The original scheme for the modern Olympic Games was hatched at an international sports conference at the Sorbonne in June 1894. At the time, few provisions were made for the financial underwriting of the project-providence and the beneficence of host cities would somehow take care of the costs. For much of the first century of modern Olympic ......
In all organizational settings, managing projects is an ever-increasing necessity. While large corporations have departments that institute procedures for implementing and tracking projects, smaller organizations can benefit from becoming aware of the steps in creating a project in order to maximize planned outcomes. Mitchell Springer, an expert ......
My time as a prisoner of war in Bataan and Japan, 1942-1945
Gene Jacobsen was a nineteen-year-old Idaho ranch kid when he decided to join the Army Air Corps in September 1940. By December 1941 he was supply sergeant for the Twentieth Pursuit Squadron at Clark Field in the Philippines. Five months later he was a captive of the Imperial Japanese Army, enduring the Bataan death march and subsequent horrors in ......
Demonstrates how Catholic health care ethics can evolve similarly in response to the modern medical advances. This title analyzes the Catholic tradition of medical ethics. It suggests how a Catholic perspective on health care can utilize certain secular moral-philosophical positions.
The narrative of this text follows ten years of a major initiative by Pirelli General - the creation and operation of an automated "factory of the future". Topics and themes developed and analyzed include: strategy formulation; "strategy and structure"; human resource management and industrial relations; site location; technological innovation; introducing total quality control management and a culture of continuous improvement; theories of leadership; and managing strategic change.
Stories to Introduce the Concept of Moral Values for Children Aged 5 to 7
The 24 stories in this resource provide a years work based around the people who live in The Crescent. The characters provide a continuity and the themes include: - giving and taking - bullying and friendship - honesty and lies - birth and new arrivals - environmental issues. With every story there is a warm up exercise, Circle Time discussion, supplementary ideas, National Curriculum links and photocopiable worksheets. A comprehensive resource using a mini soap opera storyline, which will help children identify and emphathise with the characters so that they can experience and experiment to gain understanding of their own world.
Leading American Communities Into the 21st Century
Drawing on fundamental ideas about the relationship of citizens to the public sphere, Richard C Box presents a model of `citizen governance'. Recognizing the challenges in the community governance setting, he advocates rethinking the structure of local government and the roles of citizens, elected officials and public professionals in the ......
Global Public Management offers a collection of cases illustrating managerial problems and policy situations that managers could face anywhere in the world. These cases are then analyzed by universal scholars and practitioners of public management. The case comments focus on identifying the problem in the case and offering suggestions on how to ......
