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The Experiences Of Arab Women Leaders In Learning To Lead, Susan R. Madsen
The Experiences Of Arab Women Leaders In Learning To Lead, Susan R. Madsen
Susan R. Madsen
To consider designing and developing leadership programs for women in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), it is important to understand how current leaders have learned to lead throughout their lives. In-depth, qualitative interviews were conducted with Arab women leaders (government and business) to investigate their lifetime experiences in developing leadership.
Innovation Process Is Facilitated In Virtual Environment Of R&D Teams, Mohammad Ali Shafia, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha
Innovation Process Is Facilitated In Virtual Environment Of R&D Teams, Mohammad Ali Shafia, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha
Nader Ale Ebrahim
Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive environment it is necessary for the enterprises to put together different capabilities and services with the goal. It is widely accepted that innovation can be better achieved by working in team particularly in the virtual environments. The employed web services technology, although very popular nowadays but it is still not mature enough, so dealing with it can bring new findings. Virtual teams base on information technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it should be noted that innovation has a …
Myopic Regret Avoidance : Feedback Avoidance And Learning In Repeated Decision Making, Jochen Matthias Reb, Terry Connolly
Myopic Regret Avoidance : Feedback Avoidance And Learning In Repeated Decision Making, Jochen Matthias Reb, Terry Connolly
Jochen Reb
Decision makers can become trapped by myopic regret avoidance in which rejecting feedback to avoid short-term outcome regret (regret associated with counterfactual outcome comparisons) leads to reduced learning and greater long-term regret over continuing poor decisions. In a series of laboratory experiments involving repeated choices among uncertain monetary prospects, participants primed with outcome regret tended to decline feedback, learned the task slowly or not at all, and performed poorly. This pattern was reversed when decision makers were primed with self-blame regret (regret over an unjustified decision). Further, in a final experiment in which task learning was unnecessary, feedback was more …
Book Review 19 The Third Chapter By Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, William C. Mcpeck
Book Review 19 The Third Chapter By Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, William C. Mcpeck
William C. McPeck
This is my personal review of the book The Third Chapter by Sara Lawrence Lighfoot which was published in 2009 by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.