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This book addresses this gap and employs an empirical exploration of the way in which online-based protest activity concerning public education issues is constructed, mobilised, and carried out. The authors highlight three cases of online-based mobilisations in Israel, in which teachers and parents successfully affected public education policy.

Including a series of commentaries derived from research undertaken by the author with women working in tech clusters located within 'tech cities' in the UK, USA and East Asia regions, this book exposes the serious 'problem' of women's position in the tech industry and helps to find solutions and ways forward.

Although most jobs are initially designed by managers, employees also play an important role in this phase through a proactive behavior called 'job crafting'. It describes a bottom-up approach that consists of customizing and modifying structural, relational, and cognitive aspects of one's job to match personal skills, attitudes, and inclinations. The literature on this subject has been developing for over 20 years but requires a recapitulation to bring together different and often disconnected contributions and provide a concise research agenda for scholars wishing to approach the study of these issues. This book provides a conceptual framework on job crafting by demonstrating how its practice results in a more meaningful and satisfying work experience. This book is the first to investigate this area of study in such a complete and exhaustive way: it takes a managerial perspective to identify the antecedent and outcome variables of job crafting and suggests behaviors which managers should steer clear from to avoid facing negative and unexpected consequences.

This book is an investigation of the Swedish microchipping phenomenon and seeks to explain why, despite its many negative connotations in an international context, microchipping is relatively popular in Sweden. The author maps out the movement, examines its key drivers, and delves further to discover why Swedes generally have a high trust in technology, and show little resistance to testing it. The Swedish case is studied from the three main themes of surveillance, science fiction and transhumanism, and is built around interviews with Swedes who have embraced the technology. The arguments for and against microchipping are contextualised culturally and explained against a background of the long established Swedish relationship with advanced technology, and with their unique level of trust in the government. The book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students in digital culture related disciplines.

Natural evolution logic has been attracting the attention of researchers for years. More recently, it is being increasingly utilised in business and economics research where it provides the benefit of analysing a variety of organizational phenomena. This book provides new insights into the endogenous mechanism and the factors that influence it. It links the evolutionary approach, the process perspective, and the practice perspective in the area of strategy process, expanding the current research in multi-level logic within and beyond the organizations, and shows how the entire selection mechanisms behave at each level and how these mechanisms are connected across levels. This book: Takes an evolutionary perspective and focus on the selection suggesting that it can be explained not only by the interaction with the external environment, but also by internal - endogenous - factors. Proposes a multilevel selection mechanism that integrates the endogenous and exogenous pressures. Explains a managerial intervention and its effect on the adaptation mode concerning behavioral and cultural settings. Covers inter-organizational selection to build a complex picture of the selection.Evolutionary Selection Processes: Towards Intra-Organizational Facets will appeal to scholars and doctoral students in business and management, organization theory, organization behaviour, organizational change, and the strategic management field.

The benefits of mediation upon the development of children is an area that is yet to be fully explored. Mediation promotes learning through learner interactions with the environment and puts emphasis on the idea that society is responsible for all children's development.This book offers a unique practical model of effective mediation that integrates mediation theories from different periods and draws upon the work of five theoreticians; Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky, Feuerstein, and Gardner. Key results from more recent neuropedagogical research are also presented. Mediation and Thinking Development in Schools supports the idea that academic achievements are not enough to measure a child's development; forward-thinking educators know that they not only have to teach specific disciplinary content, but also knowledge and skills that will be useful in their students' future. Hence, there is a need to understand how to mediate knowledge acquisition rather than be the source of knowledge. By fully illuminating the theory and the practice of mediation, this important text will prove invaluable for leaders, researchers and teachers in primary and secondary education.

Designed for leadership and communication students, scholars, and practitioners, this book offers a timely exploration into the evolution of leadership, communication, and social influence, and sheds light on how we can all become more responsible leaders, followers, and citizens.

In this guide designed for researchers and students of computer science, readers will find a resource for how to apply methods that work on real-life problems to their challenging applications, and a go-to work that makes fuzzy clustering issues and aspects clear.

Intelligent Agriculture presents a real case study on the development of a state-of-the-art technology, the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), which intends to address fundamental and very current challenges in the agriculture sector using benchmark analysis of the WSN against other similar technologies.

The book deals with an increasingly crucial but under-researched topic, that is the crisis of theprofessional identity. It will be both theoretically driven and empirically focused, also attempting toprovide useful practical recommendations.

The most successful business leaders always have their own compelling philosophies, but all too often the thoughts and ideologies of high-profile African American leaders are forgotten or passed over. This exciting new study reflects on some of the leading black business pioneers of the late 19th and early 20th century.

As distance learning continues to grow, universities are seeking ways to integrate traditional student community service into online courses. Supported by seven years of successful implementation, this book presents an award-winning service-learning model through which online students serve as consultants to organizations nationwide.

This book examines the damaging impact of humiliation in human society. By using case studies of observed humiliation, the book discusses the power play between groups, organizations and nations. It shows how public shame can lead to damaging psychological states and violent responses amongst vulnerable individuals.

This book presents a comprehensive, systematic approach to the development of curricula in higher education in which each component is configured to optimize learning. The approach is based in an analysis of the psychophysics of the learner and employs theories of learning, instruction, and environment to design each component.

This book looks to ask critical questions about the driving force behind the growth of 'International Education' and 'international Schooling' and offers an original 'demand-supply' framework for understanding this expansion.

The book recognises three compartmental debates surrounding control, innovative entrepreneurship, and knowledge management which need to be integrated to support the entrepreneurial adventure. Acknowledging a need to build a bridge between theory and practice, the book provides a rich empirical analysis to support the theoretical issues raised.

IT Service Management (ITSM) is an imperative part of achieving business maturity, but has long been thought of only in technical terms, and not as part of a larger whole. In this exciting new take on ITSM, leading expert Beverly Weed-Schertzer positions ITSM at the heart of company strategy to build a layered operating model.

Leadership:The Current State of Play seeks to combine current academic andpractitioner thinking to present an illuminating and accessible overview ofhistorical and contemporary leadership thought.

Heroes permeate our culture. But what makes a hero? And what makes heroes 'heroic'? This exciting and innovative study explores how charisma and human needs create images of individuals as heroes and villains.

This book examines the fundamental problem of marketing orientation, considering the current state of marketing orientation, customer orientation, and an individual's role in the marketing process. It is a useful reference for marketing practitioners, students, and executives.

This book addresses the seismic political events of Donald Trump's presidency and the British vote to leave the EU. It explores why citizens vote against their own best interests, and demonstrates the role and value of universities in a time when evidence, expertise and facts often dissolve into opinion, emotion and fake news.

Jon-Arild Johannessen examines the history of knowledge management in order to highlight the contributions that the discipline can make to twenty-first-century strategic challenges.

This book examinesprecarious employment in Europe through the economic crisis. It draws on twomain sources: theories of how the financial and debt crisis coupled with labourmarket reforms to exacerbate precarity in the workforce; and data from the EuropeanLabour Force Survey from 2005-12, capturing various aspects of precariousemployment.

Anselm Strauss observed 40 years ago that the idea of social world was suffering from weak conceptualization and application to those areas of social life where this formation figures prominently in everyday activities. This book provides a coherent statement about what social worlds consist of, what they do, where they fit in social theory.

TheV-Model of Service Quality offers a powerful tool for measuringservice quality. This book grounds the theoretical interventions in data drawn from case studiesin the Sub-Saharan African context to make the models applicable to bothresearchers and working managers.

This book asks readers to recognize their obligations to the punished men and women in America and to reconsider the criminal desistance literature through empowerment and assimilation.

This book maps Twitter discourses on marginalised environmental concerns during the UK's 2016 EU referendum campaign. Focusing on EU institutional influence in British environmental protection policy and charting the roles played by ENGOs and British political parties, it reveals how British environmental politics extended onto Twitter.

Drawing upon a model developed over 25 years of experience and successfully taught for many years at his company Wilson Learning, Alberto Perez La Rotta presents a comprehensive and replicable approach to integrated business transformation that synchronizes natural human behavior with the needs of leadership, sales, customers, and teams.

This book aims to develop a blue print for Islamic economics and finance by starting at the grass roots of trade and commerce. It positions Islamic finance within the economic priorities of Islam while providing a cohesive understanding of Islamic economics and finance in a clear and practical manner.

This study uses the postmodern military model to measure how public perception of the military is influenced by self-identification in Taiwan. It unveils the schism that exists between military and society, contributing to low morale and a lack of esprit de corps that puts the island's forces at risk from an increasingly confident China.