While executives are keen to harness organizational knowledge and improve business performance, the topic of how academics can produce rigorous and relevant theory in working relationships with practitioners is a much contested topic. Many aspects of this knowledge co-creation can create tensions, and the ways in which research is conducted and published can affect practitioner acceptance, as well as its consequent uptake and use in different contexts.Expertly compiled by Jean Bart...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.After losing her beloved husband, eighty-four-year-old Jane McKenzie moves into the elegant Talmadge House retirement community in Norfolk, Virginia. She expects quiet days filled with gardens, card games, and gentle companionship. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of a deadly puzzle.When several difficult, sharp-tongued residents die suddenly under seemingly natural circumstances, Jane grows suspicious. Teaming up with h...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.After losing her beloved husband, eighty-four-year-old Jane McKenzie moves into the elegant Talmadge House retirement community in Norfolk, Virginia. She expects quiet days filled with gardens, card games, and gentle companionship. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of a deadly puzzle.When several difficult, sharp-tongued residents die suddenly under seemingly natural circumstances, Jane grows suspicious. Teaming up with h...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.After losing her beloved husband, eighty-four-year-old Jane McKenzie moves into the elegant Talmadge House retirement community in Norfolk, Virginia. She expects quiet days filled with gardens, card games, and gentle companionship. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of a deadly puzzle.When several difficult, sharp-tongued residents die suddenly under seemingly natural circumstances, Jane grows suspicious. Teaming up with h...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.After losing her beloved husband, eighty-four-year-old Jane McKenzie moves into the elegant Talmadge House retirement community in Norfolk, Virginia. She expects quiet days filled with gardens, card games, and gentle companionship. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of a deadly puzzle.When several difficult, sharp-tongued residents die suddenly under seemingly natural circumstances, Jane grows suspicious. Teaming up with h...

How to Get a PhD is the market leading, classic book for PhD students and their supervisors.

Many of today’s books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project management. This book takes a completely different approach. It contests the claims that the tools and techniques are based on evidence and explains why human activities of leading and managing are simply not amenable to scientific proof and consequently, why long-term futures of organizations are unpredictable.T...

There is a large body of shared knowledge between the study of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management but despite the crossover, they are often treated as very distinct disciplines. Written by a team of experts across both fields, Organizational Behaviour bridges the gap between OB and HRM, with an emphasis on inter-cultural and cross-cultural perspectives of organizational development, talent management, and leadership. Through a critical analysis...

Management and leadership are increasingly important within the organisation and delivery of social care services and now form part of the post qualification framework for social workers. Yet, whilst there is a relatively broad understanding of management concepts and their application in social care, their foundations often go unchallenged both by students and managers. Furthermore, leadership is open to a wide range of interpretations and is often ill-defined with the expectation that we...

Leadership in English Language Education: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Skills for Changing Times presents both theoretical approaches to leadership and practical skills leaders in English language education need to be effective. Discussing practical skills in detail, and providing readers with the opportunity to acquire new skills and apply them in their own contexts, the text is organized around three themes:The roles and characteristics of leader...

With the growth of work based learning and practitioner research this book leads the way by addressing key issues faced by ′insider-researchers′ - learners, practitioners and managers doing research projects in the organizations and communities in which they themselves work, or where they are already familiar with the setting.The authors explore the implications of these research contexts, and discuss approaches and methodologies that work based researchers might adopt, with a part...

The book discusses the idea of the learning community as a vehicle for professional learning and school development.As the authors show, the learning community develops in response to building capacity in three domains: personal, interpersonal and organizational. In the personal domain, educators deconstruct and reconstruct their professional narratives to enhance student learning and professional practice. In the interpersonal domain, educators generate norms and values that foste...