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Book Too Many Changes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pat Dinda
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2013-11-25
  • ISBN : 1483694763
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book Too Many Changes written by Pat Dinda and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too Many Changes continues with the life of Pat Lupton as he deals with the ever present reality of drugs, drug abuse, sex, peer pressure and suicide on high school students. Pat Lupton is a reformed drug user who was abused by his father. Overcoming his disabilities earned him the experience necessary to effectively help others. As he settles into his life in Stowell, Texas, he finds satisfaction through his work with the students. This Saga chronicles Pat’s successes and failures. Influenced by his caustic origins and fighting to overcome his prejudices and fears, we find a compelling drama of development which turns negative influences into positive societal contributions. This book is the third in the Lupton Saga series.

Book Leading When There   s Too Much Change

Download or read book Leading When There s Too Much Change written by Kristin Cullen-Lester and William Pasmore and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change is nearly constant in many organizations today, often causing stress. Employees may be asked to deal with multiple initiatives at once, sometimes without knowing whether and how the changes will make their jobs easier or benefit the company as a whole. How can leaders ensure that change is manageable and that employees do not feel overwhelmed and discouraged in the face of large (and small) transitions? This issue of TD at Work, “Leading When There’s Too Much Change,” helps leaders prioritize change initiatives and support employees during times of transition. In this issue, you will find: guidance for assessing change readiness tips for reducing and preventing change overload suggestions for helping employees embrace change help with assessing change burnout.

Book Principal Succession

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Weaver Hart
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780791412916
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Principal Succession written by Ann Weaver Hart and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines major issues in theory and research related to leader succession. It looks at the persistent problems confronted by people assigned to lead established social and professional groups like those found in schools. The author demonstrates how interaction between new leaders and established school organizations shape succession events (with illustrations drawn from educational administration) and provides a framework for understanding succession as a dynamic and interactive process.

Book Why Are So Many Americans in Prison

Download or read book Why Are So Many Americans in Prison written by Steven Raphael and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1975 and 2007, the American incarceration rate increased nearly fivefold, a historic increase that puts the United States in a league of its own among advanced economies. We incarcerate more people today than we ever have, and we stand out as the nation that most frequently uses incarceration to punish those who break the law. What factors explain the dramatic rise in incarceration rates in such a short period of time? In Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll analyze the shocking expansion of America’s prison system and illustrate the pressing need to rethink mass incarceration in this country. Raphael and Stoll carefully evaluate changes in crime patterns, enforcement practices and sentencing laws to reach a sobering conclusion: So many Americans are in prison today because we have chosen, through our public policies, to put them there. They dispel the notion that a rise in crime rates fueled the incarceration surge; in fact, crime rates have steadily declined to all-time lows. There is also little evidence for other factors commonly offered to explain the prison boom, such as the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill since the 1950s, changing demographics, or the crack-cocaine epidemic. By contrast, Raphael and Stoll demonstrate that legislative changes to a relatively small set of sentencing policies explain nearly all prison growth since the 1980s. So-called tough on crime laws, including mandatory minimum penalties and repeat offender statutes, have increased the propensity to punish more offenders with lengthier prison sentences. Raphael and Stoll argue that the high-incarceration regime has inflicted broad social costs, particularly among minority communities, who form a disproportionate share of the incarcerated population. Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? ends with a powerful plea to consider alternative crime control strategies, such as expanded policing, drug court programs, and sentencing law reform, which together can end our addiction to incarceration and still preserve public safety. As states confront the budgetary and social costs of the incarceration boom, Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? provides a revealing and accessible guide to the policies that created the era of mass incarceration and what we can do now to end it.

Book Weight Loss for People who Feel Too Much

Download or read book Weight Loss for People who Feel Too Much written by Colette Baron-Reid and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life coach and intuitive counselor presents a weight loss program for sensitive people, demonstrating how to manage empathy overload and deal with challenging situations that trigger disordered eating.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Future of Management  Entrepreneurship  Change and Flexibility

Download or read book The Future of Management Entrepreneurship Change and Flexibility written by Piotr Bula and published by Wydawnictwo UJ. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We believe that the world is standing on the very edge of the fastest industrial revolution ever. A revolution which will rapidly increase the efficiency of many production processes. Automation (both mechanical and the one happening with computer processes) will reduce the demand for human work and release a huge amount of time we can use for further development. With this book we try to provide the reader with information about various aspects of life and the socio-economic environment. For this purpose, we have invited authors representing the leading scientific research centers in Poland and specialists from foreign universities. Piotr Buła Bogdan Nogalski The monograph stands out from the publications related to change management in the context of entrepreneurial opportunities and flexibility of the organization. The authors attempt to integrate retrospective and prognostic approaches, so they not only assess the current status, but also point to challenges for management science. The work has been prepared by scholars whose authority in management sciences is undisputed. I positively assess the empirical and methodological layer of individual chapters of the monograph. Discussing the results of their scientific and research work, the authors presented the determinants of management processes described from the perspective of entrepreneurial opportunities and flexibility of the organization. Szymon Cyfert

Book ECMT Round Tables Changing Daily Urban Mobility Report of the One Hundred and Second Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 9 19 May 1996

Download or read book ECMT Round Tables Changing Daily Urban Mobility Report of the One Hundred and Second Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 9 19 May 1996 written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1996-10-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Round Table brings together the leading European experts on changing daily mobility to more ecological forms, and identifies the key policies for the immediate future that could reconcile towns and transport.

Book Analysing Web Traffic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Agnieszka Jastrzębska
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2023-06-26
  • ISBN : 3031325036
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book Analysing Web Traffic written by Agnieszka Jastrzębska and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents ample, richly illustrated account on results and experience from a project, dealing with the analysis of data concerning behavior patterns on the Web. The advertising on the Web is dealt with, and the ultimate issue is to assess the share of the artificial, automated activity (ads fraud), as opposed to the genuine human activity. After a comprehensive introductory part, a full-fledged report is provided from a wide range of analytic and design efforts, oriented at: the representation of the Web behavior patterns, formation and selection of telling variables, structuring of the populations of behavior patterns, including the use of clustering, classification of these patterns, and devising most effective and efficient techniques to separate the artificial from the genuine traffic. A series of important and useful conclusions is drawn, concerning both the nature of the observed phenomenon, and hence the characteristics of the respective datasets, and the appropriateness of the methodological approaches tried out and devised. Some of these observations and conclusions, both related to data and to methods employed, provide a new insight and are sometimes surprising. The book provides also a rich bibliography on the main problem approached and on the various methodologies tried out.

Book Change Your Church for Good

Download or read book Change Your Church for Good written by Brad Powell and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2007-02-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church is the hope of the world when it's working right...and therein lies the problem. Most aren't. This has led both Christians and non-Christians to give up on the church entirely; it has led many others to give up on all existing churches-and maybe even start new ones. But all church can and should be transitioned to a new life. A church is never beyond hope. This book will provide principles and practices that can lead to a resurrection of any church, in any setting. It will provide the inspiration and information needed to lead a church successfully through the necessary changes of tradition and culture without compromising God's timeless truth. When this happens, the church will once again be what God intended...the hope of the world.

Book As We Go Through Changes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Augustine Daniel
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2016-02-05
  • ISBN : 1514448157
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book As We Go Through Changes written by Augustine Daniel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about life in general, my observation about the changes that we as people are going through. Changes that are happening on a continuous basic. Changes that many are not aware of and not conscious of, and many who are aware and conscious will simply ignore because we are too busy trying to catch up with some things that keep on moving.

Book Changes in the Motivations  Perceptions  and Behaviors of Recreation Users

Download or read book Changes in the Motivations Perceptions and Behaviors of Recreation Users written by Troy Elizabeth Hall and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We describe how wilderness visitors perceive changes in wilderness use, impacts, and management. We examine how visitors have responded to change, both behaviorally and cognitively. The study was based on a sample of visitors to 19 Forest Service wildernesses in Oregon and Washington. Many respondents said the types of wilderness trips they take have changed since their earlier wilderness trips. Most perceived adverse change. Use has increased (particularly day use), resulting in crowding and a widespread sense that these places seem less like wilderness than they did in the past. Most of these visitors learned to cope with these adverse changes by either adjusting the way they think about these places or by adjusting their behavior. Cognitive coping, particularly rationalization, is very common. Most visitors do not consider changing conditions to be very problematic, probably because their coping mechanisms are successful. This explains lack of support for management actions that restrict access. Very few visitors cannot cope with crowded conditions. Displacement of visitors away from crowded places does not seem prevalent enough for concern about increased crowding and biophysical impact in places in wilderness that are currently lightly used or the validity of on-site visitor surveys.

Book Consultation for Organizational Change Revisited

Download or read book Consultation for Organizational Change Revisited written by David W. Jamieson and published by IAP. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a follow-up to a 2010 volume on organizational change-related consulting, the book continues to push our thinking about the dynamics involved in consulting with change leaders and intervening in the change process. Consulting for organizational change is a special type of consultation, with its own complex set of conditions and needs for a broad range of skills and competencies, which include distinct needs for the client-consultant relationship, superior consulting/facilitation skills, an expertise in human and organizational systems, and, as emphasized in the volume, the masterful “use of self.” As with our prior edited collection, this volume is a joint publication in the Research in Management Consulting and Contemporary Trends in Organization Development and Change book series. The dual focus is intended to reflect the importance of quality consulting for change across both the management consulting and Organization Development (OD) fields. It follows a long history of interest in how consulting affects organization change, what works, and, perhaps most importantly for generating theory and insight into the change process, why it works. The book contains fourteen chapters that frame the changing nature of the organizational change challenge, explore the use of self in intervening in organizations, and examine different change frameworks and perspectives, sharing various reflections and personal insights into the underlying challenges of consulting to bring about organizational change. Our underlying goal is to advance the theory and practice of effective organizational change consultation, stimulating thinking and discussion among change practitioners and researchers so that this work and profession continue to grow and evolve. ENDORSEMENT: “Consultation for Organization Change Revisited offers a clear map of the dominant thinking about how consultants intervene to help organizations create an alternative future. It nicely answers the question of "What is Organization Development." It also has a memory so that you see the arc of the field over time, which gives an important perspective. Organization change is complicated work, this book makes it clearer.” ~ Peter Block Author of Flawless Consulting

Book The Sharp Edge of Educational Change

Download or read book The Sharp Edge of Educational Change written by Nina Bascia and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the evidence of recent educational research to convey the realities of reform as they affect educators practice.

Book How Schools Change

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Wagner
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2002-12-24
  • ISBN : 1135957908
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book How Schools Change written by Tony Wagner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-12-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of How Schools Change chronicled the efforts of three very different high schools to improve teaching and learning in the early 1990's. Now, in a new second edition, Wagner concisely summarizes the decade-long history of education reform efforts and revisits the three communities at the beginning of a new century.

Book The Future of Educational Change

Download or read book The Future of Educational Change written by Ciaran Sugrue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book provides a systematic overview and critique of contemporary approaches to educational change from some of the best-known writers and scholars in the field, including Andy Hargreaves, Larry Cuban, Ivor Goodson, Jeannie Oakes, Milbrey McLaughlin, Judyth Sachs and Ann Liebermann. Divided into four sections, the book addresses the key themes: What has been the impact of educational change? How has the impact differed in different circumstances? What are the new directions for research on policy and practice? How can we link research, policy and practice? By highlighting critical lessons from the past, the book aims to set an agenda for policy-related research and the future trajectories of educational reforms, while also taking into account the dominant rhetorics of international ‘social movements’ and the ‘refracted’ nature of policy agenda at national and local levels. This book addresses issues which with many educators around the world are currently grappling. It will appeal to academics and researchers in the field, as well as providing an introduction to key issues and themes in Educational Change for graduates and practitioners.

Book Advanced Topics in Information Resources Management  Volume 5

Download or read book Advanced Topics in Information Resources Management Volume 5 written by Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Topics in Information Resources Management is a series of books that features the most current research findings in all aspects of information resources management. From successfully implementing technology change to understanding the human factors in IT utilization, these volumes address many of the managerial and organizational applications and implications of information technology in organizations. Advanced Topics in Information Resources Management, Volume 5 is a part of this series. Advanced Topics in Information Resources Management, Volume 5 provides information technology researchers, scholars, educators, and practicing managers with the latest research on managing the technological, organizational, and human aspects of information utilization and management. This volume presents current trends and challenges in implementing and strengthening information resources strategies in organizations worldwide.