Chrysalis Effect

Chrysalis Effect
Author: Philip Slater
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2008-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1782840885

Shows that the chaos and conflict experienced world-wide are the result of a global cultural metamorphosis, one which has accelerated so rapidly over the decades as to provoke fierce resistance. This book explains the metamorphosis of global culture whereby old cultural assumptions are challenged and innovations are seen as a social ill.

The Chrysalis Effect

The Chrysalis Effect
Author: Philip Elliot Slater
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN:

Shows that the chaos and conflict experienced world-wide are the result of a global cultural metamorphosis, one which has accelerated so rapidly over the decades as to provoke fierce resistance. This book explains the metamorphosis of global culture whereby old cultural assumptions are challenged and innovations are seen as a social ill.

Visual Leaders

Visual Leaders
Author: David Sibbet
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012-12-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118471652

What Visual Meetings did for meetings and Visual Teams did for teams, this book does for leaders Visual Leaders explores how leaders can support visioning and strategy formation, planning and management, and organizationchange through the application of visual meeting and visual team methodologies organization wide—literally "trans-forming" communications and people's sense of what is possible. It describes seven essential tools for visual leaders—mental models, visual meetings, graphic templates, decision theaters, roadmaps, Storymaps, and virtual visuals—and examples of methods for implementation throughout an organization. Written for all levels of leadership in organizations, from department heads through directors, heads of strategic business units, and "C" level executives Explores how communications has become interactive and graphic and how these tools can be used to shape direction and align people for implementation Brings tools, methods and frameworks to life with stories of real organizations modeling these practices Visual Leaders answers the question of how design thinking and visual literacy can help to orient leaders to the complexity of contemporary organizations in the private, non-profit, and public sectors.

The Problem with Science

The Problem with Science
Author: R. Barker Bausell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0197536549

Recent events have vividly underscored the societal importance of science, yet the majority of the public are unaware that a large proportion of published scientific results are simply wrong. The Problem with Science is an exploration of the manifestations and causes of this scientific crisis, accompanied by a description of the very promising corrective initiatives largely developed over the past decade to stem the spate of irreproducible results that have come to characterize many of our sciences. More importantly, Dr. R. Barker Bausell has designed it to provide guidance to practicing and aspiring scientists regarding how (a) to change the way in which science has come to be both conducted and reported in order to avoid producing false positive, irreproducible results in their own work and (b) to change those institutional practices (primarily but not exclusively involving the traditional journal publishing process and the academic reward system) that have unwittingly contributed to the present crisis. There is a need for change in the scientific culture itself. A culture which prioritizes conducting research correctly in order to get things right rather than simply getting it published.

Science Fictions

Science Fictions
Author: Stuart Ritchie
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1250222680

An insider’s view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon – and how the system can be reformed. Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless – or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, nutrition, education, genetics, economics, and the search for extraterrestrial life. As Science Fictions makes clear, the current system of research funding and publication not only fails to safeguard us from blunders but actively encourages bad science – with sometimes deadly consequences. Stuart Ritchie’s own work challenging an infamous psychology experiment helped spark what is now widely known as the “replication crisis,” the realization that supposed scientific truths are often just plain wrong. Now, he reveals the very human biases, misunderstandings, and deceptions that undermine the scientific endeavor: from contamination in science labs to the secret vaults of failed studies that nobody gets to see; from outright cheating with fake data to the more common, but still ruinous, temptation to exaggerate mediocre results for a shot at scientific fame. Yet Science Fictions is far from a counsel of despair. Rather, it’s a defense of the scientific method against the pressures and perverse incentives that lead scientists to bend the rules. By illustrating the many ways that scientists go wrong, Ritchie gives us the knowledge we need to spot dubious research and points the way to reforms that could make science trustworthy once again.

Social Media

Social Media
Author: Regina Luttrell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2016-08-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1442265256

Updated to reflect the latest innovations, this second edition of Social Media helps readers understand the foundations of and principles behind social media; manage and participate within online communities; and succeed in the changing field of modern public relations.

Key Topics in Psychological Methods

Key Topics in Psychological Methods
Author:
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2022
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 3031199227

This volume features cutting-edge and impactful articles from across Springer's diverse journals publishing program. In this curated collection, our editorial team has brought together highly-cited and downloaded articles on the topic of Psychological Methods into one single resource. Moreover, this book enables readers to review a broad spectrum of quality research on a specialized topic, which we hope facilitates interdisciplinary and critical discussions of the topic at hand. As part of the Key Topics in Behavioral Sciences book series, this volume aims to serve as a quick reference for readers when writing or researching new topics or subject areas. Other topics in the series will include Psychological Research Methods, Health and Behavior, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Sports Psychology, and Consumer Behavior. In the first section of the volume, articles focus on such topics as Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Learning, Human Evolution, Human-Computer Interaction, Referential Triangle, Social Interaction, Differences, Diversity, Evolution, Genetics, Populations, and Race. Next, the second section features research on Double Dialogicality, Generalization, Qualitative Research, Single Case, Data Analysis, Data Screening, Insufficient Effort Responding, Research Design, Research Methods, and Survey Research. Lastly in the final section of this collection, Data Snooping, Harking, Publication Bias, Simulation, Open Science, Philosophy Of Science, Questionable Research Practices, Research Ethics, Content-Analysis, Dictionary Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Structural Topic Modeling, Text Analysis, Thematic Analysis, and Topic Modeling are discussed.

Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management

Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
Author: M. Ronald Buckley
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2023-09-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1837533881

Contributions include an analysis of professional touching behaviour, ideas about the state of our science in HRM, novel integration of work-life flexibility issues, processes that occur in expatriate turnover, and suggestions concerning the state of human resource process research.

The Making of Indian Diplomacy

The Making of Indian Diplomacy
Author: Deep K. Datta-Ray
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2015-05-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190612959

Diplomacy is conventionally understood as an authentic European invention which was internationalised during colonialism. For Indians, the moment of colonial liberation was a false dawn because the colonised had internalised a European logic and performed European practices. Implicit in such a reading is the enduring centrality of Europe to understanding Indian diplomacy. This Eurocentric discourse renders two possibilities impossible: that diplomacy may have Indian origins and that they offer un-theorised potentialities. Abandoning this Eurocentric model of diplomacy, Deep Datta-Ray recognises the legitimacy of independent Indian diplomacy and brings new practices He creates a conceptual space for Indian diplomacy to exist, forefronting civilisational analysis and its focus on continuities, but refraining from devaluing transformational change.

Anomalies in Net Present Value, Returns and Polynomials, and Regret Theory in Decision-Making

Anomalies in Net Present Value, Returns and Polynomials, and Regret Theory in Decision-Making
Author: Michael C. I. Nwogugu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2017-06-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137446986

This book explores why Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR) and Net Present Value (NPV) are not necessarily accurate or efficient tools for valuation and decision-making. The author specifically addresses the biases and framing effects inherent in the NPV/MIRR/IRR model and in related approaches such as Adjusted Present Value (APV), Net Future Value (NFV), and by extension, Polynomials. In doing so, the book presents new ways of solving higher order polynomials using invariants and homomorphisms and explains why the “Fundamental Theorem of Algebra”, the Binomial Theorem and the “Descartes Sign Rule” are unreliable. Chapters also discuss how International Asset Pricing Theory (IAPT) and Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Models (ICAPM) can produce inaccurate results in certain circumstances. The conditions under which ICAPM and IAPT may be accurate are described; as well as why those conditions cannot, or are unlikely to, exist. The conditions under which negative interest rates may exist or are justified are also outlined. Moreover, the author explains why traditional Consumption-Savings-Investment-Production models of allocation can be inefficient, and then introduces a new model of allocation that can be applied to individuals, households and companies. Finally, the book explains why the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution is a flawed concept and introduces the Marginal Rate of Intertemporal Joint Substitution as a solution.