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The Outstanding Middle Manager
How to be a Healthy, Happy, High-performing Mid-level Manager
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Recent research shows that the number of people in senior specialist and middle management positions is growing. As organizations continue to flatten, the middle becomes the place where many will spend the majority of their careers. The Outstanding Middle Manager is the new guide to dealing with those...
How to Write a Marketing Plan
Define Your Strategy, Plan Effectively and Reach Your Marketing Goals
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
***How to Write a Marketing Plan***provides a step-by-step guide to creating a successful marketing plan: from carrying out a marketing audit, setting objectives and devising budgets to writing, presenting and implementing the plan. With content on producing mini-plans and seizing new opportunities...
Neuroscience for Learning and Development
How to Apply Neuroscience and Psychology for Improved Learning and Training
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Neuroscience for Learning and Development is about the psychology and neuroscience that underpins effective and successful training and learning. It introduces the latest research and concepts and suggests practical tools, techniques and ideas to improve how trainers train and how people learn. Readers...
The Innovation Handbook
How to Profit from Your Ideas, Intellectual Property and Market Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In fast-moving markets, no organization can expect to identify and keep the best ideas by working in isolation; innovation is now running on an open model, with input from a variety of disciplines and sources, including specialists, employees, suppliers and, in particular, customers and clients.
But...
The Handbook of Work-based Pension Schemes
An Employer's Guide to Designing and Managing an Effective Pension Scheme
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2016
Since Autumn 2012 and under strict regulatory obligations, the biggest corporations in the UK have been offering a pension to any employee who earns more than £10,000. Now the challenge falls on smaller employers. This compulsory measure has far-reaching consequences for all players: not only have...
Decarbonizing Logistics
Distributing Goods in a Low Carbon World
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
Logistics accounts for around 9-10% of global CO2 emissions and will be one of the hardest economic sectors to decarbonize. This is partly because the demand for freight transport is expected to rise sharply over the next few decades, but also because it relies very heavily on fossil fuel. Decarbonizing...
People and Organisational Development
A New Agenda for Organisational Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
***People and Organisational Development***is ideal for both practitioners and students alike. Setting out a new agenda for organisational effectiveness, this book not only covers emergent theories of organisational development and human resources management, it also gives practical examples for how...
The Leadership Lab
Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
How can today's business leaders keep up with seismic geopolitical and economic shifts that include Brexit, inflation and the unseating of traditional political powers, and what do these mean for their own leadership narratives? In The Leadership Lab, bestselling author Chris Lewis and superstar megatrends...
by Raymond French
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Formerly rooted firmly in the domain of anthropology, the topic of culture has shifted over the last thirty-five years to become an important component of business and management as organisations have become global. As companies outsource some of their work to other countries, or as employees migrate...
by Robert Cluley
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
As a subject, advertising affects us all - it surrounds us every day. Yet there is a great deal of variety in the way advertising is interpreted, and practitioners and academics from different backgrounds and disciplines study advertising in vastly different ways. For example, psychologists try to...
Leading International Projects
Diverse Strategies for Project Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Project managers leading international projects must deliver value and align the project outcomes to the wider strategic goals of the organization. However, they are faced with the challenges of cross cultural communication and behavioural differences, large-scale and technically complex projects...
Research Methods in Human Resource Management
Investigating a Business Issue
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Fully mapped to the CIPD Level 7 Advanced module on Investigating a Business Issue from an HR Perspective, Research Methods in Human Resource Management is a key resource for anyone undertaking a research report. It covers the planning and execution of HRM research projects, from investigating and...
The People Business
How Ten Leaders Drive Engagement Through Internal Communications
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
The People Business offers readers a unique, inside perspective on what works and what doesn't in the world of corporate internal communication and strategy. Featuring interviews with senior practitioners from a diverse range of leading firms, the book offers a refreshingly honest perspective on the...
Organizational Management
Approaches and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Organizational Management is ideal for readers who need to understand modern organizations. This book enables students to understand the key issues of organizational behaviour and how to take a critical approach when planning, leading and engaging a workforce and its resources. The book provides fresh...