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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453455603321

Autore

Worley Christopher G.

Titolo

Assessing organization agility : creating diagnostic profiles to guide transformation / / Christopher G. Worley, Thomas D. Williams, Edward E. Lawler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, California : , : Jossey-Bass, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-84705-9

1-118-84709-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (92 p.)

Collana

Jossey-Bass Short Format Series

Disciplina

658.406

Soggetti

Organizational change

Ability - Testing

Business

Management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Assessing Organization Agility: Creating Diagnostic Profiles to Guide Transformation; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: What Is Agility?; Strategizing; Perceiving; Testing; Implementing; Agility Routines and Performance; Summary; Chapter 2: The Agility Survey; Survey Development; Sample Database; In Search of Efficiency; Increasing Diagnostic Effectiveness; Sampling and Administration; Summary; Chapter 3: Scoring Guidelines; Calculate Your Agility Profile; Consider Change Recommendations; Summary; Chapter 4: Agility Profile Interpretation; Strong Implementing Scenarios (I)

Weak Implementing Scenarios (i )Summary; Chapter 5: Agility Assessment Applications; Advanced Aerospace; Assessment Process; Change Considerations; Global Gigawatt and Echo Energy; Assessment Process; Change Considerations; Summary; Conclusion; Notes; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This "short format" publication would be a "tools" product that would describe how to assess an organization's level of agility. The book will



feature two forms of assessment. The first form will be a longer version that replicates the agility survey used in the research leading to the book. The second form will be an 'on-line' version of the survey which will provide an interactive means for quickly diagnosing and comparing one's organization with different benchmark organizations.  The short format book will describe the survey, the agility model, methods for comparing data against best p

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910413451503321

Autore

Ritter Luke

Titolo

Inventing America's first immigration crisis : political nativism in the Antebellum West / / Luke Ritter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-8232-8987-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Catholic practice in North America

Disciplina

320.53

Soggetti

Nativism - History

Immigrants - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Valley of Decision -- Chapter 2 Culture War -- Chapter 3 The Power of Nativist Rhetoric -- Chapter 4 The Order of Know-Nothings and Secret Democracy -- Chapter 5 Crime, Poverty, and the Economic Origins of Political Nativism -- Chapter 6 From Anti-Catholicism to Church-State Separation -- Epilogue. The Specter of Anti-Catholicism, New Nativism, and the Ascendancy of Religious Freedom -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America’s first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and culminated in the dramatic rise of the National American Party. As previous studies



have focused on the coasts, historians have not yet completely explained why westerners joined the ranks of the National American, or “Know Nothing,” Party or why the nation’s bloodiest anti-immigrant riots erupted in western cities—namely Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis. In focusing on the antebellum West, Inventing America’s First Immigration Crisis illuminates the cultural, economic, and political issues that originally motivated American nativism and explains how it ultimately shaped the political relationship between church and state.In six detailed chapters, Ritter explains how unprecedented immigration from Europe and rapid westward expansion reignited fears of Catholicism as a corrosive force. He presents new research on the inner sanctums of the secretive Order of Know-Nothings and provides original data on immigration, crime, and poverty in the urban West. Ritter argues that the country’s first bout of political nativism actually renewed Americans’ commitment to church-state separation. Native-born Americans compelled Catholics and immigrants, who might have otherwise shared an affinity for monarchism, to accept American-style democracy. Catholics and immigrants forced Americans to adopt a more inclusive definition of religious freedom. This study offers valuable insight into the history of nativism in U.S. politics and sheds light on present-day concerns about immigration, particularly the role of anti-Islamic appeals in recent elections.