professional practice within organizational and specialized settings

... talk about estimation and scheduling The key to iterative development is “live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some,”6 ... Bookmarks and Contents at a Glance links to access them www.it-ebooks.info Software Development and Professional Practice  John Dooley www.it-ebooks.info Software Development and Professional Practice ... projects and larger teams tend to be more plan-driven and follow processes with more rules and documentation required Larger projects require more coordination and tighter controls on communication and...

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... five in The Netherlands, four in Denmark and one each in Finland, Sweden and Belgium) nine in Australia, two in Thailand and one in Uganda and Lao.) In most trials the health professionals were ... EPOC register and pending file We identified all articles in the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and health care ... Freemantle and Emma Harvey for their contributions to an earlier version of this review, and Julian Higgins and Craig Ramsay for statistical Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and...

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... industrial and organizational psychologists, organizational scientists and practitioners, human resources professionals, managers, executives and those interested in organizational behavior and performance ... informative, and relevant to organizational practice The volumes in the Professional Practice Series are guided by five tenets designed to enhance future organizational practice: Focus on practice, ... Translate organizational science into practice by generating guidelines, principles, and lessons learned that can shape and guide practice Showcase the application of industrial and organizational...

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... countries, and certainly within and across continents Understanding the complexity both within regions and on a global scale is especially important based on the significant increase in regional and ... duplicated and wasted effort, as everyone works to re-create the wheel over and over again Understanding and leveraging organizational- level insights is also difficult For example, assessing and securing ... experience and has held top management and teaching positions throughout his career He has taught organizational leadership and management courses at the graduate and university level, and consulted...

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... toward U.S practices, some toward Western European practices, and some toward Japanese practices Nevertheless, the practical reality is that there are bound to be strong residues of local practices ... Dugan, and Trompenaars (1996), Gelfand, Ghawuk, Nishii, and Bechtold (2004), and Minkov (2007) There are some divergent opinions concerning the right interpretation of this dimension and what ... Vietnam, and Jordan than in any Western country, such as Switzerland, Germany, the United States, Sweden, and Finland There is a very important practical lesson here that international managers and...

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... communicating, and acting among those who share a language, a historic period, and a geographic location’’ (Shweder & LeVine, 1984, p 408) The challenge within multicultural teams lies within the ... related to professional work, and objectives were explicit, yet evolving and not focused solely on task-related outcomes (Gibson & Zellmer-Bruhn, 2002) Conversely, metaphors reflecting family and community ... often represent cognitive, affective, and motivational components and can be viewed as inputs to and outcomes of team process Due to the diversity present within multicultural teams, it is often...

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... two and a half years (Charan & Colvin, 2000; Morris, et al., 2004) Could the organizational stories have been different had they cast a wider net and attracted and sifted through other candidates? ... Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and 681 were from the Americas (Hill, 2008) There is no one best practice or gold standard for recruiting, but there are certainly some practices that organizations ... strategies and activities Given the various cross-country and sometimes within- country differences in legal elements such as employment standards, worker compensation, unionization, human rights, and...

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... to go and work in The Hague and vice versa So in essence you wind up in a global job market and the standardization [of staffing systems] ensures that you are applying the same standards and using ... their families (see Vance and Paik, 2006; Briscoe and Schuler, 2004; Perkins and Shortland, 2006), we will focus here on two methods of selection, standardized testing and assessment centers The ... markets: Organizational size and its effects on hiring practices and job search behavior Personnel Psychology, 52, 841–867 Berkowitz, P., & Muller-Bonanni, T (2007) International labor and employment...

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... China, Korea, and Japan tend to be high-context cultures; Switzerland and Scandinavian countries such as Norway and Sweden tend to be low-context cultures; and France, Spain, Africa, and the Middle ... customers, and other key organizational stakeholders Gaining information regarding formal and informal work relationships and power structures Understanding industry language as well as acronyms and ... line manager, and HR professionals This chapter is written for line managers and those responsible for designing and implementing an effective on-boarding approach for new team members within a global...

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... Leadership in Global Organizations 207 practiced and understanding why This is important to understand in order to step back from the current practices and learn how to improve developing leaders ... motivation, and role— with a local flavor Successful leadership development incorporates understanding and adapting the practice to match who the future leader is Global Landscape and Changing ... engagement, performance, and organizational success This chapter will aid organizations with understanding the implications of the contemporary practices of global leadership development and will recommend...

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... this practice: (1) this activity is heavily reliant upon anthropology and sociology, a skill set not traditionally taught or practiced in organizational leadership development departments, and ... Cultural Heritage and Organizational Future In addition to understanding the uniqueness of experience and environment, it is the role of the leader development specialist to understand the backgrounds, ... understand the local influences and adapt the leader development model accordingly to maximize on the potential Conclusion Parenting is a conservative practice, and most rely on the same practice...

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... interested and respectful enough to learn the language and improves job performance because expatriates are able to follow along and catch critical pieces of information that are communicated, and have ... model assessments, and the probed protocol analysis technique Kim, Kirkman, and Chen (2006) define cognitive cultural intelligence as knowledge about economic, legal, and social Best Practices for ... organization could be wasting time and resources on a training program that isn’t effective and never even know it Best Practices for Intercultural Competence Training and Assessment Up to this point,...

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... guide organizational change efforts, (c) what psychological laws of behavioral change can be taken from social, clinical, and health psychology and applied to organizational change efforts, and ... commitment, intention to stay, and discretionary effort) included the link between work and organizational strategy, supervisor effectiveness, and communication practices In my own analysis of ... norms, rituals, and bureaucratic practices The GLOBE study suggests that Eastern European and Middle Eastern societies are similar to each other, but nearly opposite from the Germanic and Nordic societies,...

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... relationships and psychological contracts Academy of Management Review, 27 , 373–391 CHAPTER 13 Work and Family in a Global Context Tammy D Allen, Kristen M Shockley, and Andrew Biga Introduction Work and ... 2006) Flextime was first introduced within a West German aerospace firm in 1967 (Avery & Zabel, 2001) and was rapidly adopted by firms in Switzerland, France, and Scandinavia The first British experiment ... FWA and work-family conflict (WFC), Allen and Shockley (2009) found mixed support for a relationship between work-family conflict and FWA Although there is a robust relationship between FWA and organizational...

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... 123–124; creating multiple rounds to zero on right candidates from, 128–129; differentiating by creating organizational brand, 124–126; global landscape and changing demographics of, 211–214; leveraging ... confidence Organizational culture: clash between local and, 11–12; conflict between national and, 10–11; elements contributing to, 181t –182 See also Cultural differences Organizational size, 131–133 Organizational ... California “The time has long past when we, in organizational psychology, can confine our research and practice to North American settings This book is timely and will provide an important resource for...

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... hierarchy and unequal status— executive lunch rooms and parking spaces, high- and low-status offices; • encourage participatory management; • get into the trenches with frontline employees and encourage ... same; • give people practice in collaborative work between functions by attacking projects and problems through cross-functional teams; and • help people see the “why” of change, and work with them ... respect for employees and it regularly • Delegate, and don’t micromanage • Extend trust If you are dissatisfied with the result, identify the cause and work on it • Be flexible, and demonstrate that...

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... achieve greater competitiveness and prosperity tomorrow Thousands of middle managers and employees were laid off and the company’s union was asked to forego pay and benefit increases Because the ... Implementation Plan While a vision may guide and inspire team members during the change process, an organization also needs a nuts -and- bolts plan for what to do, and when and how to it.This plan should map ... successes, and communicate relentlessly Enlist the Support and Involvement of Key People Your implementation will go more smoothly if it has the backing and involvement of key people and not just...

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... of leadership 5 Social and Human Factors Reactions to Change Key Topics Covered in This Chapter • The rank and file, and how they respond to change • • Change resisters, and how to deal with them ... their daytime sleeping areas and the streams, fields, and meadows where they look for food and water after dark.They stick to those paths as long as they are safe and offer few impediments to ... Chances are that Social and Human Factors 71 you have routines at work as well Like the woodland deer, people follow trails that are familiar, comfortable, safe, and satisfying And they aren’t eager...

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