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Consultants Daniel and Metcalf provide a practical handbook for human resources professionals engaged in merger or acquisition activity, but also rationalize the suggestions they make with some theoretical background. The first overview recent merger and acquisition and some of the issues they raise

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This essential work for students of economic and economic history provides an overview of economic management in Britain since 1945, how it has changed and why it has not always been successful. It examines clearly the policies introduced, the problems various governments faced in implementing them and how policy-making changed. -- .

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Sometimes the missing ingredient for success is a set of fundamental skills, skills that give talent, knowledge, and hard work leverage and visibility.

The body of knowledge to be mastered in a technical or professional education leaves little or no time for the acquisition of skills that cut across disciplinary boundaries.

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"Increasingly, managers at all levels of the organization are being called upon to serve as "change agents," responsible for developing, implementing, and sustaining HRD initiatives, regardless of whet"

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In The Manager as Change Leader, Ann Gilley examines the complexities of change from the manager's perspective, providing readers with the tools to help themselves, their employees, and their colleagues successfully engage in the change efforts that will propel their organizations into the future.

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Provides insights and information designed to help managers develop a portfolio of outstanding skills. This work focuses on the key purposes of coaching - improving individual performance, solving problems, and securing results - to address the challenges of effective management. It offers tools for mastering the skills of effective coaching.

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Anyone who manages more than one direct report becomes, de facto, a team leader, mediator, and communicator extraordinaire. Featuring diagnostic exercises, worksheets, examples, and a listing of resources, this title provides individuals and teams with the tools to promote effective communication, capitalise on diversity, and improve productivity.

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The book introduces the Contextual Leadership Model, which identifies nine fundamental leadership roles and six common contexts in which leadership is exercised, and guides readers toward matching their roles and actions to the particular context at handas well as making adjustments when context changes.

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One of the most valuable roles a manager can perform in today's rapidly changing environment is to mentor and inspire the people around them to learn.

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Part of "The Manager As..." series, this book covers such issues as the development of a free-agent workforce; the emergence of employees as the only true sustainable advantage; and the opportunities and challenges that managers face in their role as motivators. It addresses common myths and misconceptions about motivation.

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Part of the series "The Manager as...", this book examines the dynamics of organisational power plays and interpersonal communication, and shows managers how to step over 'landmines', overcome obstacles, and develop the skills and instincts necessary for political survival.

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There is very little material available that provides practical, hands-on assistance for the CI professional who is providing CI to one clienthis or her employerand who constitutes the largest single group of CI practitioners in existence.

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Reveals the secrets of the day-to-day negotiations, project identification, financing, distribution, the ubiquitous sales agent, and the inescapable business banquet in China.

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In the highly praised The Market for Virtue , David Vogel presents a clear, balanced analysis of the contemporary corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement in the United States and Europe.

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The Marketer's Guide to Media Vehicles, Methods, and Options is an unusually practical hands-on reference source written for marketing, advertising, and promotion professionals to use in conjunction with their daily work.

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Intended for executives in small- to medium-sized companies just beginning to contemplate an export program, this book tells when and how to export and takes the reader through documentation, product servicing, advertising, distribution agreements, patents, trademarks, political risks, and foreign trade shows.

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This work establishes the uniqueness of the Marxian category of Capital on the basis of the original texts by Marx. Individual ownership is shown to be a particular form of capitalist private property which can also take the form of collective ownership. The author argues the capitalist character of the Soviet economy.

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"Matrix management" was introduced in the 1970s as an alternative to less flexible top-down management approaches. This work takes us on a tour of this phenomenon. It shows how to harness the power of the matrix structure while minimizing the conflict, disorientation, and resistance that often accompany the approach.

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This work examines the ways in which the buying habits of baby boomers differ from the habits of their parents, detailing the ways in marketers can use the various insights in the book to market a broad range of goods and services.

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A recognized expert in diversity and founder of DiversityMBAPrep.com illustrates how women in an MBA program can leverage the graduate school experience to catapult their professional careers.