Management Control Systems or Global Perspectives

Management Control Systems: Using Adaptive Systems to Attain Control

Author: Joseph A Maciariello

This text has been designed to present a comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of management control and of the design of management control systems. The practice of management control and the design of management control systems draws upon a number of academic disciplines.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. I	Management Control Systems and Managerial Controls
1	Introduction to Management Control Systems	1
2	Designing the Control Process and Managerial Controls	38
3	Key Success Variables and Performance Measures	77
Pt. II	Mutually Supportive Systems Model (MSSM) for the Design of Control Systems
4	Style and Culture and the Design of Control Systems	118
5	Infrastructure I: Organizing for Adaptive Control	144
6	Infrastructure II: Autonomy, Responsibility Centers, and Performance Measurement	185
7	Reward Systems	237
8	Communications and Integration	271
9	Strategic Planning and Programming	308
10	Capital Budgeting Methods	342
11	Operational Planning	383
12	Managerial Costing I: Traditional Systems	420
13	Managerial Costing II: Activity-Based Costing	453
14	Continuous Improvement Methods	489
Pt. III	Special Applications of Control Systems
15	Control of Complex Programs I: Program Planning	540
16	Control of Complex Programs II: Financial Planning, Resource Scheduling, Budgeting, and Reporting	557
17	Control of Multinational Operations	589
18	Control of Nonprofit Institutions	630
19	Management Control of the Ethical Dimension of Organizations	648
	Index	656

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Global Perspectives: A Handbook for Understanding Global Issues

Author: Ann Kelleher

This book provides a multidisciplinary vocabulary for explaining general issues and trends facing the contemporary world involving cultural diversity, economic development, the natural environment, and international peace and violence. It affords equal time to the analysis of global issues using alternative perspectives.

Eight major case studies–one for each of the central issues explored–encourage the application of concepts and perspectives presented in the narrative. These perspectives include Ethnicity and Global Diversity, Economic Development, Human Ecological Sustainability, World Ecology, and Peace and War.

For individuals interested in an introduction to world issues–as they relate to anthropology, sociology, history, and political science.

Funding Effectiveness or Strategic Dynamics

Funding Effectiveness: Lessons in Building Nonprofit Capacity

Author: Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

From Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)--a community of grantmakers dedicated to building strong organizations--comes a guide to promising practices in capacity building. Written for leaders of both grantmaking and nonprofit organizations who are dedicated to improving the sector's effectiveness, Funding Effectiveness offers a compelling collection of essays from many of the most highly regarded practitioners in the field. Throughout the book these experts share their personal and their organizations' lessons learned in the area of organizational effectiveness, and they offer practical suggestions and action steps for implementation.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Authors
1	Investing in Nonprofit Capacity	1
2	Flexible Frameworks for Organizational Effectiveness	27
3	Setting Clear Goals with High Expectations	53
4	Better Results Through Supportive Engagement	79
5	Cultivating a Culture of Measurement	105
	Afterword: Funding Effectiveness for the Long Haul	143
	References	151
	Index	153

New interesting textbook: Essentiel de Direction Contemporaine

Strategic Dynamics: Concepts and Cases

Author: Robert A Burgelman

Strategic Dynamics: Concepts and Cases, by Burgelman, Grove, and Meza offers unique and valuable insight into strategy making for companies in information technology-driven industries. It is the product of over twelve years of teaching and research based on a unique combination of academic (Stanford's Robert Burgelman) and industry (Intel's Andy Grove) experience. The key themes and conceptual frameworks discussed in this book, along with its case studies and industry notes, provide instructors and students with a more complete viewpoint on the dynamic interactions of companies within industries and between industries than is typically found in books on strategy and technology strategy.

Politics and Society in the Developing World or Fundamentals of Labor Economics

Politics and Society in the Developing World

Author: Mehran Kamrava

This book is a completely revised edition of the popular first edition, Politics & Society in the Third World. The author has bought the book in line with the major changes in global politics and social issues of the developing world.

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Fundamentals of Labor Economics

Author: Thomas Hyclak

Fundamentals of Labor Economicsprovides a comprehensive treatment of the theory of labor market behavior, supported by a wealth of empirical evidence, Using labor data from around the world, the authors aim to help students understand the fundamental forces underlying the complex operation of modern labor markets.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Note: Each chapter concludes with a Summay, Key Terms, and Problems.

• 1. The Study of Labor Economics
  The Scope of Labor Economics
  The Method of Labor Economics
  The Plan of This Book
  Appendix: Regression Analysis

  2. The Demand for Labor

  The Production Function

  The Marginal Product of Labor

  The Short-Run Demand for Labor

  The Demand for Labor in the Long-Run

  Appendix: Technological Change and Labor Demand

  3. Topics in Labor Demand

  Elasticities

  How Elastic Is the Demand for Labor?

  Extensions and Embellishments of Marginal Productivity Theory

  Appendix: A Test of the Marginal Productivity Theory: A Cobb-Douglas Exercise

  4. The Supply of Labor: Labor Force Participation

  International Labor Force Participation

  The Theory of Labor Force Participation for an Individual

  The Theory of Labor Force Participation for Groups

  Applications of the Theory

  5. The Supply of Labor: Hours of Work

  The History of Working Hours

  Worker Preferences and Hours Worked

  The Theory of Hours of Work for an Individual

  Applications of the Theory

  Variations on the Wage Line

  Welfare Programs and Labor Supply

  Some Extensions of the Individual Model

  Empirical Evidence on Labor Supply Elasticities

  6. Human Capital Analysis

  Some Background

  Education and Age-Earnings Profiles

  Calculating the Returns to Education

  The Evidence

  Bias in Rate of Return Estimates

  General Versus Specific Human Capital

  Externalities, Equity, and Subsidies

  Human Capital and Mobility

  7. Labor Market Equilibrium

  Equilibrium in a Single Labor Market

  Equilibriumacross Different Labor Markets

  Empirical Studies of Wage Differentials

  International Trade and Relative Wages

  8. Information and Job Search

  The Fixed Sample Search Model

  The Sequential Search Model

  Matching Models

  Equilibrium Search Models

  The Duration of Unemployment and the Hazard Function

  Labor Mobility

  Job Search Methods and Results

  9. Monopsony and Minimum Wages

  Wage and Employment Determination under Conditions of Monopsony

  Where Does Monopsony Exist?

  Minimum Wages

  Empirical Evidence on the Employment Effect of Minimum Wages

  Other Effects of the Minimum Wage

  10. Internal Labor Markets

  The Characteristics of ILMs

  The Evolution of ILMs in the United States

  ILMs and Firm Efficiency

  Implications of ILMs for Labor Analysis

  11. Personnel Economics

  Motivating Worker Effort

  Work-Life Incentive Schemes

  Other Wage Policy Models

  12. Unions and Collective Bargaining

  A Profile of Unionism in the United States

  Unionism in Other Countries

  Theories of Union Growth

  Union Goals and Objectives

  Union Monopoly Models

  Union Bargaining Power and Strikes

  The Effects of Unions

  13. Labor Market Discrimination

  The Many Faces of Labor Market Discrimination

  Gender and Racial Differences in Labor Markets

  Theories of Labor Market Discrimination

  Measuring the Effect of Discrimination on Pay Gaps

  What Does the Research Show?

  Anti-Discrimination Policies

  The Effects of Anti-Discrimination Policies

  14. Unemployment

  Measures of Unemployment

  The Natural Rate of Unemployment

  Fluctuations around the Natural Rate

  A Model of the Aggregate Labor Market

  Unemployment Policy: The OECD Jobs Strategy

  15. Wage Inequality, Income Inequality and Poverty

  Wage Inequality and Labor Market Performance

  Measuring Inequality

  Trends in Wage Inequality

  Causes of Increased Wage Inequality

  From Wage Inequality to Income Inequality

  Poverty

  Policy Options

The Post Bureaucratic Organization or Finite Mathematics

The Post-Bureaucratic Organization: New Perspectives on Organizational Change

Author: Charles C Heckscher

"The book is well organized and well written. After reading the book, I am convinced that our organizations must change in the directions prescribed by the authors, if these organizations are to succeed in this postindustrial, global age." --Personnel Psychology What is wrong with bureaucracy? What does the post-bureaucratic organization offer in the way of improvement? These and other provocative questions are addressed in this well-integrated collection of articles by leading scholars in the field of organizational change. The far-reaching implications of the transformation of organizations from bureaucratic to post-bureaucratic are critically examined. This outstanding volume begins with a definition of the "ideal" post-bureaucratic organization. It then critiques some of the fundamental assumptions of bureaucratic organizations such as the ethic of individual merit, decision-making roles, and coordinated effort. The contributors analyze the change process from bureaucracy to post-bureaucracy and three alternative approaches to bureaucracy including the virtual organization, the team organization, and the quality organization. The Post-Bureaucratic Organization concludes with two case studies that illustrate both the strengths and weaknesses of post-bureaucratic organizations. Ideal for scholars of organizational behavior, sociology of organizations, organizational psychology, and for those who are interested in the latest developments in corporate reorganization.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	Defining the Post-Bureaucratic Type	14
3	Teams, Performance, and Rewards: Will the Post-Bureaucratic Organization Be a Post-Meritocratic Organization?	63
4	Cognitive Reapportionment: Rethinking the Location of Judgment in Managerial Decision Making	91
5	The Virtual Organization: Bureaucracy, Technology, and the Implosion of Control	108
6	Transformational Processes	129
7	The Paradox of Quality Management: Commitment, Ownership, and Control	178
8	Bureaucracy: Can We Do Better? We Can Do Worse	195
9	Constraints on the Interactive Organization as an Ideal Type	211
10	Allen-Bradley's ICCG Case Study: A Commentary	223
11	Lakeville Chemical Plant	253
	Index	274
	About the Authors	283

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Finite Mathematics: An Applied Approach

Author: Abe Mizrahi

Work more effectively and check solutions along the way! This Student Solutions Manual contains worked-out solutions to all of the odd-numbered exercises in Sullivan’s Finite Mathematics: An Applied Approach, 9^th Edition.

Now in its 9^th Edition, Finite Mathematics: An Applied Approach once again lives up to its reputation as a clearly written, comprehensive finite mathematics book. In an engaging and accessible style, this book demonstrates how mathematics applies to various fields of study. The text is packed with real data and real-life applications to business, economics, social and life sciences. The new edition also features a new full color design and improved goal-oriented pedagogy to further facilitate understanding.

Booknews

A revised edition of Finite Mathematics with Applications for Business and Social Science (1992). A textbook that presents the mathematics required in business and the social sciences, with emphasis on real-world applications. This edition enlarges the range of applications to include those using a graphing calculator; adds new examples, applied problems, and technology exercises; and includes a new appendix which contains examples of solving linear programming problems using the LINDO software package. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Safety at Work or Effective Management

Safety at Work

Author: John R Ridley

* Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of H&S management, updated to cover all the latest UK and EU regulations and directives
* Edited by two experienced and well-known H&S professionals, with contributions from leading experts in H&S research and practice
* Ideal reference for all students on degree level courses as well as for H&S and HR professionals

Safety at Work is widely accepted as the most authoritative guide to safety and health in the workplace. Its comprehensive coverage and academically rigorous approach make it essential reading for students on occupational safety and health courses at diploma, bachelor and master level, including the NEBOSH National Diploma. Health and safety professionals turn to it for detailed coverage of the fundamentals and background of the field.

The seventh edition has been revised to cover recent changes in UK legislation and practice, including:
* Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2007
* Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
* Work at Height Regulations 2005
* Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005
* Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005
* Waste regulations 2005, 2006
* ISO 12100 Safety of Machinery - Basic concepts and general principles

Booknews

Covers all aspects of safety management, with sections on the law, management of risk, occupational health and hygiene, and workplace safety. Material has been prepared in association with the UK's Institution of Occupational Safety and Health to cover their academic requirements for membership. This fifth edition reflects new laws, standards, and practices, and offers new chapters on influences on health and safety, safety management and behavioral techniques, and management of chemicals, ergonomics, and the environment. Also new to this edition is emphasis on the role of the manager, and recognition of the shift in employment from manufacturing to service industries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface to sixth edition
	Preface to first edition
	List of contributors
Pt. 1	Law
1.1	Explaining the law
1.2	Principal health and safety Acts
1.3	Influences on health and safety
1.4	Law of contract
1.5	Employment law
1.6	Consumer protection
1.7	Insurance cover the compensation
1.8	Civil liability
Pt. 2	The management of risk
2.1	An introduction to risk management
2.2	Principles of the management of risk
2.3	Risk management: organisation and administration for safety
2.4	Risk management: techniques and practices
2.5	The collection and use of accident and incident data
2.6	Practical safety management: systems and techniques
2.7	The individual and safety
2.8	Risk management and behaviour modification
Pt. 3	Occupational health and hygiene
3.1	The structure and functions of the human body
3.2	Occupational diseases
3.3	Occupational hygiene
3.4	Radiation
3.5	Noise and vibration
3.6	Workplace pollution, heat and ventilation
3.7	Lighting
3.8	Managing ergonomics
3.9	Applied ergonomics
Pt. 4	Workplace Safety
4.1	Science in engineering safety
4.2	Fire precautions
4.3	Safe use of machinery
4.4	Electricity
4.5	Statutory examination of plant and equipment
4.6	Safety on construction sites
4.7	Managing chemicals safety
Pt. 5	The Environment
5.1	The environment - issues, concepts and strategies
5.2	Environmental Management systems
5.3	Waste management
5.4	Chemicals and the environment
5.5	The environment at large
App. 1	The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
App. 2	Reading for Part I of the NEBOSH Diploma examination
	App. 3: List of abbreviations
	App. 4: Organisations providing safety information
	App. 5: List of Statutes, Regulations and Orders
	App. 6: List of Cases
	Index

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Effective Management: A Multimedia Approach

Author: Chuck Williams

EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT combines the solid academic presentation of a textbook with the most extensive multimedia learning package available. Williams presents management as it is practiced today through a unique story-telling approach and organization that explains management theory in terms any learner can understand. In addition, a rich electronic learning support package, called Effective Management Online, includes a MP3 audio lectures with cases, videos of the author giving additional insights into chapter topics, a rich self-test area, student PowerPoint slides, and InfoTrac College Edition.

Booknews

Providing "all kinds of resources for all kinds of minds," this text introduces management functions, environments, and responsibilities; how to make things happen; meeting the global competition innovatively; organizing people, projects, and processes; and leadership. Includes actual case examples and meta-analyses; chapter- end critical thinking video cases and exercises to develop management potential; color graphics; a glossary of terms; three online student support modules (a study guide audio CD, a video case on CD-ROM, and a CD-ROM multimedia version of the text); and a chart correlating these multimedia resources with text chapters. An instructor's resource CD- ROM is available. Williams teaches management at Texas Christian U. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Stress Management in Law Enforcement or Measuring up

Stress Management in Law Enforcement

Author: Leonard Territo

The newly revised second edition of Stress Management in Law Enforcement by Dr. Leonard Territo and Dr. James Sewell is once again a carefully selected collection of the leading articles on stress and its consequences for police personnel. This edition, incorporating new and relevant material, comprises nine sections which cover the following topics: What is Stress All About?; What Does Stress Mean for Cops?; Are There Ways We Can Tell It's There?; What Are Some of the Bad Effects of Stress on Cops?; How Does Stress Impact a Cop's Family Life?; How Does the Worst of the Worst Affect Cops?; What Are the Tools That a Cop Can Use to Better Handle Stress?; What Support is Available for Cops? and How Can the Bosses Better Help Their Cops?

A brief summary precedes each section to assist the reader in readily identifying articles which might be of particular interest. Each article contains end-of-chapter discussion questions which are answered in detail in the instructor's manual. The sections are also accompanied by a glossary of terms and a list of additional recommended readings.

This book will specifically interest the criminal justice academic community as an adjunctive resource in police management courses or as the primary text in upper division seminars on the topic of police stress management. This book will also be of considerable interest to police administrators and officers who must deal on a daily basis with the negative side effects of stress. Stress Management in Law Enforcement is relevant for police administrators as well as police psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, social workers, and other mental health professionals who are called upon to provideguidance and assistance to police officers.

This new edition is accompanied by a 200's manual which provides the instructor with learning objectives; answers to the end-of-chapter discussion questions; a comprehensive list of videos dealing with police stress and how they can be purchased; and a list of recommended readings.

"It is a worthy addition to the library of any thoughtful student of police behavior and culture."
-Criminal Justice Review, on the first edition

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An anthology of articles and excerpts exploring the nature of stress, stress and the police officer, police suicide, the police family, the trauma of law enforcement, coping, psychological services, and management issues. A reference for police administrators, and suitable as an auxiliary text in a police management course or as the core of a graduate seminar focusing on the subject. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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Measuring up: How Advertising Images Shape Gender Identity

Author: Vickie Rutledge Rutledge Shields

The mute gestures of advertising images are frozen for posterity by photographers and illustrators, gestures that, for better or worse, perpetuate a certain aesthetic and eventually become emblematic of a period. The images of today display the values of a society that has more interest in the body than the mind. They are technoenhanced labyrinths of unattainable appearances that leave women and men feeling horrified, estranged, and restricted by unrealistic, silent mandates. Measuring Up looks at advertising as more than just a way to extract money from unsuspecting people but as a vehicle for conveying the larger views of a confining, body-obsessed culture.

By weaving theoretical and textual insights from feminist and cultural studies with the voices of real women and men, Measuring Up offers a unique reception analysis of the effects of repetitious exposure to advertisements of perfect bodies in our everyday lives. Shields examines a particular, complex relationship between the idealized images of gender we see in advertising and our own thoughts, feelings, and behavior in relation to these images. The study is unique in presenting audience reception in terms of ethnographic data, not textual interpretations alone.

Measuring Up engages with and informs current theoretical debates within these sometimes complementary and sometimes contradictory literatures: feminist media studies, feminist film theory, critical social theory, cultural studies, and critical ethnography. This is an important work that explores the forms and channels of power used in one of the most insidious and overt means of mass influence in popular culture.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Theory and Method	1
2	Stereotypes and Body Parts: Advertising Content	13
3	What Do Ads Teach Us About Gender?	35
4	Signs of the Times: A Semiotics of Gender Ads	63
5	Weighing In and Measuring Up	88
6	Elizabeth's Story	107
7	Differences Within Gender: Manufacturing Distance	130
8	Interventions and Changes	152
9	Final Thoughts	177
	References	187
	Index	197
	Acknowledgments	205

Participatory Communication or Competitive Equilibrium

Participatory Communication: Working for Change and Development

Author: Shirley A Ed Whit

This pioneering and thought-provoking volume explores the strengths, weaknesses, and complex nature of participation in many diverse settings while pinpointing important related concepts such as power and control, conscientization, and empowerment and self-reliance. Two central themes run throughout Participatory Communication: development communication must be dialogic and transactional; and development communicators must play a critical role in offering new philosophies, concepts, and models which facilitate participation at all stages of the development process. With its judicious blend of theoretical models and case studies and its refreshing ability to challenge received wisdom concerning participation, development, and communication processes, Participatory Communication will interest a wide range of academics and professionals as well as voluntary agencies. "This book comes close to being unrivalled for its scope . . . and reflects the sincerity and concern of the contributors for the toiling marginalised muted millions." -Economic and Political Weekly "As a professor of development communication myself, I intend to read the book again and again. It fulfills the voracious requirements of the duty to profess to students. It is a virtual encyclopedia on development communication, what with its 21 chapters dedicated to one or the other aspect of the philosophies, theories, models, practices, and history of that field, particularly the concept of participation . . . All in all, the book celebrates a philosophy that 'has influenced a generation' of practitioners, students, and scholars of development and communication." -Media Asia

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables and Figures	7
	Acknowledgements	9
	Foreword	12
	Introduction - The Concept of Participation: Transforming Rhetoric to Reality	15
1	Participative Communication as a Part of Building the Participative Society	35
2	Participatory Development Communication: Philosophical Premises	49
3	Modernization and Post-Modernization Approaches to Participatory Communication for Development	60
4	Communication Approaches to Participation and Development: Challenging the Assumptions and Perspectives	76
5	Participatory Development Communication as a Social-Cultural Process	95
6	Participatory Development Communication as a Dialogical Process	117
7	Participatory Development Communication as Cultural Renewal	138
8	A Community-based Learning Approach: Beyond Social Marketing	194
9	Power and Conflict: Hidden Dimensions of Communication, Participative Planning, and Action	229
10	Participatory Decision Making: A Parable	247
11	Participatory Decision Making in Third World Development	259
12	Diffusion Theory and Participatory Decision Making	295
13	Operational Impasses in Knowledge Sharing: Case Study Examples	314
14	Facilitating Communication Within Rural and Marginal Communities: A Model for Development Support	329
15	Participatory Message Development: A Conceptual Framework	345
16	Participatory Message Making with Video: Revelations from Studies in India and the USA	359
17	Kheda: An Experiment in Participatory Communication	387
18	Participatory Rural Newspapers as Agents of Development: A Reciprocal Agenda-Setting Model	400
19	Media Production and the Process of Becoming in the Context of Community Building	420
20	Participatory Communication for Development: How Can We Achieve It?	446
	Notes on Contributors	462
	Index	464

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Competitive Equilibrium: Theory and Applications

Author: Bryan Ellickson

The development of general equilibrium theory represents one of the greatest advances in economic analysis in the latter half of the twentieth century. This book, intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, provides a broad introduction to competitive equilibrium analysis with an emphasis on concrete applications. The coverage is exceptionally broad, including existence of equilibrium, models with a continuum of players, economies with individual commodities, computation of equilibrium, and infinite dimensional space. Well-designed and interesting applications help to make potentially abstract material more accessible.

What Is an Exchange or Exchange Rates under the East Asian Dollar Standard

What Is an Exchange?: The Automation, Management, and Regulation of Financial Markets

Author: Ruben Le

The existence and nature of exchanges used not to be controversial; they were easily identified and characterized. New technology, however, has led to the development of new exchanges and trading systems, posing problems for those concerned with the regulation of trading markets. Ruben Lee examines the question of what an exchange is, using arguments from both financial economics and law, and sets out a view of how exchanges might be regulated.

What People Are Saying

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An intellectual tour de force of the various issues surrounding the business,and regulation, of financial markets and professionals.
—Brandon Becker, Georgetown University Law Center and Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering

Table of Contents:

	List of Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	Governance	8
3	Governance: Case Studies	34
4	Competition and Cooperation	49
5	Cooperation: Case Studies	67
6	Information	97
7	Classification and Market Structure: Law and Regulation	117
8	Information: Law and Regulation	140
9	Governance: Law and Regulation	190
10	Information: Economics	215
11	Information and Competition: Policy	250
12	Classification and Governance: Policy	279
App. 1	Trading Systems	317
	App. 2: Definitions	322
	Notes	324
	Authorities	356
	Cases	358
	References	361
	Index	395

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Exchange Rates under the East Asian Dollar Standard: Living with Conflicted Virtue

Author: Ronald I McKinnon

The increasingly integrated economies of East Asia--China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand--face the dilemma of how to achieve exchange-rate security in the absence of a unifying "Asian euro." The US dollar has become the region's dominant intraregional trading currency as well as the monetary anchor to which East Asian economies informally peg their currencies. In this timely and original analysis of the benefits and risks of an East Asian dollar standard, Ronald McKinnon takes issue with the conventional view that urges flexible exchange rates on financially fragile economies. He argues instead that East Asian countries should coordinate their policies to keep their exchange rates stable against the dollar.

McKinnon develops a conceptual framework to show where the conventional wisdom on exchange rates has gone wrong. Pressure on the "virtuous" high-saving dollar-creditor East Asian nations to appreciate their currencies leads to a "conflicted" choice between a possible deflationary slump if they do appreciate and threatened trade sanctions if they do not. Analyzing interactions among the East Asian economies, McKinnon explains the rationale, and the need, for greater exchange-rate security in the region, pointing to the soft-dollar pegs adopted by these nations as steps in the right direction. He suggests that the dollar standard in East Asia could be rationalized through collective action by national governments and considers the effect of American monetary and trade policies on the East Asian economy.

Diagnosis for Organizational Change or Mandarins of the Future

Diagnosis for Organizational Change: Methods and Models

Author: Ann Howard

Organizational diagnosis produces the road maps that guide and direct organizational change interventions. To generate better understanding and appreciation of the diagnostic process, this unique volume illustrates methods and models used by prominent behavioral science practitioners; demonstrates the breadth and complexity of the process, initiated from individual, group, and organizational levels; and explores a more integrated approach to diagnosis suited to an era of sweeping organizational change. The book approaches organizational diagnosis from three different perspectives: (1) macro views of organizations, (2) contributions of individuals, and (3) management and motivation in the high-involvement workplace. The practitioner as diagnostic instrument looks down from the pinnacles of leadership, while the personnel-centered diagnostician views groups of individuals as mirrors of the organization's nature and style. Diagnostic models for organization development and emerging organizational firms set the stage for diagnosing cultures for realignment and designing effective reward systems. The broadening focus of training needs assessment and strategic methods for addressing future staff requirements place the spotlight on human talent, while diagnostic issues for work teams emphasize the growing importance of groups. The assembled authors - all experienced, sophisticated human resources practitioners - describe actual experiences of both the process and content of organizational diagnosis and illustrate their accounts with practical case examples. In the conclusion of the volume, the authors collaborate to consider how behavioral science practitioners can advance toward the integration of organizational diagnosis. This volume is an essential resource and guide for all human resources professionals, as well as for students in organizational and industrial psychology, organizational behavior, human resources management, and related fields, and for managers see

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Organizational diagnosis produces the road maps that guide and direct organizational change interventions. To generate better understanding and appreciation of the diagnostic process, this volume illustrates methods and models used by prominent behavioral science practitioners; demonstrates the breadth and complexity of the process, initiated from individual, group, and organizational levels; and explores a more integrated approach to diagnosis suited to an era of sweeping organizational change. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America

Author: Nils Gilman

Because it provided the dominant framework for "development" of poor, postcolonial countries, modernization theory ranks among the most important constructs of twentieth-century social science. In Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America Nils Gilman offers the first intellectual history of a movement that has had far-reaching and often unintended consequences.

After a survey of the theory's origins and its role in forming America's postwar sense of global mission, Gilman offers a close analysis of the people who did the most to promote it in the United States and the academic institutions they came to dominate. He first explains how Talcott Parsons at Harvard constructed a social theory that challenged the prevailing economics-centered understanding of the modernization process, then describes the work of Edward Shils and Gabriel Almond in helping Parsonsian ideas triumph over other alternative conceptions of the development process, and finally discusses the role of Walt Rostow and his colleagues at M.I.T. in promoting modernization theory during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. By connecting modernization theory to the welfare state liberalism programs of the New Deal order, Gilman not only provides a new intellectual context for America's Third World during the Cold War, but also connects the optimism of the Great Society to the notion that American power and good intentions could stop the postcolonial world from embracing communism.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
1	Modernization Theory and American Modernism	1
2	From the European Past to the American Present	24
3	The Harvard Department of Social Relations and the Intellectual Origins of Modernization Theory	72
4	The Rise of Modernization Theory in Political Science: The SSRC's Committee on Comparative Politics	113
5	Modernization Theory as a Foreign Policy Doctrine: The MIT Center for International Studies	155
6	The Collapse of Modernization Theory	203
7	The Postmodern Turn and the Aftermath of Modernization Theory	241
	Notes	277
	Essay on Sources	313
	Index	321

BusinessToday or Information Systems Solutions

Business.Today

Author: Stephen P Robbins

Stephen P. Robbins is a best selling author of management and organizational behavior texts. In his new integrative, innovative introduction to business text, business.today, he adopts a reader-friendly conversational writing style. This new text is already receiving praise for its integrated emphasis on careers, e-business, technology, ethics, globalization, and other evolving issues. Robbins offers comprehensive coverage of traditional functions of business--marketing, management, accounting, finance, --but with a fresh real world format, covering the functions where it makes sense, just as a business person would encounter them. The innovative approach of business today reflects the immense changes that have occurred in business practices. Robbins demonstrates that the new world of business is about identifying opportunities, creating viable strategies, building relationships, and providing quality goods and services.

Table of Contents:

Part I. Introduction
1.Welcome to Business.Today
2.Contemporary Business Challenges and Opportunities
3.Keeping Business in Perspective. Part II. Acquiring and Using Information
4.Monitoring the External Environment
5.Internal Information Systems and Decision Making. Part III. Building Relationships
6.Customers
7.Employees
8.Suppliers
9.Financial Sources
10.Other Stakeholders. Part IV. Providing Quality Goods and Services
11.Management and Coordination
12.Marketing Activities
13.Efficient Use of Financial Resources
14.Production and Operations
15.Creating and Managing an E-Business. Part V. Building Your Business Career Portfolio.

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Information Systems Solutions: A Project Approach

Author: Richard L Van Horn

The development, implementation and maintenance of computer-based information system solutions require innovative thinking, research and communication skills, extensive documentation, and the ability to effectively apply proposed solutions. Information System Solutions: A Project Approach integrates basic information systems knowledge with these requirements, culminating in their combined application in a project-based real-world scenario. Three different project models, an SDLC-based chapter organization and an emphasis on teamwork make this text easily adaptable to your teaching needs. Successfully tested in the classroom and approved by thousands of students, Information System Solutions: A Project Approach prepares your students to be active, effective contributors to the professional field of information systems.

The text includes:
• Attention to various areas of interest, including general IS concepts and environmental, client-specific factors (strategy, marketing, and organizational behavior).
• A chapter organization that follows the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Coverage of three project models-case, passive live, and active live-for classroom use that enrich and enliven students' learning experience through "Learning by Doing.

Reward Recognition Process in Total Quality Management or Inequality Democracy and Economic Development

Reward Recognition Process in Total Quality Management

Author: Stephen B B Knous

Author Stephen B. Knouse does not consider reward and recognition to be a static set of principles, but rather a continually evolving process. This process diversifies into new areas, such as motivation, leadership, group dynamics, and other areas of behavior. In this way, TQM can be responsive to both its internal and external customers. Knouse also explains how to integrate the characteristics of the reward and recognition process with TQM. TQM emphasizes important psychological concepts, such as cultural change, leadership, and teamwork. However, very little has been written about the psychological theory behind these concepts. This book provides psychological frameworks for understanding the reward and recognition process. As a result, the idea of motivation and its importance to reward and recognition becomes clearer. Employee motivation within any organization must also be managed carefully in order to achieve optimal effectiveness. Various motivation principles used within the TQM organization are detailed to provide a thorough understanding of these key practices. Motivational theories are illustrated and explained in basic terms, so the importance of these critical issues shows why reward and recognition will work in a quality environment. Many organizational examples of reward and recognition within the manufacturing, service, public, and international sectors are also presented to further demonstrate the motivational techniques as they relate to what other successful TQM organizations are doing. Companies share effective reward and recognition techniques. Effective performance evaluation is behind any reward and recognition program. A performance evaluation system for TQM requires that performance criteria be established that support the quality and customer orientation of the organization. This book shows how to create and maintain those criteria. It also presents some of the unique pitfalls of performance evaluations and offers specific and success

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Examines the reward and recognition process, an important factor in the implementation of total quality management (TQM), and discusses the psychological theory behind TQM concepts such as cultural change, leadership, and teamwork. Details various motivation principles used within the TQM organization, gives case examples of reward and recognition in the manufacturing, public, and international sectors, and shows how to create and maintain performance criteria. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development

Author: Manus I Midlarsky

The relationship between inequality and democracy is a compelling one for the contemporary social scientist. This book addresses questions raised as early as the time of Aristotle, and continue through Marx to the present day. Theories of inequality in relation to democracy are explored, and the book focuses on the sources of democracy, the relationship between economic development and thresholds of democracy, and finally responses to democratization. As the gap between rich and poor widens within and between nations, the subject of this book becomes increasingly important worldwide.

Table of Contents:

	List of contributors
	Introduction	1
1	Democracy before Athens	13
2	Environmental influences on democracy: aridity, warfare, and land inequality	45
3	Democracy and proto-modernity: technoecological influences on the growth of political and civil rights	80
4	Inequality and democracy in the anthropological record	110
5	Economic determinants of democracy	133
6	Informational inequality and democracy in the new world order	156
7	Modernization and thresholds of democracy: evidence for a common path and process	177
8	Markets and inequality in the transition from state socialism	202
9	Democracy and inequality: tracking welfare spending in Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea	227
10	Political regimes and industrial wages: a cross-national analysis	244
11	Social responses to neoliberal reforms in Eastern Europe in the 1990s	269
12	Market, state, and citizenship in new democracies	290
	Conclusion: Paradoxes of democracy	319
	References	327
	Index	356

Tax Funded Politics or Marketing Management

Tax-Funded Politics

Author: James Bennett

In Tax-Funded Politics, James Bennett argues that governmental agencies, rather than combating abuses, aid and abet them in order to increase their own size and scope. Drawing on a broad range of examples, Bennett shows how the ideals of the nation's Founding Fathers have been subverted by molding and manipulating the will of the people through government-orchestrated propaganda.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction : stuck in the lobby	1
2	Uncle Sam : sugar daddy to the feminists	13
3	Workers (and teachers) of the world! : apply for grants!	53
4	Greens scramble for the green	85
5	Heart, lungs, and the big c : the big three take aim at your wallets and your liberty	109
6	The black, the brown, and the old	139
7	Gravy train conservatives	161
8	Conclusion : as I told the subcommittee...	193

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Marketing Management: Knowledge and Skills

Author: J Paul Peter

Marketing Management: Knowledge and Skills, 7/e, by Peter and Donnelly, serves an overview for critical issues in marketing management. The text strives to enhance knowledge of marketing management and advance student skills so they can develop and maintain successful marketing strategies. The text does this through comprehensive text chapters that analyze that marketing process and gives students the foundation needed for success in marketing management and through 45 cases (16 of them new, many others updated) that go beyond traditional marketing principles and focus on the role of marketing in cross-functional business and organization strategies.

Microeconomics or Black Unemployment

Microeconomics (Study Guide)

Author: Robert S Pindyck

This well-received book is a market leader in the field of Microeconomics, and demonstrates how microeconomics can be used as a tool for both managerial and public-policy decision making. Clear writing style and graphs compliment the integrated use of current, real world industry examples throughout the book. It emphasizes relevance and application to cover modern topics—such as Game Theory and economics of information—and examples—such as United States v. Microsoft, pricing cellular phone service, and Internet auctions. Coverage of other up-to-date issues includes supply and demand, cost, consumer behavior, individual and market demand, market failure, and the role of government. For individuals with an interest in economics, microeconomic theory, and price theory.

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A textbook adaptable to several types of courses, including a one-quarter or one-semester course covering the core material, a longer course that includes such topics as uncertainty and market failure, or a course emphasizing specific topics such as modern pricing theory or business strategy. Assuming a potential readership from diverse backgrounds, uses no calculus and marks the more advanced sections with warning asterisks. Incorporates changes in the field over the past few years, including the new importance given to game theory and the strategic interaction of firms. First published in 1989 and most recently in 1995. Answers are provided for selected problems. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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New edition (first was 1989) of a solid textbook. Pindyck is a widely respected economics writer represented by three titles in BCL3 (we reckon this work will appear there in future). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Black Unemployment: Part of Unskilled Unemployment, Vol. 50

Author: David Schwartzman

In the post-World War II era, the U.S. government's full employment policy led to rapid mechanization of production by reducing the cost of financing investment. The mechanization of production displaced more blacks than whites because blacks were disproportionately unskilled. In addition, the growth in the import of manufactured goods further reduced the demand for unskilled labor. The author argues that the government should fill the gap with government employment and should discourage imports from developing countries.

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Relates black unemployment to the fate of unskilled workers, and suggests that the government undertake a public employment program for unskilled workers and restrict the market for products of unskilled workers from other countries. Provides a historical explanation for the large proportion of blacks who are unskilled, discusses the effects of monetary policy since the 1930s, looks at past and current policies in wages, labor, and education, and critiques assorted explanations for black unemployment. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Black Unemployment	1
2	Capital Goods and Technology	31
3	Substitution of Skilled for Unskilled Labor	67
4	The Substitution of Foreign for Domestic Unskilled Labor	93
5	IQ, Welfare, and the Poverty Culture	123
6	Race and Politics	141
7	Current Public Policy	151
8	Policy Recommendations	171
	Index	195

National Environmental Accounting or How Advertising Works

National Environmental Accounting: Bridging the Gap Between Ecology and Economy

Author: Joy E Hecht

This book presents national environmental, or "green" accounting as it has developed in Europe and other parts of the world. It introduces the most recent methods developed through the United Nations Statistical Department and other international organizations, but bridges the gap between the superficial treatment of environmental accounting in economics textbooks and environmental literature, on the one hand, and the highly technical manuals of international organizations, on the other.

Joy Hecht begins with a history and introduction to national income accounting. The first part of her book explains how the environmental accounts build on the structure of the 1993 System of National Accounts. She then shows the UN approach to accountingapplied to pollution, recycling, and the management of natural resources such as forests, minerals,and fisheries. The third section discusses how the accounts approach green GDP and other macroeconomic indicators. The book concludes by going beyond the UN structures to discuss other adjusted macroeconomic measures and how accounting data can be used to build them.

National Environmental Accounting is a non-technical introduction to an increasingly important field. It is a must-read for anyone interested in how environmental accounts can help society move towards greater sustainability.

Table of Contents:

1	National environmental accounts	1
2	Concepts of conventional national income accounting	16
3	Structure of the conventional income accounts	33
4	Overview of the revised SEEA	53
5	Pollution accounting : the physical side	76
6	Pollution accounting : what are we spending now?	90
7	Pollution accounting : policy questions	102
8	Resource accounting	120
9	Forest accounts	136
10	Subsoil asset accounts	153
11	Fisheries, land, and water accounts	169
12	Macroeconomic indicators in the SEEA	196
13	Macroeconomic measures outside the SEEA	209

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How Advertising Works: The Role of Research

Author: John Philip Jones

John Philip Jones, best-selling author of What's in a Name?, Advertising and the Concept of Brands, and When Ads Work: New Proof That Advertising Triggers Sales, has edited an authoritative handbook of research procedures that determine effective advertising. All participants in the advertising processùclients, media, and agenciesùare fully represented in How Advertising Works. Chapter authors reflect a global mix of academic and professional backgrounds and include Leo Bogart, Andrew Ehrenberg, Simon Broadbent, Herbert Krugman, and John Philip Jones himself. Most chapters have been specifically written for this volume and are complemented by a few adaptations of classic articles. The result is a single "knowledge bank" of theory and practice for advertising students and professionals. Future handbooks, also edited by John Philip Jones, will address key topics of advertising agency operation, brand building, and multinational advertising. How Advertising Works will be of interest to students and professionals in advertising, marketing, and communication

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A broad handbook of research procedures designed to determine the effectiveness of advertising, taking into account the clients, media, and agencies. Contributors from both academia and the advertising industry offer information about both the theory and practice of such research. They cover markets and advertising, research before and after the advertising runs, and the effects of advertising. Most of the 29 chapters were written for the anthology, but a few were adapted from earlier efforts. Inaugurates a five-volume series of practical guides for advertising professionals. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Information Systems and Technology for the Noninformation Executive or Public Communication

Information Systems and Technology for the Noninformation Executive: An Integrated Resource Management Guide for the 21st Century

Author: Jae K Shim

Thirty years ago, computers seemed more science fiction than business fact. Today we have e-commerce, e-marketing, computerized scheduling, manufacturing, and a whole new field called information technology. Computers now have applications for every facet of your business. Information Systems and Technology for the Non-Information Systems Executive explores the practical and efficient use of computer technology-both software and hardware-for all types of business applications. In a simple and reader friendly style Shim presents information on data bases, networking, and telecommunications. He explains popular accounting, tax, finance, management, manufacturing, and marketing software-making them easy to understand and use. In addition, he provides real-life examples that illustrate the applications of decision support systems, executive information systems, and artificial intelligence systems such as financial modeling, budgeting, strategic planning and control, forecasting, data analysis, inventory planning, and optimization software. You do not need to know programming to understand your information systems. Written for business managers and entrepreneurs who may not have extensive computer experience, Information Systems and Technology for the Non-Information Systems Executive: An Integrated Resource Management Guide for the 21st Century covers information systems in all phases and functional areas of business to help you make the best decisions. It provides a wealth of current and essential information for managers and executives of all types of organizations. Your success depends on keeping abreast of the latest applications and thinking in information technology. This bookgives you the competitive edge.

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Shim (business administration, California State U.) explains software and hardware technologies for the inexperienced business manager. He discusses the importance of databases, networking, and telecommunications; explains popular accounting, finance, management, manufacturing, and marketing software applications; and, through real life examples, covers decision support systems, executive information systems, artificial intelligence (including financial modeling, budgeting, strategic planning, and optimization software. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

What are Management Information Systems?

Management Information Systems and Decision Making Models

How to Select the Best Microcomputer System

What is Systems Software?

Practical Guide to Application Software

Organizing Data and Information

Data Communications

Telecommunications: Media, Devices, Networks, and Applications

The Intranet

Information Systems Development and End-User Computing

Accounting Information Systems and Packages

Financial Management Information Systems and Packages

Marketing Information Systems and Packages

Decision Support Systems

Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems

Computer Security and Auditing

Glossary

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Public Communication

Author: Scott Titsworth

This is a new, brief, economical text that stresses the importance of public communication in contemporary life. Through its numerous examples and excellent companion collection of sample speeches, the book and its media program integrate vital themes of our time and invite students to make the connection between their basic public speaking class and such important issues as ethics, religious identity, diversity, health, medicine, education, and the environment.

Targeting Development or Public Relations Critical Debates and Contemporary Problems

Targeting Development

Author: Richard Black

A new global consensus has emerged that stresses that the objective of development is to end global poverty. This consensus is accompanied by a bold new set of targetsglobal poverty to be halved by 2015, along with universal primary education, the removal of gender disparities in schooling, universal access to reproductive health care, specific reductions in infant, child and maternal mortality rates, and a reversal in the loss of environmental resources. These 'International Development Targets' were first adopted by the OECD in 1996, and have been succeeded by the yet more widely endorsed 'Millennium Development Goals' following from the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000.
The aim of this book is to provide a critical appraisal of these targets, and the progress so far towards meeting them. The book consists of six introductory chapters on how and why the International Development Targets and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have become incorporated into development policy, and what theiroverall value is. Each chapter in the second part analyzes whether current trends suggest the target can be reached. Contributors assess the main constraints that exist to achieving each of these targets and the resulting implications for policy.

Table of Contents:

	List of illustrations
	Notes on contributors
	Foreword
	Preface
	List of abbreviations
1	Millennium Development Goals: a drop in the ocean?	1
2	Heaven or hubris: reflections on the new 'New Poverty Agenda'	25
3	Using development goals and targets for donor agency performance measurement	47
4	Using development goals to design country strategies	77
5	Monitoring progress towards the Millennium Development Goals at country level	96
6	Are the Millennium Development Goals feasible?	124
7	Halving world poverty	145
8	Towards universal primary education	166
9	Promoting gender equality	184
10	Reducing infant and child death	209
11	Towards reproductive health for all?	235
12	The global challenge of HIV/AIDS	256
13	Clean water for all	273
14	Achieving sustainability in Africa	292
15	Building a global partnership for development?	307
16	Aid, trade and debt: how equal is the global partnership?	323
	Index	354

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Public Relations Critical Debates and Contemporary Problems

Author: Jacquie LEtang

This new text for students and practitioners in public relations has been built on the acclaimed Critical Perspectives in Public Relations, also edited by Jacquie L'Etang and Magda Pieczka, which is no longer in print. Many of the liveliest minds on the public relations scene have contributed fresh ideas and diverse perspectives: their locations on the margins, either geographically or intellectually, or both, allowed them to present a variety of compelling critiques. Contributors from Germany, Sweden, Spain, and Scotland join those from New Zealand and Australia in providing historical and political perspectives. Topics such as propaganda, religion, publics, expertise, transparency, and discourse are tackled in new and imaginative ways.

The book challenges conventions but also provides essential empirical detail and careful argument. Practical relevance is also present through interdisciplinary discussion of public relations problems in sport, health, science, tourism, and documentary film. This important volume will stimulate debate about the boundaries, definitions, functions, and effects of public relations.

The Limits of Globalization or What Is Sexual Harassment

The Limits of Globalization: Cases and Arguments

Author: Alan Scott

IThe Limits of Globalization criticizes the idea that globalization is an unstoppable historical force in the face of which politics are helpless and calls for a renewal of political projects which can defend society against markets. The limitations of the globalizing forces operating in the world today can best be understood through an analysis of their concrete manifestations. Using examples from the people's art of Potsdammer Platz to the ways in which Western cultural icons are reinterpreted in Asian magazines, this collection of essays unpicks the rhetoric of globalization in political analysis, cultural theory and urban and economic sociology and exposes the myth of the global society as in many cases a dangerous exaggeration.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction - Globalization: Social Process or Political Rhetoric?	1
2	The Futures of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz	25
3	The Global Common: The Global, Local and Personal; Dynamics of the Women's Peace Movement in the 1980s	55
4	'Across the Universe': The Limits of Global Popular Culture	75
5	An Asian Orientalism? Libas and the Textures of Postcolonialism	90
6	Elvis in Zanzibar	116
7	Chinese Entrepreneurship: Culture and Economic Actors	143
8	Globalization, Urban Change and Urban Policies in Britain and France	181
9	Air Transport and Globalization: A Sceptical View	202
10	Globalization, the Company and the Workplace: Some Interim Evidence from the Auto Industry in Britain	223
11	Nationalism and the Fall of the USSR	238
12	Globalization as an Emergent Concept	257
13	Wider Horizons with Larger Details: Subjectivity, Ethnicity and Globalization	284
14	The World Market Unbound	306
	Bibliography	327
	Index	350

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What Is Sexual Harassment?: From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne

Author: Abigail Cope Saguy

In France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. By contrast, many universities and corporations in the United States prohibit sexual relationships across hierarchical lines and sometimes among coworkers, arguing that these liaisons should have no place in the workplace. In this age of globalization, how do cultural and legal nuances translate? And when they differ, how are their subtleties and complexities understood? In comparing how sexual harassment--a concept that first emerged in 1975--has been defined differently in France and the United States, Abigail Saguy explores not only the social problem of sexual harassment but also the broader cultural concerns of cross-national differences and similarities.

Stormwater Management or Monetary Policy and Politics

Stormwater Management

Author: Martin P Wanielista

Designed for both students and practicing professionals, it addresses critical issues of water quality, focusing on the illustration and application of both hydrologic and economic water management techniques. Stresses applications using worked examples, case studies and problems. Software is included to assist in solving more complex problems and to apply demonstrated techniques.

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The subject is multidisciplinary, and interest in all facets has been spurred by new regulations mandating and governing stormwater management. Underlying philosophies and water quality issues are covered in this text along with hydrologic and hydraulic techniques, enhanced by optimization and fiscal procedures. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
1.1	Organization of Book and Related Disciplines	1
1.2	Magnitude of Stormwater Problems	2
1.3	Hydrologic Cycle	4
1.4	Stormwater Management Objectives and Limitations	8
1.5	Stormwater Management Policies	10
1.6	Feasibility Considerations	11
1.7	Stormwater Mathematical Models	13
1.8	Computation Aids and Computer Programs	19
2	Probability and Statistical Methods for Hydrologic Events	24
2.2	Assumptions for Statistical Analysis	27
2.3	Regression Formulas	30
2.4	Theoretical Frequency Distributions	34
3	Hydrographs	65
3.1	Synthetic Hydrographs	65
3.2	Rainfall Excess	66
3.3	Hydrograph Procedures	72
3.4	Hydrograph Attenuation	78
4	Management Models for Flow Rate and Volume Control	90
4.1	Reasons for Models	90
4.2	Some Existing Models	91
4.3	Basic Concepts	92
4.4	Application of HEC-1	96
4.5	Application of SMADA	96
5	Stormwater Quality	108
5.1	Water Quality Parameters	110
5.2	Dustfall and Quality of Precipitation	112
5.3	Stormwater Sampling Event Mean Concentration, and Loading	116
5.4	Rural Nonpoint Sources	120
5.5	Urban Nonpoint Sources	123
5.6	Runoff Water Quality	127
5.7	Mass Loadings	135
5.8	Mathematical Modeling	140
6	Receiving Water Quality	159
6.1	Water Quality Assessment	159
6.2	Separating Point from Nonpoint Sources	163
6.3	Combined Sewers and Comparison to Separate Sewers	166
6.4	Toxicity	169
6.5	Dissolved Oxygen Impacts	176
6.6	Sediment Accumulation	188
6.7	Eutrophication and Trophic Analysis	190
6.8	Mathematical Modeling for Receiving Waters	195
7	Stormwater Management Alternatives for Water Quality Improvement	216
7.1	Philosophies for Stormwater Quality Management	216
7.2	Alternative Stormwater Quality Management Practices	218
7.3	Fundamental Efficiency Considerations	220
7.4	Off-Line Retention (Diversion) Systems	225
7.5	Sedimentation	231
7.6	Removal of Dissolved Contaminants in Stormwater	237
7.7	Swales	240
8	Wet-Retention / Detention Ponds	262
8.1	Design Considerations	264
8.2	Modeling Concepts for Wet-Detention Ponds	266
8.3	Wet-Detention Pond as a Holding Tank and a Reuse Pond	292
9	Economic and Fiscal Feasibility	313
9.1	Comprehensive Stormwater Management	313
9.2	Economic Measures	315
9.3	Fiscal Responsibility and Financial Planning	321
9.4	Uncertainty and Risk	328
10	Optimization	343
10.2	Linear Programming	346
10.3	Multiobjective Programming	357
10.4	Other Optimization Techniques	359
10.5	Cost-Effectiveness	371
10.6	Optimization of Stormwater Management Practices	381
11	Rural Area Stormwater Management	397
11.1	Erosion and Sedimentation	397
11.2	Universal Soil Loss Equation	399
11.3	Water Yield Model	410
11.4	Solids Disposal	414
	Appendix A Notation	423
	Appendix B Metric Units With English Equivalents	430
	Appendix C Nondimensional Rainfall and Frequency-Intensity-Duration Curves	435
	Appendix D Statistical Tables	443
	Appendix E Computer Programs, Descriptions, and Example Outputs	464
	Appendix F Selected Hydrologic Soil Classifications and Curve Numbers	504
	Appendix G Description of Common Stormwater Management Practices	528
	Appendix H Solutions to Selected Case Studies	536
	Index	573

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Monetary Policy and Politics: Rules vs. Discretion

Author: George Macesich

Macesich argues that the poor performance of monetary policy can be attributed to the ease with which "money" slips into the political arena. Discretionary authority facilitates monetary manipulation for political ends, thereby increasing uncertainty and casting doubt on money, the monetary system, and indeed the monetary authority itself. The author traces the evolution of the debate over rules versus discretionary authority and discusses various methods that economists have proposed for constraining the monetary authority. He concludes that if monetary policy is to be credible and thus successful, the hands of monetary policy makers are better tied than left free.

Working the Shadow Side or Hospitality Management Strategies

Working the Shadow Side: A Guide to Positive Behind-the-Scenes Management

Author: Gerard Egan

Offers managers, consultants, and employees alike a practical starter kit that reveals how to identify, manage, and gain value from the below-the surface activities in an organization. Drawing on his worldwide consulting, teaching, and research experience, Gerard Egan shows how to create opportunity and competitive advantage by learning how to manage shadow-side realities. He identifies five interactive categories of behavior that affect both productivity and quality of work life in today's organizations--covert culture, the idiosyncrasies of individuals, the interactions of the organization's social system, institutional politics, and the hidden organization--and details specific skills and strategies for mining economic value from each one.
Harness the covert aspects of your organization -- covert culture, individual idiosyncrasies, institutional politics -- for competitive advantage. World-renown consultant, teacher and researcher Gerard Egan identifies five shadow side work behaviors, and details specifics for mining the economic value of each.

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A Loyola University of Chicago professor of organization development and psychology, Egan argues persuasively that an organization's "hidden culture" can add to its value. The shadow side of the institution--the unspoken, unacknowledged, behind-the-scenes stuff--is usually assumed to be negative and to get in the way of organizational efficiency and effectiveness. But managers who can develop a set of strategies and day-to-day skills for handling the shadow side can bring on positive change in today's fast-paced business environment. The author explains and gives advise on what goes on in the shadows and how to mine value from the shadow side, illustrating how managers who gain the skills necessary to deal with the hidden culture and hehind-the-scenes events can reduce the negative financial implications and turn shadow-side realities into competitive advantages. Highly recommended for all levels of managers in today's organizations; scholars, consultants, and advanced students of business and organizational studies will also find it useful.

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Hospitality Management Strategies

Author: Ronald Nykiel

An indispensable guide to understanding successful management
strategies in the hospitality industry!

Dr. Nykiel brings 30 years of hospitality industry experience that provides an understanding of managerial strategies and how they are successfully applied in the hospitality industry. This author provides an easy-to-read and extremely practical text. Students and experienced managers alike will find within this textbook a wealth of knowledge, which provides a strong foundation for managerial strategies and decision-making support. Features
• Covers all management strategy disciplines such as brand strategy, business development, finance, human resources, leadership, marketing, technology, and more
• Multiple case examples for each management discipline delineated Management strategy tools and applications
• Leadership examples and techniques
• Numerous easy-to-scan strategy exhibits
• Ethics and technology implication highlights in each chapter
• Extensive glossary and discussion questions
• Real-life examples and personal insights based on the author's own experiences

Table of Contents:

	List of cases
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Discover the supplements accompanying this book
	About the author
Pt. 1	Understanding strategy, forces, selection, and positioning	1
Ch. 1	Hospitality management strategies in perspective	3
Ch. 2	External and internal driving forces	15
Ch. 3	Strategy selecting and positioning	36
Pt. 2	The growth strategies of development, financial options, and brand strategy	51
Ch. 4	Business development strategies	53
Ch. 5	Financial strategies	81
Ch. 6	Brand strategy and management	103
Pt. 3	The offensive (revenue development) strategies of marketing, sales, and customer retention	121
Ch. 7	Marketing strategies	123
Ch. 8	Sales strategies	168
Ch. 9	Customer service and quality strategies	198
Pt. 4	The functional strategies of human resources, technology, and purchasing	237
Ch. 10	Human resource management strategies	239
Ch. 11	Technology management and applications	257
Ch. 12	Purchasing concepts	272
Pt. 5	The defensive (business preservation) strategies of risk management, crisis management, and communications	289
Ch. 13	Risk management	291
Ch. 14	Crisis management	309
Ch. 15	Communications and public relations	328
Pt. 6	The implementation of strategic planning, organizational and operational concepts, and leadership	349
Ch. 16	The strategic planning process	351
Ch. 17	Organizational and operational concepts	384
Ch. 18	Leadership profiles	407
	Glossary	439
	Bibliography	449
	Index	453