Building on COVID-19's Innovation Momentum for Digital, Inclusive Education
Education systems can build on school-led micro-innovations during the pandemic to develop more equitable learning. Empowering teachers to be autonomous, actively engaged in designing learning environments, and knowledgeable and dynamic in using multi-modal technology can encourage more peer-to-peer collaboration in schools and enrich pedagogy.
Strengthening Early Childhood Education and Care in Luxembourg
In supporting children's development, countries invest in the future successes of economies and societies. Awareness of the critical role early childhood education and care (ECEC) plays in setting a strong foundation for children's learning, development and well-being has grown among policy makers worldwide.
Corporate Risks and Leadership
The context of business has been changing for companies in recent years, and following numerous corporate and accounting scandals, many countries have increased the number of national and international regulations designed to ensure transparency and compliance with the law. Because of the existence of these new regulations, the level of control, the severity of sanctions by governments, and the amount of fines for noncompliance have increased dramatically.In parallel, with the technological revolution in communications, business management has become more transparent, and any negative event is uploaded to social networks and shared with an indeterminate number of people. This change in the regulatory, sanctioning, and technological context has forced large companies to rethink risks, investments, and budgets to deal with this more complex environment.To transition to this change, some companies have included ethics and compliance programs in their corporate agenda, along with marketing and sales plans, strategies, growth targets, investment plans, and/or talent acquisition. While each industry has its particular risks, in this book, the author describes the essential elements that any effective ethics and compliance program should contain.This book is a source of information that connects yesterday with today. The author shares observations and lessons of the past to suggest corporate leaders implement effective ethics and compliance programs to protect their organizations and themselves. The book covers theories of ethics but with an eye focused on practical application. Risks, ethics, and compliance are analyzed with an overall vision, connected to the reality of business life, without getting bogged down in abstract thinking or technical and regulatory details.Ethics and compliance are disciplines that have increasingly achieved greater recognition in organizations. Thus, due to the importance of risk management in the business world and the necessary involvement of the CEO and the board of directors, it seems appropriate that executives get access to a book about risks, ethics, compliance, and human resources directed not only to compliance experts but also to any organizational leader.This second edition specifically answers the following questions: Why is an ethical corporate culture important? Why is how we get the results important? Why should you control the exercise of power in your organization? What are the risks of the digitally hyper-connected world? Why must we be vigilant and react quickly when the risks are still small? Why are vision, motivation, and commitment needed to overcome internal resistance and implement changes in organizations? Should we become more aware that we can be deceived? How should we deal with uncertainty? What kind of training, analysis, and questioning can improve decision-making? What are the main compliance risks that organizations face? What basic elements should an ethics and compliance program have to protect a company against risks? This work offers various examples to cultivate ethical thinking and behavior, identify common risks, and comprehend their adverse effects on organizations.
International Business Law and the Legal Environment
The fifth edition of International Business Law and the Legal Environment: A Transactional Approach gives business and law students a clear understanding of the legal principles that govern international business. This book goes beyond compliance by emphasizing how to use the law to create value and competitive advantage.DiMatteo's transactional approach walks students through key business transactions--from import and export, contracts, and finance to countertrade, dispute resolution, licensing, and more--giving them both context and providing real-world applications. This new edition also features: ● Added coverage of new technologies, such as smart contracts, digital platforms, and blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, market for nonfungible tokens, and the metaverse● Discussion of businesses and sustainability, climate change, and creating a circular economy● International perspective and use of a variety of national and international law materials● Greater coverage of EU substantive law including the new Artificial Intelligence Act.Upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of business law and international business will appreciate DiMatteo's lucid writing style, and professionals will find this book to be a comprehensive resource. Online resources include an instructor's manual, PowerPoint slides, test bank, and other tools to provide additional support for students and instructors.
The Happy Leader
Are you a leader seeking happiness? You must read this modern fable from business (and happiness!) coach Shawn Johal. "Through his brilliant storytelling, we can see ourselves, the decisions we make and the choices that impact our happiness." - Robert Glazer, author of ElevateLEADERS! ARE YOU TRULY HAPPY?The Happy Leader, written by highly regarded entrepreneur, happiness and business coach Shawn Johal, is a life-changing story about human transformation-from the triumph over grief, despair, and frustration to the powerful healing brought on by forgiveness.Warning! The Happy Leader can revolutionize your life by opening your heart and mind to new possibilities, a fresh perspective, and the inspiration to take action. You might even find yourself signing up for a marathon!Here's what you're getting yourself into: - Relate to the struggles each of the characters face every day, especially when those struggles feel familiar.- Meet the mystic-like character Ravi and see how a single person can make a difference to many lives.- Discover how meditation and other techniques can impact your life almost immediately once you commit yourself to it.- See empathy and forgiveness at work in this story and how they are essential to happiness and healing.- Witness the power of daily routine and productive habits in action to give you an extraordinary amount of freedom and energy to do things you love.- Discover how to use hard physical challenges-such as running every day-to strengthen not only the body but also the mind.- See how resolve and discipline can light the path toward transformation and happiness.- Dive into the included Happiness Guide, which lists and discusses the psychological and philosophical concepts used in the story.The Happy Leader, at its heart, is a story that tells us happiness and success are within our reach and all we need is for someone to nudge us in the right direction.Don't miss out on the Happy Leader revolution - grab a copy for yourself and your friends!
Integrated Management
Today's solutions are social and technical. We have the technical feasibility; it's already in place and evolving. The social will to create new norms involves systems thinking and analytics to tackle one of the biggest opportunities of our time, "sustainable development." Integrated management comes when we realize a decision's impacts go well beyond a single bottom line and single functional perspective. Integrated management can be measured across functions, firms, and value chains in multidimensional ways. To succeed with integrated management, managers must ensure that this outcome is not only present within an enterprise but is also present within the supply chain. As the insights, evidence-based practices, action learning, and concepts within this book illustrate, the market and consumers will punish those firms that promise ESG performance but cannot deliver on this promise because of problems with a lack of integrated management. Building on the award-winning success of the first edition, Integrated Management offers solutions. Initiatives we would want to achieve regardless of their proven positive impacts on a single bottom line, as they are practices that benefit the environment and society in dynamic ways that for too long have been overlooked.
Ethics in Management
Management and leadership roles in business and professions entail a wide range of ethical issues and challenges. These are apparent to anyone occupying such roles, aspiring to them, or subject to decisions by managers and leaders. Their effects on our daily lives are unavoidable and wide-ranging, never more so than in times of flux and crisis. In response, the authors of the papers in this volume consider angles such as the nature of licence to operate, whether management attracts any kind of moral exceptionalism, and the ethics of 'passion' at work. In addition to this, other topics explored that speak to Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations' broader purpose, including what considerations we should have when doing research for social impact and when we have a duty to intervene to protect others. Ethics in Management: Business and the Professions is essential reading for students across the disciplines of management, business, organizational behaviour, and ethics, policymakers, leaders and managers to gain knowledge of the moral considerations in the workplace, and responsibilities in research and intervention for societal welfare.
Convenience Orientation in Corporate Crime
This book addresses corporate wrongdoing as a criminal phenomenon driven by convenience. Corrective recovery triggers include crime detection, corporate scandal, whistleblowing, and bottom-up change management. While compliance refers to meeting legal and other formal obligations, conformance refers to meeting and potentially exceeding societal and other informal norms and obligations. Lack of conformance tends to have immediate and serious consequences when revealed. People react when corporations pollute rivers, do business with authoritarian regimes, provide favors to government officials, look another way at money laundering, and commit other forms of wrongdoing that might never end up in the criminal justice system. People express their reactions in social media, in the press, and in the street by demonstrations.Corporate compliance and conformance programs require monitoring, auditing, corrective actions, and system modifications or redesign to prevent future problem behavior. Window-dressing by symbol change rather than substance change does not work anymore. Often, deviant executives need to be replaced after honest accounts of wrongdoing, where an account refers to a statement made by the entity to explain negative behavior that has become subject to inquiry by stakeholders and others. Denial, justification, excuse, apology, scapegoating, victimization, crusading, or other explanatory attempts should be avoided. The contribution of this book to the literature is to present a range of corrective recovery responses that help reduce crime convenience.
Bayesian A/B Decision Models
Bayesian A/B Decision Models encapsulates J Christopher Westland's deep expertise in algorithmic decision-making, honed through years of experience in specialized fields like auditing and serving as an expert witness in computing damages for corporate and industrial legal cases. While traditional statistical methods provide valuable insights, they often fall short of capturing the complexities of real-world scenarios that require sophisticated decision-making. Enter the Bayesian A/B decision model -- a powerful alternative that offers the flexibility and adaptability essential for navigating the intricate demands of consultancy and legal expert roles.Westland has found the versatility of Bayesian A/B models to be particularly transformative, enabling him to respond effectively to diverse and dynamic requests for detailed analytical reports. This approach allows for the delivery of precise financial analyses and outcomes that are highly tailored and often beyond the reach of traditional methods. In the high-stakes arenas of legal and corporate deliberations, where the accuracy and adaptability of statistical analysis can be the tipping point, this advantage has proven invaluable.In Bayesian A/B Decision Models, Westland extends the application of Bayesian A/B testing across a wide array of fields, including healthcare, marketing, and finance, as well as in more specialized sectors where traditional A/B testing and Frequentist approaches may be insufficient due to their limitations. The book features a comprehensive technical appendix with complete computer code for all examples discussed, offering readers practical tools that can be customized and implemented in their work.Whether you're an experienced statistician, an emerging analyst, or a professional exploring the potential of Bayesian A/B testing, this book provides a thorough overview and detailed applications that highlight the unique benefits of this innovative statistical approach.
Mergers and Acquisitions in Islamic and Conventional Banks
This book aims to provide details of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the banking sector, particularly with regards to Islamic and conventional banks. It analyses the different cases from theoretical and empirical perspectives, describing details of M&A strategy that work for corporate restructuring and elucidating how M&A strategy benefits different stakeholders. The book will also examine the relationship between M&A and bank performance and stability by studying the mediating role of market structures. It is a must read for practitioners, academics, businesspeople and policymakers who are interested in the intricacies of the banking sector, and those seeking a deeper understanding of how M&As operate.
The Ikigai Way
Discover the secret to living a life of purpose and fulfillment with The Ikigai Way In The Ikigai Way, David Marlow, a seasoned business leader and personal transformation expert, tackles the challenges of today's disrupted career landscapes. Utilizing the ancient Japanese concept of Ikigai, Marlow offers a fresh perspective on finding harmony and fulfillment in both personal and professional life amidst the twin modern crises of burnout and career uncertainty. The book meticulously explores how to align your career with your true self by integrating Ikigai into your daily routines and strategic thinking. Marlow provides hands-on strategies and practical examples to help readers harness their passion and skills in ways that benefit not only their professional growth but also their personal satisfaction. Each chapter is dedicated to unraveling a facet of Ikigai, making its ancient wisdom accessible and actionable for modern-day professionals across all career stages. Learn to identify and harness your unique strengths and passions to thrive in every area of your life Gain practical strategies to apply Ikigai principles in everyday scenarios, from work and leadership to personal relationships Discover how to achieve a fulfilling life by expressing your essence and purpose in harmony with whatever you do The Ikigai Way is a movement towards integrating deeper meaning into your work and creating a life that feels genuinely fulfilling. Ideal for any stage of life, this book is your guide to rediscovering joy, enthusiasm, and balance. Don't wait to transform your professional life. Start your journey to fulfillment today.
Running the Tapes
This practical and accessible exploration of ethics in organizational leadership contains several underlying themes: first, that even the most morally stalwart organizations are vulnerable to the ethical challenges that come from failings of leadership, particularly executive leadership. A great focus today is being paid to the idea of toxic work environments, and while explorations of culture, team building, and language are all valuable pieces of this discussion, at its heart this is a question of leadership. Stripping away authority as a requisite for leadership empowers everyone at all levels of an organization to take a higher level of ownership over their leadership skills, to become a voice of action and protection for their teammates and the organization when the conventional safeguards of the workplace fail them. The common term for these individuals may be whistleblowers, but rather, are they instead models of leadership that organizations should be paying closer attention to? By drawing a constant dividing line between ethics and organizational interests, have we been missing a key middle ground this entire time? By redefining the boundaries of leadership through the lens of how to take action in a hostile workplace environment, this book offers a series of accessible strategies, principles, and examples that can be easily followed regardless of rank or position. Based on his consulting work, the author recounts actual ethical investigations of egregious workplace violations. The author also includes examples of well-known historical individuals who made the choice to put aside self-interest and act for the well-being of their colleagues and the organization. To make this book even more valuable, the author offers strategies for how to parse grievances from genuine wrongdoings, make decisions about how to handle delicate information, choose allies wisely, and prepare for both the consequences and sometimes benefits of bringing organizational wrongdoings to light. Finally, this book aims to inspire courage, nurture leadership growth at all levels, and offer leaders in positions of power a clear case for why opting for environments of ethical accountability is synonymous, rather than at odds, with an organization's self-interest.
Conflict Resilience
Two former Harvard faculty--one an internationally-recognized negotiator and conflict management expert from Harvard Law, the other a leading behavioral neurologist and cutting-edge scientist from Harvard Med--join forces to introduce conflict resilience: the radical act of sitting in and growing from conflict to break the bad habits that sabotage our politics, workplaces, and most important relationships. Conflict is getting the better of us.From our homes and community centers to C-Suites and Congress, disagreements are happening everywhere, with increasing frequency, and are being treated like zero-sum games that allow little margin for error and even less room for productive conversations. This puts a tremendous and untenable strain on our most important relationships and institutions.Unable or unwilling to negotiate conflict with skill, we ignore it or avoid it for as long as possible; when we are forced to face it, we escalate everyday disagreements and temporary flare-ups as if they're life-and-death. Neither approach addresses underlying issues, promotes stronger relationships, or yields satisfying results.But there is a solution: a combined skillset and mindset that Bob Bordone calls "conflict resilience"--the ability to sit genuinely with and grow from disagreement. In this powerful, hopeful book, he and renowned neurologist Joel Salinas, MD, combine the inner mechanics of conflict--literally what's going on in our bodies and our brains during moments of distress--with a groundbreaking three-step framework for how to navigate it: NAME (& dig deep)EXPLORE (& be brave)COMMIT (& own the conflict)In a time of increasing polarization, where consensus, agreement, and problem-solving can sometimes feel elusive, Conflict Resilience provides practical solutions to a common dilemma: How do you handle disagreements and differences with integrity while finding a way to create strong, deep, and lasting relationships?Conflict Resilience is not another book about conflict resolution, nor is it about problem solving. Conflict Resilience combines practical applications of advanced conflict management and study of the human brain to teach anyone how to turn conflict and negotiation into an act of union. This book provides the most cutting-edge and scientifically-grounded tools for driving agreement when possible and for empowering you to disagree better when the differences cut deep and the relationships matter most. This is a chance to bring people together, and an invitation to radically transform how we interact with our friends and families, our co-workers, our students, and our neighbors--anyone with whom we find ourselves in disagreement.
The Resilience Mindset
For business professionals seeking success and purpose, cancer survivors, individuals with disabilities who feel marginalized, or anyone facing life's challenges and wanting stronger coping skills, The Resilience Mindset offers an actionable framework to overcome adversity and create a more fulfilling life. Adversity can deliver a blow to our emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health, eroding our self-confidence and self-esteem. But the human spirit is strong, and we should never underestimate ourselves. In telling his personal story of adversity, Terry Healey provides insight into challenging life events and how he found a way to practice mindful positivity and find purpose, renewed confidence, and success. Having experienced a harrowing ordeal with a life-threatening cancer that left him with a permanent facial difference at the age of twenty-one, Healey found a way to harness daily inspirations into key turning points that enabled him to create an actionable framework of four key principles to not only manage adversity whenever confronted with it but to learn how to create a better, more fulfilling life -- because of it. Healey's four principles are invaluable to individuals and to those leading teams of people. Coping with adversity is one thing, but thriving is another. To thrive, we must find happiness, success, and purpose by developing ways to build resilience, embrace change, and strengthen our resolve so that we become unstoppable. Each of us has the capacity to incorporate Healey's resilience framework into our daily routines and become more empowered and self-confident. In addition to Healey's own harrowing story, The Resilience Mindset offers evidence-backed research and stories from others who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds, including paralysis, traumatic brain injury (TBI), severe dyslexia, burn injuries, and other adversities. The Resilience Mindset provides more than inspiration: It provides readers with the tools to build their own survival kits to take on the smallest and biggest obstacles, leading to a more fulfilling life.
Big Impact Without Burnout
Global business leader and single mother of 4, Bianca Best, reveals the 8 powerful and transformative strategies for ambitious women to achieve success with integrity and joy. This is a plan for reaching for the stars and seizing them without burning out, through inner balance and magnificent outer shine. Are you craving more time and energy?Is stress taking its toll on your productivity?Do your ambitions feel increasingly hard to achieve? You are not alone. Too many brilliant women are exhausted and dimming their lights unnecessarily. This book is your powerful solution and inspiring path to achieving your dreams with grace, joy and integrity. Bianca Best is an award-winning executive, coach, thought leader and mother of four, who has learned how to succeed without compromising body, mind or soul. After years of burnout, she mastered how to blend ambition with wellbeing. And then a funny thing happened, her impact and happiness soared! This is her practical, proven and invigorating roadmap: just 8 essential strategies to holistically shift from stress and struggle to empowered rising and achieving. With graceful productivity as your superpower, you'll find your inner balance then unleash your magnificent outer shine, taking your boldest work into the world, building influence and respect, maximizing your income and value, all while feeling purposeful, peaceful and energized.
Business Analytics Value Chain
This book is a comprehensive, step-by-step learning guide towards understanding entire value chain of Business Analytics, its inter-related components and hence signifying its role in business decision making in India and globally. It has been written with an interdisciplinary approach that triggers strategic as well as routine thought provoking ideas to cut across data from several business domains globally. This book deals with the end to end journey from planning the approach to a data enriched decision-problem, to communicating results derived from analytics models to clients. Using running cases from all aspects of a business venture (finance, marketing, human resource and operations), the book helps the readers to develop the capabilities of evaluating a business case scenario; understand the business problem; identify the data sources and data availability; logically think through problem solving; use analytics techniques and application software to solve the problem; and be able to interpret the results. Case studies have been carefully designed to represent business scenarios from varied business domains both local and global such that it handholds the students to make informed fact based decisions during collaborative planning, analysing, interpreting and communicating outcomes for data enriched problem scenarios. The book will be useful for students, researchers and instructors from the field of Business Management, Data Analytics, Commerce and Economics. It will also be an indispensable companion to the professional working in the field of data analytics.
The Holistic Career Coaching Handbook
Exclusion from the workplace not only has devastating effects on individual well-being and public health, but also limits organisational development and social cohesion. This book promotes an understanding of the strengths of people with diverse attributes, transforming a sense of being overlooked by employers to being a valued asset.This handbook provides tools for people to respond respectfully to the way employees experience their working lives. It guides the reader to realise the potential strengths of employees, regardless of their background, life situation, mental health or neurological condition, and appreciate the impact of emotions on their contribution to and experience of work. Other books look at organisational reasons for motivation; this book addresses the emotional effect of significant change outside the workplace that has an impact on motivation at work. Chapters cover neurodiversity, parental coaching, Career Returners, menopause and the impact of different life stages.This practical book uses cases and summaries throughout and has chapters on creating a successful programme of career support, together with 15 original Career Tools. It is particularly relevant to Human Resources, Learning and Development, and line managers, and anyone wanting to develop effective in-house career coaching for employees.
Deep Learning Approach for Natural Language Processing, Speech, and Computer Vision
COMPASSION IN ACTION - A Leadership Paradigm That Cultivates Organizational Happiness
The Ripple Effect
Featuring insights from seasoned networking professionals, The Ripple Effect: Networking for Success offers valuable guidance on establishing and nurturing long-term connections. "A thought-provoking collection of individuals who have taken networking to a whole new science. An invaluable tool, bringing together great minds and sharing their thoughts." -- Donald Ziraldo, CM, co-founder of Inniskillin Wine "There is value to be mined within these pages by Canadians from all walks of life." -- Ben Mulroney, host of The Ben Mulroney Show "How did you get where you are today?" At public speaking events, this is the most frequent question young professionals ask former Ontario politician David Tsubouchi and governance and communications consultant Marc Kealey. The answer: It is impossible to succeed alone. A friend once said, "A better network equals a better net worth." This is not to say networking is purely transactional or about how many people one knows: Networking is about building relationships based on mutual respect and trust so everyone involved can thrive. Tsubouchi, Kealey, and eighteen other accomplished and prominent Canadians have come together to share their stories and advice on networking for success. They represent people from different sectors who started with nothing and faced more barriers than others because of their gender, ethnicity, and/or immigrant status. From entrepreneurs to executives, their experiences show aspiring networkers the true meaning of perseverance and how they can make networking opportunities fulfilling experiences.
