Since the advent of the internet, online communities have emerged as a way for users to share their common interests and connect with others with ease. As the possibilities of the online world grew and the COVID-19 pandemic raged across the world, many organizations recognized the utility in not only providing further services online, but also in transitioning operations typically fulfilled in-person to an online space. As society approaches a reality in which most community practices have moved to online spaces, it is essential that community leaders remain knowledgeable on the best practices in cultivating engagement. Community Engagement in the Online Space evaluates key issues and practices pertaining to community engagement in remote settings. It analyzes various community engagement efforts within remote education, online groups, and remote work. This book further reviews the best practices for community engagement and considerations for the optimization of these practices for effective virtual delivery to support emergency environmental challenges, such as pandemic conditions. Covering topics such as community belonging, global health virtual practicum, and social media engagement, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for program directors, faculty and administrators of both K-12 and higher education, students of higher education, business leaders and executives, IT professionals, online community moderators, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Through this book we hope to open hands, minds, and hearts in organizations to a new world of opportunities. Today (in the early years of the second decade of the 21st century) the world's population is something over 7 billion people. That's a lot of people and a lot of potential brain power, buying power, and leadership power. This book can help organizations to connect to and capture this great potential by understanding the necessary value exchanges and engagement opportunities.

Hedge Fund People Strategy: Human Capital That Supports Investment Excellence, Sustainability, and Growth is intended to provide readers with a perspective on the key dimensions of hedge fund people strategy and the organizational, talent management, compensation and employee relations practices in the hedge fund industry. More than just describing these practices, this book outlines why the practices need to be unique to each firm, and how firms can ensure that human capital is working as hard as the financial, intellectual, information, and other capital components demonstrated in today's most successful firms. This book offers an unrivaled look at one of the little discussed but critical success factors in the hedge fund industry, its people.

This book is designed to provide a new perspective on the role of the expert witness, going beyond the legal definition and requirements. For attorneys, it provides insight into finding the right expert for specific cases and preparing an expert for deposition and trial testimony. For consultants and others, it provides a roadmap for serving as an expert witness. For the judiciary, it provides a view to an expert's approach to an assignment and the nature of the process, the reference materials and personal experience that supports their testimony.

With a tight labor market and continuing pressure to expand sales channels and grow sales volumes, sales representatives must make significant contributions. Unfortunately, many organizations have yet to realize that their reward programs are not effective in motivating sales force employees to accomplish the organization's strategy. The key is to align the firm's people and reward strategies in ways that reinforce the behavior and performance of the sales force that is required to support the organization's overall organization strategy. This book is more than why refreshing your sales force reward strategy is needed - it covers the `how-to' in order to accomplish this critical improvement in your sales force total reward strategy. Authors Graham and Riyaz reunite to take on the subject of Sales Force Total Reward Strategy. They share their deep experience on this important aspect of organizational success.

From now into the future, we believe that Total Rewards are going to be the differentiator of great organizations vs. good ones. It's the most powerful way to motivate employees to accomplish organization objectives. This book provides a step-by-step road map for the development of the appropriate Total Rewards Strategy to suit any organization's broader organizational and people strategies. The reader will find in this book a way to break down the organization strategy into an operational set of principles that will result in a Total Rewards Strategy that directly supports desired outcomes.

This book provides new perspectives on board governance and rewards practices that include the relationships between director's roles, contributions, and firm performance. Through these insights readers can reconsider the complexity and interconnectivity of board governance and rewards. This book is founded on extensive research of a 1,000 company sample that uniquely replicates the publicly traded companies in the United States. It is the largest single representative sample aggregated to study board of director governance and pay. Using the insights contained in this book companies, CEO, and boards can effectively restructure board governance and director compensation to promote business strategy resulting in improved company performance.

Through moments of social protest, policy debate, and popular mobilization, this book follows the campaign for economic democracy and the fight for full employment in the United States. Starting in the 1930s, Dennis explores its intellectual and philosophical underpinnings, the class struggle that determined the fate of legislation and the role of left-wing civil rights activists in its revival. Demonstrating how the campaign for full employment intersected with movements for women's liberation and civil rights, it explores how social groups and oppressed minorities interpreted and appropriated the promise of full employment. For many, full employment provided an indispensable path to racial and gender emancipation. In this book, Dennis uncovers the class dimensions and the resistance to full employment in the US. He demonstrates how the recurring debates over full employment consistently exposed the contradictions inherent in a capitalist society and challenged the assertion that an allegedly free enterprise system automatically generated employment for all.

In this book we make the case for the genesis of the problem being that many CEOs are not operating under a "fair and reasonable value exchange" with the organization that they work for, and that there are very clear reasons why that is the case. We know you will gain insight from this book finding new ways to view, consider, and reframe your approach to CEO (and other executive) employment relationships consisting of compensation programs and contracts using the all-important concept of value exchange. This book reveals a Principled Approached developed by consultants of Grahall, LLC, guiding the reader through the use of appropriate tools and well thought out processes, for a uniquely effective result.

This book traces the historic evolution of urban form, principles, and design; it serves as a compendium, or reference, of city design; and is a polemic about the necessity for the recovery of the city and a contemporary urban architecture. It begins with the planned cities of Greece and the Roman Empire from about 500 BC, through the late-medieval Bastides, the Ideal Renaissance cities, and Baroque new towns, to the urban planning strategies of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It covers anti-urban modernist architecture and the resulting disintegration of the city. It concludes with late-twentieth-century efforts to recover the city, a contemporary urban architecture, and urbanism's potential contribution to the contemporary ecological crisis. The book is project oriented and extensively illustrated. It may be read graphically, textually, or both. As such, it falls into the long tradition of illustrated treatises in which theory is embedded in the projects, with only occasional assistance or clarification from the text. Architecture and urban design are physical arts, not verbal arts, and they are best understood from graphic representations.

The neon waves crash over me, pummelling this body of mine into the earth that has mocked me for the lifetime I have been begrudgingly granted. Within this destructive water are stories that feature people like me, lost, lonely and afraid of what lies ahead. "I was 27 when I first told the woman of my dreams that I loved her. It was the one regret that has haunted me for so long..." The voice the water channels is of someone much like me, love-struck. Love broke me; leaving me to wonder why I can never be loved in the same way that I loved. Does this change the feelings I hold for her? No... It just makes me realise what I knew all along. As much as I want to save them from ruin, I finally understand that's not my purpose... They'll have to save themselves.