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Project management across diverse cultures
No full textChapter in BookPlease cite as follows:Engelbrecht, L. K. 2012. Project management across diverse cultures in Spolander, G. & Martin, L. (eds). Successful Project Management in Social Work and Social Care: Managing Resources, Assessing Risks and Measuring Outcomes. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers . 148-161.INTRODUCTION: Throughout this book we have sought to develop your skills and understanding of project management and have used case studies to help your understanding from a largely UK context. This final chapter seeks to take a wider perspective and to develop a framework of project management across different cultures. This is important in an increasingly globalised world and has implications for the assumptions that we may make as project managers. Indeed, Spolander, Pullen-Sansfaçon, Brown & Engelbrecht (2011) in their study of Canada, South Africa and England, highlighted that the social-political contexts for the delivery of social welfare services vary considerably. Project managers in the social work and social care sector should therefore be mindful of globalisation and the migration of people and cultures. Hence, unsubstantiated assumptions cannot be made about cultures in project management as a result. Additionally, project managers who wish to work within other international social welfare contexts as part of their career progression, should develop their skills and understanding to reflect this global reality.Post-prin
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Gary Gildner
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner explains why he left his tenured teaching position to move to Idaho to became a full-time writer of poetry. Gildner talks about donating his personal papers to Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections, his writing style and how he approaches writing. Gildner is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Author Gary Gildner reads his selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner reads "Sleepy time gal," "Pavol Hudak, the poet, is talking," and "Genealogy" then answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of the Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Dress, law and naked truth : a cultural study of fashion and form
No full textWhy are civil authorities in so-called liberal democracies affronted by public nudity and the Islamic full-face 'veil'? Why is law and civil order so closely associated with robes, gowns, suits, wigs and uniforms? Why is law so concerned with the 'evident' and the need for justice to be 'seen' to be done? Why do we dress and obey dress codes at all? In this, the first ever study devoted to the many deep cultural connections between dress and law, the author addresses these questions and more. His responses flow from the radical thesis that 'law is dress and dress is law'. Engaging with sources from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare, Carlyle, Dickens and Damien Hirst, Professor Watt draws a revealing history of dress and civil order and offers challenging conclusions about the nature of truth and the potential for individuals to fit within the forms of civil life
Letter from Gary Okihiro, professor, Department of Asian American Studies at Cornell University to Michi Weglyn
No full textA letter from Asian American studies professor Gary Okihiro to Michi Weglyn apologizing for a critical review he wrote of her book "Years of Infamy" in 1977.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
The English model of service user involvement in social work education : a challenge for South Africa
No full textPlease cite as follows:Engelbrecht, L.K., Spolander, G. & Pullen-Sansfaçon, A 2010. The English model of service user involvement in social work education: A challenge for South Africa? Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI). Cape Town: South Africa.Power point slidesOriginal work
Portrait of Fred Hilmer [transparency] /
No full textCondition: Good.; Title supplied by artist, see acquisition file number 204/08/00063-02.; Part of the collection of photographs of portraits of prominent Australians. "Fred Hilmer (& Prof Lex Donaldson), Prof, associate dean author of the Hilmer Report, AGSM, University of New South Wales."--Note from artist
Portrait of Helen Hughes [transparency] /
No full textCondition: Good.; Title supplied by artist, see acquisition file number 204/08/00063-02.; Part of the collection of photographs of portraits of prominent Australians. Emeritus Professor of Economics Helen Hughes AO joined the CIS staff as a Senior Fellow in April 1998. Helen has had a long association with the Centre, and is co-author of the CIS Monographs Australias Asian Challenge and Working Youth. Helen has worked at the University of New South Wales, the University of Queensland and the World Bank before taking the position of Professor of Economics at the Australian National University in 1983. She was also Director of the National Centre for Development Studies, and presented the Boyer Lectures in 1985
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