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  • Fitness For Work

    The Role Of Physical Demands Analysis And Physical Capacity Assessment

    by T. M. Fraser ...
    Offers an occupational ergonomic analysis of medical selection procedures for disabled and able-bodied labour-market entrants. The book re-examines the concept of fitness for work and emphasizes humanitarian and legislative factors. ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Designing Freedom

    by Stafford Beer ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Distinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics. His essays examine such issues as The Real Threat to All We Hold Most Dear, The Discarded Tools of Modern Man, A Liberty Machine in Prototype, Science in the Service of Man, The Future That Can Be Demanded Now, The Free Man in a Cybernetic World.Designing Freedom ponders the possibilities ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning

    In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic planning. One of our most brilliant and original management thinkers, Mintzberg concludes that the term is an oxymoron -- that strategy cannot be planned because planning is about analysis ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Project Management for Environmental, Health and Safety Professionals

    18 Steps to Success

    Learn the project management skills you need to survive as an EH&S professional. This book presents a simple-to-use 18-step approach for effective project management. Each of the three phases are explained in detail, using case studies to illustrate the best tools to use and pitfalls to avoid. You'll learn how to identify project objectives and constraints, establish elements and resource needs, ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

  • The Thinking Manager's Toolbox

    Effective Processes for Problem Solving and Decision Making

    In this indispensable book, a widely experienced business consultant provides a complete set of analytical tools essential to successful trouble-shooting, effective planning, and making better decisions faster, more confidently, and more often. How can you help your company solve a problem in just a few days that's been plaguing managers for three months? How can you bring a room of executives to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Harnessing Complexity

    Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier

    Recent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, provide leaders in business and government with a guide to complexity that will help them make effective decisions in a world of rapid change.Building on evolutionary biology ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Off the Record

    by David Menconi ...
    Take a volatile rock band, a kingmaking concert promoter, a downtrodden clubowner and a rock critic with questionable journalistic ethics, add one hit record, a drug problem, a couple of riots and shake well. There you have the essence of this book, the very unauthorized account of the rise and fall of the Tommy Aguilar Band. Off The Record will confirm your worst suspicions about the music ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Knowledge Management

    Learning from Knowledge Engineering

    by Jay Liebowitz ...
    Knowledge Management (KM) is strongly rooted in the discipline of Knowledge Engineering (KE), which in turn grew partly out of the artificial intelligence field. Despite their close relationship, however, many KM specialists have failed to fully recognize the synergy or acknowledge the power that KE methodologies, techniques, and tools hold for enh ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Profit Beyond Measure

    Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People

    Waste has plagued almost every industrial-age firm for the past century. In this powerfully argued alternative to conventional cost management thinking, experts H. Thomas Johnson and Anders Bröms assert that any company can avoid the waste that is generated through excessive operating costs in the short run and excessive losses from market instability in the long run. To gain more secure levels of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • DK Essential Managers: Effective Public Relations

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Essential Managers
    Learn all you need to know about how to generate and manage publicity — from recognizing public relations opportunities to creating and sustaining media coverage. Effective PR shows you not only how to identify and target your audience, but also provides practical techniques for presenting information, whether writing news releases or organizing press conferences and product launches. Power tips ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Superior Project Manager

    Global Competency Standards and Best Practices

    by Frank Toney ...
    Series series PM Solutions Research
    Describes global best practices, competencies, and standards of superior project organizations based on research conducted by the Top 500 Project Management Forum. It emphasizes the selection process, performance evaluation, and personnel development to provide the key elements for adjusting and adapting to flexible conditions. The text also highli ... Read more

    $350.99 USD

  • Leading Quietly

    An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMost of us think of leaders as courageous risk takers, orchestrators of major events. In a word: heroes. Although such figures are inspiring, their larger-than-life accomplishments are not what makes the world work. Instead, it is the sum of millions of small yet consequential decisions that individuals working far from the limelight make every day.Badaracco calls these ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • HRD and Learning Organisations in Europe

    'Lifelong learning' is moving from buzzword to reality for ever latger numbers of workers. Firms increasingly need their workers to be active, self-directed learners who contribute to innovations and improvements of processes, products and services. Companies that explicitly encourage and support worker learning, from a strategic perspective, are c ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Zero Space

    Moving Beyond Organizational Limits

    Discover the revolutionary business model that lets you achieve success without the headaches of management or asset ownership.In a zero space organization, knowledge is the only true currency and people are the only assets that matter. Through eight new organizational principles, Frank Lekanne Deprez and René Tissen illustrate how “zero-mindedness” is essential for the new economy. As ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Corporate University Handbook

    Designing, Managing, and Growing a Successful Program

    by Mark D. Allen ...
    This comprehensive handbook is a valuable resource for companies of all sizes who are considering (or already developing) enhanced professional learning programs.Often working in conjunction with traditional educational institutions, they boast cream-of-the-crop faculty from the academic and business communities. Once the province of only the largest corporations, corporate universities are fast ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Project Manager's Emergency Kit

    by PMP Kliem ...
    Project success requires a solid understanding and proper implementation of the tools, techniques, and principles of project management. A reference for both the novice and expert project manager, The Project Manager's Emergency Kit provides you with everything you will need to get your project off to a solid start and overcome any em ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Leaders Talk Leadership

    Top Executives Speak Their Minds

    Leaders Talk Leadership is an impressive collection of interviews with some of the world's most respected corporate leaders and management scholars. Edited by Ashby and Miles of the preeminent executive search firm Heidrick and Struggles, this compilation of thought leadership spanning industries and geographies addresses the key issues facing executives today such as governance, leadership and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Coaching Competencies and Corporate Leadership

    The quality of corporate leadership is often the key factor that determines success - or failure - in the fiercely competitive business world. Offering a fresh perspective and practical advice, Coaching Competencies and Corporate Leadership explores how coaching executives can use a competency-based approach to become more effective leaders. The au ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • It's Alive

    The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business

    Why we are on the cusp of a new economic era that will make the changes and challenges of the Information Era seem like child’s playFrom the bestselling authors of Blur—a defining book of the Information Age—comes a startling glimpse into the near future and the emerging economy that awaits us. It’s Alive foretells the jolt the world is about to receive as the science of molecular evolution races ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Poetic Logic of Administration

    Styles and Changes of Style in the Art of Organizing

    by Kaj Skoldberg ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    The Poetic Logic of Administration is an investigation of the most important organizational forms of our time, theoretically as well as practically. Central to the presentation are four main trends: the rational bureaucracy, the human network, the harmonious system and the strong culture.The book provides a new and challenging picture of these organizational forms. Difficult to capture in common ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Changing Conversations in Organizations

    A Complexity Approach to Change

    Series series Complexity and Emergence in Organizations
    Drawing on the theoretical foundations laid out in earlier volumes of this series, this book describes an approach to organizational change and development that is informed by a complexity perspective. It clarifies the experience of being in the midst of change. Unlike many books that presume clarity of foresight or hindsight, the author focuses on the essential uncertainty of participating in ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations

    Edited by Iiris Aaltio, Albert J. Mills ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. This edited collection brings together four powerful themes that have developed within the field of organizational analysis over the past two decades: organizational culture; the gendering of organizations; post-modernism and organizational ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Varieties of Capitalism:The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

    The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

    Edited by Peter A. Hall, David Soskice ...
    What are the most fundamental differences among the political economies of the developed world? How do national institutional differences condition economic performance, public policy, and social well-being? Will they survive the pressures for convergence generated by globalization and technological change? These have long been central questions in comparative political economy. This book provides ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • A Rendezvous with My Professional Destiny

    Making a Difference

    The books title is not an accident, as Belmont Haydel feels strongly about A Rendezvous with My Professional Destiny. Providence took him to Latin America and other places around the world in macro-economic pursuits. He found his work as an accountant, a military officer, and a diplomat not adequately fulfilling. Gods enlightenment directed him to higher education, where he spent most of his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD