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“warren thorngate”

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  • Judging Merit

    by Warren Thorngate, Robyn M. Dawes, Margaret Foddy ...
    Merit-based tests and contests have become popular methods for allocating rewards – from trophies to contracts, jobs to grants, admissions to licenses. With origins in jurisprudence, methods of rewarding merit seem fairer than those rewarding political or social connections, bribery, aggression, status, or wealth. Because of this, merit-based competitions are well-suited to the societal belief ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter

    by Cass R. Sunstein, Reid Hastie ...
    Why are group decisions so hard?Since the beginning of human history, people have made decisions in groups—first in families and villages, and now as part of companies, governments, school boards, religious organizations, or any one of countless other groups. And having more than one person to help decide is good because the group benefits from the collective knowledge of all of its members, and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Workplace Research

    Conducting small-scale research in organizations

    by Zina O′Leary, Jennifer S. Hunt ...
    Undertaking small-scale applied workplace-based research presents a unique set of challenges including how to conduct good research in time pressured situations and how to thrive in unfamiliar work environments. This book will help you to meet these challenges by setting out a step-by-step guide to planning, conducting and delivering top quality small-scale work-based research projects.In addition ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Organizational Behavior

    A Management Challenge

    by Linda K. Stroh, Gregory B. Northcraft, Margaret A. Neale, (Co-author) Mar Kern, (Co-author) Chr Langlands ...
    This textbook in Organizational Behavior is appropriate for undergraduate as well as MBA students of management and psychology. Very readable, this textbook, authored by accomplished Management professors, will focus on the latest research in OB. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Strategic Leadership

    Theory and Research on Executives, Top Management Teams, and Boards

    by Bert Cannella, Sydney Finkelstein, Donald C. Hambrick ...
    Series series Strategic Management Series
    This book integrates and assesses the vast and rapidly growing literature on strategic leadership, which is the study of top executives and their effects on organizations. The authors synthesize what is known about strategic leadership and indicate new research directions. The book is meant primarily for scholars who strive to assess and understand the phenomena of strategic leadership. It offers ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • The Principal as Data-Driven Leader

    by Ontario Principals′ Council ...
    Series series Leading Student Achievement Series
    "This series allows school principals to integrate theory and practice themselves, resulting in highly insightful and practical strategies that will make a difference in schools. Practitioners: lead thyselves!"—Michael Fullan, Professor EmeritusOntario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto"Avoiding high-flown theory on the one hand and mere bullet points on the other, these ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Ethics of Teaching

    A Casebook

    by Patricia Keith-Spiegel, Bernard E. Whitley, Jr., Deborah Ware Balogh, David V. Perkins, Arno F. Wittig ...
    The Ethics of Teaching provides a frank discussion of the most frequently encountered ethical dilemmas that can arise in educational settings, as well as tips on how to avoid these predicaments and how to deal with them when they do occur. The goal is to stimulate discussion and raise faculties' consciousness about ethical issues.Ethical dilemmas are presented as short, engaging case scenarios, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Teaching Portfolio

    A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions

    by Peter Seldin, J. Elizabeth Miller, Clement A. Seldin ...
    Praise for The Teaching Portfolio"This new edition of a classic text has added invaluable, immediately useful material. It's a must-read for faculty, department chairs, and academic administrators." -Irene W. D. Hecht, director, Department Leadership Programs, American Council on Education"This book offers a wealth of wisdom and materials. It contains essential knowledge, salient advice, and an ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • College and Career Ready

    Helping All Students Succeed Beyond High School

    by David T. Conley ...
    Giving students the tools they need to succeed in college and workCollege and Career Ready offers educators a blueprint for improving high school so that more students are able to excel in freshman-level college courses or entry-level jobs-laying a solid foundation for lifelong growth and success. The book is filled with detailed, practical guidelines and case descriptions of what the best high ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Framing Decisions

    Decision-Making that Accounts for Irrationality, People and Constraints

    by J. Davidson Frame ...
    The economic crisis of 2008–2009 was a transformational event: it demonstrated that smart people aren't as smart as they and the public think. The crisis arose because a lot of highly educated people in high-impact positions— political power brokers, business leaders, and large segments of the general public—made a lot of bad decisions despite unprecedented access to data, highly sophisticated ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • Blind Spots, Biases and Other Pathologies in the Boardroom

    by Kenneth A. Merchant ...
    In this book we argue that as a first step it is important to recognize these group dynamics and the problems they cause. Some of them can be minimized through, for example, properly designed decision processes. Others are more complicated. But all of them need to be recognized and understood so that we can properly shape our expectations of the degree and quality of oversight corporate boards of ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Introduction to Teaching

    Helping Students Learn

    by James Johnson, Diann Musial, Annette Johnson, Robb Cooper, Jim Lockard ...
    Introduction to Teaching: Helping Students Learn provides students and instructors with the tools with which they can achieve the many goals of today's Introduction to Education course or its equivalent. The book introduces prospective teachers to the dynamic world of teaching and learning and to the realities of the classroom experience by providing engaging student-focused activities, rich real ... Read more

    $89.09 USD