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Adverse Impact Analysis
Understanding Data, Statistics, and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Compliance with federal equal employment opportunity regulations, including civil rights laws and affirmative action requirements, requires collection and analysis of data on disparities in employment outcomes, often referred to as adverse impact. While most human resources (HR) practitioners are...
FAQ Gold Sheet- Answers for 25 Frequently Asked Questions on Business Process Management
Business Process Management and Continuous Improvement Executive Guide series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
In this book, you will learn about-
- Answers to 25 most frequently asked questions on successfully implementing Business Process Management and Continuous improvement methodologies to your workplace.
- Business process management (BPM) methodologies for - industries, non-profits, academia,...
Organizational Psychology
A Scientist-Practitioner Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
The foundation of organizational psychology, updated to reflect the changing workplace
Organizational Psychology: A Scientist-Practitioner Approach, Third Edition provides students with a thorough overview of both the science and practice of organizational psychology. Reflecting changes in...
by Bruce T. Barkley
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2007
Turn Innovative Ideas into Products and Services—and Manage and Control Them Using Project Management Tools
The first book to integrate project management and product development, Project Management in New Product Development shows you how to manage the translation of ideas into new products...
by Janice A. Knox, Heather Olivia Belcher
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
Chicago's famed "Loop" is said to have gotten its name from the route of a cable car that looped the central business district in 1882. Since then, much has changed. This book captures the evolving urban landscape of the Chicago Loop, with a collection of over 100 vintage images, each coupled with its...
by Edward S. Greenberg, Leon Grunberg, Sarah Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downsizing, shifting corporate culture, new roles for women,...
FRAM: The Functional Resonance Analysis Method
Modelling Complex Socio-technical Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Resilience engineering has consistently argued that safety is more than the absence of failures. Since the first book was published in 2006, several book chapters and papers have demonstrated the advantage in going behind 'human error' and beyond the failure concept, just as a number of serious accidents...
Making Work and Family Work
From hard choices to smart choices
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Making Work and Family Work investigates the difficult choices that contemporary employees must face when juggling work and family with a view to identifying the smart choices that all parties involved—society, employers, employees and families—should make to promote greater work–life balance.
Leading...
by Thomas D. Schneid
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
20 murders every week. 18,000 assaults in the same time. All on the job.
Sharp increases in workplace violence continue to take an unfortunate toll on American business-and its employees, families and communities. Preventative measures may be well-intentioned, but pose troubling conflicts in themselves,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real estate. Efficiency is one of the most frequently-mentioned aspects of government policies for green building design in the United States and around the world. There has been a significant amount...
by Preben Grønkjær
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book presents a model of eight team roles preferred by different psychological types when solving tasks. It is suitable primarily for dialogues on how individual members of a group can complement each other, but it may also be used to reflect on your own work performance.The use of the...
To Be a Worker
Identity and Politics in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
A contemporary classic in Peru, where it was first published in 1986, this book explores changes in the political identity and economic strategies of the Peruvian working class in the 1970s and 1980s. Jorge Parodi uses a case study of Metal Empresa, a large factory in Lima, to trace the surge and...
Building China
Informal Work and the New Precariat
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half of them. In Building China, Sarah Swider draws on her research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai between 2004 and 2012, including living...
Working in China
Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
After a quarter of a century of market reform, China has become the workshop of the world and the leading growth engine of the global economy. Its immense labour force accounts for some twenty-nine per cent of the world's total labour pool but all too little is known about Chinese labour beyond...