Industrial Management category: 1113 books
Transforming Performance Management to Drive Performance
An Evidence-based Roadmap
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Recently a revolution has taken place in organizations around the world to transform their performance management systems from burdensome chores into a valuable business practices. Many high-profile companies have announced they are getting rid of the dreaded performance reviews and replacing them...
Conversations about Calling
Advancing Management Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
*Conversations about Calling *explores management perspectives of the calling construct. Using Max Weber’s seminal work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, as a starting point, Myers seeks to enrich management perspectives of calling by integrating the contributions of other disciplines...
Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small or Medium-sized Enterprises
Main Criteria and Tools for Managers
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2011
Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small- or Medium-sized Enterprises outlines different approaches to the analysis of the organisation of small- or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Owing to the increased competition in the worldwide market, several SMEs operating in the same industrial...
Work, Wealth, and Postmodernism
The Intellectual Conflict at the Heart of Business Endeavour
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This work examines the rise of postmodernism in management scholarship and argues that the prevalence of postmodernist thought reflects a lack of understanding by management researchers of the core principles upon which Western business endeavour is based. The author highlights postmodernism’s methodological...
Advances in Metaheuristics
Applications in Engineering Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Advances in Metaheuristics: Applications in Engineering Systems provides details on current approaches utilized in engineering optimization. It gives a comprehensive background on metaheuristic applications, focusing on main engineering sectors such as energy, process, and materials. It discusses...
Project Management and Engineering Research
AEIPRO 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
This is the Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, that was held at the Technical University of Cartagena, Spain, from July 13 to 15, 2016. It brings together a collection of recent works of researchers and professionals in the Project Management and...
Failure Management
Ursachen und Folgen des Scheiterns
Language: German
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Dieses Werk bietet den ersten umfassenden Überblick über das Thema Scheitern in Wirtschaft und Management. Exzellente Autoren aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Wirtschaft, dem Sport, dem Bildungssektor und des Gesundheitswesens beleuchten das Tabuthema aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven, unter...
Management in Komplexität und Unsicherheit
Für agile Manager
Language: German
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Wolfgang Vieweg behandelt die Frage, wie Management in komplexer, volatiler und unsicherer Umgebung nachhaltig erfolgreich sein kann. Warum versagen die herkömmlichen Ansätze? Und was konkret sichert zukünftigen Erfolg? Zwischen „kompliziert“ und „komplex“ liegen Welten: Heutiges Management,...
Total Quality Management
Key Concepts and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Total Quality Management: Key Concepts and Case Studies provides the full range of management principles and practices that govern the quality function. The book covers the fundamentals and background needed, as well as industry case studies and comprehensive topic coverage, making it an invaluable...
by Trish Melton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
A practical handbook for career project managers and those involved intermittently with projects throughout their career.
Brief and visually led, Managing Project Delivery gets to the point, giving you the knowledge and confidence to manage project benefits and increase the certainty of success.
Focused...
by Kenneth R. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
An accessible introduction to optimization analysis using spreadsheets
Updated and revised, Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets, Third Edition emphasizes model building skills in optimization analysis. By emphasizing both spreadsheet modeling and optimization tools in the freely available...
Innovation performance accounting
Financing Decisions and Risk Assessment of Innovation Processes
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
For successful innovation in business the responsible managers need a consistent view of the individual processes as well as an assessment of key projects in all phases of the development. Generating new ideas, fast examination of its feasibility requires skilled methods for evaluation of these ideas,...
Good People, Bad Managers
How Work Culture Corrupts Good Intentions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
There's far more bad management behavior taking place today than the well-intentioned doling it out realize... and even more than those on the receiving end are aware of! There's little mystery about what good management entails; the biggest mystery is why people are calling this bad behavior "good...
Supply Chain Design and Management
Strategic and Tactical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Supply Chain Design and Management introduces the concept of a sharing mechanism that will ensure the sustainability of a supply chain by fair distribution of costs and benefits. This book provides a holistic view of the supply chain from product development, purchasing, manufacturing, distribution and...