Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Organisation and administration - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,3, Technical University of Chemnitz (Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften), course: Seminar paper in the course: Past, Present and Future of Bureaucracy, language: English, abstract: Effective learning supplys organizations with the abilities to cope with problems. Learning is occuring when organizations interact with their environments: organizations develop their understanding of r...

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,7, Technical University of Chemnitz (Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften), course: HRM-Research, language: English, abstract: Particularly today, company‟s environment is characterized by complexity and dynamic. There hardly are assured expectations but decisions within insecurity increase. That demands a lifelong learning from all social actors. The most popular form of formal learn...

Howard Zehr is the father of Restorative Justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming understandings of justice. Here he proposes workable principles and practices for making Restorative Justice possible in this revised and updated edition of his bestselling, seminal book on the movement. (The original edition has sold more than 110,000 copies.)Restorative Justice, with its emphasis on identifying the justice needs of everyone involved in a crime, is a wor...

Competence does not speak for itself! You can't simply display it; you have to draw people's attention to it. World-renowned negotiation and deception detection expert, business professor, and mentalist Jack Nasher offers effective, proven techniques to convince others that we are talented, trustworthy, and yes, even brilliant.Nasher offers the example of Joshua Bell, possibly the world's most famous violinist. In January 2007, at rush hour, he stepped int...

Building on Richard Sennetts recent work this books tries to clarify the ethical significance of craftsmanship. According to Sennett, `learning to work well is a deep source of personal meaning and of fruitful cooperation. Moreover provides the foundation of citizenship. Learning to master a craft is learning to be curious and patient, to focus on relationships and learn the skills of anticipation and revision, in a continual dialogue with material that resists `quick fixes and turns the c...

This book is adapted from a training course from a successful UK based training company. This short book of just over 5400 words provides you with key insights into how to design and deliver successful presentations. It will enable you to develop the following presentation skills:- How to instantly captivate your audience.- How to design content that engages your audience's interest.- How to structure your presentation.- How to create a long-lasting impression....

The Job-Communication Satisfaction Importance (JCSI) questionnaire is designed to survey large groups of nursing and other health care personnel in a hospital or similar agency. Information about perceived satisfaction and importance of selected aspects of the task and people associated with health care employees' work provides an excellent data base for administrative decisions. For example, such information may identify educational needs of personnel, areas of conflict to be resolved, an...

Drawing on research from 30,000 individuals and their practical experience as intercultural management consultants, the authors provide insights into the broader landscape of intercultural management through their exploration of 4 competencies: Intercultural Sensitivity, Intercultural Communication, Building Commitment and Managing Uncertainty.

Many tutorials and online courses transfer knowledge on interesting and important topics. Often the creators are indeed experts in their field but have no idea of how knowledge is transferred properly, and which aspects need to be considered when creating good online media. The result is often devastating. Bounce rates of up to 90% are the norm on many courses. Actual interesting content is not perceived because the form of presentation puts prospects to flight. In this book the experience...

Data collection is often the first thing people think of in connection with research. Preparing a questionnaire, or doing some interviews, can seem straightforward – but there's much else to consider. This e-book outlines some of the key issues and offers lots of short-cuts to save you time and stress.

The four most popular restorative justice books in the Justice & Peacebuilding series—The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated, The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing, The Little Book of Family Group Conferences, and The Little Book of Circle Processes—in one affordable volume. And now with a new foreword from Howard Zehr, one of the founders of restorative justice!Restorative justice, with its emphasi...

"Emphasizes the importance of matching instructional strategies to the appropriate outcomes.Thia is very important!"—Cindy Harrison, Educational Consultant"My peers would benefit from having this handbook to guide new and struggling teachers and to inspire the expert teacher on staff. Practical suggestions give educators incremental steps toward increasing the active learning level within any classroom, without giving up control of content."—Beverly ...