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Originally published in 1955.

Disasters are complex and dynamic events that test emergency and crisis professionals and leaders - even the most ethical ones.

Over two million people worldwide die every year due to work-related accidents and illness, which corresponds to over 6000 deaths every day (International Labour Organisation, 2020).

Strategic Human Resources Planning for Academic Libraries: Information, Technology and Organization provides an in-depth discussion of human resources as a strategic element of a library organization, especially as staffing needs and competencies change.

This book develops and illustrates a new promising workshop methodology utilized for the first time in a comparative study between Italy and Australia.

Tap Into the Power of Human ConnectionCreating a thriving organization where employees feel valued, the environment is energized, and high productivity and innovation are the norm requires a new kind of leader who fosters a culture of connection within the organization.

This proceedings volume compiles and expands on selected and peer reviewed presentations given at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), organized by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and held in Asheville, North Carolina, July 11th to 17th, 2016.

The concepts of cause and effect are critical to the field of program evaluation.

This book takes a practical approach to human resource management (HRM), providing practising managers, researchers, and students with a framework for developing and implementing human-centred HR strategies.

"e;Globally, emergency services are witnessing a period of unprecedented uncertainty and change caused by pressure on their budgets, reduced manpower and changing patterns of demand and service delivery.

The successful collection of data is a key challenge to obtaining reliable and valid results in applied linguistics research.

An R Companion to Applied Regression is a broad introduction to the R statistical computing environment in the context of applied regression analysis.

Talent is in short supply and global competition for it is fierce.

This volume contains empirical analyses of European psychologists and sociologists on the impact of job insecurity on trade union membership, activism and upon the attitudes of individual workers towards unions.

There are many misconceptions and concerns regarding Islamic societies and how Muslim countries have failed to come up with their own localised solutions to socio-economic problems in dealing with poverty alleviation and societal development.

Enhancing our understanding of HRM in the Chinese industrial sector, this book explores the emerging role of HRM in China's industrial enterprises.

This is a book on how and why workers come together.

The international trade negotiations that were launched throughout Latin America in the 1990s created significant challenges for developing countries because of their complexity.

This book presents an understanding of work-family balance for working adults belonging to a number of different family structures (e.

Japan's employment practices were long considered a cornerstone to its economic success.

This title, originally published in 1972, explores the nature of management in an organisation close to Parliament and subject to the pressure of political forces.

Empirical data is one of the cornerstones of knowledge in the social sciences, and yet the researcher often takes it for granted, reserving his or her imaginative faculties for finding a theory that 'fits the data'.

The Sourcebook for Political Communication Research will offer scholars, students, researchers, and other interested readers a comprehensive source for state-of-the-art/field research methods, measures, and analytical techniques in the field of political communication.

This book provides a compact and well-founded set of facilitation skills for all  who want to successfully lead meetings, workshops or project rounds.

Mit diesem sich streng an der Praxis orientierenden Buch können Sie Mitarbeitergespräche schnell vorbereiten und auch in heiklen Situationen mit mehr Sicherheit argumentieren.

Maximize employee performance with this updated edition of the classic bestsellerIn Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, renowned thought leader and internationally recognized workplace expert Aubrey Daniels takes a look at today s rapidly changing work environment, providing a timely update to his seminal book on performance management.

How can I develop an effective workplace learning culture to drive employee and business success?

Making risk management work means engaging people to identify, own and manage risk.

Want to be an effective, successful and happy academic?

There are unique greening solutions and practices that help create a lifestyle shift, improving the health of living and working spaces for its occupants from a personal, business, environmental, and profitable perspective.

The Dark Side of Organizational Behavior aims to gather all the micro- and meso-level topics about the dark side of organizations that may guide management practitioners, researchers, and students.

Social Value in Practice offers the reader a simple, accessible guide for considering, creating, and delivering social value in projects and within their organisation.

This book provides an in-depth view on Bourdieu's  empirical work, thereby specially focusing on the construction of the social space and including the concept of the habitus.

Succeed by mastering the art of the whoWhy surround yourself with the best?

An important problem in personnel psychology, namely, the psychometric problem known as "e;validity generalization"e; is addressed in this volume.

Dieses Buch zeigt auf, dass die Gewinnung hochspezialisierter und erfahrener Fachkräfte seit Jahren die zentrale Herausforderung für Personalverantwortliche in China darstellt.

Work and well-being is one of the fastest growing areas of concern to business, public sector and government.

So you want to be an Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychologist?

In our communication, there are three 'elements' used to express a message: verbal content, body language, and the voice.

Critical race theory (CRT) in education centers, examines and seeks to transform the relationship that undergirds race, racism, and power.

This book examines the processes for the inclusion of women, and the role of women employees in Nepal's forestry bureaucracy.

This book addresses the question: how can institutions develop and maintain a good purpose?

Performance management is the process by which organizations set goals, determine standards, assign and evaluate work, and distribute rewards.

This survey of methodology provides a framework for understanding Africana Studies.