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Society for Human Resource Management
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Helping tackle the challenges of managing international assignment programs in today's business environment--in which companies have more nationalities, locations, and assignment types to deal with--this guide highlights critical issues such as dealing with policy dilemmas, addressing expatriate concerns, and establishing effective administration systems. The comprehensive resource also offers solutions for companies disadvantaged by having a limited...
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Publisher
CyberAge Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In today's global economy, businesses need targeted, localized information about customers, companies, and industries, but adding the element of geography to any search topic--especially for counties, cities, census blocks, or any other substate areas--makes any project more challenging. Aimed at tackling these issues head-on, this guide offers free and low-cost options for using the web to find business and market information about various places,...
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Publisher
BCcampus
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
We cannot solve global challenges unless women participate fully in efforts to find solutions. Female participation in the private sector is a crucial economic driver for societies worldwide. Economic security benefits every facet of a woman's life, with positive effects on the health, education and vitality of families. Learn about women who are changing their societies for the better. This book is based on the twelve critical areas of concern identified...
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Info-line volume issue 1403
Publisher
American Society for Training & Development
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Ensuring a highly-skilled workforce requires commitment from many players--senior leaders in the public and private sectors, the education community, the workforce investment system, and training and development professionals. Each of these communities ensures that the workforce has the knowledge and skills that organizations need to grow and compete in today's knowledge economy. Written with the learning professional in mind, this Infoline includes:...
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Having celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2011, social marketing is increasingly accepted today as an effective behavioural change tool that can be used to change social behaviours, such as encouraging people to recycle more, make healthier eating choices, increase the amount of sunscreen used, and to use condoms to prevent disease transmission, amongst many other desired social behaviours. The growing popularity of using social marketing to change...
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SAGE
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Essays in Economics and Other Cheerful Themes is a collection of pieces on economy, polity and society, written by a social scientist over a number of years. The book addresses conceptual and empirical issues in development at both national and global levels. The philosophical bases of these issues are sought to be addressed in relatively non-technical and accessible terms. The book also makes space for essays that deal with less solemn phenomena,...
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Publisher
Emerald
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The recent proliferation of studies on terrorism has brought scholars from different fields and approaches to converge on this phenomenon. As a result, economists, social and political scientists have developed theories, evidence and, in a sense, even a peculiar jargon of their own. Starting from this assumption, the book aims to bring scholars with different expertise and background around the same table, showing how their individual perspectives...
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Publisher
SAGE
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
This book provides a comprehensive set of learning activities that address issues related to workplace diversity. Participation in these exercises helps students gain a greater appreciation of the wide range of issues that arise when people classify themselves or are classified by others as members of different groups, on whatever basis. More than half of the 30 learning activities are new to this Third Edition.
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Kogan Page
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The reputation of an organisation influences who we buy from, work for, supply to and invest in. In today's complex environment, organizations have to understand and respond rapidly to shifting public values, rising expectations, demands for public consultation and increasingly intrusive news media. This is particularly important when things go wrong. Crisis, Issues and Reputation Management outlines a comprehensive approach to managing situations...
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Publisher
Channel View Publications
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
One of the most salient forms of modern-day tourism is based on the heritage of humankind. The majority of all global travel entails some element of the cultural past, as hundreds of millions of people visit cultural attractions, heritage festivals, and historic places each year. The book delves into this vast form of tourism by providing a comprehensive examination of its issues, current debates, concepts and practices. It looks at the social, physical...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ethics for Today. This is a pragmatic, hands-on, up-to-date guide to determining right and wrong in the business world. Joseph Weiss integrates a stakeholder perspective with an issues-oriented approach so students look at how a business's actions affect not just share price and profit but the well-being of employees, customers, suppliers, the local community, the larger society, other nations, and the environment. Weiss uses a wealth of contemporary...
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WorldatWork Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Today's employee benefits professional is tasked with creating comprehensive, well-constructed and cost-effective benefits strategies to address the ever-increasing cost of benefits and growing regulatory complexity. As an experienced benefits professional who knows what needs to be done to create an effective strategy, the author provides a valuable perspective as she shares her knowledge and experience. This book outlines how to develop a benefits...
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SensePublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This book is aimed at chemistry teachers, teacher educators, chemistry education researchers, and all those who are interested in increasing the relevance of chemistry teaching and learning as well as students' perception of it. The book consists of 20 chapters. Each chapter focuses on a certain issue related to the relevance of chemistry education. These chapters are based on a recently suggested model of the relevance of science education, encompassing...
18) Real project management: the skills and capabilities you will need for successful project delivery
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Publisher
Kogan Page
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Real Project Management takes an in-depth look at the challenges we face in running projects in today's complex and global environment. In this groundbreaking work, leading specialist Peter Taylor examines issues such as the complexity of projects, the virtual nature of projects, executive sponsoring, benefits management and international dilemmas integral to completing a project or programme on time and within budget. Supported by the experiences...
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Publisher
Society for Human Resource Management
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
High-quality HR practitioners have advanced skill sets in the critical competencies needed to work our most pressing talent issues of today and to deliver HR strategy to enable businesses to evolve in the future. Now HR professionals are expected to be valued team members and contribute as business partners for the growth of the organization. Defining HR Success? HR Expertise (HR Knowledge)? Business acumen? Communication? Consultation? Critical evaluation?...