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The Organizational Leadership class is a staple in most undergraduate and graduate management curricula. Faculty teaching leadership courses recognize the need for experiential learning, but often struggle to find meaningful and manageable learning opportunities. Based on the high-impact practices of service and community-based learning, we offer three high-impact experiences designed to complement an organizational leadership course. These experiences utilize experiential learning to reinforce the critical leadership skills of demonstrate empathy, professional networking, and lifelong self-development. These experiences, coupled with self-reflection, enable students to grow their leadership capability while building demonstrable professional skills.

President Bill Clinton has had many opponents and enemies, most of whom come from the political right wing. Clinton supporters contend that these opponents, throughout the Clinton presidency, systematically have sought to undermine this president with the goal of bringing down his presidency and running him out of office; and that they have sought non‐electoral means to remove him from office, including Travelgate, the death of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster, the Filegate controversy, and the Monica Lewinsky matter. This bibliography identifies these and other means by presenting citations about these individuals and organizations that have opposed Clinton. The bibliography is divided into five sections: General; “The conspiracy stream of conspiracy commerce”, a White House‐produced “report” presenting its view of a right‐wing conspiracy against the Clinton presidency; Funding; Conservative organizations; and Publishing/media. Many of the annotations note the links among these key players.

The management of children′s literature is a search for value and suitability. Effective policies in library and educational work are based firmly on knowledge of materials, and on the bibliographical and critical frame within which the materials appear and might best be selected. Boundaries, like those between quality and popular books, and between children′s and adult materials, present important challenges for selection, and implicit in this process are professional acumen and judgement. Yet also there are attitudes and systems of values, which can powerfully influence selection on grounds of morality and good taste. To guard against undue subjectivity, the knowledge frame should acknowledge the relevance of social and experiential context for all reading materials, how readers think as well as how they read, and what explicit and implicit agendas the authors have. The good professional takes all these factors on board.

“Praxis” is the stated goal of Radical Humanist scholarship. But, this has been a goal without realization, and without method. To our knowledge there is no record of the realization of this goal in a management context. This paper reports our effort to develop a method to achieve praxis – “dramatism” as suggested by the work of Kenneth Burke, our “field test” of dramatism in a business setting, and the extent of our “success.” Our partial success points to refinements in the method, as it applies to Critical Theory agenda. We conclude by re‐examining our understanding of praxis, questioning our purposes, and discussing the power of the method to affect the researchers.

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.

A collection of essays by a social economist seeking to balance economics as a science of means with the values deemed necessary to man′s finding the good life and society enduring as a civilized instrumentality. Looks for authority to great men of the past and to today′s moral philosopher: man is an ethical animal. The 13 essays are: 1. Evolutionary Economics: The End of It All? which challenges the view that Darwinism destroyed belief in a universe of purpose and design; 2. Schmoller′s Political Economy: Its Psychic, Moral and Legal Foundations, which centres on the belief that time‐honoured ethical values prevail in an economy formed by ties of common sentiment, ideas, customs and laws; 3. Adam Smith by Gustav von Schmoller – Schmoller rejects Smith′s natural law and sees him as simply spreading the message of Calvinism; 4. Pierre‐Joseph Proudhon, Socialist – Karl Marx, Communist: A Comparison; 5. Marxism and the Instauration of Man, which raises the question for Marx: is the flowering of the new man in Communist society the ultimate end to the dialectical movement of history?; 6. Ethical Progress and Economic Growth in Western Civilization; 7. Ethical Principles in American Society: An Appraisal; 8. The Ugent Need for a Consensus on Moral Values, which focuses on the real dangers inherent in there being no consensus on moral values; 9. Human Resources and the Good Society – man is not to be treated as an economic resource; man′s moral and material wellbeing is the goal; 10. The Social Economist on the Modern Dilemma: Ethical Dwarfs and Nuclear Giants, which argues that it is imperative to distinguish good from evil and to act accordingly: existentialism, situation ethics and evolutionary ethics savour of nihilism; 11. Ethical Principles: The Economist′s Quandary, which is the difficulty of balancing the claims of disinterested science and of the urge to better the human condition; 12. The Role of Government in the Advancement of Cultural Values, which discusses censorship and the funding of art against the background of the US Helms Amendment; 13. Man at the Crossroads draws earlier themes together; the author makes the case for rejecting determinism and the “operant conditioning” of the Skinner school in favour of the moral progress of autonomous man through adherence to traditional ethical values.

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This study identifies that bricklaying trade has not benefited much from off-site production, and bricklaying has been highlighted as a trade significantly affected by the documented skills shortage in Scotland with 66% of small and medium enterprises reporting difficulties in recruiting bricklayers.

This study used an interpretivistic philosophy adopting the phenomenological qualitative research approach using purposeful sampling technique and semi-structured interviews to allow for emergent themes to develop. The theory of proximal similarity that connects the study’s characteristics and the characteristics of the group under study was adopted.

Findings from the emergent themes identified issues grouped into key themes such as inconsistency of income, lack of care and self-employed workforce. The sub-themes included the Scottish climate, risk and profit, physical strain and government expectations and the cost of innovation. These were considered in relation to their existing and future implications for the industry.

A wider and more diverse group of industry participants from different parts of Scotland would have made the study more representative.

It is imperative that the Scottish construction industry supports, develops and trains future bricklayers capable of maintaining existing housing stock and to deliver on future construction projects in Scotland.

This study explores the shortage of skilled bricklayers within the Scottish construction sector.

Food manufacturers, as well as Food and Drugs Authorities, are greatly perturbed at the. immense increase of foreign bodies which find their way into food sold or on sale to the public. In an attempt to analyse these occurrences one feels that a useful purpose would be served if they were subdivided into two main headings. The first, and probably the most common, is the foreign body or article associated in some way with the packing or manufacturing of the article; secondly, that which not only taints the surrounding portion of the food but for which there is decidedly less justification for its presence. The chief offenders in this respect are tobacco and portions of rodent and insect bodies and excrement. An attempt at consumption of a nail or ferrous metal may result in some discomfort or injury to the person concerned, but the majority of people would prefer this risk to the shock of finding that they have eaten half a cockroach or the tail of a mouse. Under the first heading one finds such things as nails, screws, portions of paper and stones found in bread and confectionery. A large proportion of these could be removed by careful sifting of the bulk article, although bulk compound cooking fat, from which articles have been collected, presents many difficulties in this respect. Some manufacturers, in order to reduce the risk to the minimum, have installed magnetic detectors to pick up bits of ferrous metals which may be present. These, however, apart from their expense, have not proved very successful in the case of fats. It is necessary for the manufacturer to keep a constant check on his equipment and storage bins. Screws and nails have been found in bread, and, when taken back to the bakery, they have been found to fit exactly some part of the equipment. In these circumstances it has been obvious that regular maintenance would have prevented most of these unfortunate occurrences. A Court case may not only prove costly but the effects would make themselves felt in the annual turnover. In these cases, such as the more common one of glass being found in milk bottles, the management are entirely dependent upon the human element. Accidents do occur in the most perfect of milk bottling machines. Irrespective of how much one would like to boast that the product is untouched by hand, one cannot dispense with the keen scrutiny that is required, not only in removing heavily contaminated bottles, which may have held paint or other similar substances, from being fed to the machine, but at the other end as they roll off the conveyor. The question of cigarette ends, portions of matches and specks of tobacco brings to the forefront the well debated question of “ Should smoking be allowed in food preparation premises?” The report of the Manufactured Meat Products Working Party, 1950, under the heading “ Use of Tobacco ”, states: “ We consider it undesirable for anyone to smoke or chew tobacco or use snuff while in rooms used for the preparation of meat products or the storage of raw materials or the finished product. The use of tobacco in any form is likely to lead to unhygienic practices and to the contamination of food. We recommend, therefore, that the use of tobacco in rooms used for the preparation or storage of raw material or meat products should be prohibited by regulation.” It will occur to many that, where regulations have been made and the “ No Smoking ” rules strictly enforced, cases still occur of cigarette ends being found in the finished product, as the following case will illustrate. A partly‐used carton of sugar was brought into the office of a Food and Drugs Authority in which was found the stub end of a cigarette, which, from its appearance, had been flung into the manufactured sugar immediately after use, for the smoking end was encrusted with sugar. The matter was taken up with the packers, and it was explained to them that neither the man, wife or son in the household concerned were smokers. In the factory the non‐smoking rule was rigidly enforced, but it was found through the code number on the carton that, at the time, building contractors were working in and around the factory. In the case of a cigarette end in a packet of “ chocolate sweet tobacco ” some amusement was created at getting the real thing in a packet of sweets. It was, however, a serious matter for the firm concerned, who pleaded guilty, and in their defence it was stated that there were more than twenty non‐smoking notices on the premises and the occurrence was inexplicable to them. A perusal of the most recent cases resulting in convictions show that cigarette ends have been found in substances varying from bread, bread‐rolls, almond slices and buns to sweets, and in the majority of cases the non‐smoking rule was strictly enforced; it would, therefore, seem that, having taken every precaution, the manufacturers are compelled to regard this as one of the hazards to be encountered in the trade. It is felt that in the second group of foreign bodies, rodent and insect bodies and excrement are by far the most serious. The contamination of food by such filth is invariably indicative of the state of the premises where the food was prepared or sold. The public must be protected from such filth and the grave risk of food infection which exists where insects or rodent infestations occur in food preparation or storage premises. Confirmation of this can be found in an analysis of the cases published in this Journal. These illustrate clearly that, where action has been taken with regard to the premises in this respect, attention was initially directed by contaminated food being sold. Even with old premises there is no excuse for infestation by insects such as cockroaches, flies or rodents. Modern residual insecticides, if used selectively, will not only control but eradicate the former. The Local Authority Pests Operators, or the specific rodent exterminating firms, will deal quite effectively with the latter, although some constructive rat‐proofing may have to be carried out in addition. It will be seen from the brief outline given above that many difficulties exist in dealing with the problem of foreign bodies in food, and manufacturers who take the fullest precautions have the sympathy of the Food and Drugs officials when single occurrences spoil an otherwise excellent record. Few take action in such cases, realising the fallibility of the human element. Unfortunately many convictions still occur in this sphere which could have been avoided by attention to hygienic practices, strict supervision and the education of workers employed.

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