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Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy (8th Edition)
Ronald G. Ehrenberg , and
Robert S. Smith
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Nice book .......2005-09-09
almost the same as the newer addition , has all the things you ned to know about labor economics
A very interesting textbook about labor economics.......2002-08-07
I was a teaching assistant in a labor economics undergraduate course in Northwestern University that used this book. I found it very interesting and full of real-world examples and discussions. The mathematical level is simple and therefore the book is accessible also to students with only little background in mathematics or economics. The exposition is clear. About half of the problems and the review questions are solved at the end of the book, making it possible for the reader to practice and test her understanding of the material. I believe that most students can understand most of the material in the book even without taking a formal course in labor economics, and therefore I recommend it to anyone who is interested in the functioning of labor markets.
A helpful and informative book.......1999-05-06
I bought this book to use for my Labor Economics class at Cornell University. My professor, Professor Smith, is a contributor to this book and it was a wonderful supplement to the lectures. The book is filled with useful information and practical applications, so its appeal is not limited to economics students, but anyone who wishes to know more about payroll taxes, policy applications, work incentives and the like. This easy-to-understand book benefited me a lot and I would recommend its use to other courses in labor economics at other colleges and universities.
This book is too wordy, puts you to sleep.......1999-04-04
I bought this book for my economics class at Dartmouth College, but it was a horrible book. The text is wordy, verbose, too long. A lot of times, there are unnecessarily explains simple things too long. I hope all of you will find better labor economics text book.
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An Anthology of Tolstoy's Spiritual Economics (Vol. 2 Henry George Centennial) (George, Henry, Selections. V. 2.)
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Scholars have tended to regard Tolstoy as a disciple of no one except a secularised Jesus, but Henry George was a strong influence; for example, Tolstoy devoted a large portion of his later life to the promulgation of the `single tax' (a main tenet of George's philosophy) as a viable solution to suffering from falsity, greed, poverty, and bankrupt ideologies. The work examined in this volume is a testimony to both Tolstoy and George; it bears witness to a practical, economic and non-violent approach to the organisation of society, free from the domination of individuals, institutions, and mobs.KENNETH C. WENZERis an independent scholar specialising in the study of Henry George, Tolstoy, and Russian history.
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Decent Study Guide.......2003-11-08
This study guide was pretty good. The questions have a good mix of difficulty, and the samples and explanations really helped with a couple of the concepts that were pretty unclear in the book.
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Special Edition for Penn State University. Chapters include: Overview of the Labor Market, The Demand for Labor, Labor Demand Elasticities, Quasi-Fixed Labor Costs and Their Effects on Demand, Supply of Labor to the Economy: The Decision to Work, Labor Supply: Household Production, the Family, and the Life Cycle, Compensating Wage Differentials and Labor Markets, Investments in Human Capital: Education and Training, Worker Mobility: Migration, Immigration and Turnover, Pay and Productivity: Wage Determination Within the Firm, Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the Labor Market, Unions and the Labor Market, Inequality in Earnings, Unemployment.
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Leaders Communication Toolkit
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A practical guide for 21st century business leadersLeader's
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*Do you need better results, faster? *Do you need a more positive corporate culture to achieve your goals and keep your best employees? This pioneering positive leadership language system, the Engine and 4 Wheels, can bring your company great results faster and more easily. How high are your Positive Quotient PQ(tm)Questionnaire and your Appreciative Quotient AQ(tm) Questionnaire as a leader or consultant? What impact do you have on your customers and clients? Can your employees' "people skills" keep up with the speed of technology? Based on 20+ years of client feedback, this positive practical leadership language system shows you how. Our innovative briefing/workshop format for fast easy reading includes true client stories, practical how to's, quik quizzes, practice exercises, and FAQs. Two powerful questionnaires are available as companion products to this book: What You Say Is What You Get(tm): Your Positive Quotient PQ(tm)Questionnaire and What You Say Is What You Get(tm): Your Appreciative Quotient AQ(tm) Questionnaire. The book and 2 questionnaires are great for workshops. Words have power to maximize your results and this positive book shows how to do it instantly! Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul® Co-creator, The One Minute Millionaire Dr. Linne Bourget is one of the most experienced, reflective practitioners in the field of ...change leadership. She knows her stuff, inside out....this book incarnates her ideas with energy, clarity, and reader-friendly application. Dr. Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, author/co-author of 27 leadership books, including On Becoming a Leader, Organizing Genius and Geeks and Geezers.
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Have you ever been in a meeting in which no one really knew why they were there? Would you be willing to try facilitators to improve your meetings' quality and productivity? Renaissance 5004 will introduce you to the functions of facilitators, provide you with the multiple step-by-step processes successful facilitators use - from pre-meeting planning to post-meeting follow-up - and help you to make the most of your time. The course covers strategies for ensuring maximum group participation, resolving conflict, generating new ideas, moving the group toward decisions, and many other topics. You can also apply the strategies presented to enhance non-facilitated meetings.
Renaissance 5004 will teach you the skills to facilitate meetings and to create the most productive meeting environment possible. It will encourage participation, decrease boredom, and eliminate non-productive conflict.
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Do you respect professionals who have superior writing skills more than those who don't? Would you be willing to put forth just a little effort to improve your own writing skills and those of the people who report to you? Poorly written communications cost organizations countless dollars every year. Difficult-to-follow written communications require more time and energy to understand; they also create an unprofessional image and hurt your chances of creating and retaining business relationships. Renaissance 5009 will explain how to pick the best communication channels and will help you to prepare superior written communications. It will help you to improve your word choice, punctuation, grammar, writing style, and sentence structure.
Renaissance 5009 will benefit your professional development by enabling you to communicate more effectively and by increasing your confidence in your own writing skills. It will improve the quality of your organization's communications, the effectiveness of its written presentations, and the firm's overall image.
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The Linkage Toolkit for Developing Leaders - Linkage has complied all of its proprietary methods and tools from its knowledge base, that they use to develop leaders at all levels of organizations into one toolkit. This toolkit is highly pragmatic, and has been painstakingly edited and written to provide the user with a full understanding of how to apply and use tools to the best of your leaders' advantage. It is designed with the best model of leadership development in mind - developing all aspects of leaders and managers and providing practical advice, ideas, behaviors, assessments, skill-building activities, and methods for leading themselves, others, teams, and the organization in their daily work. It is an excellent resource to create common leadership practices and lexicon across organizational boundaries in any company.
This toolkit is designed to provide managers and leaders at all levels of your organization with the right tools to become successful and effective. It provides practical advice, ideas, behaviors, assessments, skill-building activities, and methods for leading yourself and others in your daily work.
If you are using The Linkage Toolkit for Developing Leaders as a quick-reference “toolbox,” each of the four major sections is clearly labeled with tabs for easy access. These sections are:
Leading Yourself-
The first section is a baseline series of topics and tools that can help you assess and develop your general leadership abilities. Our belief is that you cannot successfully lead others until you can develop the self-awareness and maturity necessary to “lead yourself.”
Leading Individuals-
The next section focuses on your role as coach, mentor, and performance manager. Whether in a formal position of authority or not, your ability to hold powerful conversations with staff and colleagues-one-on-one-to set expectations and influence behavior is critical. This is “ground zero” for effective leadership
Leading Teams-
The engine of change and performance in the modern business enterprise is a leader's use of teams. Your roles as team sponsor, team leader, ng members' diversity to successful and innovative outcomes.
Leading Organizations-
The final section addresses the challenges some leaders face as enterprise-wide developers. The roles of organizational architect, process manager, and communicator and implementer of strategy are often the ones we are least schooled in, especially those of you with more technical (and less business) backgrounds.
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The Four Levels of Leadership.......2002-07-01
"No doubt you are reading the latest management books, attending seminars and conferences, and thinking long and hard about the best bosses you've had. Perhaps they offer helpful insight into your growing model of successful leadership. But day to day, despite your best efforts, such reading and contemplation are often difficult to apply to emerging situations that demand that you act as a leader. This toolkit is designed to close that gap, to provide practical advice, ideas, behaviors, assesments, skill-building activities, and methods for leading yourself and others in your daily work...If you are using this book as a development path-to build your leadership competencies-it moves concentrically from leading yourself, to individuals and teams, to whole organization. We believe an emerging leader must first develop self-awareness and personal commitment before he or she can effectively lead others. And you must be able to garner committed action from individual colleagues, employees, and your boss before you can effectively lead them collectively" (from the Introduction).
In this context, L.Carter, D.Davidson, J.Lehrich, and R.Waks (editors) divide this seminal toolkit into four major sections. As said by editors, these major sections are further divided into topical subsections. Each brief 'topic' reading is intended to provide context, background, and insight for the 'tool' that follows. Many tools are then followed by an application exercise that encourages you to 'try it out' in specific leadership situations.
I- Leading Self: "Leader," editors say, "know thyself. True leadership-leading individuals, teams, and organizations alike-comes from within, from the manager who draws from the wellspring of his own character. To trust others, trust yourself; to inspire others, find inspiration in who you are." Thus, in this section writers present tools to evaluate yourself: both your leadership behaviors (the Leadership Assessment Instrument) and your emotional intelligence.
II- Leading Individuals: "Leaders achieve results through others." Editors say, "As a leader, you owe it to your organization and to yourself-not to mention to your employees-to take responsibility for those you manage. How you treat and serve the individuals you lead will determine what you achieve, what you are accountable for, and what role you play in the future of others. With power comes obligation, and a leader accepts sober responsibility along with the power to hire, fire, and inspire. Such responsibility need not rely solely on intuition and hard-won experience." Then, in this section book gives you some ready resources like interviewing, delegation, performance coaching, managing challenging conversation, and building trusting relationship for the fundamental duties of a leader and manager.
III- Leading Teams: "Virtually all organizational work today is done in teams: project teams and quality teams, ongoing work teams and cross-functional improvement teams, virtual teams, problem-solving teams, and more." Editors write, "Individuals work interdependently on shared projects and toward a common purpose, often on more than one team at once. And for the individuals to succeed, for the groups to achieve its objectives with minimal rancor and recriminution, the team needs effective leadership. As leader you have the opportunity to watch and guide a team throughout its life cycle, from origin to deliverables, cradle to grave." Thus, in this section writers present the steps of that cycle to simplify your leadership responsibilities for choosing the team members, clarifying the group's objectives and its members' roles, facilitating effective team meetings, assessing and developing the team's processes, capabilities, and decision-making, reducing or forestalling conflict, and conducting team project reviews.
IV- Leading Organizations- "You may know yourself as a leader-your tendencies, your behavior, your principles and practices." Editors say, "You may serve as guide and inspiration for individuals, and as driving force or unseen hand for high-performing teams. But do you lead your organization? Are you an architect, change champion, teacher, and communicator on whom your company or institution can depend? An organizational leadership role demands foresight, reflection, and planning-very skills that are strongest when assisted by tools." In this section writers present techniques, devices, and systems to leading organizations.
Finally, L.Carter, D.Davidson, J.Lehrich, and R.Waks (editors) say that "Yet this single volume is not intended to be a comprehensive compendium of all the tools we could find or develop. That would be impractical and self-defeating. Instead it is meant to give you, the emerging and working organizational leader, a sampling of the range of tools needed to effectively manage the present and lead toward the future, and to apply them to the broadest span of situations you encounter."
Highly recommended.
Take Charge of Your Own Leadership Development!.......2002-01-11
This Toolkit can make a tremendous difference in developing your leadership skills.
I have been to quite a number of excellent seminars and workshops on leadership, and always found the assessments, exercises, and examples to be the best part. Imagine how thrilled I was to see that this one Toolkit contains far more such material than all of the sessions combined I have attended over my entire career. If you want to be a better leader, your time would be better spent reading and applying this material in your current job than by taking on any graduate program in business that I am familiar with.
Decades ago, many young people got training and experience as leaders by serving in the military. These days, those who intend to have business careers seldom get that experience. Where is a person to learn leadership who doesn't go into the military? Probably not in business school, where a lot of the learning is associated with solving problems, learning concepts, getting background, and verbally sparring rather than moving people and an organization forward.
A very high percentage of the situations that a leader is likely to run into are handled at some level in this book, both at the individual, one-on-one, team, and organizational levels. I wish I had had this resource available to me when I had started my business career. It would have made a large difference.
Naturally, like any self-coaching guide, the benefit is all up to how seriously you take the content, how often you refer to it, and how much you try to learn. If you are reasonably committed to being a better leader, this Toolkit will take you as far as you can go short of having a personal leadership coach meet with you for an hour a week.
Each section describes briefly the theory of what needs to be done, gives you a self-assessment tool to check out your tendencies, gives you an example to make the point concrete, and suggests how to proceed to get better.
I was particularly pleased to see that this Toolkit encourages developing a better network of relationships, learning how to foster innovation, shaping your own leadership learning, coaching others, managing challenging conversations, influencing without authority, interviewing to select the right people for a job or a team, locating organizational stalls, and planning a business case to lead a specific change. Most leaders I know in organizations would candidly confess to lacking background in at least two of these areas.
The only thing I was disappointed in was that the Toolkit ducks the issue of leadership versus management as being "moot." I don't agree. To oversimplify the point, leadership is about going in the right direction, and management is about efficiently getting to whatever direction you happen to be aiming at. Most organizations have very little leadership in this sense, and way too much management. As a result, clearly this book also has a lot of management information as well as leadership information, but the area of picking the right direction probably could have used more attention.
Reading this Toolkit also made me think about the reasons why I wanted to be a leader, which is to make a positive difference. I wonder how leaders can prepare their own motivations for serving more than their own career desires. Stephen Covey has written about this subject in Principle-Centered Leadership if you are interested.
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THE NINE BOOKS COMBINED TO CREATE THIS SPECIAL EDITION ARE TITLED: Face-to-Face Communication ***** Making the Most of Conflict ****** Making the Most of Meetings ***** Making the Most of Meeting Facilitation ***** Making the Most of Presentations ***** Superior Telephone Skills ***** Superior Email Messages ***** Organizational Influences ***** Masterful Writing Skills
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Have you ever been in a meeting in which no one really knew why they were there? Would you be willing to try facilitators to improve your meetings' quality and productivity? Renaissance 5004 will introduce you to the functions of facilitators, provide you with the multiple step-by-step processes successful facilitators use - from pre-meeting planning to post-meeting follow-up - and help you to make the most of your time. The course covers strategies for ensuring maximum group participation, resolving conflict, generating new ideas, moving the group toward decisions, and many other topics. You can also apply the strategies presented to enhance non-facilitated meetings.
Renaissance 5004 will teach you the skills to facilitate meetings and to create the most productive meeting environment possible. It will encourage participation, decrease boredom, and eliminate non-productive conflict. ++++++++++
Major topics: Meeting Facilitation Basics ***** Meeting Facilitation Processes ***** Stepping Up to Meeting Facilitation ***** Overcoming Obstacles ***** Inspiring Groups to Creativity ++++++++++
Learning activity titles: Key Components ***** Establishing Trust ***** Addressing Obstacles ***** Groupthink Game ***** Brainstorming Barriers ++++++++++
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Have you ever been in a meeting in which no one really knew why they were there? Would you be willing to try facilitators to improve your meetings' quality and productivity? Renaissance 5004 will introduce you to the functions of facilitators, provide you with the multiple step-by-step processes successful facilitators use - from pre-meeting planning to post-meeting follow-up - and help you to make the most of your time. The course covers strategies for ensuring maximum group participation, resolving conflict, generating new ideas, moving the group toward decisions, and many other topics. You can also apply the strategies presented to enhance non-facilitated meetings. Renaissance 5004 will teach you the skills to facilitate meetings and to create the most productive meeting environment possible. It will encourage participation, decrease boredom, and eliminate non-productive conflict. ++++++++++ Major topics: Meeting Facilitation Basics ***** Meeting Facilitation Processes ***** Stepping Up to Meeting Facilitation ***** Overcoming Obstacles ***** Inspiring Groups to Creativity ++++++++++ Learning activity titles: Key Components ***** Establishing Trust ***** Addressing Obstacles ***** Groupthink Game ***** Brainstorming Barriers ++++++++++ Prepared discussion topic: The Facilitator's Function ++++++++++
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Have you ever wished you knew how to make presentations that would inspire your audience and put you ahead of your competition? Have you ever had to sit through a presentation that was boring, uninspiring, and uninformative? Don't subject others to the same experience. Starting with the creation of a presentation plan and ending with the best handling of Q&A sessions, Renaissance 5005 will help you to build your public speaking skills. It will help you create visual aids, understand verbal and nonverbal communication, and increase your persuasiveness while reducing your anxiety.
Renaissance 5005 will give you the necessary skills to build your confidence and make you look good in any public speaking situation. It will teach you and your employees how to make presentations that will present you in the best light to your customers and others. ++++++++++
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Have you ever wished you knew how to make presentations that would inspire your audience and put you ahead of your competition? Have you ever had to sit through a presentation that was boring, uninspiring, and uninformative? Don't subject others to the same experience. Starting with the creation of a presentation plan and ending with the best handling of Q&A sessions, Renaissance 5005 will help you to build your public speaking skills. It will help you create visual aids, understand verbal and nonverbal communication, and increase your persuasiveness while reducing your anxiety. Renaissance 5005 will give you the necessary skills to build your confidence and make you look good in any public speaking situation. It will teach you and your employees how to make presentations that will present you in the best light to your customers and others. ++++++++++ Major topics: Fundamentals of Presentations ***** Planning a Presentation ***** Collecting Information ***** Using Visual Aids ***** Understanding Communication Styles ***** Understanding Persuasion ***** Understanding Audience Interaction ***** Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety ++++++++++ Learning activity titles: Method Madness ***** Presentation Pursuit ***** What's That Word? ***** The Art of Persuasion ***** Q&A ++++++++++ Prepared discussion topic: Presentation Problems ++++++++++
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