A professor for 11 years at the Hispanic Center at Fairleigh Dickinson University, John has a wealth of leadership experience both in academia and 48 years business across multiple industries, of a wide range of sizes. .
Strategic and transformational servant leader with extensive experience in business, workforce development, community engagement, education, social impact, and nonprofit leadership that is quite a unique and rare combination.
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This course/workshop will examine changing topics in leadership. Participants will examine current practices and policies which promote high-impact leaders.
Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice 5th Edition The Fifth Edition of Peter G. Northouse’s bestselling Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice provides readers with a clear, concise overview of the complexities of practicing leadership and concrete strategies for becoming better leaders. The text is organized around key leader responsibilities such as creating a vision, establishing a constructive climate, listening to outgroup members, and overcoming obstacles. Case studies, self-assessment questionnaires, observational exercises, and reflection and action worksheets engage readers to apply leadership concepts to their own lives. Grounded in leadership theory and the latest research, the fully updated, highly practical Fifth Edition includes a new chapter on destructive leadership, 18 new cases, and 5 new Leadership Snapshots. |
Analysis of leadership behavior and administrative activities. Examination of major theories of leadership and motivation, including trait, behavioral, situational and power-influence leadership theories and cognitive motivational principles for various levels of the formal organization.
The market-leading Leadership: Theory and Practice presents an academically robust account of the major theories and models of leadership with a focus on how theory can inform practice. Author Peter G. Northouse uses a consistent structure for each chapter that allows readers to easily compare and contrast different theories. Case studies and questionnaires provide students with practical examples and opportunities to deepen their understanding of their own leadership style. The fully updated Ninth Edition features a new chapter on inclusive leadership, 17 new real-world cases that profile leaders from across the globe, a new discussion on leadership and morality, and examples of timely issues such as leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The need to develop better business leaders has never been greater. Leadership for Organizations provides a brief overview of leadership at the individual, team, and organizational levels. Authors David A. Waldman and Charles O’Reilly expertly cover the foundational leadership approaches with a special emphasis on contemporary issues as well as visionary and strategic leadership.
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As our world continues to become even more complex, the need to connect and collaborate across disciplines, functional realities and world views is a necessity. This complexity calls for leadership that is inclusive, ethical, empowering and sustaining. Whether viewed from an individual, group, or process perspective, leading is very much about relating on every level and from different perspectives. Notable theory and research in the field will be discussed in a case study approach to relational leadership. This course will explore relational leadership and its international implications for individuals and organizations.
About the authorFrank McIntosh’s unique experiences with relational leaders had its genesis in a 36 year career with Junior Achievement in Boston, Denver, and Delaware (which also serves Southern NJ and Northern Maryland). In Delaware he served as... Read full bio |
The Relational Leader: Catalyzing Social Networks for Educational Change (Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives)
by Yi-Hwa Liou (Editor, Series Editor), Alan J. Daly (Editor, Series Editor), & 3 more |
With increased globalization, different cultures, beliefs, and values become important aspects that the organization's leadership must understand and address. Cultural differences may result in conflict or ineffective and inefficient work groups and teams. Leaders who understand their own behaviors and beliefs are better able to acknowledge and embrace cultural differences and understand the implications of the global market and human capital strategies. This course will explore the dimensions of diversity, cross-cultural models, assessment tools, and best practices to improve cross-cultural relationships. Effective team building and the impact of team building activities on culturally diverse populations will be discussed. In addition to assigned readings and student projects, this course will include an international experience.
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This course provides an overview of the principles of organizational change in order to develop the knowledge skills and abilities to design and/or oversee basic change efforts, understand the change process along with the tools to conduct basic change efforts. The ability to change vs. essential for individual and organizational growth and development, but change is often resisted for a variety of reasons.
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Personnel AdministrationThis course will examine personnel management Supervison, oversight, management and leadership among individuals in the workplace as it relates to such issues as alcoholism, drug addiction in the work setting, workplace violence, harassment, lack of diversity, developing environmentally friendly policies and the need to meet global challenges. This will be accomplished via case study analysis, in-class participation and interaction with peers and the faculty. This course can be repeated as topics change.
Human Resource Systems
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New approaches and techniques in human resource systems go beyond the theories and principles of personnel administration. A "hands on" experience that utilizes case studies in each topic allows students to devise solutions. This course will use case studies, lectures, assigned readings and recent rulings. State and Federal Court decisions that impact public, private, and not-for-profit sector organizations will be thoroughly examined. |
This course examines systems level behavior in a number of service industry contexts with an emphasis understanding and developing the individual, team and organizational capacity for change and improvement. Being able to motivate employees, lead teams, handle conflict and effectively communicate are essential skills for all careers, especially for supervisors in the business world. This course emphasizes applying theories and developing interpersonal and managerial skills, such as understanding individual differences, effectively working in teams, motivating and influencing others, leadership techniques, and managing organizational change. You will learn how highly effective supervisors and companies manage employees through in-class lectures, readings, and group exercises, as well as through assessing personal strengths and practicing employee-oriented management techniques. This course truly applies ' real world' scenarios and teaches to how best to apply various organizational methods to create healthy and productive companies.
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Increasing productivity has been a major concern for both the public and private sectors for the last decade. For the private sector, it is essential to maintain market share; for the public sector, it is essential to continue functioning in a time of reduced resources and significant shifts in policy or direction. Improving productivity requires that a focus on quality and efficiency of the organization’s outputs. Although technology can increase productivity in some operations, it is the human factor that provides the greatest opportunity for change. In addition to how jobs are restructured, this course will investigate: different theories of motivation and performance and how they impact on productivity and performance; definitions and measurement of individual, team, and organizational productivity; measures of efficiency and effectiveness; models for analyzing organizational and individual productivity and productivity growth; and techniques for improving productivity.
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This course examines systems level behavior in a number of service industry contexts with an emphasis understanding and developing the individual, team and organizational capacity for change and improvement. Being able to motivate employees, lead teams, handle conflict and effectively communicate are essential skills for all careers, especially for supervisors in the business world. This course emphasizes applying theories and developing interpersonal and managerial skills, such as understanding individual differences, effectively working in teams, motivating and influencing others, leadership techniques, and managing organizational change. You will learn how highly effective supervisors and companies manage employees through in-class lectures, readings, and group exercises, as well as through assessing personal strengths and practicing employee-oriented management techniques. This course truly applies ' real world' scenarios and teaches to how best to apply various organizational methods to create healthy and productive companies.
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Analysis of federal and state employee relations laws and regulations. Topics include the bargaining environment, contract negotiations, wage and benefit issues in arbitration, grievance arbitration, and employee relations in non-union organizations.
Learn How Unions and Management Deal with One Another During the Negotiating Process In the best-selling text, Labor Relations, Sloane/Witney provide readers with a basic understanding of unionism. In this Thirteenth Edition, chapters have been streamlined to make room for numerous additions and visual aids, addressing a number of new issues and legislation that have arisen in the last few years. Discussions of Wal-Mart, bargaining, two-tier wage systems, pensions and retirement plans, and a host of other topics have been expanded as well. |
Updated to reflect the ongoing impact of the global pandemic, including supply chain challenges, business operations, strategic and scenario planning, and management.
Chapter 2: Globalization, International Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment Chapter 3: World Economies Chapter 4: Economic Cooperation Chapter 5: Impact of Culture on Business Chapter 6: Global Talent, Leadership, and Diversity Chapter 7: International Finance Chapter 8: Foreign Exchange Chapter 9: International Accounting Chapter 10: International Expansion Chapter 11: Entry Modes: Exporting, Importing, and Global Sourcing Chapter 12: Global Strategy, Formulation, and Implementation Chapter 13: Global Entrepreneurship Chapter 14: Global Operations Chapter 15: Global Marketing, Distribution, and Supply-Chain Management |
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International Business: Opportunities and Challenges in a Flattening World v4.0 By: Sanjyot P. Dunung and Mason A. Carpenter Published: February 2023 ISBN (Digital): 978-1-4533-3839-1 |
Fundamental marketing concepts are applied to health and human services issues as a means to bring about social change. Attention is given to understanding the needs, wants and perception of the consumer in developing a social marketing plan, implementing it and evaluating its impact.
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World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new preface
In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of engineers and managers, academics and musicians, researchers, designers, entrepreneurs and lawyers, poets and programmer, whose work turns on the creation of new forms. Increasingly, Florida observes, this Creative Class determines how workplaces are organized, which companies prosper or go bankrupt, and which cities thrive, stagnate or decline. Florida offers a detailed occupational, demographic, psychological, and economic profile of the Creative Class, examines its global impact, and explores the factors that shape "quality of place" in our changing cities and suburbs. Now updated with a new preface that considers the latest developments in our changing cities, The Rise of the Creative Class is the definitive edition of this foundational book on our contemporary economy. |
The most valued workers today are what the economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class, skilled individuals ranging from money managers to make–up artists, software programmers to steady–cam operators who are in constant demand around the world. Florida's bestselling The Rise of the Creative Class identified these workers as the source of economic revitalization in American cities. In that book, he shows that investment in technology and a civic culture of tolerance (most–often marked by the presence of a large gay community) are the key ingredients to attracting and maintaining a local creative class. In The Flight of the Creative Class, Florida expands his research to cover the global competition to attract the Creative Class. The United States was, up until 2002, the unparalleled leader in creative capital. But several key events––the Bush administrations emphasis on smokestack industries, heightened security concerns after 9/11 and the growing cultural divide between conservatives and liberals––have put the US at a substantial dis–advantage.
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In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth of the world's superstar cities also generate their vexing challenges: gentrification, unaffordability, segregation, and inequality. Meanwhile, many more cities still stagnate, and middle-class neighborhoods everywhere are disappearing. Our winner-take-all cities are just one manifestation of a profound crisis in today's urbanized knowledge economy.
A bracingly original work of research and analysis, The New Urban Crisis offers a compelling diagnosis of our economic ills and a bold prescription for more inclusive cities capable of ensuring growth and prosperity for all. |
Examination of processes in organizational decision making, the state of theory; research and applications for the practicing manager. Topics include managerial style and decision making; problem discovery and diagnosis; the search for solutions, evaluation and choice; group decision making, decision aids and support systems, risk analysis.
In the new edition of this award-winning text, renowned authors Reid Hastie and Robyn Dawes compare and contrast the basic principles of rationality with actual behavior in making decisions. This book explores theories and research findings from the field of judgment and decision making in a non-technical manner, using anecdotes as a teaching device. Intended as an introductory textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, the material not only is of scholarly interest but is practical as well. New to This Edition
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Exploration and analysis of the function of law in a democratic society. Emphasis is placed on understanding the law as a legal and moral force guiding and constraining public decision making and action.
A plain-language survey of the laws governing administrative agencies Administrative Law: Bureaucracy in a Democracy examines administrative law in the context of accountability and preventing governmental abuse of power. With thorough, yet accessible coverage, it looks at the authorities held by administrative agencies, how agencies are kept accountable, and the existing and potential constraints on agency authority, both constitutional and otherwise. In analyzing case excerpts, students learn to think critically about the issues and controversies of administrative law, while gaining practical insight they can apply as professionals. The 7th edition includes new laws and cases, and addresses contemporary challenges confronting the administrative state. |
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