Management & Management Techniques

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...

The GCBME Book Series aims to promote the quality and methodical reach of the Global Conference on Business Management & Entrepreneurship, whic...

The proceedings of a major conference on the built environment ran by the RICS to examine recent research and development in: investment; building ...

First published in 1998, this volume is designed to explore the requisite knowledge, skills and drive which both prospective and practising manager...