Business and Management

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity.

The New York Times–bestselling author collects forty-six inspiring stories of everyday people who share their unique genius with the world.

With recent technological developments, touted also as Industry 4.

A global transformation in food supply and consumption is placing our food security at risk.

Offshore Operation Facilities: Equipment and Procedures provides new engineers with the knowledge and methods that will assist them in maximizing efficiency while minimizing cost and helps them prepare for the many operational variables involved in offshore operations.

Untangling the tentacles of colonialism is not an easy task, theoretically or in practice.

Taken from a report for the Electric Power Research Institute, Joy Dunkerley's study aims to clarify the relationship between energy consumption and economic output in industrialised countries.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-science review of research and practice in the human dimensions of hazards field.

Practical methods for solving messy problems in the officeFrom underperformance to office romances to interpersonal conflicts, Perfect Solutions for Difficult Employee Situations gives you effective techniques for solving 401 sticky employee situations.

What is there in developmental relationships beyond setting and striving to achieve goals?

This Element examines the early-twentieth century rare book trade from the perspectives of British and American collectors and dealers.

Contradictions permeate and propel organizational life - including tensions between reaching globally while focusing locally; competing while also cooperating; performing reliably while experimenting, taking risks, and learning; or granting autonomy while constraining freedom.

Focusing on HRM developments in thirteen developing countries across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, this book explores the contextual functions of HR in these countries.

This book is intended to showcase some of Thailand's most vibrant start-ups.

Expertenwissen für jedermann: Diese Auskopplung aus dem "Handbuch der Lebensmitteltoxikologie" beschreibt umfassend und kompetent heute verwendeten Methoden und Verfahren der Lebensmittelüberwachung.

The Business Game here s how you can win!

"Einführung in Projektmanagement?

How does a medical practice thrive in a business environment where the margin of management error has all but disappeared?

Die Entwicklung auf dem Gebiete der Investitionsrechnung verlief in den letzten Jahren recht stürmisch.

Take charge of your financial future and improve your overall well being In today's unpredictable economy, the best way to ensure financial security is to build your own business.

Numerous books have been written about Toyota's approach to workplace improvement; however, most describe Toyota's practices as case studies or stories.

Root Cause Analysis, or RCA, "e;What is it?

Significant loss to business occurs through fires in the workplace.

This book provides an introduction to the field of human factors for individuals who are involved in the delivery and/or improvement of prehospital emergency care and describes opportunities to advance the practical application of human factors research in this critical domain.

Solve business problems, uncover new opportunities, and ignite innovation using the newest collaborative technologiesThe Collaborative Organization gives you a strategic approach to building, implementing, and using social and collaborative technologies such as those created by Jive and Yammer to create innovative products, solve business problems, and create new processes that will foster lasting success and growth.

This book argues that three powerful symbiotic forces (globalization, competitiveness, and governability) are disrupting business in the 21st century, resulting in an impact on the economic and business environment far greater than the effects of any of these three individually.

In this book, we invited 146 authors with expertise in health policy, systems design, management, research, or practice, from each of the countries included, to consider health reforms or systems improvements in their country or region.

The fully revised and updated third edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive guide to the property development process, taking readers from initial project evaluation to planning, funding, construction and disposal.

Smart strategies for managing workplace bullies out of your life and businessMore than one in four Americans deals with an on-the-job bully.

This book offers a defense acquisition perspective that provides action orientations and decision making to increase the value-for-money (VFM) of public-private partnerships (PPPs) through public-private stewardship (PPS).

This two volume work examines the role of spiritual and religious traditions as a balancing force during times of crisis in organizational settings.

Geleitwort Logistik und Versorgung haben in den vergangenen Jahren in der Unternehrnenshie­ rarchie eine stark wachsende Bedeutung erlangt.

This book brings together the state of the art and current debates in the field of formative research, and examines many of the innovative methods largely overlooked in the available literature.

Driven by the fascination about dramatic structural and competitive changes within telecommunication and information technology in dustries during the past decade, the convergence phenomenon has increasingly gained my personal attention throughout my work and studies.

Construction is the country's single largest manufacturing industry.

Compelling reading, this book both reinforces and elevates the role of art in the exploration and analysis of the concepts of democracy, globalization and capitalism.

​ Dieses Buch ist speziell auf die Situation von Führungskräften zugeschnitten, die aus unterschiedlichen Gründen eine berufliche Neuorientierung anstreben.

Building upon Feltham and Ohlson models, this book examines positive loss-earnings within the context of the dot.

Wenn es im Alltag zwischen den Geschlechtern knirscht, heißt es oft "typisch Frau" oder "typisch Mann".

Organizations and employers are currently managing an inter-generational workforce, and the most prudent of these are seeking to enhance the careers of new entrants.

Presents a new model of boards of directors, focused on purpose, strategy and culture, to successfully navigate corporate disruptions and crisis.

Managing building services contractors can prove to be a minefield.

An analysis of the institutional and social movement processes that surround global infrastructure projects.