and training through empirical research on skills, technology, and issues of employment on the shop floor; a critical analysis of the youth wage subsidy; and workers' education. The book will appeal to a wide audience including students and academics in the fields of industrial sociology, economics, adult education, further education and training, and those in youth development.

Download or read book E learning Tools and Technologies written by William Horton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-02-03 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to help you cut through the hype in order to select the best E-Learning tools and vendors for your specific needs With its ability to both reduce operating costs and train more people, E-Learning is an attractive option for companies that are trying to balance business and educational goals. But in order to implement an E-Learning program, you'll have to wade through hundreds of learning management systems, learning content management systems, authoring schools, and collaboration environments to determine what solution will work best for your situation. In this in-depth book, recognized E-Learning experts William and Katherine Horton survey the entire field of E-Learning tools for you. They provide you with a systematic way to identify, evaluate, and choose products and services based on different E-Learning scenarios. In this no-holds barred look at E-Learning tools, the authors: * Arm you with a complete list of questions to ask vendors before you commit to a product * Describe product limitations throughout each chapter and include special Rant sections that you must read * Present tips and tricks as well as common mistakes to avoid * List potential vendors and contact information by tool category The companion Web site contains design forms, checklists of features to look for in the various tool categories, spreadsheets, and lists of specific tools and vendors.

Download or read book Complexities written by John Law and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of contributors to offer—particularly within the field of science studies—approaches to a theory of complexity, and at the same time a theoretical introduction to the topic. Indeed, they examine not only ways of relating to complexity but complexity in practice. Individual essays study complexity from a variety of perspectives, addressing market behavior, medical interventions, aeronautical design, the governing of supranational states, ecology, roadbuilding, meteorology, the science of complexity itself, and the psychology of childhood trauma. Other topics include complex wholes (holism) in the sciences, moral complexity in seemingly amoral endeavors, and issues relating to the protection of African elephants. With a focus on such concepts as multiplicity, partial connections, and ebbs and flows, the collection includes narratives from Kenya, Great Britain, Papua New Guinea, the Netherlands, France, and the meetings of the European Commission, written by anthropologists, economists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and scholars of science, technology, and society. Contributors. Andrew Barry, Steven D. Brown, Michel Callon, Chunglin Kwa, John Law, Nick Lee, Annemarie Mol, Marilyn Strathern, Laurent Thévenot, Charis Thompson

Download or read book Building Theories of Organization written by Linda L. Putnam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the concept of communication as it applies to organizational theory. Bringing together multiple voices, it focuses on communication’s role in the constitution of organization. Editors Linda L. Putnam and Anne Maydan Nicotera have assembled an all-star cast of contributors, each providing a distinctive voice and perspective. The contents of this volume compare and contrast approaches to the notion that communication constitutes organization. Chapters also examine the ways that those processes produce patterns that endure over time and that constitute the organization as a whole. This collection bridges different disciplines and serves a vital role in developing dimensions, characteristics, and relationships among concepts that address how communication constitutes organization. It will appeal to scholars and researchers working in organizational communication, organizational studies, management, sociology, social collectives, and organizational psychology and behavior.

Download or read book Knowing in Organizations written by and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the relationship among knowing, learning and practice in the development of organizational knowledge, this book focuses on organizational learning as a collective, social and not entirely cognitive activity.

Download or read book The Situated Organization written by James R. Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Situated Organization explores recent research in organizational communication, emphasizing the organization as constructed in and emerging out of communication practices. Working from the tradition of the Montreal School in its approach, it focuses not only on how an organization’s members understand the purposes of the organization through communication, but also on how they realize and recognize the organization itself as they work within it. The text breaks through with an alternative viewpoint to the currently popular idea of 'organization-as-network,' viewing organization instead as a configuration of agencies, and their fields of practice. It serves as an original, comprehensive, and well-written text, elaborated by case studies that make the theory come to life. The substantial ideas and insights are presented in a deep and meaningful way while remaining comprehensible for student readers. This text has been developed for students at all levels of study in organizational communication, who need a systematic introduction to conducting empirical field research. It will serve as an invaluable sourcebook in planning and conducting research.

Download or read book The Myth of the Paperless Office written by Abigail J. Sellen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of why paper continues to fill our offices and a proposal for better coordination of the paper and digital worlds. Over the past thirty years, many people have proclaimed the imminent arrival of the paperless office. Yet even the World Wide Web, which allows almost any computer to read and display another computer's documents, has increased the amount of printing done. The use of e-mail in an organization causes an average 40 percent increase in paper consumption. In The Myth of the Paperless Office, Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper use the study of paper as a way to understand the work that people do and the reasons they do it the way they do. Using the tools of ethnography and cognitive psychology, they look at paper use from the level of the individual up to that of organizational culture. Central to Sellen and Harper's investigation is the concept of "affordances"—the activities that an object allows, or affords. The physical properties of paper (its being thin, light, porous, opaque, and flexible) afford the human actions of grasping, carrying, folding, writing, and so on. The concept of affordance allows them to compare the affordances of paper with those of existing digital devices. They can then ask what kinds of devices or systems would make new kinds of activities possible or better support current activities. The authors argue that paper will continue to play an important role in office life. Rather than pursue the ideal of the paperless office, we should work toward a future in which paper and electronic document tools work in concert and organizational processes make optimal use of both.

Download or read book Practice Led Research written by Josie Stainsby Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rhetoric in an Organizational Society written by George Cheney and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to speak with a collective voice? This is the central question addressed in Rhetoric in an Organizational Society. The author explains how in advanced industrial society many of the messages that individuals see and hear are associated with organizations of great size, resources, and power. Organizational messages take the forms of advertising, public relations, issue advocacy, doctrine, annual reports, policy statements, newsletters, declarations, and so forth. However, given an accustomed emphasis on the individual, citizens and scholars alike have difficulty interpreting messages that represent collectiveness.

Download or read book Communication and Organizational Knowledge written by Heather E. Canary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of communication-centered theory and research regarding organizational knowledge and learning. It brings the work of scholars in communication, management, information technology, and other disciplines together in a coherent volume that represents existing research and theory on communication-related knowledge work. Chapters address what constitutes knowledge, how knowledge functions within and across organizations, and how organizational members develop and manage knowledge for organizational purposes. The book also provides a forum for these scholars to pose directions for future research and theorizing. It will serve as a reference tool for scholars and practitioners to identify and understand communicative features of organizational knowledge processes.

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Download or read book GRH written by Patrice Laroche and published by De Boeck Superieur. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’ouvrage présente une synthèse pédagogique des fondements théoriques, des pratiques et des outils de la GRH. Il propose également une sélection d’études de cas et d’exercices corrigés permettant aux lecteurs de mettre en pratique les notions et outils présentés au fil des chapitres. La gestion des ressources humaines est un ensemble d’actions et de dispositifs permettant aux organisations de bénéficier des moyens humains nécessaires à l’atteinte de leurs objectifs. Pour ce faire, elle s’appuie sur des outils qui visent : - à garantir et maintenir l’adéquation entre les ressources et les besoins de main-d’œuvre ; - à susciter, évaluer et rétribuer les performances individuelles et collectives ; - à assurer la régulation de la relation d’emploi. L’ouvrage présente une synthèse pédagogique des fondements théoriques, des pratiques et des outils de la GRH. Il propose également une sélection d’études de cas et d’exercices corrigés permettant aux lecteurs de mettre en pratique les notions et outils présentés au fil des chapitres. Le volume est organisé en neuf chapitres couvrant l’ensemble des domaines de la fonction ressources humaines : recrutement, gestion des carrières, formation, évaluation des performances, rémunérations, système d’informations et digitalisation, contrôle de gestion sociale et concertation sociale. Ce livre s’adresse aux étudiants des Universités, des IAE et des Ecoles de management ou d’ingénieurs. Il intéressera également les cadres de la fonction RH et les managers qui y trouveront l’occasion d’éclairer leur propre expérience.

Download or read book Valoriser la performance RH written by Jean-Pierre Taïeb and published by Dunod. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piloter la performance des ressources humaines est un enjeu prioritaire pour tout responsable RH soucieux de mettre en œuvre de bonnes pratiques. Au-delà du respect des obligations légales, il s’agit d’évaluer l’efficacité des programmes RH dans un contexte de pression sur les coûts qui nécessite de mesurer en permanence le retour sur investissement. Il s’agit aussi d’évaluer la satisfaction des attentes des différents acteurs de l’entreprise, en particulier les collaborateurs. L’objectif de l’ouvrage est de permettre au professionnel RH de répondre à la question : la fonction ressources humaines coûte-t-elle trop cher, sait-elle répondre aux attentes stratégiques de l’entreprise et sait-elle traiter les nouvelles attentes des salariés ? La démarche est présentée de manière opérationnelle à l’aide de nombreux cas concrets, des retours d’expérience. L’objectif est de présenter ces stratégies RH comme un investissement et permettre d’en mesurer la « rentabilit頻.