Management

The first edition of Gerald Bradley's Benefit Realisation Management quickly established itself as the definitive, practical guide to using measures to track performance throughout the life of a project or programme; enabling organisations to eliminate...

The psychological contract lies at the heart of your relationship with the organisation you work for. It is the deal you make with your employer and colleagues at work; it is about your mutual expectations and their fulfilment. Too often this contract is...

Dieses Buch erklärt verständlich, was Cyber Security ist und wie Unternehmen der Bedrohungslage im Internet effektiv begegnen können. Entscheidungsträger erhalten leicht verständliche Denkanstöße und können sich anhand eines methodischen Rahmens Schritt...

Practitioners operate in a necessary reality. We work in a space where project performance is above theory or methodology. In the best environments, delivery and an affirmative culture are what matter most. In the worst, it is politics and survival. In...

Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über gängige Konzepte und Bausteine des Patentmanagements. Es wendet sich an Führungskräfte in den Bereichen Innovation, F&E und Patentmanagement sowie an Wissenschaftler und Studierende. Basierend auf der...

On few occasions in the history of modern management have leadership skills been in such sharp focus as they are now. The ability to direct often very large and diverse organizations; to make sense of the complex and turbulent markets and environments in...

The ideal business is productive, collaborative and innovative. But how can you bring these qualities into your organization? The solution is to build a resilient culture. This is a groundbreaking guide to lasting success through practical and original...

Food supply chains are integral in ensuring that food makes it from the farm to the table. Understanding how these operate has never been more important. The new edition of Food Supply Chain Management and Logistics is the guide to all aspects of food...

In a world increasingly driven by artificial intelligence, leadership needs to move beyond the “agile” approach, which dominated organizational leadership practices at the end of the 20th century. What is required now for successful leaders is a skillful...

Das Buch vermittelt einen ganzheitlichen prozessorientierten Organisationsgestaltungs- und Corporate-Governance-Ansatz als Führungs- und Leitungsinstrument in Unternehmen. Das Ziel des allgemeingültigen und systematischen Konzeptes ist es, alle...

Prepare any team for peak performance when crisis comes. Crisis-Ready Teams explains how any team, and any team leader, in any industry or sector, can prepare in advance to manage crises that suddenly pull people together to address high-magnitude events...

The book presents a model for assessing and systematically improving corporate agility in businesses. Agility enhances a company's responsiveness, innovative capacity, and resilience in crises, thereby creating an important success factor for businesses...

The ideal business is productive, collaborative and innovative. But how can you bring these qualities into your organization? The solution is to build a resilient culture. This is a groundbreaking guide to lasting success through practical and original...

The current economic situation has highlighted deficiencies in corporate governance while also showing the importance of stakeholder relations. It has also raised the profile of the debates regarding corporate social responsibility and shown the...

'Excellent', 'Outstanding' and 'Inspirational' were words used to describe the highly acclaimed and award winning first edition of Women in Management Worldwide. Edited by two of the world's most eminent researchers into the role of women in work and...

Employing a critical yet humorous style, Chris Hackley draws on 40 years of education experience to examine business education and its wider societal role. He presents a historical perspective alongside various topical and personal accounts to answer the...

The conventional interpretation of safety, known as Safety-I, denotes a condition where as little as possible goes wrong, and the focus of practical efforts in management or analysis is on the occurrence of unacceptable outcomes and on how to reduce...

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller!In The Unicorn Project, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage...

Executives are under enormous pressure to meet stakeholder expectations regarding the prevention of fraud and corruption. However, the drive to demonstrate that they are complying with legislative requirements and high principles has, in many cases,...

Just like the world financial system, but for different reasons, 21st-century corporations need a new business model for their enterprise supply chains. The old conventions no longer work in this new world of volatile and increasingly unpredictable...

Despite valiant efforts and the advent of techniques such as delegation, career development, performance management, key performance indicators, programme and project management, social network analysis, and employee engagement, most organizations...

This Element posits that questions are the heart of leadership. Leaders ask hard questions that spark creative solutions and new understandings. Asking by itself isn't enough - leaders must also help find answers and turn them into effective action. But...

Well-being and Wellness: Psychosocial Risk Management is a companion to Health and Safety: Risk Management that describes the techniques and background knowledge for preventing injury and ill health in the workplace. The new book instead describes the...

This is the Open Access edition of Global Focus from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Global Focus has become one of the most authoritative resources for in-depth analysis and updates on international management development...

Dieses Buch untersucht und beleuchtet die wichtigsten Herausforderungen, denen sich die pharmazeutische Industrie in einem zunehmend wettbewerbsorientierten Umfeld mit inflationären F&E-Investitionen und verschärftem Kostendruck stellen muss. Die Autoren...

This book deals in depth with an ancient attribute of effective leaders that has in recent years caught the attention of leadership writers and researchers. Today’s effective leader is expected to demonstrate humility in addition to standard leadership...

History is full of examples of how the skilful use of language is a fundamental aspect of charismatic leadership. Traditionally, this phenomenon has been studied focusing on oratory skills. This book proposes the multi-faceted construct of textual...

Over the last decade, the notion of labour-management cooperation and partnership has been central to debates around the future of employee representation. In this insightful analysis of the partnership process in the dynamic UK financial services...

It is a marketing truism that products should be shaped around the preferences of customers, not designers, and that a design or advert that is effective with one personality type may not be effective with another. Since purchasing intent can be...

This is the book that helps managers maximise the business value brought by data to their organisation. Book InformationISBN 9781292462141Author Andrea De MauroFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint FT Publishing InternationalPublisher Pearson Education...

This book discusses various aspects of future intelligent power grids, covering key topics including the operation of smart grids and microgrids, resource optimization, and energy management. Over the last few decades, the use of solar photovoltaics...

Agile is a mindset and a culture that has evolved beyond software development to encompass all forms of project management, business organizations, defense, and society. In today's fast-paced and ever-changing world, adopting an Agile approach is...

The job market is heating up, standards are higher… and competition is becoming fiercer… Want to accelerate your professional development – but can’t because life is moving fast and time is short? As long as you have The New MBA Playbook, an innovative...

The business benefits of lower energy consumption are clear: lower energy costs, energy tax avoidance, selling excess CO2 credits, immediately adding savings to the bottom line and improved competitiveness. However, with a need to focus on day to day...

Bias in the Workplace and Society looks at the causes and management of the biases that underpin all behavior inclusive of discrimination, prejudice, and stereotyping that can occur in the workplace and in everyday contexts. It considers how such biases...

There's a very real opportunity for those leaders who want to rebel. Rebellious leaders are agents of change and leaders of reconciliation. Leadership today isn't working. Despite loud and boisterous leaders in business, politics and not-for-profit...

In International Multi-Unit Leadership, Chris Edger builds on his earlier Effective Multi-Unit Leadership. First - showcasing up-to-date, contemporaneous case studies of market-leading international organisations - the book takes a cross-border...

If money is the lifeblood of business, contracts are the arteries that help carry it around the commercial body. Anyone in business is liable to have to deal with business contracts, but few are trained to do so. Even those that are trained may have...

The manager-managed relationship is not always easy but it is vital for you and your organisation. Finding ways to work productively, professionally and assertively with your manager benefits not just you two but your whole organisation and, importantly,...

Communication is the key to organisational success and nowhere is this truism more apparent than in the influence of internal communication during a transformational process as dramatic as a merger or acquisition. During the complex process of bringing...