The ability to read is the main foundational skill for all school-based learning. Without it, the chances for academic and occupational success are limited (Lyon, 1997). In fact, the most pressing issue in guaranteeing students equal access to the curriculum is ensuring their ability to read class materials. When children do not learn to read, their general knowledge and writing abilities suffe…
Females consistently score lower than males on standardized tests of mathematics, yet no such differences exist in the classroom. These differences are not trivial, nor are they insignificant. Test scores help determine entrance to college and graduate school and, therefore, by extension, a person’s job and future success. If females receive lower test scores, then they also receive fewer opp…
The History of Psychology is the most recent contribution in a long tradition of the presentation of an account of the important historical developments and landmarks in the field of psychology. In the beginning, when there were only a few psychologists (in 1892 the new American Psychological Association had 31 charter members), there were some who could reasonably be described as possessing t…
Due safety and security is not an end in itself but a condition for sustainable access, and is thereby an enabler to aid agencies’ institutional and operational goals of presence and program implementation. Safety and security management are increasingly seen as one element of an organization’s overall risk management, which also includes financial, reputational and legal risks. All organi…
Abstract. Treatments of risk in the international management literature largely focus on particular uncertainties to the exclusion of other interrelated uncertainties. This paper develops a framework for categorizing the uncertainties faced by firms operating internationally and outlines both financial and strategic corporate risk management responses.
Based on suggestions from reviewers, instructors, and students we have made a number of changes in the eighth edition of Developing Management Skills . • Added new skill assessments in Chapter 1 and a new case in Chapter 3. • Revised parts of the book to reflect suggestions and feedback from instructors and students. • Clarified instructions for scoring skill assessments and…
Over half of the students who enrol on economics degree courses have not studied mathe- matics beyond GCSE or an equivalent level. These include many mature students whose last encounter with algebra, or any other mathematics beyond basic arithmetic, is now a dim and distant memory. It is mainly for these students that this book is intended. It aims to develop their mathematical ability up …
Business leaders recognise effective risk management as one of the main success drivers for enterprises. Even though the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) concept has evolved significantly in the past years, in the aftermath of recent economic crises it became evident some of its critical challenges still need to be addressed. The review of subject literature led to a conclusion that current ERM…
Credit risk management in rural and community banks has become more important not only because of the financial crisis that the world is experiencing currently, but also as a crucial concept which determines banks’ survival, growth and profitability. Because credit granting is one of the key sources of income generating activity in rural banks, the management of the risk related to credit…
The FATS manual is a milestone on the road to EU-wide harmonised Foreign AffiliaTes Statistics (FATS). Its importance becomes even more apparent when we consider the political background to this project. All over the world, ‘globalisation’ is seen as the predominant agent of change and the main policy challenge. At the heart of this complex and somewhat blurry concept, however, lie busi…
Since the turn of the century, legislation in Western countries has ex- panded rapidly to reverse the brief dominance of laissez faire during the nineteenth century. The state no longer merely protects against viola- tions of person and property through murder, rape, or burglary but also restricts "discrimination" against certain minorities, collusive business arrangements, "jaywalking," t…