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- On the Efficiency of Standard Form Contracts: The Case of Construction
- Most contracts that individuals enter into are not written from scratch but depend upon forms and terms that have been successful in the past. This paper studies the structure of the form construction contracts published by the American Institute of Architects AIA. It shows that these contracts are an efficient...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Dynamic Programming and Inventory Management: What Has Been Learnt in the Last Generation?
- This paper presents a concise overview of the development of some of the interconnections between inventory management and dynamic programming. Inventory Management, it is often claimed, started with Wilson's economic order quantity formula, presented in his 1934 paper. Dynamic Programming, however, arrived on the scene a couple of decades later,...
- White papers 2002-04-24
- Creative Church Leadership
- The first section of this paper summarises books and articles which address the Personal Leadership Endeavour, the predicament that everyone faces when one wishes to extend the repertoire of leadership behaviours. The second section recommends texts that explore the Leadership Endeavour of organisations, a consideration of the options available when...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Let's Go the Extra Mile: Social Identity and the Link Between Leadership and Followership
- A major challenge for organizational psychology is to develop theories that do not just passively regurgitate romantic prejudices that pass for 'common sense'. Indeed, when this interrogative perspective is adopted, one would argue that established beliefs bear little correspondence to processes of true leadership as it is practiced and experienced....
- White papers 2004-11-19
- The Fallacy of Misplaced Leadership
- From a process perspective leadership qualities remain undecidable. Individual leaders are put into a consistent relation with the various attitudes, behaviours, values, abilities and beliefs held in social networks and institutional structures, so that leadership has to be explained from the point of view of the process of individuation. This...
- White papers 2003-10-13
- Is the NHS Leadership Qualities Framework Missing the Wood for the Trees?
- This paper provides a short, critical commentary on The NHS Leadership Qualities Framework. The Framework describes a set of key characteristics, attitudes and behaviours that leaders in the NHS should aspire to in delivering the NHS Plan. It is a key area of current healthcare policy debate. The paper explores...
- White papers 2003-10-13
- What Is Leadership Development: Purpose and Practice
- The aim of this paper is to explore the current range of approaches to leadership development available to individuals and organisations and the assumptions and principles that underlie them. The intention is both to provide practical advice on best practice but, above all, to challenge organisations to consider the ways...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Leadership and Management Competencies: Lessons From the National Occupational Standards
- The pros and cons of a competency/standards approach to leadership and management development have been under debate for some time. Whilst many people now question the validity of this approach, organisations in all sectors continue developing their own frameworks and the government encourages and promotes occupational standards. In the current...
- White papers 2004-07-07
- A Review of Leadership Theory and Competency Frameworks
- The paper begins with a review of leadership theories and tracks their evolution over the past 70 years from the "great man" notion of heroic leaders, through trait theories, behaviourist theories, situational leadership, contingency theory and on to transactional and transformational leadership. Each of these offers some insights into the...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- The Map Is Not the Terrain: The Future of Leadership Competencies
- This paper indicates how the competency approach to leadership and management could be conceived of as a repeating refrain. It continues to offer an illusory promise to rationalise and simplify the processes of selecting, recruiting and developing leaders yet only reflects a fragment of the complexity that is leadership. Taken...
- White papers 2004-12-16
- Non-cooperative Monetary and Fiscal Policy: The Value of Leadership
- This paper considers leadership equilibria in dynamic linear rational expectations models with specific reference to monetary and fiscal policy interactions. One must pay particular attention to the strategic relationships between policymakers and the private sector. One finds that in a dynamic game that although leadership may not matter much, giving...
- White papers 2004-05-14
- Leadership - Handling the Human Side of Complexity
- This paper describes about the need for leadership in a complex systems. It also describes about how leadership is a transformational process and at best a transcendent on which ultimately results in human being accessing more fully their potential capabilities. In practice it is more useful to consider leadership as...
- White papers 2002-03-20
- What (Not) To Wear At Interview
- More than fifty percent of another person's perception of you is based on how you look and therefore your appearance is crucial to making a good impression. What to wear for a job interview has to be researched by doing thorough job interview preparation. Traditionally men always wore their smartest...
- White papers 2008-02-18
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- Andrew G. Watson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Exeter College, Oxford
- (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). 178 pp. ISBN 019-920192-7. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. Andrew Watson's new catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Exeter College, Oxford, replaces the Exeter entries in H. O. Coxe's Gatalogus codicum MSS. qui in collegiis aulisque adservantur (Oxford, 1852). It begins with a valuable introduction which...
- Research articles 2002-03-22
- Book of the Year prize.(Frontline)(Brief Article)
- For an author's first or second book in English, published October 2003-September 2004. Judges: Jeremy Black University of Exeter, Julian Jackson (Queen Mary, London), Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, London). JOINT WINNERS ...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Driver to steer research for ABI.
- THE Association of British Insurers has hired Rebecca Driver as director of research and chief economist. Previously at the Bank of England, Ms Driver worked as the bank's research adviser to the external member of the Monetary Policy Committee. Prior to that she was...
- Research articles 2006-01-05
- Noakes, Jeremy, Peter Wende, and Jonathan Wright, eds. Britain and Germany in Europe, 1949-1990.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
- New York: Oxford University Press 398 pp., $95.00, ISBN 0-19-924841-9 Publication Date: June 2002 This volume of collected essays is the outcome of a symposium at the University of Exeter in memory of W.N. Medlicott in 1998. It was organized under the leadership of...
- Research articles 2003-06-22
- Auditions to be held in April for Phillip Pullman film
- M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Auditions for the lead role of Lyra Belacqua in the new Philip Pullman film The Golden Compass are reportedly scheduled to take place during the first two weeks of April in the English towns of Cambridge, Oxford, Kendal and Exeter. According to...
- Research articles 2006-03-15
- English Episcopal Acta XII: Exeter 1186-1257
- English Episcopal Acta XII: Exeter 1186-1257, ed. Frank Barlow (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1996). xxiv + 354 pp. ISBN 0-19-726145-0. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. This is the second of two consecutive volumes pertaining to the see of Exeter, and covers the episcopates of five bishops from John...
- Research articles 1998-09-22
- Ilan Pappe Blames West's "Conspiracy of Silence" Condoning Israel's Ethnic Cleansing
- PROFESSOR Ilan Papp� of Exeter University gave three separate lectures in three days-May 14, 15 and 16-at the University of California at Irvine, University of California at Los Angeles and the al-Awda convention. At UCLA on May 15, the Oxford University-educated Israeli historian noted that, on any other day, many...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
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