Business communication and presentation

This book is an essential read for anyone interested in Public Relations in Asia.

A new look at the latest thinking and issues in the areas of branding, identity and communication, drawing on recent academic and practical thought on corporate branding.

Countering popular myths of women's deficiencies in communicating in traditionally male professions, the author uses women's talk to illustrate the interactional skills required to contribute effectively to workplace meetings, and presents new insights on the organization of talk in meetings while celebrating women's clear competence.

Corporate communications are now hugely important in the success of companies and organisations.

This book debunks the notion that the Chief Executive is the primary figurehead and places line managers at the forefront.

This is an updated and revised edition of the author's successful and ground breaking book on international public relations and global reputation.

Raising a ladder to the moon' is a metaphor that was used to describe the immensity of the task of laying the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable at the end of the nineteenth century.

This new study reconciles cognitive metaphor theory with Critical Discourse Analysis to offer a fresh approach to the study of metaphor.

Advertising has traditionally communicated messages to consumers with strong local and national identities.

Explains how all institutions have to turn their relationship with stakeholders into a 'social' one, which involves designing new Trust and Engagement strategies.

A comprehensive survey of the key areas of research in cross-cultural communication, based on the authors' experience in organizing and delivering courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students and in business training in the UK and overseas.

Provides a systematic comparison of legal scholars' views and governments' practice regarding the occasions for, criteria for, and effects of recognition.

What determines the strength of a corporate brand?

This book breaks new ground on customer care.

In this new collection of articles on talent acquisition and retention, Adrian Furnham, author of The Elephant in the Boardroom , offers an engaging and witty look into the world of the talented manager.

This book takes an international perspective on the topical issues of marketing ethics and ethical communications.

Tackles the nuts and bolts of communication at work in a no-nonsense way with startling honesty and practical tips.

Do you need to deliver an effective service to challenging and unreasonable internal or external clients?

Published as part of Palgrave Macmillan's IE Business Publishing Series, Simply Seven is a practical guide to Internet business for students, entrepreneurs and executives.

Can it be that in order to reach the investor you need for your new venture, or to find the employer who will give you the chance of a lifetime, you only need to have six cups of coffee?

An innovative and comprehensive guide that can be applied to a wide range of dialogue settings this educational tool for trainers in all fields of dialogue interpreting addresses not only the two key areas of Community- and Public Service Interpreting, the legal and health sectors, but also business interpreting.

Competence encompasses or overlaps with notions of efficiency, success, accountability, excellence and self-justification.

An investigation into the principles of humanistic management which examines their threoretical merits.

This book deals with the organizational use of aesthetic means.

Analyzing the relationship between digital technologies and society this book explores a wide range of complex social issues emerging in a new digital space.

This is the first comprehensive text on social psychological approaches to communication, providing an excellent introduction to theoretical perspectives, special topics, and applied areas and practice in communication.

Signs are critically important in all forms of activity, including business, because they establish what it is to be human.

Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient in ways that may affect their life chances.

Customer Experience is now the key differentiator as consumers and businesses alike decide among competing brands.

China is rapidly becoming an economic superpower, yet its business culture is often misunderstood.

An exceptional new work on family business, showing how to maintain a balanced relationship between the family and the company, and ensure satisfactory business results.

This book from the acclaimed management writer Adrian Furnham, explores the dark side of leadership and how and why leaders can have a negative impact upon their companies and organisations.

International business for the modern firm has to compromise the need to use limited resources and achieve efficiency in the global marketplace.

This book investigates the business strategies chosen by oil and gas service companies operating in China, Singapore and Malaysia.

This book offers a broad perspective on issues relating to the sourcing of systems and business processes in a national and global context, examining the client's and the vendor's involvement in sourcing relationships by putting the emphasis on the capabilities that each side should develop as a result of their interactions with each other.

As technology changes, so too have its applications and our uses and experiences with them have changed as well.

Performance is the key outcome of high morale, and the reason why it should be taken so seriously: with research gathered from some of the world's largest employee opinion databases and best academic centres, the authors lay out the morale-performance connection.

This second volume of two discusses the employment of action learning in different contexts, including healthcare, education, government, military and the business world.

This is a comprehensive, practical and engaging book designed to help readers to recognise bullying behaviour at work and identify and select inter-personal strategies for handling bullying behaviour.

Addressing the need for a discerning, research-based discussion of NLP, this book seeks to answer the many questions that clients, potential users and practitioners ask, including: what is NLP and what can it best be used for?

Images of political leaders as everyday figures, involved in commonplace activities, now form an increasingly important aspect of electoral presentation.

The four main tenets of life are explored in this unique new book that examines the issues that touch each executive, or for that matter, people in general.

What Does the Digital You Look Like?

A practical book detailing how to implement EI (emotional intelligence) techniques for human resource professionals and trainers developing managers and leaders.

While many people in business have strong analytic skills, creativity has been undervalued in many organisations.

Institutions have regimes-policies that typically come from the top down and are meant to align the efforts of workers with the goals and mission of an institution.

Work is changing.

True or False?

To date, most network research contains one or more of five major problems.