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A companion to The New American Workplace, which is co-published with Society for Human Resource Management and the Center for Effective Organizations, this volume contains original articles on workplace issues in America today. Leading scholars in the fields of business, management, and human resources contribute groundbreaking research, highlighting the relevance of these issues for private and public policy.
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This survey of current issues and controversies in environmental policy and management is unique in its thematic mix, broad coverage of key debates and approaches, and in-depth analysis of concepts treated less thoroughly in other texts. The contributing authors, all distinguished scholars or practitioners, offer a comprehensive examination of key topics in environmental governance today, including perspectives from environmental economics, democratic theory, public policy, law, political science, and public administration. Environmental Governance Reconsidered is the first book to integrate these wide-ranging topics and perspectives thematically in one volume.
Many are calling for a change in the bureaucratic, adversarial, technology-based regulatory approach that is the basis for much environmental policy -- a move from "rule-based" to "results-based" regulation. Each of the thirteen chapters in Environmental Governance Reconsidered critically examines one aspect of this "second generation" of environmental reform, assesses its promise-versus-performance to date, and points out future challenges and opportunities. The first section of the book, "Reconceptualizing Purpose," discusses the concepts of sustainability, global interdependence, the precautionary principle, and common pool resource theory. The second section, "Reconnecting with Stakeholders," examines deliberative democracy, civic environmentalism, environmental justice, property rights and regulatory takings, and environmental conflict resolution. The final section, "Redefining Administrative Rationality," analyzes devolution, regulatory flexibility, pollution prevention, and third-party environmental management systems auditing. This book will benefit students, scholars, managers, natural resource specialists, policymakers, and reformers and is ideal for class adoption.
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If you are a manager or a training and development professional, you need concrete suggestions for guiding your organization through rapidly changing conditions and difficult challenges. Flexible Leadership offers a comprehensive theory that integrates findings from different disciplines and more than a half century of research and explains how leaders can effectively enhance the bottom-line performance of their organizations. The authors provide illustrative examples of effective and ineffective leadership, including some from their own consulting experiences over the past 30 years in private and public sector organizations. The book includes information about
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Leadership and management behaviors that can be used to enhance organizational performance.
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Improvement programs, management systems, and structural forms that can be used to enhance organizational performance.
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Integrating direct and indirect forms of leadership.
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Balancing tradeoffs and competing demands related to performance.
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Adapting leadership to changing situations.
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Integrating leadership processes at different levels of an organization.
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Competencies relevant for effective leadership.
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If you are a manager or a training and development professional, you need concrete suggestions for guiding your organization through rapidly changing conditions and difficult challenges. Flexible Leadership offers a comprehensive theory that integrates findings from different disciplines and more than a half century of research and explains how leaders can effectively enhance the bottom-line performance of their organizations. The authors provide illustrative examples of effective and ineffective leadership, including some from their own consulting experiences over the past 30 years in private and public sector organizations. The book includes information about
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Leadership and management behaviors that can be used to enhance organizational performance.
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Improvement programs, management systems, and structural forms that can be used to enhance organizational performance.
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Integrating direct and indirect forms of leadership.
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Balancing tradeoffs and competing demands related to performance.
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Adapting leadership to changing situations.
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Integrating leadership processes at different levels of an organization.
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Competencies relevant for effective leadership.
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Management in disguise of leadership.......2007-01-07
This book tells the reader more about manangement than about leadership, based on the trivial recognition that no perosn cannot exert successful leadership without having sufficient expertise in management. Ten years ago, when management titles "hyped", this book's title might have been Flexible Management: Prerequisites for successful entrepreneurship.
Benno D. Hoffmann
Dr. Ed Piccolino writes:.......2004-07-03
Lepsinger & Yukl have written a highly readable book that very effectively integrates the most recent and important research findings about effective leadership practices and competencies. The book provides a very useful, pragmatic framework for executives (and consultants who assess and coach leaders) -- it really offers a roadmap for balancing competing demands and trade-offs that are critical to success, and very effectively makes the point that one needs to consider processes and supporting systems -- in addition to behavioral skills, to ensure success. I especially like the way the authors emphasize what can and can't be learned about leadership, and how they resolve the historical debate about the relative importance of leadership vs. managership -- arguing effectively that "leaders need to be good managers, and managers need to be good leaders."
A practical guide to leadership.......2004-06-24
The Flexible leader finally demystifies the notion of leadership. In my work, I often hear that "leaders are born", and you're out of luck if you don't get the gene. Unfortunately this doesn't provide most of us with any guidance on how to be a better leader and manager. The Flexible leader provides a practical roadmap to the kinds of behaviors that make leaders successful. This isn't an esoteric, psychological look at the personality or charisma of great leaders; it's about what successful leaders do, say, and how they manage -- and those are things we all have control over. This book is empowering for those of us trying to learn how to be better leaders and managers. It is also chock full of potent case studies demonstrating that strong leadership throughout the organization, not just at the top, makes a successful company!
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- Navigating the Complex Career World
- A MUST For All Job Seekers
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Career Choice, Change & Challenge : 125 Strategies from the Experts at careerjournal.com
Deb Koen , and
Tony Lee
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Navigating the Complex Career World.......2000-12-06
Imagine having nearly every career-related question you've ever conjured answered in one easy-to-read book. And, imagine this in a Q&A format with clearly defined chapters so you find the question AND the answer quickly and easily. That's the JIST (pun intended to the publisher of this book) of Career Choice, Change and Challenge.
Want to know how and if you might leave self-employment for the corporate world? How you might handle a micro-managing supervisor? Looking for the right approach to discussing salary before, during and after you've been hired? Want to understand and repond to age-related bias? Downsized and need to get refocused? Just look for the answers in this great book.
If you're not HAPPY at work, perhaps you're not in the right career for YOU! Ready to make some changes? Read on. And enjoy!
A MUST For All Job Seekers.......2000-07-14
Deb Koen and Tony Lee are brilliant. In the slash and burn corporate climate we live in, this book is a must to have on your shelf, not IF but WHEN you are downsized. In the 2000's, we're all going to be FORCED to change careers several times, and this is THE handbook for those challenging times that we have ahead -- that will hit us when we least expect it.
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The electricity market has experienced enormous setbacks in delivering on the promise of deregulation. In theory, deregulating the electricity market would increase the efficiency of the industry by producing electricity at lower costs and passing those cost savings on to customers. As Electricity Deregulation shows, successful deregulation is possible, although it is by no means a hands-off process—in fact, it requires a substantial amount of design and regulatory oversight.
This collection brings together leading experts from academia, government, and big business to discuss the lessons learned from experiences such as California's market meltdown as well as the ill-conceived policy choices that contributed to those failures. More importantly, the essays that comprise Electricity Deregulation offer a number of innovative prescriptions for the successful design of deregulated electricity markets. Written with economists and professionals associated with each of the network industries in mind, this comprehensive volume provides a timely and astute deliberation on the many risks and rewards of electricity deregulation.
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Integrating Work and Family: Challenges and Choices for a Changing World
Jeffrey Greenhaus
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Despite calls for a renewal of family values and the proliferation of corporate work-family programs, the goal of achieving a healthy balance between the demands of work and a satisfying family life remains elusive. Dr. Parasuraman, Dr. Greenhaus, and the contributors to this well-balanced and thoughtful volume examine this increasingly prevalent social dilemma from a "stakeholder perspective." They see work-family tensions as a multifaceted social issue, and they examine the nature and consequences of these tensions from the viewpoints of individuals, employers, consultants, counseling professionals, and other service providers. Their inclusion of legal, cultural, international, and research perspectives and recognition of the unique concerns of vulnerable groups, such as nonexempt employees and ethnic minorities, add to the breadth of coverage. Academics in the social and behavioral sciences, executive decision-makers in government and business, human resource professionals, and employed men and women interested in achieving work-life balance will find this volume insightful, stimulating, and useful. The editors have arranged their book into five parts and 21 chapters. Part I provides a broad overview of the environmental factors impacting work and family. It then identifies the critical issues and challenges facing individuals, families, and employees in managing the complex interdependencies between work and family roles. In Part II they provide a view of the issues from the vantage point of specific stakeholders. Part III concentrates on the role of culture in shaping ideology, policies, and practices concerning work and family and the relationships among them. Part IV examines the impact of career development programs on employees and their families. It also discusses the effectiveness of alternative career tracks, various usages of work-family benefits by women and men, and the roles employers and employees can play in legitimizing alternative career paths. Part V concludes the book by examining the cultural barriers to achieving more effective integration of work and family, and by analyzing the appropriate role of key stakeholders in addressing work-family problems.
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- Very essential for advertising people
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Advertising Principles: Choice, Challenge, Change
Bruce G. Vanden Bergh , and
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Very essential for advertising people.......2000-05-29
If you are interested in advertising and marketing communications, this bool will tell you from the first to the last. What I regard most highly in this book is the data and case study here is very new and hot, not old dated one. You can read the real market as well as get the basic principles you are desired to know as an advertisign person. This book covers Integrated Marketing Communications, not limited to advertising, which is onlly one of the diverse marketing communications disciplines. It is worth reading.
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Africa's Development Challenges and the World Bank: Hard Questions, Costly Choices
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Beyond Perestroika: Challenges and Choices Facing Gorbachev
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Inspire to Innovate
Arnoud De Meyer , and
Sam Garg
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Significant changes are taking place in Asia which suggest that innovation will be the major engine of future economic growth in the region, particularly in China and India. This book draws upon substantial research and interaction with senior managers in Asia and argues that effective innovation in Asia will require specific ways of managing innovation that will be different from existing models and approaches.
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This electronic book and video file collection on eight CD-ROMs provides the complete story of the President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy, chaired by Pete Aldridge, which issued its final report in June 2004. In addition to the report itself in high resolution PDF format, we provide comprehensive background material: the full set of hearing minutes, transcripts, and slide presentations from the five public field hearings:
February 11, 2004, National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, D.C.;
March 3-4, 2004, United States Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio;
March 24-25, 2004, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia;
April 15-17, 2004, Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, San Francisco, California;
May 3-4, 2004, Asia Society, New York City.
The highlight of this superset: an incredible, historic collection of almost forty hours of video files, in RM Real Media player format, showing the testimony and deliberations at the public hearings! The video is closed captioned with audio. Here are just some of the witnesses included in the videos:
* Norman Augustine, Report on the Future of the U.S. Space Program
* General Tom Stafford (Ret.), Report on America at the Threshold
* Ray Bradbury
* Rusty Schweickart
* Cort Durocher, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
* Mark Bitterman, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
* Sean O'Keefe, NASA Administrator
* Numerous panels with experts from many fields
From the Executive Summary of the Report: "On January 14, 2004, President George W. Bush announced a new vision for America's civil space program that calls for human and robotic missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. This vision set forth goals of: returning the Space Shuttle safely to flight; completing the International Space Station (ISS); phasing out the Space Shuttle when the ISS is complete (about 2010); sending a robotic orbiter and lander to the Moon; sending a human expedition to the Moon as early as 2015, but no later than 2020; conducting robotic missions to Mars in preparation for a future human expedition; and conducting robotic exploration across the solar system. Such a focus for the American space program has not existed since the Apollo era and establishes a much-needed direction and purpose for our national space efforts. While discovery is the goal of space exploration, the Commission is certain that the benefits here on Earth will make the journey at least as important as the destination. The long-term, ambitious space agenda advanced by the President for robotic and human exploration will significantly help the United States protect its technological leadership, economic vitality, and security."
This CD-ROM set has over 1,200 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software and Reader software is included. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, and portable!
Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched, or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc set makes a superb reference work for scientists, researchers, libraries, schools, students, and home reference!
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Here is the final report of the President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy, issued in June 2004, titled "A Journey to Inspire, Innovate, and Discover". The commission, headed by Pete Aldridge, was formed by President Bush to examine and make recommendations on the implementation of the Vision for Space Exploration announced in January. The executive summary of the report states: "On January 14, 2004, President George W. Bush announced a new vision for America's civil space program that calls for human and robotic missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. This vision set forth goals of: returning the Space Shuttle safely to flight; completing the International Space Station (ISS); phasing out the Space Shuttle when the ISS is complete (about 2010); sending a robotic orbiter and lander to the Moon; sending a human expedition to the Moon as early as 2015, but no later than 2020; conducting robotic missions to Mars in preparation for a future human expedition; and conducting robotic exploration across the solar system. Such a focus for the American space program has not existed since the Apollo era and establishes a much-needed direction and purpose for our national space efforts. While discovery is the goal of space exploration, the Commission is certain that the benefits here on Earth will make the journey at least as important as the destination. The long-term, ambitious space agenda advanced by the President for robotic and human exploration will significantly help the United States protect its technological leadership, economic vitality, and security. This ambitious path of exploration and the achievements made along the way will inspire the nation's youth, yield scientific breakthroughs, create high technology jobs, improve our industrial competitiveness, demonstrate America's leadership, and improve prosperity and the quality of life for all Americans."
In addition to the Aldridge report, we have a complete reproduction of an important NASA document, the Bioastronautics Critical Path Roadmap (BCPR) Baseline Document, Revision D for 2003, which outlines 55 major risks to long-duration human missions. The BCPR is a systematic approach to the goal of reducing and managing risks to crew health, safety, and performance during, and following, all human space flight missions. It offers a guide for the prioritization of research and technology efforts aimed toward that goal.
Categories covered in this detailed report include:
* Advanced Life Support;
* Bone Loss;
* Cardiovascular Alterations;
* Environmental Health;
* Food & Nutrition;
* Human Behavior & Performance;
* Immunology,
* Infection & Hematology;
* Muscle Alterations & Atrophy;
* Neurovestibular Adaptation;
* Radiation Effects; and
* Clinical Capabilities.
Book Description
This electronic book on CD-ROM provides the final report of the President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy, issued in June 2004. In addition to the report itself in high resolution PDF format, we provide extensive background material: the full set of hearing minutes, transcripts, and slide presentations from the five public field hearings (February 11, 2004, National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, D.C.; March 3-4, 2004, United States Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio; March 24-25, 2004, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia; April 15-17, 2004, Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, San Francisco, California; May 3-4, 2004, Asia Society, New York City.)
We also have four video files with almost three hours of material:
* the Bush announcement and NASA introduction;
* testimony at the February hearing by General Tom Stafford (Ret.), Report on America at the Threshold;
* testimony at the March hearing by Buzz Aldrin; and
* the "rollout" video presentation of the report narrated by Neil Armstrong followed by the press conference.
From the Executive Summary: "On January 14, 2004, President George W. Bush announced a new vision for America's civil space program that calls for human and robotic missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. This vision set forth goals of: returning the Space Shuttle safely to flight; completing the International Space Station (ISS); phasing out the Space Shuttle when the ISS is complete (about 2010); sending a robotic orbiter and lander to the Moon; sending a human expedition to the Moon as early as 2015, but no later than 2020; conducting robotic missions to Mars in preparation for a future human expedition; and conducting robotic exploration across the solar system. Such a focus for the American space program has not existed since the Apollo era and establishes a much-needed direction and purpose for our national space efforts. While discovery is the goal of space exploration, the Commission is certain that the benefits here on Earth will make the journey at least as important as the destination. The long-term, ambitious space agenda advanced by the President for robotic and human exploration will significantly help the United States protect its technological leadership, economic vitality, and security. This ambitious path of exploration and the achievements made along the way will inspire the nation's youth, yield scientific breakthroughs, create high technology jobs, improve our industrial competitiveness, demonstrate America's leadership, and improve prosperity and the quality of life for all Americans." This CD-ROM has over 1,200 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software and Reader software is included. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, and portable!
Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched, or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for scientists, researchers, libraries, schools, students, and home reference!
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Contains the Report of the President's Commission on the Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy
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