The 2008 Pfeiffer Annual Management Development

by Preziosi, Robert C.

• ISBN13: 9780787985363
• ISBN10: 0787985368
• Edition: CD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-27
• Publisher: Pfeiffer & Co

Summary

The Pfeiffer Annual: Management Development enables training professional, practitioners, and teachers and students of management to access unique research, case studies, and contemporary practices in management development. Featuring contributions from experts and practitioners in the field, this annual will build into an invaluable library of information, concepts, models and tools to support the development of managers at every level. The Pfeiffer Annual: Management Development covers an expansive range of topics grouped around four core themes: Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling, and provides an essential bridge between the theories of management, and its practice in organizations, from multi-national corporations to not-for-profit enterprises.

Author Biography

Robert C. Preziosi is professor of management with the Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University. He is an active member of SHRM and a former ASDT two-term Torch Award winner. He is the chair of the HRM master's degree program at NSU and has been named "Professor of the Decade."

Table of Contents

Introduction

Oldowan Raw Material Procurement and Use: Evidence from the Turkana Basin

Koobi Fora (Kenya) preserves a rich archaeological record for much of the early Pleistocene

This record provides a rare opportunity to investigate the economics of stone resources in the Oldowan

The chapter will include new lithic sourcing information of modern and fossil drainages in East Turkana and propose an hypothesis about the placement and access of raw material in the Turkana Basin from 1.9 to 1.3 Ma

The data show how the placement of souce affected assemblage composition throughout the basin in the two KBS and Okote members of the Koobi Fora Formation...

Reconstruction Landscape Use and Mobility in the Namibian Early Stone Age Using Operations Analysis

The chapter presents an analysis of Early Stone Age lithic production operation sequences

The analysis examines flakes as sequential elements of core reduction and relates these elements to discovery loci on the landscape

Five sites in the Nhomadom omirumba in the Kaudom National Park (northeastern Namibia) are considered

The positions of the flake assemblages from these five sites provide the bases for inferences on raw material procurement, group movement across the landscape, and site use

The inferences support interpretations of frequent movement and short-term site occupation

Inferring Aspects of Acheulean Sociality and Cognition from Biface Technology

This chapter outlines some of the cognitive and communicative capabilities of Acheulean hominins

Three scales of analysis will be used to ascertain aspects of hominin caognition and communication: Metric dimensions of Acheulean tools, the spatial patterning of an extremely well-provenanced quarry and manufacturing site in India, and the transfer of raw materials across the landscape

The premise of this chapter is tools occur in a social context and aspects of interactions and cognition may be inferred from technology

The analysis suggests the communicative and cognitive powers of Acheulean hominins were considerably more sophisticated than is traditionally believed and further that subtle changes in Acheulean technology belie vast changes in cognition and social interaction

Modes of Raw Material Availability and Associated Exploitative Strategies during the Paleolithic Occupation of the Himalayan Foothills, Northern India by Parth Chauhan

This chapter is devoted to Paleolithic land use in the Siwalik region (northern India) that was reliant on locations and relocations of quartzite clasts

For example, secondary source sites provided the opportunity to disperse more widely across the landscape, reflecting significant ecological adaptations within a rapidly changing ecosystem

The cognitive abilities of Siwalik hominins have been generally inferred from concepts of site selection, raw material procurement, and technologies of stone tool production

The site catchment model proposed in this chapter incorporates geographical, geological, and archaeological data within a broader theoretical perspective

The proposed framework arranges most known sites chronologically based on their overall organization within the Siwalik landscape

Revisiting European Upper Paleolithic Raw Material Transfers: The Demise of the Cultural Ecological Paradigm?

In the context of late Pleistocene societies, raw material provenance studies have proven useful for investigating the way man interacts with his environment and other human communities

Whether plotted transfers are interpreted as correlates of group mobility or as proxies for the extent of interaction networks e

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