Transnational Companies and Security Governance: Hybrid Practices in a Postcolonial World
ISBN: 9781138809031 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates governance practiced by non-state actors. It analyses how multinational mining companies protect their sites in fragile contexts and what that tells us about political ordering 'beyond' the state. Based on extensive primary research in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Europe and North America, the book compares companies' political role in the 19th and 21st centuries. It demonstrates that despite a number of disturbing parallels, many contemporary practices are not a reversion to the past but unique to the present. The book discloses... This book investigates governance practiced by non-state actors. It analyses how multinational mining companies protect their sites in fragile cont... |
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E-Coaching: Theory and practice for a new online approach to coaching
ISBN: 9781138778740 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a rapidly moving world where so many of our day-to-day activities are now online, it has become essential to adapt coaching processes in order to better suit clients circumstances and needs. Above all, clients want sustainable and time-efficient results. Electronic coaching (e-coaching) is an inevitable development for every professional who coaches, mentors, teaches, supervises, guides or helps people in their jobs. The book is underpinned by a theoretical framework that introduces a new model of people development (the ABC model), inspired by Graham Alexander s GROW model, and... In a rapidly moving world where so many of our day-to-day activities are now online, it has become essential to adapt coaching processes in order t... |
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CEO Branding: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781138013728 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CEO Branding advances our understanding of the importance and impact that CEOs have on companies. In recent years, there has been a growing body of interdisciplinary literature on this powerful aspect of branding, and Fetscherin has invited a leading panel of international scholars and practitioners to contribute original chapters in their area of expertise. The book introduces the concept of the CEO as a brand, and outlines the "4Ps" of this branding mix - the CEO (person), personality, prestige (reputation), and performance. It discusses the CEO branding process,... CEO Branding advances our understanding of the importance and impact that CEOs have on companies. In recent years, there has been a growin... |
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Applied Leadership Development: Nine Elements of Leadership Mastery
ISBN: 9781138952065 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Intended for courses on leadership, practicing managers, consultants, and practitioners, this approachable guide teaches readers about how to become a leader. By blending the real-world insights of business executive Al Bolea with tested research findings provided by leadership scholar Leanne Atwater, it effectively bridges theory and practice to outline powerful leadership behaviors. Based on Bolea's original "J-Curve" model of leadership, the authors identify and describe nine essential elements for leadership mastery, including skills such as setting direction, creating key proceses,... Intended for courses on leadership, practicing managers, consultants, and practitioners, this approachable guide teaches readers about how to becom... |
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The Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Leading Organizational Change: Tier1 Performance Solutions' Guide for Managers and Consultants
ISBN: 9781138859869 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a very understandable, practical, and accessible manner, this book applies recent groundbreaking findings from behavioral neuroscience to the most complex and vexing challenges in organizations today. In particular, it addresses managing large-scale organizational changes, such as mergers and acquisitions, providing lessons and tactics that can be usefully applied to in many different settings. In addition to discussing successful practices, it also identifies the reasons that most past comprehensive, long-term change projects have failed and unmasks the counterproductive effects of the... In a very understandable, practical, and accessible manner, this book applies recent groundbreaking findings from behavioral neuroscience to the mo... |
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Information Technology Outsourcing
ISBN: 9781138692787 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new volume in the "Advances in Management Information Systems" series presents the latest cutting-edge knowledge in IT outsourcing. As part of the growing business trend to outsourcing various operations, IT outsourcing both determines the governance of a vital organizational function and influences the processes of exploitation and exploration in all other functions of an enterprise. In keeping with the mission of the "AMIS" series, the editors of this volume have framed the domain of research and practice broadly. "Information Technology Outsourcing" provides leading edge research on...
This new volume in the "Advances in Management Information Systems" series presents the latest cutting-edge knowledge in IT outsourcing. As part of th...
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Shared Services in Finance and Accounting
ISBN: 9781138247611 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most large companies worldwide today have some kind of shared services concept in place. Over half of the medium and large companies are currently engaged in some kind of shared service project activity. The investment in shared services is always calculated in millions. In other words, the costs of getting it right (or getting it wrong) can be huge. Tom Bangemann's book is a concise blueprint for identifying, assessing, designing, implementing and improving the process for shared services in the finance and accounting function. The author focuses on critical success factors, the people...
Most large companies worldwide today have some kind of shared services concept in place. Over half of the medium and large companies are currently eng...
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How Safe is Safe Enough?: Leadership, Safety and Risk Management
ISBN: 9781138253568 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Safety is not easy, it is a full time effort, and is equally important whether people are on the job or on personal time. If an organization is serious about mission success, it must take 'risk' seriously as well. Leaders need to be involved in the risk game at every turn, and understand the key elements (discussed throughout this book) that help them to win. Winning the risk game is what safety is all about. As in operational success, risk management requires the best human faculties to achieve victory; talent of organizational players and commitment from top leadership rule the day. The...
Safety is not easy, it is a full time effort, and is equally important whether people are on the job or on personal time. If an organization is seriou...
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Human Nature: A Guide to Managing Workplace Relations
ISBN: 9781138247567 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humans are weird They can be emotional, irrational and often unpredictable, yet as their manager, it is your job to get the best out of them. In fact they are often the key to your success. Sadly, humans do not come with an instruction manual which lists their technical specifications. Human Nature by Greg Clydesdale is based on the premise that the key to good management is understanding human nature and interpersonal relations. But what is human nature? Greg argues that even where human nature is addressed at a conceptual level; the link between theory and what actually happens in the...
Humans are weird They can be emotional, irrational and often unpredictable, yet as their manager, it is your job to get the best out of them. In fact...
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Macrocognition in Teams: Theories and Methodologies
ISBN: 9781138076358 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Team collaboration involves many operational tasks such as team decision-making or course of action selection, developing shared understanding, and intelligence analysis. These operational tasks must be performed in many situations, often under severe time pressure, with information and knowledge uncertainty, large amounts of dynamic information and across different team characteristics. Recent research in this area has focused on various aspects of human collaborative decision-making and the underlying cognitive processes while describing those processes at different levels of detail,...
Team collaboration involves many operational tasks such as team decision-making or course of action selection, developing shared understanding, and in...
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Why People Stay: Helping Your Employees Feel Seen, Safe, and Valued
ISBN: 9781138210318 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Entrepreneurship the Disney Way
ISBN: 9781138737556 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Multiple Intelligences and Leadership
ISBN: 9780415650328 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited book presents cutting-edge research looking at the role of multiple intelligence--cognitive (IQ), emotional intelligence, social intelligence--in effective leadership, written by the most distinguished scholars in the two distinct fields of intelligence and leadership. The synergy of bringing together both traditional intelligence researchers and renowned leadership scholars to discuss how multiple forms of intelligence impact leadership has important implications for the study and the practice of organizational and political leadership. This volume emanates from the recent...
This edited book presents cutting-edge research looking at the role of multiple intelligence--cognitive (IQ), emotional intelligence, social intellige...
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The Future of Leadership Development
ISBN: 9780415654487 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leadership in today's organizations is a tough business. Organizational leaders face a number of challenges as their jobs, and the world around them, become increasingly complex. Trends, such as organizational "delayering," rapid technological advances, and increased employee empowerment require that leaders adapt their techniques and styles of leadership to meet these new challenges. Consequently, there has been an explosion of interest in leadership in recent years as researchers and management educators struggle to understand the process of leadership development, how it operates, and what...
Leadership in today's organizations is a tough business. Organizational leaders face a number of challenges as their jobs, and the world around them, ...
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Second Order Project Management
ISBN: 9781409410942 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got, and if it's not good enough, you need to do something else. As project complexity increases, so too does the need to do new things. The existing Project Management tools - examples being Earned Value Management, PRINCE2, Lifecycle Management, PMBOKA(r) - are incredibly useful; but they were designed for linear project development in a stable, understood environment. We term them 'First Order'. Second Order Project Management (PM) goes beyond, addressing the issues of a complex, unstable, uncertain environment with all its...
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got, and if it's not good enough, you need to do something else. As project complexit...
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Implementing Lean: Twice the Output with Half the Input!
ISBN: 9781482252842 / Angielski / Miękka / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Global Leadership: A Transnational Perspective
ISBN: 9781138061972 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Building Leadership Character
ISBN: 9781544307855 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using a storytelling approach and real-world cases to explore different dimensions of leadership character, this text encourages the reader to think critically, helping them to develop their character, emotional intelligence and leadership skills.
Using a storytelling approach and real-world cases to explore different dimensions of leadership character, this text encourages the reader to think c...
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Kyoto Model, The: The Challenge of Japanese Management Strategy Meeting Global Standards
ISBN: 9789812563293 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating book focuses on Kyoto high-tech companies that have captured leading market share with globally preeminent technologies and yet have been able to maintain their robust profitability even under Japan's current prolonged recession. The book aims to uncover the secrets of success behind such companies as Kyocera Corp., Omron Corp., Murata Manufacturing Co., Rohm Co. and Horiba Ltd. and their management systems, generally termed 'the Kyoto Model'. The unique features of the model are detailed: the history and founding of these high-tech companies, their management attitude giving...
This fascinating book focuses on Kyoto high-tech companies that have captured leading market share with globally preeminent technologies and yet have ...
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Managers in the Making: Careers, Development and Control in Corporate Britain and Japan
ISBN: 9780761955429 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comparing Britain and Japan, this text questions the authenticity of the popular image of Japanese personnel and management development, which has been held up as a model. It addresses such topics as different systems of selection and recruitment, and contrasting approaches to management control.
Comparing Britain and Japan, this text questions the authenticity of the popular image of Japanese personnel and management development, which has bee...
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