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The interface of sexual behavior and evolutionary psychology is a rapidly growing domain, rich in psychological theories and data as…
well as controversies and applications. With nearly eighty chapters by leading researchers from around the world, and combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work in the field. Providing a broad yet in-depth overview of the various evolutionary principles that influence all types of sexual behaviors, the handbook takes an inclusive approach that draws on a number of disciplines and covers nonhuman and human psychology. It is an essential resource for both established researchers and students in psychology, biology, anthropology, medicine, and criminology, among other fields. Volume 1: Foundations of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology addresses foundational theories and methodological approaches.Walking the Talk: Reimagining Primary Health Care after COVID-19
By Enis BarıŠŸ, Rachel Silverman, Huihui Wang, Zhao. 2021
Almost half a century ago, policy leaders issued the Declaration of Alma Ata and embraced the promise of health for…
all through primary health care (PHC). That vision has inspired generations. Countries throughout the world—rich and poor—have struggled to build health systems anchored in strong PHC where they were needed most. The world has waited long enough for high-performing PHC to become more than an aspiration; it is now time to deliver. The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has facilitated the reckoning for that shared failure—but it has also created a once-in-a-generation opportunity for transformational health system changes. The pandemic has shown policy makers and ordinary citizens why health systems matter and what happens when they fail. Bold reforms now can prepare health systems for future crises and bring goals such as universal health coverage within reach. PHC holds the key to these transformations. To fulfill that promise, however, the walk has to finally match the talk. Walking the Talk: Reimagining Primary Health Care after COVID-19 outlines how to get there. It charts an agenda to reimagined, fit-for-purpose PHC. It asks three questions about health systems reform built around PHC: Why? What? How? The characteristics of high-performing PHC are precisely those that are most critical for managing the pressures coming to bear on health systems in the post-COVID world. The challenges include future outbreaks and other emergent threats, as well as long-term structural trends that are reshaping the environments in which systems operate in noncrisis times. Walking the Talk highlights three sets of megatrends that will increasingly affect health systems in the coming decades: • Demographic and epidemiological shifts • Changes in technology • Citizens’ evolving expectations for health care. Reimagined PHC systems will be equipped through optimized system design, financing, and delivery to ensure high-quality services, care to address patients’ needs, fairness and accountability, and resilient systems.Food Supply Chain Management: Issues For The Hospitality And Retail Sectors
By Stephen Ball, Jane Eastham, Liz Sharples. 2011
The key to the success of a company is their ability to co-ordinate the key supply chain i.e their key…
suppliers and suppliers of suppliers. 'Food and Drink Supply Chain Management' looks specifically at the supply chain in the food and drink industry to provide readers with an understanding of the areas as it is now and its growing importance, and where it is going in the future. 'Food and Drink Supply Chain Management' is the first to take an in-depth view into the supply chain function in the hospitality and food retail sectors. Authored by a range of expert contributors the text looks at issues such as:* New food processes and GM foods* Volume catering and JIT (Just In Time) and Food Safety* Relationships between companies and with stakeholders and responsibilities to these groups* The internationalisation of the food chain* The future of the food and drink supply chain and its managementExamples and case studies from large international retail and hospitality organizations are used, such as: Bass, Stakis (Hilton), and Tesco, amongst others, to illustrate good and bad practice.Psychology in Policy: Redefining Politics Through The Individual (SpringerBriefs in Psychology)
By Kevin R. Carriere. 2022
This book takes an insider perspective of the psychological issues of creating policy. Instead of considering what the products of…
policy are - often the case in psychological and political science work - this book examines the individual processes present in proposing and engaging with policy. The individual who engages with the policy and its meanings, the individual who resists the policy through conformity, and the individual who writes the policy for their own ideological purposes are all political actors in a psychological system. This book puts forward a cultural political psychology as the psychological study of the process of values, policy, and power dynamics. Through exploring public policy through private policy generation and individual interaction, this book pushes theoretical understandings of policy and activism in new ways. Centering on an individual’s own values in facing various policy restrictions from governments, parents, or peers, the importance of examining collective actions and also collective inactions of individuals is noted and expanded on in the text. The book provides applications of its arguments through examining the processes of unionization and actualized democracy. It seeks to point out new research avenues, including the hypogeneralization of values, one’s exclusion through activism, and everyday revolutions. This book addresses the centrality of the individual and meaning-making systems when considering where policy, politics, and psychology intersect. This book is primarily addressed to psychologists and political scientists interested in how to make change in public policy. While the experiences within the book are United States-centric, the thoughts and theories behind them are meant to be applicable to a wide variety of political systems. As there is currently very little literature on the topic, this book seeks to fill the gap and offer concise information on such an important dimension of cultural and political psychology. It is expected that the book will be of great interest for researchers in these areas, as well as for graduate-level students. In particular, this book will be relevant to researchers and students working on political psychology, public policy, development, community psychology, social representations, semiotics, activism, and social movements, to name a few.Pandemics, Economics and Inequality: Lessons from the Spanish Flu (Palgrave Studies in Economic History)
By Sergi Basco, Jordi Domènech, Joan R. Rosés. 2022
This Pivot book provides a framework for understanding the economic and potentially unequal effects of pandemics, focusing closely on the…
Spanish Flu. It provides an in-depth analysis of the different effects of the Spanish Flu on the economy from unequal mortality to wages, housing and output. There is a general review of the literature but an important feature of this book is that it explains results using data from Spain, an ideal country to perform this exercise, as its mortality data is not affected by the First World War. Spain was also developed enough to have reliable data, but it was very heterogeneous across regions which will allow a comparison of more and less developed regions. No other book exists that offers a comprehensive and data-driven view of the effects of the Spanish Flu, which is the closest pandemic example to Covid-19. With the outbreak of Covid-19 increasing the need to learn about the economic effects of pandemics, this book will be of interest to academics and students of economic history, macroeconomics (economic crises) and economic development, as well being accessible for the general reader.Taxing Crime: A Whole-of-Government Approach to Fighting Corruption, Money Laundering, and Tax Crimes (StAR Initiative)
By Jean-Pierre Brun, Rita Julien, Ana Gomez, Ndubai, Siddesh Rao, Yara Soto. 2022
Taxing Crime: A Whole-of-Government Approach to Fighting Corruption, Money Laundering, and Tax Crimes examines how tax audits and investigations can…
lead to uncovering white-collar crime and how investigations of corruption can, in turn, lead to prosecutions of tax evasion or recovery of unpaid taxes. Prepared jointly by the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR) and the Global Tax Policy Center at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business, this report offers analysis, case studies, examples of legal and operational frameworks, and recommendations that policy makers can use to enhance cooperation between tax authorities and law enforcement agencies at the national and international levels. This study is designed to serve as a reference and source of advocacy for policy makers, but it may be useful to other practitioners as well, including law enforcement offi cials, investigating magistrates, and prosecutors. Specifically, chapters present strategic considerations for establishing communication channels between tax and criminal investigative agencies; suggestions for combining tax and financial crime prosecution as part of an interagency asset recovery strategy; and approaches to developing interagency information exchange at the regional and international levels. It concludes with recommendations on ways to enhance the roles of both the tax authorities in combating money laundering and corruption and of the law enforcement authorities in recovering the proceeds of tax crimes. • Chapter 1 provides an introduction. • Chapter 2 presents strategic considerations for establishing information exchange channels between tax and criminal investigative agencies. • Chapter 3 explains how to combine tax and financial crime prosecution as part of an interagency asset recovery strategy. • Chapter 4 discusses approaches to developing interagency information exchange at the regional and international levels. • Chapter 5 provides recommendations for future efforts to enhance the role of tax authorities in supporting efforts to combat money laundering and corruption, and the role of law enforcement authorities in the recovery of proceeds of tax crimes. • The appendix contains case studies that illustrate effective interagency cooperation, including at the international level.The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a global development that shows no signs of slowing down. In his book, The Workplace…
of the Future: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies, Jon-Arild Johannessen sets a chilling vision of how robots and artificial intelligence will completely disrupt and transform working life. The author contests that once the dust has settled from the Fourth Industrial Revolution, workplaces and professions will be unrecognizable and we will see the rise of a new social class: the precariat. We will live side by side with the 'working poor' – people who have several jobs, but still can’t make ends meet. There will be a small salaried elite consisting of innovation and knowledge workers. Slightly further into the future, there will be a major transformation in professional environments. Johannessen also presents a typology for the precariat, the uncertain work that is created and develops a framework for the working poor, as well as for future innovation and knowledge workers, and sets out a new structure for the social hierarchy. A fascinating and thought-provoking insight into the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, The Workplace of the Future will be of interest to professionals and academics alike. The book is particularly suited to academic courses in management, economy, political science and social sciences.Giving Briefings and Making Presentations in the Workplace (Institute of Learning & Management Super Series)
By Institute of Leadership & Managemenet. 2007
Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute…
of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management. The learning content is also closely aligned to the Level 3 S/NVQ in Management. The series consists of 35 workbooks. Each book will map on to a course unit (35 books/units).Die Vertrauensstrategie: Der erfolgreiche Weg zu einer modernen Führungskultur - ein Business-Roman
By Andreas C. Fürsattel. 2022
Die Redewendung "Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser" bestimmt seit 100 Jahren die wesentlichen Verhaltensweisen vieler Unternehmer und Führungskräfte. Sie…
ist jedoch mehr als nur ein Zitat, es ist eine Grundeinstellung und ein Glaubenssatz, der unbewusst viele Entscheidungen und Handlungen beeinflusst. Aber "Command and Control" war gestern - um mit den heutigen sehr dynamischen Veränderungen sämtlicher Lebensumstände Schritt zu halten und erfolgreich Unternehmen und Organisationen zu führen, bedarf es eines grundlegenden Umdenkprozesses hin zu einer Führung, die auf Vertrauen mit klaren Spielregeln basiert. Im Rahmen einer fiktiven Business-Geschichte wird die junge Unternehmertochter Anne mit der "alten" Führungskultur ihres erfolgreichen Vaters täglich im Unternehmen konfrontiert und stellt fest, dass auf Grund der heutigen Rahmenbedingungen, den Erwartungshaltungen und dem Verhalten der neuen Generationen diese Führungskultur häufig nicht mehr funktioniert. Im Verlauf der Story erkennt Anne die wesentlichen Probleme und Grundsatzeinstellungen, die die alte Führungskultur hat und versucht sukzessive das Unternehmen und seine Führungskräfte zu transformieren. Der Weg, den Anne durchläuft, beinhaltet auch viele Rückschläge und "Trial-and-Error"-Prozesse. Sie wächst somit an der Aufgabe und gewinnt viele neue Erkenntnisse. Der Transformationsprozess eines Unternehmens von Führung durch Kontrolle hin zur Führung durch Vertrauen wird anhand der dargestellten Story nachvollziehbar und verständlich vermittelt, der Leser kann sich in die Rollen der einzelnen Protagonisten hineinversetzen und wird dazu angeregt, den Prozess in seinem Team/Unternehmen konkret umzusetzen. Neben der Story findet er aber auch fachliche Teile zum Hintergrund und Führungsthemen.Strategic Public Relations Leadership
By Paul Willis, Anne Gregory. 2023
Public relations professionals are operating in an increasingly challenging and complex environment. Pressures from outside the organisation include new accountabilities,…
empowered stakeholders, increased public cynicism and a new communication landscape. Internally, there are increasing demands to demonstrate a strategic contribution, alongside a requirement to coach and counsel senior managers exposed to these environmental pressures. This revised and updated edition provides a framework to enable public relations professionals to clearly articulate and demonstrate their own contribution to organisational effectiveness, while also setting out the specific capabilities public relations leaders must exhibit to operate at the highest levels of the organisation. This edition further develops the pioneering approach to integrating thinking around public relations, leadership, and strategy. It has been updated comprehensively to address contemporary developments and introduce new research and fresh perspectives from the authors. New to this edition are insights from Chief Executives on what they expect from public relations leaders and a comprehensive set of capabilities which scope the demanding role of professionals at the top of their game. Concise and practical, this textbook is suitable for MBA and other postgraduate and executive education qualifications in Public Relations and Corporate Communications – especially for those students who wish to pursue a successful career as a professional public relations specialist, able to operate strategically at the top of successful organisations.Digital Marketing Excellence: Planning, Optimizing and Integrating Online Marketing
By Dave Chaffey, Pr Smith. 2022
Now in its sixth edition, the hugely popular Digital Marketing Excellence is a practical guide to creating and executing integrated…
digital marketing plans, combining established approaches to marketing planning with the creative use of new digital models and digital tools. Written by two highly experienced digital marketing consultants, the book shows you how to: Draw up an outline integrated digital marketing plan Evaluate and apply digital marketing principles and models Integrate online and offline communications Implement customer-driven digital marketing as part of digital transformation Reduce costly trial and error Measure and enhance your digital marketing Learn best practices for reaching and engaging your audiences using the key digital marketing platforms. This new edition has been streamlined to seamlessly integrate the latest developments in digital analytics, ethics and privacy, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Including new international case studies and up-to-date examples throughout, this book cuts through the jargon to show marketers how to leverage data and digital technologies to their advantage. Offering a highly structured and accessible guide to a critical and far-reaching subject, Digital Marketing Excellence, 6th edition, provides a vital reference point for all digital marketing students, and managers involved in digital marketing strategy and implementation. Online resources have been fully updated for the new edition and include a new set of PowerPoint slides and a full test bank of questions and exercises.Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Colorism: Beyond Black and White
By Ronald E. Hall. 2023
This timely and unique book explores the concept of colorism, which is discrimination based on the color of a person’s…
skin, in a world where arguably light skin is privileged over dark, and one’s wealth, health, and opportunities are impacted by skin color, sometimes irrespective of one’s racial background. In the context of our multi-cultural and increasingly global society, and the historical backdrop of slavery, the text takes a unique approach by moving from personal anecdotes to adopting a scientific perspective grounded in empirical evidence. Hall explores how skin color is a more effective framework for examining prejudice and discrimination, as racial identities become increasingly mixed due to inter-racial unions and immigration. He argues that racism as discrimination by race is contrived, polarizing, and non-quantifiable, and that it is often skin color that is used to "identify" race, often inaccurately. With skin color being a visual and physical characteristic, with race-based prejudices attached to it, the author shows how skin color can be a loaded identifier of value and identity. In a world where the objective measure of skin color crosses racial boundaries and where race will become increasingly indiscernible over time, the ultimate aim of this book is to prepare for the social future of mankind that has already begun to take shape. Split into three parts, examining historical, contemporary, and potential future perspectives on colorism, this is fascinating reading for students and academics in psychology, social work, education, criminal justice, and other social sciences. The text will also be useful for providing validation for including colorism into the public domain.New Leadership im Finanzsektor: So gestalten Banken aktiv den digitalen und kulturellen Wandel
By Corinna Pommerening. 2022
Dieses Buch wird Fach- und Führungskräften des Finanzsektors neue Einblicke in die Situation ihrer Branche geben. Denn traditionelle Strukturen und…
bisherige Wertschöpfungsketten müssen in der aktuellen Umbruchphase zukunftsfä hig verändert werden. Niedrigzins, erodierende Profitabilität, PSD2 und zunehmender Wettbewerb verstärken den Handlungsdruck auf Banken. Wie kann der institutionelle Wandel gelingen? Welche strategischen Weichenstellungen sind erforderlich, um neue Technologien erfolgreich zu implementieren und organisationale Voraussetzungen für die Transformation zu schaffen? In einem praxisorientierten Analyseteil stellt die Autorin das „alte Silodenken“ dar und zeigt Wege aus den einzelnen Silos heraus und hinein in den Wandel. Die Botschaft des Buches ist: Nicht nur Führungskräfte sollten in diesen Zeiten des Umbruchs zum Leader werden, sondern jeder mutige Mitarbeiter ist gefordert, Verantwortung zu übernehmen und die Zukunft der Bank mitzugestalten.Ordnung im Chaos – Kybernetik der Markenführung (essentials)
By Oliver Errichiello, Marius Wernke. 2022
Die Kybernetik ist eine Wissenschaft, um Informationen zu verstehen und systematisch zu nutzen. Als Thema der Kybernetik wird die Marke…
gerade in Zeiten der Beschleunigung und der unendlichen, globalen Warenmärkte zunehmend wichtiger. Denn Bestand hat nur, wer vermag, sein Muster im Zeitalter der Veränderung zu bewahren und immer wieder an die Erfordernisse der Zeit anzupassen. Dabei helfen weder Kundendaten noch kreative Ideen, sondern eine fundierte Kenntnis der strukturellen Funktionsweise aller Lebewesen – organischer und sozialer. Durch die Zusammenführung von Markensoziologie und Management-Kybernetik werden in diesem essential die unsichtbaren sozialen Anziehungskräfte verdeutlicht. Indem die übergreifenden Dynamiken aller (lebenden) Systeme dargestellt werden, lassen sich universelle Erkenntnisse gewinnen und planvolle Strategien entwickeln.Das resiliente Unternehmen – Die Krisen der Zukunft erfolgreich meistern
By Achim Röhe. 2022
In den letzten Jahren hat sich die Digitalisierung in den Unternehmen mit weitreichenden Folgen deutlich beschleunigt. Wo wird all das…
enden? Ein (vorläufiges) Zielbild der Digitalisierung ist das selbstfahrende Unternehmen, welches verschiedene Entwicklungsstufen hin zu einer Organisation durchlaufen hat, die ein Höchstmaß an Automation kennzeichnet und deren Entscheidungen zumeist von Softwarealgorithmen und nicht mehr von Menschen getroffen werden. Die Frage, die sich stellt, ist: Können wir solchen Unternehmen trauen?Dieses Buch zeigt anhand intuitiver Modelle und anschaulicher Praxisbeispiele, wie selbstfahrende Unternehmen der Zukunft resilient werden und die Krisen der Zukunft erfolgreich meistern können.The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries own 30 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves and largely depend on oil…
for their income. Yet, the GCC faces serious challenges. The global demand for oil is expected to continue declining and the average long-run oil price could become lower than its historical average in the future. This book is a research–based, structural macroeconomic analysis, providing evidence-based and future-facing, policy recommendations for GCC governments. First, it analyzes historical data to explain the macroeconomic performance and economic policies of the GCC countries from 1970 to 2019. Then it presents ten-year dynamic stochastic projections from 2020 to 2030. The book examines debt sustainability and optimal fiscal policies, i.e., government spending and taxation. It also analyses structural issues such as savings and productivity, and from an institutional perspective, taking into account education, the labor market, and pension funds, as well as other factors that have a close effect on economic performance. The book is comprehensive and thorough, it relies on extensive econometric analyses, including rigorous time series analysis. The author uses both calibration of theoretical models and estimation, facilitating projections for the next decade of key economic variables under different policy scenarios. The book also assesses what the future of the GCC economies will look like if climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic continue to, adversely, affect oil supply and demand, and the price of oil, given their current policies and institutions. As well as scholars and researchers of economics and finance, the book will engage policymakers in central banks, treasury departments, planning councils, research institutes and think tanks.Bridging the Technological Divide: Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries
By Diego Comin, Xavier Cirera, Marcio Cruz. 2022
Many of the main problems facing developing countries today and tomorrow--growth, poverty reduction, inequality, food insecurity, job creation, recovery from…
the COVID-19 pandemic, and adjustment to climate change--hinge on adopting better technology, a key driver of economic development. Access to technology is not enough: firms have to adopt it. Yet it is precisely the uptake of technology that is lagging in many firms in developing countries. Bridging the Technological Divide: Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries helps open the “black box†? of technology adoption by firms. The seventh volume in the World Bank Productivity Project series, it will further both research and policy that can be used to support technology adoption by firms in developing countries.Nurturing Boys: 200 Ways to Raise a Boy's Emotional Intelligence from Boyhood to Manhood
By Will Glennon. 2020
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. Robotics, AI, neuro-technologies…
and autonomous vehicles will alter behaviours, relationships, and meaning. In this context, an important question that organizations must ask themselves is how can they adapt their business models and values to compete successfully? In answering this question, this book applies the concept of complementarity to business areas that are often dealt with independently: strategy, leadership, management, talent and engagement. Organizational success will not only be achieved by singularity but also by organization wide interventions that connect each of the functions to a broader purpose. The author argues that whilst the factors of an organisation will continue to affect each other in one of three ways: independent, substitutive, and complementary, it will be towards the latter that a greater level of importance is attached. The book describes how complementarity has arisen in non- business fields and how an interpretation of it might be a useful paradigm for the modern business organisation. Finally, the book explores organisational and individual competences and how they might be applied in the complementarity model.Künstliche Intelligenz: Wie verändert sich unsere Zukunft?
By Arnold Kitzmann. 2022
Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) durchdringt zunehmend unser gesamtes Leben, angefangen bei den hochwillkommenen kleinen Erleichterungen des Alltags bis hin zu gravierenden…
gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen in Arbeitswelt, Forschung und Entwicklung sowie der Privatsphäre jedes Einzelnen. Wir können uns dieser Entwicklung nicht (mehr) entziehen oder gar verweigern, sondern sind gefordert, uns mit ihr auseinanderzusetzen. Dieses Buch erörtert philosophische, ethische, politische, ökonomische Aspekte ebenso wie die Problematik der Selbstbestimmtheit, Freiheit und Manipulierbarkeit des Einzelnen. So entsteht ein kleiner Leitfaden für den Leser, um sich selbst in dieser Phase großer gesellschaftlicher Umwälzungen zu positionieren. Last not least spannend: In der Auseinandersetzung mit Künstlicher Intelligenz wird klar, dass sie uns Heutigen mit Fragen konfrontiert, die bereits die Philosophie vor über zweieinhalb Jahrtausenden umtrieb.