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The Subject of Virtue: An Anthropology of Ethics and Freedom
ISBN: 9781107028463 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The anthropology of ethics has become an important and fast-growing field in recent years. This book argues that it represents not just a new subfield within anthropology but a conceptual renewal of the discipline as a whole, enabling it to take account of a major dimension of human conduct which social theory has so far failed adequately to address. An ideal introduction for students and researchers in anthropology and related human sciences. Shows how ethical concepts such as virtue, character, freedom and responsibility may be incorporated into anthropological analysis Surveys the history...
The anthropology of ethics has become an important and fast-growing field in recent years. This book argues that it represents not just a new subfield...
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The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations
ISBN: 9780199658213 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issue of gender in organizations has attracted much attention and debate over a number of years. The focus of examination is inequality of opportunity between the genders and the impact this has on organizations, individual men and women, and society as a whole. It is undoubtedly the case that progress has been made with women participating in organizational life in greater numbers and at more senior levels than has been historically the case, challenging notions that senior and/or influential organizational and political roles remain a masculine domain. The Oxford Handbook of Gender in...
The issue of gender in organizations has attracted much attention and debate over a number of years. The focus of examination is inequality of opportu...
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696,62 |
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Internal and External Aspects of Corporate Governance
ISBN: 9780415860864 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An effective system of corporate governance has both internal and external aspects that have to be sufficiently responsive if governance is to succeed. In this book, Ahmed Naciri examines these two core aspects or the latest buzzword in business and management theory. Internal aspects include ownership structure, the board of directors and committees, internal control, risk management, transparency and financial reporting. External aspects can either be market-oriented, or can take the form of credit ranking, and/or social requirements. Due to the original orientation of the Sarbanes/Oxley...
An effective system of corporate governance has both internal and external aspects that have to be sufficiently responsive if governance is to succeed...
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The Responsibilities of Business Leadership
ISBN: 9780674366800 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Additional Contributors Include Richard R. Deupree, Ralph E. Flanders, Jack I. Straus, Harry A. Bullis And Allen W. Dulles.
Additional Contributors Include Richard R. Deupree, Ralph E. Flanders, Jack I. Straus, Harry A. Bullis And Allen W. Dulles.
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Toxic Town: Ibm, Pollution, and Industrial Risks
ISBN: 9780814760697 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1924, IBM built its first plant in Endicott, New York. Now, Endicott is a contested toxic waste site. With its landscape thoroughly contaminated by carcinogens, Endicott is the subject of one of the nation's largest corporate-state mitigation efforts. Yet despite the efforts of IBM and the U.S. government, Endicott residents remain skeptical that the mitigation systems employed were designed with their best interests at heart. In Toxic Town, Peter C. Little tracks and critically diagnoses the experiences of Endicott residents as they learn to live with high-tech pollution,...
In 1924, IBM built its first plant in Endicott, New York. Now, Endicott is a contested toxic waste site. With its landscape thoroughly contaminated by...
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Toxic Town: Ibm, Pollution, and Industrial Risks
ISBN: 9780814770924 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1924, IBM built its first plant in Endicott, New York. Now, Endicott is a contested toxic waste site. With its landscape thoroughly contaminated by carcinogens, Endicott is the subject of one of the nation's largest corporate-state mitigation efforts. Yet despite the efforts of IBM and the U.S. government, Endicott residents remain skeptical that the mitigation systems employed were designed with their best interests at heart. In Toxic Town, Peter C. Little tracks and critically diagnoses the experiences of Endicott residents as they learn to live with high-tech pollution,...
In 1924, IBM built its first plant in Endicott, New York. Now, Endicott is a contested toxic waste site. With its landscape thoroughly contaminated by...
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135,98 |
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The Integrity of the Servant Leader
ISBN: 9781138212923 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The impact of the global financial crisis is still being felt today and the deeply unethical behaviour of the top level leaders at those economic and financial organizations, that were at the heart of the crisis, has served to highlight the importance of integrity, and in particular the need for servant leadership, if we are to avoid another major catastrophe in the management of both commercial and non-profit organizations. Servant leadership has many features in common with transformational leadership but is primarily focused on caring about employees and their personal development. ...The impact of the global financial crisis is still being felt today and the deeply unethical behaviour of the top level leaders at those economic a... |
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Large Systems Change: An Emerging Field of Transformation and Transitions: A Special Theme Issue of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship (Issue 58)
ISBN: 9781783534364 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Large Systems Change (LSC) is a field of study and action that is characterized by its focus on transformational pathways towards a participative, flourishing future through inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches that value engagement with practitioners and those aspiring for such futures. Its emergence holds great promise for addressing critical issues. Advancing its development requires aggressiveness to cross the many disciplinary, institutional and other boundaries and build the necessary scale of effort; however, humbleness is also required to recognize that although we have...
Large Systems Change (LSC) is a field of study and action that is characterized by its focus on transformational pathways towards a participative, flo...
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Educational Leadership and Moral Literacy: The Dispositional Aims of Moral Leaders
ISBN: 9781610487269 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What makes a moral person moral? Who decides what morality means? What makes leadership practice moral? In today's schools, what stands as moral leadership? These are questions that reflect the complexity integral to the calculus of human morality, especially in a world that is defined daily by its variant meanings of morality, its acts of immorality. The school as an educational setting is or should be a decidedly moral center of the society; it is the natural intersect between the family and the multi-dimensional nature of public life. Educational Leadership and Moral Literacy addresses...
What makes a moral person moral? Who decides what morality means? What makes leadership practice moral? In today's schools, what stands as moral leade...
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Educational Leadership and Moral Literacy: The Dispositional Aims of Moral Leaders
ISBN: 9781610487276 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What makes a moral person moral? Who decides what morality means? What makes leadership practice moral? In today's schools, what stands as moral leadership? These are questions that reflect the complexity integral to the calculus of human morality, especially in a world that is defined daily by its variant meanings of morality, its acts of immorality. The school as an educational setting is or should be a decidedly moral center of the society; it is the natural intersect between the family and the multi-dimensional nature of public life. Educational Leadership and Moral Literacy addresses...
What makes a moral person moral? Who decides what morality means? What makes leadership practice moral? In today's schools, what stands as moral leade...
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233,17 |
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4 Power Leadership: Your Pathway to Leadership Success
ISBN: 9780989708425 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "We'll make you a leader." When Dan Shyti heard those words, they changed his life. Now you can hear them too. Yes, you can be a leader. You just need to know the simple steps for harnessing the right skills. Despite all the books and seminars that have explored the subject of leadership, there are very few sources for this practical advice. That's why 4 Power Leadership is such a timely and valuable book. The key topics you'll learn include: How to eliminate common leadership mistakes Mastering the 4 Powers you must have to succeed How to reshape your corporate culture What really motivates...
"We'll make you a leader." When Dan Shyti heard those words, they changed his life. Now you can hear them too. Yes, you can be a leader. You just need...
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Cases on Management and Organizational Behavior in an Arab Context
ISBN: 9781466650671 / Angielski / Twarda / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the era of globalization and ease of international connectivity and business interactions, professionals from all over the world benefit from having a well-rounded view of business culture and organizational practice at the regional level. Cases on Management and Organizational Behavior in an Arab Context provides a presentation of teaching cases emphasizing the positive and negative experiences on a variety of management topics. Focusing on organizational behavior and leadership in Arab countries and the impact of culture in management and behavior, this publication is an essential...
In the era of globalization and ease of international connectivity and business interactions, professionals from all over the world benefit from havin...
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The Long Hedge: Preserving Organisational Value Through Climate Change Adaptation
ISBN: 9781907643958 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * Outlines a climate change adaptation framework to help organizations respond appropriately to climate change and adequately inform their investors and stakeholders
* Gives a comprehensive assessment of climate change management in the corporate sector Between climate change mitigation and adaptation, adaptation is seen as the poor cousin of international climate change efforts. But in the absence of globally coherent mitigation activities, adaptation may one day become the main line of defense for many organizations. Organizations have a clear imperative to assess both costs... * Outlines a climate change adaptation framework to help organizations respond appropriately to climate change and adequately inform their investors a...
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Business Ethics and Risk Management
ISBN: 9789400774407 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores various aspects of risk taking. It offers an analysis of financial, entrepreneurial and social risks, as well as a discussion of the ethical implications of empirical findings. The main issues examined in the book are the financial crisis and its implications for business ethics. The book discusses unethical behaviour as a reputational risk (e.g., in the case of Goldman Sachs) and the question is raised as to what extent the financial crisis has changed the banks' entrepreneurial strategy. The book presents an analysis of the reasons leading to the crisis and identifies...
This volume explores various aspects of risk taking. It offers an analysis of financial, entrepreneurial and social risks, as well as a discussion of ...
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Management Systems for Sustainability: How to Connect Strategy and Action
ISBN: 9781909293816 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To deliver on your sustainability ambitions, you need an effective management system. Delivery and results, after all, are what sets leading sustainable businesses apart.
Supplementing your existing management arrangements with a management systems approach can play a crucial part in helping to implement more sustainable ways of working. It will help your colleagues understand what sustainability means and how it applies to their role. It will strengthen the link between strategy and action and provide the framework for the various elements of your sustainability strategy to... To deliver on your sustainability ambitions, you need an effective management system. Delivery and results, after all, are what sets leading sustainab...
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165,11 |
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Negotiating Genuinely: Being Yourself in Business
ISBN: 9780804790697 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We often assume that strategic negotiation requires us to wall off vulnerable parts of ourselves and act rationally to win. But, what if you could just be you in business? Taking a positive approach, this brief distills years of research, teaching, and coaching into an integrated framework for negotiating genuinely. One of the most fundamental and challenging battlegrounds in our work lives, negotiation calls on us to compete and cooperate to do our jobs well and achieve extraordinary results. But, the biggest challenge in a negotiation is to be strategic while also being real. Author Shirli...
We often assume that strategic negotiation requires us to wall off vulnerable parts of ourselves and act rationally to win. But, what if you could jus...
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Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspectives and Practice
ISBN: 9781783507955 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a groundbreaking collection of chapters in the emerging field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communication. After outlining a theoretical framework, the themed sections cover: (1) Communication in CSR: The Communicative Role, Strategy and Evaluation; (2) CSR Discourses and Corporate Reporting; (3) CSR Online Communication and Social Media; (4) The Role of Stakeholders in CSR Communication: Managers, Employees and Consumers. The 18 chapters explore the theory, practice and issues involved in communicating CSR and make for fascinating reading. An international...
This book offers a groundbreaking collection of chapters in the emerging field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communication. After outlining...
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654,48 |
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Grundlagen Der Csr Aus Der Perspektive Des Marketings: Historische Entwicklung Und Begriffsklärung
ISBN: 9783658044053 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Begriff der gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung von Unternehmen (Corporate Social Responsibility, kurz CSR) hat sich seit seiner fruhen Konzeptionalisierung zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts zu einem umfassenden Leitgedanken fur Wirtschaft, Politik und Wissenschaft entwickelt. In einer historischen Betrachtung zeigt dieser Beitrag auf, wie sich die CSR von ihren Anfangen in den Managementtheorien von Barnard und Bowen bis zum heutigen Begriffsverstandnis entwickelt hat. Zusatzlich wird eine Differenzierung der CSR in strategische und nichtstrategische Unternehmensaktivitaten vorgenommen. Dies...
Der Begriff der gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung von Unternehmen (Corporate Social Responsibility, kurz CSR) hat sich seit seiner fruhen Konzeptionali...
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Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts
ISBN: 9781907643934 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The best practices in corporate sustainability performance are no longer the exclusive domain of companies like Ben & Jerry's or The Body Shop, as they were a decade ago; now, large, multinational companies like G.E. and Wal-Mart are leading the way with significant financial and organizational commitments to social and environmental issues. However, good intentions aren't enough. Whether motivated by concern for society and the environment, government regulation, stakeholder pressures, or economic profit, managers and strategists need to continue making significant changes to more...
The best practices in corporate sustainability performance are no longer the exclusive domain of companies like Ben & Jerry's or The Body Shop, as the...
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165,11 |
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The Brand Strategist's Guide to Desire: How to Give Consumers What They Actually Want
ISBN: 9781137351814 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a guide to help brand strategists consider what people really want in order to enhance their lives, and think about the role of their brand in responding to these desires. It offers a new framework for understanding desire, based on some of the things that are really important to us: our family, friends and community; the desire to explore, learn and grow; how we experience the world through our senses; our appetite to live life to the full; and what we set out to achieve. Brand strategists are the link between a commercial proposition and the lives it means to touch. They can talk to...
This is a guide to help brand strategists consider what people really want in order to enhance their lives, and think about the role of their brand in...
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160,99 |