Visual Memory, Personal Experience, and Public History

This article introduces an exemplary case of underground culture during the Cultural Revolution – the Wuming (No Name) painting group. The story of this case provides a counter-narrative against mainstream master narratives of the Cultural Revolution, contributing to an alternative history, a history of the creative actors and actions that were constitutive of grassroots change. The article further illustrates the challenges that memory and subjectivity pose for the writing of that history, and some innovative techniques the author has developed in response to them.

Women leaders and organizational diversity: their critical role in promoting diversity in organizations

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of women leaders in enhancing and managing diversity in organizations. Design/methodology/approach The approach of this paper is to combine the findings of two fields of research, namely, effectiveness of women leaders, and organizational diversity, and propose that women leaders have a critical role to play in enhancing organizational diversity and its effectiveness. Findings The main findings of the paper are that women leaders outperform their male counterparts in many of the necessary skills and competencies required to create democratic and inclusive organizations. Their leadership style is also best suited to effectively manage and take advantage of diversity in organizations. Practical implications Women leaders can create a very significant impact on creating inclusive environments in which diversity is valued and on organizational performance overall. Thus, it is imperative for firms to overcome gender bias and create meritocracies in which women leaders can be hired, retained, and promoted. Social implications Societies need to create grassroots change where perceptions of women in the workplace change. Originality/value The study creates a connection between two bodies of literature: one that explores the effectiveness of women leaders on leadership competencies and the second that looks at diversity in organizations, and how organizations can take advantage of this diversity. It shows that women leaders are well suited to promote and manage diversity in organizations by virtue of their skills and leadership style.

Coding and Professional Development -Part 2: A Case Study of Grassroots Change

This article looks at concrete examples of grassroots organizations and initiatives that foster and support professional development in coding for library workers. Cet article présente des exemples concrets d’organismes et d’initiatives communautaires qui encouragent et appuient le développement professionnel en programmation des employés des bibliothèques.

Conclusion

The Conclusion summarizes how personal parishes—defined not by territory but by purpose—enable the Catholic Church to respond institutionally to grassroots change and diversity in American Catholicism. Having considered parishes, boundaries, decisions, difference, fragmentation, and community, the book concludes with a handful of lessons that personal parishes offer for understanding local religion and institutional responses to diversity. Namely, this chapter explores: (1) ascription and achievement in local religion; (2) generalism and specialism in organizing diversity; (3) the future of personal parishes; and (4) the place of purpose in a heterogeneous (Catholic) America. Viewing local religion from the top shows that multiple organizational forms can be deployed to meet divergent needs, to facilitate unity, and to maintain institutional control.

Inciting Grassroots Change

In higher education, policies and strategic plans often achieve fewer positive outcomes than their makers intend. Motivating teachers to innovate is remarkably difficult. Pleas issued by accreditation agencies and professional organizations, asking teachers to implement pedagogies that develop transferrable skills like collaboration and self-directed learning among engineering students, have gone largely unaddressed. To help leaders achieve change, this chapter analyzes one case that accrued positive results. It studies how change unfolded at a postsecondary institution in Ireland and discusses factors that enabled learning on the part of individuals, small groups, and their college. In this case, a grassroots effort by teachers was matched by institutional support that, although poorly understood by the teachers, built their capacity and set the stage for change.