Download or read book Caring Leadership in Turbulent Times written by Mary G. Green and published by IAP. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes education reform through the eyes of those entrenched in the process—policy makers, administrators, middle managers, principals, and teachers—in the context of care. A senior administrator, who participated in the implementation of an unprecedented series of reforms that flattened the education system in a Canadian province and rebuilt it with a new mandate, examines learning from the shortcomings of the past and provides a critical enquiry that can help determine the success or failure of future reform efforts by shedding light on the obstacles to avoid, problems to correct, and methods to embrace in order to overcome hurt and disappointment in a turbulent environment and foster more caring and effective educational organizations. Few attempts have been made to write a book about women’s work from the perspective of those in senior leadership roles in education; others have written about it but not experienced it firsthand. This book illuminates the controversial debate between women and gender in education and challenges assumptions about equity and the caring and democratic nature of education. It contributes to a broader understanding and knowledge of the complexities of leadership work within education, which in turn can lead to improvement in professional relationships as well as organizational effectiveness. The book contains enlightening and compelling stories about the unique and shared experiences of people navigating turbulence within an organization. Author Mary Green draws on her career spent teaching and learning to provide a unique Canadian perspective and context. She offers a rigorous self, social, historical, and political reflection of educators, who despite experiencing particular challenges, draw purpose from faith in the possibilities and potential of more caring practice in education. The content will prove useful to those committed to infusing more humanity into work in education with reference to individuals, institutions, and the social and political challenges in the field. Specifically, this book is relevant to graduate students in faculties of education, policy makers, principals, other administrators, and organizational leaders. Universal issues of power and politics reveal interconnections between the personal and the global workplace, underscoring the importance of care in the workplace.
Download or read book Delivering Policy Reform written by Evert A. Lindquist and published by Anu E Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predictable and unpredictable challenges continually confront the policy settings and policy frameworks of governments. They provide a constantly changing dynamic within which policy-making operates. Governments at all levels are asking their public services to identify innovative and workable reforms to anticipate and address these challenges. Public service leaders around the world are struggling not only to better anticipate emerging demands but also to address reform backlogs. However, time and time again, major policy reforms can prove tough to implement - especially in turbulent environments - and even tougher to anchor over time. This leads to considerable uncertainty and inefficiency as governments and policy communities try to keep pace with change. Policies that unravel or are dismantled are costly and represent wasted opportunities. They lead to cynicism about the effectiveness of governments and public service advice more generally, making it more difficult to deal with other emerging challenges. This volume of proactive essays on delivering policy reform offers an intriguing blend of strategic policy advice and management insight. It brings together a diverse range of highquality contributors from overseas as well as from Australia and New Zealand - including national political leaders, public service executives, heads of independent agencies, and leading international scholars.
Download or read book Media Reforms in Turbulent Times written by Davor Marko and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Policy in Turbulent Times written by Paul Axelrod and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can higher education policy-making be imaginatively theorized?
Download or read book Health Reforms in Turbulent Times written by I. Dudnikova and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reforming Corporate Governance for Turbulent Times written by Arkadiusz Radwan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial crises usually trigger off demands for stricter rules, better compliance and improved risk management. But this always comes at a cost. Imposing burdens with the view to improve internal control and risk management has much of the buying stability with the money of shareholders. In theory, shareholders buy risk for prospects of future return while executive officers trade their possibly adventurous mindset against job stability and their managerial reputation. But in practice it seems to have a different outcome, which does not quite fit with the efficient market hypothesis. The continuing financial crisis makes it increasingly difficult to seriously deny that something went wrong. But is it also a failure of corporate governance? If so, what are the implications for the European reform agenda? Is there actually a need for a new European legislation on corporate groups?Whatsoever new requirements are being proposed, the arguments in favour of new legislation must be balanced against increased reporting costs burdening companies. The situation consisting of information overkill effectively preventing investors from digesting all the data made available by issuers, should be definitely avoided. Instead, more emphasis is necessary to introduce more uniformity in the manner, how the information is being served to its consumers, that is, the investors. Any future reforms need to be made cautiously. The corporate governance reform is not a linear process. It is largely about learning from failure and many of the reform initiatives have had a reactive nature. But there is always a risk of regulatory overreaction and an inherent temptation - mostly on the part of politicians - to make opportunistic use of a crisis situation to achieve crisis-unrelated or loosely related objectives.
Download or read book Resilient Leadership for Turbulent Times written by Jerry L. Patterson and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws upon resilience research and best practices to answer the question: 'How can leaders move ahead in the face of adversity?' and aims to help leaders thrive in the face of adversity.
Download or read book Civil Society Organizations in Turbulent Times written by Linda Milbourne and published by TB, Trentham Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have civil society organizations become trapped in a gilded web of privatized, neo-liberal arrangements, reinforcing the systems they were established to reform? Drawing on research from diverse fields, this book aims to reawaken the critical voices that could challenge the growing inequalities and failures of current social systems
Download or read book Reforms in Turbulent Times written by Conrade Zawe and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation and Turbulent Times written by Jan-Eric Furubo and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now more than ever, policy evaluation is an important component in addressing the world's economic crisis. Before it can do so, the discipline must adapt to changing economic and political environments. The contributors address a basic question: What impact do crises have on evaluation and how can evaluation contribute in times of turbulence? Examining the state of evaluation today, the volume's editors cover a broad range of topics, including post-hoc evaluation; shifting economic paradigms; the World Bank Group's response to the global economic crisis; challenges in evaluating financial literacy; evaluating counter-terrorism programs; evaluation in the context of humanitarian crises; and why civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa matter in evaluating poverty interventions. The contributors explore the role of evaluation in the search for solutions to global instability. They recognize, however, that in order to address unprecedented crises, evaluation itself needs to be evaluated and updated as part of the process of change and reform. This volume is the latest in Transaction's well-respected Comparative Policy Evaluation series.
Download or read book U S Inspectors General written by Charles A. Johnson and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title How officials reporting to both executive officials and congressional representatives work to keep the government honest, efficient, and effective. Inspectors general are important players in the federal government, and their work often draws considerable public attention when one of them uncovers serious misdeeds or mismanagement that make the headlines. This book by two experts in public policy provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of how inspectors general have operated in the four decades since Congress established the offices to investigate waste, fraud, and mismanagement at federal agencies and to promote efficiency and effectiveness in government programs. Unique among federal officials, inspectors general are independent of the agencies they monitor, and they report to the executive and legislative branches of government. One key factor in their independence is that they are expected to be non-partisan and carry out their work without regard to partisan interests. The authors of U.S. Inspectors General: Truth Tellers in Turbulent Times emphasize the “strategic environment” in which inspectors general work and interact with a variety of stakeholders, inside and outside the government. Their new book is based on in-depth case studies, a survey of inspectors general, and a review of public documents related to the work of inspectors general. It will be of interest to scholars and students of public policy and public management, journalists, and ordinary citizens interested in how the government works—or doesn’t work—on their behalf.
Download or read book PERSONAL COPY Caring Leadership in Turbulent Times Tackling Neoliberal Education Reform written by Mary G. Green and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Applying Turbulence Theory to Educational Leadership in Challenging Times written by Steven Jay Gross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our increasingly complex world, the turbulent forces affecting educators have become vastly more dynamic, creating complex challenges but, perhaps paradoxically, also unique opportunities. Reframing how to understand the drivers of turbulence, Applying Turbulence Theory to Educational Leadership in Challenging Times provides aspiring and practicing educational leaders with the theory and tools for understanding Turbulence Theory and its application to school contexts. Renowned author Steven Jay Gross explores how you can apply turbulence theory to respond to critical incidents, as well as how to address the tensions across various stakeholders, including the central office, principals, teachers, students, families, and communities. With over 20 innovative, case-based examples and discussion questions, this book explores how turbulence can be leveraged or minimized to increase creative opportunity and address dilemmas in schools.
Download or read book Addicted to Reform written by John Merrow and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on everything from the rise of district-wide cheating scandals and the corporate greed driving an ADD epidemic to teacher-training controversies and America's obsession with standardized testing. Along the way, he taught in a high school, at a historically black college, and at a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on education into a twelve-step approach to fixing a K–12 system that Merrow describes as being "addicted to reform" but unwilling to address the real issue: American public schools are ill-equipped to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty-first century. This insightful book looks at how to turn digital natives into digital citizens and why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one. Merrow offers smart, essential chapters—including "Measure What Matters," and "Embrace Teachers"—that reflect his countless hours spent covering classrooms as well as corridors of power. His signature candid style of reportage comes to life as he shares lively anecdotes, schoolyard tales, and memories that are at once instructive and endearing. Addicted to Reform is written with the kind of passionate concern that could come only from a lifetime devoted to the people and places that constitute the foundation of our nation. It is a "big book" that forms an astute and urgent blueprint for providing a quality education to every American child.
Download or read book Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent Times written by Joan Poliner Shapiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is designed to assist educational leaders in the ethical decision-making process. Theoretically, it is based on Gross’s Turbulence Theory and Shapiro and Stefkovich’s Multiple Ethical Paradigms of justice, critique, care, and the profession. The authors clearly explain these concepts and demonstrate how they can work together to assist leaders in dealing with challenging situations. Authentic ethical dilemmas are provided to be analyzed using Turbulence Theory and the Multiple Ethical Paradigms and to engage readers in applying these concepts to practice. The text is intended for use in a range of educational leadership, educational administration, and teacher education programs that prepare both educational leaders (administrators) and lead teachers.
Download or read book Democracy and Crisis written by Wolfgang Merkel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the public and scholarly debates on the challenges and problems of established democracies, such as a lack of participation, declining confidence in political elites, and the deteriorating capabilities of democratic institutions, this volume discusses the question whether democracy as such is in crisis. On the basis of the shared concept of embedded democracy, it develops a range of conceptual approaches to empirically analyzing the challenges of democracy and their potential transformation into crisis phenomena. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which highlights various aspects of political participation, such as political inequality in voting. In turn, Part II focuses on problems of political representation, while Part III assesses whether processes such as globalization, deregulation, and the withdrawal of the state from important policy areas have limited the political control and legitimacy of democratically elected governments.
Download or read book Leading Change in Turbulent Times written by Michael S. Lawson and published by . This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for average Americans who want to improve their life; the corporation that is preparing for or preventing turbulent times; the CEO who is leading a turnaround of his or her company; and the healthcare executives that are preparing for upcoming healthcare reform. We must be prepared to deal with these challenges. This book is about being more prepared to effectively lead change and adapt in turbulent times related to personal and corporate health as well as business relative organizational development and transformation. The goal is to land safely and be stronger to handle change in the future.
