Structural Adjustment list 5

Principles of Ecology and Management

by Alan Sitkin
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011

For more than a decade now, business gurus have been advising managers to embark upon the kinds of environmental processes that will allow their companies to survive and thrive in the face of a mounting ecological imperative. The big question for students of business is therefore not why companies should...

Industrial Relations in Education

Transforming the School Workforce

by Bob Carter, Howard Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009

All phases of education from pre-school to post-compulsory, in virtually all parts of the world, have experienced unprecedented reform and restructuring in recent years. Restructuring has largely been driven by a global agenda that has promoted the development of human capital as the key to economic...

Learning to Succeed

by Thomas Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015

You’ve probably heard the old saying, “The only constant is change.” But with the frequent market shifts thus far in the early twenty-first century, combined with the rapid pace of technological change coming out of Silicon Valley, the old saying has morphed into a stern warning that demands...

Going Lean

How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize Profits

by Stephen A. RUFFA
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008

Efficient operations and powerful innovations are not limited to seasons of growth and high demand. Going Lean introduces the powerful yet unexpected mind-set that’s reshaping the rules for business competitiveness: Lean Dynamics ™. This approach, based on the now-famous Toyota Production System--empowers...

Effective Work Breakdown Structures

by Gregory T. Haugan PhD, PMP
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001

At last - the first comprehensive and practical guide to the work breakdown structure (WBS) in 45 years! This book offers vital new perspectives on how to apply the WBS to today's different types of projects that produce products, services or results. You'll learn how to use WBS throughout the...

Predator's GameChanging Designs

ResearchBased Tools

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009

When the tried and true formula for an organization’s performance (its game plan) begins to fail, it must change its game or become obsolete. Publicly recognizing that the old formula is becoming less useful and a new formula must be developed and implemented is difficult for most stakeholders, but...

Change Is Everybody's Business

by Patricia McLagan
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2002

Change Is Everybody's Business challenges readers to realize the power they have to make things happen-to support, stymie, or redirect change. Pat McLagan draws on her thirty years of experience consulting on change projects worldwide to outline the beliefs, character traits, and actions that will...

Vulnerable People, Vulnerable States

Redefining the Development Challenge

by Daniel Bromley, Glen Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012

Over 5 decades of economic and technical assistance to the countries of Africa and the Middle East have failed to improve the life prospects for over 1.4 billion people who remain vulnerable. Billions of dollars have been spent on such assistance and yet little progress has been made. Persistent hunger...

Project Team Dynamics

Enhancing Performance, Improving Results

by Lisa DiTullio
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

Get to the Heart of Building Productive Project Teams! Companies that embrace the power of collaboration realize that the best way to solve complex problems is to build cohesive teams made up of members with different skills and expertise. Getting teams to work productively is at the heart of project...

30 Things eBay Sellers Get Wrong

SO DISAPPOINTED IN EBAY

by Keith Detwiler
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018

SO DISAPPOINTED IN EBAY 30 Things eBay Sellers Get Wrong has eBay killed your sales? What are you doing wrong? How come things have gotten so hard?

Healing the Downsized Organization

What Every Employee Needs to Know About Today's New Workplace

by Delorese Ambrose
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010

Healing the Downsized Organization is for managers and employees who must make sense of dramatically changed workplaces after reengineering, restructuring, or downsizing. Here are "best practices" from those who are successfully reinventing their organizations and re-creating healthy workplaces. Documented...

Educating the Scholar Practitioner in Organization Development

by Deborah A. Colwill
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

Organization Development (OD) is a young social science. Little has been written on the intentional development of OD professionals. As a young field of inquiry it is important to understand how the future leaders of the field of OD are being developed. The focus of this work explores the education...

Human Resources Management: Termination of Employment

by Cultural Human Resources Council
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

Few managers — cultural or otherwise — savour the idea of “getting good” at dismissing people. Even the most experienced managers feel stress and anxiety when they go through the termination process. Having a clear idea of the process and how to do it effectively won’t make it...

America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age

by Rework America, Zoë Baird
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015

It is time for a new conversation. Amid the biggest economic transformation in a century, the challenge of our time is to make sure that all Americans benefit from the wave of digital revolutions around the world that have permeated and upended modern life. Yet today's economic arguments seem...