Projects are chronically late, over-budget, and fail to meet quality standards and customer requirements. Here we explore the causes using system dynamics. System dynamics has been used successfully in dispute resolution and to proactively improve project performance for more than forty years....

This chapter presents a brief survey of the axioms usually required for unidimensional poverty measures and of their implications. It also reviews which of these axioms are satisfied by some of the most popular poverty indices.

This chapter assesses authentic leadership and finds it to be highly egalitarian, meaning that it may be unattractive to managers accustomed to a hierarchical style. In general, management may lack knowledge about leadership theory relevant to both hierarchy and egality, the latter of which many...

Spirituality is a concept that explains the spiritual dimension of human beings. Meaning of life, being together, and the bigger one's existence are the components of spirituality. In that manner, workplace spirituality is an area that endeavors to find the meaning of the work together with the...

Traditional savings and credit associations, also known as ‘Osusu’ in Sierra Leone, are unions of individuals with common economic goals aimed at reducing poverty and economic vulnerability. The chapter examined the ecosystem of traditional indigenous savings and credit associations, their...

Purpose Scholars have increasingly researched on how the uprise of Technologies 4.0 will alter the way in which the tourism destinations, the hospitality and tourism sector will operate. Research points out to the fact that the massive digital transformation can lead to a human-centric...

Workforce trends in automation and digitalization, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, will continue to eliminate low-skill jobs. As this happens, displaced workers - disproportionately people of color - increasingly need digital skills to get the good jobs of today and the future. This paper...