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The Dream Manager
Hyperion 2007; US$ 14.95A business parable about how companies can achieve remarkable results by helping their employees fulfill their dreams Managing people is difficult. With disengagement and turnover on the rise, many managers are scratching their heads wondering what to do. It's not that we dont dream of being great managers, it's just that we havent found a practical... more...
Steps to Success -- Succeed as a New Manager
A&C Black 2006; US$ 9.10It's great to have a challenge at work. Managing others, though, can be daunting and can be tricky if you're the boss of former colleagues or friends. Packed with advice, this book attempts to help you sail through issues such as getting to know your team, dealing with internal politics, motivating others, and celebrating success. more...
Dictionary of Human Resources and Personnel Management
A&C Black 2006; US$ 12.99This dictionary offers over 7,000 key terms covering all aspects of human resources, including recruitment and selection, appraisals, payment systems, dismissals and industrial relations. more...
The American Work Ethic and the Changing Work Force
ABC-CLIO 1998; US$ 185.00A major force in American society, the work ethic has played a pivotal role in U.S. history, affecting cultural, social, and economic institutions. But what is the American work ethic? Not only has it changed from one era to another, but it varies with race, gender, and occupation. Considering such diverse groups as Colonial craftsmen, slaves, 19th... more...
Construction Workers, U.S.A.
ABC-CLIO 1999; US$ 161.00A lively, personalized account incorporating objective analysis and solid information accumulated over 42 years, this book presents a graphic picture of the construction industry from an insider's point of view. The volume focuses on the culture of construction workers, the management style of contractors, and the structural and organizational nature... more...
Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 84.95Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. This edited collection brings together four powerful themes that have developed within the field of organizational analysis over the past two decades: organizational culture; the gendering of organizations;... more...
Performance Measurement of New Product Development Teams
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 110.00Using 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. more...
Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 45.00Are immigrants squeezing Americans out of the work force? Or is competition wth foreign products imported by the United States an even greater danger to those employed in some industries? How do wages and unions fare in foreign-owned firms? And are the media's claims about the number of illegal immigrants misleading? Prompted by the growing internationalization... more...
Labor in the New Economy
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 45.00As the structure of the economy has changed over the past few decades, researchers and policy makers have been increasingly concerned with how these changes affect workers. In this book, leading economists examine a variety of important trends in the new economy, including inequality of earnings and other forms of compensation, job security, employer... more...
Moving People and Knowledge
Edward Elgar Publishing 2008; US$ 40.00Offers a fresh examination of the processes of highly skilled science migration. Focusing on intra-European mobility and, in particular, on the dynamics of East-West migration, the authors investigate the movement of Polish and Bulgarian researchers to and from the UK and Germany. The key questions include: who is moving, how long for, and why? more...









