Comprehensive Problem-Solving and Skill Development for Next-Generation Leaders
Comprehensive Problem-Solving and Skill Development for Next-Generation Leaders

Author: Styron, Jr., Ronald A.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-01-06

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1522519696

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Effective leadership and management create significant impacts upon any organization in the modern business realm. To maintain competitiveness and success, those in leadership roles must develop new and dynamic initiatives to solve problems that arise. Comprehensive Problem-Solving and Skill Development for Next-Generation Leaders is a critical reference source for the latest academic research on the implementation of innovative qualities, strategies, and competencies for effective leadership and examines practices for determining solutions to business problems. Highlighting relevant coverage on facilitating organizational success, such as emotional intelligence, technology integration, and active learning, this book is ideally designed for managers, professionals, graduate students, academics, and researchers interested in research-based strategies for obtaining organizational effectiveness.

Creativity in Workforce Development and Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Creativity in Workforce Development and Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Blake, Sally

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-11-03

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1522549536

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Though creativity is considered an asset in the modern business world, it is currently not being promoted in educational programs. Developing, supporting, and sustaining creativity in individuals will shape the future of business and enrich the incoming workforce. Creativity in Workforce Development and Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities presents the latest scholarly research on the importance of creativity in this era of growing complexity and rapid change. Including relevant research on development and sustainability of creativity within businesses, this unique source provides coverage in areas such as teacher preparation, global workforce, and cognitive studies. This book is an important resource for educators, professionals, and students seeking current research on the best options for promoting creativity in education and the modern workforce.

Written Corrective Feedback for L2 Development: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Written Corrective Feedback for L2 Development: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Guo, Qi

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-01-26

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1522551042

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The application of evaluations in classroom settings has equipped educators with innovative tools and techniques for effective teaching practices. Integrating feedback helps to enrich students’ learning experience and maximize competency in language learning. Written Corrective Feedback for L2 Development: Emerging Research and Opportunities examines the use of written corrective feedback to assist in students’ comprehension and internalization in language learning. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics, such as knowledge internalization, linguistic forms, and cognitive comprehension, this book is a vital resource for educational researchers, teachers, professors, and language teachers seeking current research on the application of written corrective feedback in language learning.

Ideological Function of Deming Theory in Higher Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Ideological Function of Deming Theory in Higher Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Kriemadis, Thanos

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-06-19

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1522522662

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Quality management initiatives have benefited organizations in the corporate world for several years. With this success, these methodologies are now being implemented into other sectors, such as educational institutions. Ideological Function of Deming Theory in Higher Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities presents coverage on the benefits and challenges of applying quality improvement frameworks in university settings. Highlighting pertinent topics such as resources management, training practices, and strategic planning, this is an ideal publication for academics, researchers, school administrators, policy makers, and professionals interested in the latest perspectives on the management of higher education institutions.

Intergenerational Governance and Leadership in the Corporate World: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Intergenerational Governance and Leadership in the Corporate World: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Puaschunder, Julia Margarete

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-04-15

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1522580042

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Intergenerational equity constraints herald a call for intergenerational equity – the fairness to provide an at least as favorable standard of living as enjoyed today. While grounded in evolution, intergenerational fairness has not been attributed as a natural behavioral law – a human-imbued drive bound by human fallibility. A rounded ethical decision-making anomalies frame to test the applicability of the bounded ethicality paradigm in intergenerational concerns is missing. Behavioral socio-economics shows potential to improve human intergenerational conscientiousness on financial social responsibility and environmental ethicality is underexplored. Intergenerational Governance and Leadership in the Corporate World: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference source that promotes the idea of intergenerational equity in the corporate world as an alternative means to coordinating the common good and imbuing economic stability beyond a purely governmental approach. Featuring research on topics such as financial development, organizational culture, and behavioral economics, this research is ideally intended for executives, policy planners, managers, researchers, and students.

Analyzing Workplace Arrogance and Organizational Effectiveness: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Analyzing Workplace Arrogance and Organizational Effectiveness: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Tamzini, Khaled

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-03-30

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1522555269

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Arrogance plays a problematic role in organizations, and it is a unique and difficult challenge to address. Taking proper steps towards recognizing and measuring the effect of arrogance in job performance becomes an important step in improving workplace environments. Analyzing Workplace Arrogance and Organizational Effectiveness: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides emerging research on the effects entitlement and superiority have in the workplace, particularly from those in managerial and administrative positions. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics, such as contextual performance, strategic scope, and workplace arrogance scale, this book is an important resource for academics, researchers, students, and managers seeking current research on the relationship between performance and arrogance in the workplace.

Creating Caring and Supportive Educational Environments for Meaningful Learning
Creating Caring and Supportive Educational Environments for Meaningful Learning

Author: Daniels, Kisha

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-09-14

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1522557490

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In a seemingly tumultuous time of political change, caring and healing are needed now more than ever. This is especially true in education, which has been criticized for a disproportionate focus on the technical aspects of teaching with less focus on its “human” aspects. Creating Caring and Supportive Educational Environments for Meaningful Learning is a collection of innovative research on the practical and theoretical questions involved in organizing traditional and nontraditional areas of study around themes of care and support for students within the framework of current educational systems and standards. While highlighting topics including service learning, ethics of care, and student mental health, this book is ideally designed for teachers, administrators, researchers, and academicians seeking current research on the importance and ethics of the human aspects of education.

Global Approaches to Sustainability Through Learning and Education
Global Approaches to Sustainability Through Learning and Education

Author: Al-Sartawi, Abdalmuttaleb M.A. Musleh

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-08-30

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1799800644

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Unequal distribution of wealth, poverty, pollution, and gender inequality are just a few of the problems we face and struggle to eliminate. Sustainable development offers a long-term holistic solution to these problems through meeting the needs of the current generation without endangering the capability of future generations in meeting their own needs. Sustainable education or education for sustainability is a transformative learning paradigm that prepares learners and provides them with knowledge, ethical awareness, skills, values, and attitudes to achieve sustainable goals. Global Approaches to Sustainability Through Learning and Education is a comprehensive academic publication that facilitates a greater understanding of sustainable development and fosters a culture of sustainability through learning and education. Highlighting a range of topics such as ethics, game-based learning, and knowledge management, this book is ideal for teachers, environmentalists, higher education faculty, activists, curriculum developers, academicians, researchers, professionals, administrators, and policymakers.

Innovative Trends in Flipped Teaching and Adaptive Learning
Innovative Trends in Flipped Teaching and Adaptive Learning

Author: Sein-Echaluce, María Luisa

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 152258143X

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Understanding new educational innovations is essential for the improvement of the training and learning process. In order to effectively implement these new tools in the classroom, teachers and trainers need access to real-life cases in which these methods were successfully used. Innovative Trends in Flipped Teaching and Adaptive Learning is a critical scholarly resource that examines current advances in educational innovation and presents cases that allow for the improvement of personalized and active learning. Featuring a wide range of topics such as higher education, teacher education, and learning strategies, this book is ideal for educators, instructional designers, academicians, researchers, and students.

Handbook of Research on Assessment Literacy and Teacher-Made Testing in the Language Classroom
Handbook of Research on Assessment Literacy and Teacher-Made Testing in the Language Classroom

Author: White, Eddy

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-11-23

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1522569871

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The evaluation of student performance and knowledge is a critical element of an educator’s job as well as an essential step in the learning process for students. The quality and effectiveness of the evaluations given by educators are impacted by their ability to create and use reliable and valuable evaluations to facilitate and communicate student learning. The Handbook of Research on Assessment Literacy and Teacher-Made Testing in the Language Classroom is an essential reference source that discusses effective language assessment and educator roles in evaluation design. Featuring research on topics such as course learning outcomes, learning analytics, and teacher collaboration, this book is ideally designed for educators, administrative officials, linguists, academicians, researchers, and education students seeking coverage on an educator’s role in evaluation design and analyses of evaluation methods and outcomes.