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Solutions Manual to accompany Nonlinear Programming
Theory and Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
As the Solutions Manual, this book is meant to accompany the main title, Nonlinear Programming: Theory and Algorithms, Third Edition. This book presents recent developments of key topics in nonlinear programming (NLP) using a logical and self-contained format. The volume is divided into three sections:...
Data Envelopment Analysis
A Handbook of Models and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This handbook represents a milestone in the progression of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Written by experts who are often major contributors to DEA theory, it includes a collection of chapters that represent the current state-of-the-art in DEA research. Topics include distance functions and their...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This handbook focuses on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) applications in operations analytics which are fundamental tools and techniques for improving operation functions and attaining long-term competitiveness. In fact, the handbook demonstrates that DEA can be viewed as Data Envelopment Analytics.
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Quantitative Models for Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
Data Envelopment Analysis with Spreadsheets
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The author is one of the prominent researchers in the field of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a powerful data analysis tool that can be used in performance evaluation and benchmarking. This book is based upon the author’s years of research and teaching experiences.
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What’s Wrong With Leadership?
Improving Leadership Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Leadership practitioners and those who seek to develop leadership are concerned with whether they are using evidence-based best practices to develop leadership capacity in themselves and others. Are we indeed using best practices in the study, practice, and development of leadership? This book seeks...
by Laura L. Koppes, Stephen J. Vodanovich, Robert D. Athey
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
The goal of this well known book is to provide methods for understanding major EEO laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and the American with Disabilities Act of 1990. Also included are over 700 cases involving federal case law that focus on issues relating to the terms and conditions of employment. New to this t
by Zuzana Robertson C.Psychol
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
This book is aimed at HR Professionals, CIPD and occupational psychology students and those working in Resourcing / Recruitment function. It explains how a psychometric test can be evaluated as an aid to selection and illustrates this with a business scenario (based on a CIPD case study).
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Workplace Innovation
Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
This book focuses on workplace innovation, which is a key element in ensuring that organizations and the people within them can adapt to and engage in healthy, sustainable change. It features a collection of multi-level, multi-disciplinary contributions that combine theory, research and practical...
Operational Decision-making in High-hazard Organizations
Drawing a Line in the Sand
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book takes a fresh look at safety decision-making by documenting and examining stories told by front-line managers in three different high-hazard industries: a chemical plant, a nuclear power station and an air-navigation service provider. From Piper Alpha to Deepwater Horizon, accident analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Over the past decade, research and theory on heroism and heroic leadership has greatly expanded, providing new insights on heroic behavior. The Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership brings together new scholarship in this burgeoning field to build an important foundation for further multidisciplinary...
Retirement and the Hidden Epidemic
The Complex Link Between Aging, Work Disengagement, and Substance Misuse -- and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Evidence from both local and national surveys suggests that substance misuse and abuse among older adults in the United States is a "hidden epidemic" that poses a major threat to the welfare and quality of life of older drinkers and their families, and has significant public health implications. Based...
Scheduling of Power Generation
A Large-Scale Mixed-Variable Model
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
The book contains description of a real life application of modern mathematical optimization tools in an important problem solution for power networks. The objective is the modelling and calculation of optimal daily scheduling of power generation, by thermal power plants, to satisfy all demands...
Incompetency and Competency Training
Improving Executive Skills in Sensemaking, Framing Issues, and Making Choices
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
This book covers theory and practice of competency and incompetency training. ‘Incompetency training’ includes formal and informal instruction that consciously (purposively) or unconsciously imparts knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behavior (including procedures) that are useless, inaccurate,...
Executive Burnout
Eastern and Western Concepts, Models and Approaches for Mitigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Never before has the world witnessed the phenomenon of severe stress and burnout on such a large scale as in recent years. Globalization, technological advances and economic meltdown have brought about a plethora of unprecedented challenges for industry and organizations across the globe. Consequently,...