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A frightening wake-up call regarding the surging economic strength of China -- and how the Chinese are quickly strategizing to overtake the United States as the premier economic power in the world today.

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A study of the financial performance of well-known firms over the past 25 years which compares the performance of these supposedly "excellent" firms with the financial performance and market valuation of a control sample from Fortune 500.

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With much of the Asian Miracle destroyed and much of the Western world's awe for Asian ways of management dissipated, organizations there are changing with such speed that most of our knowledge about them is quickly outdated.

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This work explores alternative organisational designs for the delivery of human services - designs that emphasise collaborative governance and partnerships among public and private agencies, local control and responsibility for results, and the use of innovative technologies.

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Reports the results of a study examining empirically the use of a self-management training programme to increase employee attendance. It describes how this training process can be of value in reducing employee absenteeism and addresses other applications of self-management in the workplace.

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Five appendixes provide additional information including a guide to hiring and keeping good employees, a study of employee theft by Virginia's Crime Prevention Manual Task Force, an examination of what motivates employees, an internal controls checklist, and a list of dos and don'ts in dealing with employee theft.

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A practical guide for executives and managers in banking, savings and loans, credit unions, insurance, and brokerage firms, this book addresses the labor turnover problems that currently affect even the most successful financial institutions.

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The answer lies in the relationship between inflation and unemployment: we simply cannot push unemployment below the rate that is compatable with stable inflation.

Must we, then, just live with unemployment But to understand how we can reduce unemployment, we must understand the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU).

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Reexamining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 19852000: Generations, Ideas, and Changes analyzes the impact of generational changes and ideational changes on major political and economic reforms conducted in Russia during the late twentieth century.

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This study analyzes the impact of generational changes and ideational changes on major political and economic reforms conducted in Russia during the late twentieth century.

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Academics, community activists, and politicians have rediscovered regionalism, insisting that regions are critical functional units in a world-wide economy and, just as important, critical functional units in individual American lives.

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America's changing demographics pose challenges to the workplace. This study looks at where America is heading demographically and where it will be in the 21st century. It discusses what the workplace will be like and how it will be affected by the characteristics of the people who comprise it.

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America's changing demographics pose challenges to the workplace. This study looks at where America is heading demographically and where it will be in the 21st century. It discusses what the workplace will be like and how it will be affected by the characteristics of the people who comprise it.

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For Eastern European and other countries, market democracy offers an organizing principle for reform, a model on which to base movement toward a market economy. Market democracy, the culmination of more than three hundred years of economic and political thought, is centered on a pluralistic democracy with a free-market-oriented society.

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This volume presents an approach to financial sector reform composed of financial sector diagnosis, policy and institutional targeting, macroeconomic reforms, bank regulation and supervisory reform, and privatization. Criteria to help decision-makers apply the approach are also supplied.

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The still chaotic states of the former Soviet Union, a growing China, and the divergent nations of Eastern Europe are striving to radically transform their economies.

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Many observers agree that federal regulation of business often fails to prevent monopoly profits, promote technological change, or protect consumers against market abuses. Why President Nixon assigned the task of proposing reforms to his Advisory Council on Executive Organization. The object of both the Council's report and this paper is to advance the public search for reform.

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A radical and comprehensive review of the practices of governance within one of the world's most important and influential organizations.

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A report on development economics in action, by a crucial player in Nigeria's recent reforms.

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Two top economists outline distinctive approaches to post-crisis financial reform.

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A highly practical guide to help leaders make intentional choices and draw on their assets, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to influence others, bridge differences, and initiate positive change.

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Is the dream of homeownership for America's working families obsolete, an aspiration from a bygone era In Regaining the Dream, a trio of researchers from the University of North Carolina's Center for Community Capital rejects that notion.