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Schoolchildren of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact and Opportunities
Preface : Enormous efforts and funds have been spent to increase diversity in higher education in places like the United Kingdom. However, the impact of these efforts could be greater. One avenue to enhance impact is being more careful in how activities are designed, drawing on a Theory of Change (ToC) and evaluating their impact. The idea behind this book was initially to help build a common lexicon and understanding of ToC as an approach to the evaluation of access and widening participation (WP) problems in higher education (HE). We knew that evaluation had grown in significance in English HE since the early 2010s. A weakness of prior national infrastructure has been the temptation to ‘do’ the intervention first, retrospectively monitor its progress, establish target and speak in some way about its impact. This had been characteristic of Aimhigher, a national, regional and sub-regional WP initiative which struggled in debates around its purpose and success by failing to coherently evidence its effectiveness. As Doyle and Griffin (2012) show in their analysis of evaluations of Aimhigher's work, the late establishment of targets and difficulties accessing and monitoring data sets cumulatively meant that Aimhigher had difficulty proving the extent to which it had ‘widened participation and contributed to improvements in social justice’ (Doyle & Griffin, 2012, pp. 81–82). Ultimately leading to Aimhigher's swift closure in 2010, as part of the government's rapid austerity measures (BBC News, 2010).
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Moving Spaces and Places
Abstract : The first chapter of this book has already introduced smart city concepts and definitions; the second part will further explain deeper how smart city comes into being and the frameworks that surround it. Firstly, history of city and smart city gives a detailed analogical insight on the transformation from city into smart one. The rate at which the transformation process is implemented depended mostly on how the citizens of the city understand the implementation of digitalisation concepts through the use of appropriate technologies into running and developing a city. Secondly, there are also further definitions on the subject especially as they related to the construction industry. Characteristics of smart cities are also discussed along with features that can really make a city smart. In conclusion, the chapter is well introduced and provisions were also made at the end in terms of bibliographies that will help in further understanding of the smart city concepts beings introduced.
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Public Value Co-Creation
Introduction : There was an old joke that when you asked someone at the front desk of a nationally owned hotel chain where the HR department was located the reply, with a weak chuckle attached, was: “Look for the dumpster, it's right there!”. The problem was that it was not a joke. It was just the status of HR in that industry. We were present at a retirement party for a V.P. of HR at a large media company on the West Coast of Florida. The CEO thanked her for her good work and joked that HR was known for its ability to take a three-page memo and turn it into a thirty-page document. Everyone laughed except the V.P. who gave an imitation of the face of the Peanuts' character Charlie Brown, as she struggled to smile. When we analyzed the job descriptions of the HR staff at a manufacturing company, we found that 80% of the time staff dealt with transactional items such as vacation schedules, schedules for annual physicals for managers, staff turn-over rates, and arrangements for the company picnic. They also became the “passers on” of critical information along with directions as to whom to contact for the “real” answers. For instance, if you had a question regarding the “Americans with Disabilities Act,” they would tell you which department to contact. Other activities carried out during 20% of the time that remained were undocumented.
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ICT and Innovation in Teaching Learning Methods in Higher Education
Abstract : The hospitality industry in Jordan has experienced a steady increase of disasters these past few decades (Rindrasih, Witte, Spit, & Zoomers, 2019) thus increasing the importance of disaster management (Kankanamge, Yigitcanlar, & Goonetilleke, 2020; Kumar, Valeri, & Shekhar, 2021; Santos, Ramos, Sousa, Almeida, & Valeri, 2021a; Santos, Sousa, Ramos, & Valeri, 2021b; Toanoglou, Chemli, & Valeri, 2021). Key players in the hospitality organizations have increased their efforts to look for viable solutions to address unexpected events (Rosselló, Becken, & Santana-Gallego, 2020) with the potential to threaten the operational survival of many organizations in the hospitality industry (Chemli, Toanoglou, & Valeri, 2020; Mitroff, 2004; Motta & Sharma, 2020). These unwelcomed events are potential threats for both the private and public sectors (Beirman, 2020; Prideaux, 2004; Ritchie, 2009). The most effective way to resolve disasters, according to Kash and Darling (1998), lies in evaluating the present level of disaster planning and preparedness in the hospitality industry and examining the relationship between disaster planning activities, disaster preparedness and organizational characteristics such as type, size and age (Ahmad, Jamaludin, Zuraimi, & Valeri, 2020; Hosie & Pforr, 2009; Severin, Lyons, & Weber, 2019; Valeri & Katsoni, 2021).
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Changing the Conventional University Classroom
Abstract : Persons from socioeconomically disadvantaged and minority group backgrounds have increased risk for developing both acute and chronic health conditions. Kidney disease is a prominent example. Diabetes and hypertension are chronic conditions with high prevalence among disadvantaged and minority persons, and these conditions are in turn closely associated with the development of both acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). AKI is an abrupt decline in kidney function that typically requires patients to be supported by renal replacement therapy (RRT) in a critical care setting. CKD is defined by laboratory measured levels of kidney function damage and reduction. In advanced stages CKD may progress to kidney failure, and patient survival then depends on undergoing chronic dialysis treatment or receiving a successful kidney transplant.
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Clean Language Interviewing
Abstract : Crises are often studied in international business (IB) research as the external “context” for business strategies, but firms can also be active participants in the unfolding of crises. The study of crises in IB could benefit greatly from studying the role of multinational enterprises (MNEs) as active participants, rather than as mere passive actors, responding to exogenous events. History shows that IB crises typically unfold partially as exogenous processes, and partly as the result of MNE strategies. A multilevel and longitudinal approach to studying crises in IB is clearly necessary. This chapter considers the extent to which smaller events that preceded the present crisis – since 1989 – point to systemic problems in global governance. It also defines five overlapping lenses through which future IB studies can further create relevant insights on how to deal with crises: historic, macro, meso, micro and exogenous. The chapter finally serves as an introduction to the whole Progress in International Business Research volume by indicating the relevance of all parts and chapters that follow.
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Human Dignity
Abstract : Public administration has always been at the forefront of promoting sound and ethical values in society. The myriad of events that are shaping our world, such as global warming, deforestation, poverty and economic instability, calls for a shift from government to governance. This change demands a collaborative type of governance on the quest to implement sustainability. Collaborative governance can be initiated by its workforce, who are the individuals closest to the structures of public administration and can act as agents of change in this mission. Thus, personnel need to be equipped with the required knowledge, attitudes and skills, about and for, sustainable development. This can be addressed through education for sustainable development (ESD), a lifelong tool which requires adaption to national requirements, but most importantly to societal needs.
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Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Quality Education
Preface : The Handbook consists of 27 chapters grouped under five thematic parts. Each part is assigned carefully a theme to offer a glimpse of both theoretical and practical dimensions of luxury management in tourism and hospitality. Part 1, ‘Conceptualizing Luxury’, attempts to examine the concept of luxury from various standpoints in order to create a foundation for the Handbook so as to establish the multi-disciplinarity of luxury. Part 2, ‘Managing and Marketing Luxury Experiences’, addresses the multidimensionality of marketing and managing luxury tourism, enabling the readers to appreciate the finer nuances of luxury experience creation and management. Part 3, ‘Technology and other contemporary facets in Luxury’, introduces that technological dimension to experience creation in luxury tourism and hospitality. Part 4, ‘Sustaining Luxury’, examines luxury tourism from a sustainable and ethical viewpoint, highlighting a shift among luxury consumers towards a more responsible luxury consumption. Part 5, ‘Luxury in a post-pandemic world’, attempts to give a glimpse of changes that the luxury tourism industry is witnessing since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Braver Leaders in Action
Preface : Life consists of change. Change of seasons. Change of locations. Change of roles and responsibilities. Change can be minimal or significant; predictable and expected, or unpredictable and surprising. Life changes often involve a shift from one status, position, or identity to another. Changes associated with developmental or chronological markers, such as entering and leaving formal schooling, and entry into or exit from the workplace, have often been referred to as transitions (Strnadová & Cumming, 2016). According to Baker and Irwin (2019), “… the word ‘transition’ is commonly used to signify movements made—which are often ritualized—as people ‘transfer’ into and out of different stages and domains in their life courses” (p. 4). Typically, transitions are envisioned as linear sequences that incorporate a socially and culturally constructed conceptualization of both the process, that is how one should navigate the transition, and the acceptable or prescribed outcomes, or what is expected to be achieved. When a person develops and demonstrates the skills or assumes the roles and responsibilities that are expected by society, the transition is considered to be successful.
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The Economics of COVID-19
Preface : Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL), a double-blind peer-reviewed journal published annually since 2004, attempts to promote seminal and innovative research outputs pertaining to hospitality, leisure, tourism, and lifestyle. Specifically, this journal encourages researchers to investigate new research issues and problems that are critical but have been largely ignored while providing a forum that will disseminate singular thoughts advancing empirical undertakings both theoretically and methodologically.
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