Tag: Envisioning

Re-envisioning Organizations through Transformational Change


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English | December 28, 2022 | ISBN: 1032213086 | 186 pages | PDF | 4.36 Mb
The journey towards the future of work was greatly accelerated due to the COVID pandemic. Some changes have altered the functioning of the business world forever. Against the backdrop of these alterations, variations, and modifications, this book presents and analyzes three crucial factors: work, workforce, and workplace and their transformation into new-age organizations for meeting its customer expectations and long-term strategic goals. Companies must focus on ways of deployment of policies and practices that meet the business needs from the perspective of external changes. To achieve this goal, the organizations must realign their stakeholders and indulge in critical thinking by looking deeply into factors responsible for bringing about this transformational change. Re-envisioning is the current critical need for organizations to thrive; they must incorporate best practices to beat the competition and add value to their existing HR processes. This book clearly presents the practices and policies of successful organizations through the contribution of industry leaders.

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Re-Envisioning Conflict Resolution Vision, Action and Evaluation in Creative Conflict Engagement


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English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367233312, 1138717444 | EPUB | pages: 156 | 0.9 mb
This book explores the process of assessing success in the field of conflict resolution, with a focus on the Action Evaluation method pioneered by the author.

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South Asia 2060 Envisioning Regional Futures


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English | 2013 | ISBN: 0857280740, 1783080353 | EPUB | pages: 338 | 1.1 mb
"South Asia 2060" is a dialogue among 47 experts from a diverse range of expertise and backgrounds, ranging from policymakers to academia to civil society activists and visionaries, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia’s future. The collection explores current regional trends, possible future trajectories, and the key factors that will determine whether these trajectories are positive or negative for the region, as a region. Departing from a purely security-based analysis, the volume considers factors such as development and human well-being to reveal not what will happen but what could happen, as well as the impact present conditions could have on the rest of the world.

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Re-envisioning Theodore Theodore of Mopsuestia’s Biblical Exegesis in His Catechetical Homilies


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English | ISBN: 900470373X | 2024 | 308 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is the first comprehensive study of Theodore of Mopsuestia’s biblical interpretation in his Catechetical Homilies. It challenges the common yet reductionist view of Theodore’s exegetical approach as "historical" and reveals his exegetical ties with Pro-Nicenes and Syrian sources.

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Envisioning a 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce for the United States


Free Download National Academy of Sciences, Policy and Global Affairs, Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, "Envisioning a 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce for the United States: Tasks for University, Industry, and Government"
English | 2003 | pages: 29 | ISBN: 0309088569 | PDF | 0,5 mb
At the request of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presents in this brief paper her views of the challenges of the 21st century for the science and engineering workforce. Dr. Jackson identifies factors that she believes are contributing to a declining science and engineering workforce, describes the risks and consequences of this decline, and proposes specific, short-term tasks for universities, industry, and the federal government to strengthen and revitalize the workforce.

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A Passion for the Planets Envisioning Other Worlds, From the Pleistocene to the Age of the Telescope


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English | PDF (True) | 2010 | 225 Pages | ISBN : 144195970X | 6.3 MB
Astronomy is by far the most popular of the physical sciences, enticing enough to become a major cultural preoccupation for many, and for some an enthralling scientific activity which veritably rules their lives. What is the nature of that seemingly unstoppable attraction? In this lively and compelling account, William Sheehan – professional psychiatrist, noted historian of astronomy, and incurable observer – explores the nature of that allure through the story of man’s visual exploration of the planets.

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The Legend of Charlemagne Envisioning Empire in the Middle Ages


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English | October 21, 2021 | ISBN: 9004335641 | True PDF | 288 pages | 5.4 MB
There are few historical figures in the Middle Ages that cast a larger shadow than Charlemagne. This volume brings together a collection of studies on the Charlemagne legend from a wide range of fields, not only adding to the growing corpus of work on this legendary figure, but opening new avenues of inquiry by bringing together innovative trends that cross disciplinary boundaries.

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Envisioning Sustainabilities


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English | ISBN: 1443895377 | 2016 | 250 pages | PDF | 1312 KB
This volume is a collection of essays considering the relationship between the social sciences and sustainability studies. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology (both scholarly and applied), political science, and media studies. It has been carefully edited to provide the reader with a range of commentaries to interrogate the evolution of sustainability imaginaries in contexts as varied as urban planning, community gardens, bread-making, sustainable food movements in Italy, applied projects such as water projects in Bangladesh, and disaster studies. As such, this is a book which ultimately argues for the value of the social sciences in considering one of the more urgent and complex topics of our time that of sustainability.

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