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Author: Dann Anthony Maurno
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2010-04-29
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1040181449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough Lean and wireless professionals seek the same goals, few are fluent in each other‘s language. Those who are have already helped their companies tap into the competitive advantages possible by integrating wireless technology into a Lean culture of continuous process improvement. Highlighting wireless as a powerful and inherently Lean tool,
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-06-01
Total Pages: 813
ISBN-13: 0197506720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date examination of lifelong learning. Across 38 chapters, including twelve that are brand new to this edition, the approach is interdisciplinary, spanning human resources development, adult learning (educational perspective), psychology, career and vocational learning, management and executive development, cultural anthropology, the humanities, and gerontology. This volume covers trends that contribute to the need for continuous learning, considers psychological characteristics that relate to the drive to learn, reviews existing theory and research on adult learning, describes training methods and learning technologies for instructional design, and explores current and future challenges to support continuous learning.
Author: Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2015-05-12
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1594038104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTens of millions of Americans are between the ages of 18 and 30. These Americans, known as millennials, are, or soon will be, entering the workforce. For them, achieving success will be more difficult than it was for young people in the past. This is not because they are less intelligent, they have worked less hard, or they are any less deserving of the American dream. It is because Washington made decisions that render their lives more difficult than those of their parents or grandparents. Their younger siblings and their children will be even worse off, all because Washington has refused to fix the problem. This book describes the personal stories of several members of this disinherited generation. Their experiences are not unique. It is impossible to hear these stories and not understand that holding back a nation’s young is the antithesis of fairness and no way to make economic or social progress. Their stories are an indictment of America’s treatment of its young. A nation that prides itself on its future has mortgaged it. A nation that historically took pride in its youth culture has become a nation that steals from its young. People who should have fulfilling, productive lives are sidelined, unemployed, or underemployed. Meanwhile, America expects millennials and others of the disinherited generation to pay higher taxes for government programs that benefit middle-aged and older Americans, many of whom have better jobs and more assets. It is time someone told the full story of the crisis facing America’s young. The future of America can be saved, but only if our government’s betrayal comes to an end. It is a war without victors, only victims. The birthright of the America’s young must be restored, and the time to do so is now. This book explains how.
Author: Carl E. Van Horn
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-08-06
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1442238011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the end of the twentieth century, with the economy booming and unemployment at historic lows, the American economy was a job-producing marvel. The first decade of the twenty-first century was entirely different as the worst economy in seventy years, the Great Recession, crushed the lives of tens of millions of workers and their families, forestalled careers, scrapped hopes for a college education, delayed retirements, and foreclosed family homes. American workers experienced the best and worst of times and have endured an entire “lost decade” of high unemployment, stagnant or declining incomes, and anxiety. Working Scared draws upon nearly 25,000 interviews with employed and unemployed Americans conducted from, 1998 to 2012. These “voices” of American workers tell a compelling story about wrenching structural changes and recessions during one of the most volatile periods in U.S. economic history. This book represents one of the most comprehensive social science research portraits of the views of American workers’ about their jobs, the workplace, and government’s role in the labor market. Working Scared will help citizens, policy makers, educators, business, union, and community leaders better understand what is happening to the United States workforce. It also describes the essential national priorities and policies that will assist frustrated, angry and scared American workers and the reforms that will help restore the American dream of secure employment and intergenerational progress.
Author: Ronald W. Holmes
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2011-10-14
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 146345273X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a time of an uncertain economy, this book provides solutions for improving Americas schools through federal funding, programs, services, community partnerships, accreditation and leadership standards. The book can be very helpful to school stakeholders such as parents, teachers, principals and district administrators since the topics focus on the K-12 environments. With a plethora of references to support numerous suggestions, discrepancies and issues, this book can be useful to graduate students, professors, researchers, university administrators and education state agencies. While Americas schools are faced with numerous challenges in todays society such as the lack of family stability and parental involvement, this book also provides a roadmap for successful and struggling schools in the U.S.
Author: Howie Soucek
Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.
Published: 2008-09-09
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 1479604550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf we speak with the best teachers in America, with any employer interested in the trainability and work performance of new employees, or with parents who are concerned about how well their children are being prepared for the challenges of the future, we will notice a common thread wending its way through each dialogue: Our schools are failing to educate our children as well as is needed. Notes on Education goes to the front lines in our schools to examine some of the key elements that are contributing to a continuing stagnation, if not decline, in the quality of K-12 education in the United States over the last few decades. Numerous specific, potential solutions are suggested by the author, not as a one-size-fits-all program, but purely as a starting place for serious discussions within the community that will lead to constructive actions that benefit our children and their future. As huge government programs and remote experts have failed to provide meaningful help, this author calls for an "educational barn raising" at the community level as the only hope remaining for a return to quality education in our nation. Rather than its usual role as an empty slogan, the phrase "It takes a village to raise a child" takes on new meaning in this important book, with responsibility for improvement in education coming home to roost on our individual shoulders.
Author: Natalie Canavor
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1412992508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBusiness Writing in the Digital Age fills an urgent need to equip business and MBA students to write more effectively in a style that works for today′s business world. Using a readable, highly accessible approach and numerous concrete examples, this book frames writing as a strategic tool to accomplish goals. Readers learn a step-by-step system that tells them what to say, and how to say it in every circumstance. At the same time they learn how to improve their technical skills by applying practical techniques rather than grammatical rules. In today′s business world, success depends on writing. Those who write well are better able to win opportunities, establish their reputation, persuade others to their viewpoint and build relationships. They collaborate, manage and lead more effectively. Writing well also equips businesspeople to function in a global marketplace and reach increasingly diverse audiences. This book builds readers′ confidence and capabilities. No matter what their starting point, they absorb a solid foundation that applies to all writing. They also learn the specifics of crafting messages and documents that range from the traditional, like letters and proposals, to media such as email, blogs, web sites, PowerPoint and social networking. This broad coverage makes the material relevant and compelling. Students also develop tools to keep improving on their own, and to handle new communication channels as they emerge. Business Writing in the Digital Age helps teachers stay current with a changing media landscape. They can use it as a complete guide to writing development, drawing on the practice opportunities and group projects supplied, or assign students to work with some--or all the material--on their own.
Author: Dr. Richard E. Itteilag
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012-07-24
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 1477217371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Gates/Ellison Unemployment Trap. I.e., productivity v. unemployment or the Productivity Trap or the more the US economy innovates the more the US economy creates unemployment. The thesis here is that in United States (U.S.) capitalism, unemployment is 'sticky' at 9+% permanently regardless of U.S. government fiscal policy or even Federal Reserve Bank monetary policy.
Author: Thomas P. Wallace
Publisher: Author House
Published: 2013-06-14
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 1481760858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCountries that at different times in history were among the worlds greatest powers, such as Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Britain, and Germany, have gradually shifted their sights either in the wake of defeat or after protracted periods of grappling with decline, from winning the great power sweepstakes to topping the lists of nations offering the best quality of life. David Rothkopf One critical measure of the health of a modern democracy is it ability to legitimately extract taxes from its own elites. The most dysfunctional societies in the developing world are those whose elites succeed either in legally exempting themselves from taxation or in taking advantage of lax enforcement to evade them. Francis Fukuyama Today, the United States has less equality of opportunity than almost any other advanced industrial country. Study after study has exposed the myth that America is a land of opportunity. Joseph E. Stiglitz Tea Party constitutionalism and conservative originalism more generally are less interested in the Constitutions actual words (or the real intentions of the Founders) than they are in rolling back democratic advances that have been made since 1787. E. J. Dionne
Author: Ronald A. Wolk
Publisher: ASCD
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1416611312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a smart and tightly reasoned critique of the educational status quo.
