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Urban Green Belts in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780754649595 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Planners internationally have employed green belts to contain the explosive sprawl of cities as varied as Tokyo, Vienna and Melbourne during the twentieth century. As yet, no collection has gathered these experiences together to consider their contribution to planning. Juxtaposing examples of green belt implementation worldwide, this book adds to understanding of how green belts can be effected in theory and how practitioners have adapted them in practice. The book provides a typology of green belt implementation and reform, enabling planners to grasp why these policies are employed and...
Planners internationally have employed green belts to contain the explosive sprawl of cities as varied as Tokyo, Vienna and Melbourne during the twent...
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734,66 |
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The Essence of Who We Are
ISBN: 9783639020120 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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316,96 |
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Behavioural Technical Analysis: An Introduction to Behavioural Finance and Its Role in Technical Analysis
ISBN: 9781905641413 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work offers a practical, concise introduction to behavioral finance--a method that is revolutionizing investment because it places real human beings at the center of the market, and shows how human sentiment and emotion is what really drives securities markets.
This work offers a practical, concise introduction to behavioral finance--a method that is revolutionizing investment because it places real human bei...
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269,75 |
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Organizational Learning at NASA: The Challenger and the Columbia Accidents
ISBN: 9781589012660 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just after 9:00 a.m. on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was lost over Texas. This tragic event led, as the Challenger accident had 17 years earlier, to an intensive government investigation of the technological and organizational causes of the accident. The investigation found chilling similarities between the two accidents, leading the Columbia Accident Investigation Board to conclude that NASA failed to learn from its earlier tragedy. Despite the frequency with which organizations are encouraged to adopt learning practices,... Just after 9:00 a.m. on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was lost over Texas. This tragic event led, as the C... |
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Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support
ISBN: 9780521709781 / Angielski / Miękka / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Behavioural studies have shown that while humans may be the best decision makers on the planet, we are not quite as good as we think we are. We are regularly subject to biases, inconsistencies and irrationalities in our decision making. Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support explores perspectives from many different disciplines to show how we can help decision makers to deliberate and make better decisions. It considers both the use of computers and databases to support decisions as well as human aids to building analyses and some fast and frugal tricks to aid more consistent decision...
Behavioural studies have shown that while humans may be the best decision makers on the planet, we are not quite as good as we think we are. We are re...
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298,62 |
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Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over: How Organizations Use Stories to Drive Results
ISBN: 9780470483305 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book includes real-life examples from over 70 respected organizations, small and large, representing a multitude of industries using stories to drive results. Leaders from organizations such as Microsoft, Lands' End, Verizon, U.S. Air Force, and World Vision demonstrate the strong positive influence stories can have. No abstract theories or platitudes are conveyed here. The book spells out how Kevin Roberts, CEO worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, achieved sustained sales growth after several mergers and downsizings caused the organization to fall on hard times. It also shows how Erik Shaw,...
This book includes real-life examples from over 70 respected organizations, small and large, representing a multitude of industries using stories to d...
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154,14 |
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The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence: Institutions and Organizations
ISBN: 9780230220812 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The theory of path dependence continues to attract great interest in a range of disciplines. An increasing number of scholars have started to explicitly use this theory for studying organizational inertia and institutional rigidities. This volume presents a collection of papers from various international conferences that address these issues.
The theory of path dependence continues to attract great interest in a range of disciplines. An increasing number of scholars have started to explicit...
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402,53 |
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Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation
ISBN: 9780230214859 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A cutting edge look atthe experience of worker representation in the employment relations of workplace health and safety.Examining the extent to which existing arrangements deliver results, this book reflects on whether the effectiveness of worker representation is eroded or enhanced by current regulatory and organizational constructs."
A cutting edge look atthe experience of worker representation in the employment relations of workplace health and safety.Examining the extent to which...
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201,24 |
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Computational Analysis of Firms' Organization and Strategic Behaviour
ISBN: 9780415476027 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses possible applications of computer simulation to theory building in management and organizational theory. The key hypothesis is that modelling and computer simulation provide an environment to develop, test and articulate theoretical propositions. In general, computer simulation provides an experimental environment where researchers are able to play with symbolic representations of phenomena by modifying the model's structure and activating or deactivating model's parameters. This environment allows to both generating hypotheses to ex post explain observed phenomena or... This book addresses possible applications of computer simulation to theory building in management and organizational theory. The key hypothesis is ... |
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759,15 |
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Understanding Gender and Organizations
ISBN: 9781848600164 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the decade since the First Edition of this critical and provocative text, many aspects of gender have changed, and many have stayed the same. While the gendered study of organizations is a growing field in its own right, in many real-life organizations gaps in gendered job roles and pay are as entrenched as they were. This new edition is a long-awaited update to an essential text in this dynamic and expanding field of inquiry, incorporating new, international perspectives that incorporate recent theory and debate, and a new chapter on gender and identity. In the decade since the First Edition of this critical and provocative text, many aspects of gender have changed, and many have stayed the same. Wh... |
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950,16 |
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Readings in Organizational Behavior
ISBN: 9780415998482 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reader covers all the topics that are essential for courses in organizational behavior.
This reader covers all the topics that are essential for courses in organizational behavior.
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636,71 |
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Missing Pieces: 7 Ways to Improve Employee Well-Being and Organizational Effectiveness
ISBN: 9780230576582 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is it that more and more people like their work, but can no longer support the conditions under which they must practice it? What is impeding the improvement of occupational health and organizational effectiveness? The authors share their knowledge of the missing pieces thatare preventing these improvements to the workplace."
Why is it that more and more people like their work, but can no longer support the conditions under which they must practice it? What is impeding the ...
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The Role of Organisational Change Management in Offshore Outsourcing of Information Technology Services: Qualitative Case Studies from a Multinational
ISBN: 9781599427096 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This research study seeks to understand the nature of organisational change with respect to offshore outsourcing of information technology services in a multinational pharmaceutical company, and to examine the effectiveness of approaches used to manage this change so that lessons may be drawn from these experiences. Despite the abundant literature on effective organisational change management, the key factors that need to be managed properly at different stages of the offshore outsourcing process are not well understood. The research adopts a processual view to paint a broad picture of the...
This research study seeks to understand the nature of organisational change with respect to offshore outsourcing of information technology services in...
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155,16 |
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Organizing Around Intelligence: The New Paradigm (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 9789814273992 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introduces a fresh mindset in leading, managing and structuring human organizations in the 21st Century. This title introduces the intelligent organization theory that recounts the revelation and significance of intelligence management that concentrates on the human thinking systems and the orgmind.
Introduces a fresh mindset in leading, managing and structuring human organizations in the 21st Century. This title introduces the intelligent organiz...
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538,76 |
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Studying Differences Between Organizations: Comparative Approaches to Organizational Research
ISBN: 9781848556461 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a comparative analysis as a means to explain and describe organizational heterogeneity, at varying levels and contexts. This title consists of two sections: an introductory essay section and a section that focuses on specific theoretical, methodological and empirical topics.
Presents a comparative analysis as a means to explain and describe organizational heterogeneity, at varying levels and contexts. This title consists o...
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Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support
ISBN: 9780521883344 / Angielski / Twarda / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Behavioural studies have shown that while humans may be the best decision makers on the planet, we are not quite as good as we think we are. We are regularly subject to biases, inconsistencies and irrationalities in our decision making. Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support explores perspectives from many different disciplines to show how we can help decision makers to deliberate and make better decisions. It considers both the use of computers and databases to support decisions as well as human aids to building analyses and some fast and frugal tricks to aid more consistent decision...
Behavioural studies have shown that while humans may be the best decision makers on the planet, we are not quite as good as we think we are. We are re...
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331,10 |
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Moving Out of the Box: Tools for Team Decision Making
ISBN: 9780804762465 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Project teams are the rule, rather than the exception, in today's organizations. But, thanks to the pressure of performance goals, conflicting agendas, and political jockeying, few teams make consistently superior decisions. In Moving Out of the Box: Tools for Team Decision Making author Jana M. Kemp, an authority on team decision making, saves the day by offering tested methods and tools that teams and leaders can use to ratchet up their performance level. The book argues that making good decisions involves expansive group conversation that leads to sound conclusions and swift...
Project teams are the rule, rather than the exception, in today's organizations. But, thanks to the pressure of performance goals, conflicting agendas...
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134,87 |
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Reform as Routine: Organizational Change in the Modern World
ISBN: 9780198296706 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Large contemporary organizations seem to be in an almost continual state of change. Whether in public or private organizations, managers are trying to implement new organizational forms, introduce new procedures or systems, or change the attitudes of employees. Such reforms often yield disappointing results, and so new reforms are deemed necessary.
In this book, Nils Brunsson considers why reform takes place. He looks at why reforms occur when they do, why they propagate certain ideas to the exclusion of others, and what their consequences are. He emphasizes the role of social... Large contemporary organizations seem to be in an almost continual state of change. Whether in public or private organizations, managers are trying to...
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621,10 |
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Driven to Perform: Risk-Aware Performance Management from Strategy Through Execution
ISBN: 9780978921897 / Angielski / Miękka / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing a comprehensive tour of performance management methods and software applications, this resource contains the overview of the process, technology, and people issues in the field, along with hands-on recommendations for specific business areas.
Providing a comprehensive tour of performance management methods and software applications, this resource contains the overview of the process, techno...
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215,58 |
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Power at Play: The Relationships Between Play, Work and Governance
ISBN: 9780230228207 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More and more adults participate as employees in games at work and in public and voluntary organizations. Power at play covers the intricate linkages between pedagogy, play and power. It shows how power today suspends itself through play and analyzes organized play as a symptom of more radical changes of the exercise of power in work and society.
More and more adults participate as employees in games at work and in public and voluntary organizations. Power at play covers the intricate linkages ...
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402,53 |