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This volume presents contributions made by Daniel Druckman on the
topics of negotiation, national identity, and justice. Containing
research conducted and published over a half century, the volume is
divided into seven thematic parts that cover: the multifaceted
career; flexibility in negotiation; values and interests; turning
points; national identity; process outcomes and justice, and rounds
off with a reflective and forward-looking conclusion. Each part is
prefaced with an introduction that highlights the chapters to
follow. The chapters comprise empirical, theoretical, and
state-of-the-art articles. These essays offer an array of research
approaches, which include experiments, simulations and case
studies, with topics ranging from boundary roles and turning points
in negotiation to nationalism and war, and the way that research is
used in skills training for diplomats and in the development of
government policies. In addition, the book provides rare glimpses
of behind-the-scenes networks, sponsors, and events, with personal
stories that also make evident that there is more to a career than
what appears in print. The articles chosen for inclusion are a
small set of the total number of career publications by the author
but are the ones that made a substantial impact in their respective
fields. The concluding section looks back at how the author's
career connects to classical ideas and the value of an
evidence-based approach to scholarship and practice. It also looks
forward to directions for future research in six areas. This book
will be of considerable interest to students of international
negotiation, conflict resolution, security studies and
International Relations.
This volume presents contributions made by Daniel Druckman on the
topics of negotiation, national identity, and justice. Containing
research conducted and published over a half century, the volume is
divided into seven thematic parts that cover: the multifaceted
career; flexibility in negotiation; values and interests; turning
points; national identity; process outcomes and justice, and rounds
off with a reflective and forward-looking conclusion. Each part is
prefaced with an introduction that highlights the chapters to
follow. The chapters comprise empirical, theoretical, and
state-of-the-art articles. These essays offer an array of research
approaches, which include experiments, simulations and case
studies, with topics ranging from boundary roles and turning points
in negotiation to nationalism and war, and the way that research is
used in skills training for diplomats and in the development of
government policies. In addition, the book provides rare glimpses
of behind-the-scenes networks, sponsors, and events, with personal
stories that also make evident that there is more to a career than
what appears in print. The articles chosen for inclusion are a
small set of the total number of career publications by the author
but are the ones that made a substantial impact in their respective
fields. The concluding section looks back at how the author's
career connects to classical ideas and the value of an
evidence-based approach to scholarship and practice. It also looks
forward to directions for future research in six areas. This book
will be of considerable interest to students of international
negotiation, conflict resolution, security studies and
International Relations.
The contemporary world is beset with a wide variety of conflicts,
all of which have features without historical precedent. While most
accounts of peacekeeping focus on attempts to limit violent
conflict, this traditional view hardly captures the variety of
challenges that today's peacekeepers face. Peacekeepers are now
thrust into the unconventional roles of monitoring elections,
facilitating transitions to the rule of law, distributing
humanitarian aid, and resolving conflicts in civil societies that
are undergoing transformation. This is the context for
understanding the activities of modern-day peacekeepers. In When
Peacekeeping Missions Collide, Paul F. Diehl, Daniel Druckman, and
Grace B. Mueller provide an original and comprehensive assessment
on how different peacekeeping missions intersect with one another
in contemporary conflicts. They begin by documenting the patterns
of peacekeeping missions in 70 UN operations, noting the dramatic
increase in number and diversity of operations since the end of the
Cold War as well as the shift to conflicts with a substantial
internal conflict component. They then turn to the overarching
question of the book: how do individual peacekeeping missions
impact the outcomes of other missions within the same operations?
To answer this, the authors have developed a novel dataset of UN
peace operations from 1946-2016 to assess mission compatibility.
Moreover, the authors utilize five detailed case studies of UN
peacekeeping operations featuring mission interdependence and then
measure the results against their theoretical expectations.
Ultimately, the model they have developed for analyzing the
effectiveness of the far more complex peace operations of
today—relative to the simpler operations of the past—is
essential reading for scholars of peacekeeping and conflict
management.
This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in
a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators
provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just
'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix
between negotiation strategies that look backward to end current
hostilities and those that look ahead to prevent their recurrence?
To answer that question, a wide range of case studies is marshaled
to explore relevant peacemaking situations, from the end of the
Thirty Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars, to more recent
settlements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries-including
large scale conflicts like the end of WW II and smaller scale,
sometimes internal conflicts like those in Cyprus, Armenia and
Azerbaijan, and Mozambique. Cases on Bosnia and the Middle East add
extra interest. Published in cooperation with the International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, this important research is
expertly edited by renowned conflict scholars I. William Zartman
and Victor Kremenyuk, and includes original case studies from
scholars and practitioners around the globe including Janice Gross
Stein, Daniel Druckman, and Beth Simmons, among many others.
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Enhancing Organizational Performance (Hardcover)
Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Edited by …
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Total quality management (TQM), reengineering, the workplace of the
twenty-first century--the 1990s have brought a sense of urgency to
organizations to change or face stagnation and decline, according
to Enhancing Organizational Performance. Organizations are adopting
popular management techniques, some scientific, some faddish, often
without introducing them properly or adequately measuring the
outcome.
Enhancing Organizational Performance reviews the most popular
current approaches to organizational change--total quality
management, reengineering, and downsizing--in terms of how they
affect organizations and people, how performance improvements can
be measured, and what questions remain to be answered by
researchers.
The committee explores how theory, doctrine, accepted wisdom, and
personal experience have all served as sources for organization
design. Alternative organization structures such as teams,
specialist networks, associations, and virtual organizations are
examined.
Enhancing Organizational Performance looks at the influence of the
organization's norms, values, and beliefs--its culture--on people
and their performance, identifying cultural "levers" available to
organization leaders. And what is leadership? The committee sorts
through a wealth of research to identify behaviors and skills
related to leadership effectiveness. The volume examines techniques
for developing these skills and suggests new competencies that will
become required with globalization and other trends.
Mergers, networks, alliances, coalitions--organizations are
increasingly turning to new intra- and inter-organizational
structures. Enhancing Organizational Performance discusses how
organizations cooperate to maximize outcomes.
The committee explores the changing missions of the U.S. Army as a
case study that has relevance to any organization. Noting that a
musical greeting card contains more computing power than existed in
the entire world before 1950, the committee addresses the impact of
new technologies on performance.
With examples, insights, and practical criteria, Enhancing
Organizational Performance clarifies the nature of organizations
and the prospects for performance improvement.
This book will be important to corporate leaders, executives, and
managers; faculty and students in organizational performance and
the social sciences; business journalists; researchers; and
interested individuals.
This textbook is dedicated to an analysis of the emergent role of
conflict analysis and resolution. What can this interdisciplinary
field contribute to our understanding of, solutions to, or
transformations of some of the most pressing problems confronting
human societies? The authors, a team of international experts with
both academic and professional experience of the field, offer a
broad range of geographical and disciplinary perspectives. Covering
theory, research and practice, they provide a comprehensive
typology of the types of conflict, and a through examination of
influences - uctural, strategic and cultural - on conflict. They go
on to explore the management and resolution of conflict, discussing
negotiation, mediation and peacebuilding. This hopes to be a key
text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in the
field, and also for professionals, both active and in training.
The contributors to this fully revised volume, a team of
international experts with both academic and professional
experience in the field, provide a broad range of geographical and
disciplinary perspectives. Covering theory, research and practice,
they analyze the different types of conflict and offer a thorough
examination of the influences on conflict - structural,
situational, strategic and cultural. Exploring conflict management
and resolution, they also discuss negotiation, mediation,
peace-keeping and peace-building.
Winner of the 2006 outstanding book award (for books published in
2004-2005) from the International Association for Conflict
Management at their annual meeting held in Montreal!An
award-winning book, Doing Research is a must read. Designed for
students across a variety of social science disciplines, it is the
first research methods text devoted to conflict analysis and
resolution. It begins with a discussion of the philosophical
foundations for doing research, providing guidelines on how to
develop research questions and how these questions can be addressed
with various methodologies. The book presents a wide-ranging
treatment of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the
design and analysis of problems of conflict. The approaches covered
include experiments, simulations and models, surveys, single and
comparative case studies, ethnographies, content analysis,
narrative analysis, evaluation research, action research, and
research consulting. These approaches come alive in a variety of
applications culled from the published literature. A concluding
chapter provides an integration of the various methodologies,
including their complementary strengths. Throughout the book,
author Daniel Druckman illustrates the value of a multi-method
approach to doing research on conflict analysis and more generally
across the social sciences. Key Features Guides readers through how
to do literature reviews and ask research questions, easing
students into the research process Weaves together qualitative and
quantitative, as well as deductive and inductive, approaches to
analysis, allowing for the widest possible diversity in methodology
Includes numerous examples from published articles and
dissertations and a discussion of research consulting Doing
Research is perfectly suited as a text for research methods courses
across the social sciences, especially those dealing with conflict
analysis in departments of political science, communication,
psychology, sociology, and management. Professional researchers and
consultants will also want to add this book to their libraries for
guidance on multi-method techniques. "This is an extremely
important book for our field because it is the first research
methods book that focuses on techniques that are common in this
area but transcends disciplines. I am confident that the book will
be used widely in our field because it is both practical and
engaging." -- William A. Donohoe, Michigan State University "Doing
Research is a gem. It provides multiple research methods and models
focusing on conflict analysis and resolution that can be used by
any student in a variety of social science disciplines or fields of
study. I wish this book had been written 20 years ago." -Brian
Polkinghorn, Salisbury State University "Doing Research is the most
widely acclaimed book on research methods for conflict resolution
students to appear in recent years. The book provides a wonderfully
rich array of ideas about ways to do research for both the scholar
and practitioner--pracademic--enriching the analysis and practice
in the conflict resolution field. The author has a diverse
intellectual background and his wide-ranging research experience
informs the contributions made by this book to conflict analysis
and resolution and to related social-science fields." -Sean Byrne,
University of Manitoba
Winner of the 2006 outstanding book award (for books published in
2004-2005) from the International Association for Conflict
Management at their annual meeting held in Montreal!An
award-winning book, Doing Research is a must read. Designed for
students across a variety of social science disciplines, it is the
first research methods text devoted to conflict analysis and
resolution. It begins with a discussion of the philosophical
foundations for doing research, providing guidelines on how to
develop research questions and how these questions can be addressed
with various methodologies. The book presents a wide-ranging
treatment of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to the
design and analysis of problems of conflict. The approaches covered
include experiments, simulations and models, surveys, single and
comparative case studies, ethnographies, content analysis,
narrative analysis, evaluation research, action research, and
research consulting. These approaches come alive in a variety of
applications culled from the published literature. A concluding
chapter provides an integration of the various methodologies,
including their complementary strengths. Throughout the book,
author Daniel Druckman illustrates the value of a multi-method
approach to doing research on conflict analysis and more generally
across the social sciences. Key Features Guides readers through how
to do literature reviews and ask research questions, easing
students into the research process Weaves together qualitative and
quantitative, as well as deductive and inductive, approaches to
analysis, allowing for the widest possible diversity in methodology
Includes numerous examples from published articles and
dissertations and a discussion of research consulting Doing
Research is perfectly suited as a text for research methods courses
across the social sciences, especially those dealing with conflict
analysis in departments of political science, communication,
psychology, sociology, and management. Professional researchers and
consultants will also want to add this book to their libraries for
guidance on multi-method techniques. "This is an extremely
important book for our field because it is the first research
methods book that focuses on techniques that are common in this
area but transcends disciplines. I am confident that the book will
be used widely in our field because it is both practical and
engaging." -- William A. Donohoe, Michigan State University "Doing
Research is a gem. It provides multiple research methods and models
focusing on conflict analysis and resolution that can be used by
any student in a variety of social science disciplines or fields of
study. I wish this book had been written 20 years ago." -Brian
Polkinghorn, Salisbury State University "Doing Research is the most
widely acclaimed book on research methods for conflict resolution
students to appear in recent years. The book provides a wonderfully
rich array of ideas about ways to do research for both the scholar
and practitioner--pracademic--enriching the analysis and practice
in the conflict resolution field. The author has a diverse
intellectual background and his wide-ranging research experience
informs the contributions made by this book to conflict analysis
and resolution and to related social-science fields." -Sean Byrne,
University of Manitoba
This textbook is dedicated to an analysis of the emergent role of
conflict analysis and resolution. What can this interdisciplinary
field contribute to our understanding of, solutions to, or
transformations of some of the most pressing problems confronting
human societies? The authors, a team of international experts with
both academic and professional experience of the field, offer a
broad range of geographical and disciplinary perspectives. Covering
theory, research and practice, they provide a comprehensive
typology of the types of conflict, and a through examination of
influences - uctural, strategic and cultural - on conflict. They go
on to explore the management and resolution of conflict, discussing
negotiation, mediation and peacebuilding. This hopes to be a key
text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in the
field, and also for professionals, both active and in training.
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