One of the most valuable roles a manager can perform in today's rapidly changing environment is to mentor and inspire the people around them to learn. By nurturing talent, motivating individual development, and encouraging excellence, a manager's mentoring can enhance individual performance and the organization's prospects for success. Mentoring is not an easy skill to develop, and many managers, who may excel at leading or coaching, may be disasters as mentors when it comes to creating a bond and bringing out untapped qualities in others. The Manager as Mentor goes beyond traditional approaches to explore the newest techniques in mentoring and collaboration. Featuring personal development tools, worksheets, and references, The Manager as Mentor will enable managers to bring out the best in themselves, the people they guide, and their organizations. Mentoring is an age-old practice, tracing its roots in ancient Greek folklore to Odysseus' friend, Mentor, whom the Homeric hero entrusted as guide to his son's development. Today, with the ascendance of the knowledge age and the transformation of the workplace into an environment of continual learning, mentoring has emerged as one of the most important and valuable roles a manager can perform. By serving as a role model, providing feedback, nurturing talent, inspiring individual development, and facilitating excellence, a manager's mentoring strengthens relationships within the organization, and ultimately contributes to such critical factors as improved job performance, low turnover, and greater profitability. Mentoring is not an easy skill to attain, however, and many managers who may excel at leading teams or coordinating projects may be disasters as mentors. The Manager as Mentor explores emerging trends and approaches to help managers master the skills of effective mentoring—and enhance themselves, their proteges, and their organizations in the process. Drawing from extensive research, dozens of examples, and their own practical application in training managers around the world, the authors argue that exceptional mentoring skills can be developed. They guide the reader toward understanding the key roles that mentors play and the activities and techniques they can employ for maximum impact. Diagnostic exercises will help readers assess their strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for development, and create a step-by-step action plan for achieving goals—either individually or in groups. The authors also offer an extensive listing of resources for more in-depth information on various aspects of mentoring, such as problem solving, active listening, and employee advocacy. Ultimately, The Manager as Mentor offers the tools by which managers can promote learning, empowerment, and insight to create vibrant organizational cultures.

"Breakthrough Problem Solving with Action Learning" explores why and how action learning groups have been so successful and creative in solving complex problems. The text begins by briefly reviewing the theories that undergird the effectiveness of action learning, philosophically situating readers and pointing them in the direction of related academic works that they may wish to explore. It then turns to stories of how organizations have employed action learning in solving specific, often-encountered business problems. These cases not only serve as real-world models for how action learning can be successfully employed, but also offer inspiration and potential starting points and guidelines for other businesses that face similar problems. The book concludes with a cross-case analysis that pinpoints the ingredients necessary for breakthrough problem solving via action learning.

Wie kann man als Fuhrungskraft arztliche Weiterbildung in der eigenen Abteilung oder Praxis optimieren? Wie lassen sich Arbeits- und Lernbedingungen unter den aktuellen Gegebenheiten so gestalten, dass aus Assistenzarzten fahige und engagierte Facharzte werden? Dieses Essential erlautert pragnant und fundiert drei bewahrte psychologische Theorien, mit deren Hilfe arztliche Fuhrungskrafte Weiterbildung in ihrem direkten Einflussbereich so effektiv wie moeglich gestalten koennen, und gibt hilfreiche Tipps zur praktischen Umsetzung im Berufsalltag.

Have you ever searched for the perfect puppy? Maddie Mae is doing just that. Will she find a perfect puppy?

Have you ever searched for the perfect puppy? Maddie Mae is doing just that. Will she find a perfect puppy?

Scholarly Research Paper from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 1,3, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, language: English, abstract: The Efficient market hypothesis can be considered as part of rational economics but it does not specify at all how individuals should or will act. Therefore it might be a useful model of the functioning of the market as a whole but it does not explain the behaviors of investors as well as managers and other participants. While the Efficient market hypothesis deals as a basis for understanding the normal working of the markets, from time to time it might happen that the market as a whole or an individual stock may act irrationally. Such behavior is well known and generally occurs when the market price of a share turns away from its intrinsic value. The result is what commonly is called a bubble. This term is often used but the reasons for the occurrence are quite unclear. In fact, at the same time as the market as a whole has become more efficient, instances of irrationality have become more common or at least appear to be. Therefore we try to discuss the question why capital markets, which are considered as efficient and perfect in theory, are volatile and imperfect in reality. The paper responds to this question by discussing mainly the irrational behavior of people by turning into the field of psychology. Furthermore it seeks for approaches of explanation conducted by different investment strategies containing among others an increased use of derivative instruments or single trades based on massive capacity which therefore influence prices. Methodology and Structure of the paper In general the paper can be divided in 3 parts, a theoretical as well as an analytical one and a final point the Conclusion (Part C) which sums up the basic findings of the paper. Whereas Part A can be regarded as delivering the theoretical background, Part B contains the empirical analysis based o

Science fiction looks into the future, or at what could exist, given what the human race knows or can imagine about the universe; or it looks at different versions of our past and present. Horror looks at the supernatural, or at particularly disturbing versions of what can exist, given the perversions of human nature. Fantasy looks at worlds or subject matter which can't exist, which we acknowledge as impossible. All are literature of ideas, with Australian writers drawing on the vast, often unforgiving, landscape we live in, the multi-cultural nature of the society around us and the lessons we're trying to learn from our history. The best stories provoke, inspire and entertain. The best stories . . . The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Theoretische (Erkenntnis, Wissenschaft, Logik, Sprache), Note: 1,0, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (Institut fur Philosophie, Lehrstuhl 2), Veranstaltung: Ausgewahlte Texte zur Analytischen Philosophie, 14 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Die "Uberwindung" ist einer der wichtigsten Aufsatze des Werks Rudolf Carnaps. Diese Arbeit - eine (kommentierte) Textwiedergabe dieses Aufsatzes - stellt einen ausfuhrlichen und fundierten Sekundartext zu Carnaps wirkungsmachtigem metaphysikkritischen Hauptwerk dar., Abstract: Die Abhandlung Uberwindung der Metaphysik durch logische Analyse der Sprache," die 1931 in der Zeitschrift Erkenntnis" erschien, gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Aufsatze der Analytischen Philosophie. In ihr entwickelt Carnap das Programm des logischen Empirismus weiter, das er hauptsachlich in seiner Habilitationsschrift Der logische Aufbau der Welt" (1928) und in Scheinprobleme in der Philosophie. Das Fremdpsychische und der Realismusstreit" (1928) entworfen hat. Der Aufbau" ist Carnaps erster Versuch, die Position des logischen Empirismus zu realisieren; in ihm findet sich Carnaps fruheste Metaphysikkritik. In Scheinprobleme" formuliert Carnap mit der Sachhaltigkeit" einen Vorlaufer des Sinnkriteriums, welchem in Uberwindung" zentrale Bedeutung zukommt. Schon hier stellt Carnap die radikale These auf, dass Satze, die uber die Empirie hinausgehen, sinnlos sind, und bezeichnet Probleme, die mithilfe solcher Scheinaussagen diskutiert werden, als Scheinprobleme. Uberwindung" ist eine Verfeinerung und Bekraftigung der in Scheinprobleme" formulierten Thesen, wobei Carnap besonders gegen die metaphysische Philosophie Heideggers argumentiert. Im Folgenden sollen nun die Thesen und der Gedankengang von Uberwindung" dargelegt werden.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Medizin - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (Institut fur Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin), Veranstaltung: Leib, Seele, Geist - Historische und ethische Fragen der Neurowissenschaften, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Kryonik, Uploading und Enhancement sind Ideen, die in der trans- und posthumanistischen Community einen zentralen Platz einnehmen, seit langerem diskutiert werden - und z. T. bereits in die Realitat umgesetzt sind. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden diese Ideen dargestellt und ihre ethischen Implikationen kritisch diskutiert.

An impressive overview of Human Resource Development programs the world over-touching on important issues in culture, environment, and geopolitics. The pro- and anti-globalization forces may be logically at odds, but there's little dispute on the inevitability of globalization's forward march. And as Michael Marquardt, Nancy Berger, and Peter Loan explain, the real issue is not stopping or promoting globalization, but rather how to minimize the negative effects of globalization and leverage its powerful, positive effects. Human Resource Development will play a key role in determining this transformation. At no time in history has HRD been more critical in solving urgent economic and social problems faced by a wide array of groups, communities, organizations, and nations. HRD in the Age of Globalization explores the best HRD programs in twelve geographic regions and their impact on culture, the global environment, and other geopolitical and demographic elements. This book not only answers all the questions that exist concerning this burgeoning field-it tells us what questions we should be asking.