Industrial Management category: 1113 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Safety is an important aspect of everyday business operations. It can have an impact on the operations of an enterprise as well as the wellbeing of the workers. Literature shows that SMEs face extra problems in this area due to limited resources and lack of knowledge. A potential accident on the premises,...
Managerial Ethics
Managing the Psychology of Morality
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
This book combines management theory with ethical theory on a chapter by chapter, topic by topic basis. The volume bridges the theoretical, empirical and practical gap between management and ethics. It will be of interest to a cross disciplinary group of students, researchers and managers in business, management, organizational behavior, IO psychology and business ethics.
Eurasian Business Perspectives
Proceedings of the 24th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
This volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics includes selected papers from the 24th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Bangkok. The theoretical and empirical papers gathered here cover diverse areas of business and management from different geographic regions;...
Organizational Trust
Measurement, Impact, and the Role of Management Accountants
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Organizations consider trust as a pillar for successful operations in an increasingly global competitive environment. Some professionals go further and argue that in an economy trust is more important than natural resources. This book deals with ways to measure trust and its impact on organizational...
Strategic Business Decisions
A Quantitative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
This book presents the essential concepts of operations research and engineering management in a structured manner. Starting with the basic functions of management – planning, organizing, leading and controlling – it introduces the reader to the process of strategic decision-making, covering the...
by Thomas Allen, Gunter Henn
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2007
Building on his pioneering work on the management of technology and innovation in his first book, Managing the Flow of Technology, Thomas J. Allen of MIT has joined with award-winning German architect Gunter Henn of HENN Architekten to produce a book that explores the combined use of two management...
Mentoring Diverse Leaders
Creating Change for People, Processes, and Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Mentoring Diverse Leaders provides up-to-date research on the impact of mentoring relationships in organizations, particularly as they relate to cultivating diverse leadership. Contributions from experts in the fields of psychology, business, law, non-profit management, and engineering draw connections...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
It is clear that organizations are becoming more culturally diverse, and a better understanding of multiculturism and its impact on organizations is needed. This book, with contributions from expert academics, is designed to motivate both the further development of models concerned with the influence of cultural diversity on several Human Resource
The Age of Agile
How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
An unstoppable business revolution is under way--and it is Agile. Sparking dramatic improvements in quality, innovation, and speed-to-market, the Agile movement has helped companies both large and small learn to connect everyone and everything . . . all the time.With rapidly evolving consumer needs...
by Stephen Willis, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2019
This book uses the Power through Collaboration (PtC) Formula to perform a postmortem on the excessive death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. The postmortem agrees with Congressional investigations that a “failure of leadership” produced dysfunctional emergency preparedness and response....
Domino Effects in the Process Industries
Modelling, Prevention and Managing
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Domino Effects in the Process Industries discusses state-of-the-art theories, conceptual models, insights and practical issues surrounding large-scale knock-on accidents—so-called domino effects—in the chemical and process industries. The book treats such extremely low-frequency phenomena from...
Sociology, Work and Organisation
Seventh Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The seventh edition of Sociology, Work and Organisation is outstandingly effective in explaining how we can use the sociological imagination to understand the nature of institutions of work, organisations, occupations, management and employment and how they are changing in the twenty-first century.
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Work Engagement
A Handbook of Essential Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This book provides the most thorough view available on this new and intriguing dimension of workplace psychology, which is the basis of fulfilling, productive work.
The book begins by defining work engagement, which has been described as ‘an opposite to burnout,’ following its development...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
There is a huge elephant in the room: organizational decisions are often based on family relationships, rather than on the ‘rational’ approach advocated by many professionals. Textbooks on Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Economics, Public Administration, and a host of related...