Robert's Rules of Order, Made Simple For well over a century-- from the hallowed halls of government to the executive boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, to the meeting halls of labor unions--Roberts Rules of Order has been the how-to authority on applying organizational intelligence to deliberative assemblies.
Political Branding Strategies tells the story of branding by the Australian Labor Party across seven years and three brands - Kevin07, The Real Julia and that of the party.
This book explains the subtle maneuvers of what researchers call "e;facework"e; and demonstrates the vital role it plays in the success or failure of cross-cultural interactions.
This groundbreaking study offers new insights into public relations history with a focus on the changing relationship between women and public relations, the institutionalization of public relations education, and the significance of globalization in Australia in the second half of the twentieth century.
This volume explores the evolution of the language of museum communication from 1950 to the present day, focusing on its most salient tool, the press release.
Kets de Vries profiles a range of toxic executives the narcissist, psychopath, cold fish, obsessive-compulsive, and many more, offering coaches examples of interventions that have worked and those that haven't, to help coaches deal with difficult people and become more effective.
This book emerges from a three-year Australian Research Council-funded study that asks how the formation and (d)evolution of leadership has impacted on public environmental debate.
The distinctive point of the book is its innovative interdisciplinary approach to business communication, with interconnections between linguistics, sociology, and critical organisational studies as applied to the corporate world.
This textbook takes a refreshing approach to strategic corporate communication and provides students and practitioners with the tools needed to understand what make a successful communication strategy.
International Management and Intercultural Communication consists of cases of direct observation and personal involvement in a wide variety of communication challenges in international management settings, and discusses them in terms of management theories.
Executive education is a billion dollar industry that has the potential to transform individual and organizational performance, but in too many cases the decision whether or not to lavish it upon any given manager comes down to whether the fear that they will leave if you don't spend money on them is greater than the fear that they will leave if you do.
This book develops and illustrates a new promising workshop methodology utilized for the first time in a comparative study between Italy and Australia.
This book examines five rhetorical strategies used by the US coal industry to advance its interests in the face of growing economic and environmental pressures: industrial apocalyptic, corporate ventriloquism, technological shell game, hypocrite's trap, and energy utopia.
This book offers a novel perspective on starting-up new business ventures through examining the process by which they become part of the existing business environment.
Through an engaging and humorous narrative, Peter Coughter presents the tools he designed to help advertising and marketing professionals develop persuasive presentations that deliver business.
With a revised understanding of the science and philosophy behind human needs, businesses will be better equipped to provide long-term satisfaction for their customers.
This book offers new insights on how senior business women in Middle Eastern and Western companies use language for effective leadership in their respective management meetings.
Winner of the Association for Business Communication's Distinguished Publication on Business Communication Award 2016This edited volume offers a collection of original chapters focusing on the Ins and Outs of professional discourse research.
Business is a vital institution for a flourishing society, but there is mounting concern about its role in distorting wealth distribution, enabling and rewarding unethical behaviour, and despoiling the natural environment.
Understanding new strategic approaches is provided by examining how the online world is being exploited by organisations in sectors of a modern economy such retailing, healthcare and the public sector in terms of creating new forms of competitive advantage as a consequence of the advent of mobile technology and online social networks.
Understanding and Managing IT Outsourcing explains and illustrates how uncertainty and trust interact with each other, and how an understanding of this interaction is critical to success in IT outsourcing.
Advertising Confluence offers a unique blend of both traditional and contemporary social media thinking about advertising and integrated brand promotions throughout the world.
International Management and Intercultural Communication consists of cases of direct observation and personal involvement in a wide variety of communication challenges in international management settings; and discusses them in terms of management theories.
We live in world increasingly shaped by risk, a fact underscored by recent events in the financial markets, science and technology, environmental policy and biosecurity, law enforcement and criminal justice.
An important part of every manager's job is changing people's behavior: to improve someone's performance, get them to better manage relationships with colleagues, or to stop them doing something.
