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Advancements in the digital world are bringing about rapid waves of
change in organizational management. As such, it is increasingly
imperative to discover ways for businesses to adapt to changes in
the markets and seize various digital market opportunities. Driving
Innovation and Business Success in the Digital Economy is an
essential reference source for the latest research on the impact of
digital computing and emerging technological innovations in the
realm of business success. Featuring extensive coverage across a
range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as IT outsourcing,
sustainable development and online advertising, this publication is
ideally designed for researchers, professionals and students
seeking current research on the complex scope of the new economy.
Leadership and the traditional concept of what makes an effective
leader is being challenged in the 21st century. Today, many teams
are dispersed across time, geography, and cultures and coordinating
those team using traditional concepts of leadership and management
has been challenging. Strategic Management and Leadership for
Systems Development in Virtual Spaces provides insights into the
relationship between leadership and information systems development
within online environments as well as strategies for effectively
managing virtual teams. Focusing on opportunities as well as
challenges associated with e-collaboration and managing remote
workers, this peer-reviewed collection of research is designed for
use by business professionals, scholars, and researchers in the
fields of information science and technology, business and
management, sociology, and computer science.
Resolving the African Leadership Challenge: Insight From History
examines leadership in pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial
modern Africa, exploring the origin of Africa's leadership
challenge, and providing lessons to enhance leadership
effectiveness. New ground is broken here as the author examines:
The breadth of leadership issues across the entire continent The
evolution of issues over time; from the pre-colonial era to the
modern day The practical lessons that can be identified to resolve
the leadership challenge A clear roadmap to achieve better
leadership in Africa This interdisciplinary study provides a deeper
understanding of the history of leadership in Africa, giving us key
principles for today. It is essential reading for academic
researchers, postgraduate students, and practitioners, seeking to
adapt leadership theories to real-world local practice.
The underlying rationale for this book is to present research that
a) highlights the explosively political and deeply divisive issues
involved in managing risk and b) address the empirical deficit and
theoretical challenges related to managing societal risk ethically.
Extant risk management research borrows heavily from engineering,
systems theory and business management, and is primarily focused on
probabilities, modeling, and abstractions of the value of
mitigative action. This research engenders a false sense of
objectivity and it de-politicizes fundamental political and
democratic questions about the allocation of society's scarce
resources and about the balance of responsibilities between
governing institutions and individuals with regard to risk. The
quantitative and hard-science focus on risk also keeps a discussion
of the consequences of the distribution of risk, resources and
responsibilities for real people out of the lime light. The
contributors to this book are experts in a wide range of academic
fields and in this book they take on the challenge of examining
their core research with a specific ethics perspective. They
explore the ethics of risk management using theory, cases and data
from a range of policy areas, countries and philosophical
traditions. This book should be of interest to scholars and
practitioners working in fields that deal either implicitly or
explicitly with risk. This would include, but is not limited to,
scholars and students of public management, public sector ethics,
public policy, risk regulation, and risk management. The book deals
directly with core problems of management in the public sector,
value-conflicts, multiple principals and stakeholders, as well as
information analysis and the application of sound and valid
decision-making processes. The book can be adopted as a core text
for graduate courses in public management, public policy, public
administration ethics, and comparative politics. It would also work
well as an applied theory text in comparative politics; ethics
centered courses in political science, as well as more narrowly
focused courses on risk, crisis and disaster management. For the
practitioner audience, this book pin-points the ethical stakes, the
analytical and managerial challenges, and the necessary tools to
meet the many risks that societies face. This book, Ethics and Risk
Management, provides a unique take on the realities of cost-benefit
analysis, efforts to control and regulate risk and risky behavior,
as well as the decidedly bounded rationality with which we, as
decision-makers and citizens, perceive and take risks. The work of
identifying, understanding, prioritizing and designing effective
tools to mitigate and manage risk is an inherently analytical and
strategic process best suited to take place before and between
crises. Successful risk analysis and management reduces the general
occurrence of crises, while the ethical analysis and management of
risk serves to reduce the likelihood of subsequent socio-political
turmoil should a crisis occur. Thus, the investment that any
practitioner makes in risk management has the potential to yield
both social and political benefits if the analysis and work is done
with an eye toward ethics and stakeholder analysis.
Continuous improvements in business operations have allowed
companies more opportunities to grow and expand. This not only
leads to higher success in increasing day-to-day profits, but it
enhances overall organizational productivity. Evolution of the
Post-Bureaucratic Organization is a pivotal source of research
containing integrated and consistent theoretical frameworks on
post-bureaucratic organizations, multidisciplinary perspectives,
and provides case studies related to the critical aspects of the
emergence of post-bureaucratic organizations. Featuring extensive
coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such
as business ethics, organizational communication, and cultural
perspectives, this book is ideally designed for scholars, PhD and
post-graduate university students, managers, and practitioners.
This 2nd edition (of the original Successful Private Practice in
Neuropsychology) provides an updated overview of key principles and
processes for establishing, maintaining and developing
neuropsychology practice and neuro-rehabilitation program (NRP)
treatment in medical center and/or private practice settings.
Essential elements of an entrepreneurial model that work well in
the medical center context and the necessary role of variety and
peer review in the private practice setting are also
discussed.
How to gather and report NPE and other evaluation findings with a
neuro- rehabilitation focus that lead to specific
neuro-rehabilitation recommendations. Benefit this will make your
evaluations and reports more desirable and sought after in the
setting and community where you work.Updated billing/diagnostic
code recommendations to accurately capture the actual time spent in
evaluating and/or treating patients. Benefit increased appropriate
billing and collections for your timeRecommendations for clinical
neuropsychology postdoctoral fellowship training of a Navy
psychologist. Benefit: you may be able to obtain funding for an
experienced Navy clinical psychologist who wants formal training in
neuropsychology. This can expand your clinical services, increase
variety and quality of your training program and ultimately support
improved care for returning American military personnel."
Today's business environment is challenging and ever-changing.
Accordingly, any manager, whether in the public or private sector,
and whatever the size and type of organisation, has to have some
basic management knowledge and skills. General management is a
back-to-basics textbook that provides the grounding managers and
entrepreneurs need to survive and prosper in today's fluid and
competitive global marketplace. General management incorporates the
fundamental concepts found in any general management course,
including the basic functions of planning, organising, leading
(activating) and control. The discussion is augmented with updated,
real-life management-in-action examples and an Afrocentric
perspective has been woven into the chapters where applicable.
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