*Theme: Management and Leadership Innovations*
* *
Please forgive any cross postings.
*Topics of interest for the proposed chapters can include, but are not
limited to, topics such as the following: *
*Staff issues such as:*
Strategic human resources management for future roles
· Evidence based staff development
· Research on effective teams
· Building and sustaining learning cultures
· Fixing toxic structures and operations
· 360 degree performance evaluations
· Educational environments, programs, and experiences that produce
creative and strong leaders and managers
*Organization issues such as: *
- Flexible and nimble organizational models
- Alignment of structures with strategies rather than buildings
- Use of social networks (blogs, wikis, Facebook etc.) as management
and communication tools
- Creation of data repositories and shared e-spaces in work
environments
- Methods to share and use tacit knowledge
*Funding issues such as:*
· Funding sources apart from parent or governing organizations
· Different or alternative budget and funding models being tested
*Customer issues such as:*
· Social network marketing practices: Successes and failures
· Producing services that customers truly want and need in times of
rapid change
* Other issues such as:*
· Conceptual papers on future generations of management practices
· New ways of measuring the value of what works in the real world
* *
Author guidelines and further information on the annual book series can be
requested from the editors, or found at:* **
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?id=0065-2830***
Questions, comments and chapter proposals should be addressed to the
Editors, Dr. Anne Woodsworth at* **[log in to unmask]** *and
Dr. W. David Penniman at* **[log in to unmask]** *
* *
*Schedule:**l *
· *Chapter proposals due to editors – March* *1, 2013*
· First drafts of chapters due to editors – August 1, 2013
· Final drafts due to editors – November 1, 2013
