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Whilst there are many books on knowledge management there are few aimed directly at HR practitioners and the critical role that they can play in building a knowledge-centric culture.

The Routledge Companion to Career Studies is an in-depth reference for researchers, students, and practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of career studies.

Complex Adaptive Leadership argues leadership should not be something only exercised by nominated leaders.

In Effective Supervision, Robert J.

Teaching and Mobile Learning: Interactive Educational Design is a groundbreaking book which shows how to design innovative educational mobile learning environments to instructional designers, curriculum developers, and learning professionals.

What ethical challenges are faced by researchers studying social and political movements?

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This manual walks students through the procedures for analysis in Stata and provides exercises that go hand-in-hand with online data sets.

WINNER: Business Book Awards 2023 - Diversity, Inclusion & EqualityFINALIST: National Indie Excellence Award 2023 - Social/Political ChangeFor many people with a disability, either visible or invisible, that experience is hard to navigate in the context of work.

Changes in American social attitudes and behaviors since the 1970sSocial Trends in American Life assembles a team of leading researchers to provide unparalleled insight into how American social attitudes and behaviors have changed since the 1970s.

With the long-term trend toward earlier retirement slowing, and the majority of older workers remaining in employment up to and beyond statutory retirement age, it is increasingly important that we understand how to react to these changes.

Outsourcing is now a strategic choice for many companies and a continuing issue for managers and consultants.

New rules require a new game plan.

The second edition of Dyslexia in the Workplace is a comprehensive guide to how dyslexic adults in employment can improve their skills, and how their employers and other professionals can help.

Coaching is rapidly proving to be an invaluable aid to personal development and a successful way to enhance performance within organizations of all types.

International and Comparative Human Resource Management offers students a clear and contemporary introduction to issues in managing the human aspects of international organisations.

This book focuses on rethinking working and living spaces and understanding how "e;greening"e; can make them healthier and their occupants happier.

In the years since that report was published, we have learned more about development in place—from research, from working with managers and organizations that are making use of developmental assignments, and from our colleagues in the field.

Technical Due Diligence and Building Surveying for Commercial Property is the first book to introduce the process of technical due diligence (TDD) and examine the role of the building surveyor within the commercial property sector.

In the modern organization most tasks are accomplished by teams.

This book is for and about the millions of people who are between jobs (code for out of work), have been between jobs, or know of someone who has been.

Systemic Action Research works with real social and organisational issues to uncover their complex dynamics, often revealing unexpected opportunities.

Mentoring in Nursing and Healthcare: Supporting career and personal development is an innovative look into mentoring within nursing, and its implications for career success.

'The aim of this book is to provide both managers wishing to run 'in team' exercises and those entering the training profession with a practical guide to delivering successful developmental events', says Martin Orridge in the Preface.

Learn the secrets to excelling at interviewYou can't prepare an answer for every interview question.

Senior Executive Assessment is a concise and practical guide that demystifies assessment that is conducted at the senior-executive level.

This book provides a clear roadmap for the roles workers and leaders in business, labor, education, and government must play in building a new social contract for all to prosper.

Organizing for Resilience provides a fresh and novel insight into research on how leaders can prepare their organizations to face up to shocks and disruptions in a turbulent and unpredictable world.

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Meet the creative minds shaping our world in Chief Design Officers At Work, the captivating new addition to the acclaimed At Work series from Apress.

Discover the secret behind how Israel, a tiny country with the highest concentration of start-ups per capita worldwide, is raising generations of entrepreneurs who are disrupting markets around the globe and bringing change to the world.

Real Estate: The Basics provides an easy-to-read introduction to the core concepts of the industry to students new to the subject or professionals changing direction within the sector.

An undergraduate dissertation is your opportunity to engage with geographical research, first-hand.

The current orthodoxy is that 'knowledge' is the most powerful resource for organisational success.

The human resource (HR) profession has been on a long and challenging journey.

A detailed look at various ways to conduct research for public scholarshipTraditional research practices have often been critiqued for resulting in a wellspring of research that circulates exclusively within academic circles and garners small readership.

It is often said that one of the key determinants of a book's wmth is the extent to which it fulfills the reader's expectations.

Cracking Health Costs reveals the best ways for companies and small businesses to fight back, right now, against rising health care costs.

It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages.

This student orientated guide to structural equation modeling promotes theoretical understanding and inspires students with the confidence to successfully apply SEM.

Knowledge of theory is essential to study, but it often seems quite abstract and distant from the 'real world'.

This book on human resource management (HRM) research builds upon and extends the work of Professor David P.

Coaching, training, mentoring and development are all about helping staff to learn, whether it is new knowledge, skills or adapting to the cultural attitudes of the organization.

Science, Pseudo-science, Non-sense, and Critical Thinking shines an unforgiving light on popular and lucrative 'miraculous' practices that promise to offer answers during times of trouble.

This book discusses the psychological traits associated with drug consumption through the statistical analysis of a new database with information on 1885 respondents and use of 18 drugs.

Modern management theory has been established on the ashes of Taylorism, emphasizing control over accountability, conformity over uniqueness, and constraint over freedom.

Building rapport, communicating and establishing trust with people, as a line manager, as part of a department or a temporary project team, involves a fundamental set of human and business skills.