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The information market is booming. During the past two decades,
information technology has advanced at an overwhelming pace. Since
the mid-1990s, information has replaced capital as the key
differentiator in global competition. The result: executive
headaches and a great deal of the mother of opportunity, confusion.
This book on managing information systems well is vital to a
corporation's long-term competitive success. If companies are to
continue to add value to customers by helping them make
substantial, lasting improvements in performance, managing
information is a critical tool. And almost every company has
exploitable information assets, but few companies systematically
explore the opportunities they create. And although there is no
simple silver bullet approach to implement, the rewards can more
than justify the effort. Thus this book is a must read for all
those in the information systems management and others who want to
broaden their understanding of MIS or use information systems for
decision making and competitive advantage.
Internationally, education is recognized as a basic human right.
All children of schooling age should have access to free quality
education devoid of gender disparities. The Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) drawn from the UN General Assembly Resolution A/56/326
in September 2001 affirmed the need for poverty alleviation and
elimination of gender inequalities in education systems.
Nevertheless the advent of HIV and AIDS appear to have brought in a
new dimension and puzzle to the education of the girl-child because
in spite of the Millennium goals, school dropout is still a common
phenomenon, which frustrates the developing nations in their effort
to attain access to basic education for all. In the most unequal
regions of the planet, poverty has the face of a girl child and low
enrolment figures are tilted more towards girls at primary school
level. This study thus looked at gender, HIV and AIDS and the
accompanying challenges. It is a must read to all those with
interest in equality, equity, gender, HIV and AIDS related
challenges.
Results based management is inevitable in contemporary
organisations because unmanaged performance is
chaotic.Accountability is the biggest challenge facing contemporary
organisations especially those in the public services domain.
However the truth of the matter is that people can not be held
accountable if nothing is expected of them. This means to say
Results Based Management has the answer to service delivery woos in
the public sector where empowered people should be their own
performance managers. However implimentation challenges appear to
place a glass cliff in the way. this becomes a grey area.This
research unpacks the theoretical and practical underpinnings of
Results Based Management and is an indispensable companion to those
facing RBM implimentation challenges.It has been desined for use by
organisations in both private and public sectors with intrests in
managing performance.
Organisations need magnetic leadership that attracts followers. The
growing consensus among organisations is that problems encountered
in organisations are a result of lack of leadership. The view that
organisations are viewed as learning organisations depends upon the
influence and direction of leadership. Effective leadership removes
the roadblocks and clears the stumps and blocks that deter
followers from goal achievement. This book attempts to show the
critical role of leadership in organisations and is directed at
practising, aspiring and students of leadership in any
organisation.
Research is almost unanimous in finding that the principal's role
has typically been crucial to successful schools yet many practices
are too simple for the complexity of dealing with hyper-turbulence
facing school leaders these days. This book was written to an
international audience in order to provide a state-of-the-evidence
description of what is missing about successful school leadership
in a hyper-turbulent environment. It was anticipated that such a
description would be of some immediate use and guidance to those
already in leadership positions, those aspiring to be school
leaders and those with responsibilities for leading schools in a
changing external context. It is also hoped that the book will
helped to clarify the most important questions for inquiry and
offer conceptual lenses on key variables of interest to school
leaders who lead schools in a changing contexts where global forces
are defining, changing, and perhaps even diminishing the role of
school leaders as prime leaders.
Managing performance has been a thorny issue throughout the world.
It is more marked in developing countries in which institutions are
not fully developed. This research interrogated practices in a
teachers' college with the view to unravel the manner, spirit,
commitment and challenges faced in managing performance in public
sectors.Performance management, based on the principles of
measurement, appraisal, action and monitoring, manifests in
different forms depending on whether the aim is to further imrove
good performers or deal with under-performance while applying to
individuals, teams or organisations. Mangers who have cited
performance management as one of their most disliked tasks will
find this study useful and handy.
E-learning has become a mainstay in the educational milieu.The
exponential growth of information has made it imperative for
learning to happen quickly. This book taps on the networked
technologies and wireless devices to transform education through
quality. Online instructors and providers who continually seek
methods to engage students in the learning process with technology
at the forefront, will find this book as a useful companion. One of
this book's objectives is to establish a long lasting mark on
quality for e-learning because the perceived lack of quality is
recognised by many as an inhibiting factor for the expansion of
e-learning. The existence of a reference textbook on quality for
e-learning might, it is strongly believed, contribute to
strengthening cross-country confidence in the quality of
e-learning, and serve as a reference worldwide.The future of all
institutions engaged in online learning, e-learning and web based
learning lies on the quality of programmes and courses that they
are offering.
This book aims to share recent research to inform the Open and
Distance Learning (ODL) community on how to attain and sustain
quality. It aims to revisit quality issues by stimulating and
enhancing interaction, creativity and ultimately innovation in Open
and Distance Teaching practices. It looks at quality in higher
education, the history of distance education and then proceed to
quality in open and distance teaching. In this regard, factors that
contribute to quality in staff, students and technology are
interrogated and so is the issue of conditions that lead to
attaining and sustaining quality. The book then rounds off with a
discussion on leadership for quality.
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