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Integrating User-Centred Design in Agile Development
by Gilbert Cockton Marta Lárusdóttir Peggy Gregory Åsa CajanderThis book examines the possibilities of incorporating elements of user-centred design (UCD) such as user experience (UX) and usability with agile software development. It explores the difficulties and problems inherent in integrating these two practices despite their relative similarities, such as their emphasis on stakeholder collaboration. Developed from a workshop held at NordiCHI in 2014, this edited volume brings together researchers from across the software development, UCD and creative design fields to discuss the current state-of-the-art. Practical case studies of integrating UCD in Agile development across diverse contexts are presented, whilst the different futures for UCD and other design practices in the context of agile software development are identified and explored. Integrating User Centred Design in Agile Development will be ideal for researchers, designers and academics who are interested in software development, user-centred design, agile methodologies and related areas.
Integrating Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Research: A Unified Typology of Capitalisms (Work and Welfare in Europe)
by Martin SchröderThis book combines the two most important typologies of capitalist diversity; Esping-Andersen's welfare regime typology and Hall and Soskice's 'Varieties of Capitalism' typology, into a unified typology of capitalist diversity. The author shows empirically that certain welfare states bundle together with certain production systems.
Integration and Inequality in Educational Institutions
by Michael WindzioThis volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of students affect educational performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes. It discusses the manner in which educational institutions accomplish social integration. It poses the question of whether they can reduce social inequality, - or whether they even facilitate the transformation of heterogeneity into social inequality. Divided into five parts, the volume offers new insights into the many factors, processes and policies that affect performance levels and social inequality in educational institutions. It presents current empirical work on social processes in educational institutions and their outcomes. While its main focus is on the primary and secondary level of education and on occupational training, the book also presents analyses of institutional effects on transitions from vocational training into tertiary educational institutions in an interdisciplinary and internationally comparative approach.
Integration and Peace in East Africa: A History of the Oromo Nation
by Tsega EtefaThis book analyzes the development of indigenous religious, commercial, and political institutions among the Oromo mainly during the relatively peaceful two centuries in its history, from 1704 to 1882. The largest ethnic group in East Africa, the Oromo promoted peace, cultural assimilation, and ethnic integration.
Integration im Sozialraum: Theoretische Konzepte und empirische Bewertungen
by Anne Van Rießen Katja Jepkens Lisa ScholtenIn dem Band werden die Zusammenhänge von Sozialraum, Migration und Integration systematisch aus theoretischen und empirischen Perspektiven in ihren Interdependenzen beschrieben. Fluchtmigration und Integration werden im Kontext sozialräumlicher Ansätze analysiert, erforderliche Theorie-Praxis-Transfers reflektiert und theoretische Konzepte durch empirische Studien begründet. Die sozialräumliche Perspektive fokussiert hierbei die relevanten Handlungsfelder der Integration: Kommunale Integrationspolitiken, Unterbringung und Wohnen, Bildung, Erwerbsarbeit und Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement.
Integration of Core Sustainable Development Goals in Rural Areas: Current Practices of Water, Energy, Food, Climate Change, and Ecosystems (Earth and Environmental Sciences Library)
by Abdelazim M. Negm Zeina ElZeinThis book addresses the application of the water, energy and food nexus in the MENA Region. It highlights the technologies and solutions to support the sustainable development of rural areas in the region. The first part provides an introduction and an overview of water, energy food, climate change, and ecosystem interactions within the framework of sustainable development goals. The editors present a brief overview and highlights of the book themes and chapters. The second part discusses current State and Security of the WEF Nexus in the MENA Region, addresses the role of water, energy and food nexus in sustainable development through reviewing case studies in the MENA Region that have followed an integrated nexus approach. The third part focuses on the integration within the Nexus for Rural Development, includes three chapters. It discusses analysis and assessment of the nexus through a quantitative index approach to consider the efficiency and security of resources; addresses territorial climate planning in water-scarce areas, focusing on the Souss Massa Region in Morocco; and discusses the Algerian food system and future scenarios through the lens of food and water challenges. The fourth part addresses the WEF Nexus and sustainable development solutions and technologies; exploration of an adaptation model for food security and water resources, water-agricultural management practices; standardized hydraulic incident index to analyze hydraulic incidents and their impact on energy; integrated management of natural resources in Egypt through the WEF nexus approach; and ICT tools as a facilitator for collaborative governance of water resources in Mediterranean agriculture. The fifth chapter focuses on sediment management in the context of climate change for the Fertile Crescent and Southwest Asia, and the Nile River. It also addresses haloculture as a climate change adaptation and mitigation solution, that supports food security. Finally, the book presents key updates, conclusions and recommendations from the book chapters. The book is useful to researchers, professionals, practitioners, post-graduates and undergraduates who are interested in the field of sustainable development and water, energy and food interaction.
Integration von religiöser Vielfalt durch Religion?: Der Einfluss und Stellenwert religiöser Orientierungen bei der Wahrnehmung von religiöser Vielfalt und Muslimen (Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie)
by Nils FriedrichsDas Buch untersucht die Strukturen hinter den Einstellungen zu religiöser Vielfalt und zu Muslimen in Deutschland und geht der Frage nach, wie Religiosität diese Einstellungen beeinflusst. Es zeigt sich, dass Toleranz als eigenständige Haltung lediglich existiert, wenn es um Religionsvielfalt im Allgemeinen geht, nicht jedoch in Bezug auf Muslime. Religiosität wirkt dabei äußerst ambivalent. Hochreligiöse neigen zur Betonung des Wahrheitsanspruchs ihrer Religion, Atheisten sind tendenziell religionskritisch, weshalb beide Gruppen Muslime und religiöse Vielfalt eher negativ bewerten. Ist die Religiosität nicht dogmatisch, sind andere Faktoren wie z. B. Deprivation, politische Einstellungen oder Intergruppenkontakt wichtiger.
Integration vs. Autonomy: Civil-military Relations on the Kola Peninsula (Routledge Revivals)
by Geir Hønneland Anne-Kristin JørgensenPublished in 1999. On the basis of leading theoretical work on civil-military relations, the authors elaborate their own model, emphasising the continuum between military autonomy (which has traditionally characterised the military sector in Russia) and integration with civil society (which one might expect would be the result of the political changes having taken place in Russia over the past decade). Three Indicators of this relation are selected; the participation of military personnel in civilian life, and it particular politics; the status of closed cities; conversation of military industry to civilian production. These indicators are investigated at the federal level and at the regional level pertaining to Murmansk oblast’ (the Kola Peninsula), which is one the most heavily militarised areas of the world. The study is based on intensive ‘on-the-spot’ data gathering in Murmansk, including interviews with officers, redundant officers and inhabitants of such closed cities.
Integrations: The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education (History and Philosophy of Education Series)
by Lawrence Blum Zoë BurkholderThe promise of a free, high-quality public education is supposed to guarantee every child a shot at the American dream. But our widely segregated schools mean that many children of color do not have access to educational opportunities equal to those of their white peers. In Integrations, historian Zoë Burkholder and philosopher Lawrence Blum investigate what this country’s long history of school segregation means for achieving just and equitable educational opportunities in the United States. Integrations focuses on multiple marginalized groups in American schooling: African Americans, Native Americans, Latinxs, and Asian Americans. The authors show that in order to grapple with integration in a meaningful way, we must think of integration in the plural, both in its multiple histories and in the many possible definitions of and courses of action for integration. Ultimately, the authors show, integration cannot guarantee educational equality and justice, but it is an essential component of civic education that prepares students for life in our multiracial democracy.
Integrations: The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education (History and Philosophy of Education Series)
by Lawrence Blum Zoë BurkholderThe promise of a free, high-quality public education is supposed to guarantee every child a shot at the American dream. But our widely segregated schools mean that many children of color do not have access to educational opportunities equal to those of their white peers. In Integrations, historian Zoë Burkholder and philosopher Lawrence Blum investigate what this country’s long history of school segregation means for achieving just and equitable educational opportunities in the United States. Integrations focuses on multiple marginalized groups in American schooling: African Americans, Native Americans, Latinxs, and Asian Americans. The authors show that in order to grapple with integration in a meaningful way, we must think of integration in the plural, both in its multiple histories and in the many possible definitions of and courses of action for integration. Ultimately, the authors show, integration cannot guarantee educational equality and justice, but it is an essential component of civic education that prepares students for life in our multiracial democracy.
Integrations: The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education (History and Philosophy of Education Series)
by Lawrence Blum Zoë BurkholderThe promise of a free, high-quality public education is supposed to guarantee every child a shot at the American dream. But our widely segregated schools mean that many children of color do not have access to educational opportunities equal to those of their white peers. In Integrations, historian Zoë Burkholder and philosopher Lawrence Blum investigate what this country’s long history of school segregation means for achieving just and equitable educational opportunities in the United States. Integrations focuses on multiple marginalized groups in American schooling: African Americans, Native Americans, Latinxs, and Asian Americans. The authors show that in order to grapple with integration in a meaningful way, we must think of integration in the plural, both in its multiple histories and in the many possible definitions of and courses of action for integration. Ultimately, the authors show, integration cannot guarantee educational equality and justice, but it is an essential component of civic education that prepares students for life in our multiracial democracy.
Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposome Research: Epistemological and Practical Issues
by Élodie Giroux Francesca Merlin Yohan FayetResearch on the relationship between health and the environment in a postgenomic context is increasingly aimed at understanding the various exposures as a whole, simultaneously taking into account data pertaining to the biology of organisms and the physical and social environment. Exposome research is a paradigmatic case of this new trend in environmental health studies. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach focusing on the conceptual, epistemological, and sociological reflections in the latest research on environmental and social determinants of health and disease. It offers a combination of theoretical and practical approaches and the authors are scholars from a multidisciplinary background (epidemiology, geography, philosophy of medicine and biology, sociology). Crucially, the book balances the benefit and cost of the integration of biological and social factors when modelling aetiology of disease.
Integrative Clinical Social Work Practice
by F. Diane BarthIn recent history the practice of medicine and mental health has been increasingly eclectic as more and more practitioners harness seemingly disparate therapies and techniques to arrive at clinical breakthroughs. But while social work professionals have been involved in integrative practice informally and intuitively for years, resources to bring structure to this therapeutic concept have been few and far between. In response, Integrative Social Work Practice offers innovative ways of conceptualizing cases, communicating with clients and making better therapeutic use of client individuality. Rich in research, evidence-based and clinical material from a variety of settings, the book begins with the basic organizing principles behind effective integrative practice. Real-world examples flesh out the theoretical rationales and psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral and developmental methods are shown in practical context. The author also demonstrates how to balance flexibility and boundaries and manage diverse and even conflicting theories, while providing clear guidelines on: Integrating key psychotherapeutic approaches into social work. Using somatic knowledge to enhance therapy. Making assessments and choosing interventions. Applying an integrative approach to therapeutic relationships. Creating manageable goals based on small steps. Building and working with an integrative team. An important step forward in both professional development and the larger therapeutic picture, Integrative Social Work Practice benefits researchers and practitioners as well as supervisors and students in social work and counseling.
Integrative Feminisms: Building Global Visions, 1960s-1990s
by Angela MilesIntegrative Feminisms presents a unique discussion of feminist radicalism in North America in the context of feminism's global development since the 1960s. Across divergent agendas, Angela Miles illuminates the transformative power common to apparently diverse radical, eco-, Black, socialist, lesbian and "third world" feminists. Drawing on interviews with activists, historical and documentary research, and her own participation, the book delivers a unique and powerful analysis of concentric feminisms in a transnational context.
Integrative Leadership: Maximale Wirkung durch holistische Führung
by Tibor KoromzayDieses praxisbezogene Fachbuch Integrative Leadership erklärt, wie durch eine umfassende und integrative Perspektive eine ganzheitliche Führung ermöglicht wird, die weit über das bloße Führen von untergebenen Mitarbeitenden hinausgeht. Dadurch kann die Wirkung von Leadership massiv erhöht werden. Sie erfahren, wie verschiedene Aspekte von Leadership integral aufeinander ausgerichtet und somit Reibungsverluste vermindert werden können. Denn wer kennt dies nicht: Organisationen werden durch die Spezialisierung von Funktionen zunehmend fragmentiert. Dabei geht die Gesamtschau verloren, und es entstehen unkoordinierte Kräfte, die in verschiedene Richtungen zielen. Der Autor zeigt auf, wie diese Fragmente zu einem wirkungsvollen Ganzen zusammengefügt werden können. Basierend auf sechs Dimensionen von Leadership erhalten Sie eine Hilfestellung, um durch die Bündelung dieser Dimensionen ein Vielfaches an Wirkung zu erzielen. Dies unterstützt Sie dabei, Organisationen zu inspirierenden Orten zu machen und nachhaltige und positive Veränderungen zu generieren. Zielgruppen: Führungskräfte, Organisationsentwickler*innen, Berater*innen, Coaches, und Wirtschafts- und Organisationspsycholog*innen. Der Autor: Tibor Koromzay ist freiberuflich als Organisationsberater und Coach tätig mit den Schwerpunkten Leadership, Zusammenarbeit, Veränderung und persönliches Wachstum. Er ist Psychologe, verfügt über langjährige Führungs- und Managementerfahrung in der Industrie und langjährige Übungspraxis in Meditation und Aikido.
Integrative Tools für die Team- und Organisationsdiagnose
by Sabine Pelzmann Bettina StrümpfKernstück des Buches sind konkrete Tools, die zur Team- und Organisationsdiagnose eingesetzt werden können. Vorgestellt werden dabei die Prinzipien des Integrativen Ansatzes (Hilarion G. Petzold) sowie ausgewählte Aspekte der Organisationsdiagnose. Das Buch richtet sich an Supervisor/innen, Coaches, Organisationsberater/innen, Unternehmensberater/innen und Personalentwickler/innen.
Integrity and Sustainability in Sport: Business, Environmental and Social Goals (Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management)
by Rob Wilson Daniel Rhind Tiberio Daddi Chris Horbel Stella Leivadi Timothy Kellison James Esson Agostino Vollero Argyro Elisavet Manoli Daniel Plumley Renan Petersen-Wagner Ioannis Konstantopoulos Lyndsey Fox Thadeu Gasparetto John Goedee John Hie Tero Kalsta Dimitrios Kolyperas Niki Koutrou Nanny Kuijsters-Timmers Roger Leenders Niccolò Maria Todaro Carolynne Mason Alessio Novi Riikka Rakic Bob Ramsak Josephine Traberg Eugenia Tzoumaka Serhat YilmazThis is the first book to examine the critically important topic of sustainability in sport through the lens of integrity. Adopting a holistic view on sustainability, it argues that integrity is the foundation on which sustainable sports organisations, actions and processes must be built.This book shows how the interconnected values of integrity and sustainability can be embedded in sporting organisations, policies and activities. Featuring the work of leading sport researchers from around the world, this book first presents a conceptual model and a framework for understanding sustainability and integrity as applied to sport. It then examines these concepts in the context of sport business, the natural and built environments and wider society, covering important contemporary issues such as mega‑events, legacy, sport governance, climate justice, sport stadia, sport for development, sport sponsorship and marketing and corporate social responsibility.Presenting cutting‑edge research and challenging sport practitioners to consider how to embed integrity and sustainability in their everyday work, this book is important reading for any student, researcher, practitioner or policymaker with an interest in sport, sustainable development and integrity.
Integrity and the Fragile Self
by Damian Cox Marguerite La Caze Michael P. LevineThis title was first published in 2003. What does it take to be a person of integrity? Could those who commit morally horrendous acts be persons of integrity? Is personal integrity compatible with the kinds of ambivalence and self-doubt characteristic of fragile selves and ordinary lives? This text examines the centrality of integrity in relation to a variety of philosophical and psychological concerns that impinge upon the ethical life. Relating integrity to many standard issues in philosophical and moral psychology - such as self-deception, weakness of will, hypocrisy and relationships - the authors present a comprehensive and accessible study of integrity and its types. Drawing on contemporary work in moral and philosophical psychology, ethics, theories of the self and feminist thought, this book develops an account of integrity as a fundamental virtue - as something that is central to all our lives.
Integrity: The Rise of a Distinctive Western Idea and Its Destiny
by Martin AlbrowPublic life is dominated from time to time by media storms around integrity. The behaviour of elected political leaders has led many to decry the deterioration in standards and the lack of integrity in public life. But what is integrity, and where does our concern with integrity in public life come from? In this book, Martin Albrow argues that integrity has been an essential component of the rise of the West and a key feature that distinguishes the West from other civilizations. He traces the idea of integrity back to its roots in ancient Greece and Rome, where integrity acquired its special meaning: the unique feature of any object with integrity was that it combined its wholeness or completeness with the embodiment of standards that came from outside it. Integrity was unity through values. He then follows the story of integrity through early Christianity and the Renaissance to the present day. Today, we find ourselves in the paradoxical situation where the lack of integrity in public life is widely condemned while, at the same time, politicians can remain popular without even pretending to act with integrity: this is the new politics of the integrity vacuum. The idea of integrity may be a distinctively western one but, like many other aspects of western culture, it has now become a property of worldwide society. Albrow concludes by arguing that integrity could add more value today by being combined with non-western wisdom as we strive to create an order where honesty, trust and reliability in our relationships with others are paramount. This highly original account of an idea that lies at the heart of western culture will be of interest to anyone concerned about the state and future of our public life.
Integrität als Führungskompetenz: Bedeutung und neue Impulse für integres Verhalten (essentials)
by Teresa KellerIn diesem essential zeigt Teresa Keller, wie integres Verhalten entwickelt und dauerhaft aufrechterhalten werden kann. Die Autorin verdeutlicht die Bedeutung sowie Wirkung von Integrität und erläutert Faktoren wie Achtsamkeit, Haltung, Anstand und emotionale Intelligenz, die maßgeblich an Integrität beteiligt sind. Vor allem aber macht sie die Relevanz von Integrität als Führungskompetenz klar – zu oft wird Integrität als nachrangiges Führungs- und Unternehmensziel behandelt.
Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management: Strategic Management of Knowledge Resources (Routledge Advances In Management And Business Studies)
by Federica RicceriIt is widely held that the successful management of knowledge resources within industry creates value. However, how this value is created is less clear. This book explores the management of knowledge resources in organisations. Several of the frameworks which have been created around the world to manage knowledge resources are examined and the book
Intellectual Capital in Organizations: Non-Financial Reports and Accounts (Routledge Advances in Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management #1)
by Leif Edvinsson Patricia OrdIn a global competitive economic environment, resources that are scarce or irreplicable are a source of sustained competitive advantage for companies and organizations. Knowledge-based resources are a major and increasing driver of long term competitive advantage. Most accounting standards however do not allow for knowledge-based resource calculations, including the most important of these, intellectual capital. Intellectual capital is the collective knowledge, documented and otherwise, of individuals in an organization. In the absence of accounting standards to numerically evaluate intellectual capital, some institutions have devised their own reports and statements. But why should companies, universities, and research centers measure these resources? How are intellectual capital statements built? How does one set targets, and what indicators should they include? This book reviews the development of the field of intellectual capital reporting, including core concepts, latest developments, the main components of intellectual capital, how a statement is built, and key indicators of each component. It further analyzes experiences from a variety of pioneering companies and institutions around the globe in measuring intellectual capital, including case studies from educational and research institutions, and provides crucial transnational comparisons. Authors Ordóñez de Pablos and Edvinsson examine the challenges and next steps for the harmonization of intellectual capital reports, consider the creation of a special international agency for intellectual capital reporting standards, and evaluate the weaknesses of current standards and how they might be overcome.
Intellectual Dependability: A Virtue Theory of the Epistemic and Educational Ideal (Routledge Studies in Epistemology)
by T. Ryan ByerlyIntellectual Dependability is the first research monograph devoted to addressing the question of what it is to be an intellectually dependable person—the sort of person on whom one’s fellow inquirers can depend in their pursuit of epistemic goods. While neglected in recent scholarship, this question is an important one for both epistemology—how we should conceptualize the ideal inquirer—and education—how we can enable developing learners to grow toward this ideal. The book defends a virtue theory according to which being an intellectually dependable person is distinctively a matter of possessing a suite of neglected virtues called "the virtues of intellectual dependability" that are themselves distinctively concerned with promoting epistemic goods in others’ inquiries. After defending the existence and educational significance of these virtues as a group, the book turns toward the project of identifying and conceptualizing several specific instances of these virtues in detail. Virtues discussed include intellectual benevolence, intellectual transparency, communicative clarity, audience sensitivity, and epistemic guidance. In each case, an interdisciplinary treatment of the nature of the virtue and its relationship to other virtues, vices, and personality features is offered, drawing especially on relevant research in Philosophy and Psychology. The book concludes with a chapter devoted to identifying distinctive ways these virtues of intellectual dependability are manifested when it is inquiring communities, rather than individuals, that occupy the position of intellectual dependence. By directing attention to the ideal of intellectual dependability, the book marks a novel turn of scholarly interest explicitly toward a neglected dimension of the ideal inquirer that will inform both epistemological theorizing and educational practice.
Intellectual Disability and Social Policies of Inclusion: Invading Consciousness without Permeability
by David P. TreanorThis book explores why, after forty years of funded policies of social inclusion, persons living with an intellectual disability are still separated from the social fabric of neoliberal societies. David Treanor shows how the nature of the reform process is driven unnecessarily by the economic neoliberal paradigm, the cultural misconceptions of intellectual disability, and the inattention accorded to personal relationships between persons living with and without an intellectual disability. Treanor utilizes John Macmurray’s personalist philosophy, Julia Kristeva’s ontology of disability and Michele Foucault’s concept of bio-power to explain this phenomenon. The concepts in this book challenge current approaches to social inclusion and have radical implications for future practices.
Intellectual Disability and Stigma
by Katrina Scior Shirli WernerThis book examines how intellectual disability is affected by stigma and how this stigma has developed. Around two per cent of the world's population have an intellectual disability but their low visibility in many places bears witness to their continuing exclusion from society. This prejudice has an impact on the family of those with an intellectual disability as well as the individual themselves and affects the well-being and life chances of all those involved. This book provides a framework for tackling intellectual disability stigma in institutional processes, media representations and other, less overt, settings. It also highlights the anti-stigma interventions which are already in place and the central role that self-advocacy must play.