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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....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?