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Free Download Leah P. Hollis, "Instrumental Social Justice in Higher Education: Eight Surveys for Workplace Bullying and Social Justice Research"
English | ISBN: 3031492889 | 2024 | 177 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book offers eight validated instruments on workplace bullying to support robust mixed methods approaches for social justice research. Workplace bullying is an excellent starting point from which scholars can consider social justice research. The data shows that marginalized and disenfranchised groups (minoritized groups, women, junior faculty, and the LGBTQ+ community) are disproportionately affected. The outcomes included career interruption and severe health disparities. Though there is a demand for workplace bullying instruments, the book also lays a foundation for creating surveys to address these populations more effectively.

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Free Download Reingard Spannring, "Institutions and Organizations as Learning Environments for Participation and Democracy: Opportunities, Challenges, Obst"
English | ISBN: 303117948X | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1450 KB
This book discusses opportunities and limitations to democratic participation in institutions and organizations across the life course. It demonstrates that democratic participation is not something that is learned once and for all and applied in formal political settings, but something that is lived every day throughout life in various contexts. Institutions and organizations frame human lives and strongly determine the ability to participate and co-determine their communities. They are places for learning, deliberation and the development of the common good. The book conceptually and empirically analyses the potential of democratic participation within various institutions. The contributions range from early childhood institutions, schools, youth programs, workplaces, and vocational education to cultural organizations and nursing homes for the elderly. The book thereby provides a cross-sectional and interdisciplinary knowledge base to inspire future research and practical efforts to promote democratic participation within and across institutions around the world.

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Free Download Noriaki Okamoto, "Institutional Change and Performativity: The Impact of Globalization and Financialization on Accounting in Japan"
English | ISBN: 3031533925 | 2024 | 242 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This book analyzes the recent development of accounting in Japan from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing specifically on how institutional reality is constructed. Integrating theoretical perspectives from institutional economics and performativity studies, the book creates a framework to systematically explain institutional changes and dynamics against a backdrop of increasing globalization and financialization.

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Free Download Inspiring Integrity: How to Win with Compliance and Propel Performance
English | 2024 | ISBN: B0DHWMGJ8N | Pages: 216 | EPUB (True) | 3.05 MB
Inspiring Integrity: How to Win with Compliance and Propel Performance by L. Stephan Vincze provides an essential leadership roadmap for transforming compliance from a tedious obligation into a strategic business advantage. Vincze, a seasoned attorney, Washington political veteran, and corporate compliance professional with over twenty-five years of experience, emphasizes the importance of ethical leadership and a strong corporate culture in achieving compliance excellence. The book introduces a practical, five-step framework to create and sustain effective compliance programs, from defining success and developing a shared strategy to executing plans collaboratively and measuring results.

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Free Download Inspired by dаta: AI's Transformative Role in Corporate Communication
English | 2024 | ISBN: B0CVNHVZN6 | Pages: 330 | EPUB (True) | 531.53 KB
This book is an exploration of the transformative potential of artificial intelligence, and in particular generative AI, across the corporate communications landscape. It provides practical guidance on how to use these technologies as tools while emphasizing the irreplaceable value of human creativity, empathy, and responsibility. Unlike past technological shifts that focused on efficiency, AI is opening new creative frontiers. Commercial realms once shaped by human intuition and emotions can now harness data patterns while preserving core values of authenticity and meaning. However, as AI permeates communication channels from internal memos to press releases, ethical risks intensify. Establishing oversight and recognizing human judgment as the compass becomes vital. With insights from experts and case studies across industries, this guide aims to spark a movement where corporate communication is not beholden to machines but liberated by them, using data as inspiration rather than chains. It reminds readers of technology' s role as an enabler of distinctly human capacities such as storytelling, leadership, and ethical responsibility in business.

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Free Download Marie Schwimmer, "Inspire Responsibly: The Interplay between Aspirational Talk and Corporate Responsibility "
English | ISBN: 3658442387 | 2024 | 157 pages | EPUB | 1305 KB
Aspirational talk has gained increasing research attention as a compelling concept theoretically explaining the potential of talk-action discrepancies in corporate responsibility communication to instigate organizational change. Under certain conditions, aspirational talk can facilitate discourse, agreement, reframing, and corporate reflexivity. However, perceived talk-action discrepancies can negatively affect organizational members, leading to disengagement, and demotivation, causing emotional exhaustion, exposing employees to vulnerabilities, and even catalyzing unethical or illicit behaviors. Thus, this book focuses on how aspirational talk becomes irresponsible in an organizational context, and how it can be avoided. The author proposes that aspirational talk becomes irresponsible if it creates expectations that lead to illegitimate harm to employees or involved stakeholders. A framework is derived, constituting the finding that it takes two types of investments into performativity and responsibility conditions, to avoid the irresponsible use of aspirational talk - and thus, to inspire responsibly.

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Free Download Insight Guides Iceland by Insight Guides, Phil Lee
English | April 1, 2025 | ISBN: 1839054263 | 344 pages | MOBI | 65 Mb
This Iceland guidebook, perfect for travellers planning longer trips, is written by Insight Guides' destination experts. It blends detailed coverage of local history, culture and places to visit with the visual appeal of an illustrated magazine, packed with enticing photos that will inspire excitement for your travels. Printed on eco-friendly paper for sustainability.

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Free Download Insight Guides Finland: Travel Guide with eBook by Insight Guides, Owen Morton
English | April 1, 2025 | ISBN: 183905431X | 296 pages | MOBI | 64 Mb
This Finland guidebook, perfect for travellers planning longer trips, is written by Insight Guides' destination experts. It blends detailed coverage of local history, culture and places to visit with the visual appeal of an illustrated magazine, packed with enticing photos that will inspire excitement for your travels. Printed on eco-friendly paper for sustainability.

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Free Download Inside Generative AI: A Deep Dive Into Generative AI For Beginners, Professionals, and New Career Seekers
English | 2024 | ISBN: B0D4HQZ5V6 | Pages: 235 | PDF | 3.12 MB
Generative AI represents a groundbreaking frontier in the realm of artificial intelligence, where machines not only learn from data but also create new data, mimicking the inventive processes of human creativity. This book is a comprehensive guide that explores the depths of generative AI, from foundational concepts to advanced applications, and provides a rich array of hands-on projects and real-world case studies.

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Free Download Gabriele Iacovino, "Innovative Technologies and Renewed Policies for Achieving a Greener Defence "
English | ISBN: 9402421858 | 2022 | 117 pages | EPUB | 1291 KB
This book presents a fresh and original contribution to the debate on the policies and technologies needed to achieve a Greener Defence. It will provide an overall and comprehensive analysis of the current state and future prospects of the public and private discourse on the matter, by leveraging on four different and complementary perspectives: the national experiences of relevant NATO Member States and Partner Countries, the institutional framework of International Organizations, the role of industry and private companies and the intellectual contribution of research centers and academia. It will provide new policy recommendations and advanced and innovative technological solutions to be implemented in order to reduce the environmental footprint of Armed Forces, while improving at the same time the energy efficiency and strengthening the operational capabilities of Militaries. The book is addressed to all those interested in studying the connections between climate change, environmental issues, energy security and the role of Armed Forces, the latter seen as an important actor for reducing the environmental impact of human activities and as a forum where to discuss and implement new green technological solutions and applications.

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