Understanding the Impact of Organisational Culture on Managers' Internal Career Needs

This chapter explores the influence of organisational culture on managerial internal career needs in small third sector social enterprises. Every organisation develops and maintains a unique culture, which provides guidelines and boundaries for the career management of members of the organisation. The research methodology was designed to allow the collection of data from three case study organisations and 24 operational managers working in these organisations. The qualitative findings of the study add to, and help to explain the inter-play between individual manager’s internal career needs and organisational culture. Most importantly the findings suggest that when individual manager’s internal career needs are closely supported by organisational culture, it increases their desire to stay with the organisation. The findings make an important contribution in the field of organisational career management

Disrupting pedagogies in the knowledge society countering conservative norms with creative approaches /

Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 13 juil. 2012)Comprend des réf. bibliogr.1. Locating and loving the personal: risk and vulnerability in a secondary English language arts methods course / Suzanne Knight -- 2. Disrupting relationships: a catalyst for growth / Vicki Stieha and Miriam Raider-Roth -- 3. "Critical friendship" and sustainable change: creating liminal spaces to experience discomfort together / Susan R. Adams and Ross Peterson-Veatch -- 4. Smart people learning: self-knowledge that disrupts practice in meaningful ways / Edith A. Rusch -- 5. Shushes in the parlor: reclaiming the "conversation" metaphor / Erik Ellis -- 6. Tracing the trope of teaching as transformation / Julie Myatt Barger -- 7. Web 2.0 and conscientizção: digital students and critical reflection on and in multimedia / Heidi Skurat Harris -- 8. "I'm not always laughing at the jokes": humor as a force for disruption / Julie Faulkner and Bronwyn T. Williams -- 9. Disrupting disruption: invitational pedagogy as a response to student resistance / A. Abby Knoblauch -- 10. Negotiating disruption in visual arts education / Jennifer Elsden-Clifton -- 11. Setting the stage for professionalism: disrupting the student identity / Lynn Hanson and Meredith A. Love -- 12. Pre-service learning and the (gentle) disruption of emerging teaching identity / Mia O'Brien and Shelley Dole -- 13. The emotional labor of imagining otherwise: undoing the mastery model of mathematics teacher identity / Elizabeth de Freitas --14. "Are you married?": exploring the boundaries of sexual taboos in the ESL classroom / Greg Curran -- 15. Disruptive relation(ship)s: romantic love as critical praxis / Rick Carpenter -- 16. Performing dissident thinking through writing: using the proprioceptive question to break out of the classroom / Kaitlin A. Briggs -- 17. The risk of rhetorical inquiry: practical conditions for a disruptive pedagogy / Drew Kopp -- 18. Teachers of young children: moving students from agents of surveillance to agents of change / Susan Matoba Adler and Jeanne Marie Iorio -- 19. Creating tension: orchestrating disruptive pedagogies in a virtual school environment / Gloria Latham -- 20. Coevolving through disrupted discussions on critical thinking, human rights and empathy / Susie Costello -- 21. The new public management of higher education: teaching and learning / Heather Brunskell-Evans -- 22. Disrupting the utilitarian paradigm: teachers doing curriculum inquiry / Pamela Bolotin Joseph

Innovation, Learning, Communities, and Actor-Networks of Practice

This chapter addresses the question: Is there a virtuous circle between situated learning within communities of practice and the corporate pursuit of innovation in large companies? The authors trace a succession of ways in which it has been formulated, reframed, and addressed across a range and sequence of qualitative studies. Overall, they argue for more ethnographic studies of organizational learning and innovation and recommend further use of actor-network theory, which has potential to add considerably to communities of practice theory. The authors illustrate this argument in the chapter through a discussion of Carlile's (2002) important paper and cite a number of other studies that use actor-network theory in combination with communities of practice theory

Methods and innovations for multimedia database content management

"This book highlights original research on new theories, algorithms, technologies, system design, and implementation in multimedia data engineering and management with an emphasis on automatic indexing, tagging, high-order ranking, and rule mining"--Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references