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This book is a guide to how economic policy is made in modern Britain. It is designed to help the reader understand how the policy process works: who the key actors are, the links and the gaps between theory and practice, and the difficulties of making policy in the real world.

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Unlike other labor law and management books, Blackard's comprehensive new work not only examines legal, strategic human resources management, change management, and related labor/management relations issues, but also offers easily grasped and applied methods for addressing all of these issues.

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This text for communications specialists marks a departure from earlier studies by approaching the subject of communication programs and crisis response holistically, concentrating on how mass communication plans, programs, and campaigns, special event and crisis response techniques must be coordinated in order to be effective.

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This text is a guide to how people are compensated for their efforts in all types of organizations. It covers such topics as job evaluation, job pricing, employee benefit programmes, pay for performance, and the compensation of executives, sales personnel and international employees.

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Practitioners from the science of complexity explore its emerging applications of day-to-day managerial problems in this book. They also look at the field's present and future challenges.

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Develops a design for the effective management of conflict at various levels in an organization.

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To succeed in the global marketplace for new goods and services, American corporations must learn how to innovate and develop new businesses better and faster than their competition.

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Accessible and lively introduction to the management of cross-cultural communication for undergraduate and postgraduate business students. Drawing on the latest research and incorporating the author's own extensive experience of working in different cultural settings, it addresses the core theory and practice. An essential course companion.

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To succeed in an increasingly competitive global environment, our organizational leaders must have the courage to act outside their comfort zonesto try to understand, interact with, motivate, develop, and retain a work force that is alien to them.

Cross' book provides the practical assistance they need.

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Emphasizing the role of government and the importance of managing development, this text provides an overview of the major impact of the 1997 financial crisis on selected Asian countries and of the development policies implemented. There are separate chapters on each country.

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The issue of government or state involvement in the process of economic development and reform has become very popular in the economic development literature. This timely volume examines China's post-Mao economic reforms, and the Chinese government's involvement in the process of managing those reforms.

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A companion to the editor's previous volume, Communicating Employee Responsibilities and Rights, this book summarizes the current state of knowledge in the area of employee responsibilities and rights and points to future directions for research and practice.

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The concept of organizational justice refers to perceptions of fairness within organizations.

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More than three years have elapsed since the East Asian financial crisis erupted, threatening economic and financial stability in the region and beyond.

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Studies the implementation and impact of Managing for Results in six states, including the use of benchmarks and performance indicators and focusing on accountability to the public.

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It shows how advances in computers and technology have accelerated progress in CI management, and the ways in which CI has affected (and been affected by) all major business functions and processes.

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The aim of this volume is to Delineate the influence of globalization and digital technology on global financial management. The author provides extensive coverage by including the financial experiences of corporations from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Since operations managers today are faced with global scenarios, people and cultural skills have become more critical for success than analytical tools. This book focuses on a new type of human-centered production management designed to expand problem-solving processes geographically.

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Federal policies have made great progress protecting the environment. But the policies sometimes have imposed inordinate costs on local governments. Managing Green Mandates describes how various federal environmental directives do not suit diverse conditions at the local level, and compel local communities to spend their revenues on reducing relatively minor risks to the public health.

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Combining what economists know about productivity with the findings of organization theorists about worker motivation, the author describes a strategy to improve the quality of work life, with major benefits for both employers and employees.