Management category: 43175 books

Latin Americans are culturally different from North Americans in ways that so far have been inaccurately portrayed in the management literature. In Culture and Management in the Americas, Alfredo Behrens argues that these differences merit a substantial overhaul of management theory and practice to...

Managing Health Service: Concepts and Practice 2nd edition E-book provides a valuable practice resource for the health service management students and managers. While new concepts and strategies of multidisciplinary health service management and leadership have been added, the focus remains on providing...

This book focusses on the challenges and changes organizational management faces in an era when the need to develop environmentally aware processes meets high levels of competition. It covers the synergetic effects, how re-use, recycling, waste reduction, and other sustainable production strategies...

Kaizen principles have been viewed as one of the key factors to Japanese competitiveness. Kaizen techniques became famous when Toyota used them to rise to world's automotive leadership. The company is credited as pioneer to formalize Kaizen technique and implement it as part of a global business...

Project Management is a method and set of techniques based on planning, estimating and controlling work activities to achieve a desired result on time, within budget and according to specification. During a project's life cycle, project management focuses on three basic parameters: quality, time and...

Based on twenty years of management research, observations, practices, and experiences, The Ten Commandments of Quality Management will create the next generation of great leaders! Author Ajit Silva compares and contrasts the behavior patterns of traditional managers to quality managers and...

Today's most successful companies are Intelligent Companies that use the best available data to inform their decision making. This is called Evidence-Based Management and is one of the fastest growing business trends of our times. Intelligent Companies bring together tools such as Business Intelligence,...

A collection of powerful affirmations on time management by productivity expert, coach, speaker and sociologist Dr. Jan Yager, and selected famous quotes on time, that also includes useful activities for improving efficiency at work and in one's leisure time. There is an introduction about time management,...

From the best-selling quality management author, David Hoyle, Quality Management Essentials is the perfect brief, yet authoritative, introduction to the fundamentals of quality management. Quality in organizations, large or small, is achieved with intelligent use of various concepts, principles,...

Hoshin is a system which was developed in Japan in the 1960's, and is a derivative of Management By Objectives (MBO). It is a Management System for determining the appropriate course of action for an organization, and effectively accomplishing the relevant actions and results. Having recognized the...

Discover the proven process for maximizing the potential value of any project. Showing readers how to apply value optimization techniques to project and performance management, dramatically increasing results and efficiency, Value Optimization for Project and Performance Management is written...

Incorporate effective time management and transform your life If you always feel like there's not enough time in the day to get everything accomplished, Successful Time Management For Dummies is the resource that can help change your workday and your life. Filled with insights into how the...

Despite many years of development, risk management remains problematic for the majority of organizations. One common challenge is the human dimension, in other words, the way people perceive risk and risk management. Risk management processes and techniques are operated by people, each of whom is...

Illustrated with more than 100 figures and tables, Project Management and Sustainable Development Principles provides practitioners with all the tools they need to understand Sustainable Development and apply its principles to the initiation and management of projects. This comprehensive volume begins...