71 research outputs found
Rich Dad Poor Dad: An Entrepreneurial Approach to the Teaching of Business French
No full textUS higher education has focused on the development of new cadres of employees to the near exclusion of entrepreneurship as a career path. In this article, the authors describe an entrepreneurial approach to the teaching of Business French. The senior author served as the course instructor while the junior author was a student who completed the course. To provide an entry into the world of global entrepreneurship, the senior author selected the French translation of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad. In parallel with the reading of Rich Dad, students completed a series of entrepreneurial course activities. Selected activities are described from the perspectives of both authors. The article ends with students’ feelings about (1) entrepreneurship, (2) future career plans, (3) the theme of the course, and (4) the use of Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad
A Negro on Mormonism
No full textA response in pamphlet form to the 1960 book "Mormonism and the Negro" by John J. Steward and William E. Berrett which advocated for white Latter Day Saints to "not accept Negroes as equals with whites.
Hope Matters: The Power of Social Work
No full textJulie Berrett-Abebe (with Mary Susan Convery) is a contributing author, The Power of Presence: Finding Hope in an Oncology Group Setting, Chapter 11.
When looking for a change or a solution to a problem, we turn to these manifestations of hope, both as individuals and on a societal level.The capacity to hope for change enables social workers to serve people who have experienced torture, trauma, drug addiction, domestic violence, or child abuse. The challenges facing clients are multilayered and complex, and require a sensitive, informed approach.Hope Matters: The Power of Social Work can inspire hope in each one of us, no matter our personal and professional challenges. The editors explore the stories of professional social workers in all fields of practice as they promote the clinical and community uses of hope to inspire their clients and help them solve seemingly intractable problems. The contributors to this collection highlight the role of resilience in making progress toward overcoming obstacles and reaching a positive outcome. Hope Matters is filled with uplifting examples of the power and importance of social work.Hope Matters: The Power of Social Work is a companion to the recently published Social Work Matters: The Power of Linking Policy and Practice, which has demonstrated social work\u27s central role in working toward achieving healthy functioning in society.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/education-books/1067/thumbnail.jp
The Oxford Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging, Second Edition
No full textJulie Berrett-Abebe (with Tamara J. Cadet and Peter Maramaldi) is a contributing author, Older Adults with Cancer, Chapter 31, pp. 331-342.
This Second Edition of the Handbook addresses the evolving interdisciplinary health care context and the broader social work practice environment, as well as advances in the knowledge base which guides social work service delivery in health and aging. This includes recent enhancements in the theories of gerontology, innovations in clinical interventions, and major developments in the social policies that structure and finance health care and senior services. In addition, the policy reforms of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act set in motion a host of changes in the United States healthcare system with potentially profound implications for the programs and services which provide care to older adults and their families. In this volume, the most experienced and prominent gerontological health care scholars address a variety of populations that social workers serve, and the arenas in which they practice, followed by detailed recommendations of best practices for an array of physical and mental health conditions. The volume\u27s unprecedented attention to diversity, health care trends, and implications for practice, research, policy make the publication a major event in the field of gerontological social work. This is a Must-Read for all social work social work educators, practitioners, and students interested in older adults and their families.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/education-books/1066/thumbnail.jp
Resources: Student Friendly Modeling Materials
No full textThe article presents cost-effective materials for elementary classrooms that allow students to create models. These materials include card stock, clay, cable or zips ties, fasteners and bolts, and commercially manufactured building kits such as LEGOs, Erector Sets, Tinkertoys and K\u27Nex. In addition, the author asserts the importance of using such materials in promoting student learning of technology and engineering
Factors in the implementation of a sustainable knowledge management programme
No full textPurpose
Knowledge Management (KM) is by now a recognized term, increasingly
accepted in the corporate community. This research contributes a better
understanding of its implementation by providing a list a factors, which though
each seems self-evident, their combination, and the experience acquired in
applying them would support practitioners applying KM, and constitute a
stepping stone for researchers for deepening the knowledge about it.
Research context
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), where this research has been conducted, is a
large aerospace and defence company that has gone through a change
process inclusive of KM implementation.
Research approach
A qualitative research strategy with a constructivist paradigm using action
research (the author also being the director of knowledge of the company), was
used. A case study methodology has been utilized over five divisions
representing the average KM performance in the company. Sources of
information have included questionnaires, interviews, data from the various
management tools employed by the programme, and author's observations.
Success factors for KM implementation
The factors relevant to the General Manager of an organization and to the
Knowledge Manager were found to be:
The profile of the knowledge manager.
The perception of relevance of KM to the business.
A structured framework for the organization to follow.
The acceptance of long term values.
Management support.
The openness of the General Manager to external knowledge.
The knowledge manager's initiative.
Originality is found in:
Application of a comprehensive KM framework, its procedures and
measures.
A multi-level measurement of KM goals as a link to the organization's
business goals.
Application of the Hoshin Kanri method for the management of KM.
Application of a staged assessment of maturity for a KM
implementation.
The factors mentioned above, their peculiar combination and further
understanding of the GM and the knowledge manager roles
Introduction to property theory - the fundamental theorems
No full textThe market system consists of a price mechanism, built on the foundation of a system of property, and contract. In many developing, and transition economies, the market system functions poorly. In many cases, if not most, the malfunctioning is not simply in the price system (for example, anti-competitive activities), but in the underlying property system (such as contracts being breached, and externalities in the sense of transfers not covered by contracts). Economic theory tends to take the functioning of the system of property, and contract for granted, and focuses on the operation of the price mechanism. Property theory focuses on the underlying system of property, and contract. In this paper, the author inaugurates the mathematical treatment of property theory.In contrast with earlier work in"law and economics", and the"new institutional economics", this approach uses principles drawn from jurisprudence, and does not attempt to reduce"law"to"economics"in the sense of efficiency considerations, such as the minimization of transaction costs. The main results are the two fundamental theorems of property theory that are analogous to the two fundamental theorems of price theory that, in essence, state that: 1) A competitive equilibrium is Pareto optimal. 2) Given a Pareto optimal state, there exists a set of prices such, that a competitive equilibrium at those prices would realize that Pareto optimal state.Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Municipal Housing and Land,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Municipal Housing and Land,Land and Real Estate Development
Organization Development: Principles, Processes, Performance
No full textDesigned for use in undergraduate and graduate programs in organization development, management, human resource development, and industrial and organizational psychology, Organization Development provides readers with an overview of the field and acquaints them with the basic principles, practices, values, and skills of OD. Covering every aspect of the work of an OD professional and featuring numerous illustrative case studies, it shows how OD professionals actually get work and what the first steps in any OD effort should be.
Author Gary McLean surveys different ways to assess an organizational situation—including a comparison of the Action Research and Appreciative Inquiry models—and provides forms for devising an action plan based on that assessment. He then looks at how to choose and implement a range of interventions at different levels, as well as how to evaluate the results of an intervention
Handbook for Learning-centred evaluation of Computer-facilitated learning projects in higher education
No full textThis handbook supports a project funded by the Australian Government Committee for University Teaching and Staff Development (CUTSD). The amended project title is “Staff Development in Evaluation of Technology-based Teaching Development Projects: An Action Inquiry Approach”.
The project is hosted by Murdoch University on behalf of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), as a consortium of 11 universities.
The rationale of the project is to guide a group of university staff through the evaluation of a Computer-facilitated Learning (CFL1) project by a process of action inquiry and mentoring, supported by the practical and theoretical material contained in this handbook
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