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Adopting an Evidence-Based Management (EBM) approach, this book provides the best evidence available on a wide range of topics from Industrial and Organizational Psychology to help managers base their decisions on scientific findings. Drawing on principles and methods first developed by Evidence-Based Medicine, EBM aims to promote the use of scientific knowledge in organizational and managerial decision making. Based on this idea, the book seeks to establish a dialogue between researchers and professionals of the Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Management fields, translating scientific knowledge into useful resources that can be used to inform practitioner’s decisions and interventions in topics such as: Creativity in organizations Optimism and hope Engagement at work Life and career planning Entrepreneurship Innovation in organizations Cultural diversity and inclusion in organizations Social networks Ageing at organizational context Work/life balance Positive rule breaking Expatriation Time pressure, Pacing styles and polychronicity
This book is about exploring and presenting a model of digital-based curriculum for Christian education suitable for the digital ways of learning, communicating, and thinking. Park discusses the limitations of analog-based curricula, most of current curricula, and necessities for digital-oriented ones. Then, he provides a new model of curriculum--curriculum as software. Curriculum as software is a curricular framework for embracing digital culture like open-flat network, service-centered management, interactive communication, and offline-online hybrid learning space. It consists of four spiral stages: analysis, design, simulation, and service. In the process of designing units, 4R Movement--a new learning theory--is utilized to encourage today's young people to construct their own knowledge after critically analyzing various resources of information. 4R-embeded courses are implemented in the four movements: reflection, reinterpretation, re-formation, and re-creation.
This 4-colour practical guide explores how the design of interior spaces impacts wellbeing. In the built environment, this topic is generally overlooked, even though it is one of the most important topics in sustainable building. This book will enable project teams to understand how specific decisions about sustainable design and materials can be implemented on a day to day basis. Each Part ends by placing each issue into context, exploring how it is a part of sustainable design and includes practical examples. This books raises awareness of the impact interior environments have on wellbeing, and provide details and guidance on how to immediately apply the knowledge in this book to short and long term projects. It also quantifies the impacts in financial and other value terms, making this book immediately useful in a designer's day-to-day work.
How does Christ meet, engage, change, challenge, dialogue, interact with, and bridge cultures? What is the role of the gospel in transforming ethics and culture? These daunting questions guide the present investigation about Evangelical Christianity in Brazil, the largest Catholic country in the world. This book critiques the quantitative and qualitative growth of Evangelical Christianity in Brazil and presents tools for studying the global south and other cultures. Indeed, sociocultural factors play a significant role in the translation of the gospel and may work as bridges and/or barriers within the cultural and religious milieu of the largest country in Latin American. Particularly, four ...
A literatura empírica tem demonstrado que as organizações podem beneficiar-se ao efetuarem regularmente processos de análise e diagnóstico que permitam definir estratégias de intervenção e mudança, além de traçar roteiros de melhoria consistentes. O diagnóstico consiste em uma etapa fundamental à identificação e compreensão dos problemas organizacionais, pois fornece informações rigorosas sobre a dinâmica do trabalho e pode ter implicações práticas que levam ao estabelecimento de estratégias de intervenção e mudança. Com base nas experiências de consultores e pesquisadores brasileiros e estrangeiros, este livro apresenta modelos criativos de análise diagnóstica, ...
Names are so important as they identify and distinguish us from everyone else. But it’s not just our own names that hold such fascination – those of the rich and famous play a great part in our lives. Felix Schrodinger and Pyotr Stilovsky have compiled in this, the second volume of the series, a compendium of information which will appeal to all who are intrigued with names and seek out knowledge for its own sake.
¿Por qué son tan necesarias las habilidades sociales? Cualquiera que tenga la responsabilidad de educar debe preguntarse constantemente cuál es el propósito de educar a otra persona. Quizás la más significativa de las actividades humanas es el acto de intentar transmitir conocimientos, pero sobre todo de ayudar a desarrollar en el otro, habilidades de relación humana que puedan allanar caminos adecuados para el ejercicio de la ciudadanía y, sobre todo, transformar los conocimientos en utilidades humanas. Las escuelas necesitan entender su papel en una sociedad guiada por avances tecnológicos y científicos exponenciales, que hacen obsoleto mucho de lo que se pretendía enseñar ayer. Ayuda a desarrollar habilidades que promuevan la capacidad de convivir con un mundo acelerado, en constantes cambios sociales y tecnológicos que nos afectan sin pedir permiso. ¡Aquí está el desafío!
Este estudo identificou qual o julgamento e significado predominantes quando da decisão de realizar investimentos bancários pelo investidor financeiro no Distrito Federal, sendo esse público o universo do estudo. A pesquisa é de natureza descritiva e para compreender o fenômeno em estudo, foi utilizado o método quantitativo de levantamento e análise de dados. Para a coleta dos dados, o instrumento de pesquisa está estruturado em três blocos, o primeiro conforme escala proposta por Alfinito (2009) aperfeiçoada e adaptada pela autora, para o acompanhamento do julgamento e significado de serviços; o segundo, questionário e escalas que demonstram o comportamento do investidor bancár...
Apresentar um livro é sempre uma responsabilidade e muito desafiador, principalmente por nele conter tanto de cada autor, de cada pesquisa, suas aspirações, suas expectativas, seus achados e o mais importante de tudo a disseminação do conhecimento produzido cientificamente. Nesta coletânea de Tópicos Especiais em Ciências da Saúde: teoria, métodos e práticas 5, abrange diversas áreas da saúde, refletindo a percepção de vários autores. Portanto, a organização deste livro é resultado dos estudos desenvolvidos por diversos pesquisadores e que tem como finalidade ampliar o conhecimento aplicado à área de saúde evidenciando o quão presente ela se encontra em diversos contex...