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In this new approach to a comparative text in public management, Randall Baker examines how, why, and to what extent the public sector around the world has shared in the management revolution.

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Designed to assist practitioners in developing interview procedures for their organizations, this work shows how competence-based human resource management techniques can be applied to employment interviews.

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This practical guide shows how to build an effective compliance and ethics program that will lower a business's risks and improve productivity.

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Nersesian describes why current methods of risk management fail and how computer simulation can be employed to determine the safe level of debt more accurately. A quantified risk management system enables executives to rank projects by the degree of risk much as they currently rank them by degree of profitability.

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A unique, practical guide to the power of simulation in the art of logistics management. Authors show better ways to manage complex logistics systems than seat of the pants decision making, and argue that information systems people must provide management with simulations that are timely and easily understood.

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The demand for accurate, rapid decision making is impelling today's decision makers to wonder about the existence of some sort of job-preserving assistance.

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Offers information on the operation of the UIC system, showing employers how to control and reduce unemployment insurance compensation taxes. The authors draw on their own experience to show the intricacies and pitfalls of UIC. Sample documentation and the script of a UIC hearing are included.

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Despite conflicting belief systems and other divisive problems, people can still learn from each other to create new knowledge. This challenging new book asserts that business conversations can be seen as social experiences through which we discover new ways of seeing the world, destroying the barriers between us.

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While covering many traditional areas of finance and accounting, this innovative, comprehensive treatment of asset management brings together for the first time in one volume vital information on profitability, risk, working capital and cash management, portfolio management, accounts receivable and inventory management, and capital budgeting.

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In todays tumultuous business environment, managers want guidance in the form of a timely theme, a unique and memorable metaphor, and outside-the-box thinking. Thats precisely what Corporate Canaries delivers.

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The ideas in this volume are based on the authors' assumption that the deficit economy in which the United States finds itself will exist for the remainder of the century.

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In post-socialist countries, corporate finance and transition economics scholars have often done little more than convey the received theory to transition policymakers. This volume focuses on the reverse concern: what, if anything, do the reform experiences of transition countries teach about corporate governance theory more generally

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Provides a picture of management mobility in the corporate world, based on research on the careers of chief executive officers in a variety of industries and their socio-economic background. Issues dealt with range from early promotions versus the "late bloomer" to opportunities for women.

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When managers and analysts make key decisions about an organization, they need to analyze the entire breadth of basic management functions--planning, organizing, directing, and controlling--and relate them to all the management areas, such as marketing, production, and finance.

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A challenge to traditional forecasting methods that rely strictly on econometric models, arguing that they ignore a fundamental aspect of the business cycle - human emotional responses to economic stimuli.

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A hands-on treatment of two of the elements in the operation of any organization: cost and optimization.

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Their book shows how to grasp the principles of cost-benefit analysis and several related economic valuation methods, how to apply them in undertaking an objective analysis, and how to use the analysis as a decision-making tool across a wide range of fields and applications.

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This work not only makes the case that responsible nonprofit managers must routinely utilize cost-effectiveness analysis, but also gives many outstanding examples of how it can be done.

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Definitive advice for African American business owners looking for better answers and new ideas.

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The author of this text lays out the special requirements that must be satisfied if acquisitions or joint ventures are to succeed. He discusses the resources and preparation that are needed before an acquisition or joint venture should even be started.