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The Culture Builders : Leadership Strategies for Employee Performance
As with many people-oriented initiatives, employee engagement remains an emerging science with as many advocates as detractors. In The Culture Builders Jane Sparrow shares the insight of her research and experience into how companies are creating an engaged workforce.Along the way she looks at the evidence, the case for engagement and how organizations are measuring and defining it.Having an engagement strategy is merely a first step and so the book explores how to enable the manager-as-engager. Alongside the practical models and the guidance, there are stories and examples from leaders and organizations allowing you to learn, amongst other things, about the strong sense of purpose felt in John Lewis Partnership; the importance Innocence places on values; how Sony has used visual metaphors to give context and strategic direction and how MGM Resorts targets engagement strategies to the needs of specific employee groups. The need for sustained employee performance has been put into sharp focus in recent years.The Culture Builders is a book that provides the theory and practice to connect employee engagement to long-term performance.Simply reading it won’t guarantee that performance. Reading it, learning and applying the lessons it offers, will dramatically improve your chances.
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American Antifa : The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism
Since the election of President Trump and the rise in racist and white supremacist activity, the militant antifascist movement known as antifa has become increasingly active and high profile in the United States.This book analyzes the tactics, culture, and practices of the movement through a combination of social movement studies and critical criminological perspectives. Based on extensive fieldwork and interviews with activists, this book is the first scholarly sociological analysis of contemporary antifascist activism in the United States.Drawing on social movement studies, subculture studies and critical criminology, it explains antifa's membership, their ideology, strategy, tactics and use of culture as a weapon against the far right.It provides the most detailed account of this movement and also cuts through much of the mythology and common misunderstandings about it. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in sociology, political science, anthropology, criminology, and history; however, a general audience would also be interested in the explanation of what drives antifa tactics and strategy in light of the high-profile conflicts between fascists and antifascists.
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Production Scheduling for the Process Industries : Strategies, Systems, and Culture
This book is aimed at manufacturing and planning managers who struggle to bring a greater degree of stability and more effective use of assets to their operations, not realizing the degree to which production scheduling affects those objectives.It has been reported that 75% of the problems on the manufacturing floor are caused by activities outside the plant floor.Poor production scheduling strategies and systems are often the biggest contributors to the 75%.The book explains in detail that no scheduling strategy, and especially no transition to a different and better scheduling strategy, will succeed without strong commitment and guidance from senior leadership.Leadership must understand their active role in the transition, that people will feel uncomfortable and even threatened by change, and that they will need to be measured by different standards.Effective scheduling requires that following the schedule and production to plan is more important than trying to maximize each day’s throughput.The book explains the advantages of a structured, regularly repeating schedule: how it can increase throughput, right-size inventory based on cycles and variabilities and therefore make it more usable, and improve customer delivery.It will explain the trade-offs between throughput, inventory, and delivery performance, how those trade-offs are actually decided in production scheduling, and how an appropriate scheduling strategy can make the trade-offs and their ramifications visible.It discusses several popular structured scheduling concepts, their similarities, and differences, to allow the readers to decide which might fit best in their environments.In addition, the authors discuss what makes an appropriate scheduling software system, and why a package designed for structured scheduling offers capabilities well beyond the Excel workbooks used by many companies, and how it offers much more design capability and ease of use than the finite scheduling modules in SAP or Oracle.Finally, the authors offer a proven roadmap for implementation, critical success factors necessary to achieve the full potential, and give examples of operations that have done this well.In addition, a guide for leaders and managers post-implementation is provided to help them fully exploit the advantages of a structured, repeating scheduling strategy.
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Teaching Culture and Psychology : Pedagogical Strategies, Instructor Resources, and Student Activities
The fourth edition of Teaching Culture and Psychology (previously Cross-Cultural Explorations) provides an array of carefully designed instructor resources and student activities that support the construction and implementation of courses on culture and psychology. Revised and expanded from previous editions, the book enables instructors to use selected activities appropriate for their course structure.Part One explores a variety of pedagogical challenges involved in teaching about culture and psychology and details specific strategies for addressing these challenges.Part Two (instructor resources) and Part Three (student handouts) center around 90 activities designed to encourage students to think critically about the role of culture in a wide range of psychology content areas.These activities are based on current and classic cross-cultural research and take the form of case studies, self-administered scales, mini-experiments, database search assignments, and the collection of content-analytic, observational, and interview data.For each activity, instructors are provided with a lecture/discussion module as well as suggestions for variations and expanded writing assignments.Student handouts are available in this text as well as on the Routledge website as fillable forms. Contributing to the inclusion of cultural perspectives in the psychology curriculum, this wide-ranging book enables instructors to provide students with hands-on experiences that facilitate the understanding and application of major concepts and principles in the study of culture and psychology, making it ideal for cultural psychology, anthropology, sociology, and related courses.
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What are event culture and time culture?
Event culture refers to the way in which events, such as festivals, concerts, and sporting events, shape and influence a society's values, beliefs, and behaviors. Time culture, on the other hand, refers to the way in which a society perceives and organizes time, including concepts of punctuality, scheduling, and the pace of life. Both event culture and time culture play a significant role in shaping social interactions, traditions, and overall societal norms.
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Which culture is the best culture in the world?
It is not appropriate to label any one culture as the "best" in the world as every culture has its own unique strengths and values. Each culture contributes to the diversity and richness of the world, and it is important to respect and appreciate the differences among them. Instead of comparing cultures, it is more valuable to learn from and celebrate the diversity of cultures around the world.
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Why is Turkish culture often confused with Arab culture?
Turkish culture is often confused with Arab culture due to several factors. Firstly, both cultures are located in the Middle East and share some similarities in language, religion, and traditional customs. Additionally, there is a historical connection between the two regions through the Ottoman Empire, which had a significant influence on Arab countries. Furthermore, the media and popular culture often portray a homogenized view of the Middle East, leading to misconceptions and generalizations about the diverse cultures within the region. However, it is important to recognize and appreciate the distinct differences and unique aspects of Turkish and Arab cultures.
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Is culture important?
Yes, culture is important because it shapes our identity, beliefs, values, and behaviors. It provides a sense of belonging and connection to others within a community. Culture also influences how we communicate, express ourselves, and understand the world around us. Embracing and respecting different cultures can lead to greater understanding, empathy, and cooperation among diverse groups of people.
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Why People Work : Leadership Strategies for Building Culture, Engagement and Retention
Why do people work? This appears to be a very simple and obvious question. And when we ask this question to people, we usually get a simple and seemingly obvious answer – “DUH! They want to get a paycheck.” The wise and insightful leader will go beyond this obvious response and come to grips with the fact that there are more complex and hidden human needs within the human spirit.There are most likely thousands of leadership books written to equip leaders to develop the skills and behaviors necessary to encourage their teams to achieve goals and purposes. However, the primary focus of this book is to assist leaders in looking deeper into the expectations and motivations of the people they serve. So as the organization is achieving its strategic plans and objectives, it is also meeting the critical needs and ambitions of its most important essential resources, better known as its human resources.In businesses and organizations today, everything begins and ends with leadership. The leaders, who go beyond the obvious to uncover these critical hidden expectations of their employees, are able to create a culture of engagement and retention where employees not only give you their hands but, most importantly, their hearts. The return on investment for this effort is that the leader will earn their employees’ best effort. Therefore, when you know your employees “why” game, they will bring their “A-game.”
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Culture Dimensions and Regions, Sanskritization Strategies and Cultural Tensions among Mizos
Introduction In many fields of contemporary studies, be it anthropology, history, sociology or psychology, 'culture' is a term that is very often used. The term had already been included in an English Dictionary during the 1920s (Kroeberg, 1949), but Taylor (1871), who had used it in the field of anthropology, defined it as, "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, laws, customs and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.' This definition gave a more immaterial meaning to the word 'culture' as compared to the previously utilitarian meaning which had been attached to it. The difference between material and the non-material aspect of culture has also been mentioned by sociologists Max Weber, MacIver and RK Merton, which has become more or less accepted as what differentiates culture from other concepts such as civilisation. Others have given alternate definitions of culture such as Linton's (1936), which defines it 'the total social heredity of mankind' and Herskovitz (1948) who defined it as 'the man-made part of the human environment'. In his definition of the term, Wissler (1923), has included speech, material traits, art, knowledge, religion, society, property, government, and war as being the elements of culture. Looking at these definitions, we see that the definitions of culture include more immaterial definitions as compared to material concepts. Many have agreed that culture is a direct expression of human nature by means of different methods such as thoughts, actions, arts, religion, morality and recreation (Gisbert, 1973). We can say that, generally, culture includes all the phenomena in a society that are human and are not the products of biological or heriditary inheritance (Rawat, 2007). In a sense, it includes what is expressed besides what has been passed down through reproduction. The ways in which we adapt to the environment as a group is called culture. Accordingly, Sir Edward Tylor (1871) defined culture as 'that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.' Here, he mentions what is acquired through being a member of the society, not what is passed on genetically from parent to child. Everything that we learn from being a part of a society, ones that we pick up post birth, is what makes up the 'culture
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School Culture
`I waited with great anticipation to receive Jon Prosser's book, School Culture.The wait was worth it and I wasn't to be disappointed...This is a fine book bringing to a reader a credible and solid set of work' - Youth and Policy`The most helpful book on genuine school improvement that I have ever read' - LDR National College for School Leadership`Jon Prosser has put together an eclectic volume.School Culture is not isolated from out of school forces, most of the authors argue Jon Prosser and Terry Warbuton's piece analyzing the visual representation of schools and teaching shows this in a looking-glass manner.The different chapters challenge us to think again about what we mean by ethos and atmosphere.What the volume demonstrates is just how difficult and challenging it is to define what constitutes a school's culture' - Journal of Education for TeachingSchool culture is today one of the most important themes in education and educational research.This book draws on a wide range of contemporary perspectives to provide an insight into the key issues and concepts which underpin school culture. The first part of the book is concerned with culture as an holistic concept.The second part adopts the stance that school culture is the sum of its subcultures.The contributors focus on significant groups such as teachers and students, or theme, for example sexuality, and examine in depth the nature and character of schooling.
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Cancer Culture
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What is the difference between historical culture and memory culture?
Historical culture refers to the collective understanding and interpretation of historical events, traditions, and customs within a society. It encompasses the tangible and intangible aspects of a society's past, including artifacts, monuments, and rituals. Memory culture, on the other hand, focuses on the ways in which a society actively engages with and remembers its history. It involves the processes of commemoration, memorialization, and the transmission of historical knowledge through storytelling, education, and public discourse. While historical culture is the broader framework of a society's historical identity, memory culture is the active, dynamic practice of remembering and interpreting that history.
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Do you consider German culture to be a good culture?
As an AI language model, I don't have personal opinions. However, German culture is rich in history, art, music, and literature. It has made significant contributions to the world in various fields, and its emphasis on efficiency, punctuality, and quality is widely respected. Additionally, Germany's commitment to environmental sustainability and social welfare is commendable. However, like any culture, it also has its complexities and challenges. Ultimately, whether one considers German culture to be "good" is subjective and depends on individual perspectives and experiences.
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Does globalization destroy culture?
Globalization can have both positive and negative impacts on culture. On one hand, it can lead to the spread of ideas, values, and traditions across borders, promoting cultural exchange and understanding. However, it can also result in the homogenization of cultures, as Western ideals and consumerism become dominant, potentially eroding local traditions and identities. Ultimately, the impact of globalization on culture depends on how it is managed and whether efforts are made to preserve and celebrate diverse cultural expressions.
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What does culture encompass?
Culture encompasses a wide range of elements that define a society, including beliefs, values, customs, traditions, language, art, music, food, and social norms. It shapes how individuals interact with one another and their environment, influencing their behaviors, attitudes, and perceptions. Culture is dynamic and constantly evolving, influenced by historical events, social changes, and interactions with other cultures. It plays a crucial role in shaping identities, fostering a sense of belonging, and providing a framework for understanding the world.
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