Industrial Management category: 1113 books
by Annibal Parracho Sant'Anna
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Putting forward a unified presentation of the features and possible applications of probabilistic preferences composition, and serving as a methodology for decisions employing multiple criteria, this book maximizes reader insights into the evaluation in probabilistic terms and the development of composition...
The New Guide to Identity
How to Create and Sustain Change Through Managing Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
It is, of course, commonplace for corporations to operate sophisticated identity programmes. But identity has now moved way beyond the commercial area. We live in a world in which cities, charities, universities, clubs - in fact any activity that involves more than two or three people - all seem to...
The End of Performance Appraisal
A Practitioners' Guide to Alternatives in Agile Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book demonstrates, in detail, why annual performance appraisals might still work in hierarchical environments, but largely fail in agile ones. The annual performance appraisal is one of the world’s most widely used management tools. For many years, it was indeed seen as a pre-requisite...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The globalization of markets has reinforced the interest in logistics. A constantly raising level of competition among companies stresses the need for improved logistic processes, in terms of cost reduction and increased service level. The book covers the main problems of distribution logistics: network...
Understanding Attractive Work in a Globalized World
Studies from India and Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book discusses organizational values and their implications for perceived attractiveness and effectiveness of the workplace through cross-cultural research in India and Sweden. The authors provide information on how organizational values are conceptualized, presented and perceived by manager-level...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Increasing workplace diversity has given rise to growing intergroup challenges that persistently manifest in discrimination. An emerging science in psychology, sociology, and management has yielded useful evidence to be brought to bear on the important problem of discrimination, but current literature...
Designing Pilot Projects as Boundary Objects
A Brazilian Case Study in the Promotion of Sustainable Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This book describes a collaborative Design Pilot Project held in Brazil (called MODU.Lares) involving micro and small enterprises and other actors in the furniture sector. The experience was based on an action research method and evaluated by using a tool, in order to assess the value of pilot project...
Mindfulness in the Workplace
An Evidence-based Approach to Improving Wellbeing and Maximizing Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Mindfulness-based interventions in organizations offer the potential to build individual and organizational resilience, engage employees and address workplace stress. Mindfulness in the Workplace is a practical guide written for practitioners who want to learn how mindfulness can be used as a change...
Stress and Quality of Working Life
Current Perspectives in Occupational Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
This book was developed for the 2005 International Stress Management Association Conference in Brazil. The original book was recently published in Portuguese, but because of the popularity of the topics and the worldrenowned stress scholars who contributed chapters, we are very pleased to have the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
This book describes a variety of teaching and academic research applications that effectively utilize FlexSim to: (1) provide guidelines, methods and tools for simulation modeling and analysis in a variety of educational settings and (2) address a variety of important design and operational issues...
Listening Deeply
An Approach to Understanding and Consulting in Organizational Culture, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Listening deeply is the foundation of all effective organizational management, research, and consulting. This book explores the many aspects of attentive listening through storytelling and includes examples of organizational case studies. In Stein’s practice, listening deeply is an attitude evoked...
Stress and Quality of Working Life
The Positive and The Negative
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This book offers twelve chapters organized into three major sections that address occupational stress and quality of working life. The authors are an internationally renowned team of scholarresearchpractitioners who are grounded in applied science and clinical practice. Section 1 includes five chapters...
by William A Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
It is common for undergraduate and graduate students across various disciplines to be placed on teams and assigned group project research reports and presentations which require them to work together. For example a psychology course requires teams to develop, conduct, analyze and present the result...
Reifegrad 3
Ein Business-Roman über leistungsstarke Produktentstehung im Mittelstand
Language: German
Release Date: December 5, 2017
"Sie sind ein mittelständisches Industrieunternehmen. Sie sind erfolgreich. Sie wachsen. Sie müssen die Effizienz Ihrer Produktentstehung steigern." Henrik Van Weyden ist Bereichsleiter Entwicklung der Luga Spezialmaschinenbau AG. Der neue CEO verlangt, die F&E-Quote und die Entwicklungsdauer...