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Women in Leadership : Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries, Second Edition By Karin Klenke
2017 | 592 Pages | ISBN: 1787430642 | EPUB | 1 MB
Women leaders in many parts of the world have leadership opportunities that never existed before as a result of technology, globalization, and demographic shifts that have produced more female graduates than in the past and created a workforce which consists almost 50% of women. Ever more so, in today's rapidly changing environment, the contexts in which women exercise leadership is critically important in shaping their leadership style. At the same time, objectifying women in contexts such as sports and the media or the patriarchal ideology that permeates contexts such as the military and the church have changed very little. This book, updated and expanded from the 2011 first edition, acknowledges and discusses the belief that the context in which women exercise leadership is critically important in shaping their leadership style. Each chapter opens with a vignette of an extraordinary leader in the respective context, presents a contextual analysis, and discusses issues, controversies and paradoxes germane to the context of interest. What is the future of women's leadership in a global environment characterized by ambiguity, uncertainty, increasing interdependence and interconnectivity? Award-winning author Karin Klenke shows us in this revised edition of Women in Leadership.
Women in Leadership and Work-Family Integration By Margaret J. Weber; Kerri Cissna-Heath
2015 | 165 Pages | ISBN: 1443871931 | PDF | 1 MB
The majority of university students in the US and around the world are women (Economist, 2006). This recent increase in the education of women has allowed their employment rate to inflate, leading to an influx of issues surrounding the work-life balance. The era surrounding World War II led to an amplified presence of women seeking opportunities for a career, which in turn led to tensions at home and in the workplace as women try to balance the roles of family with a career. Many women have joined men in the provider role and the dual earner family has now become the norm (Gornick and Myers 2003). Traditional roles have shifted as women and men are both parents and workers. The picture of the career women and mother is divided and multi-faceted in existing research findings and opinions. Commonly assessed issues include the social implications of the dual roles of females, cultural norms, workplace policies with attention to female-specific hurdles, and marital satisfaction in gender roles. Various research studies suggest that marital relationships have become more egalitarian (Bielenski and Wagner, 2004), while others find that a large number of well-educated women have left careers for full-time motherhood (Belkin, 2003; Warner, 2005). In 2009, a research group was formed at Pepperdine University's Graduate School of Education and Psychology to explore the competing narratives of women's lives as they balance their work activities with the demands of marriage and motherhood. The ultimate goal of this project was to understand the work-life balance issues of women in the workforce. This work is now known as the Digital Women's Project (Weber, 2011) and has collected over 400 interviews of women to explore themes around work-life balance. This phenomenological analysis utilizes a narrative life-course framework created by Giele (2008) to explore identity, relational style, drive and motivation, and adaptive style in order to understand the work-life balance of women. Women in Leadership and Work-Family Integration brings together the findings of this research group.
Women in Mexican Politics : A Study of Representation in a Renewed Federal and Democratic State By Fernanda Vidal Correa
2016 | 142 Pages | ISBN: 1498534392 | EPUB | 1 MB
This book offers an analysis of how women's participation is conducted in Mexico´s political sphere. Federalization and decentralization processes can have a significant impact on women's participation and discrimination. By questioning the form in which a democratic state is built (that is, the degree of (de)centralization) the book looks to a set of forms and processes affecting women's political life. A decentralized form of state-government implies three levels of government in which women (or any other group of people) can have active participation: central-federal government, state-regional-province government, and local (municipalities) government. This book offers an analysis of how gender discrimination operates in a different way in each of these levels of government and the corresponding political activity. Policies that fight against gender discrimination and promote women's participation, in both administration and political parties, do not always operate cooperatively, and often exist in contradiction with each other.
Women in Ministry : Questions and Answers in the Exploration of a Calling By Shannon Smythe; Robert W. Wall
2015 | 114 Pages | ISBN: 1625645120 | EPUB | 1 MB
Does Scripture exclude women from full participation in all forms of Christian ministry simply on the basis of gender? What insights can the church's "rule of faith," theology, Scripture, Christian history, and testimonies give women and men exploring this important issue today? In many Christian congregations and college classrooms, debates over the ordination and ministry of women create hurtful and debilitating divisions among believers. This new book by Shannon Smythe leans into those inhospitable places by inviting readers into a process of discernment that intends to lead them, and women especially, into a fresh awareness of their sacred calling to a ministry of the gospel. In Women in Ministry Smythe presents a carefully curated collection of thoughtful answers to common questions asked by those investigating this topic, inviting them to share in the communal practice of studying scripture together in dialogue with the church's theological traditions and the testimonies of faithful women. Readers are asked to reflect in deeply personal ways upon the truth they have found in their study, which then enables the Spirit to direct (or redirect) them forward in the ways of God.
Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain : The Critical Reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot By Joanne Wilkes
2010 | 178 Pages | ISBN: 1138265659 | EPUB | 1 MB
Focusing particularly on the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontà and George Eliot, Joanne Wilkes offers in-depth examinations of reviews by eight female critics: Maria Jane Jewsbury, Sara Coleridge, Hannah Lawrance, Jane Williams, Julia Kavanagh, Anne Mozley, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward. What they wrote about women writers, and what their writings tell us about the critics' own sense of themselves as women writers, reveal the distinctive character of nineteenth-century women's contributions to literary history. Wilkes explores the different choices these critics, writing when women had to grapple with limiting assumptions about female intellectual capacities, made about how to disseminate their own writing. While several publishing in periodicals wrote anonymously, others published books, articles and reviews under their own names. Wilkes teases out the distinctiveness of nineteenth-century women's often ignored contributions to the critical reception of canonical women authors, and also devotes space to the pioneering efforts of Lawrance, Kavanagh and Williams to draw attention to the long tradition of female literary activity up to the nineteenth century. She draws on commentary by male critics of the period as well, to provide context for this important contribution to the recuperation of women's critical discourse in nineteenth-century Britain.
Wonder of Wonders : A 25 Day Journey into the Heart of Christmas By Keith Wall
2014 | 88 Pages | ISBN: 1780781288 | EPUB | 1 MB
Through this heartwarming, 25-day collection of reflections, bestselling author Keith Wall challenges readers to use the characters and events surrounding the Christmas story as a mirror to explore the ways God is at work in our lives. Beginning on December 1, Wonder of Wonders takes readers through the season with personal-application thoughts on the individuals and incidents that make up this decisive moment in human history. Along the way Wall explores the meaning behind the moments we have read about and sung about over and over.Readers will see how the beloved tales of Christ and Christmas are turned into moving examples of God's grace, creativity, and love-and the ways in which we can reflect these qualities to those around us in practical and powerful ways. Wonder of Wonders reminds us that the Christmas season, like no other time during the year, opens doors for the restoration of broken relationships, healing for wounded hearts, and the expression of love to those who desperately need a touch of grace.
Word of the Wives : Monologues from the Unheard Women of the Bible By Michele Guinness; Abby Guinness
2010 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 1850788723 | EPUB | 1 MB
Behind every great man there's a woman who has to put up with him. Now the unheard women of the Bible speak out in an imaginative collection of monologues, setting the story straight from their unique perspective. From the amusing to the moving, the arresting to the irreverent, intriguingly charming and alarmingly frank, over twenty-five pieces to read or perform retell the stories of biblical men seen through the discerning eyes of their wives.
Work Hard, Be Hard : Journeys Through "No Excuses" Teaching By Jim Horn
2016 | 278 Pages | ISBN: 1475825803 | EPUB | 1 MB
This book explores the ideological contexts for the creation and spread of "No Excuses" charter schools. In so doing, Work Hard, Be Hard focuses closely on the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter school chain as the most prominent exemplar for total compliance "No Excuses" schooling. By way of in-depth interviews, former teachers offer accounts of their "No Excuses" teaching experiences that have not been heard before and that are not likely to be forgotten soon. Work Hard, Be Hard also examines the KIPP organization as a manifestation of modern education reform exemplified in the convergence of neoliberal politics and the aggressive activities of the business and philanthropic communities. As an important corollary to the total compliance charter phenomenon, the book explores, too, the role of Teach for America in supplying the needed manpower and values components required to deal with very high levels of teacher attrition in these schools. Work Hard, Be Hard goes beyond accounts offered in news features, articles, and interviews that focus on "No Excuses" charters' high test scores and expanded college opportunities for economically disadvantaged children. In short, the book offers a naturalistic antidote to the high profile gloss that mass media provides for "No Excuses" schooling. Work Hard, Be Hard examines new developments in "No Excuses" schooling that focus on psychological interventions aimed to alter children's neurological and behavioral schemas in order to affect socio-cultural values and behaviors. Fraught with potential for abuse and misapplication by minimally trained teachers, these cult-like practices are examined and contrasted with more humane strategies that hope to reawaken the virtues of teaching and learning within the expansive confines of the sciences and arts of a truly humane pedagogy. This book will: Function as a common reader for parent groups or individuals interested in understanding the inner workings and impacts of "no excuses" charter schools; Serve as a text for education students for courses in pedagogy, social and cultural foundations of education, education policy, and politics of education; Provide deeper appreciation of social, political, and economic issues and incentives associated with total compliance charter schools; Help to ameliorate an absence of teacher perspectives on teaching in "No Excuses" charter schools; Assist the general public in understanding the ideological and economic agendas that drive support of total compliance charter schools; Help to educate policy makers and their staffs in cultural and economic facets of corporate education reform that are relevant to political decisions regarding education policy.
Work in a Modern Society : The German Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective By Jürgen Kocka; Jürgen Kocka
2010 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 1845455754 | EPUB | 1 MB
Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This volume offers original contributions that deal with cultural, social and theoretical aspects of the history of work in modern Europe, including the relations between gender and work, working and soldiering, work and trust, constructions and practices. The volume focuses on Germany but also places the case studies in a broader European context. It thus offers an insight into social and cultural history as practiced by German-speaking scholars today but also introduces the reader to ongoing research in this field.
Work-Integrated Learning in the 21st Century : Global Perspectives on the Future By Tracey Bowen; Maureen Drysdale
2017 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 1787148602 | EPUB | 1 MB
Work-Integrated Learning in the 21st century: Global perspectives on the future, explores new questions about the state of work for new university and college graduates in the context of Work-Integrated Learning (WIL). As these 'Millennials' graduate, they are entering a precarious labour market that is filled with ambiguity and uncertainty, creating a great deal of anxiety for those trying to develop skills for highly competitive jobs or jobs that do not yet exist. In their pursuit of skill acquisition, many are participating in WIL programs (e.g., cooperative education, internships) which allow them to gain practical experience while pursuing their education. With a focus on WIL, this book examines issues involved in developing work ready graduates. Topics include mental health and well-being - an urgent matter on many campuses; remote working - an aspect of the information and social media age that is becoming more prevalent as the precarity of work increases; issues of diversity and discrimination; ethics and professionalism; global citizenship and competency; and the role that higher education institutions need to play to prepare students for the challenges of economic shifts. These topics are timely and relevant to the situations faced by new graduates and those who prepare them for the world beyond school. The chapters provide a close examination of the issues from a global perspective, particularly as experiential education and work-integrated learning programs are becoming more prevalent in higher education and viewed as essential for preparing millennials for the 21st century competitive labour market.
Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development : Women's Empowerment in the Indian Informal Economy By Elizabeth Hill
2010 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 0415566096 | EPUB | 1 MB
More than nine out of every ten working women in India are employed in the informal economy, unprotected by labour laws and excluded from basic forms of social security. They work as daily labourers in the fields, small producers and industrial outworkers in their own homes and as vendors on the streets. These workers typically receive very low wages and experience extreme forms of social, economic and political marginalisation. This book examines what types of interventions can improve the well-being of women working in the Indian informal economy. Using the case study of the Self Employed Women's Association, Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development argues that work-life reform for informal women workers has moral and social dimensions, as well as economic. Drawing on the work of social philosopher Axel Honneth, the book argues that worker agency is critical to the process of work-life reform in the informal economy. Using empirical data collected amongst SEWA members the study shows that there is a positive and developmental relationship between a worker's identity, or psychological integrity, and her actual capacity to engage in the political economy for constructive change. The study shows that membership based organisations can promote the social foundations of recognition and respect that are critical to identity and agency, as well as provide worker's with real opportunities to develop alternative non-exploitative economic institutions that deliver improved wages and social security. But in organizing informal workers for collective action the existing distribution of power and wealth, as well as gender privilege are challenged. The result is social conflict and sometimes violence. Conflict of this nature is endemic to the development process, but is often overlooked in development literature and policy design. The book will be of interest to development scholars and practitioners, as well as those interested in the dynamics of women's empowerment and socio-economic change for informal economy workers.
Working Out of Poverty : Job Creation and the Quality of Growth in Africa By Louise M. Fox; Louise Fox
2008 | 96 Pages | ISBN: 0821374427 | PDF | 1 MB
Governments in Africa and their stakeholders have been disappointed with the number of wage and salary jobs that have been created over the last decade or more. Even in countries that experienced both strong economic growth and rapid poverty reduction during this period, job creation has lagged behind expectations. Faced with a rapidly growing labor force, Africa has to find new ways to create better paying jobs. Working Out of Poverty reviews the literature and presents original research by the authors analyzing job creation in Sub-Saharan Africa in light of economic performance over the decade and more since 1995. The book identifies factors that impact job creation, both inside the labor market (such as labor supply and demand) and outside of it (overall investment climate.)Working Out of Poverty focuses on the following key questions: How has the structure of economic growth and labor demand shaped the job creation process? What policies have been pursued to raise the quality of the African labor force? What does the expanding informal sector mean for the labor market and the quality of growth? Is it a route out of poverty or a low-skills trap?
Working with Families for Inclusive Education : Navigating Identity, Opportunity and Belonging By Dick Sobsey; Kate Scorgie; Chris Forlin
2017 | 301 Pages | ISBN: 1787142612 | EPUB | 1 MB
This book explores personal, family and theoretical constructions of inclusion and offers evidence-based strategies and resources to foster parent-professional, home-school collaborative partnerships. It explores working with families to secure identity, opportunity and belonging within school settings and beyond. It does so by means of a rich international blend of scholarly articles and personal reflections. The first section examines personal, family, and theoretical perspectives on ways in which existing systems and structures define and influence inclusion of persons with disability and their families in school and workplace settings. It invites reflection on how we might come together to create more inclusive communities through mutual understanding and valuing. Section two presents a number of evidence-based practices, strategies, and resources that can serve to guide family members and professionals as they work together to build collaborative partnerships and inclusive school communities from preschool through transition to post-secondary and vocational settings. This book invites us to deeper understandings of collaboration, to engage reflection from diverse perspectives. It reminds us that at some level we are all navigating identity, opportunity and belonging; that each of us needs those who challenge us to see beyond our assumptions, whose ideas shape and sharpen our own.
Working with the Walking Dead : Winning Career Strategies in a Workplace Zombie Apocalypse By Rebecca Clare
2016 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 190898452X | EPUB | 1 MB
Do you sometimes look around your office and think the zombie apocalypse has already happened? If so, you need some expert advice, and who better to provide it than those veteran apocalypse survivors Rick Grimes and his group?Six seasons of hit TV show The Walking Dead have thrilled us with adrenaline-infused, gory entertainment, but it hardly seems the logical place to turn to for advice about one's career. Look a little closer though and you'll find it is full of examples of how (and how not) to manage your team, present your ideas and advance your personal goals. In Working With The Walking Dead you will learn:* How to identify walkers in the workplace and avoid becoming one;* Whether Daryl would agree that nice guys finish last;* Why Rick should make an effort to maintain work-life balance;* What Michonne, Carol and Deanna can teach us about making it in a man's world;* How to defeat rivals - even when they are psychos like The Governor.If you have ever wondered whether you have what it takes to come out on top in a tough environment this book could be the making of you.
World Ethics and Climate Change : From International to Global Justice By Paul G. Harris
2009 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 0748642145 | PDF | 1 MB
More than two decades of international negotiations have failed to stem emissions of greenhouse gases that are causing global warming and climate change. This book identifies a way to escape this ongoing tragedy of the atmospheric commons. It takes a fresh approach to the ethics and practice of international environmental justice and proposes fundamental adjustments to the climate change regime, in the process drawing support from cosmopolitan ethics and global conceptions of justice. The author argues for 'cosmopolitan diplomacy', which sees people, rather than states alone, as the causes of climate change and the bearers of related rights, duties and obligations.Key Features*Describes the role of ethics and justice in world affairs and demonstrates that climate change is a matter of extreme injustice*Summarizes and critiques the flawed doctrine of international (interstate) justice upon which governments have premised climate change agreements and policies*Examines the practical and ethical significance for climate change of growing numbers of new consumers in the developing world*Proposes a cosmopolitan approach to climate change that is more principled, more practical and more politically viable than current international policies*For lecturers and students, a companion World Ethics and Climate Change learning guide is freely downloadable from
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World-Class Fundraising Isn't a Solo Sport : The Team Approach to Academic Fundraising By Jeffrey L. Buller
2016 | 156 Pages | ISBN: 1475831595 | EPUB | 1 MB
An African proverb says, "If you want to travel fast, travel alone. If you want to travel far, travel together." World-Class Fundraising Isn't a Solo Sport is about how to travel far in the world of academic development. It provides practical, field-tested strategies for building strong academic development teams. Using realistic case studies and innovative tools designed specifically for use in higher education, the book serves as an operations manual for how faculty members, academic administrators, or development officers can best work together to achieve their fundraising goals.
Worship and Culture : Foreign Country or Homeland? By Glaucia Vasconcelos Wilkey
2014 | 372 Pages | ISBN: 1467442275 | EPUB | 1 MB
How are we to proclaim Christ in different cultures? This question was central to a landmark study on worship and culture conducted by the Lutheran World Federation between 1992 and 1999. Much has changed in the years since then: the world today more than ever is a multicultural global village. Worship and Culture revisits that LWF study and publication, shedding new light on the question from recent theological and sociological scholarship to expand and enrich the texts in the original three-volume work. This book includes texts from the main statements that came out of the original project as well as updated essays from some of the original contributors. It also adds new essays, prayers, and hymns to the conversation, inviting readers to consider what the life of the church should look like in today's hybrid, multicultural world. Contributors Julio Cezar Adam Scott Anderson Mark P. Bangert Thomas F. Best Stephen Burns Anscar J. Chupungco, OSB Joseph A. Donnella II Norman A. Hjelm Margaret Mary Kelleher, OSU Dirk G. Lange Gordon W. Lathrop Anita Monro Martha Moore-Keish Melinda A. Quivik Gail Ramshaw S. Anita Stauffer Benjamin M. Stewart Glaucia Vasconcelos Wilkey Joyce Ann Zimmerman, CPPS
Worship with Gladness : Understanding Worship from the Heart By Joyce Ann Zimmerman
2014 | 125 Pages | ISBN: 1467442348 | EPUB | 1 MB
In this invitingly written, deeply joyful book, Joyce Ann Zimmerman makes Scripture her foundation as she explores the meaning and purpose of authentic Christian worship today. Intended for Christian communities across the denominational spectrum, Worship with Gladness will appeal to a wide audience of pastors, worship leaders, college students, and lay readers. Zimmerman discusses such subjects as the common elements of worship that transcend denominational boundaries, what Scripture tells us about participating in worship, and how authentic worship expresses itself in daily living. Each section concludes with thoughtful prompts that will encourage readers to reflect on and apply what Zimmerman discusses. Throughout the book she encourages readers not only to better understand worship but to better understand -- and rejoice in -- the One we worship.
Worshipful : Living Sunday Morning All Week By James C. Howell
2017 | 138 Pages | ISBN: 1625642474 | EPUB | 1 MB
What does it look and feel like to be worshipful? Can we find a way to worship in such a robust, thoughtful way that when we aren't in worship, the worship might linger and invigorate us? Is it possible to live in the world--doing the dishes, listening to music, being stuck in traffic, enmeshed in a thicket of meetings at work--with a serene, abiding sense of God's presence despite all the racket, that we might do whatever we do for God, and sense God's presence? And maybe more importantly: could all we do between Sundays--grocery shopping, paying bills, listening to music, taking a walk, visiting aging parents--actually enrich and inform what we do on Sunday morning, making worship itself more vigorous, profound, just plain real, and memorable, and thus heightening the likelihood that the worship will linger through the rest of the week? This book is about living a worshipful life: understanding why we do what we do in Sunday morning worship, and then re-enacting those moods and actions all week long.
Wrecking Ball By Action Hero
2016 | 36 Pages | ISBN: 1786820218 | EPUB | 1 MB
A male photographer is taking a photograph of a female celebrity. She wants to be reinvented. She wants to be For Real. Wrecking Ball is about consent, power, authorship and putting words in other people's mouths. It's about the seductive power of make-believe. That's not a real pineapple she's holding, that's not his real cooler full of beers, those aren't her real thighs, those aren't his real feelings. But does the real really matter? In an age where the consumption of artifice is its own industry, we are being asked to dream, and we are being asked to buy the sunglasses the woman is wearing in the dream. The woman that looks like every woman in every picture you've ever seen: like the woman lying on the beach, like the woman swinging on the wrecking ball, like the woman painted on the side of a bomb. In this funny, surreal and unsettling new play for two performers and an audience, "maverick company" (The Guardian) Action Hero ask who's really in control and how subtle abuses of power shape our relationships - with art, with language and with each other. Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse live in Bristol, UK, and create performances together under the name Action Hero. For the past decade, they have worked almost exclusively with each other and have toured together to more than twenty countries across five continents to critical and popular acclaim.
