Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Management Science

A sustainable learning organization always has a competitive advantage, and organizational-learning tools can provide businesses of any size with the ability to achieve more with less. This innovation in management is based in science and backed by numerous successful applications.

Author Anthi Theiopoulou, MSc, conducted breakthrough research in organizational learning (OL) best practices and the operationalization of OL principles. As a leading international expert, she offers this guide for applying OL to any business and measuring the outcome.

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The New Digital Workplace is part of the acclaimed Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment (CPWE) series, in association with the annual International Labour Process Conference. This book brings together leading international academics to examine how digital technologies impact on work and organisations. Grounded in Labour Process Theory, it provides a rigorous account of the technological, organizational and work related changes not only in the new -digital- industries, but also in -traditional- service and manufacturing sectors.

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In Chains of Finance, five social scientists discuss the ways in which the intermediaries in the chain influence each other, channel the flows of savers' money, enhance...

There is a younger generation who has lost the ability to communicate effectively. And there is a host of corporate personnel that could do a much better job at communications.

Every country, every culture has it's own unique branding for communication that is effective and gets the job done. Key cultures and regions will be reviewed in great detail. The author knows the frustration that corporate America has in making sure its personnel is communicating effectively ... internally and with vendors and customers in the value chain. Most senior executives, educators and trained...

Managing As Mission pushes the boundaries of what it means to be a nonprofit manager by making the case that managing as a reflection of the organizational mission - the cornerstone of any nonprofit - can bring about the change nonprofits were created to achieve: a better world for all. The book contains real-world examples, interview excerpts from nonprofit managers and directors, and a series of self-reflection and organization-wide tools to develop managers and managing as a mirror of the mission.

Themes within the book include: a discussion of the history of nonprofit...

This book blends concepts and their application in a comprehensive and clear presentation of how mastering of visionary leadership, strategic Innovation, managed resilience, and organizational agility improve solution delivery and sustain enterprise performance. This book widens the perspective on enterprise agility and outlines an actionable strategy to assure solution alignment in support of corporate goals. The four parts of the book describe the "Enterprise Performance Enablers" that make enterprise agility possible. They are designed to maximize organizational effectiveness and...

This book provides practitioners with strategies and tools for establishing and maintaining a successful, value-centric internal audit organization. It explores opportunities to gain management support through early wins; methods to systematically identify process improvement opportunities, cost savings and avoidance, and potential revenue recoveries; and tips on marketing and branding the audit organization for maximum impact. It introduces the Audit Value Factor, a concept to determine the estimated value of a given audit, as well as methods for calculating the return on recommendations...

Introduction to Human Resources: Applying Concepts and Practical Applications is a comprehensive guide to the functions of human resource management. This student-friendly text concisely covers all critical aspects of the profession while avoiding unnecessary material.

Students are first introduced to human resource law, policy, and ethics. Subsequent chapters target real-world human resource applications beginning with job analysis and descriptions, recruitment, and the selection process including testing, interviewing, and hiring. The material also addresses...

This book was written to assist professionals and students to become proactive in their own education, improve thinking, resolve personal and interpersonal conflicts, improve pedagogy, management departmental affairs, and guide administrative decisions. The text captures the practical experience of the authors with and formal training in TOC to address many of the issues facing today's professional and student.

The text is designed to teach methods for 1) -win-win' conflict resolution, 2) decision-making, 3) problem solving, and 4) analysis of using TOC's powerful...

Compared to the US, European data and privacy protection rules seem Draconian. The European rules apply to any enterprise doing business in the EU. The new rules are far more stringent than the last set. This book is a quick guide to the directives for companies, particularly US, that have to comply with them. Where US organizations and businesses who collect or receive EU personal data fail to comply with the rule, the bottom line can suffer from very significant official fines and penalties, as well as from users, customers or representative bodies to pursuing litigation. This guide is...

Getting what you want - even if you are the boss - isn't always easy. Almost every organization, big or small, works among a network of competing interests. Whether it's governments pushing through policies, companies trying to increase profits, or even families deciding where to move house, rarely can decisions be made in isolation from competing interests both within the organization and outside it.

In this accessible and straightforward account, Hans de Bruijn and Ernst ten Heuvelhof cast light on multi-stakeholder decision-making. Using plain language, they reveal the...

Getting what you want - even if you are the boss - isn't always easy. Almost every organization, big or small, works among a network of competing interests. Whether it's governments pushing through policies, companies trying to increase profits, or even families deciding where to move house, rarely can decisions be made in isolation from competing interests both within the organization and outside it.

In this accessible and straightforward account, Hans de Bruijn and Ernst ten Heuvelhof cast light on multi-stakeholder decision-making. Using plain language, they reveal the...

The Occupy Movement with the 'We are the 99%' slogan, emerged as a reaction to a perception that the market-based form of capitalism employed in the US, and to differing degrees in democracies around the globe, is beyond broken. The average citizen has grown increasingly convinced that the system is set up to help the rich get richer. Data on income inequality, such as the Gini Index, suggests that the public perception may be an accurate one. In recent years we have seen a growth in calls for a new economic model, some refer to as post-capitalism.

Proponents of a post-capitalist...