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Making the most of Understanding by design by Brown, John L., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Implementing Understanding by design : a summary of lessons learned -- Designing and developing school and district curricula -- Promoting student achievement and addressing state and district standards -- Promoting student understanding -- Promoting exemplary professional development programs and practices -- Improving preservice training and teacher-induction programs -- Facilitating organization development, continuous improvement, and strategic planning -- Looking to the future of Understanding by design.…”
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Making the most of Understanding by design by Brown, John L., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Implementing Understanding by design : a summary of lessons learned -- Designing and developing school and district curricula -- Promoting student achievement and addressing state and district standards -- Promoting student understanding -- Promoting exemplary professional development programs and practices -- Improving preservice training and teacher-induction programs -- Facilitating organization development, continuous improvement, and strategic planning -- Looking to the future of Understanding by design.…”
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Leading organization design how to make organization design decisions to drive the results you want / by Kesler, Gregory, 1952-

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Leading organization design how to make organization design decisions to drive the results you want / by Kesler, Gregory, 1952-

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Roadmap to strategic HR turning a great idea into a business reality / by Christensen, Ralph, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The complexity of the challenge -- From rigid administrators to strategic contributors -- Assess the organization's readiness for change -- Develop a framework and language for HR --Understand the senior HR leader's role as organizational architect -- Clarify line management's role in creating and owning human resources strategy -- Create a human and organizational strategy -- Examine the five human resources processes through a strategic lens -- Examine workforce planning and staffing through a strategic lens -- Examine performance management through a strategic lens -- Examine organization development through a strategic lens -- Examine learning and development through a strategic lens -- Examine employee relations through a strategic lens -- Clarify the roles of generalist and specialist -- Design the structure of your new HR organization -- Assess and upgrade your HR talent -- Managing the roadblocks in making the transition to strategic HR -- Managing your career in the field of strategic human resources -- The future of human resources.…”
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Roadmap to strategic HR turning a great idea into a business reality / by Christensen, Ralph, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The complexity of the challenge -- From rigid administrators to strategic contributors -- Assess the organization's readiness for change -- Develop a framework and language for HR --Understand the senior HR leader's role as organizational architect -- Clarify line management's role in creating and owning human resources strategy -- Create a human and organizational strategy -- Examine the five human resources processes through a strategic lens -- Examine workforce planning and staffing through a strategic lens -- Examine performance management through a strategic lens -- Examine organization development through a strategic lens -- Examine learning and development through a strategic lens -- Examine employee relations through a strategic lens -- Clarify the roles of generalist and specialist -- Design the structure of your new HR organization -- Assess and upgrade your HR talent -- Managing the roadblocks in making the transition to strategic HR -- Managing your career in the field of strategic human resources -- The future of human resources.…”
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Business process improvement toolbox / by Andersen, Bjørn

Table of Contents: “…-- Using performance measurement in business process improvement -- The role of performance measurement in business process improvement -- Implementing a performance measurement system -- Performance indicators -- Creating a business process improvement roadmap -- Improvement project planning -- Trend analysis -- Spider chart -- Performance matrix -- Criteria testing -- Quality function deployment -- Organizing for business process improvement -- Business process improvement skills -- Organizational modes that support business process improvement -- Quality circles -- Cross-functional teams -- Stimulating an improvement culture -- The business process improvement toolbox -- The need for a toolbox -- A business process improvement model -- The tools in the toolbox -- Tools for collecting data about the performance shortcoming -- Sampling -- Surveying -- Check sheet -- Problem concentration diagram -- Tools for analyzing the performance shortcoming -- Critical incident -- Pareto chart -- Cause-and-effect chart -- Five whys analysis -- Scatter chart -- Histogram -- Relations diagram -- Matrix diagram -- Is-is not analysis -- Bottleneck analysis -- Tools for generating ideas and choosing among them -- Brainstorming -- Brainwriting/Crawford slip method -- Six thinking hats -- Nominal group technique -- Paired comparisons -- Tools for creating improvements -- Streamlining -- Bureaucracy elimination -- Redundancy elimination -- Value-added analysis -- Process cycle time reduction -- Idealizing -- Quality function deployment -- Statistical process control/control chart -- Definitions of variation -- Basic statistics -- Types of control charts -- Constructing control charts -- Interpreting the control charts -- Process capability -- Six Sigma -- The six sigma process -- Six Sigma in the organization -- Business process reengineering -- A process for conducting business process reengineering -- Planning -- Reengineering -- Transformation -- Implementation -- Benchmarking -- Definitions of benchmarking -- Conducting a benchmarking study -- Tools for implementing improvements -- AT analysis -- Tree diagram and process decision program chart -- Force field analysis -- Sample university - improving student satisfaction -- Description of the organization -- Development of performance priorities -- Understanding the current processes and performance shortcoming -- Analysis of the performance shortcoming -- Generating ideas and improvement proposals -- Implementation of improvements -- Green carpet seed - Revamping the business model -- Description of the organization -- Development of performance priorities -- Understanding the current processes and performance shortcoming -- Generating improvement ideas -- Developing an improved process -- Implementation of the new service -- Appendix Template package -- SWOT analyis -- Trend analysis -- Spider chart -- Performance matrix -- Criteria testing -- Quality function deployment -- Relationship mapping -- Cross-functional flowchart -- Check sheet -- Pareto chart -- Cause-and-effect chart -- Five whys analysis -- Scatter chart -- Histogram -- Relations diagram -- Is-is not analysis -- Paired comparisons -- Control chart -- Force field analysis.…”
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Business process improvement toolbox / by Andersen, Bjørn

Table of Contents: “…-- Using performance measurement in business process improvement -- The role of performance measurement in business process improvement -- Implementing a performance measurement system -- Performance indicators -- Creating a business process improvement roadmap -- Improvement project planning -- Trend analysis -- Spider chart -- Performance matrix -- Criteria testing -- Quality function deployment -- Organizing for business process improvement -- Business process improvement skills -- Organizational modes that support business process improvement -- Quality circles -- Cross-functional teams -- Stimulating an improvement culture -- The business process improvement toolbox -- The need for a toolbox -- A business process improvement model -- The tools in the toolbox -- Tools for collecting data about the performance shortcoming -- Sampling -- Surveying -- Check sheet -- Problem concentration diagram -- Tools for analyzing the performance shortcoming -- Critical incident -- Pareto chart -- Cause-and-effect chart -- Five whys analysis -- Scatter chart -- Histogram -- Relations diagram -- Matrix diagram -- Is-is not analysis -- Bottleneck analysis -- Tools for generating ideas and choosing among them -- Brainstorming -- Brainwriting/Crawford slip method -- Six thinking hats -- Nominal group technique -- Paired comparisons -- Tools for creating improvements -- Streamlining -- Bureaucracy elimination -- Redundancy elimination -- Value-added analysis -- Process cycle time reduction -- Idealizing -- Quality function deployment -- Statistical process control/control chart -- Definitions of variation -- Basic statistics -- Types of control charts -- Constructing control charts -- Interpreting the control charts -- Process capability -- Six Sigma -- The six sigma process -- Six Sigma in the organization -- Business process reengineering -- A process for conducting business process reengineering -- Planning -- Reengineering -- Transformation -- Implementation -- Benchmarking -- Definitions of benchmarking -- Conducting a benchmarking study -- Tools for implementing improvements -- AT analysis -- Tree diagram and process decision program chart -- Force field analysis -- Sample university - improving student satisfaction -- Description of the organization -- Development of performance priorities -- Understanding the current processes and performance shortcoming -- Analysis of the performance shortcoming -- Generating ideas and improvement proposals -- Implementation of improvements -- Green carpet seed - Revamping the business model -- Description of the organization -- Development of performance priorities -- Understanding the current processes and performance shortcoming -- Generating improvement ideas -- Developing an improved process -- Implementation of the new service -- Appendix Template package -- SWOT analyis -- Trend analysis -- Spider chart -- Performance matrix -- Criteria testing -- Quality function deployment -- Relationship mapping -- Cross-functional flowchart -- Check sheet -- Pareto chart -- Cause-and-effect chart -- Five whys analysis -- Scatter chart -- Histogram -- Relations diagram -- Is-is not analysis -- Paired comparisons -- Control chart -- Force field analysis.…”
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Catholic social teaching and economic globalization the quest for alternatives / by Sniegocki, John, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Overview of the contemporary global context : life stories -- Data on poverty, hunger, and inequality in an age of globalization -- The goals and structure of this book -- Development theory and practice : an overview -- Origins of the concept of development -- Modernization theory -- Modernization theory and U.S. aid policy -- The impact of modernizationist development -- Structuralist economic theories -- Dependency theories -- Basic needs approach -- New international economic order -- Alternative development -- The impact of reformist thought on development policy -- Neoliberal resurgence and structural adjustment policies -- Current debates in development studies -- The failures of modernizationist development : a closer look -- The impacts of colonialism and slavery -- Post-WW II development policies and the third world debt crisis -- Consequences of the debt crisis -- Responses to the debt crisis -- United States opposition to social change in the third world -- Summary of major structural influences on the third world -- Catholic social teaching and development -- CST prior to Pope John XXIII -- Early reflections on development : John XXIII and Vatican II -- The pivotal contributions of Paul VI, the Latin American bishops, and justice in the world -- John Paul II : the centrality of solidarity -- The social ethics of Benedict XVI -- Summary of catholic social teaching on development issues -- Catholic social teaching and political economy : neoconservative and radical critiques -- Neoconservative reflections on CST -- Radical reflections on CST -- Evaluation of neoconservative, radical, and CST views -- Grassroots critics of development -- Rejecting the quest for development - Vandana shiva : the violence of development and reductionist science -- Further issues in the development/globalization debates -- Reclaiming the commons : the positive visions of development critics -- Catholic social teaching, the radical tradition, and development critics -- Grassroots action and policy alternatives -- Grassroots organizations in the third world : an overview -- The impact of grassroots organizations -- Development policies : follow the NIC model? …”
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Catholic social teaching and economic globalization the quest for alternatives / by Sniegocki, John, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Overview of the contemporary global context : life stories -- Data on poverty, hunger, and inequality in an age of globalization -- The goals and structure of this book -- Development theory and practice : an overview -- Origins of the concept of development -- Modernization theory -- Modernization theory and U.S. aid policy -- The impact of modernizationist development -- Structuralist economic theories -- Dependency theories -- Basic needs approach -- New international economic order -- Alternative development -- The impact of reformist thought on development policy -- Neoliberal resurgence and structural adjustment policies -- Current debates in development studies -- The failures of modernizationist development : a closer look -- The impacts of colonialism and slavery -- Post-WW II development policies and the third world debt crisis -- Consequences of the debt crisis -- Responses to the debt crisis -- United States opposition to social change in the third world -- Summary of major structural influences on the third world -- Catholic social teaching and development -- CST prior to Pope John XXIII -- Early reflections on development : John XXIII and Vatican II -- The pivotal contributions of Paul VI, the Latin American bishops, and justice in the world -- John Paul II : the centrality of solidarity -- The social ethics of Benedict XVI -- Summary of catholic social teaching on development issues -- Catholic social teaching and political economy : neoconservative and radical critiques -- Neoconservative reflections on CST -- Radical reflections on CST -- Evaluation of neoconservative, radical, and CST views -- Grassroots critics of development -- Rejecting the quest for development - Vandana shiva : the violence of development and reductionist science -- Further issues in the development/globalization debates -- Reclaiming the commons : the positive visions of development critics -- Catholic social teaching, the radical tradition, and development critics -- Grassroots action and policy alternatives -- Grassroots organizations in the third world : an overview -- The impact of grassroots organizations -- Development policies : follow the NIC model? …”
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The American-style university at large by Kleypas, Kathryn L., 1964-

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The American-style university at large by Kleypas, Kathryn L., 1964-

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Leader evolution : from technical expertise to strategic leadership / by Patterson, Alan

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Leader evolution : from technical expertise to strategic leadership / by Patterson, Alan

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University collegiality and the erosion of faculty authority /

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University collegiality and the erosion of faculty authority /

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Revitalizing collegiality : restoring faculty authority in universities /

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Revitalizing collegiality : restoring faculty authority in universities /

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