Many countries have legislation on national security, including economic security, energy security, social security, and political security, which are commonly regarded as "e;national security law"e; (NSL). With particular reference to Hong K...Lasīt vairāk
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in social distancing and lockdown of businesses and also changed life for university students, who had to stay home and learn online instead of frontal teaching. Especially in Hong Kong university students faced many ch...Lasīt vairāk
Service leadership is conceived as "e;satisfying needs by consistently providing quality personal service to everyone one comes into contact with, including ones self, others, groups, communities, systems, and environments."e; Effective serv...Lasīt vairāk
How can leadership in service economies be developed and nurtured? This issue is of the utmost importance, because the mode of production and requirements of the leaders are different in manufacturing and service economies. While the focus in manufac...Lasīt vairāk
Young people are expected to learn "e;academic"e; or "e;technical"e; knowledge in a manufacturing economy, which can be referred to as "e;hard skills"e; (for example, to produce a car through assembly lines). In many countries...Lasīt vairāk
In this book, we have looked at some aspects commonly found in urban cities within developed countries. Although the chapters are all from Hong Kong (Chinas most international city) with a focus on Chinese children and adolescents, key developmental...Lasīt vairāk
Have universities forgotten their educational role in guiding students to grow up? With specific reference to Hong Kong, the university structure was a three-year program before the 2012/13 academic year that was modeled after the British system. How...Lasīt vairāk
While it is good to see that there are many leadership programs in the market for different parts of the world, there are several limitations of the existing leadership programs. Primarily, most of the programs focus on skills (i.e., "e;the doing...Lasīt vairāk
With the conclusion of adolescence, a child develops into a teenager that may experiment with dating, smoking and drinking, and they may make important decisions without parental knowledge or guidance. These teenagers may also engage in risky behavio...Lasīt vairāk
Since we think university students are the "e;cream of the crop"e;, it is important to ask whether or not they thrive well. To what extent can university students in Hong Kong develop in a holistic manner? How should we nurture university stu...Lasīt vairāk
In this book, some other attributes of service leadership and the related curriculum materials are introduced. The first one is moral character. While generic leadership competences are important, they are simply not enough. The reason is simple. Wit...Lasīt vairāk
Leadership training is beneficial for the development of every human being, but few leadership models have focused on leadership qualities under service economies. In view of the lack of leadership models designed for service economies, the service l...Lasīt vairāk
Using the experience from the United States on positive youth development, researchers in Hong Kong developed the Project P.A.T.H.S., trained the potential program implementers and evaluated the developed programs. Because of the overwhelming success...Lasīt vairāk
Adolescent risk behavior is a growing problem in the global context. In many places, efforts are carried out to prevent the occurrence of adolescent risk behavior and to identify the best intervention options. In view of the growing magnitude of adol...Lasīt vairāk
