World Cultural Leaders of the Twentieth Century [2 Volumes]

World Cultural Leaders of the Twentieth Century [2 Volumes]
Author: Jennifer L. Durham
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2000-08-03
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Profiles the lives and accomplishments of over 400 individuals whose contributions to literature, art, film, dance, music, and theater helped shape international twentieth-century culture.

World Cultural Leaders of the Twentieth Century: L-Z

World Cultural Leaders of the Twentieth Century: L-Z
Author: Jennifer Durham Bass
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Contains entries that examine the lives and achievements of men and women throughout the world who have made significant contributions to twentieth-century art, literature, film, dance, music, and theater; arranged alphabetically from Larkin-to-Zukerman.

Managing Cultural Differences

Managing Cultural Differences
Author: Robert T. Moran
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2007-06-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136385347

This new edition of a business textbook bestseller has been completely updated to reflect the numerous global changes that have occurred since 1999: globalization, SARS, AIDS, the handover of Hong Kong, and so forth. In particular, the book presents a fuller discussion of global business today. Also, issues of terrorism and state security as they affect culture and business are discussed substantially. The structure and content of the book remains the same, with thorough updating of the plentiful region and country descriptions, demographic data, graphs and maps. This book differs from textbooks on International Management because it zeroes in on culture as the crucial dimension and educates students about the cultures around the world so they will be better prepared to work successfully for a multinational corporation or in a global context.

At the Center

At the Center
Author: Casey Nelson Blake
Publisher: American Thought and Culture
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2021-05-10
Genre: Nineteen fifties
ISBN: 9781538158432

At the Center explores the mode of perception and reflection which grasped at consensus and sought to determine "centers" or orienting norms, and prevailed across many registers of thought, imagination, and practice in the 1950s, as well as the varieties of argument and expression that escaped inclusion within coherent wholes.

The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations

The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations
Author: David Day
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 913
Release: 2014-05-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190213779

As the leadership field continues to evolve, there are many reasons to be optimistic about the various theoretical and empirical contributions in better understanding leadership from a scholarly and scientific perspective. The Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations brings together a collection of comprehensive, state-of-the-science reviews and perspectives on the most pressing historical and contemporary leadership issues - with a particular focus on theory and research - and looks to the future of the field. It provides a broad picture of the leadership field as well as detailed reviews and perspectives within the respective areas. Each chapter, authored by leading international authorities in the various leadership sub-disciplines, explores the history and background of leadership in organizations, examines important research issues in leadership from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives, and forges new directions in leadership research, practice, and education.

Culture, Leadership, and Organizations

Culture, Leadership, and Organizations
Author: Robert J. House
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2004-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1452208123

Culture, Leadership, and Organizations reports the results of a ten-year research program, the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) research program. GLOBE is a long-term program designed to conceptualize, operationalize, test, and validate a cross-level integrated theory of the relationship between culture and societal, organizational, and leadership effectiveness. A team of 160 scholars worked together since 1994 to study societal culture, organizational culture, and attributes of effective leadership in 62 cultures. Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies reports the findings of the first two phases of GLOBE. The book is primarily based on the results of the survey of over 17,000 middle managers in three industries: banking, food processing, and telecommunications, as well as archival measures of country economic prosperity and the physical and psychological well-being of the cultures studied. GLOBE has several distinguishing features. First, it is truly a cross-cultural research program. The constructs were defined, conceptualized, and operationalized by the multicultural team of researchers. Second, the industries were selected through a polling of the country investigators, and the instruments were designed with the full participation of the researchers representing the different cultures. Finally, the data in each country were collected by investigators who were either natives of the cultures studied or had extensive knowledge and experience in that culture. A unique feature of this book is that while it is an edited book and many experts have written the different chapters, unlike other edited books, it is a fully integrated, seamless, and cohesive book covering the many aspects of the theory underpinning the GLOBE.

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Author: Dave Tell
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0271060255

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening in American cultural politics. In the twentieth century alone, the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.