Author: Henri Savall
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 160752435X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The reprint of Henri Savall’s classic Work and People, originally published in French in 1974, is part of the Research in Management Consulting series effort to look backward as well as forward in examining trends, perspectives, and insights – especially from different countries and cultures – into the world of management consulting. Savall’s insights into the complexity of organizational life were groundbreaking, articulating the need to examine both economic and social factors as part of the same analysis, assessing technical and behavioral patterns through the lens of an integrated framework. As he has argued, there is a double-loop interaction between “the quality of functioning and economic performance,” and underestimating this socio-economic “tension” leads inevitably to reduced performance and losses, which he refers to as “hidden costs.” This approach, referred to as the socio-economic approach to management (SEAM), has significant potential for our thinking about organizational diagnosis and intervention. As Savall emphasizes, the North American tendency to cast people as human “resources” misses the essential point that human beings cannot be considered as simply another resource at the organization’s disposal. People are free to give or withhold their energy as they desire, depending on the quality of formal and informal contracts and interactions they have with their organizations. As such, the SEAM approach focuses on human “potential,” underscoring the need for managers and their organizations to create the conditions under which people will want to maximize their talents on behalf of the organization. Work and People focuses on the ramifications of this reality, as dysfunctions – the difference between planned and emergent activities and functions – can quickly lead to a series of costs that are “hidden” from an organization’s formal information systems (e.g., income statements, balance sheets, budgets). As his insightful work underscores, as organizations begin to accumulate dysfunction upon dysfunction, they inadvertently undermine their performance and create excessive operating costs, with lower productivity and less efficiency than they could achieve. As readers will discover, the frameworks, tools and ways of thinking about organizations, people and management in this volume – in essence the background to the socio-economic approach to organizational diagnosis and intervention – continue to hold great promise for our attempts to create truly integrative approaches to management and organizational improvement efforts.
Author: Shane Ralston
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1617354600
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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Confirming his moniker as “America’s philosopher of democracy,” John Dewey engaged in a series of public debates over the course of his lifetime, vividly demonstrating how his thought translates into action. These debates made Dewey a household name and a renowned public intellectual during the early to mid-twentieth century, a time when the United States fought two World Wars, struggled through an economic depression, experienced explosive economic growth and spawned a grassroots movement that characterized an entire era: Progressivism. Unfortunately, much recent Dewey scholarship neglects to situate Dewey’s ideas in the broader context of his activities and engagements as a public intellectual. This project charts a path through two of Dewey’s actual debates with his contemporaries, Leon Trotsky and Robert Hutchins, to two reconstructed debates with contemporary intellectuals, E.D. Hirsch and Robert Talisse, both of whom criticized Dewey’s ideas long after the American philosopher’s death and, finally, to two recent debates, one on home schooling and the other on U.S. foreign policy, in which Dewey’s ideas offer a unique and compelling vision of a way forward.
Author: Hernando Duque Yepez
Publisher: Editorial San Pablo
ISBN: 9586927571
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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En la actualidad, el mercado está lleno de libros de superación. Sin embargo, la mayoría proporciona fórmulas o leyes mágicas que han de llevar el éxito a quienes los leen. Alcanzar el optimismo no es tarea fácil en una sociedad como la de hoy; mucho menos alcanzar el éxito sin más.
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Publisher: IICA
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Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Author: Ignacio Iriarte
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462887619
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Author: Sylvia Harke
Publisher: EDAF
ISBN: 8441439362
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Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Author: Luisa Yepez
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463312865
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 53
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La idea de que un hogar digno, con techo que ofrezca protección y seguridad es una necesidad humana básica y necesaria, ha existido desde los tiempos Bíblicos; y esta idea se ha preservado en las culturas a través del tiempo. En Estados Unidos, un país que ha disfrutado de muchas bendiciones, esta idea se transformo en una necesidad nacional después de La Gran Depresión económica de principios del siglo 20 y es así como líderes de la nación decidieron declarar la Le Reforma de Vivienda en 1937. Esta gran buena intención quedo sellada en la historia, y a través de los años, fue modificada para las necesidades actuales. Esta historia habla de cómo estas modificaciones y burocracias añadidas han creado circunstancias que impiden la intención original de presidentes, y legisladores que abrieron sus corazones y sus mentes para ayudar a preservar la idea de que todo ser humano necesita un techo. Al mismo tiempo esta historia intenta crear una conciencia para prevenir un ambiente hostil e indigno en viviendas públicas departe de personal administrativo, y recordar y agradecer a aquellos lideres que tomaron acción y intentaron llenar una gran necesidad, a los que continúan con esta meta de proveer un techo digno al que no lo tiene.
Author: Samuel Velez
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514415542
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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Desde el comienzo de la evolucin de la humanidad, el ser humano ha estado buscando tesoros escondidos en todas partes. Algo que los haga felices y constantemente complete sus vidas. Desafortunadamente la mayora de las personas busca estos tesoros en el mundo exterior enfocndose ms en el fruto, que en la raz de donde viene el tesoro. Buscando tanto la felicidad como la satisfaccin a travs de las cosas materiales y enfocando as sus esfuerzos en alcanzar metas vacas que no estan alineadas con sus valores internos. La realidad es que todos los tesoros que buscamos se encuentran escondidos dentro de nosotros y es nuestra responsabilidad el encontrarlos y aprovecharlos al mximo. En este libro usted encontrar una serie de guas y pasos que han sido diseados en una secuencia especfica para ayudarle a encontrar y vivir una vida con propsito. El mismo contiene principios de crecimiento personal fundamentales, que fueron organizados secuencialmente para ayudarte a crecer y pensar diferente. Fue diseado para iluminar y mejorar el estilo de vida de cualquier persona no importa el nivel de educacin al que pertenezca. Espero que esta gua les provea la direccin y el enfoque necesario para alcanzar tanto tus metas personales como profesionales y que los ayude a desarrollar su inters por el mundo del aprendizaje continuo.
