Industrial and Labour Market Policy and Performance or Managing Human Resources

Industrial and Labour Market Policy and Performance, Vol. 26

Author: Coffey and Thornley

Important themes in the content and practice of industrial and labor market policy are addressed in this book. Topics addressed include: the problems facing the manufacturing sector; skills, education and training; human resource management strategies; minimum wages and the impact of privatization and deregulation. Each of these discussions will be backed up with the findings of original research carried out by the authors. Of great interest to students and academics involved with labor economics, industrial economics and industrial relations, this comprehensive new study will also prove useful reading for those involved with policy making.

Book about: Business Marketing Management or Joyce Lain Kennedys Career Book

Managing Human Resources

Author: Luis R Gomez Mejia

The Managerial Perspective, a new introduction for every chapter, focuses on the managerial perspective and summarizes why the material is relevant to managers.

Managerial Skill Builder: Issues and Exercises, an end-of-chapter feature, presents a managerial situation relevant to each chapter topic and concludes with questions, issues, exercises, and group projects.

Manager's Notebook, located in every chapter, illustrates procedures, tips, and strategies you can really use in management.

You Manager It! Discussion Cases, found at the end of every chapter, focus on human resources issues from a manager's perspective and encourage you to think critically.

Technology and its influence on human resources information is addressed in every chapter.

Globalization and its effect on human resources practices is discussed throughout the book, and the authors address the unique human resources problems faced by multinational organizations.

The authors and Prentice Hall are committed to providing a unique learning and teaching package to accompany this third edition. New to this edition:

Skills Live! Videos offer dramatizations that highlight a human resources skill related to each part of the text. These videos allow students the opportunity to see what it's like to conduct an interview, give performance appraisals, deal with sexual harassment issues, and more.

PHLIP/CW Web Site provides full academic support for both professors and students. Instructors can find answers to current events and Web exercises, download ancillary materials, and more. For students, there is anon-line study guide, current events articles and exercises, Web exercises, and more.

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Consisting of 16 chapters, divided into six parts, this text provides an overview of emerging challenges in the strategic management of human resources (HR); the contexts in which HRM takes place; staffing issues; human resources development; compensation issues; and workplace governance and the employer-employee relationship. This edition (last, 1995) emphasizes practicalities, with new material in every chapter on concrete skills-building, as well as the results of new research, new graphics, and computer-based HRM simulations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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New edition of a text that illustrates the role and impact of technology on globalization, compensation, legal, safety, and health issues. G<'o>mez-Mej<'i>a and Robert L. Cardy (both of Arizona State U.) and David B. Balkin (U. of Colorado) discuss present and emerging strategic human resource challenges, the contexts of human resource management, staffing, employee development, compensation, and governance. The 17 chapters include features such as the managerial perspective, issues and exercises, procedures and tips, discussion cases, the influence of technology, and the effect of globalization. Contains many color illustrations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	Meeting present and emerging strategic human resource challenges	1
2	Managing work flows and conducting job analysis	44
3	Understanding equal opportunity and the legal environment	83
4	Managing diversity	118
5	Recruiting and selecting employees	146
6	Managing employee separations, downsizing, and outplacement	181
7	Appraising and managing performance	207
8	Training the workforce	238
9	Developing careers	272
10	Managing compensation	300
11	Rewarding performance	336
12	Designing and administering benefits	369
13	Developing employee relations	407
14	Respecting employee rights and managing discipline	437
15	Working with organized labor	471
16	Managing workplace safety and health	507
17	International HRM challenge	537

Proposal Writing Across the Disciplines or E Business with Net Commerce with CD ROM

Proposal Writing Across the Disciplines

Author: Brian R Holloway

Using real models and analyses of them, this guidebook examines business formats and teaches users how to construct written proposals for any field or situation. It surveys a variety of presentations but demonstrates the core aspects of proposal writing that recur in different disciplines and in documents of different sizes. Chapter topics cover basic types of proposal writing, proposals on campus, further lessons from proposals in the workplace, crafting the long proposal, and grant proposals. Numerous examples and suggestions can be found throughout the book. For anyone in the workplace confronted with the task of writing a proposal and who has had no training in doing so, and for those in volunteer organizations or in agencies promoting social development and seeking grant funding.

Table of Contents:

1. Lessons from Business: Basic Types of Proposal Writing.
2. Proposals on Campus.
3. Further Lessons from Proposals in the Workplace.
4. Crafting the Long Proposal: Some Examples.
5. Grant Proposals: Some Suggestions.
Appendix. A Review of Technical Writing.

Interesting book: Marchés financiers et monétaires :les Institutions Financières et les Instruments dans une Place du marché Globale

E-Business with Net Commerce with CD-ROM

Author: Samantha Shurety

From L.L. Bean to Motorola, hundreds of the world's leading companies are using IBM's Net.Commerce software to build winning Web commerce sites. Now, you can too -- and you'll be amazed how easy and affordable it can be. This book shows you how, step-by-step, from planning through deployment and ongoing management.Discover how e-business is changing the way companies do business, how to identify your best Web commerce opportunities, and how to capitalize on them. A great e-business tutorial and an invaluable Net.Commerce reference, this book shows how to: choose the right starting point for planning and developing your site; build your site and product catalog; establish reliable security; deliver up-to-the-minute pricing and product information; and more. Learn to use Net.Commerce 3.1's powerful customization capabilities to build a store that meets your exact requirements. Master the Net.Commerce Store Creator, Product Advisor, and other key features. In short, leverage all the remarkable power of Net.Commerce to build a site that achieves your goals--and delights your customers.Anyone interested in building or managing an E-commerce site with IBM Net.Commerce.

• Planning, implementation, security, and management.
• Customize your store to your precise needs.
• CD-ROM includes complete trial version of IBM Net.Commerce 3.1.1 for Windows NT-- plus extensive sample code!

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A book/CD-ROM showing how to set up and maintain an e-commerce Web site using Net.Commerce 3.1.1 on the Windows NT or AIX operating system. Coverage includes underlying concepts, populating the database, creating Web pages, and customizing the site. Each chapter contains step-by-step application workshops. The CD-ROM contains a trial version of software for creating and operating an e-business site, plus a tutorial that walks through the store-building process. Assumes experience in network and Web server administration. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Business Statistics for Quality and Productivity or Adaptability

Business Statistics for Quality and Productivity

Author: David M Levin

This book introduces the statistical theory and tools required in a quality management organizationas well as in a variety of business fields and functional areas. Covers the simple quality control tools (i.e., descriptive statistics, tables and charts, and control charts) and presents statistical tools in a managerial context. An entire chapter is devoted to quality management.

Table of Contents:

(Each chapter ends with the Lacey County Courier and Whitney Gourmet Cat Food Company Case.)

 1. Introduction and History of Quality and Productivity.

 2. Total Quality Management: The Process Approach to Management.

 3. Tables and Charts I.

 4. Tables and Charts II.

 5. Describing and Summarizing Data.

 6. Probability and Probability Distributions.

 7. Process Control Charts I: Basic Concepts and Attribute Control Charts.

 8. Process Control Charts II: Variables Control Charts.

 9. Regression and Correlation Models.

10. Time Series Forecasting.

11. The Design of Experiments.

12. Estimation Procedures for Enumerative Studies.

13. The Analysis of Differences.

14. Case Studies.

Appendix A: Review of Arithmetic and Algebra.

Appendix B: Summation Notation.

Appendix C: Statistical Tables.

Appendix D: Greek Alphabet.

Appendix E: Statistical Forms.

Appendix F: Data Bases.

Answers to Selected Problems.

Index.

New interesting textbook: Cases and Materials on Corporations Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies or American Made

Adaptability: Responding Effectively to Change

Author: Center for Creative Leadership

In today’s business world, the complexity and pace of change can be daunting. Adaptability has become recognized as a necessary skill for leaders to develop to be effective in this environment. Even so, leaders rarely know what they can do to become more adaptable and foster adaptability in others. This guidebook contributes to a greater understanding of adaptability and the cognitive, emotional, and dispositional flexibility it requires. Leaders will learn how to develop their adaptability and to become more effective for themselves, the people they lead, and their organizations.

Beating IT Risks or Private Sector Involvement in the EMU

Beating IT Risks

Author: Ernest Jordan

Beating IT Risks is the essential guide for anyone at risk from information technology failure. The book provides proven models and evaluation tools that will guide board members, senior management, IT leaders and business unit managers in decision-making, monitoring and negotiation roles. Featuring real-world PA Consulting Group case studies along with the authors' own direct experience in managing IT risks, this book will sit above more specialist titles to help you develop an integrated and comprehensive understanding of different IT risks and how to combat them. The authors cover all types of IT risk, and offer explicit guidance about what to consider when implementing a risk management approach to best meet an individual company's needs.

Go to: Princípios básicos de Finanças de Bens imóveis

Private Sector Involvement in the EMU: The Power of Ideas, Vol. 10

Author: Stefan Collignon

This fresh look at how the EMU came about, challenges a number of well-established intergration theories. It shows that European integration is not only the work of governments and supranational institutions but the result of more subtle processes involving the emerging European civil society. The model on the power of ideas suggested in this book is applied to the work and impact of the two NGOs but has explanatory power for the process of European integration which goes well beyond the limits of this empirical study. This book will interest students, researchers and policymakers with an interest in Europe and its monetary union.

Table of Contents:

	Illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
1	Introduction: public consensus and EMU	1
	Grasping actors beyond the state	5
	Research on EMU: state of the art	12
	Consensus and the construction of social reality	21
2	Foundations	30
	The origins of the Giscard-Schmidt Committee (CMUE)	30
	A joint Grand Strategy	37
	The Committee's ideas and activities	41
	The Association for the Monetary Union of Europe (AMUE)	53
3	A common or a single currency?	61
	Hopes and doubts about the Ecu	61
	Delors' ambivalence	66
	A strategy for the Ecu	77
	Interrogations	88
4	The crises and the Phoenix	94
	The Maastricht Treaty	94
	The European Monetary System in crisis	114
	Preparing the changeover	129
5	Campaigning for EMU	144
	The populist temptation	144
	German dissensus over EMU	159
	Convergence and dissent in Europe	170
	Mediating across the borders	182
	Epilogue	194
	Annexe 1: Introduction	199
Annexe 2	The crises and the Phoenix	205
Annexe 3	Campaigning for EMU	207
Annexe 4	List of interviewees	209
Annexe 5	List of expert groups	211
Annexe 6	List of former AMUE board members	215
	Notes	217
	Bibliography	242
	Name index	253
	Subject index	261

Public Policy and Economic Competition or Report Writing for Business

Public Policy and Economic Competition: Change and Continuity in Antimonopoly Policy, 1973-1995

Author: Michael L Beeman

Viewed historically as the lapdog of business, bureaucratic and political interests, Japan's Fair Trade Commission has had mixed success in promoting its agenda for stronger antimonopoly policy since the early 1970s. Dr Beeman unravels antimonopoly politics in Japan through an analysis of the diverse interests of industry, government, and other parties to reveal how and why antimonopoly policy has made important inroads yet ultimately failed to gain deep acceptance in Japan.
Employing extensive use of primary research materials and numerous interviews of key participants from government and industry, Dr Beeman finds predictable patterns of change and continuity in antimonopoly policy from the perspective of legal scholars or from the narrow context of Japan's key industrial sectors. The book provides a unique insight into an agency and a policy that has often been criticized within Japan as too stringent and from outside Japan as too lax.

Table of Contents:

	List of illustrations
	Series editor's preface
	Preface
	Notes on Japanese usage
	List of abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	The historical context	13
3	The Fair Trade Commission	26
4	Remodeling the cartel archipelago	40
5	Policy in the political arena: revision of the Antimonopoly Law	69
6	The problem of structurally depressed industries	96
7	Solidifying and expanding the policy base	113
8	Gaiatsu as a source of policy change	137
9	The response to collusion in the construction industry	158
10	Conclusion: Japanese antimonopoly politics	172
	Notes	178
	Index	213

See also: Contabilidad Avanzada

Report Writing for Business

Author:

Because learning communication is a prerequisite for success, this text applies the concept of writing and speaking to business communication. It integrates basic skills, intellectual inquiry and specific topics of communication applicable to the professional world. New material on using the techniques of writing, speaking, and interpersonal communication to make meetings more productive includes checklists to help prepare for and run meetings and a section on managing difficult personalities. Information databases are covered as new research tools, which can increase productivity, accuracy, and credibility.

Crisis and Innovation in Asian Technology or In the Barrios

Crisis and Innovation in Asian Technology

Author: Richard J Samuels

The economic crises in Asia at the turn of the millennium changed the innovation and business production systems of China, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Taiwan. This investigation follows several different industries, including semiconductors, automobiles, and hard disk drives. It explores the approaches that Asian nations have taken to building a strong technological and economic base for their respective industries from technonationalism to technoglobalism. It asks if the Asian economic miracle is over, or whether these countries are reinventing their economies.

Table of Contents:

	Figures and Tables
	Contributors
	Acknowledgments
1	Innovation and the Asian Economies	1
2	Japanese Production Networks in Asia: Extending the Status Quo	23
3	Crisis and Innovation in Japan: A New Future through Technoentrepreneurship?	57
4	Crisis, Reform, and National Innovation in South Korea	86
5	From National Champions to Global Partners: Crisis, Globalization, and the Korean Auto Industry	108
6	Crisis and Adaptation in Taiwan and South Korea: The Political Economy of Semiconductors	137
7	China in Search of a Workable Model: Technology Development in the New Millennium	160
8	Economic Crisis and Technological Trajectories: Hard Disk Drive Production in Southeast Asia	187
9	Continuity and Change in Asian Innovation	226
	Index	243

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In the Barrios: Latinos and the Underclass Debate

Author: Joan W Moor

The image of the "underclass" framed by persistent poverty, long-term joblessness, school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and drug use, has become synonymous with urban poverty. But does this image tell us enough about how the diverse minorities among the urban poor actually experience and cope with poverty? No, say the contributors to In the Barrios. Their portraits of eight Latino communities - in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Chicago, Albuquerque, Laredo, and Tucson - reveal a far more complex reality. In the Barrios responds directly to current debates on the origins of the "underclass" and depicts the cultural, demographic, and historical forces that have shaped poor Latino communities. These neighborhoods share many hardships, yet they manifest no "typical" form of poverty. Instead, each group adapts its own cultural and social resources to the difficult economic circumstances of American urban life. Mexican Americans in Tucson are among the poorest people in the country, yet bolstered by strong extended families and affordable local housing, many own their own homes. In a Puerto Rican neighborhood in Brooklyn, displaced workers are suffering severely, but they live side by side with working-class homeowners who are contributing substantially to the institutional viability of the community. In the Barrios challenges the image of isolation and decay that is so often portrayed in theories of urban poverty. The contributors explore the network of economic and emotional support that many Latino neighborhoods share across families and borders, strengthening their collective ability to cope. While underclass theories stress the loss of manufacturing jobs as a cause of persistent hardship, In the Barrios illustrates the importance of Latino employment in small community-serving businesses and in off-the-books enterprises such as street vending. New immigrants concentrate in definable areas, building a local economy that provides affordable amenities and at

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Responding directly to current debates on the origins of the "underclass," portraits of eight Latino communities--in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Chicago, Albuquerque, Laredo, and Tucson--depict the cultural, demographic, and historical forces that have shaped poor Latino communities. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Women in the Third World or Work and Pay in the United States and Japan

Women in the Third World: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues

Author: Nelly P Stromquist

Ideal for researching the status and activities of Third World women
For quick, reliable coverage of women's issues in developing countries, here is a concise reference work written by a team of more than 80 international experts. The Encyclopedia comprises 68 essays that cover the entire Third World, from Africa to Asia, from the Near East to South and Central America, from the South Pacific to the Caribbean. The women authors are acknowledged experts from Harvard University, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the University of Nairobi, the International Labor Organization, and other institutions, who summarize the most recent scholarship on a wide range of important subjects. Thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced, the Encyclopedia is an ideal starting point for in-depth research in such areas as:
recent developments in the prevention of violence against women * the conditions of women's lives across regions and countries * women's participation ingovernment, science, and technology * hidden curriculum issues in higher education * an overview of women's experiences as small-scale entrepreneurs

A feminist viewpoint enhances the coverage
Informed throughout by a feminist perspective, the Encyclopedia focuses on traditional women's concerns, such as political participation, human rights, nutrition, housework, the family, equality, health, and more. But the coverage also extends to such issues as domestic and sexual violence, creation of women-friendly cities, patriarchal ideologies as religious beliefs, the needs of older women, new jobs and exploitation in industrial production, AIDS, the genderconsequences of ecological devastation, movements for change, and other areas of increasing awareness. Geographical entries cover all the major regions and countries and discuss conditions and issues in each area.

Spotlights the newest and best sources
The Encyclopedia brings together information that has beenwidely scattered in sources from many disciplines. An introduction by the editor illuminates the most important issues faced by Third World women today and analyzes the drastically changed global situation and how the changes impacted on the material presented in the Encyclopedia.

Reference aids make information retrieval easy
An annotated bibliography of the latest and most important sources, as well as a reference list at the end of each chapter, provide quick access to current literature. A thorough name and subject index makes it easy to pinpoint information.

Special Features
Offers articles by recognized scholars and activists on gender and developmental issues * Presents a variety of perspectives by women from both industrialized and developing countries * Summarizes the literature of established disciplines, bringing together important material scattered in many sources * Identifies new areas for research affecting gender and development in emerging fields, suchas legal rights * Outlines strategies for action in such critical areas as ecology and urban issues * An annotated bibliography and list of references at end of each chapter make it easy to expand your research

Table of Contents:

Conceptual and Theoretical Issues * Political and Legal Contexts * Sex Role Ideologies * Demographics and Health * Marriage and the Family * Women and Production * Women and the Environment * Enabling Conditions for Change * Movements for Change * Geographical Entries * Annotated Bibliography

A sampling of the coverage

Violence Against Women * Women in Transition to Democracy * Refugee Women * Women and War * Machismo in Latin America * Childrearing Practices * Sex Segregation in the Labor Force * International Aid Agencies * Islam and Women's Roles * Factors Affecting Fertility * Women and Contraception * Women 's Control Over Their Bodies * Gender and Aging * Women's Labor Incomes * Women and Literacy * Informal and Nonformal Education * Women and Apartheid * Women in Anti-Clonial Movements * Women in Israel, Southern Africa, China, Cuba, India, and other countries. Index. Charts. Bibliography.

Book review: Color Management in Digital Photography or Using R for Introductory Statistics

Work and Pay in the United States and Japan: Employment and Pay Systems in Japan and the United States

Author: Clair Brown

In Work and Pay in the United States and Japan, authors Clair Brown, Yoshifumi Nakata, Michael Reich, and Lloyd Ulman provide an integrated and detailed analysis of the components of firm human resources systems in the US and Japan. Drawing on data obtained from fieldwork in comparable establishments in these two countries, as well as from national sources, this work examines the relationship between company practices and national economic institutions.

The authors address a number of key questions about employer-employee relations. How have major Japanese manufacturing companies been able to convert the assurance of "lifetime" employment security into a source of superior employee efficiency and adaptability, when job and income security have been feared as a source of "shirking" and wage inflation in the US? How have higher economic and real wage growth rates been associated with greater equality in earned income distribution in Japan, when the incentive role of income inequality to worker effort and savings has been stressed in the US? How could Japanese emphasis on employment security in the firm be reconciled with greater price stability and lower unemployment than in the US? This work analyzes elements such as employee training and involvement programs, wage behavior as an incentive system and an alternate channel of savings, and synchronous wage determination (shunto) at work in the Japanese economy that provide for such successes.

The book also explores the costs that have been associated with these Japanese accomplishments, as well as who must bear them. In particular, it examines how Japanese women compare less favorably with American women in termsof opportunities for work, pay, and promotion; the higher hours of working time for men in Japan than in the US; and the constraints on mobility for Japanese workers. It also poses the question of whether Japanese unions are weaker than their American counterparts, or just more sensible and far-sighted. Finally, this ork examines the outlook for these distinctive Japanese institutions and practices in a period of slower growth and economic "maturity."

Based on a research project carried out in both countries, the book concludes with the lessons that each country can learn much from the employment practices of the other. Work and Pay in the United States and Japan will be essential reading for students, professors, and all professionals involved with employment systems and employer-employee relations.

E Commerce Marketing or Management Mistakes and Successes

E-Commerce Marketing

Author: Brad Kleindl

E-Commerce Marketing prepares individuals to plan and market electronic products and services online. The text and multimedia components integrate coverage of all the basic functions of marketing as outlined in the National Marketing Education Standards. Explore electronically linked distribution systems, international e-commerce, e-tailing, digital media design, digital marketplace design strategies, marketing management, market research, online customer behavior, data mining and warehousing, online partnerships, and security/privacy issues. A dedicated web site will keep the content current.

Go to: Vendita

Management Mistakes and Successes

Author: Robert F Hartley

To know what works, understand what didn't!

Great business leaders don't manage to avoid mistakes. They manage to learn from them. Now, you can go out and make your own errors--and suffer the consequences--or you can read this book and painlessly glean the secrets of successful management strategy from the real-life missteps of some of the foremost corporations and business leaders.

In the Ninth Edition of this classic book, Robert Hartley takes you inside the trials and tribulations of top companies to examine the crises the managers faced, the decisions they made, and the results, both good and bad, of their actions. Out of these tales of reckless acquisitions, strategic bungles, lost opportunities, failed leadership, and entrepreneurial exuberance gone wild, Hartley hands you practical insights and strategic principles that will guide you down your own road to success.

Under the microscope, you'll find such instructive cases as:
* Quaker's acquisition of Snapple that was anything but sweet
* Euro Disney's bungling of a successful format
* Ford's crash-and-burn handling of the Explorer/Firestone fiasco
* Vanguard's success in taking the road less traveled
* Southwest Airlines' dubious challenge to "try to match our prices"
* Boeing's continuing battle for dominance with Airbus

Fully revised and updated, the Management Mistakes, Ninth Edition covers every key aspect of management--managing performance and crises; mergers and acquisitions; planning; leadership and execution; controls and oversight; and entrepreneurship. And for the first time, the book includes "Great Comebacks"--tales of companies and leaders who actually did learnfrom their mistakes, so you can too.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Managing change and crises	9
Ch. 2	McDonald's struggles with maturity	11
Ch. 3	Ill-handling the Firestone/Ford Explorer tire disaster	27
Ch. 4	Perrier - overresponding to a crisis	41
Ch. 5	Al Dunlap Savages Scott Paper and Sunbeam	53
Ch. 6	Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol scare : the classic masterpiece in crisis management	67
Pt. II	Risks in merger mania	79
Ch. 7	Snapple : overspending for an acquisition	81
Ch. 8	DaimlerChrysler : blatant misrepresentation	95
Ch. 9	Newell Rubbermaid : a sour acquisition	111
Ch. 10	Hewlett-Packard's merger with Compaq computer : a model of success?	123
Pt. III	Planning	137
Ch. 11	Euro Disney : bungling a successful format	139
Ch. 12	Coca Cola versus Pepsi : move and countermove	155
Ch. 13	Philip Morris (now Altria) changes an enduring strategy	173
Ch. 14	Vanguard : success in taking the road less traveled	189
Pt. IV	Executing	201
Ch. 15	Boeing loses industry dominance to airbus	203
Ch. 16	Harley Davidson : success through a mystique	221
Ch. 17	Continental Airlines : executing a recovery	235
Ch. 18	Dell computer : rising to dominate the PC market	247
Pt. V	Controlling	261
Ch. 19	United Way : where were the controls?	263
Ch. 20	Maytag : misplaced trust with a foreign subsidiary	277
Ch. 21	MetLife : deceptive sales tactics - condoned or poorly controlled?	291
Pt. VI	Entrepreneurial adventures	303
Ch. 22	Boston Beer - revisited	305
Ch. 23	OfficeMax : to the end	319
Ch. 24	What can be learned?	333

On the High Wire or Forestry Handbook

On the High Wire: How to Survive Being Promoted

Author: Robert W Gunn

You've just been promoted and find yourself questioning your ability to pull off the new job. Now what? Virtually every leader recalls that "make or break" promotion when success depends on accessing inner capacities that lie just beyond prior experience. Taking on new challenges and responsibilities as a manager can be one of the most exhilarating and rewarding transitions in a businessperson's career. It can also be fraught with stress, self-doubt, isolation, and frustration. Bob Gunn and Betsy Gullickson draw on decades of executive coaching and human resource consulting experience to characterize the process of management promotion as walking the high wire-venturing into the unknown without a safety net. In this highly accessible guide, Gunn and Gullickson address the challenges and opportunities head-on and offer specific strategies and tactics for navigating the transition into leadership, delegation, conflict management, motivation, project management, and problem solving. Featuring thought-provoking questions and a listing of helpful resources, On the High Wire will engage and inspire new managers to become even more creative and effective leaders.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface : authors' perspectives
	Introduction : stepping into the unknown	1
	First precept : masterful managers artfully balance doing and being
1	Grace in change	11
2	The productivity paradox	20
3	Creativity and strategy	30
4	Better decisions	41
5	Letting go to get ahead	49
	Second precept : strong connections begin with respect for separate thinking
6	Job one - setting the right tone	63
7	Sales and meetings	73
8	Teams - working as one	82
9	Managing conflict	92
10	Employee relations	100
	Third precept : the calmer you become, the more powerful you become - and the more you can achieve
11	Focus and clarity	109
12	The antidote to stress	117
13	Measuring up	127
14	Wellspring	135
	Afterword : why lead?	141

Interesting book: Culinary Secrets or Authentic Recipes of Thailand

Forestry Handbook

Author: Karl F Wenger

A revised and reorganized practical reference for the working field forester, incorporating the latest information and new, improved methods in such critical areas as U.S. forest law and policy, forest taxation, cost accounting and accomplishment reporting, pesticide and environmental aspects, safety, and public involvement procedures.

Construction of Authorship or Scientific Investment Analysis

Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature

Author: Martha Woodmanse

What is an author? What is a text? At a time when the definition of "text" is expanding and the technology whereby texts are produced and disseminated is changing at an explosive rate, the ways "authorship" is defined and rights conferred upon authors must be reconsidered. This volume argues that contemporary copyright law, rooted as it is in a nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of the author as a solitary creative genius, may be inapposite to the realities of cultural production. Drawing together distinguished scholars from literature, law, and the social sciences, the volume explores the social and cultural construction of authorship as a step toward redefining notions of authorship and copyright for today's world.

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An interdisciplinary investigation into western culture's ways of conceptualizing creative production, consisting of 21 essays presented at a meeting sponsored by the Society for Critical Exchange (date and location not noted) and published in Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal vol. 10, no 2 (no year noted). Among the wide range of topics are Helen Keller, unauthorized genders, authors' rights in England of the 16th and 17th centuries, international copyright, Spanish cinema, and teaching writing. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

New interesting textbook: Managerial Accounting or Intersubjectivity in Economics

Scientific Investment Analysis

Author: Austin Murphy

A state-of-the art treatment offering scientific procedures that require no special scientific expertise, Murphy's unusual new book provides a unified framework for the evaluation of investment assets and strategies--a particularly useful way to conduct security analysis, portfolio management, and trading, and for other general investment applications. Murphy covers practical methods for credit analysis and demonstrates ways to value equities using a pro forma model that integrates forecasting with the detailed use of financial statements and footnotes. He also explains international portfolio management within the context of a changed trading, tax, and regulatory environment. This is an important resource for investment analysts, researchers, advisers, and brokers, and an excellent text for students in certain advanced university courses.

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Murphy (finance, Oakland U., Michigan) sees a number of possible uses for his comprehensive treatment of analyzing investments: a reference for investment professionals, a review guide by which analysts can refresh their skills, and either a core or supplementary textbook for a graduate or upper-level undergraduate course in investments. Though he grounds all the material in scientific theory, he strongly emphasizes applied methods for evaluating investments. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Tables and Exhibits
	Preface
Pt. I	Introductory Portfolio Analysis	1
1	Introduction: Investment Goals and Opportunities	3
2	Diversification and Portfolio Theory	13
3	An Applied Theory of Portfolio Selection	32
Pt. II	Fundamental Analysis	47
4	Foundations of Investment Valuation	48
5	Fixed-Income Security Analysis: Introduction	80
6	Fundamental Analysis of Fixed-Income Securities	125
7	Analysis of Equity Investments: Introduction	158
8	Fundamental Analysis of Equity Investments	184
9	Fundamental Analysis of Real Asset Investments	203
10	Fundamental Analysis of Foreign Assets	214
Pt. III	A Fundamental Survey of the Existing Investment Opportunity Set	227
11	Spot Assets	228
12	Forward and Futures Contracts	265
13	Options	281
14	Investment Companies	300
Pt. IV	The Existing Market Environment	320
15	The Trading Environment	321
16	The Taxation Environment	366
17	The Regulatory and Ethical Environment	378
18	Market Efficiency and Investment Performance	392
Pt. V	Specific Portfolio Strategies	415
19	Arbitrage	416
20	The Theory and Practice of Technical Analysis	427
21	Hedging	445
22	A Summary of Portfolio Management Strategies	464
	Index	476

Environmental Economics or Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy

Environmental Economics

Author: Barry C Field

Barry Field's Environmental Economics, 3e, examines all the facets of the connection between environmental quality and the economic behavior of individuals and groups of people. The book contains 21 chapters covering Cost and Benefits of Environmental Policy, Environmental Analysis, Policy Analysis, US Policy (Air Pollution, Toxic Wastes, State and Local Issues), and International Environmental Issues. Barry Field's other text with McGraw-Hill/Irwin, Natural Resource Economics (©2001), may be packaged with Environmental Economics, 3e, at a discount.

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For readers with no background in the field, presents the major principles of economics in a commonsense but rigorous manner and provides some examples of how they have been applied to issues of environmental quality. The topics include analytical tools, environmental and policy analysis, and international issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Sect. 1	Introduction	1
1	What Is Environmental Economics?	3
2	The Economy and the Environment	23
Sect. 2	Analytical Tools	43
3	Benefits and Costs, Supply and Demand	45
4	Economic Efficiency and Markets	66
5	The Economics of Environmental Quality	86
Sect. 3	Environmental Analysis	111
6	Frameworks of Analysis	113
7	Benefit-Cost Analysis: Benefits	137
8	Benefit-Cost Analysis: Costs	160
Sect. 4	Environmental Policy Analysis	181
9	Criteria for Evaluating Environmental Policies	183
10	Decentralized Policies: Liability Laws, Property Rights, Voluntary Action	194
11	Command-and-Control Strategies: The Case of Standards	212
12	Incentive-Based Strategies: Emission Charges and Subsidies	233
13	Incentive-Based Strategies: Transferable Discharge Permits	257
Sect. 5	Environmental Policy in the United States	273
14	Federal Water Pollution-Control Policy	275
15	Federal Air Pollution-Control Policy	303
16	Federal Policy on Toxic and Hazardous Substances	332
17	State and Local Environmental Issues	363
Sect. 6	International Environmental Issues	389
18	Environmental Issues in Other Industrialized Countries	391
19	Economic Development and the Environment	412
20	The Global Environment	436
21	International Environmental Agreements	462
	App: Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in the Book	483
	Name Index	485
	Subject Index	493

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Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy

Author: Dean Baker

In Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy, thirty-six prominent economists analyze the impact of the emerging global economy on our national sovereignty and standards of living. Does globalization cause inequality? Instability? Unemployment? Environmenal degradation? Or is it an engine of prosperity and wealth for the vast majority of the world's citizens? The authors analyze problems, institutions and possible government responses, and conclude that globalization can be a force for good or ill depending on the degree of regulation that governments and citizens can exercise over its trajectory.

What People Are Saying

Dani Rodrik
Here is a book that will force you to reconsider much of what you think you know about policy in a globalized economy.

Machine at Work or Just a Housewife

Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organization

Author: Keith Grint

This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work. Firstly, it reviews and critically assesses a variety of recent approaches to the social and cultural dimensions of technology. Secondly, it examines the implications of these new approaches for existing ideas about the nature of technology and work organization.
At the core of much thinking about technology is the assumption that the technical character and capacity of artefacts is given. The enduring image of deus ex machina captures the idea that it is the essential capacity 'within' a technology which, in the end, accounts for the way we organize ourselves, our work and other life experiences. Recent work in the sociology of technology, by contrast, sets out relativist and constructivist accounts of technology, which begin to challenge this central assumption.
The Machine at Work includes a reinterpretation of the Luddites; a review of the social processes of development in information technology; a reassessment of theories of the role of technology in work; and an analysis of the common limitations of some constructivist and feminist perspectives on technology. The book argues that only a commitment to a particular conception of constructivism enables the kind of radical rethinking about technology and work relations that is needed.
This engaging and informative text will be of interest to students in a range of subject areas - from sociology, organizational theory and behaviour, to industrial relations, management and business studies.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: Deus ex Machina	1
1	Theories of Technology	6
2	The Luddites: Diablo ex Machina	39
3	Configuring the User: Inventing New Technologies	65
4	Some Failures of Nerve in Constructivist and Feminist Analyses of Technology	95
5	Technology and Work Organizations	116
6	What's Social about Being Shot?	140
	Notes	169
	References	176
	Index	195

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Just a Housewife: The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America

Author: Glenna Matthews

Housewives are a vast portion of humanity, yet they have received very little attention, let alone respect. Now Glenna Matthews, who spent many years as "just a housewife" before becoming a scholar of American history, sets out to redress this imbalance.
What she has found will surprise many readers: While there was always greater esteem for the male world of work, in the mid-nineteenth century, she maintains there was such widespread reverence for the home that housewives had considerable self-respect. The early stages of industrialization--the invention of the stove and the sewing machine, for example--made possible a craft tradition of cooking, baking and sewing that gave women great satisfaction and a place in the world. The home had an important religious role and was seen as the center of republican virtue. There was an intermingling of private and public spheres for both men and women, and marriage was generally companionate.
One hundred years later, even though women had new opportunities, most women were still occupying the role of housewife, yet much less esteem was attached to that role. On the basis of an examination of a vast array of sources, ranging from novels like Huckleberry Finn, Uncle Tom's Cabin and Main Street, as well as letters, popular magazines, and cookbooks, Matthews sets out to examine what women had, and what they have lost in modern times. She argues that the culture of profesionalism of the late nineteenth century and the culture of consumption that came to fruition in the 1920s combined to kill off the "cult of domesticity" and led to what Betty Friedan identified in Feminine Mystique as "the problem that has no name"--the emptinessand devaluation of many housewive's lives.
This is an important, challenging book that sheds new light on a central aspect of human experience, the essential task of providing for a society's nurture and daily maintenance.

Cuba after Castro or The Practical Student

Cuba after Castro: Legacies, Challenges, and Impediments

Author: Edward Gonzalez

Accompanies and supports the Cuba After Castros monograph report with more--detailed analyses of the political, social, demographic, and economic problems confronting Cuba.

New interesting book: La Gestion financière pour le Public, la Santé et Pas pour profit les Organisations

The Practical Student: Career-Oriented Success

Author: Carl Wahlstrom

Speaks directly to the needs and issues of proprietary, vocational-technical and career and certificate program students. The authors show students that by mastering the academic and personal skills needed to succeed in school-such as time and money management, memorization and how to deal with stress-that they are learning the skills needed for success in their careers, finances, relationships, health and other aspects of life.

Table of Contents:

1. Starting Up: Challenges & Rewards for the Practical Student. 2. Targeting Success: Why Are You Here? What Is Your Fear? 3. Time Management: How to Find Time to Handle Everything. 4. Learning & Lectures: Learning Styles & Note Taking. 5. Recall & Reading: Better Memorizing, Reading & Study Techniques. 6. Exams: Taking Tests with Confidence & Integrity. 7. Writing & Speaking: Making Powerful Written & Oral Presentations. 8. Thinking Smart: Critical, Creative, & Other Kinds of Thinking. 9. Information Technology: Using Computer & Communications Tools. 10. Personal Growth: Managing Stress, Conflict, & Money. 11. Career & Work: Vocational Direction, Job Hunting, Resumes, & Interviewing. 12. Resources: Assistance, Opportunity, & Diversity.

International Logistics or Introduction to Food Engineering

International Logistics

Author: Donald Wood

This unique volume fills a gap in the business literature by integrating cultural, functional and strategic aspects of global logistics. The authors combine diverse viewpoints to present a coherent perspective on contemporary global logistics from raw materials through production to the customer. Placing specific topics in logistics in the broader context of international trade and marketing issues, the authors, describe the diverse logistics functions in detail, including ocean, air and surface carriers and systems: international sourcing; and the roles of governments and intermediaries, giving the reader a solid foundation and ready reference of logistics information. They explore efficient approaches to financial aspects of logistics, such as terms of sale, payment, documentation and insurance, enabling the reader to minimize costs without compromising quality and speed. The authors demonstrate how to optimze international dealings by responding to cultural differences in the roles and personal relationships and written contracts in business; the application of local trade laws; and attitudes toward precision. This book also illustrates key points in action using numerous up-to-date examples and devotes a chapter to logistics of famine relief. Written in a readable style, this essential resource will assist executives, managers, engineers and technicians in implementing effective logistics strategies. It will also serve as an in-depth introduction to this increasingly important dimension of trade for engineering and business students.

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A textbook on the organized movement of goods, services, and sometimes people, that involves individuals or companies in more than one country. The focus is on private-sector transactions, though sometimes a government is a buying or selling party or both. Also discussed are the information, communications, control, and management mechanisms to manage a logistics system. No date is mentioned for the first edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Introduction to Food Engineering

Author:

Food engineering is a required class in food science programs, as outlined by the Institute for Food Technologists (IFT). The concepts and applications are also required for professionals in food processing and manufacturing to attain the highest standards of food safety and quality.

The third edition of this successful textbook succinctly presents the engineering concepts and unit operations used in food processing, in a unique blend of principles with applications. The authors use their many years of teaching to present food engineering concepts in a logical progression that covers the standard course curriculum. Each chapter describes the application of a particular principle followed by the quantitative relationships that define the related processes, solved examples, and problems to test understanding.

The subjects the authors have selected to illustrate engineering principles demonstrate the relationship of engineering to the chemistry, microbiology, nutrition and processing of foods. Topics incorporate both traditional and contemporary food processing operations.

J.Peter Clark

'Since publication of the first edition, the Singh and Heldman text has been the academic and industry standard.' said Ken Swartzel in his foreword. The third edition continues the tradition. ...the text pioneers integration through the internet with animated figures.

J. Peter Clark

'Since publication of the first edition, the Singh and Heldman text has been the academic and industry standard.' said Ken Swartzel in his foreword. The third edition continues the tradition. ...the text pioneers integration through the internet with animated figures.

Table of Contents:

	About the authors
	Foreword
	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction
Ch. 2	Fluid Flow in Food Processing
Ch. 3	Energy for Food Processing
Ch. 4	Heat Transfer in Food Processing
Ch. 5	Preservation Processes
Ch. 6	Refrigeration
Ch. 7	Food Freezing
Ch. 8	Evaporation
Ch. 9	Psychrometries
Ch. 10	Mass Transfer
Ch. 11	Membrane Separation
Ch. 12	Dehydration
App. A.1	SI System of Units and Conversion Factors
App. A.2	Physical Properties of Foods
App. A.3	Physical Properties of Nonfood Materials
App. A.4	Physical Properties of Water and Air
App. A.5	Psychrometric Charts
App. A.6	Pressure-Enthalpy Data
App. A.7	Symbols for Use in Drawing Food Engineering Process Equipment
	App. A.8: Miscellaneous
	Bibliography
	Index

Implementing Total Safety Management or Multinational Firms and the Theory of International Trade

Implementing Total Safety Management

Author: David L Goetsch

This book introduces the unique concept of Total Safety Management (TSM) for creating and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment. This can become a key element in an organization's formula for competitiveness. Using a step-by-step approach with examples and case studies throughout, the book provides a practical, how-to handbook that can be used as an annotated model for implementing TSM in any organization. It shows not only how organizations can create a work environment that is both safe and conducive to peak performance, but how a safe work environment becomes part of everybody's responsibility for creating and maintaining a strategy that will give an organization a sustainable competitive advantage. For anyone interested in Health & Safety Management, Occupational Safety, and Safety in the Workplace.

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Multinational Firms and the Theory of International Trade

Author: James R Markusen

Despite the great importance of multinational firms in international economics, theoretical and empirical research on these firms has generally been conducted separately from that on international trade. In this book, James Markusen provides a comprehensive integration of the two fields. Drawing on twenty years of research, he focuses on the interaction of scale economies, trade costs, factor endowments, and imperfect competition. He analyzes decisions about whether to build or acquire a foreign plant separately from decisions about where to raise the financing.

Markusen begins with the simplest possible partial equilibrium models and works systematically toward a full-fledged general equilibrium model with both horizontal and vertical foreign direct investment. He offers empirical tests of hypotheses derived from the theoretical models. The notation is unified throughout, distinctions between models are explained with thoroughly explained derivations, and numerous graphs support the analysis.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	Notation
I	Technology, Costs, and Market Structure	1
1	Statistics, Stylized Facts, and Basic Concepts	3
2	A Partial-Equilibrium, Single-Firm Model of Plant Location	21
3	International Duopoly with Endogenous Market Structures	39
4	Incumbency, Preemption, and Persistence	61
5	A General-Equilibrium Oligopoly Model of Horizontal Multinationals	77
6	A General-Equilibrium Monopolistic-Competition Model of Horizontal Multinationals	105
7	The Knowledge-Capital Model	127
8	Extensions to the Knowledge-Capital Model: Trade versus Affiliate Production, Factor-Price Effects, and Welfare Effects of Trade and Investment Liberalization	153
9	Traded Intermediate Inputs and Vertical Multinationals	189
II	Empirical Estimation and Testing	215
10	Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model	217
11	Production for Export versus Local Sale	241
12	Discriminating among Alternative Models of the Multinational	263
III	Internalization	285
13	A Reputation Model of Internalization	287
14	A Learning Model of Internalization, with Applications to Contract and Intellectual-Property-Rights Enforcement	307
15	An Asymmetric-Information Model of Internalization	323
	Technical Appendices	343
	Notes	409
	References	419
	Index	429

New Keynesian Economics Vol 1 or Economics

New Keynesian Economics - Vol. 1: Imperfect Competition and Sticky Prices

Author: N Gregory Mankiw

These two volumes bring together a set of important essays that represent a "new Keynesian" perspective in economics today. This recent work shows how the Keynesian approach to economic fluctuations can be supported by rigorous microeconomic models of economic behavior. The essays are grouped in seven parts that cover costly price adjustment, staggering of wages and prices, imperfect competition, coordination failures, and the markets for labor, credit, and goods. An overall introduction, brief introductions to each of the parts, and a bibliography of additional papers in the field round out this valuable collection.

Volume 1 focuses on how friction in price setting at the microeconomic level leads to nominal rigidity at the macroeconomic level, and on the macroeconomic consequences of imperfect competition, including aggregate demand externalities and multipliers. Volume 2 addresses recent research on non-Walrasian features of the labor, credit, and goods markets.

N. Gregory Mankiw is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. David Romer is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.

Contributors: George A Akerlof. Costas Azariadis. Laurence Ball. Ben S. Bernanke. Mark Bits. Olivier J. Blanchard. Alan S. Blinder. John Bryant. Andrew S. Caplin. Dennis W. Carlton. Stephen G. Cecchetti. Russell Cooper. Peter A. Diamond. Gary Fethke. Stanley Fischer. Robert E. Hall. Oliver Hart. Andrew John. Nobuhiro Kiyotaki. Alan B. Krueger. David M. Lilien. Ian M. McDonald. N. David Mankiw. Arthur M. Okun. Andres Policano. David Romer. Julio J. Rotemberg. Garth Saloner. Carl Shapiro. Andrei Shleifer. Robert M. Solow.Daniel F. Spulber. Joseph E. Stiglitz. Lawrence H. Summers. John Taylor. Andrew Weiss. Michael Woodford. Janet L. Yellen.

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Thirty-four important recent (previously published) essays cover costly price adjustment, staggering of wages and prices, imperfect competition, coordination failures, and the markets for labor, credit, and goods. Collectively they show how the Keynesian approach to economic fluctuations can be supported by rigorous microeconomic models of economic behavior. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

New interesting textbook: The New Cabbage Soup Diet or Finding Your Bipolar Muse

Economics: Principles and Tools

Author: Arthur OSullivan

This modern, Micro first book has a strong foundation in demand and supply. Its thoughtful coverage of change in demand vs. change in quantity demanded (also in supply coverage) enables readers to better visualize and truly understand the difference between these 2 fundamental concepts. Its hallmark feature includes a focus on the 5 Key Principles of Economics: 1) Opportunity Cost, 2) The Marginal Principle (comparing marginal benefits and marginal costs), 3) Diminishing Returns, 4) The Spillover Principle (for externalities in production and consumption), and, 5) The Reality Principle (distinguishing real from nominal magnitudes). For economists, financial analysts and other finance professionals.

Booknews

This textbook is designed for an introductory course in economics. It covers the principles of both microeconomics and macroeconomics. Other topics include the international economy, economic fluctuations, the economy in the long run, inflation, unemployment, and government deficits. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

Covering both microeconomics and macroeconomics, this textbook applies the principles of opportunity cost, marginal benefits, diminishing returns, spillover, and purchasing power to real-world experiences. The third edition adds material on developing policy issues such as electricity deregulation, welfare reform, video piracy in China, and the status of the federal budget. The CD-ROM contains 60 active graphs and seven videos of economic experiments. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Interviewing Principles and Practices or Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s

Interviewing Principles and Practices

Author: Charles J J Stewart

Interviewing: Principles and Practices,clearly the leading text in this field,emphasizes building interviewing skills for both interviewers and interviewees,while also including the latest research findings and developments. After learning the basics of interviewing (chapters 1-4),this text then delves into specific types of interviews. Role-Playing Cases,found throughout the text,have the dual benefit of teaching and illustrating points.

Interesting book: Hunting Security Bugs or Adobe Fireworks CS4 Classroom in a Book

Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s: Research Studies

Author: Thomas J Allen

One of the most pathbreaking and influential business books of the 1990s is The Corporation of the 1990s by Michael Scott Morton. Its expert view of how information technology would influence organizations and their ability to survive and prosper in the 1990s has become the benchmark of thinking about information technology. Now, in a supporting companion volume, Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s makes available the research on which The Corporation of the 1990s was based. The research was conducted at the Sloan School of Management at MIT by the Management in the 1990s program. The program was funded by a group of 12 industrial and government sponsors from the United States and Britain which included American Express, Digital Equipment Corporation, Eastman Kodak, British Petroleum, MCI Communications, General Motors, U.S. Army, ICL Ltd., Internal Revenue Service, Ernst & Young, BellSouth, and CIGNA Corporation.

Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s aims to disseminate ideas on how organizations can manage the impact of information technology, and also to raise issues and stimulate further thought by both academics and professionals. The book is divided into three sections which cover the information technology revolution, strategic options, and organization and management responses.

Table of Contents:

1	An Economic Study of the Information Technology Revolution	5
2	Corporate Reform in American Manufacturing and the Challenge to Economic Theory	43
3	Electronic Markets and Electronic Hierarchies	61
4	An Assessment of the Productivity Impact of Information Technologies	84
5	Determining User Needs for Novel Information-based Products and Services	111
6	Innovative Cultures and Organizations	125
7	Compatibility Standards and the Market for Telecommunications Services	149
8	Electronic Integration and Strategic Advantage: A Quasi-Experimental Study in the Insurance Industry	184
9	Strategic Alignment: A Model for Organizational Transformation via Information Technology	202
10	Dimensions of IS Planning and Design Aids: A Functional Model of CASE Technology	221
11	Information Technology and Work Organization	249
12	Joint Venture Formations and Stock Market Reactions: An Assessment in the Information Technology Sector	276
13	Profit Centers, Single-Source Suppliers, and Transaction Costs	298
14	The Role of the CEO in the Management of Change: The Case of Information Technology	325
15	How Expectations About Microcomputers Influence Their Organizational Consequences	346
16	End User Computing in the Internal Revenue Service	368
17	Computer-aided Monitoring: Its Influence on Employee Job Satisfaction and Turnover	388
18	Toward the Perfect Work Place? The Experience of Home-based Systems Developers	410
19	Building a Competitor Intelligence Organization: Adding Value in an Information Function	430
20	Information Technology in Marketing	454
21	The Influence of Communication Technologies on Organizational Structure: A Conceptual Model for Future Research	475
22	Technological Innovation and Employment in Telecommunications	484
23	Employment Security at DEC: Sustaining Values amid Environmental Change	499
	Contributors	519
	Index	522

Personal Portfolio Management or Analyzing Costs Procedures Processes and Outcomes in Human Services

Personal Portfolio Management: Fundamentals and Strategies

Author: George Trivoli

Noted financial advisor, lecturer, and columnist George Trivoli leads readers from basic investment concepts through more advanced topics in this concise, easy-to-read guide—the same book offered to clients by key brokerage houses such as Merrill Lynch and A.G. Edwards. It covers all the information readers need to begin or advance as knowledgeable investors. Examines the ten most common investment mistakes, and provides ten common-sense rules for successful investing. Provides a wealth of practical investment suggestions throughout, complemented by figures, illustrations, and examples to simplify concepts. Presents topics in succinct, manageable sections to give readers a quick reference to desired information. Gives readers access to the "Guide to Personal Investing" Web site, containing monthly updates on new and related topics covered in the text. Discusses key issues such as risk/return and diversification, the strategies and pitfalls of investing in mutual funds, and stock options and commodity futures. The perfect handbook for brokers and financial advisors, and for anyone interested in learning more about successful investing.

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Analyzing Costs, Procedures, Processes, and Outcomes in Human Services: An Introduction, Vol. 42

Author: Brian T Yates

Introducing techniques for performing cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost-benefits analysis (CBA) in mental health and other human services. Author Brian T. Yates shows CEA and CBA can be used for optimizing programs. Beginning with a description of a model for comprehensive assessment and improvement-oriented analysis of human service systems using CEA and CBA methods, Yates subsequently shows the reader how to analyze each of the links between the expenditure of resources and the achievement of long-term program objectives. Examples of each step in understanding and improving relationships among resources used, procedures, processes induced, and outcomes generated are drawn from Yates's research in residential and outpatient substance abuse programs, nonprofit mental health clinics, residential programs for dependent/neglected urban youth, suicide prevention, and self-management training. The examples are designed to encourage readers to explore the concepts and techniques by conducting their own quantitative and qualitative analyses of cost, procedure, process, and outcome paths in human services.

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Introduces techniques for performing cost-effective analysis (CEA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in mental health and other human services. Describes a model for analysis of human service systems using CEA and CBA methods, then shows how to analyze each of the links between the expenditure of resources and the achievement of program objectives, using numerous examples from research in substance abuse programs, nonprofit mental health clinics, and other programs. For professionals in human services. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	The Scientist-Manager-Practitioner and Cost - Procedure - Process - Outcome Analysis	1
2	Cost Assessment: Measuring the Value of Resources Used	23
3	Monitoring Procedures, Processes, and Procedure - Process Relationships	59
4	Evaluating Outcomes: Effectiveness and Benefits	83
5	Describing and Improving Cost - Procedure - Process - Outcome Relationships	107
	Epilogue: Keeping Down the Cost of CPPOA	137
	References	138
	Index	148
	About the Author	161

Sexual Exploitation or Retailing

Sexual Exploitation: Rape, Child Sexual Abuse, and Workplace Harassment, Vol. 155

Author: Diane E Russell

"In every field there are a few conceptual thinkers who are able to compile what is known about a subject in ways that advance us to the next level of knowledge. Diana Russell is such a scholar, and this book represents such a step. By presenting the findings from her own ground-breaking research on the prevalence of rape and child sexual abuse in the context of the major causative theories of our time, she has provided an unparalleled synthesis of the magnitude and causes of sexual exploitation. This book represents an eloquent diagnosis of an untreated societal disease of epidemic proportions." --Kee MacFarlane, Director, Child Sexual Abuse Diagnostic Center, Children's InstituteInternational, Los Angeles "The discussion . . . on the causes of child sexual abuse is the best I have seen. It is clear that this abuse is going to occupy considerably more attention than it has done previously. Russell's analysis should establish itself as an essential source for all who work in the area, or think about it." --Annual Survey of Family Law "Offers (along with an extensive review of the literature on all three forms of exploitation and a feminist critique of non-feminist work in the field) . . . a substantial and fascinating body of information about women's experience of rape and sexual abuse. . . . Well worth reading." --The Women's Review of Books "Challenges us to face the fact that this culture's notion of masculinity--particularly as it is applied to sexuality--predisposes men to violence, to rape, to sexual harassment, and to the sexual abuse of children. . . . Russell establishes sexual victimization as a unitary phenomenon with several interrelated manifestations that arelinked by their causal commonalities. This, in itself, is a new and important contribution to our understanding of the problem. However, Russell does not stop here. She uses this perspective to illuminate a primary causal factor that cuts to the core of sexual abuse--a factor that, as a society, we are reluctant to see--perhaps because its implications are too threatening to the current social order." --Response "A powerful statement on the truly epidemic proportions of rape and other forms of sexual exploitation." --Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, Professor of Sociology, Boston College "Diana E.H. Russell's superb analysis of empirical research on several forms of sexual exploitation is as insightful as it is comprehensive. Including the important new information from her own unparalleled study, Russell's critical synthesis doubles as a reference update and a stimulating yet balanced contribution to the debate on sexuality and violence." --Catharine A. MacKinnon, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Law School "An impressive reference book for students new to the subject area of sexual exploitation and its prevalence and incidence. . . . Diana Russell's book is important. It provides a basis from which I hope, others will start to analyze the links between sexual exploitation and patriarchal attitudes in our society. In the process, many of the myths surrounding sexual exploitation may be shattered once and for all." --Youth & Policy "Because of all the literature she has integrated, Russell's book is an invaluable resource. Her survey on sexual assault is the best that's been done. With this book, the impressive findings from that survey are finally available to the public and professionals. Russell convincingly shows that sexual exploitation occurs in mammoth proportions, and she presents the first hard data to answer dozens of questions that up until now have only been the subject of heated debate. This is a giant step forward in our accumulation of knowledge about rape, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment." --David Finkelhor, University of New Hampshire

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments15
	Introduction	19
Part I	Rape: Prevalence, Social and Psychological Characteristics
1.	The Incidence and Prevalence of Rape	29
	National Surveys of Reported and Unreported Rape	31
	The Russell San Francisco Survey	34
	Rape Incidence Rates Compared	41
	The Probability of Rape	48
	Is the Rape Rate Increasing in the United States?	52
	The Prevalence of Rape by Different Types of Perpetrators	57
	Conclusion: Rape as an Epidemic	62
2.	Male Rape and Female Rapists	67
	Male Rape by Females	67
	Male Rape in Prison	69
	Male Rape of Males Outside Prison	71
	Rape of Men by Homosexual Men	73
	Homophobic Violence Against Gays	76
	Rape of Women by Lesbians	76
3.	Social Characteristics of Rape Victims and Rapists	79
	The Victims of Rape	79
	The Rapists	88
	Reported and Unreported Rape Compared	96
4.	Psychological Characteristics of Rapists	103
	Paul Gebhard et al.'s Typology	103
	Richard Rada's Typology	105
	Nicholas Groth's Typology	106
	Diana Scully and Joseph Marolla's Typology	108
Part II	The Causes of Rape
5.	Factors Creating a Predisposition to Rape	111
	The Biological Capacity and Desire of Men to Rape	111
	Childhool Sexual Abuse Histories of Sexual Offenders	114
	Male Sex-Role Socialization	117
	Effects of Exposure to Pornography	123
	Effects of Exposure to Mass Media that Encourage Rape	132
	Rape as a Means of Social Control	134
6.	Factors Reducing Internal Inhibitions Against Rape	137
	Cultural Values that Encourage Rape	137
	Irresistible Impulse and Rape	145
	Psychopathology and Rape	146
	Alcohol Consumption and Rape	148
	Peer Pressure in Pair and Gang Rape	149
7.	Factors Reducing Social Inhibitions Against Rape	153
	The Power Disparity Between Men and Women	153
	Male Dominance Plus a Culture of Violence	155
	Ineffectiveness of the Institutions of Social Control	156
8.	Factors Reducing Potential Victim's Ability to Avoid Rape	161
	Socialization of Women as Victims	161
	Blaming the Victim: Victim-Precipitation Theories	164
	Women's Resistance to Rape Undermined by Fear of Murder	167
	Other Factors	167
Part III	Child Sexual Abuse: Prevalence and the Law
9.	Child Sexual Abuse and the Law	169
	Current Legal Statutes Concerning the Sexual Abuse of Children	169
	History of Legal Statutes	170
	Legal Statutes Concerning Incest	171
	The Russell Survey: Reported Cases of Child Sexual Abuse	172
10.	The Incidence and Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse	177
	The Incidence and Prevalence of Incest and Extrafamilial Sexual Abuse of Children	177
	The Russell San Francisco Survey	180
	Sexual Abuse of Boys	194
	Is Sexual Abuse of Girls Increasing in the United States?	198
11.	The Gender Gap Among Perpetrators of
	Child Sexual Abuse	215
	Coauthored with David Finkelhor
	The Evidence: Studies Based on Reported Cases	216
	The Evidence: Studies Based on Self-Reports	219
	Rationale for Questioning the Magnitude of the Gender Gap	223
	Theories to Explain the Low Rate of Sexual Abuse by Women	228
Part IV	The Causes of Child Sexual Abuse
12.	Factors Creating Sexual Feelings Toward Children	233
	Adults' Biological Desire to Relate Sexually to Children	234
	Male Sex-Role Socialization	237
	Childhood Sexual Trauma and/or Experiences of Sexual Abuse by Adults	239
	Childhood Sexual Experiences with Other Children	241
	Effects of Exposure to Child Pornography	242
13.	Factors Reducing Internal Inhibitions Against
	Child Sexual Abuse	245
	Internalization of Cultural Values Sanctioning Sex with Children	245
	Poor Impulse Control or Inability to Defer Gratification	253
	Disease or Psychopathology	254
	Alcohol Consumption	257
	Perpetrators' Self-Perception as Powerless	257
	Perpetrators' Frustration in Sexual Relations	258
	Role Confusion	259
14.	Factors Reducing Social Inhibitions Against
	Child Sexual Abuse	261
	Male Supremacy and the Power Disparity Between Adults and Children	261
	Mother Who Is Absent, Sick, Powerless	263
	Familial Crowding or Sleeping Together	264
	Opportunities to Be Alone Together	265
	Familial Social Isolation	265
	Factors Reducing Potential Victim's Ability to Avoid Child Sexual Abuse	266
Part V	Sexual Harassment
15.	Sexual Harassment in the Workplace	269
	The Incidence of Sexual Harassment	269
	The Causes of Sexual Harassment	273
16.	Conclusion	283
	References	291
	Author Index	305
	Subject Index	311
	About the Author	319

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This 5th edition of RETAILING, like much of retailing itself, has undergone significant changes from prior editions. In fact, given the influence of the Internet, the continuing growth of the service industry, and the many changes in the world's economic systems, there has never been a more exciting time to study retailing. As a result, every chapter of this edition includes up-to-date coverage on the latest trends and practices in the industry. Once again, the new edition contains the conversational writing style that this text has always had.