Business and Management

At a time when rapid changes in communications technology, such as social media, are having a major impact on the way businesses choose to communicate, more and more people are having to understand the principles of modern PR and how they can use it to underpin effective business management.

Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers is an accessible, practical and easy to understand guide that will allow any manager to gain confidence in understanding financial matters, managing a budget and dealing with bankers, accountants and finance professionals.

Organizational Management is ideal for readers who need to understand modern organizations.

Strategic Thinking: A Step-by-Step Approach to Strategy and Leadership, now in its third edition, takes you step by step through sound strategic thinking by setting out the questions to ask.

International Human Resource Development provides thought-provoking questions and stimulating answers to key issues in human resource development today, putting HRD in its strategic organizational context and examining in depth the process of learning from different perspectives.

Technology holds vast potential for learning and development (L&D) practitioners.

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win.

Job evaluation is key to ensuring that employees are compensated fairly for their work.

FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2020 - HR & Management Category HR's contribution to the business goes beyond its traditional role of managing hiring, discipline and payroll.

Enhance your copywriting skills with psychology-driven techniques to create stand out copy that taps into consumer decision making and sells, using this second edition of the ultimate copywriting survival guide for the 21st century - essential to every marketing or creative professional's bookshelf.

Introduction to Human Resource Management is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the subject of HRM.

70 per cent of the planet is covered by water, and 90 per cent of global economic trade is transported by sea.

DISTINGUISHED FAVOURITE: Independent Press Award 2020 - Business General CategoryWINNER: CES 2020 Gary's Book Club Top Technology Book of the YearArtificial Intelligence (AI) is the new electricity of our times.

Optimizing Digital Strategy explores the choices facing organizations in the rapidly changing world of technology-enabled business.

Effective performance management is at the heart of organizational success, delivering able and motivated employees who are aligned to an organization's values and goals.

FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2019 - Sales and Marketing Category Virtually all consumer-facing businesses talk about putting the customer first, but in reality, few deliver on this as effectively as they could.

To maximise enjoyment of work and life requires a continual response to the changing world in which we live.

Generation Z has enormous spending power yet is one of the most challenging cohorts to reach.

Supply Chain Finance is a contributed book looking at the two major perspectives of managing finance across the supply chain.

A value proposition is created from the combination of a company's products and services, and the value gained by the customer.

Adopt disruptive selling strategies that will empower your customers and ensure you stay competitive in the constantly evolving digital landscape with this carefully researched book, featuring case studies and examples from disruptive organizations such as AirBnB, Zalando and Bol.

Examine luxury branding on a global scale, with more than fifty cutting edge contributions from the foremost thought leaders in luxury management and marketing.

Logistics accounts for around 9-10% of global CO2 emissions and will be one of the hardest economic sectors to decarbonize.

Adopt a sales-orientated approach to your business and facilitate the same attitude throughout your company's culture, by ensuring the objective of generating business profit is embraced by the entire organization - not just the sales team - to achieve long term growth.

WINNER: Les Plumes des Achats 2016 - Prix des Associations (1st edition)Over the last two decades Tesco has emerged as a dominant player in the UK market and a leading global retailer.

Trust is an invaluable commodity in any business environment.

Analyze, plan and manage profitable channels to market with this economic framework, ensuring maximum leverage of channel partners at every stage of the go-to-market process, with this fully revised third edition of the global bestseller, Distribution Channels - an essential toolkit for strategizing new and existing routes to market.

Packaging has a major impact on supply chain performance, as it affects all logistics activities in supply chains.

It is estimated that between 2 and 5 per cent of global GDP (over $3 trillion) is laundered by criminals around the world every year.

While many organizations understand the importance of having a clearly defined value proposition to help them become more profitable, many businesses struggle to use them effectively.

Hyper competition and globalization mean that markets are changing.

Buying, merchandising and the supply chain are inextricably linked.

Marketing as a practice is facing unprecedented challenges: a changing media landscape, an increasingly complex customer journey, innovative technologies, start-ups which disrupt traditional channels and a new generation of tech-savvy clients.

To make an effective contribution, HR specialists have to be good at management, leadership and developing both themselves and others.

Predictive analytics has revolutionized marketing practice.

Mobile Marketing is a clear, practical guide to harnessing the mobile consumer and tackling the rising challenges of divided user attention across multiple screens at the same time.

DISTINGUISHED FAVOURITE: NYC Big Book Awards 2017Content, in all its forms, is the single most critical element of any marketing campaign.

As a subject, advertising affects us all - it surrounds us every day.

Previously restricted to cascading information and managing day-to-day conversations, internal communication is now essential to empowering employees to deliver business strategy.

Organizations are increasingly investing in consulting capabilities to understand what changes they need to make to keep up the pace with the competition and future-proof their business.

Approximately 80 per cent of European and American citizens live in an urban environment.

What differentiates resilient organizations from those that are not?

DISTINGUISHED FAVOURITE: Independent Press Awards 2017Why are the New Zealand All Blacks the best rugby team in the world?

Conduct risk is at the core of behavioural regulation, a new approach to regulating financial services, whose new agencies and public prosecutors have spread rapidly across the world.

Audio Branding is a concise, practical guide on the influential world of audio branding - what it is, why it's important, and how it can be used to enhance a brand.

Design Management is the essential handbook to all things design.

Legal risk covers all areas of business where regulation and the law impact on operations and decisions.

This book offers a practical solution for every organization that needs to monitor the effectiveness of their risk management.

Underpinned by decades of research and application, Making Change Work shows that the lynchpin that connects change initiatives and their ultimate success is behavioural change.

Twenty-first-century supply chains have evolved into world-wide inter-connected supply-and-demand networks comprising vastly more complex operations, with profound inter-dependencies and exposure to greater volatility in our uncertain world.