Leading management scholar, John Hendry provides a lively introduction to the nature and practice of management. Tracing its development over the last century, he looks not only at what managers do, but also provides an insight into modern management theory, considering the influences of national and organizational culture, the relationship between power and domination, and managing in different cultures.
This is an ideal introduction for anyone interested in, or studying, business and management.
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Ethics and Finance: An Introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ethical issues raised by modern finance. Drawing carefully on ethical theory and with frequent use of case studies, it includes an analysis of the global financial system and its regulation and control, as well as a detailed analysis of the financial crisis. Chapters on specific areas of finance practice cover all the major financial scandals of recent times, from mis-selling to market manipulation and from insider trading to bankers' bonuses, as well as much more positive developments. From micro...

Actor, writer, broadcaster - now in his third age just writer - John Hendry has a degree in Philosophy and English with experience as a Samaritan, a counsellor with MIND, and a spiritual healer. These days he lives with his art psychotherapist wife, Anthea, as a vegetarian peasant in the Yorkshire Dales from where he sends free monthly mind-body-spirit newsletters to readers worldwide.

Ethics and Finance: An Introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ethical issues raised by modern finance. Drawing carefully on ethical theory and with frequent use of case studies, it includes an analysis of the global financial system and its regulation and control, as well as a detailed analysis of the financial crisis. Chapters on specific areas of finance practice cover all the major financial scandals of recent times, from mis-selling to market manipulation and from insider trading to bankers' bonuses, as well as much more positive developments. From micro...

Britain is ruled by a military dictatorship and the prisons are overflowing. The Regime opens Britain's first penal colony by sending prisoners to a secure island south of the Scillies.

It's now five years since the first prisoners arrived and there have been changes. The prisoners are making a bid for freedom that doesn't involve escaping from the island. The Regime are increasingly disturbed and what ensues is a severe test of the prisoners' resolve.

'Prison Island' is a pacey adventure full of enlightened debate, eroticism, and action, in language that reaches for the ineffable and...

Britain is ruled by a military dictatorship and the prisons are overflowing. The Regime opens Britain's first penal colony by sending prisoners to a secure island south of the Scillies.

It's now five years since the first prisoners arrived and there have been changes. The prisoners are making a bid for freedom that doesn't involve escaping from the island. The Regime are increasingly disturbed and what ensues is a severe test of the prisoners' resolve.

'Prison Island' is a pacey adventure full of enlightened debate, eroticism, and action, in language that reaches for the ineffable and...