The sense of calling that compels educators to persist through difficult times and cope with stressful situations, also puts educators at risk for burning out. In order to fight potential burnout, both schools and individual teachers must attend to the issue. Schools must develop themselves as supportive work environments and educators must be…

This article aims to clarify where and how Christian privilege occurs, what its effects are, and how to overturn it. The study of Christian privilege and how it impacts public education on an institutional and pedagogical level is important work and an essential building block in dismantling religious oppression (both of and by religious groups).…

Purpose: For 40 years, it has been widely believed in the West that learning organisations would be healthier, flexible and more competitive than other organisations. By now, one might expect them to be widespread. However, fully developed learning organisations are rare in the West. In contrast, Chinese organisations seem naturally to be learning…

After an absence of 10 years, strategic planning has returned as a prime management issue. New attitudes, new approaches, and new players have emerged with new practices. A good strategy can make a company more attractive to customers and investors as well as a better place to work. (JOW)

Addresses questions related to team building: Are teams appropriate for the situation? What kind of team is most relevant? What practical steps will develop and sustain effective teamwork? Looks at needs of four kinds of teams ranging from informal to formal, temporary to permanent: project, work, alliance, and network. (SK)

A professional practice model is a system that supports control over nursing care. It has five subsystems: values, professional relationships, delivery model, management approach, and compensation and rewards. Comparison of five health facilities provides guidelines for planning, implementing and evaluating a professional practice model. (SK)

A learning organization supports learning at three levels: (1) individual, through continuous opportunities, inquiry, and dialog; (2) team, through action learning and collaboration; and (3) organizational, through systems that capture learning, empower participants, and link to the environment. Leaders who model and support learning at all three…

The "web of work" is made up of 12 basic human needs: home/shelter, family/kinship, learning, community, spirituality, social relationships, leisure, economic security, transportation/mobility, health, work/career, and environment/safety. Understanding it can contribute to stability, security, and appreciation that work is not only a job but a…

Employee involvement (EI) activities were established by management to create more meaningful work for employees and to make companies more competitive. What is missing is a clear method to link the problems of an organization with the appropriate EI activity. (JOW)

Presents an account of how one company went completely virtual--no office at all--and reaped the eventual rewards. Describes implementation processes, communication challenges, and customer reactions. (JOW)

The paper discusses creativity and the creative process, cites current methods used to improve creativity in the workplace, and explains the concept of values and value systems as they relate to creativity. Values and value systems are defined; and their source, their nature and functions, and their measurement are outlined. (JDD)

Training plays a key role in the development of work teams. Seven components of successful work teams are clear goals, talent, understanding of roles, efficient procedures, good interpersonal relations, active reinforcement, and constructive external relations. (SK)

In this article an account is given of work undertaken by an internal organization development (OD) unit within the United Kingdom's National Health Service, in the area of joint consultation within a health authority. Some thoughts are also presented on the relationship between OD practice and the field of industrial relations. (SSH)

Responding to the growing sense that organizations and the people that make them up are "in over their heads," this monograph looks at the relationship between talk and development in organizations, noting the ways that developmental talk--or, as it is often referred to, dialogue--differs from the skilled talk that goes on all the time.…

Looks at the growth of knowledge and its impact on people and organizations, theoretical models for human resource development, trends in the work force and the workplace, and the implications of the first three for industrial education. (SK)