Industrial Management category: 1113 books
Data Envelopment Analysis
A Handbook of Modeling Internal Structure and Network
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This handbook serves as a complement to the Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis (eds, W.W. Cooper, L.M. Seiford and J, Zhu, 2011, Springer) in an effort to extend the frontier of DEA research. It provides a comprehensive source for the state-of-the art DEA modeling on internal structures and network...
Human Factors Methods and Accident Analysis
Practical Guidance and Case Study Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book provides an overview of, and practical guidance on, the range of human factors (HF) methods that can be used for the purposes of accident analysis and investigation in complex sociotechnical systems. Human Factors Methods and Accident Analysis begins with an overview of different accident...
Safety Law
Legal Aspects in Occupational Safety and Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Safety professionals must prepare every day to safeguard their employees in the workplace. Additionally, part of every safety professional’s responsibility is to safeguard their organization when a compliance inspection is conducted by federal, OSHA, or a state plan agency. Safety professionals...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
This edition was conceived and compiled to meet the need for a comprehensive book for practitioners, academics, and students on the research of emotions in organizational behavior. The book is the first of its kind to incorporate organizational behavior and bounded emotionality. The editors' primary...
Psycho-social Career Meta-capacities
Dynamics of contemporary career development
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book introduces a coherent perspective on the self-regulatory career meta-capacities that individuals, as career agents, need to successfully manage their career development in a boundaryless occupational world. Enriched by empirical data and case studies by subject specialists in the fields,...
by Zhaoxia Guo
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
This book provides an overview of intelligent decision-making techniques and discusses their application in production and retail operations. Manufacturing and retail enterprises have stringent standards for using advanced and reliable techniques to improve decision-making processes, since these processes...
by Arnaud Chevallier
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Whether you are a student or a working professional, you can benefit from being better at solving the complex problems that come up in your life. Strategic Thinking in Complex Problem Solving provides a general framework and the necessary tools to help you do so. Based on his groundbreaking course...
Promoting Skill Transfer for Human Capacity Development in Papua New Guinea
The Role of Externally Financed Infrastructure Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Pacific countries lack workers with construction skills and rely on large firms to import skilled workers for large infrastructure projects. In Papua New Guinea (PNG), for example, the working-age population is estimated to grow by 2.2 million people between 2014 and 2030. The country faces a growing...
Factors Influencing CEOs of Publicly Traded Companies:
Deviating From Pre-Established Long-Term Strategies in Response to Short-Term Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
A summary of a provocative doctoral research study on the factors influencing CEOs in deviating from long-term strategies for short-term objectives. The research was based on interviews with CEOs of publicly traded companies ranging from 10 million to 12 billion in annual revenue. The introduction...
Intelligent Transportation and Evacuation Planning
A Modeling-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2012
Intelligent Transportation and Evacuation Planning: A Modeling-Based Approach provides a new paradigm for evacuation planning strategies and techniques. Recently, evacuation planning and modeling have increasingly attracted interest among researchers as well as government officials. This interest...
by James Reason
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an ’organizational accident’. These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological systems operating in hazardous circumstances. They stand in sharp contrast to ’individual accidents’ whose damaging...
Organisational Culture
Concept, Context, and Measurement(In Two Volumes)
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
In 1989, the prominent organisational culture scholar, Stephen Ott, lamented what he saw as the failure of the organisational culture perspective to have the kind of lasting influence — whether empirical, or in terms of its contribution to practice — that had been hoped for. In attempting to explain...
Volunteering and Communication Volume 2
Studies in International and Intercultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This book won the 2017 NCA Applied Communication Division Distinguished Edited Book Award
The second volume of Volunteering and Communication seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, which demonstrated the breadth of research being conducted on volunteers. The focus...
Sustainable Working Lives
Managing Work Transitions and Health throughout the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The purpose of this volume is to describe the impact of the increased demand for flexibility on employees and its impact on their individual work life trajectories and health. The volume offers concrete examples of interventions aimed to find innovative ways of sustainable work careers for today's...