Military veterans participate in leadership education throughout their term of service. Beginning in basic training, service members are exposed to leadership training, and as their careers advance, additional formal leadership education opportunities are offered. The leadership education...

This exercise is about starting with bad ideas instead of searching for good ideas, an approach that serves as a foundation for refining and cultivating the development of more robust ideas. By recognizing the shortcomings of initial concepts and embracing bad ideas, learners can then iterate,...

Facilitators of learning communities have to be attuned to diversity, difference and discrimination, and be prepared to interject. In this chapter, I describe some of the stories from a six-month period during my 14 years as a pub landlady. A pub, as a place-based sociocultural community, is an...

Australia's gender pay gap is linked to the growth of feminised service occupations. Comparative statistics help contextualise the degree of occupational segregation, and longitudinal data show the wage penalty in emerging female-dominated occupations. The gender pay gap derives from Australia's...

Despite growing interest in the impact of oil and other energy price shocks on inflation and inflation expectations, until recently this question has not received much attention in the literature. This survey not only presents empirical results for the US economy, but expands the analysis to...

This chapter explores how the ideas and practices associated with the disaggregation of large-scale organisations have been used as a direct consequence of dealing with the effects of worker collectivisation in single workplaces. Under high Fordism in the mid-twentieth century, unions enjoyed...

Health information systems research can benefit from participation by past and present health service users or consumers, as well as other members of the public. Their engagement in research may inform and involve them, help researchers consult and collaborate with them, or empower them to set...

This conceptual study explores the under-representation of women in senior organizational roles, highlighting how unconscious behaviors stemming from evolutionary psychology contribute to this issue. Despite awareness of workplace discrimination against women, evolutionary psychology provides...

This case study explores The Cycling Gardeners of Edinburgh, a pioneering urban gardening business founded by Callum Ross. Using electric cargo bikes and tools, the company disrupts the traditional gardening model by reducing emissions and logistical inefficiencies in Edinburgh's dense urban...

The development of connective, networked technologies has enabled organizations to transform their supply chains to better satisfy customer requirements digitally. This chapter discusses the role of different technologies in developing a digital supply chain network based on the Digital...