Management Science category: 4086 books

Risk control, capital allocation, and realistic derivative pricing and hedging are critical concerns for major financial institutions and individual traders alike. Events from the collapse of Lehman Brothers to the Greek sovereign debt crisis demonstrate the urgent and abiding need for statistical...

Case Studies in Service Innovation provides the reader fresh insight into how innovation occurs in practice, and stimulates learning from one context to another. The volume brings together contributions from researchers and practitioners in a celebration of achievements with the intention of adding...

Throughout the years, Janice Wheeler, President of The Art Of Management Inc., has written with uncanny insight, about the very real problems practice owners face today.Under the guise of “quick tips”, these pearls of wisdom have been issued to practice owners to help them deal with the situations...

Strategy is often the capstone class in a business education - dealing with the big questions of what companies decide to do - innovate, diversify, acquire or even to employ a range of these strategies. Benefitting from an international author team, the latest edition of this textbook stands...

What is Operational Excellence Handbook: An Enterprise Approach? Operational Excellence Handbook is the planning, execution, and reporting of business management that encourages process improvement, lean, and quality. This handbook provides a practical and hands on approach based on the control...

Science has discovered many things about people in the workplace; how output can be increased, happiness improved, patterns of communication optimized. But these research insights rarely make it outside the lab. This book bridges that gap. Organizational Psychologist Felicia Page artfully...

'Manifesting Soft Power Management' is a must for all Managers and Team Leaders, working in any Industry or Forum. The efficacy of this book comes from synergizing the Principles of Manifesting Thoughts with Soft Power Managerial techniques. To grow further as managers and graduate to mentors and to leaders, is what this book guides in.

This book focuses on the relevant subjects in the curriculum of an MBA program. Covering many different fields within business, this book is ideal for readers who want to prepare for a Master of Business Administration degree. It provides discussions and exchanges of information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications in the business area.

Strategic HRM: Research and Practice in Ireland provides an integrated overview of the theory and practice of strategic human resource management (SHRM), including a critical analysis of its relevance, application and development in an Irish context. Each of the chapters in this collection carefully...

Meetings are an integral part of leadership and management and may be the most important vehicle for collaboration, discussion, decision-making, and action. A well-run meeting is efficient, productive, and energizing for its participants. On the other hand, a poorly run meeting can be frustrating,...

Langdon is a systems kind of guy who hates meetings, isn't fond of working, and can't stand work stupidity. Sitting through tons of meetings and experiencing numerous management approaches that essentially did little to improve work effectiveness, he could have dropped out to become a guitar-playing...

To realize elite workforce performance is deceptively simple—you only have to... Find the best person for each job, Identify the best in each person, Create the best workplace for everyone. As important and helpful as the behavioral sciences have been for some aspects of business,...

In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic planning. One of our most brilliant and original management thinkers, Mintzberg concludes...

This book can be used as a way of introducing business and management students to economic concepts as well as providing economics students with a clear grasp of how to use the skills they will need in the world of business. Topics covered include: *product differentiation *price discrimination *hiring...