Industrial Management category: 1113 books
Computational Morphologies
Design Rules Between Organic Models and Responsive Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book represents an invaluable and up-to-date international exchange of research, case studies and best practice to tackle the challenges of digital technology, computer-aided design, 3D modeling, prototyping machines and computational design. With contributions from leading experts in the field...
by Peter Warr
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Award-winning psychologist Peter Warr explores why some people at work are happier or unhappier than others. He evaluates different approaches to the definition and assessment of happiness, and combines environmental and person-based themes to explain differences in people’s experience. A framework...
Operations Research Problems
Statements and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
The objective of this book is to provide a valuable compendium of problems as a reference for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers and practitioners of operations research and management science. These problems can serve as a basis for the development or study of assignments and...
Multi-Disciplinary Engineering for Cyber-Physical Production Systems
Data Models and Software Solutions for Handling Complex Engineering Projects
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2017
This book discusses challenges and solutions for the required information processing and management within the context of multi-disciplinary engineering of production systems. The authors consider methods, architectures, and technologies applicable in use cases according to the viewpoints of product...
Psychology of Retention
Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
This book offers a contemporary review of talent retention from the viewpoint of human resource management and industrial/organisational psychology. With a practical and relevant perspective it enriches critical knowledge and insight in the psychology of talent retention. It offers interpretation...
International Management and International Relations
A Critical Perspective from Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Over the last few decades, the field of management enlarged its boundaries, especially in international terms, in a very rapid fashion—mainly because of the arrival of the so-called era of globalization. Many renowned scholars have criticized the universal approach given to ‘management’ in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Employees are constantly making decisions and judgments that have the potential to affect themselves, their families, their work organizations, and on some occasion even the broader societies in which they live. A few examples include: deciding which job applicant to hire, setting a production goal,...
Advances in Ergonomic Design of Systems, Products and Processes
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of GfA 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
These proceedings summarize the best papers in each research field represented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (GfA) in the German-speaking area, held at Institute of Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics of RWTH Aachen University from March 2–4. The meeting...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Organizations today are increasingly using projects in their daily activities. Projects and project-management principles frame goal attainment in academia and many business sectors, and they even serve as theoretical footing for organizational-change endeavors. However, the ubiquity of project management...
Fundamental Theories of Mega Infrastructure Construction Management
Theoretical Considerations from Chinese Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Fundamental Theories of Mega Infrastructure Construction Management: Theoretical Considerations from Chinese Practices is a collection of decades of research and applications of managing megaprojects using theories of complex systems and management sciences. It presents basic (classical) theory of...
Applied Psychology for Project Managers
A Practitioner's Guide to Successful Project Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
This book offers an essential manual for project managers, project management offices (PMO’s), trainers and consultants, addressing the psychological side of project management. Written by leading scholars in organizational psychology and by top experts in project management, it covers all major...
Engineering Management
Meeting the Global Challenges, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Engineering Management: Meeting the Global Challenges prepares engineers to fulfill their managerial responsibilities, acquire useful business perspectives, and take on the much-needed leadership roles to meet the challenges in the new millennium. Value addition, customer focus, and business perspectives...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Since the increased attention toward diversity in the workplace, the concepts of "diversity initiatives" and "diversity management" have become a common place in many conversations among academics and practitioners alike. The diversity movement in the workplace originated from...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Respond quickly and effectively to workplace trauma
For years, employee assistance programs have been providing critical incidence stress management services to employees who have been involved in, or witness to, workplace fatalities and accidents that are likely to traumatize workers and affect...