Max von Laue - Jost Lemmerich - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Values at Work - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Sustainable investing is a rapidly growing and evolving field. With investors expressing ever greater interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics and reporting, companies face a sustainability imperative and the need to remake their business models to respond to an array of pressing issues including climate change, air and water pollution, racial justice, workplace diversity, economic inequality, privacy, corporate integrity, and good governance. From equities to fixed income and from private equity to impact-investing, investors of all kinds now want to understand which companies will be marketplace leaders in a business future redefined by sustainability. Thus, investment strategies, risk models, financial vehicles, applications, data, metrics, standards, and regulations are all changing rapidly around the world. In an effort to better understand the current status and movement of this dynamic field and to provide a practical reference for the growing pool of investors, financial advisors, companies, and academics seeking information on sustainable investing and ESG reporting, this edited book covers the latest trends, tools, and thinking. It showcases the work of authors from leading companies and academic institutions across a range of vital topics such as financial disclosure, portfolio assessment, ESG metrics construction, and law as well as regulation. Readers of the book will be better able to identify and address the hurdles to moving mainstream capital toward more sustainable companies, investments, and projects.

Feedback at Work - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

This book delivers an evidence-based summary of best practices in providing and utilizing feedback in organizational settings. Bringing together a range of renowned experts, the chapters in this book discuss the current state of feedback theory and research, as well as practical recommendations for using the evidence to improve feedback processes in organizations. This book is intended for scholars and managers, but anyone on the giving or receiving end of feedback will benefit from a better understanding of the process. The chapters in this volume take the reader deep into the current literature, set a research agenda for the future, and provide key take-aways to enhance intentionality in the feedback process.

Power and Class in Political Fiction - David Smit - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

This book introduces Elite Theory to the literary study of class as a framework for addressing issues of the nature of governance in political fiction. The book describes the historical development and major tenets of Elite Theory, and shows how each of four post-war Washington novels-Gore Vidal''s Washington, D.C.; Allen Drury''s Advise and Consent ; Joan Didion''s Democracy ; and Ward Just''s Echo House -illustrates the way class-based political elites exhibit forms of "ruling-class consciousness" and maintain their legitimacy in an ostensibly democratic form of government by promoting themselves as models of behavior, promulgating an ideology that justifies their rule through their control of the media, and accepting new members from the lower classes. Reading these novels through a socio-political lens, David Smit offers suggestions for ways to work for a more just and equitable society in light of what this analysis reveals about the "culture" that produces our political elites.

Power and Class in Political Fiction - David Smit - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

This book introduces Elite Theory to the literary study of class as a framework for addressing issues of the nature of governance in political fiction. The book describes the historical development and major tenets of Elite Theory, and shows how each of four post-war Washington novels-Gore Vidal''s Washington, D.C.; Allen Drury''s Advise and Consent ; Joan Didion''s Democracy ; and Ward Just''s Echo House -illustrates the way class-based political elites exhibit forms of "ruling-class consciousness" and maintain their legitimacy in an ostensibly democratic form of government by promoting themselves as models of behavior, promulgating an ideology that justifies their rule through their control of the media, and accepting new members from the lower classes. Reading these novels through a socio-political lens, David Smit offers suggestions for ways to work for a more just and equitable society in light of what this analysis reveals about the "culture" that produces our political elites.

Better Work - Monique Kremer - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This Open Access book provides a thorough analysis of the quality of work in the Netherlands, and suggests policy proposals to promote and facilitate good work for more people.

A New Meaning-Mission Fit - Aligning Life and Work in Business - Bog af Michelle French-Holloway - Hardback

This book offers a clear process for managers, professionals, and future leaders to help discover their personal meaning in life and apply it to their work.

Strategic Leadership in Social Work Education - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

Social work leaders constantly strive to incorporate cutting-edge research and promote international collaboration in a dynamic contemporary environment. To address these ongoing concerns, this unique book focuses specifically on strategic leadership, asking critical questions about change-making, political strategy, and the opportunities that present themselves to lead new directions in social work education. Among the topics covered: - - Disruptive agendas and research dialogues in social work education - - Diversity leadership and perspectives beyond the mainstream - - The role of international bodies in advancing social work education - Intellectual leadership and anticipating future advances in teaching strategies - Democratising social work education - - Collaborative leadership models - Strategic Leadership in Social Work Education examines the ability of social work to shape futures through education, training, and effective leadership, and suggests strategies for advancing responsible social work education in order to best meet tomorrow''s needs and aspirations.

European Social Work After 1989 - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

This book presents a unique analysis of the learning derived from East-West contacts in social work and reflects on the discipline''s inalienable trans-national dimensions, of high actuality in the face of the re-emergence of nationalisms. The fundamental transformations in Europe subsequent to the revolutions of 1989 had a profound impact on social work in terms of raising sharply the profession''s relationship with politics. The exchanges between western schools of social work and the emergent academic partner institutions in former Communist countries formed a valuable testing ground for the essential principles and competences of social work in terms of their universal scientific basis on the one hand and their regard for cultural and national values and contexts on the other. The chapters in this contributed volume focus on lessons derived from fundamental social and political transformations, highlighted by East-West encounters and intra-national divisions, and thereby have important messages for mastering impending transformations in the light of the global COVID-19 health crisis. They demonstrate how cultural and social divisions can be addressed constructively with direct implications for training and practice in dramatically changing contexts: - Lithuanian social work''s claim to professional autonomy vs. authoritarianism in popular and political culture - Social work between civil society and the state - lessons for and from Hungary in a European context - When Europe''s East, West, North and South meet: learning from cross-country collaboration in creating an international social work master programme - Nordic-Baltic cooperation in social work researcher education: A Finnish perspective on the impact on scientific, historical and linguistic similarities and differences - Intra-national similarities and differences in social work and their significance for developing European dimensions of research and education - Social work, political conflict and European society: reflections from Northern Ireland - European Social Work After 1989: East-West Exchanges Between Universal Principles and Cultural Sensitivity is an invaluable resource for social work educators; social work practitioners confronted with national and international divisions; students of social work, of social administration and policy; and any policy researcher with a comparative focus.

Poetry and Work - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

The volume questions how lines are drawn between work and non-work, how social, political, and technological upheavals transform the nature of work, how work appears or hides within poetry, and asks if poetry is work, or play, or something else completely.

Strategic Leadership in Social Work Education - Bog - Hardback

Social work leaders constantly strive to incorporate cutting-edge research and promote international collaboration in a dynamic contemporary environment. To address these ongoing concerns, this unique book focuses specifically on strategic leadership, asking critical questions about change-making, political strategy, and the opportunities that present themselves to lead new directions in social work education.Among the topics covered: Disruptive agendas and research dialogues in social work education..

Cognitive Structural Realism - A Radical Solution to the Problem of Scientific Representation - Bog af Majid Davoody Beni - Hardback

In this book, the author develops a new form of structural realism and deals with the problem of representation. The work combines two distinguished developments of the Semantic View of Theories, namely Structural Realism (SR), a flourishing theory from contemporary philosophy of science, and Ronald Giere and colleagues' Cognitive Models of Science approach (CMSA).Readers will see how replacing the model-theoretic structures that are at issue in SR with connectionist networks and activations patterns..

Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Social Work - James W. Drisko - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

The second edition of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Social Work continues to bridge the gap between social work research and clinical practice, presenting EBP as both an effective approach to social work and a broader social movement. Building on the models and insights outlined in the first edition, this new edition provides updated research and additional case studies addressing relevant issues such as trauma treatment and opioid dependence. Drawing on their multidisciplinary experience as practitioners, researchers, and educators, the authors guide readers through the steps of the EBP decision-making process in assessment, treatment planning, and evaluation. The book places special emphasis on balancing clinical expertise, research results, and client needs, and analyzes both the strengths and limitations of the EBP model in order to give readers a more complete idea of how the method will shape their own practice. In addition, this practice-building reference: - Introduces core principles of EBP and details its processes in social work - Features guidelines for engaging clients in EBP and transmitting research findings - Offers a range of case examples demonstrating EBP with diverse clients - Addresses education and supervision issues and related controversies - Includes an expanded glossary and valuable resources for use in evidence-based practice Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Social Work is a practical resource for clinical social work professionals and educators that broadens the field and expands the healing possibilities for the profession.

Exploring Islamic Social Work - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

Chapter 1. Islamic Social Work - An Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Maqāṣid-cum-maṣlaḥa Approach as Theological Basis of Islamic Social Work. A Critical Analysis and an Alternative Proposal.- Chapter 3. Islamic Social Ethics, Social Work and the Common Good: Learning from the European Context.- Chapter 4. Social Work through the Prism of the Religious Facts. Islam in Questions.- Chapter 5. Islamic Social Work. A Potential Response to Marginalisation.- Chapter 6. Human Dignity, Common Good and Social Welfare: Towards an Islamic Relational Social Ethics.- Chapter 7. Family Counselling as a Field of Islamic Social Work.- Chapter 8. Helping the Muslims or Contributing to Society? Insight into the Paradoxes of Islamic Social Work through Concrete Cases linked to Social Exclusion.- Chapter 9. The Religious Community. A Space that Facilitates Successful Resettlement for Muslim Offenders.- Chapter 10. Facing Radicalisation: Islamic Counter-Speech and Social Work.- Chapter 11. Social Work and Counter-Radicalisation. A Critical Reflection.- Chapter 12. Islamic Practical Theology: A Socio-ethical and Interdisciplinary Approach.- Chapter 13. "Epistemic Weight" of Praxis in the Production and Teaching of New Knowledge in Islamic Practical Theology.

Narratives of Social Work Practice and Education in Sweden - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Booktok.dk

This book brings a novel approach to issues of connecting social work practice to theory and the personal life narrative. The authors each find their own unique way of integrating the self, theory, and practice, in different social work practice and education settings. Contributors use the methodology of narrative to tell their story about their social work journey, be that in research, teaching, or practice. The backdrop for this book is Sweden. The country''s rich heritage of welfare provision but also recent cultural diversity offers a unique Nordic context to the subject matter. The contributors engage with these new conditions for Swedish social work through an intersectional lens. Topics explored include: - Digging in the present: A day in the life of a school counsellor - We live in a political world: Between needs and money - The problematic labour market situation of immigrants to Sweden: Consequences and causes - Tackling the contradictory nature of social work - Using anti-oppressive practice to promote social inclusion in social work education The result is a book that is personal and reflexive, and positions the contributors'' narratives as a window to understand and address social problems. Narratives of Social Work Practice and Education in Sweden should engage those interested in the Swedish welfare state, and who want to learn about how social work is taught and practised in this country. Intended to be a general introduction, the book provides guidance to those considering working in the field and for those newly qualified. It also provides examples for students of social work to connect personal narratives to social work settings.