The Great Work

The Great Work
Author: John Emmett Richardson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1906
Genre: Occultism
ISBN:

Biobusiness

Biobusiness
Author: Gurinder S. Shahi
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2005-06-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 141163439X

Compiled and adapted from completed assignments produced by USC graduate students participating in the inter-disciplinary course, "BioBusiness: A Strategic Perspective" (GSBA-599, Spring 2005), offered by the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.

Bridging the Diversity Divide

Bridging the Diversity Divide
Author: Edna Chun
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2009-05-18
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The sweeping forces of globalization present new challenges for higher education but also represent a clear mandate for change. Because of the unfinished business of remedying the representation of minorities and women in higher education, this book is designed to assist campus leaders and educators in the difficult process of cultural transformation in support of diversity and inclusion. The book explores the model of reciprocal empowerment as a moral framework linking the institution's values, culture, and workplace practices to the outside world through the prism of diversity. The focus is on research-based strategies which will enable institutions of higher education to assess current practices, create successful action plans, and move beyond structural representation to true reciprocal empowerment. The measurement strategies, organizational learning tools, and best practices included here will assist institutions of higher education in building a flexible repertoire of institutional approaches to reciprocal empowerment and inclusion.

Across the Great Divide

Across the Great Divide
Author: Rhys Davies
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 144387020X

There’s nothing pure about modernism. For all the later critical emphasis upon “medium specificity”, modernist artists in their own times revel in the exchange of motifs and tropes from one kind of art to another; they revel in staging events where different media play crucial roles alongside each other, where different media interfere with each other, to spark new and surprising experiences for their audiences. This intermediality and multi-media activity is the subject of this important collection of essays. The authoritative contributions cover the full historical span of modernism, from its emergence in the early twentieth century to its after-shocks in the 1960s. Studies include Futurism’s struggle to create an art of noise for the modern age; the radical experiments with poetry; painting and ballet staged in Paris in the early 1920s; the relationship of poetry to painting in the work of a neglected Catalan artist in the 1930s; the importance of architecture to new conceptions of performance in 1960s “Happenings”; and the complex exchange between film, music and sadomasochism that characterises Andy Warhol's “Exploding Plastic Inevitable”.

Routledge Handbook of Collaboration in Construction

Routledge Handbook of Collaboration in Construction
Author: Sina Moradi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 104010231X

This innovative Handbook aims to look at the logic, various dimensions, and implications of collaboration in construction. It opens with a conceptualization of collaboration and its accompanying terms (i.e., cooperation and coordination) and continues with chapters in Part I which discuss the theoretical grounds of collaboration between individuals and organizations from the viewpoints of an impressive variety of relevant disciplines including organizational science; anthropology; law; economics; design; and production. This is followed by discussions of the essence and value of collaboration in construction in Part II through explaining the role of collaborative project delivery methods and their benefits in advancing collaboration, describing the competency profile of project managers for collaborative construction, explaining key drivers and barriers of collaboration in construction, and explaining practices as well as challenges of measuring collaboration in construction. Then, in Part III, case projects are employed to explain the benefits of collaboration in different levels of team, project, and business, to discuss the role and impact of collaboration on site and bridging the divide between construction and facility management, to discuss the role of digitalization in facilitating and advancing collaboration, to explain collaboration in decision making, to present examples of collaborative visual management, and to outline the implications of stakeholders' early involvement and collaboration for project success. Finally, consideration is given to the future of collaboration in construction to conclude the book. This Handbook is key reading for a broad ranging audience within the fields of construction, project, infrastructure and engineering management, organisational science, economics, and business management.