This Handbook provides the knowledge needed to design and deploy proactive construction project procurement and delivery systems based on essentials while addressing emerging construction industry imperatives in order to boost overall performance.
'Every current and aspiring leader needs to read this book' - Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, Sunday Times bestselling authors of The Squiggly Career and You Coach You'Clever, brilliantly researched and vitally important' - Dawn O'Porter, bestselling author of The Cows and Cat LadyThe Glass Cliff is an urgent conversation about what really happens when women break the rules, and break through The Glass Ceiling.
Providing essential guidance to thrive in a complex environment, this book showcases tools to take the leadership role in the process of building resilience in any organization in a timely, effective, and practical way for today's risks and tomorrow's challenges.
This book presents a comprehensive account of the intricacies related to compensation and reward management in Indian organizations-a vital strategic feature of HR management.
Mandatory Competencies: APC Essentials is the first book in a new series designed to cover what any RICS APC (and AssocRICS) candidate or qualified surveyor needs to know about the mandatory competencies.
An examination of the safety laws and regulations, particularly in the areas of labor and employment, this book provides a working knowledge of the impacts, requirements, and implications of safety professionals' actions and inactions as related to state and federal laws.
Hiroyuki Hirano's five pillars of the visual workplace: sort, set in order, shine, standardize and sustain are the most fundamental and often overlooked aspects in continuous improvement initiatives.
Providing essential guidance to thrive in a complex environment, this book showcases tools to take the leadership role in the process of building resilience in any organization in a timely, effective, and practical way for today's risks and tomorrow's challenges.
Mandatory Competencies: APC Essentials is the first book in a new series designed to cover what any RICS APC (and AssocRICS) candidate or qualified surveyor needs to know about the mandatory competencies.
To fill in the gap in theoretical and empirical aspects in the existing international management literature, the book covers a broad variety of issues relating to the challenges facing companies after the recent worldwide crises of financial, sanitary, and geopolitical nature.
Most business readers have heard of the Lean principles developed for factories a set of tools and ideas that have enabled companies to dramatically boost quality by reducing waste and errors producing more while using less.
Recent improvements at Enterride's Trail Rider Memphis Operation bought Pete Grant, the Trail Rider Plant Manager, and his team a little more time, but Pete knew much more was needed to save the plant.
In this book, nationally recognized public procurement experts Dolores Kuchina-Musina and Benjamin McMartin present a comprehensive analysis of the alternative contract vehicles used to promote innovation in the United States (US).
In the decade since the publication of Rajan Suri's landmark book, Quick Response Manufacturing, the innovative principles of QRM have been proven with impressive results at many companies, big and small, in a variety of industries.
This new volume examines the dramatic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its embrace of the digital revolution on human resources management practices, providing a better understanding of the emerging role of HR 4.
This new volume examines the dramatic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its embrace of the digital revolution on human resources management practices, providing a better understanding of the emerging role of HR 4.
This comprehensive textbook explores how technological developments and emerging technologies impact on, and engage with, consumer behaviour and decision making globally.
The first edition of this book won a Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research, and now, following in the tradition of its bestselling predecessor, The Complete Lean Enterprise: Value Stream Mapping for Office and Services, Second Edition details a robust step-by-step approach for implementing Lean initiatives in the service industry and office environments.
Strategy and Leadership as Service isn't just a nice idea; it is a practical, alternative vision of the future of work for senior executives that is starting to gain significant interest and is being adopted by businesses globally.
Although the nature of service delivery varies significantly from profession to profession, the way the service is delivered tends to be fairly consistent among professions-or, at least, it should be.
Unlike other books that promote a specific process and performance improvement discipline, this book shows organizations how to achieve success by fixing basic operational issues and problems using a broad and wide-sweeping process-based toolkit.
One of the most creative and influential entrepreneurs of our timeBrains behind the Tesco Clubcard, the first and largest loyalty card globallyA successful pioneer in the data industryWe have heard of the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, unseen, overlooked, and the profound impact this has on us all.
A hybrid methodology, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is designed to accommodate global challenges and constraints by capitalizing on Six Sigma and Lean Thinking.
Updated and revised, this book presents the application of engineering design and analysis based on the approach of understanding the physical characteristics of a given problem and then modeling the important aspects of the physical system.
Although world-class firms like GE and Motorola have relied on Six Sigma to build their performance cultures, these processes are all too often left out of human resources (HR) functions.
Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication AwardThe new edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any Lean transformation an ongoing success.
The book examines sustainable food procurement policy and practice in the European Union and beyond, exploring the extent to which sustainability objectives have been achieved and evaluating the new developments taking place at both EU and national levels.
Researching an individual's, firm's or brands online presence has become standard practice for many employers, investigators, and intelligence officers, including law enforcement.
