Students in this course will learn organizational best practices to implement diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace. Students will evaluate laws and policies that apply to diversity and inclusion. Students will also build cultural competencies to foster employee recruitment, motivation, satisfaction, and retention. Additionally, students will analyze the leadership skills…
Like all the books in this series, this volume proposes wide-ranging reflections and cultural considerations pertinent to business management. Traditionally, realism is identified with a disenchanted approach to reality which is counterpoised to all forms of ideology or utopia. What is proposed here is a strategic realism which supports a humanist approach to enterprise, while steering clear of…
Examines intercultural communication, including cultural patterns, verbal and nonverbal communication codes and their practical application in today's diverse society. Chapter 1 - Foundations of Culture Chapter 2 - Understanding Cultural Identity Chapter 3 - Social Construction of Cultural Identity Chapter 4 - Cultural Biases Chapter 5 - Taxonomies of Cultural Patterns Chapter 6 - Under…
This course is designed to teach the basics of creating games for educational
Literature, Pedagogy/Teaching, Education, Organisations and Institutions, General, Society, Culture and Education, Higher Education
Learning is active in nature. It is something you do, not something that is done to you. Engineering educators around the world recognize this basic truth and implement one or another form of active learning to enhance their teaching. Active learning in Engineering (ALE) was started as an initiative from the Polytechnic in Nantes, France and the University the Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. The…
During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe’s avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political borders there existed a constant flow of artists, artworks, artistic ideas and practices. The geographic borders of these exchanges have yet to be clearly defined. How were networks, centers, peripheries, scales, and distance…
This book proposes theoretical reflections, tools and techniques for a business ethic that aims at the construction of social welfare. A correct connotation of business ethics is seen in its role of interface between the ontology of the "enterprise phenomenon" and the social ethics of its operation. The book upholds the theory that business development can be such only if it leads to the emanci…
In this chapter I examine how Archibald Constable’s Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804–17) became a medium for the promotion of key medical initiatives in early nineteenth-century Edinburgh, including the campaign for the Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum, but also other medico- philanthropic endeavours directed towards improving health in Scotland.
Online textbook to accompany CMDI 1105 Creating Games.