Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Business Ethics

Since the 2008 global economic crash there have been calls for a more authentic and responsible form of leadership in business and society. Private and public organizations have been scrutinised and leaders have struggled to articulate and contextualise their leadership and management approaches against charges of greed, selfishness and lack of community responsibility.

This is the first academic book to explicitly bring together kindness and leadership, and consider them in different societal and organisational settings within a global context. It opens with a definition of...

Since the 2008 global economic crash there have been calls for a more authentic and responsible form of leadership in business and society. Private and public organizations have been scrutinised and leaders have struggled to articulate and contextualise their leadership and management approaches against charges of greed, selfishness and lack of community responsibility.

This is the first academic book to explicitly bring together kindness and leadership, and consider them in different societal and organisational settings within a global context. It opens with a definition of...

This book provides transdisciplinary analyses of the automotive plastics production and recycling system, including prognoses, scenarios and solutions for corporate sustainability management.

A book on plastics, not written by a plastics guy. But a sustainability guy. Plastics schizophrenia and the automotive abyss: The industry is facing a severe challenge. It is the inevitable and promising change towards a sustainable economy. However, the automotive industry is primarily concerned with the CO2 emissions from cars when driving, while the rise of lightweight plastics, electric...

Project Management for Engineers, as the title suggests, is a direct attempt at addressing the ever-increasing and specific needs for better project management of engineering students, practicing engineers and managers in the industry. It aims not only to present the principles and techniques of Project Management, but also to discuss project management standards, processes and requirements, such as PMBOK, IEEE and PRINCE.

Each chapter begins with the basics of the theme being developed at a level understandable to an undergraduate, before more complex topics are introduced at the...

Hidden to consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade industry between our health-care providers, drug companies, and a complex web of middlemen. This great medical-data bazaar sells copies of the prescription you recently filled, your hospital records, insurance claims, blood-test results, and more, stripped of your name but possibly with identifiers such as year of birth, gender, and doctor....

This book explores the concept of citizenship, and the role that organizations can or do play in its creation, stimulation and control. Offering multiple organizational perspectives (private and public organisations) and their relation to several types of output (citizenship, poverty, profit, employability), this work presents a rich collection of philosophical thoughts and practices on the subject of citizenship within and without the organizational context. Particular attention is given to this human aspect, an element of unpredictability, a gut feeling, the unknown... something...