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Almost Dysfunctional

Author : Larry Hubbell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469793997
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Almost Dysfunctional written by Larry Hubbell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-02-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Stanley, a middle-aged, mildly obsessive and slightly above average American political science professor, thinks he may have made a mistake. Why did he choose Russia as the site for his sabbatical? He's tired of the drunken camaraderie; he finds the crowded buses a Hobbesian world writ small; and he frequently becomes irate stepping in dog feces in the halls of his apartment. Away from his wife and family, he meets Lientjies Steenkamp, a beautiful, young South African Communist, who he becomes infatuated with upon their first meeting. Can a slightly burned out, tenured college professor find happiness in a dreary society with a woman fifteen years his junior?

Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces

Author : Spencer Acadia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100079878X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces written by Spencer Acadia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces expands the "dysfunctional" concept in the professional and academic LIS discourse by exposing the internal problematics of libraries, especially at the social and organizational levels. Including contributions written by LIS professionals and scholars, the book demonstrates that although many libraries do well at attending to users and managing external information they often fail at taking care of their own employees and addressing internal workplace issues. Acadia and the contributing authors explore the problem of dysfunctional libraries so that the LIS profession can come to terms with the systemic dysfunction in their institutions and begin solution-oriented progress toward new and sustainable functionality. The book analyzes the dysfunctional nature of modern libraries, while simultaneously proposing solutions to reduce and alleviate dysfunction. Through theory and application, it takes an explicit practice-based approach with the intent to inform and explain dysfunction as experienced in the library workplace at individual and structural levels and perspectives. Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces brings the dysfunction discourse to the attention of LIS academics and scholars so that further theoretical and empirical research can proceed from and subsequently be addressed in library and information schools. The book will also be essential reading for librarians and LIS students currently working or preparing to work in public, college, and university libraries.

The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family

Author : Karen Casey
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1609258312
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family written by Karen Casey and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a silver lining to growing up in a dysfunctional family? Twenty-four survivors recount their stories—and the strengths forged in the chaos. Living in a dysfunctional family isn’t easy. But while you can’t choose where you come from, you can choose the lessons you take away. Bestselling recovery author Karen Casey looks at stories of people who grew up in dysfunctional families and “the good stuff” that can, ironically, come from the experience. She interviews survivors who emerged from the fires of turbulent households affected by abuse, addiction, or other problems, and reveals how they came to process their often-harrowing personal trials and, against the odds, triumph over their difficulties—using skills they honed in response to their childhoods. In The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family, Casey reveals the stories and the skills they developed to live more creative and fulfilling lives, and not just survive but thrive. “Using her interviews as groundwork, she explores the benefits that result from surviving in a dysfunctional family, including resiliency, perseverance, a sense of humor, forgiveness, kindness, and the ability to discern real love.” —Publishers Weekly “You just can’t go wrong with Karen Casey.” —Earnie Larson, author of Stage II Recovery

Research Companion to the Dysfunctional Workplace

Author : Janice Langan-Fox
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847207081
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Research Companion to the Dysfunctional Workplace written by Janice Langan-Fox and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work exposing and exploring the phenomena of the dysfunctional workplace is long overdue. This fascinating book does just that, uncovering the subversiveness, counter-productive behaviour and unspoken issues that managers struggle with on a daily basis. This Companion not only explores organizational dysfunction as it concerns individuals, it also examines broader issues of dysfunction and its effects with regards teams, managers and organizational systems. Lively discussion encompasses the symptoms of distress, illness, absenteeism, and inefficiency that point towards behavioural disorders and system-wide malfunction. From personality disorders to wars over territory , the book chronicles and reveals the true nature of often hidden workplace problems including bullying, unethical behaviour, loss of trust, organizational deviance, cowardice, workaholism, negative humour and emotions, personality disorders, mismanagement, and malfunctioning performance and selection systems. So what can be done? Practical solutions to these dysfunctional phenomena are presented by international experts from a range of disciplinary backgrounds including management, psychology and economics. This fascinating, highly original book will be of enormous interest to students, researchers, academics and practitioners across all sectors of business and management, human resource management in particular.

Local Governance in Multi-Layered Systems

Author : Matteo Nicolini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031417925
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Local Governance in Multi-Layered Systems written by Matteo Nicolini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a comprehensive analysis of local government in federations. It fills the gap in current legal research and positions local government in federal studies through the lenses of comparative law, adopting a more nuanced approach to local government. The book considers the shortcomings between the black-letter constitution and its operational rules. Whether (and how) the regime of local government is implemented is more relevant than its formal-but-ineffective recognition. The comparative survey discloses the variety local institutions take in different federal contexts. Divided into three parts, the book comprises chapters investigating local government in systems that, to various degrees, have been examined and classified as federal. Scholars throughout the world have examined the federal-local connection in aggregative federations, (the USA, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Austria), devolutionary ones (Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Italy, Spain, the UK, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the Russian Federation), as well as in federations beyond the West, where federalism-as-a-colonial-legacy has undergone a process of reinvention affecting the federal-local connection (South Africa, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia; St. Kitts and Nevis; United Arab Emirates; and Pakistan).

A Life Without Chapters; A Dysfunctional's Diary

Author : Timothy Cress
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595300715
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book A Life Without Chapters; A Dysfunctional's Diary written by Timothy Cress and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Am Dysfunctional, You are Dysfunctional

Author : Wendy Kaminer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974438917
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book I Am Dysfunctional, You are Dysfunctional written by Wendy Kaminer and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Transport Systems

Author : G. Passerini
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1784663697
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Urban Transport Systems written by G. Passerini and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better urban transport systems are needed to achieve a healthier environment and as a result, a wide range of research has originated from many different countries. These studies highlight the importance of innovative systems, new approaches and original ideas, which need to be thoroughly tested and critically evaluated before they can be implemented in practice. To address the need to solve important pollution problems the papers included in this book focus on the relationship with urban transport. There is also a growing need for integration with telecommunications systems and IT applications in order to improve safety, security and efficiency. The variety of topics covered in this volume reflects the complex interaction of the urban transport systems with their environment and the need to establish integrated strategies. The aim is to arrive at optimal socio-economic solutions while reducing the negative environmental impacts of current transportation systems.

More Than a Health Crisis

Author : Jessica Kirk
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262374862
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book More Than a Health Crisis written by Jessica Kirk and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the West African Ebola epidemic was transformed from an urgent and distant tragedy into an existential threat to American lives—establishing the dynamics that would later dominate the US response to epidemics such as COVID-19. In 2014 and 2015, the viral Ebola epidemic in West Africa inspired breathless US media coverage and became the subject of heated public debate over just how to understand the security issue that the outbreak presented. Was it a security concern because of the lives at risk in West Africa? Or because of its threat to regional and global stability? Or was it potentially a threat to the American people? In More Than a Health Crisis, Jessica Kirk reveals how these varied positions spoke to divisions within the American public, concerning how we think about and respond to uncertainty, competing expertise, and securitization. Kirk insightfully examines how experts in different fields offered conflicting assessments of the risks posed by Ebola, and then goes on to analyze how the US press undermined the authority of the public health experts who accurately predicted that the virus posed little danger to Americans. Reading the media coverage of the Ebola epidemic as a case study in the biopolitics of fear, Kirk considers how the US response reflected not only anxieties over globalization but also long-held narratives about the “Dark Continent.” Finally, Kirk shows how the US and global public response to the Ebola outbreak challenged traditional models of securitization and identifies patterns that have tragically recurred with subsequent epidemics such as COVID-19 and monkeypox.

International Development Assistance

Author : Olav Stokke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030062198
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book International Development Assistance written by Olav Stokke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive search for the basic political drivers of international development cooperation, based on the policy and performance of the OECD countries from the early 1960s to the present. The author focuses on the stated and implemented policies of the four so-called frontrunners and the Western hegemon, scrutinizing the changing trends in the justifications, objectives and guidelines set for the policy and their evolving performance vis-à-vis the international ODA target. Through extensive research, the work examines predominant world-views, societal value systems and foreign policy traditions, in order to find the policy drivers that vary nation to nation and how development assistance has evolved globally.

Agricultural Land Redistribution and Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Frank F. K. Byamugisha
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464801894
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Land Redistribution and Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Frank F. K. Byamugisha and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural Land Redistribution and Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa: Case Studies of Recent Reforms focuses on “how” to undertake land reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, but with relevant lessons for other developing countries. It provides details, with case studies, on how reforms were undertaken to address a pressing and controversial development challenge in Africa – land ownership inequality – and an intransigent development issue – inefficiency and corruption in land administration. An equally important contribution of the book is assessing reforms and highlighting valuable lessons for other countries contemplating reforms. The six case studies collectively cover two main areas of land governance: reforms in redistributing agricultural land and reforms in land administration. The first two case studies discuss reforms in redistributing agricultural land in Malawi and South Africa, part of the southern Africa region where land ownership inequalities rival those in Latin America. The remaining case studies, four in number, are focused on addressing corruption and inefficiency in land administration in a variety of contexts of governance including stable and post-conflict countries. The case studies cover: • Decentralizing land administration with demonstrations from Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Ghana; • Developing post-conflict land administration systems with examples from Liberia and Rwanda; • Re-engineering and computerizing land information systems with examples from Ghana and Uganda; and • Improving management of government land through land inventories with examples drawn from Ghana and Uganda. The common elements between sometimes disparate experiences provide lessons of relevance to African and other developing countries contemplating similar reforms. The rigorous analysis and yet down-to-earth lessons of experience are a reflection of the authors’ deep global experience underpinned by personal participation in the reforms covered by the book. This volume will be of interest to a wide audience including land specialists and practitioners, African policy makers, experts and managers in the international development community, and the academia.

Services and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific

Author : P.W. Daniels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317056957
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Services and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific written by P.W. Daniels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the 1990s, industrialization was the dominant development paradigm for the Asia-Pacific region. Since then, advanced services (finance, business or 'producer services', information and creative services) have become deeply embedded in the processes of economic growth and change in the region. This rapid tertiary expansion is fundamentally restructuring national and regional economies and urban form in line with the introduction of advanced production systems, national modernization programmes and the globalization strategies of governments. Services are being actively deployed as instruments of metropolitan reconfiguration and land use change. This book explores various aspects of the relationship between service industries and economic development in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand. It provides new sector-oriented and regional and national perspectives on services and development.

The Smorgasbord of Success

Author : Ayush Kothari
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1638326576
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book The Smorgasbord of Success written by Ayush Kothari and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-04-17 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word smorgasbord means an open buffet. A buffet is a wide arrangement of meals consisting of several dishes put together in one place. This book comprises nine undisputed elements collated together after tireless research into the lives of many successful individuals who obtained success in their respective fields with the application of these elements. In this incredible life-transforming non-fiction, Ayush has put together all the principles that he practically used in his life and fetched the results. How will you gain from this book? Believe in the true meaning of human existence and explore our real identity Understand how our perspectives and emotions affect our reality positively or negatively Understand how to make a profitable investment in time and pursue our goals Learn the exact money-making blueprint with practical applications and with the power of intentions Learn how to apply our incredibly powerful subconscious forces to achieve all our goals Understand how we attract the events into our lives and how we can influence them Understand how to build the most sustainable relationships with people Understand how to cultivate unlimited happiness and make it our driving force “This book is written with the sole objective of helping people to become their best selves, and I am certain if people implement all the learnings of this book in their lives, they are bound to experience an everlasting success”- Ayush Kothari

Organizational Behaviour: A Modern Approach

Author : Kumar Arun & Meenakshi N.
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788125930938
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Organizational Behaviour: A Modern Approach written by Kumar Arun & Meenakshi N. and published by Vikas Publishing House. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational Behaviour As A Management Discipline Is A Fascinating Subject And Is Becoming Increasingly Important As People With Diverse Backgrounds And Cultural Values Have To Work Together Effectively And Efficiently. This Book Addresses All The Issues That Come In To Play In An Organization In Today S Global Economy. It Has A Novel Orientation And Its Primary Aim Is To Let Practitioners And Students Know The Latest And Best Trends In Organizational Behaviour. This Book Prescribes Methods To Manage Employees And Suggests That The Management Takes Responsibility For Everything That Might Adversely Affect An Employee S Capacity To Work Creatively And Intelligently, Irrespective Of The Place Inside The Organization Or Outside It. The Focus Of The Book Is On Holistic Development Of The Individual. Peeping Into The Human Mind, It Shows How Organizations Can Tap The Passions And Fears Of Their Employees To Make Them More Creative And Productive. The Book Prescribes A Democratic And Inclusive Management Stye. A Special Feature Of This Book Is That There Is An Innovative Integration Of Chapter Objectives And Summaries Leading To Analysis Through Caselets. Every Point In The Objectives Has Corresponding Text And Is Supplemented By A Case. Going Through This Book Will Be A Personally Fulfilling Experience And Maybe It Succeeds To Make The Readers Better Human Beings, Better Teachers, Better Friends And May Be Even Better Managers.

Advances in REBT

Author : Michael E. Bernard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319931180
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Advances in REBT written by Michael E. Bernard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative volume commemorates six decades of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy by assembling its current state of theory, practice, and research. Bedrock chapters on defining features, assessment and measurement, and empirical findings place REBT squarely in the cognitive-behavioral landscape, reinforcing its status as a significant therapeutic approach. The book’s palette of applications shows the flexibility and effectiveness of REBT in school, workplace, and other settings, with worried parents and “stuck” athletes, and as a foundation for brief interventions. And the survey of guiding principles and the evolution of the method by REBT founder Albert Ellis is a testament to its enduring clinical value. Included in the coverage: · A comparison of REBT with other cognitive behavior therapies. · The measurement of irrationality and rationality. · Empirical Research in REBT theory and practice. · Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and the working alliance. · Brief interventions in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. · REBT and positive psychology. · Rational emotive behavior education in schools. Advances in REBT will be welcomed as a definitive reference across the REBT community: frontline clinicians, novices, trainees, students, and researchers. Seasoned practitioners looking to incorporate REBT into their repertoires will find it immensely helpful.

Impacts of Colombia's Current Irrigation Management Transfer Program

Author : Douglas L. Vermillion
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290903643
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Impacts of Colombia's Current Irrigation Management Transfer Program written by Douglas L. Vermillion and published by IWMI. This book was released on 1998 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a significant gap of knowledge about actual results of irrigation management transfer. This includes the questions: Which strategies work? Which don't? and What prerequisites are necesssary to support sustainable local management of irrigation? This report examines the context of transfer, the basic transfer strategy, powers and functions devolved, and the impacts of transfer on irrigation management and irrigated agriculture in three sample irrigation districts of Colombia-the RUT, Rio Recio, and Samaca. data on performance of these schemes were analyzed for 4 or 5 years before and after transfer. Two additional schemes, San Rafael and Maria La Baja, which were transferred just prior to this study, provided a comparison of performance between transferred and nontransferred schemes, form the period of analysis.

Planning War, Pursuing Peace

Author : Paul A. C. Koistinen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning War, Pursuing Peace written by Paul A. C. Koistinen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume in a magisterial five-volume study of the political economy of American warfare.