IFAD's comparative advantage lies in its experience in working at the grass-roots level, its understanding of the constraints facing rural poor people, including the most vulnerable, and its capacity to envisage inclusive approaches for socio-economic development. A key element of IFAD’s approach to development is providing support to rural smallholder organizations as a strategy for empowering...

Many factors underlie the growing popularity of herbal treatments for a variety of chronic conditions. Interestingly, people who use alternative therapies are not necessarily uninformed. If anything, they are more "culturally creative" (i.e., comfortable with cultural changes) and more highly educated. Many people using herbal medicines find the health care alternatives are more congr...

The phenomenon of managing work that is distributed over geographical distance is not new but is increasing in both frequency and intentionality as a function of globalization and knowledge-centric strategies (MacDuffie, 2007, p. 549). Distributed work entails the loss of physical proximity (Alexander, 1997; MacDuffie, 2007). This lack of physical proximity often leads to reduced social interac...

When one thinks of "power", one often assumes that a person is the source of it and that some mystical charismatic element is at work. Of course, with some people this is undoubtedly so; they derive power from how other people perceive them. In organizations, however--says this author--power is not so much a question of people but of positions. Drawing a distinction between productive and oppre...

OBJECTIVES To determine the views of organizations of and for disabled people in order to inform the writing of the British Society of Research Medicines policy document "Vocational Rehabilitation--The Way Forward". PATIENTS/ORGANIZATIONS: A single mailing was sent to 98 disability organizations within the UK. DESIGN A semi-structured postal questionnaire focused on factors (i) within the Nat...

In working teams, each member has an individual understanding of the social rules and norms that underlie relationships in team, as well about what behavior is appropriate can be expected from others. What happens if members a team are not “on same page” with respect to these norms? Drawing on relational models theory, which posits four elemental people use coordinate their interactions, we exa...

How do organizations achieve long-term sustainability? How do they focus their resources (including talent) most effectively to drive business success? To help organizations address these questions, Hewitt Associates conducts Best Employer research globally. Our research, in over 50 markets, 5,000 organizations, and 60 industries, reveals how organizations differentiate and achieve a competitiv...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a business strategy to manage the interactions with customers in order to optimize value and satisfycustomers for a long time. In today’s business world, most of the organizations have been saturated with the loads of the information about customers. Information sources flow from everywhere inside and/or outside the organization; however, the majority o...