The purpose of this paper is to provide an unbiased view of leadership methods/approaches (good and bad) that have created the world we live in, whilst commenting on what makes a…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide an unbiased view of leadership methods/approaches (good and bad) that have created the world we live in, whilst commenting on what makes a great leader.
Design/methodology/approach
Research has included in‐depth interviews and first hand work with companies around the world during the last 20 years. The viewpoint includes a host of those findings portrayed in a way that focuses on people and the leader's role in understanding and working with people.
Findings
Forcing someone to work or think in a specific way may achieve successful short‐term goals. However, short‐termism is rarely the answer and leaders will achieve far more by considering the long term.
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The paper is a comment/viewpoint providing insight and advice to anyone wishing to know more about leadership and how it affects individuals.
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Focuses on the strategic role that human‐resource management should play to help to ensure organizational success.
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Purpose
Focuses on the strategic role that human‐resource management should play to help to ensure organizational success.
Design/methodology/approach
Warns managers against abdicating responsibility for leading their people, and HR specialists against empire building. Highlights how HR should support managers and people to sustain the right business culture.
Findings
Advances the view that the leadership of an organization needs to involve HR and encourage it to make an enthusiastic contribution, rather than simply pointing out the problems without any strategic thinking.
Practical implications
Argues that the board or leadership of an organization needs to value the strategic role HR plays and stop imposing individual measurements such as retention targets.
Social implications
Highlights the difficulties of managing the current generation of workers, who generally seek to change their jobs frequently and have few qualms about challenging leaders they believe to be wrong.
Originality/value
Contends that HR can help an organization to succeed, provided that all employees understand their role, work together and take responsibility for their contribution. In many cases this may mean burying HR and allowing the phoenix to rise and take a new position.
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Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.
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Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.
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This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.
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In 2011, hundreds of thousands of books will be written worldwide. Blogs and data on the internet are increasing at an exponential rate and each week sees the launch of new media outlets. Information is everywhere, available to all of us at the click of a button but what is relevant to whom when it come to learning; what will help and what will hinder? Google certainly provides results but it is unable to qualify and filter them. One solution – as is so often the case in business – is a person, an information contextualizer (IC).
Practical implications
Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.
Social implications
Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that can have a broader social impact.
Originality/value
The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy‐to‐digest format.
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Paul Willner, Jennifer Bridle, Vaughn Price, Elinor John and Sarah Hunt
An earlier study of health and social services professionals in community teams for people with intellectual disabilities (CTIDs) identified a number of significant gaps in their…
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An earlier study of health and social services professionals in community teams for people with intellectual disabilities (CTIDs) identified a number of significant gaps in their knowledge of mental capacity issues. The present study aims to ascertain the knowledge of staff working in residential services for people with intellectual disabilities.
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Participants were staff working in three specialist residential settings catering to people with intellectual disabilities: qualified nurses working in the UK National Health Service (NHS) and in independent‐sector continuing health care settings; and senior staff in residential houses. They were administered the same structured interview as in the earlier study, which was constructed around three scenarios concerning a financial/legal issue, a health issue, and a relationships issue, as well as a set of ten “true/false” statements. Their performance was compared with that of two reference groups, the earlier CTID participants, and a group of staff working in generic (i.e. other than specialist intellectual disability) NHS services.
Findings
No differences in interview performance were found between the three groups of residential carers, who performed better than generic NHS staff but worse than CTID professionals. However, the three residential groups did differ in their self‐ratings of how well‐informed and confident they felt in relation to mental capacity issues.
Originality/value
The study shows that staff working in residential services for people with intellectual disabilities have only a limited understanding of mental capacity issues and their confidence in their own knowledge may not be a good guide to their ability to deal with such issues when they arise in practice.
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Beth Macleod and David Ginsburg
Although none of the new music reference books of the past year totally replaces the old stand‐bys, some significant works did appear, especially in the areas of contemporary…
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Although none of the new music reference books of the past year totally replaces the old stand‐bys, some significant works did appear, especially in the areas of contemporary music, opera, and classical music discography.
The Table which is printed along with this article gives a view of the progress of our Public Libraries as shown by the adoptions of the Acts, year by year, since 1848. In heavier…
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The Table which is printed along with this article gives a view of the progress of our Public Libraries as shown by the adoptions of the Acts, year by year, since 1848. In heavier type are set out the various Acts of Parliament or other influences which have had a determining effect in popularizing and spreading the Public Library. We have also added as an item of additional interest, the name of the first librarian of each town, so far as we have been able to ascertain it. But this is not guaranteed to be absolutely correct, and we shall be pleased to have notifications of errors and omissions.
Part of a larger multicase ethnographic research project, this case study examines the experience of transgender youth and their teachers at a school that uses restorative…
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Purpose
Part of a larger multicase ethnographic research project, this case study examines the experience of transgender youth and their teachers at a school that uses restorative practices as an alternative to school suspension.
Design/methodology/approach
The current study focuses on interviews from one transgender student, her teachers, and her administrators.
Findings
Taken together, these interviews expose complex mechanisms through which transphobia undermines an ostensibly democratic discipline practice intended to promote social justice. The restorative concept of “accountability” framed staff’s efforts to create a more gender-inclusive school, but this frame inadvertently placed the burden of inclusion largely on the transgender student, as staff expected her to educate peers and teachers and enforce gender inclusive practices.
Social implications
Restorative practice trainings should be integrated with trainings on inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals.
Originality/value
Existing research examines the impact of zero tolerance policies on transgender students. This study demonstrates that even when alternatives to zero tolerance policies are in place, teachers and administrators easily slip holding transgender youth accountable for their own safety. A school-wide commitment to “inclusion” does not negate the need for educating staff and students about LGBTQ identities and inclusion.
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Kathryn E. Asher and Paul Peters
Meat consumption has a variety of implications in society. While various types of meat-restricted diets exist to address this, not enough is known about how the average meat…
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Purpose
Meat consumption has a variety of implications in society. While various types of meat-restricted diets exist to address this, not enough is known about how the average meat consumer views different avenues to lessening their intake. In response, this study aims to assess US omnivores’ impressions of three meat-restricted diets.
Design/methodology/approach
An online survey was administered to a cross-sectional, census-balanced sample from Nielsen of 30,000+ US adults. Omnivores (N = 928) were randomized into one of the three conditions where they were asked about their perceptions of a vegetarian diet, a reduced-meat diet or a chicken-free diet as individuals not currently following that dietary pattern.
Findings
The findings showed that omnivores had a more favorable perception of a reduced-meat diet on a greater number of study variables as compared to the vegetarian or chicken-free diets. The research also demonstrated that a majority of omnivores were in the precontemplation stage of cognitive change, suggesting that most American omnivores are not actively demonstrating a readiness to alter their meat consumption in the ways presented.
Originality/value
This research is the first to examine the comparative trends around these three diets among omnivores. It also speaks to how the desirability of meat restriction varies by type of approach, i.e. elimination or reduction, and if the latter, what type. The findings may be of relevance for efforts to reduce global meat consumption for ethical, health, or environmental reasons.