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Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...Leadership, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 37–51. Cetinkaya, B., Cuthbertson, R., Ewer, G., Klaas-Wissing, T., Piotrowicz, W. and Tyssen, C. (2011) Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Practical Ideas for Moving Towards Best Practice, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg. Crandall, R. E., Crandall, W. R. and Chen, C. C. (2015) Principles of Supply Chain Management, 2nd edn, Boca Raton, FL,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...Leadership • Learning • Love • Loyalty • Openness • Optimism • Recognition • Respect • Responsibility • Security • Self-respect • Social connection • Spirituality • Stability • Status • Wealth • Wisdom If you want a longer list, use your preferred search engine to search ‘list of values’ and you’ll find many options. When you’ve...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...leadership. Clearly, all of these elements have an important role to play in delivering tangible change, but the linear, tabulated format of the plan as a whole sits less comfortably with the more improvised and generative approach at the heart of appreciative inquiry. One way to ensure that the process of designing for change in your inquiry maintains the momentum of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...leadership’, ‘performance’ result from human categorisation of the world and that their ‘meaning’ can change depending on the circumstances. For example, performance can mean different things to different people. For one it may refer to a hard measure such as levels of sales. For another it may include good relationships with customers. According to this latter...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Risk management Badge icon
Money & Business

Risk management

...leadership role. Adopt a systematic and holistic approach to risk identification, assessment and management. Comply with legislation and codes, but be prepared to seek further improvements. Ensure good communication with the others involved. Ensure that lasting systems for oversight and scrutiny are in place. Contribute to public awareness of risk. Indeed all UK companies...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...leadership and intercultural interactions. Part 3 Timing: 15 minutes Now compare these quotes with your own definitions. Answer the following questions: What aspects of culture do these quotes highlight that you might have not considered in your definition from Part 1? Which aspects of the authors’ definitions have you also come up with in your own summary? Part 4...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...leadership, learning, public pressure)? What practices does an innovative organisation engage in with respect to environmental management? Systems ideas are used to explore and develop critical perspectives on innovation in relation to environmental management by organisations. A systems approach raises the question of perspective: who decides what is innovation, what...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...leadership).’ At this point it is worth reiterating my earlier contention that the RBV approach has far wider utility than simply commercial organisations. However, as innovation is typically seen as of most importance to commercial enterprises, it is unsurprising that ‘firms’ and ‘companies’ – commercial entities – are the focus of attention rather than...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs