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Tough Calls from the Corner Office: Top Business Leaders Reveal Their Career-Defining Moments

In: International Journal of Commerce and Management 24 (2014) 2, pp. 197-200

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In: Human Resource Management International Digest 25 (2017) 7, pp. 39-41

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places...

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Detecting and dealing with covert tactics: help when top management is “on another planet”

In: Strategic Direction 32 (2016) 11, pp. 25-27

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The companies who cannot see for miles

In: Strategic Direction 31 (2015) 6, pp. 15-17

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and...

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Mind games that create a well-focussed worker

Wheatcroft, John - In: Human Resource Management International Digest 24 (2016) 6, pp. 12-14

Purpose Mindfulness is well-studied in many disciplines, but less so in management science. Little is known about its impacts on employees at work. This paper focuses on mindfulness at work, defined as a psychological state in which employees intentionally pay full attention to the present...

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Communicating to sub‐cultures: Targeting children and teenagers

Sachs, MaryLee - In: Journal of Communication Management 1 (1996) 2, pp. 174-180

Communicating effectively with youth is tantamount to walking the plank on a snakeboard — even if you can manoeuvre the snakeboard down the plank, you are bound to fall off the end before you can ride it back to the mother ship. Weaving in and out of the increasing advertising and promotional...

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Assessing children's quality of life in health and social services: meeting challenges and adding value

Skevington, Suzanne; Gillison, Fiona - In: Journal of Children's Services 1 (2006) 2, pp. 41-50

The measurement of children's quality of life has an important role to play in improving their experience of health and … the development of robust quality of life measures specifically for children and also the use of these measures in … measures that are not only comprehensible to children of different age groups, but also meaningful to parents and health …

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Child impact statements: protecting children's interests in policy and provision?

Corrigan, Carmel - In: Journal of Children's Services 2 (2007) 4, pp. 30-43

Child impact statements are a tool for assessing the potential impact of policy, provision, legislation etc on children … presents a number of difficulties with the approach as a means of improving children's well‐being and argues that there is … children. …

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Towards better outcomes for children globally: alternative perspectives on international development

Crewe, Emma - In: Journal of Children's Services 2 (2007) 4, pp. 59-70

beneficial change for children but in general suffer from donor‐led managerial approaches, the dominance of upward accountability … civil society are failing to protect millions of vulnerable children and promote their participation in decision‐making. But … better outcomes for children are possible. This article articulates the problems but also demonstrates how: (1) partnerships …

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Measuring outcomes in a child psychiatry inpatient unit

Garralda, M; Rose, Gillian; Dawson, Ruth - In: Journal of Children's Services 3 (2008) 3, pp. 6-16

Children and Adolescents - HoNOSCA) questionnaires on admission and discharge for consecutive admissions to the unit between …

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