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An analysis of how public agencies and organizations are failing to provide cost-effective services to their constituents, and how they can improve their performance by restructuring themselves.

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A pioneering contribution to the professional training literature, this book is designed to help trainers and human resource managers to more effectively manage training programs.

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Here is an in-depth discussion of current and future challenges and issues for HRM professionals and scholars of human resource managers.

The authors present these challenges, with specific examples of individual HRM managers and their department's responses to these problems.

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To cope with the chaotic new business environment, organizations must find ways to manage the problems of change-but also the process of change itself. This guide to the new business environment explains how organizations can manage the problems and processes of change.

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An in-depth discussion and analysis of corporate misconduct and its complexities. and provide practical recommendations to management for countering misconduct in their own organizations. The book is also a valuable resource for teachers and students of business ethics, management, and business-government relations.

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Ethical failures are rooted in leadership failure, the lack of a corporate culture in which ethical concerns have been integrated, and unresponsiveness to key organizational stakeholders.

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It is the contention of this book that we must increase our understanding of organizational decision making in general and ethical decision making in particular.

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Veres, Sims and their contributors focus on the nuts-and-bolts issues in human resource management (HRM) created by passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), then identify future issues and their projected impact.

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A new set of major changes is reshaping the economy and creating challenges that are testing the mettle and talents of organizations and their employees. The requirements for new employees or the redesigned employees is quickly changing.

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Rising costs, shrinking enrollments, more diverse student populations, the need for adaptive management, the trend toward evaluation and assessment of programs and students will require proactive responses by college and university administrators in the 1990s and beyond.

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A textbook synthesizing the current understanding about managing people's behavior in organizations. Motivating today's workforce, communicating successfully, leading in the new economy, and career development and management are among the topics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews

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Not only are performance and human resources management (HRM) bound tightly together, but Sims even goes so far as to say that the way people are managed in coming decades will be the most important determinant of organizational success.

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The training and development function has made important contributions to the success of American corporations, but is it time now for an overhaul

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Sims (business administration, College of William and Mary, Virginia) speaks to other teachers of business ethics. Rather than provide a list of cases or other materials to use in the classroom, he addresses what he considers important process issues that must be dealt with to increase the effective

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Training in government is not a primary mission for a variety of reasons, and this book attempts to increase the importance of training in government organizations by showing how training can increase individual performance and overall productivity.