Strategies for Supporting Inclusion and Diversity in the Academy

Strategies for Supporting Inclusion and Diversity in the Academy
Author: Gail Crimmins
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2020-06-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030435938

This book explores tried and tested strategies that support student and faculty engagement and inclusion in the academy. These strategies are anchored by a brief exploration of the history and effect/s of exclusion and deprivilege in higher education. However, while many publications exploring academic inequality focus on the causes and impacts of structural, psychological and cultural exclusion based on racism, sexism, classism and ableism, they rarely engage in interventions to expose and combat such de/privilege. Capturing examples of inclusive practices that are as diverse as student and faculty populations, these strategies can be easily translated and employed by organisations, collectives and individuals to recognise and combat social and academic exclusion within higher education environments.

Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy

Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy
Author: Gail Crimmins
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2019-01-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030048527

This book harnesses the expertise of women academics who have constructed innovative approaches to challenging existing sexual disadvantage in the academy. Countering the prevailing postfeminist discourse, the contributors to this volume argue that sexism needs to be named in order to be challenged and resisted. Exploring a complex, intersectional and diverse arrangement of resistance strategies, the contributors outline useful tools to resist, subvert and identify sexist policy and practice that can be deployed by organisations and collectives as well as individuals. The volume analyses pedagogical, curriculum and research approaches as well as case studies which expose, satirise and subvert sexism in the academy: instead, embodied and slow scholarship as political tools of resistance are introduced. A call for action against the propagation of sexism and gender disadvantage in the academy, this important book will appeal to students and scholars of sexism in higher education as well as all those committed to working towards gender e/quality.

Academic Libraries and the Academy

Academic Libraries and the Academy
Author: Marwin Britto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Academic libraries
ISBN: 9780838989456

"Academic Libraries and the Academy is a thorough collection of best practices, lessons learned, approaches, and strategies of how librarians, library professionals, and others in academic libraries around the world are successfully providing evidence of their contributions to student academic success and effectively demonstrating their library's value and worth to institutional administrators and stakeholders. Forty-two case studies are divided into four sections--from beginning assessment work through assessment activities that are more difficult to measure and generally more time- and resource-intensive--to provide practicable ideas and effective strategies for all levels of experience, assessment skills, stages of implementation, and access to resources"--

Building Gender Equity in the Academy

Building Gender Equity in the Academy
Author: Sandra Laursen
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1421439387

Grounded in scholarship but written for busy institutional leaders, Building Gender Equity in the Academy is a handbook of actionable strategies for faculty and administrators working to improve the inclusion and visibility of women and others who are marginalized in the sciences and in academe more broadly.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution

The 4 Disciplines of Execution
Author: Chris McChesney
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016-04-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451627068

BUSINESS STRATEGY. "The 4 Disciplines of Execution "offers the what but also how effective execution is achieved. They share numerous examples of companies that have done just that, not once, but over and over again. This is a book that every leader should read! (Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of "The Innovator s Dilemma)." Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organization? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities? By the time it finally disappeared, it s likely no one even noticed. What happened? The whirlwind of urgent activity required to keep things running day-to-day devoured all the time and energy you needed to invest in executing your strategy for tomorrow. "The 4 Disciplines of Execution" can change all that forever.

The Rhythm of Strategy

The Rhythm of Strategy
Author: Marleen Dieleman
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9053560335

An insightful analysis of the strategy of one of Southeast Asia's largest family business groups.

Diversity, Conflict, and Leadership

Diversity, Conflict, and Leadership
Author: M. Afzalur Rahim
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351522000

Current Topics in Management is an annual scholarly journal and this volume is divided into four major sections: Managing Conflict and Justice; Leadership, Social Capital, and Personality; Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management; and Ethics, Learning, and Change. These contributions seek an integration of theory, research, and practice, which is the essential goal of Current Topics in Management.The first section contains two empirical studies on organizational conflict and a theoretical work that addresses the application of organizational justice theory to consumer behavior. The second section contains three empirical studies relating to the leadership language used by senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama during the last presidential election, building social capital through leader-member exchanges, and the big-five personality and financial performance of fund managers. Section three contains an essay on revising Phelan's model on entrepreneurship and a case study on a small business organization. The fourth section contains three contributions, two theoretical papers and an empirical study of the administration of state governments.The contributions included are "The Moderating Role of Social Attitudes on the Relationship between Diversity and Conflict" "The Effects of Geographic Dispersion and Team Tenure" "Fairness and Consumer Behavior" "Obama vs. Clinton: Exploring the Impact of Leadership Language" "Social Capital Via Leader" "Financial Performance of Fund Managers" "A Conceptual Framework Linking Entrepreneurs to International New Venture Competitiveness" and "BSL Printing Company: A Case Study."

State-Owned Multinationals

State-Owned Multinationals
Author: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319517155

This book provides a deep understanding of state-owned multinationals (SOMNCs) and their role in global business. SOMNCs have emerged as a force to contend with in global competition, and their study connects several fields such as economics, political economy, international business and global strategy. This prestigious collection of articles presents insights into the interaction between government ownership and internationalization, and aims to provoke new research approaches and insights on the topic. The book includes some of the key contributions to our understanding of these firms and new commentaries explaining how to analyze them. This book is essential reading for academics and consultants looking to gain a clearer understanding of SOMNCs and how to research them.

Current Issues in International Entrepreneurship

Current Issues in International Entrepreneurship
Author: Hamid Etemad
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2013-11-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1781953422

The editors and contributors to this volume show how conventional theories of entrepreneurship and business do not fully address the challenges inherent in achieving and sustaining global competitiveness. Over the course of 11 research-based chapters,

International Business in a VUCA World

International Business in a VUCA World
Author: Rob van Tulder
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2019-10-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1838672559

Dedicated to Professor Peter Buckley, OBE, this volume of Progress in International Business Research explores the new challenges for MNEs, SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) and INVs (International New Ventures) emerging from this changing and increasingly unpredictable political, economic, social and technological VUCA world.