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Hardcover. As managerial work regimes move continuously towards post-industrialism, forms of communication change with it and work relationships are increasingly becoming communicative relationships. This book seeks to end communicative distortions by establishing a new model of communication that will set up practical and workable communication forums. Num Pages: 344 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJM; KJP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 679.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230515666
- ISBN
- 9780230515666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.44
€ 68.44
Hardcover. This book emphasizes three key messages; value, alignment and sustainability. The authors believe that SCM is a value enabler with strategic decisions in supply chain design. The text also argues that economic incentives should be designed to ensure the much needed alignment and supply chain design should be viewed as a dynamic process. Num Pages: 133 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV8. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230515673
- ISBN
- 9780230515673
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Hardcover. Healthcare organizations depend on managers to build effective peer relationships to manage complex patient needs. The organization is steeped in conflict between peers. This book provides the conceptual frameworks for identifying these and for developing peer to peer relationship competence in the healthcare organization. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; KJM; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230515963
- ISBN
- 9780230515963
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.46
€ 66.46
The Insider's View on Corporate Governance: The Role of the Company Se...
Erismann, Erismann, Steger, Ulrich, Salzmann,...
Hardcover. An up-to-date look at the latest thinking on Corporate Governance, capturing the wealth of experience of some 60 company secretaries in the world's top companies, whose job it is to make corporate governance work. A must for anyone who has ever had to make tough decisions on their board and wondered how their peers might have done it. Series: Finance and Capital Markets Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230515970
- ISBN
- 9780230515970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.40
€ 127.40
Neuro-Linguistic Programming: A Critical Appreciation for Managers and...
Tosey, Paul, Mathison, Jane
Hardcover. Addressing the need for a discerning, research-based discussion of NLP, this book seeks to answer the many questions that clients, potential users and practitioners ask, including: what is NLP and what can it best be used for? This book looks at the research and theory behind NLP, also exploring claims that it is a 'pseudoscience'. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230516038
- ISBN
- 9780230516038
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Leadership as Identity: Constructions and Deconstructions
Ford, Jackie, Harding, Nancy, Learmonth, Mark
Hardcover. Management has failed; its successor is leadership. Can leadership fulfil the promises that are made in its name? This book is written for those charged with being leaders, and uses poststructuralist theory to provide a language for the confusions and uncertainties that leadership can often bring. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230516328
- ISBN
- 9780230516328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. Tells about the inextricable link between leadership and the context in which leaders operate. This book discusses about the "leadership illusion"; the habit of writers, researchers and leaders, when considering causes of success or failure, to focus mainly on the individual and often the context but rarely both. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446. The Importance of Context and Connections. 200 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 11 figures. Tells about the inextricable link between leadership and the context in which leaders operate. This book discusses about the "leadership illusion"; the habit of writers, researchers and leaders, when considering causes of success or failure, to focus mainly on the individual and often the context but rarely both. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: KJMB. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 17. Weight: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230516564
- ISBN
- 9780230516564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.99
€ 77.99
Hardcover. Introduces up and coming leaders to the skills and techniques needed to succeed in todays, and tomorrows, organizations. Covering areas such as networking, building teams, crisis management and the work/life balance, this is a practical and accessible guide. Written with 25 years of leadership experience, this is an invaluable guide for success. Series: Insead Business Press. Num Pages: 151 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 243 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230522152
- ISBN
- 9780230522152
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
Hardcover. In today's rapidly changing and increasingly complex business world, successful risk management is the key to survival and success. Risks beyond the control of the firm affect businesses more than ever before, and the fundamental job of executives is to anticipate change and manage it on the basis of an opinion about the future. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525313
- ISBN
- 9780230525313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.01
€ 79.01
Hardcover. Modern leadership is about shaping the social process of engagement, strategizing and decision-making so that workers can create immeasurable value. This book is about what executives can do to transform the thinking of those around them. It will give you exemplary decision-making, quicker organizational change and focussed leadership. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KJC; KJK; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525511
- ISBN
- 9780230525511
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardcover. This book provides unique and powerful insights into what it takes to succeed as a chairman leading a modern organization. Based on global research, the authors unveil the six disciplines of world-class chairmen. Leading the Board will become the standard work of reference and inspiration for the world's chairmen and would-be chairmen alike. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230536845
- ISBN
- 9780230536845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.48
€ 67.48
An exploration into the ways in which friendships, isolation and enemy-ships influence and affect our experience of work. The theme of the research volume is 'Alienation to Suffocation'; canvassing issues from loneliness and isolation through to the positive aspects of a friendly workplace. Editor(s): Morrison, Rachel; Wright, Sarah L. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMJ; KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230538764
- ISBN
- 9780230538764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.85
€ 127.85
Hardcover. The author argues that the successes and failures of D-Day, on both sides, cannot be explained by comparing the competing strategies of each side. Instead he provides an account of the battle through the overarching nature of the relationship between the leaders and their followers. Num Pages: 511 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJK; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 168 x 37. Weight in Grams: 916.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230543171
- ISBN
- 9780230543171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.53
€ 119.53
Hardcover. Facilitation can provide a key route to creating buy-in to the need for change and associated change initiatives. But, this only happens when facilitation is used in the right way. The authors outline the guiding principles of facilitation that every change leader needs to understand in order to successfully drive change. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJC; KJK; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230549296
- ISBN
- 9780230549296
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. Within management thinking, behaviours have become repetitive, and organizational performance is stagnant or declining. We need to engage with each other as individuals. The author proposes new ways of harnessing people's storytelling instincts and capabilities to create a new medium of professional communication and collaboration. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230573529
- ISBN
- 9780230573529
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.68
€ 94.68
Performance Measurement of New Product Development Teams: A Case of th...
Abdel-Kader, Magdy G., Yu-Ching Lin, Erin
Hardcover. Using the example of four Taiwanese brand-name multinational companies, this study seeks to unpack the relationship between project team performance measurement systems and new product success/failure. It examines the use of performance measurement results and the resulting impact on team-member behaviour and functional departments. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV2; KJMV6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230573840
- ISBN
- 9780230573840
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.60
€ 67.60
Missing Pieces: 7 Ways to Improve Employee Well-Being and Organization...
Brun, Jean- Pierre, Cooper, Cary L.
Hardcover. Why is it that more and more people like their work, but can no longer support the conditions under which they must practice it? What is impeding the improvement of occupational health and organizational effectiveness? The authors share their knowledge of the missing pieces that are preventing these improvements to the workplace. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576582
- ISBN
- 9780230576582
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.44
€ 94.44
Hardcover. The risk process commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events. By analyzing a series of past disasters and the relevant 'lessons learned', this books proposes a series of prescriptive measures to cope with future disasters. Series: Finance and Capital Markets Series. Num Pages: 222 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GPQD; KFF; KJMV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 488. Series: Finance and Capital Markets Series. 224 pages, 53 figures. The risk process commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events. By analyzing a series of past disasters and the relevant 'lessons learned', this books proposes a series of prescriptive measures to cope with future disasters. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: GPQD; KFF; KJMV1. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 18. Weight: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577312
- ISBN
- 9780230577312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.17
€ 194.17
Hardcover. Motivated by a desire to improve the effectiveness of the development of strategic leaders, this book focuses on the individual charged with shaping strategy and leading change in organizations. It offers a new and insightful model of strategic leader capability, and challenges much of the received wisdom of the leader development industry. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJC; KJMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577497
- ISBN
- 9780230577497
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
The Learning Advantage: Six Practices of Learning-Directed Leadership
Kayes, D. Christopher, Kayes, Anna
Hardcover. Highlighting the best in management learning theory and practices, the authors provide a comprehensive approach to leadership from a learning perspective. This exciting new book, from award-winning authorities on learning, describes how leaders gain the advantage when they cultivate learning in themselves and others. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577541
- ISBN
- 9780230577541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.76
€ 83.76
Hardcover. Performance is the key outcome of high morale, and the reason why it should be taken so seriously: with research gathered from some of the world's largest employee opinion databases and best academic centres, the authors lay out the morale-performance connection. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579422
- ISBN
- 9780230579422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. Based on qualitative work in car plants in Argentina, this book offers new insights for an understanding of workers' collective struggles in a radical perspective. Criticizing the use of injustice as the basis of mobilization, it argues that workers' collective resistance should be seen as a function of the development of solidarity. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCF; KJMV2; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230584648
- ISBN
- 9780230584648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Hardcover. In a difficult economic climate it is more important than ever to manage bad behaviour in the workplace and minimize the damage negative and destructive employees can have on an organization. This book looks at the problems companies can face but also shows how to resolve these issues and work towards a positive outcome. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 charts. BIC Classification: KJMV2; KJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230584747
- ISBN
- 9780230584747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.82
€ 84.82
Hardcover. This volume addresses the subject of uncertainty from the point of view of an extended conception of rationality. In particular, the contributions explore the premises and implications of plausible reasoning when probabilities are non-measurable or unknown, and when the space of possible events is only partially identified. Editor(s): Scazzieri, Roberto. Num Pages: 368 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA; KCK; KJMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594272
- ISBN
- 9780230594272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65