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Leading and Managing People in the Dynamic Organization
Series: Series in Organization and Management
The current business environment requires that individuals, teams, and organizations are equipped to cope with an unpredictable marketplace and increasing competition. Organizations are forced to be kinetic, organic, and without boundaries if they are to remain successful. Given these environmental...
Published May 2nd 2013 by Psychology Press
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Sacred Matters
Religion and Spirituality in Families
Sacred Matters explores the multi-disciplinary literature about the role of religion in family life and provides new research and a new theory about ways various aspects of the sacred are helpful and harmful. The authors hope that their new conceptual framework will stimulate new research and...
Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
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Introduction to Family Processes
Fifth Edition
What goes on "behind closed doors" in families is examined in this text. Through his storytelling style, Randy Day introduces readers to the family processes approach – the strategies and behaviors families use to achieve goals. The emphasis is on how families work and interact rather than on the...
Published July 27th 2009 by Routledge
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Father Involvement
After decades of focusing on the mother's role in parenting, family studies researchers have turned their attention to the role of the father in parenting and family development. The results shed new light on childhood development and question conventional wisdom by showing that beyond providing...
Published August 31st 2003 by Routledge
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Fatherhood
Research, Interventions, and Policies
How much power does a father have to influence his children's development? A lively and often heated public debate on the role and value of the father in a family has been underway in the United States for the past decade. Nevertheless, we are far from understanding the complex ways in which...
Published August 28th 2000 by Routledge