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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jon leydens”
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  • Engineering Justice

    Transforming Engineering Education and Practice

    by Jon A. Leydens, Juan C. Lucena ...
    Series series IEEE PCS Professional Engineering Communication Series
    Shows how the engineering curriculum can be a site for rendering social justice visible in engineering, for exploring complex socio-technical interplays inherent in engineering practice, and for enhancing teaching and learningUsing social justice as a catalyst for curricular transformation, Engineering Justice presents an examination of how politics, culture, and other social issues are inherent ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Sociotechnical Communication in Engineering

    Edited by Jon Leydens ...
    This collection explores why engineering communication constitutes sociotechnical communication. Sociotechnical communication acknowledges that engineering communication occurs not in a vacuum but shapes and is shaped by multiple social forces. Through diverse research cases, the authors show how sociotechnical communication disrupts common myths in engineering communication: the myth that ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Engineering and Sustainable Community Development

    by Juan Lucena, Jon A. Leydens, Jen Schneider, Samantha Temple ...
    Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
    This book presents an overview of engineering as it relates to humanitarian engineering, service-learning engineering, peace engineering, or engineering for community-led development programs that are often grouped under Engineering for Good or Engineering for Change. By placing “community” at the center of these endeavors, this book invites readers and practitioners to strive for sustainable ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management

    Edited by Mark Easterby-Smith, Marjorie A. Lyles ...
    The fully revised and updated version of this successful Handbook is welcomed by management scholars world-wide. By bringing together the latest approaches from the leading experts in organizational learning & knowledge management the volume provides a unique and valuable overview of current thinking about how organizations accumulate 'knowledge' and learn from experience.Key areas of update in ... Read more

    $59.00 USD

  • Teacher Learning and Leadership

    Of, By, and For Teachers

    by Ann Lieberman, Carol Campbell, Anna Yashkina ...
    Series series Teacher Quality and School Development
    Teacher Learning and Leadership asserts that teachers should be put at the center of creating, developing, organizing, implementing, and sharing their own ideas for school change rather than being passive recipients of knowledge from the outside. It argues that there is tremendous potential for the good of students and the professionalization of teaching, when teachers work collaboratively to ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Handbook of Research on Communities of Practice for Organizational Management and Networking: Methodologies for Competitive Advantage

    Edited by Olga Rivera Hernáez, Eduardo Bueno Campos ...
    Communities of practice have become increasingly influential within management literature and practice since being identified as an important mechanism through which individual, organizational, and social knowledge is held, transferred, and created. The Handbook of Research on Communities of Practice for Organizational Management and Networking: Methodologies for Competitive Advantage provides a ... Read more

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  • Managing Organizational Ecologies

    Space, Management, and Organizations

    Edited by Keith Alexander, Ilfryn Price ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
    The term Facilities Management has become global but fraught with confusion as to what the term signifies. For some, notably in the USA, Facilities Management remains a discipline of human ecology. Elsewhere the term has become conflated with an alternative meaning: providing or outsourcing the provision of various services essential to the operation of particular buildings. This volume redresses ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Strategy, HRM, and Performance

    A Contextual Approach

    by Elaine Farndale, Jaap Paauwe ...
    The book expounds the macro-level relationship between strategy, HRM, and performance, addressing important challenges that have constrained research and practice to date. Adopting a critical perspective, the first challenge is a narrow definition of 'performance' that has been largely driven by a managerialist, profit motive, with little regard for the human element. This book proposes adopting a ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • A New Synthesis of Public Administration

    Serving in the 21st Century

    by Jocelyne Bourgon ...
    Series Book 81 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being reshaped by the rise of social networking and modern information and communication technologies. ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Crowdsourcing

    by Daren C. Brabham ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A concise introduction to crowdsourcing that goes beyond social media buzzwords to explain what crowdsourcing really is and how it works.Ever since the term “crowdsourcing” was coined in 2006 by Wired writer Jeff Howe, group activities ranging from the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary to the choosing of new colors for M&Ms have been labeled with this most buzz-generating of media ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Systems Work of Social Change

    How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change

    by Cynthia Rayner, François Bonnici ...
    The issues of poverty, inequality, racial justice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on industrial models of production and power to "solve" social problems, are not helping. In fact, they are designed to entrench the status quo. In The Systems Work of Social Change, Cynthia Rayner and François Bonnici draw on two ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • Design after Capitalism

    Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow

    by Matthew Wizinsky ...
    How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles.The designed things, experiences, and symbols that we use to perceive, understand, and perform our everyday lives are much more than just props. They directly shape how we live. In Design after Capitalism, Matthew Wizinsky argues that the world of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD