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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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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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We are in the middle of a museum paradigm shift and a new type of museum volunteer is emerging from the community. Non-profit volunteers are looking for unique and satisfying ways to engage in their communities and museums are primed to offer just the experiences these volunte...

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We are in the middle of a museum paradigm shift and a new type of museum volunteer is emerging from the community. Non-profit volunteers are looking for unique and satisfying ways to engage in their communities and museums are primed to offer just the experiences these volunte...

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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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Examines the management technique of job redesign. The authors discuss the attempts of four companies to diffuse job redesign throughout their organizations and the reasons for their success or failure. The steps taken by personnel to facilitate the diffusion are also included.

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A clear, comprehensive examination of the world's newly emerging markets and the opportunities they hold for U.S. marketeers, as well as a cogent discussion of how to enter and benefit from them.

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Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. Selling Women Short is a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug. Wall Street is supposed to be a citadel of pure economics, paying

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Subsequent chapters examine the cost of the program to the SBA, the social goals of the program and how well it fulfills them, and the changes made in the program during the 1980s to improve its management efficiency.

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This book provides an overview of the smoking controversy. In a book that is as provocative as it is balanced and authoritative, the authors explore the background of the current smoking controversy that has led to heightened awareness of the dangers of smoking to both smokers and nonsmokers alike.

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Jaques argues that the problems inherent in the way management is practiced are attributable to gravely dysfunctional systems of managerial leadership, systems that have evolved over the years and are now, despite their ineffectualities, taken for granted.

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Sounds Like Branding is an ear-opening' journey through the history of music and marketing, from the humble jingle and the advent of Muzak to Michael Jackson's groundbreaking association with Pepsi in the 1980s and finally to the music branding embraced today by global brands such as Nike, Starbucks, Levi's and Coca-Cola.

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In internal conflicts in Africa, sovereign states have often failed to take responsibility for their own citizens' welfare and for the humanitarian consequences of conflict, leaving the victims with no assistance. This book shows how that responsibility can be exercised by states over their own population, and by other states in assistance to their fellow sovereigns.

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Economic developments, social and political pressures for job maintenance, the characteristics of the labor market, and the costs of turnover have combined uniquely to compel employers, in their own interests and in the interests of society, to build and preserve a competent and stable workforce.

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It includes a number of human resources topics not usually covered in one volumeHR planning, legal aspects of staffing, recruiting, selecting, performance appraisal, career development, and many othersin an integrated system.

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It includes a number of human resources topics not usually covered in one volumeHR planning, legal aspects of staffing, recruiting, selecting, performance appraisal, career development, and many othersin an integrated system.

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A practical, intelligent, easily used way to ask the right questions to get the answers you need in a face to face job interview - increasing your odds of choosing the right candidate.