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"Various styles of leadership have the potential for positive and negative influence on employees and organization. The monograph offers a new approach and proposes the systematic analysis of negative leadership traits and behaviors through the broadening of existing approaches (based on employees' orientation and organizational orientation) by analyzing them together with a third dimension: leader's traits, which will allow us to analyze the intent of the leader. Based on this approach, the monograph introduces the term: fake leadership, characterized by an emphasis on individual goals of the leader (regardless of their importance for the organization) coupled with intentional anti-employees and anti-organizational behaviours. Such leaders operate with intent to engage in negative behaviors towards employees and organization, simultaneously aiming at hiding such intent. The monograph introduces and empirically verifies various models explaining the mechanisms, through which fake leadership negatively influences job performance of employees and organizational reliability based on intraorganizational trust and positive job-related attitudes (work motivation, job satisfaction, work engagement, organizational commitment), as well as negative job-related attitudes (work disengagement, job dissatisfaction, work demotivation), tend to hide errors, which is coupled with the number of management and employees' errors. These models reference the concept of authentic leadership, which is chosen as a positive alternative to the described fake leadership"--

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Synopsis -- chapter one: Introduction - scene setting and background -- The personal perspective -- Work, we underestimate its importance -- Work, let's hope we enjoy it! -- Work, it is all about the money! But not as we know it -- The depressing truth -- The nature of work -- The self-delusion -- The result -- The corporate perspective -- It is all change, change, change -- What does this all mean? -- How to get the most from this book -- chapter two: The changing world in numbers and data -- Urbanization and the rise of the East -- Technology -- Demography -- Globalization and Interconnectedness -- Climate -- Politics -- chapter three: The megatrends playing out in the world today -- Hit for six -- Urbanization and the rise of the East -- The centre of the world - economically at least -- The streets are paved with gold -- Technology -- To the moon and back -- It is not just about the numbers -- Platforms supercharge the possibilities -- Demography -- Potentially peaked… -- The real problem -- Globalization and Interconnectedness -- We are all connected now -- External events catch us unaware -- Climate -- The brutal reality -- The impact -- Surely COVID-19 helped? -- The current impact -- Politics -- The culmination of everything that has gone before -- The new norm…? -- Age, the new political battleground -- chapter four: What does this mean for business? -- Part 1: The impact on our business strategy -- The continuation of interconnectedness - it started years ago -- Interconnectedness now becomes political -- What does this all mean? -- You just won't see it coming -- Focus and Size -- Just say 'no' -- Focus, focus, focus -- Core v. chore -- Part 2: The impact on our workforce -- The rise of specialists -- Holistic workforces -- The rise of the holistic organization.

"Water, soil, plants, and animals are the main pillars that support global food security. Plants grow using nutrients from water and soil resources and then used by animals which affects them consequently. Water is the essential condition of life for all living beings, and soil is its support and a crucial reservoir. The interactions between the Water-Soil-Plant-Animal nexus and climate change are of increasing concern to scholars, decision-makers, and researchers. The impacts of climate change on these resources include water and soil quality degradation, infectious disease, shortage, desertification, and erosion. These impacts are accelerated due to human pressure through over-use and pollution.Water-Soil-Plant-Animal Nexus in the Era of Climate Change includes relevant theoretical approaches, empirical research, and bibliometric and bibliographic methods to bring together affordable methods and techniques to optimize the use of the nexus in the context of climate change. It presents an inventory of techniques and practices in the field, and introduces an opportunity to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these techniques, making it ideal for scholars, researchers, planners, and decision-makers."--

"In the face of escalating environmental degradation and dwindling natural resources, the imperative for sustainable production and consumption has taken center stage, compelling companies and consumers alike to seek a more sustainable path forward. Sustainable consumption and production entail the utilization of goods and services that strive to minimize detrimental impacts on the environment. This involves reducing the utilization of natural resources, toxic substances, and polluting emissions, all while ensuring the satisfaction of future generations' needs.Sustainable Consumption Experience and Business Models in the Modern World explores the crucial interplay between sustainability, businesses, and consumers. From a business standpoint, the pressing concerns surrounding sustainability drive the emergence of innovative sustainable products, services, and business models. Simultaneously, conscientious consumers increasingly gravitate towards sustainable alternatives, embracing the purchase of eco-friendly products and services, engaging in product exchanges, do-it-yourself initiatives, acquiring second-hand items, and participating in the sharing economy. Designed for professionals, students, and researchers in the field of sustainable marketing, this book covers a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to sustainability, sustainable marketing, green products, second-hand goods, and consumer behavior."--

"The objective of this book is to study the important social, cultural, and political factors that affect the living conditions of the people in their societies. This study can provide the decision-makers with solutions to the problems that may face their societies and destabilize their structure"--

1 Bordering Genders, Genres, Genera: An Introduction Claudia Capancioni, Mariaconcetta Costantini, and Mara Mattoscio -- 2 Biometric Technologies, Gendered Subjectivities, and Artistic Resistance C.L. Quinan -- 3 'My tongue doesn't believe in boundaries': A®tivism Across the US/Mexico Border Lorena Carbonara and Dora Renna -- 4 Migrant Women's Documentary Filmmaking: Shifting Positionalities and Precarious Creativity in the Experience of Five Latin American Directors Dalila Missero -- 5 'I've always thought that we are living on the cowhide': Chen Li's Edge as Method and Border-Queering in The Edge of the Island Li-hsin Hsu -- 6 Crossing the Borders of Genders and Genres: Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater as a World-Making Narrative of Identity Reaffirmation Alessandra Di Pietro -- 7 Mobility, Belonging and the Utopia of a Borderless World: A Spatial and Identitarian Reading of Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers Mariaconcetta Costantini -- 8 'Violent Conclusions' versus 'Hopeful Returns': Zadie Smith's The Embassy of Cambodia and the Performative Border-Crossing of the Narrative Voice Mara Mattoscio -- 9 Morphing Forms: Metamorphosis in Twenty-First Century British Women's Experimental Short Fiction Helen Cousins -- 10 'This particular art [is] all about walls': Nomadic Poetics of Identity in Ali Smith's How to be both Claudia Capancioni -- 11 Oblique Emotions and Border Intimacies in Dionne Brand's Theory Libe García Zarranz 12 An Unresolved Crossing: David Foster Wallace's 'Oblivion' Adriano Ardovino and Pia Masiero -- 13 Crossing Gender: Andy Warhol's Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve Marie Mulvey-Roberts -- 14 Genders, GYnealogies, GYne(co)alogies of Decolonial Geo-thalasso-corpographies: A Theoretical Reflection on Interconnectedness in Gender Configurations Paola Zaccaria -- 15 Spivak and Sontag: Deconstructing Borders Through a Philosophical Appraisal of Literature Chiara Scarlato.

1. Introduction -- 2. Zhejiang all-female Yueju, from textile factory to creative cluster -- 3. Xi'an Qinqiang, 'creative destruction' for new urban branding -- 4. Suzhou Kunqu, conspicuous consumption for the new scholar middle class -- 5. Dongbei Errenzhuan, the rise and fall of a Chinese entertainment industry -- 6. Fujian Gaojiaxi, global illegal migrants' opera consumption -- 7. Shanghai Huju, Opera Village verses Disneyland, the power of the tradition -- 8. Conclusion.

T his book critically explores how and to what extent artificial intelligence (AI) can infringe human rights and/or lead to socially harmful consequences and how to avoid these. The European Union has outlined how it will use big data, machine learning, and AI to tackle a number of inherently social problems, including poverty, climate change, social inequality and criminality. The contributors of this book argue that the developments in AI must take place in an appropriate legal and ethical framework and they make recommendations to ensure that harm and human rights violations are avoided. The book is split into two parts: the first addresses human rights violations and harms that may occur in relation to AI in different domains (e.g. border control, surveillance, facial recognition) and the second part offers recommendations to address these issues. It draws on interdisciplinary research and speaks to policy-makers and criminologists, sociologists, scholars in STS studies, security studies scholars and legal scholars

Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: Categorizing Colors -- Chapter 2: Categorizing the Rainbow. Chapter 3: Categorizing Colors by Name -- Chapter 4: Categorizing Colors by Criteria -- Chapter 5: Categorizing Colors by Environment and Senses -- Part II: Categorizing Colors by Environment and Senses -- Chapter 5: Categorizing Food by Color -- Chapter 7: Categorizing Identities by Color -- Chapter 8: Categorizing People by Color -- Chapter 9: Conclusion—A Past that Ranks Colors and Refuses to Mix and a Colorful Future.

Humor and Politics: A Conceptual Introduction -- Founding Contradictions, Contemporary Expressions: Political Humor in American Culture -- Humorous Genres and Modes in Greek Political Discourse -- British Phlegm and Individualism in Humorous Political Advertising -- 'Kapwa' and Filipinos' Fixation with Presidential Jokes. .

The content of this factsheet summarizes the results and content of the background paper on the project "Tipping points and cascading tipping dynamics in the climate system - findings, risks and relevance for climate and security policy" (FKZ 37A23 01 001 0). - This factsheet summarizes the results and content of the background paper on the project "Tipping points and cascading tipping dynamics in the climate system - findings, risks and relevance for climate and security policy". It thus offers a compact overview of all relevant aspects of tipping elements, tipping points and possible cascading effects that need to be taken into account when discussing and designing national, European and international climate policy.

Introduction: The state of ethnicity and race in communication / Bernadette Marie Calafell & Shinsuke Eguchi -- Theme 1. Representations that Matter -- Theme 2. Racial, Queer, and Trans* Worldmaking -- Theme 3. New Possibilities and Frontiers -- Theme 4. Theorizing Voices and Experiences -- Theme 5. The Body and the Politics of "Health" -- Theme 6. Revisiting the Landscape of Communication Studies.

Introduction : Competence and socialization in medical and healthcare interactions / Sara Keel -- When neurologists solicit patients' treatment preferences : The relevance of talk as action for understanding why shared decision-making is so limited in practice / Merran Toerien -- Working out interprofessional collaboration : Flight nurses' practical management of prehospital emergency care / Nozomi Ikeya, Shintaro Matsunaga, Tatsuya Akutsu, Seiichi Takahashi and Hiroko Nakazawa -- Senior staff member walks ahead, nursing intern follows : Mobility practices in hospital corridors / Esther González-Martínez -- Asking questions in the operating room / Lorenza Mondada -- Monitoring, coordinating, and correcting professional conduct : Soliciting absent requests during surgery / Mikaela Åberg and Jonas Ivarsson -- Teaching and learning how to identify an audible order in traffic : Street-crossing instructional sequences for the visually impaired / Marc Relieu -- Instructing and socializing patients with aphasia to gaze at the therapist's mouth to produce speech sounds in language therapy / Sara Merlino -- How to use a mobile app at home : Learning-by-doing introductions in -- physiotherapy consultations / Sara Keel, Anja Schmid and Fabienne Keller -- Socialization and accountability : Instructional responses to peer feedback in healthcare simulation debriefing / Elin Nordenström, Gustav Lymer and Oskar Lindwall.