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As the average age of the population continues to rise in industrialized nations, the fiscal impacts of aging demand ever-closer attention. This title examines one oft-discussed approach to the issue - encouraging people to work longer than they now do.

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A comprehensive guide to executive coaching, this fully updated second edition ofers a wealth of practical, proven coaching tools and techniques. Essential reading for professional coaches, students, managers and leaders at all levels.

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In Coaching for Emotional Intelligence, Bob Wall offers coaching strategies that will enable every manager to elicit excellence by improving the negative behaviors and communications flaws that are undermining an employee's performance.

This book tells how mines evolved from simple bell pits into extensive networks of shafts and tunnels and extending deep underground.

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Argues that crisis management should not just begin when a crisis hits. It should be a variety of activities that the organisation performs daily to prevent crises from occurring. This work defines the types of crises an organisation might experience, and shows how proactive crisis management makes the company stronger.

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Proposes a set of healthcare solutions that address access, efficiency, and quality. This book focuses on the plight of the uninsured, and proposes a direction that promises to make premier healthcare for Americans a national reality. It is suitable for those trying to make sense of the thorny issues of healthcare reform.

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Codependency is an important psychological aspect of the workplace that adversely affects both those who experience codependency and those who are the subject of the codependent's compelling agenda of interpersonal control.

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This book offers a detailed analysis of the strategies and methodologies of successful collaborative grant writing, as well as practical guidance on the interpersonal leadership requirements of managing grantseeking projects.

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This book offers a detailed analysis of the strategies and methodologies of successful collaborative grant writing, as well as practical guidance on the interpersonal leadership requirements of managing grantseeking projects.

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Although much has been written concerning labor relations and collective bargaining in the private sector, negotiators working in public sector employer-employee relations have been handicapped by the paucity of practical information relating to the specific demands of their field.

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This text examines the trend whereby local government employees use collective bargaining as a way to compete for resources in an era of scarce public revenues and fiscal discontent.

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Argues that trade unions must intervene in economic restructuring in order to halt the erosion of job quality in today's economy. Jacobs suggests that collective bargaining is a powerful social tool that can move the corporation towards more socially responsible and responsive forms.

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Piskulich examines the dimensions of state and local public-sector labor policy and explores policies that enable policymakers to manage the collective bargaining process in line with their goals.

This study looks at the three questions most crucial to policy efficacy: what governments do;

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Mourdoukoutas argues that as globalization gains momentum and reengineering becomes universal, firms can no longer be sure of achieving sustainable competitive advantages through improved operating effectiveness alone.

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In this volume a group of leading experts examines Colombia's political economy at the beginning of the twenty-first century, exploring various issues such as, drug trafficking, organized crime, economic performance, the internal armed conflict, and human rights. The experts highlight the various challenges that Colombia faces today.

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In this volume a group of leading experts examines Colombia's political economy at the beginning of the twenty-first century, exploring various issues such as, drug trafficking, organized crime, economic performance, the internal armed conflict, and human rights. The experts highlight the various challenges that Colombia faces today.

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This book is a milestone achievement in the documentation of the newspapers of the British Caribbean islands, a field that, until now, has been neglected by many scholars.

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The bestselling author who correctly predicted the 2008 financial crash now projects an impending boom in the U.S. economy, due mostly to energy innovations that will reindustrialize America and provide millions of middle class jobs.