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Drawing on wide-ranging examples from an automotive factory, public administrators in Austria, and IT workers, this volume includes articles that attempt to account for the global and local dynamics that shape worker identities and roles. It is suitable for managers, organizational behaviorist, industrial and organizational sociologist.

How can teachers help students recognize and tap into their inner motivation in order to achieve learning success? This book provides writing activities and addresses three aspects of motivation: self-direction, self-observation, and self-reflection. It helps students to identify ideas and goals, and develop plans for reaching those goals.

Formerly a publication of The Brain StoreHelp students who have difficulty focusing and paying attention with research-based, easy-to-use activity sequences that develop the basic sensory motor skills they need to succeed.

Casanova - a former elementary school principal - examines the role of the school secretary, bringing recognition to a person who has been too long under-valued, under-paid and under-appreciated. She has broken new ground with an exploration of an occupation where women are the dominant force and on whom everyone depends, from students and parents to teachers and administrators.

When it comes to mathematics, standards aligned is achievement aligned... In the short time since The Common Core Mathematics Companions for grades K-2, 3-5 and 6-8 burst on the scene, they have been lauded as the best resources for making critical mathematics ideas easy to teach. With this brand-new volume, high school mathematics success is at your fingertips.

Learning and Memory provides an integration of theoretical perspectives, presented clearly, concisely, and with an approachable writing style, ensuring a coherent and comprehensive learning experience for the reader.

"This book honors the rich history and impact of traditional Asian healing practices by providing a comprehensive exposition of the history, philosophy, traditional practices, contemporary formulations, and its integration with Western practices." - Fernand Lubuguin, University of Denver

This book presents a comprehensive overview of addictive behaviors and habits from early use through risky use, severe-risk use, and addiction.

Addressing the immensely important topic of research credibility, Raymond Hubbard's work proposes that we must treat such information with a healthy dose of scepticism.

Ethical and social issues in marketing and consumer behaviour are the focus of this book. Leading scholars in marketing discuss controversial, cutting-edge theoretical approaches to investigating public interest. They examine difficult consumption issues such as substance abuse and grieving customers as well as media issues like portrayal of minority groups, target marketing and the impact that idealized images has on consumers' perceptions of their lives. The book concludes with a discussion of legislative and social marketing issues including green buying practices, consumer rights, warning labels and product safety.

By using the strategies presented, school leaders will be able to clearly define their specific restructuring problems, identify what they need to learn from other schools and adapt the solutions to their unique contexts.

In recent years political campaigns in Western democracies have relied increasingly upon television advertising to promote candidates and/or political parties. Campaigns in North America were the first to channel political messages in this way and many European campaigns have been based on the United States models. This comparative analysis highlights the differences and the similarities of campaigns in Western democracies. The various campaign styles, their methods and approaches reflect the unique political and cultural traditions of each country. Written by renowned contributors, the chapters are based on the most recent campaigns in the countries represented.

This volume, based on the work of Imogene King, makes a significant contribution to the advancement of nursing science. It begins with a philosophical overview by King herself after which prominent international contributors describe specific implementations of King's theory. The progression of knowledge in the field nursing science is evaluated and the volume culminates with suggestions for further exploration and refinement.

Presenting a comprehensive model of supply chain management, experienced executives from 20 companies clearly define supply chain management, identifying those factors that contribute to its effective implementation. They provide practical guidelines on how companies can manage supply chains, addressing the role of all the traditional business functions in supply chain management and suggest how the adoption of a supply chain management approach can affect business strategy and corporate performance.

Offers a comprehensive examination of the field of public relations. Divided into five sections, this book explains the role of public relations in society. It also examines the state of the practice by looking at various issues in management, ethics, gender, evaluation, public relations, education and media.

This book explores the potential of what children can do with technologies, rather than what technologies can do for children.

This book explores the potential of what children can do with technologies, rather than what technologies can do for children.

The second edition of the bestselling The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism has been thoroughly revised with new chapters added, bringing together extensive coverage of aspects of Institutional Theory.

Contributing to new debates and research on the city, this handbook looks both backwards and forwards to bring together key scholarship in the field

With ready-to-use tools, this guide will help school leaders connect people, build trust, discover strengths, and clear barriers to improve teacher effectiveness - and ultimately raise student achievement.

In this remarkable book, John SanGiovanni reminds us that mathematical mistakes are not random, and when we take the time to "mine the gap," we can dispel misunderstandings before they take root.

This book provides instruction for teachers to ensure literacy learning across grade levels and disciplines.

This book is filled with the practical tools needed to move from teaching memorization and routine processes to teaching maths in a deep, clear, and meaningful way.

This book is a collection of 50 short texts written by famous Americans to provide students with mentor texts to express their own thoughts.

This book examines the evolving structure of political power in American cities revealing how changes in society relate to the global and national economy, immigration and internal migration, racial and ethnic transition, and how technological advances affect city politics.

With a new discussion on the philosophy of science and an expanded focus on research ethics and sampling, this second edition continues to give readers an interdisciplinary account of the logic of social science research

This fourth edition introduces research methods as an integrated set of techniques for investigating social work research and practice problems.

The first book of its kind to examine race, ethnic, gender, and sexual minorities revealing the similarities and differences of groups' underrepresentation.

Case Studies in Nonprofit Management consists of original cases that are designed to teach students how to apply leadership and management principles that are essential for any nonprofit professional.

This book gives teachers a chance to learn about effective high impact strategies, and it offers practical ways to put these strategies into daily work to activate learning.