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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...
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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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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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...
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...
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...
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...Leadership on Climate Change: What Can We Learn from Child-Led Initiatives in the U.S. and the Pacific Islands? Children, Youth and Environments, 28: 1, pp. 90–103. Donnelly, J. (2003) Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice. 2nd edition. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press Kraftl, P. (2020) ‘Plastic Childhoods’, in V. Cooper and N. Holford (eds)...
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...leadership of a Roman Catholic barrister, Daniel O’Connell (1775–1847, depicted in Figure 9). In 1823, O’Connell and Richard Lalor Sheil (1791–1851) founded the Catholic Association, an organisation that was remarkably successful in gaining support across the social spectrum in Ireland, from landed Catholics and the middle classes, to the illiterate, Irish...