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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Workshops are moderated and prepared in advance working meetings in which participants devote themselves to a limited topic outside of regular organizational interaction. In recent years, a paradigm shift in the planning and implementation of workshops has emerged in the facilitation and consulting industry. According to the new paradigm, workshops are seen as elements in broader interaction plans, in which they are supplemented by equally important interaction events such as contract talks, exploratory interviews or major conferences. Especially where workshops are aimed at organizational change, they are embedded in a more comprehensive change architecture. This book shows in compact form how workshops can be woven into a comprehensive interaction plan and thus used as an element of organizational change processes. 49 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Can science understand literally everything Can every mystery of nature eventually be explained given enough research attention and generous funding Will our knowledge, supplemented by the power of AI, keep growing without bounds Can truth be found in every raging academic debate Much of the development of modern mathematics has been shaped -- consciously or not -- by trying to answer these questions. This book is meant to be an accessible and, hopefully, amusing exploration of the basic and fundamental mathematical principles that limit what can be known and understood. These principles demarcate the boundary fence of science which neither a human nor an artificial mind can see beyond. 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Workshops are moderated and prepared in advance working meetings in which participants devote themselves to a limited topic outside of regular organizational interaction. In recent years, a paradigm shift in the planning and implementation of workshops has emerged in the facilitation and consulting industry. According to the new paradigm, workshops are seen as elements in broader interaction plans, in which they are supplemented by equally important interaction events such as contract talks, exploratory interviews or major conferences. Especially where workshops are aimed at organizational change, they are embedded in a more comprehensive change architecture. This book shows in compact form how workshops can be woven into a comprehensive interaction plan and thus used as an element of organizational change processes.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Companies are no longer the only organizations thatdevelop mission statements; administrations, hospitals,universities, schools and associations are following. After a phase of euphoria in which true miracles wereexpected, mission statements have come underincreasing critique for their moralizing overtones. Byapplying new approaches from organizational research,this book shows how thedevelopment and disseminationof missionstatements can be arranged in sucha way that two seemingly contradicting goals areachieved. On the one hand the management of theorganization's 'display side' to the outside world canbe supported, on the other hand new room can becreated for the analysis of the unavoidable structuralconflicts that emerge in organizations.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Organizations construct their environments themselves. From the bewildering, chaotic array of impressions, they take those bits of information that enable them to produce such a view of the environment one that makes it possible for them to operate in the environment with relative confidence. Thus, contrary to what traditional market research suggests, organizations do not respond objectively to existing environmental conditions, but invent, construct and create their realities themselves.The goal of exploring the environment or, more specifically, exploring markets is to influence this construction process through re-framing, de-generalization and hypothesis formation and thus to allow organizations to discover unusual things.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Can science understand literally everything Can every mystery of nature eventually be explained given enough research attention and generous funding Will our knowledge, supplemented by the power of AI, keep growing without bounds Can truth be found in every raging academic debate Much of the development of modern mathematics has been shaped -- consciously or not -- by trying to answer these questions. This book is meant to be an accessible and, hopefully, amusing exploration of the basic and fundamental mathematical principles that limit what can be known and understood. These principles demarcate the boundary fence of science which neither a human nor an artificial mind can see beyond.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This open access book provides a novel framework for understanding the connections between philosophy and public administration. It proposes four key directions of inquiry to help better understand the relationship between these two areas of research and practice: philosophy for public administration, mapping backwards, aligning philosophy and public administration, and philosophy of public administration. Each of these directions of inquiry are analyzed in turn, underlining the functions that philosophy applied to public administration perform, and the ways in which philosophy and philosophical thinking can benefit the development of public administration and governance. A research program outlining the features of a philosophy of public administration for the 21st century is delineated. An essential read for both academics and practitioners, the book will appeal to all those interested in public administration, public management, governance, and philosophy. 172 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This open access book provides a novel framework for understanding the connections between philosophy and public administration. It proposes four key directions of inquiry to help better understand the relationship between these two areas of research and practice: philosophy for public administration, mapping backwards, aligning philosophy and public administration, and philosophy of public administration. Each of these directions of inquiry are analyzed in turn, underlining the functions that philosophy applied to public administration perform, and the ways in which philosophy and philosophical thinking can benefit the development of public administration and governance. A research program outlining the features of a philosophy of public administration for the 21st century is delineated. An essential read for both academics and practitioners, the book will appeal to all those interested in public administration, public management, governance, and philosophy. 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book offers a unique exploration of the social and emotional impacts of working in new, flexible ways such as the increasingly popular hybrid work modes. With a specific focus on fun and play, the book is based on recent ethnographic research exploring how hybrid work has changed workplace behaviours and interactions, and how these social aspects of work are increasingly important in hybrid work. Fun and play are still happening but are occurring in new ways and forms as workers navigate fast-changing workscapes while still seeking happiness, frivolity, and laughter in their work relationships. The book presents current debates on these topics along with rich organisational (observed) examples, online chat, and interview excerpts from a variety of workers and managers.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Part I The Myth of Liberal Bias in Psychology.- 1. Universities Under Fire.- 2. Psychology at the Centre of Cancel Culture.- 3. The Claim of Liberal Bias in Psychology.- 4. The Problem with Claims about Psychology's 'Liberal Bias'.- 5. Culture War Psychology: Why the Liberal Bias Myth Persists, and Why it is Damaging.- 6. Liberal Bias in Psychology: An Intellectual Mirage.- Part II Conservative Psychology, Past and Present.- 7. Legacy Conservatism.- 8. What the Standard History of Psychology Usually Ignores.- 9. Psychology's Roots in Theology.- 10. Psychology's Roots in Class Conflict.- 11. Psychology's Roots in Eugenics.- 12. Psychology's Conservative Paradigms.- 13. From Conservative Past to Neoliberal Present.- Part III Psychology, Capitalism, and Human Welfare.- 14. Hierarchies and Hysteria.- 15. The Contrivance of Capitalist Minds.- 16. Capitalist Psychology.- 17. The Capitalist Denial of Illness.- 18. 'Personality Is Bad For You'.- 19. The Psychologising of the Sick.- 20. Unidentified Psychic Objects.- 21. Pathology and Protectionism.- Part IV Modernity and Declinism.- 22. Generation Snowflake.- 23. Depoliticising Youth Anxiety.- 24. Biological Reductionism Revisited.- Part V The Coddling of Conservative Minds.- 25. How Psychology Reinforces (and thus Perpetuates) Social Conservatism.- 26. Example #1: By Standing Up Against Safetyism.- 27. Example #2: By Pathologising Dissent.- 28. Example #3: By Labelling Deviance.- 29. Example #4: By Stigmatising Negativity.- 30. Example #5: By 'Othering' Ethnic Minorities.- 31. Example #6: By Policing Gender Identity.- 32. Example #7: By Perpetuating Traditional Gender Stereotypes.- 33. Example #8: By Exceptionalising Humanity.- Part VI Psychology's Whiteness Problem.- 34. Weird Science.- 35. Structural Racism in Psychology.- 36. Mechanisms of Whiteness.- 37. Silence as Supremacy.- Part VII Academic Exceptionalism and Psychology's Blind Eye.- 38. Internalising the War on 'Woke'.- 39. Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience.- 40. Exceptionalism in Psychology.- Part VIII Beyond 'Liberal Bias': Four Paths to a Well-Adjusted Psychology.- 41. Rights and Responsibilities.- 42. Path #1: Effortful Diversity.- 43. Path #2: Constructive Action in Education and Academia.- 44. Path #3: Constructive Action in the Public Square.- 45. Path #4: De-privileging Psychology.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This Second Edition introduces the technical features that make up blockchain technology today, including the numerous changes that have occurred since the publication of the prior edition. The author begins with an updated explanation of all technological concepts necessary to understand any discussions related to distributed ledgers and a short history of earlier implementations. The book covers the Ethereum network, cryptocurrencies running on top of the network, and smart contracts, and the various private and public platforms. The author also presents an up-to-date overview of the blockchain networks that readers can use to build solutions of their own and the tools that can help them in the process. This new edition expands upon the first edition by incorporating discussion of recent developments in the blockchain landscape, including major events and new algorithms.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -When science directs its theoretical and empirical tools toward itself, metatheoretical reflections or sociological studies of science emerge. It examines the function of science for society and explores its relationship to politics. This book does all of this (to some extent). In a different way. Ironically and satirically. It is largely based on the phenomenological, everyday experience of this 'system' and its peculiarities. This experience, captured in caricatures, is in turn linked back to theoretical considerations, particularly neopragmatism with its constitutive ideas of contingency, the importance of language, and irony as a tool for coping with the world. And, of course, its contribution to problem-solving. The book is aimed at people involved with university lifedirectly or indirectly. But it is particularly aimed at people who are just approaching university life, who react with alienation to customs and incomprehension to certain rituals. It's also aimed at people who are irritated by the demands made by and of universities, on the one hand, and by what they find there, on the other. And those who want to smile about thatand perhaps even at themselves as part of this network.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -1. Philosophy and Public Administration: Four Directions of Inquiry.- 2. Philosophy for Public Administration.- 3. Aligning Philosophy and Public Administration.- 4. Mapping Backwards: Underlying Philosophical Bases of Public Administration Research.- 5. Philosophy of Public Administration.- 6. Philosophy and PA: A (Developing) Research Agenda.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Part 1. Home is where the heart is.- 1. Introduction: You're listening to 4ZZZ.- 2. If we build it, they will come.- 3. Decisions, decisions, decisions.- 4. The early bird that didn't catch the worm.- 5. Shelter(s) from the Storm.- 6. Our House (in the middle of two streets).- Part 2. Music runs through our veins.- 7. More than just a radio station.- 8. Market Dazed.- 9. The Police Riot Formerly Known As 'Cybernana' Market Day.- 10. Our core business is community radio.- 11. Community radio is hot stuff.- Part 3. Without community there is no soul.- 12. A kaleidoscope of communities.- 13. Where your news isn't limited.- 14. They can starve for all I care.- 15. A Living History.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This textbook bridges the gap between business-administrative and organizational methods and their digital implementation, since process management increasingly means shaping operational tasks. In addition to methodological fundamentals, the book offers many practical examples and exercises. Prof. Gadatsch s book is now considered the current classic , the authoritative standard work for IT-supported design of business processes. The eleventh edition has been improved and adapted to the requirements of digital transformation. Another related trend is the increased use of data science methods for process management. Of particular importance are recent research findings published under the term exploratory process management. These show that the first main phase of process management was more focused on optimizing existing processes and business models. New practical examples have been added throughout the book, such as migration strategies for the ERP system SAP S/4 HANA, which serves as the basis for many industrial and service processes. The chapter on process modeling has been updated and newer methods, such as the Business Model Canvas, have been included. 264 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book invites readers into a space of reflection, emotion, and ethical inquiry. In an age defined by technological disruption, this groundbreaking book explores how journalists are emotionally and ethically navigating the complex integration of AI in their work. Moving beyond the binary of resistance versus blind acceptance, it introduces the concept of Imperfect AI: a human-centered, critically reflective approach that embraces ambiguity, fosters dialogue, and acknowledges both the potential and the limits of emerging technologies. Drawing on theoretical insights and cross-cultural interviews, this book situates journalists reactions within broader sociocultural and epistemological frameworks. It is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and students interested in media ethics, emotional labor, and the future of journalism. Imperfect AI isn t just a technological concept, it s a call to rethink our relationship with machines, each other, and the truth. 128 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Business Innovation is key to the continuing prosperity of firms and to the resolution of environmental and societal grand challenges alike. It has, therefore, become one of the core fields of academic inquiry of our times. It is, however, also an inherently inter-disciplinary subject, inviting contributions from a variety of disciplines. Due to their diverse backgrounds, scholars interested in business innovation frequently lack a common language and a shared base of knowledge to integrate their individual contributions effectively.This revised and updated edition starts with the fundamental considerations concerning the role of theories, different types of theories, and different forms of logical reasoning in this field. It goes on to present seven different schools of thought about business innovation, before concluding with the main theories currently used to study business innovation. Exploring the Field of Business Innovation aims at making this domain more accessible to scholars irrespective of their background and career stage, fostering the inter-disciplinary debate, and inspiring researchers to look at this phenomenon from new and different angles. 163 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Business Innovation is key to the continuing prosperity of firms and to the resolution of environmental and societal grand challenges alike. It has, therefore, become one of the core fields of academic inquiry of our times. It is, however, also an inherently inter-disciplinary subject, inviting contributions from a variety of disciplines. Due to their diverse backgrounds, scholars interested in business innovation frequently lack a common language and a shared base of knowledge to integrate their individual contributions effectively.This revised and updated edition starts with the fundamental considerations concerning the role of theories, different types of theories, and different forms of logical reasoning in this field. It goes on to present seven different schools of thought about business innovation, before concluding with the main theories currently used to study business innovation. Exploring the Field of Business Innovation aims at making this domain more accessible to scholars irrespective of their background and career stage, fostering the inter-disciplinary debate, and inspiring researchers to look at this phenomenon from new and different angles. 163 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This Palgrave Pivot is a personal and universal history of gain and loss. Via memoir and oral histories, Sharony Green, a native of Miami with ancestral roots in the American South and the Bahamas, sheds light on ups and down of African American residents before and after the Second World War. The author uses the 'Baa Haas,' an outlying community in Miami-Dade County, a region that is also a gateway to Caribbean and Latin America, as a starting place to think through such things. As early as the New Deal era, white powerbrokers desired to relocate people of African descent from the lucrative waterfronts to a desolate and sandy area about twenty miles northwest of Miami s downtown. This community was later nicknamed the 'Baa Haas,' presumably because its nearby prehistoric beach resembled California s Bajas beaches. Whether spelled Baa Haas, Bajas or Bahas, the tiny neighborhood, whose biggest landmark nowadays is Hard Rock Stadium, is noteworthy. It was not until whites themselves settled there first, beginning in the fifties with the help of the 1944 GI bill, that people of African descent, aided by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, at last moved there. Some arrived from older Miami communities like Liberty City, Overtown and Coconut Grove or even elsewhere in the States. Essentially, two federal initiatives collided with positive gains for the oppressed. As people increasingly find themselves displaced owing to gentrification, this book permits an opportunity for readers to see what had been possible for prospective black homeowners. 168 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This Palgrave Pivot is a personal and universal history of gain and loss. Via memoir and oral histories, Sharony Green, a native of Miami with ancestral roots in the American South and the Bahamas, sheds light on ups and down of African American residents before and after the Second World War. The author uses the 'Baa Haas,' an outlying community in Miami-Dade County, a region that is also a gateway to Caribbean and Latin America, as a starting place to think through such things. As early as the New Deal era, white powerbrokers desired to relocate people of African descent from the lucrative waterfronts to a desolate and sandy area about twenty miles northwest of Miami s downtown. This community was later nicknamed the 'Baa Haas,' presumably because its nearby prehistoric beach resembled California s Bajas beaches. Whether spelled Baa Haas, Bajas or Bahas, the tiny neighborhood, whose biggest landmark nowadays is Hard Rock Stadium, is noteworthy. It was not until whites themselves settled there first, beginning in the fifties with the help of the 1944 GI bill, that people of African descent, aided by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, at last moved there. Some arrived from older Miami communities like Liberty City, Overtown and Coconut Grove or even elsewhere in the States. Essentially, two federal initiatives collided with positive gains for the oppressed. As people increasingly find themselves displaced owing to gentrification, this book permits an opportunity for readers to see what had been possible for prospective black homeowners. 168 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book explores how public opinion toward the European Union has evolved during the age of polycrises. It shows that not all crises are perceived in the same way, nor do they generate uniform political responses. By distinguishing between process-oriented threats, event-driven crises, and recurrent threat-to-crisis issues, the book offers an original framework to analyse the impact of global challenges. Situating Italy within a comparative framework alongside France, Germany, Poland, Spain, and Sweden, the volume reveals how specific types of crises foster greater support, while others exacerbate disaffection or ambivalence. Despite signs of rising Euroscepticism in many European countries in recent years, the book argues that recent global threats and crises have helped to redefine the role of the EU in its relationship with national governments, leading to a shift in public opinion that mitigates criticism against it. The book will appeal to all those interested in European politics, political communication, and European studies. 167 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This open-access publication examines the organisational mechanisms that enable the commercial real estate industry to better withstand economic headwinds and more quickly recover from downturns. With geographic focus on the United Kingdom and Germany, it sheds light on the alternative lending space and explores how debt funds prepare to weather economic turbulence by adopting effective loan risk management practices. Given the significant market share of debt funds and their potential for future growth, the insights provided by industry experts into this rather opaque sector are pertinent and satisfy an urgent need.The publication derives key success factors for effective loan risk management from experience and distils them for practical application. It investigates the corporate structures, processes, cultures andrelationshipsof debt funds. Particular focus falls on the operational practices of loan risk management, and the human resources and infrastructural requirements for success. The findings that are presented are relevant to practitioners, market analysts and academic researchers alike. 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This open-access publication examines the organisational mechanisms that enable the commercial real estate industry to better withstand economic headwinds and more quickly recover from downturns. With geographic focus on the United Kingdom and Germany, it sheds light on the alternative lending space and explores how debt funds prepare to weather economic turbulence by adopting effective loan risk management practices. Given the significant market share of debt funds and their potential for future growth, the insights provided by industry experts into this rather opaque sector are pertinent and satisfy an urgent need.The publication derives key success factors for effective loan risk management from experience and distils them for practical application. It investigates the corporate structures, processes, cultures andrelationshipsof debt funds. Particular focus falls on the operational practices of loan risk management, and the human resources and infrastructural requirements for success. The findings that are presented are relevant to practitioners, market analysts and academic researchers alike. 160 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book explores significant literary and critical thinking achievements that have shaped our world. This slim yet comprehensive guide is divided into three parts: Dawn of the Western Tradition, Epistemologies of Knowledge, and Literary Phenomenology & Cultural Contexts: Exploring Identity, Truth, & Ecology.Blending ancient wisdom with modern insights, this book delves into a wide array of topics, including aesthetics, comparative literature, cultural-historical psychology, ecocritical analysis, epistemology, ethics, historiography, the mindbody problem, literary phenomenology, literary theory, mythology, and sociocultural context. It examines the works of notable figures such as the timeless scribe of Gilgamesh, Hesiod, Homer, Sappho, Thucydides, Cervantes, Descartes, the Dalai Lama, and Pope Francis. Additionally, it scrutinizes insights from prominent thinkers including Antonio Muñoz Molina, Christopher Booker, David Castillo, Timothy Morton, Gilbert Ryle, Mary Klages, Rita Felski, Terry Gilliam, and William Egginton.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the Second International Conference on Bridging the Gap between AI and Reality, AISoLA 2024, which took place in Crete, Greece, in October/November 2024.The papers included in this book extend the presentation in the AISoLA 2024 on-site proceedings. They focus on the following topics: AI-Assisted Programming; health care approaches using formal methods and AI; responsible and trusted AI: an interdisciplinary perspective; statistical model checking; and verification for neur-symbolic artificial intelligence. 292 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book takes an in-depth look at the debates surrounding democracy and social democracy. Questioning the effectiveness of elections and referenda in expressing the 'voice of the people', it explores how voters' decisions are influenced by ideology and politicians' past performance. It examines how political parties converge towards the median voter's position, and the strategies they use to win elections and justify their past performance. Furthermore, it explores the relationship between socialism and liberalism within European social democracy, highlighting the compatibility of egalitarian policies with economic competitiveness.Written by José María Maravall, the former Spanish Minister of Education and Science (1982-1988), the book's analysis is enriched by the author's personal background. With a history of anti-Francoist activism, membership of underground organisations, and roles within the Spanish Socialist Party, the author's experiences offer unique insights into political strategy and governance. Drawing additionally on extensive data and empirical evidence, the book provides a thorough analysis of democracy, accountability, and the survival of governments, making it essential reading for anyone interested in democracy and social democracy.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Dieses essential gibt wichtige Hinweise zur Zusammenarbeit mit spanischen Firmen und Geschäftspartnern. Das Autorenduo Maria Vorbrugg und Julia Ulloa geben einen interessanten und lebendigen Überblick über Land und Leute sowie nützliche Informationen zu den gesetzlichen und steuerlichen Rahmenbedingungen unterschiedlicher Branchen und Anregungen für zukünftige Geschäftsideen. 53 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Fast alle Organisationen und Institutionen beschäftigen sich aufgrund der Globalisierung, schnelleren Marktzyklen, Digitalisierung von Geschäftsmodellen, Fachkräftemangel, steigenden Nachhaltigkeitsanforderungen und Kundenansprüchen permanent mit der Herausforderung, ihr Geschäftsmodell zukunftsfähig zu gestalten, um nachhaltig in ihrem Wettbewerbsumfeld zu bleiben. Hierbei kommen unterschiedliche Begriffe wie Veränderungsmanagement, Changemanagement, Wandlungsmanagement, Organisationsentwicklung, Transformationsmanagement, Konfigurationsmanagement oder auch Zukunftsmanagement zur Anwendung, die häufig synonym benutzt werden. Die Begriffe werden oft mit unterschiedlichen Inhalte gefüllt, verfolgen jedoch im Grunde immer das gleiche Ziel, nämlich die Veränderungs- und Wandlungsfähigkeit des Unternehmens zu stärken und sicherzustellen.Mit dem regelkreisorientierten MITO- Modell bestehend aus den Elementen Management, Input, Transformation, Output wird ein allgemeingültiger Bezugs- und Ordnungsrahmen für die systematische Vorgehensweise bei Veränderungs-, Wandlungs- und Transformationsprozessen beschrieben. 76 pp. Deutsch.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -.- 1. AI in Journalism.- 2. Methodology.- 3. Journalists' Feelings on AI.- 4. (Discussion): Educate in AI following Freire's perspective.- 5. (Conclusion): An elephant, a ghost . a great colleague.