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This simple, easy-to-use book gives managers, supervisors, and team leaders activities to help their teams overcome emotional obstacles and become more effective. This practical, effective collection of proven exercises will elicit the best from any team.

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A final chapter draws conclusions and lessons from the examples, and three appendixes detail antitrust laws applicable to cooperative ventures, Japanese and European microelectronic and computer ventures, and cooperative ventures under NCRA.

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Do you want more employees to go the extra mile while at work Learn how to raise employee engagement scores through the roof--without costing the company a dime!

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Covering field research in over 50 companies, this text addresses practical problems and tactical issues faced by executives and managers. Topics discussed include: supply chain management; integrated order entry systems; process capability; and global strategic sourcing.

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This text explains why values-based spiritual leadership that coalesces employees into a harmonious group is the only way to successfully manage increasingly diverse workers in the 21st century.

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As most managers know, you need a vision to motivate employees to achieve goals. Called Grounded Visioning, and based on a concept called appreciative inquiry, the process allows groups to come up with a revitalizing vision that everyone buys into in half a day or less.

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According to recent data on women leaders across all major sectors in the United States, women are outperforming men but earning less and still hitting the glass ceiling. This book uncovers the best practices to remedy these inequities, optimize performance, and benefit both genders.

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Techniques described in the book can help any company enhance its ability to recruit, retain and improve its employee relations.

A synthesis of effective recruiting techniques is explained including a review of Merck's Interview Skills workshop, Hewlett-Packard's Behavioral Interviewing and Marriott's recruitment programs.

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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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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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Offering both empirical analysis and experience-based case studies of eight nations--including the U.S. (Silicon Valley), Catalonia, France, Finland, Switzerland, India, West Germany and Belize--the authors explore the ways in which regional culture influences and is influenced by industrial and management practices.

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Students of comparative politics, political sociology, Western European history, international affairs, or comparative social institutions can turn to this book for a balanced assessment of the alternative structures of decentralized political power which are emerging in various Western democracies.

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Though few might think of Moses as a 'leader' or even a 'manager' in the contemporary sense, Moses among the most significant leaders in Western civilization is arguably the quintessential example of leadership from whom much can be learned by people entering and occupying leadership positions.

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Though few might think of Moses as a 'leader' or even a 'manager' in the contemporary sense, Moses -among the most significant leaders in Western civilization - is arguably the quintessential example of leadership from whom much can be learned by people entering and occupying leadership positions.

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Many lessons can be learned from managers in business and industry that are useful to people who administer schools or media programs.

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Explains a brain-based approach people can use to become effective leaders, whether in a business, or a family. This volume shows how those with maximum success are leaders who understand both the right brain mode and the left brain mode styles and have the ability to switch between the two when the situation is best served by one or the other.

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This intriguing analysis examines an aspect of President Obama that falls outside of his ethnic background, his political career, or policies: how his unique leadership style comes from his extraordinary ability to use both halves of his brain to maximum potential.

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