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Re-Tayloring Management
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Over a century has passed and yet there is growing evidence that knowledge workers across the globe today are as constrained by F.W. Taylor's much maligned The Principles of Scientific Management, as factory workers in the early twentieth century. Re-Tayloring Management looks critically at Taylor's philosophy, contrasting this with more contemporary... more...
Safety Analysis
CRC Press 2001; US$ 149.95Safety analysis can be applied as a practical tool in occupational safety. It has three main elements: the identification of hazards, the assesment of the risks that arise and the generation of measure to increase safety. more...
Measuring Slipperiness
CRC Press 2002; US$ 129.95This book presents expert group perspectives on human-centred (biomechanical, locomotive, perceptual and cognitive) and surface-centred(roughness, friction) aspects and approaches. more...
Team Development for High Tech Project Managers
Artech House 2002; US$ 69.00This unique volume is the first to go beyond the theory of team dynamics and project management to present real world applications. The culmination of years of experience and research, the book describes practical techniques for building successful high performance project teams using actual examples from high tech companies. A concise guide for both... more...
The Project Manager's Emergency Kit
CRC Press 2002; US$ 94.95Drawing on his own experience as a project manager, Kliem offers an alphabetical listing of over 200 tools, techniques, and principles to help others bring a project to a successful conclusion. Each article describes the tool, then lists goals, obstacles, and implementation steps. Among the topics more...
Decision Diagram Techniques for Micro- and Nanoelectronic Design Handbook
CRC Press 2005; US$ 139.95This handbook sets out the theory and practice of decision diagrams (DDs) as applied to the representation and manipulation of logic functions, focusing on the use of DDs for analysis and design of micro- and nanoelectronic integrated circuits (nanoICs). Material is organized in four parts consisting of self-contained chapters written in a tutorial more...
Handbook of Industrial and Systems Engineering
CRC Press 2005; US$ 179.95Badiru (industrial and information engineering, University of Tennessee-Knoxville) provides access to industrial and systems engineering techniques in a concise format, integrating quantitative models, qualitative principles, and computer techniques of both traditional and modern practice. Where applicable, the book makes use of a project approach more...
Integration Technologies for Industrial Automated Systems
CRC Press 2006; US$ 129.95Presents an picture of the technologies, methodologies, and knowledge used to integrate the various technologies underlying modern industrial automation and information systems. This book offers tutorials, surveys, and technology overviews. It examines e-technologies, software and IT technologies, and more. more...
Paradoxes in Management, Volume 19, Issue 4
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 199.00In the context of organization change management, paradoxes are vehicles for advancing our understanding of change processes. This e-book contains a number of papers that offer varying theories to understanding and managing paradox. It includes papers describing paradoxes within large telecommunications companies; an article looking at the complexities... more...
Making Safety Work
Allen & Unwin 1995; US$ 25.40* Who is responsible for workplace safety? * Does self-regulation work? * Does safety pay? Managers are often reluctant to commit to occupational health and safety despite proven benefits to employees and the organisation. In Making Safety Work , Andrew Hopkins looks at the reasons behind the reluctance and argues that the current policy of emphasizing... more...









