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Work Process Knowledge
Work Process Knowledge brings together the findings of twenty-four leading researchers on new forms of work and the demands these place on workers' knowledge and skill. Their findings, based on a new set of investigations in a wide range of manufacturing and service industries, identify the kinds of knowledge required to work effectively in the post-Taylorist industrial organization. Raising fundamental issues for current industrial policy, science and technology policy, and ways of managing the post-Taylorist organization and developing human resources, this book will be of essential interest to academics and professionals working in the fields of management, human resource development, and workplace learning.
Systems, Social, and Internationalization Design Aspects of Human-computer Interaction
Please see Volume I for a full description.
Human-Computer Interaction
This is the second volume in the HCI International Conference Proceedings 2003. See following arrangement for details.
Not So Golden After All
Quality public education, modern highway systems, and reasonably priced housing—these are just some of the qualities that once made California one of the most desirable places to live. Just a few decades later, the state finds itself with an education system that is failing its citizens, one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, and a quickly evaporating dream of home ownership. Illustrating each step of the breakdown that led to its current state of dysfunction, Not So Golden After All: The Rise and Fall of California provides insight into a system gone amuck. It addresses complicated topics in an engaging manner to help the public and leaders alike understand how to make polic...
Virginia Government
Equally at home as a companion to an introductory text or as a stand-alone resource, Virginia Government offers an excellent introduction to the political institutions, actors, and policy processes of the Old Dominion State. Paying special attention to the governing arrangements that make Virginia unique, from statewide city-county separation to a single-term governor to shifting electoral alignments, Peaslee and Swartz strike the perfect balance, combining necessary background and historical analysis with current events and policy issues to make the information relevant and engaging for today’s students. Grounded in the comparative method, the text provides useful comparisons with governing institutions, political processes, and public polices in other states and localities.
Why Leaders Fight
Using in-depth research on famous leaders, this book explores how their life experiences fundamentally shape the reasons why nations go to war.
Making Government Work
As performance management has evolved, it has encompassed many different tools and approaches including measurement, data analysis, evidence-based management, process improvement, research and evaluation. In the past, many of the efforts to improve performance in government have been fragmented, separated into silos and labeled with a variety of different names including performance-based budgeting, performance-informed management, managing for results and so on. Making Government Work: The Promises and Pitfalls of Performance-Informed Management by Katherine Barrett and Rich Greene is loaded with dozens of stories of what practitioners are currently working on—what’s working and what’...
Metroburbia, USA
Decades of economic prosperity in the United States have redefined the American dream. Paul Knox explores how extreme versions of this dream have changed the American landscape. Increased wealth has led America?s metropolitan areas to develop into vast sprawling regions of?metroburbia??fragmented mixtures of employment and residential settings, combining urban and suburban characteristics. Upper-middle-class Americans are moving into larger homes in greater numbers, which leads Knox to explore the relationship between built form and material culture in contemporary society. He covers changes.
Congenial Authoritarian
Congenial Authoritarian: A Psychological Assessment of America's 43rd President is a book about former U.S President George W. Bush. The book is unique in that it puts forth a psychological assessment of the former president using biographical information and personality and psychology studies from the fields of political science, psychology, and organization theory. The assessment provides answers to questions such as why Bush allowed torture of Guantanamo Bay detainees and why he failed to catch Osama Bin Laden. What to expect from Bush as an ex-president is predicted and explained. The assessment uses newspaper accounts, television sound bites, interviews, speeches, biographies, documentaries, and writings by the former president as data sources. The book is written For The general public.
