This book provides comprehensive coverage of issues that facility managers in the property industry need to understand and apply in the pursuit of value for money over the life span of built facilities. The authors introduce the fast-growing ......
The increasing number of gay, lesbian and bisexual employees coming out accentuates their need, and that of their employers, to promote productivity by encouraging understanding of gays among confused, fearful, hostile heterosexuals. McNaught ......
Help work teams achieve new levels of trust, camaraderie, and productivity! Improve teamwork through trust building! "The Power of Team Building: Using Rope Techniques" supports trainers, consultants, and business leaders in leading experiential ......
The Busy Fool Meets Father Time is a fable in the tradition of The One Minute Manager and The Wealthy Barber. Taking a working vacation from his more cosmic duties, Father Time visits Earth to try to restore calm to the frenetic pace of the ......
It has been claimed that organization theory is in a state of crisis. This book traces the history of the orthodox systems theory paradigm in organization studies from its foundations to its recent deconstruction by postmodernists. The analysis ......
Key metaphors in world-system analysis are profoundly spatial, but there have been few attempts to understand how space, location, and topography affect world-system organization and process. To fill this gap, this book examines case studies of ......
Manners That Sell is an easy-to-read, highly informative guide to etiquette in the workplace. It is written for business people who recognize that manners matter now more than ever and that bottomline figures are influenced as much by ......
Business ethics is currently a significant and widely debated global issue, and one that no business can afford to ignore. In this book, the authors bring together a diverse range of views on the subject, arising from an international conference ......
Unemployment remains stubbornly high in the richest nations of the world, and large transnational corporations continually downsize. A few get richer, but many are wondering where they will find customers for their goods amid the growing ......
