Management & Management Techniques

In an uncertain and complex world leaders should not merely respond to the speed of change but attempt to anticipate it. Sometimes it is unexpected...

In Building Sustainable Competitive Advantage Dhirendra Kumar shows how the Enterprise Excellence (EE) philosophy is a holistic approach for leadin...

The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City, by...

For those wishing to acquire knowledge on national development issues, this comprehensive compendium traverses a spectrum of subjects that the audi...

Where do powerful strategies come from? How do some companies develop strategies that enable them to outperform others regardless of the state of t...

Leading the Customer Experience explores the relationship between leadership behaviour and exceptional service. Most organisations strategic aims a...

This book doesn't offer overrated success stories which in most cases cannot be imitated. It contains no check lists or recipes for success and it ...

Cyber security involves protecting organisations from cyber risks, the threats to organisations caused by digital technology. These risks can cause...

The four worlds as we know them today, the North, West, South and East, are out of balance. The West and the North generally dominate on a global s...

Based on the Body of Knowledge, this book is designed to serve as a practical guide for energy professionals preparing to take AEEs Certified Energ...

Many inquiry reports blame management for their failures of foresight. These reports are based on the premise that, with a little more thought, the...

Comparative Causal Mapping: The CMAP3 Method, by Mauri Laukkanen and Mingde Wang, is an introduction to the conceptual backgrounds of causal (cogni...

Safety performance is a complicated issue, particularly in high-hazard environments, where time and other constraints can be amplified, and result ...

Sometimes unanticipated threats or opportunities create a situation in which work is required unexpectedly. On these occasions, such urgent and une...

Most frauds perpetrated by senior managers take longer to uncover than those by other occupational groups and they steal more. This is a serious pr...

Whats Your Business? offers a comprehensive pathway through the subject of corporate design clarifying the relationship between corporate design an...

Business success hinges on successfully creating products with the right features. You must correctly analyze the needs of the customer and match t...

Dr Terry A. Sheridan employs a new and unique theoretical perspective to examine how malevolent, tyrannical and mediocre managers commonly use viol...

The notion of 'Quality' in business performance has exploded since the publication of the first edition of this classic text in 1989. Today there i...

Organization students and scholars are able to trace the rise of aesthetics in management studies through the papers presented in this volume. The ...

Many inquiry reports blame management for their failures of foresight. These reports are based on the premise that, with a little more thought, the...

Convergenomics is about the megatrends that are shaping how people behave and organizations work. In this insightful analysis, Sang Lee and David O...

The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City, by...

Most employers will at some time need to monitor, record and read e-mails sent and received by their staff, or check on their employees' use of the...

The Design and Construction industry is in a state of attempted change. Improvement is a key word for employer, consultant and contractor. Real ste...

This book represents the porceedings of the 1989 Safety and Reliability Society Symposium held in Bath on the 11th and 12th of October on that topic.

The first step any company must take before it can begin ISO 14001 implementation is to secure 100 percent, enthusiastic commitment from top manage...

Globalization, consumerism, legislation and human rights issues impact on workplace demographics, changing the very nature thereof. It is of strate...

The relationships between investors, directors and companies have never been so vital, or so confusing. Gone are the days when being a non-executiv...

In all but the smallest of projects the project sponsor inevitably has to buy in the goods and services of other suppliers. This requires people to...

Soon after watching the twin towers falling in New York, some of those with business responsibilities were already asking themselves whether people...

Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in promoting economic well-being and sustainable grow...

Written by actual Toyota team members, One Team on All Levels: Stories from Toyota Team Members, Second Edition is not another technical explanatio...

Comparative Causal Mapping: The CMAP3 Method, by Mauri Laukkanen and Mingde Wang, is an introduction to the conceptual backgrounds of causal (cogni...

Published in 1997, this volume is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected fro...

Since the beginning of the 2000s, important changes in external environments have affected the corporate governance practices of firms all around t...

Whether you use budget, schedule, quality, or other criteria, the statistics by think tanks, institutes, associations, and other trade organization...

A comprehensive introduction to the field of philanthropy, Philanthropy and Society challenges the reader to think deeply about the role of philant...