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Expatriate Leaders of International Development Projects : Creating Success in an Unforgiving Environment.

Expatriate leadership of USAID projects is complex, this title seeks to unravel those complexities. Expatriate leaders frequently find project success elusive, due to a multiplicity of factors, from adapting to a developing country's socio-political-economic conditions to USAID's policies....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McLaughlin, Patricia J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Expatriate Leaders of International Development Projects -- Expatriate Leaders of International Development Projects: Creating Success in an Unforgiving Environment -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction: Finding My Way into Expatriate Leadership and the Study of Expatriate Leaders of International Development Pr ... -- Growing into Expatriate Leadership -- Working with USAID Projects -- 1. Seeking to Understand the Unforgiving Environment of International Development Projects 
505 8 |a History of United States Agency for International Development -- Crafting United States Foreign Aid Policy -- USAID's Origin -- USAID Evolves -- Multi-dimensional Organizational Context -- Leading Temporary Organizations -- Complementary Assets, Competing Values -- Extractive Political and Economic Institutions -- USAID Evaluation Program and Operational Policies, Practices, Systems -- 2. Listening to Expatriate Leaders Speak -- Introduction of Expatriate Leader Participants in This Study -- Chief of Party Experience Managing USAID Projects 
505 8 |a Formative Life and / or Work Experiences of Expatriate Leaders -- Expatriate Leaders Speak: Sharing Their Perspectives on Project Success -- Feeling Successful -- Defining Project Success -- Defining Host Country Nationals Perspectives of Project Success -- Expatriate Leaders Speak: Explaining Challenges They Experienced -- Leading Time-limited Temporary Organizations -- Navigating Relational Challenges with Leaders within Multidimensional Organizational Context -- Home Office of Technical Implementing Organization -- USAID and Its Compliance Superintendence -- Managing COR Expectations 
505 8 |a Challenges Created by USAID's System for Assigning CORs to a Project and Lack of COR Training -- Challenges Created by USAID CORs That Made Expatriate Leaders' Work Difficult -- Working with Recipient Organization Leaders to Create and Sustain Change -- Coping with Situational Challenges -- Coping with Consequences of Travel -- Coping with Betrayal of Trust -- Coping with Internal and External Pressures to Hire Specific Individuals -- Coping with Corruption -- Coping with the Unknowns of Taking Over a Troubled Project -- Coping with Managing Projects in Volatile Settings 
505 8 |a Expatriate Leaders Speak: Explaining What Helped Expatriate Leaders Efforts to Lead These Projects and What Was Easy or Dif ... -- What Helped Expatriate Leaders Efforts to Lead International Development Projects -- Prior Project Management Experience -- Applying Lessons Learned to Subsequent Projects -- Systematic Approach to Project Management -- Capturing the Benefit of Their Expatriate Status -- Being Perceptive of When Their Gender and Age Was an Asset -- What Was Easy about Being an Expatriate Leader of International Development Projects? 
500 |a What Was Difficult about Being an Expatriate Leader of International Development Projects? 
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