Fulfilling Special Needs in Scouting

2014-08-05
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Fulfilling Special Needs in Scouting

Author: Tawny Lee Thompson

Publisher: Tawny Lee Thompson

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Resource guide including links and descriptions of publications and websites as well as other resources, mostly intended for Scout leaders with special needs Scouts.

The Fulfilling Workplace

2016-03-09
 |  Psychology
The Fulfilling Workplace

Author: Ronald J. Burke

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317031178

Category: Psychology

Page: 346

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It is very easy for organizations to ignore or overlook the impact of social and commercial change-of increased pressure to deliver profit (above all else) and of transformation in the ways in which we are now working-on the mental health and, consequently, the performance of their employees. And yet there is plenty of evidence that in many workplaces, performance is down, stress is up and professional employees are struggling to balance their home and work lives. This collection, while looking at individuals, places the spotlight on organizational initiatives to support the development of attitudes, values, character and behaviors in employees. The aim of these initiatives is to increase our resilience to those experiences and events which impact on performance. There is a particular focus on managerial and professional jobs where employee discretion and commitment are critical. The Fulfilling Workplace extends the themes developed in early titles in the Psychological and Behavioral Aspects of Risk Series deeper into organizations; to explore the organization's role in coming to grips both with human frailties and toxic workplaces-both destructive to individual and organizational health.

Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2012: Justification of the budget estimates: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement; Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement; BIA; DOI Office of Insular Affairs

2011
 |  United States
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2012: Justification of the budget estimates: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement; Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement; BIA; DOI Office of Insular Affairs

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies

Publisher:

ISBN: UCR:31210023152695

Category: United States

Page: 1748

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Todd & Watt's Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts

2013-06-13
 |  Law
Todd & Watt's Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts

Author: Gary Watt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780199664801

Category: Law

Page: 583

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This revised and updated text contains a range of relevant, interesting case law, statutory material, academic extracts and official proposals for law reform. A companion web site featuring web links and case updates ensures students have access to the latest materials.

Capital Failure

2014-08-07
 |  Business & Economics
Capital Failure

Author: Nicholas Morris

Publisher: OUP Oxford

ISBN: 9780191020773

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 392

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Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' relied on the self-interest of individuals to produce good outcomes. Economists' belief in efficient markets took this idea further by assuming that all individuals are selfish. This belief underpinned financial deregulation, and the theories on incentives and performance which supported it. However, although Adam Smith argued that although individuals may be self-interested, he argued that they also have other-regarding motivations, including a desire for the approbation of others. This book argues that the trust-intensive nature of financial services makes it essential to cultivate such other-regarding motivations, and it provides proposals on how this might be done. Trustworthiness in the financial services industry was eroded by deregulation and by the changes to industry structure which followed. Incentive structures encouraged managers to disguise risky products as yielding high returns, and regulation failed to curb this risk-taking, rent-seeking behaviour. The book makes a number of proposals for reforms of governance, and of legal and regulatory arrangements, to address these issues. The proposals seek to harness values and norms that would reinforce 'other-regarding' behaviour, so that the firms and individuals in the financial services act in a more trustworthy manner. Four requirements are identified which together might secure more strongly trustworthy behaviour: the definition of obligations, the identification of responsibilities, the creation of mechanisms which encourage trustworthiness, and the holding to account of those involved in an appropriate manner. Financial reforms at present lack sufficient focus on these requirements, and the book proposes a range of further actions for specific parts of the financial industry.

A Moral Ontology for a Theistic Ethic

2017-11-22
 |  Religion
A Moral Ontology for a Theistic Ethic

Author: Frank G. Kirkpatrick

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351774437

Category: Religion

Page: 214

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This title was first published in 2003. This book develops a moral ontology for a theistic ethic that engages the work of contemporary moral and political philosophers, and reaffirms the relevance of a theistic tradition of God's relation to the world reflected in the fundamental teachings of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Drawing on recent thought in the non-religious fields of psychology and political and moral philosophy, which build around the concept of human flourishing in community, Kirkpatrick argues that a theistic ethic need not be the captive of parochial or sectarian theological camps. He proposes a common or universal ethic that transcends the fashionable ethnocentric 'incommensurate differences' in morality alleged by many post-modern deconstructionists. In the wake of ethnic religious strife post September 11th 2001, this book argues for a common morality built on the inclusivity of love, community, and justice that can transcend sectarian and parochial boundaries.

Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXXVI

2017-11-27
 |  Computers
Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXXVI

Author: Abdelkader Hameurlain

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783662562666

Category: Computers

Page: 193

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This volume, the 36th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains eight revised, extended papers selected from the 3rd International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2016, and the 10th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Applications, ACOMP 2016, which were held in Can Tho City, Vietnam, in November 2016. Topics covered include big data analytics, massive dataset mining, security and privacy, cryptography, access control, deep learning, crowd sourcing, database watermarking, and query processing and optimization.