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Teams Unleashed: How to Release the Power and Human Potential of Work Teams
By Phillip Sandahl, Alexis Phillips. 2019
Teams Unleashed provides a systematic approach for coaching teams to sustainable high performance in organizations. The book describes the essential…
competencies and specific skills for coaching teams and provides exercises and activities for implementing them. Readers will find a research-based model and method with a carefully documented track record reinforced with practical tools to create an effective, collaborative team culture, transform team performance and reliably deliver results.(P) 2019 Hodder & Stoughton LtdArchitecture Principles: The Cornerstones of Enterprise Architecture (The Enterprise Engineering Series)
By Danny Greefhorst, Erik Proper. 2010
It can be argued that architecture principles form the cornerstone of any architecture The focus of this book is…
on the role of architecture principles It provides both a balanced perspective on architecture principles and is the first book on the topicMastering Collaboration in a Product Team: 70 Techniques to Help Teams Build Better Products
By Natasha Hampshire, Glaudia Califano, David Spinks. 2022
The nature of product development is changing. The most successful innovations are those that come from teams of people who…
are exploring problems together. Teams that build meaningful releases of their products iteratively and incrementally are opening the door for early feedback so that decisions can be taken to persevere or pivot based on evidence. But how do you make the most out of a team’s different perspectives, experiences and ideas? How can you instill a collaborative mindset in a product development team? How do you find out if your product idea actually has any value? How can you truly understand people’s needs? Mastering Collaboration in a Product Team is a toolbox of proven techniques from the field for the whole product team to use together to find answers to these questions and more. It is filled with practical tools to maximize your team’s chances of success when developing products and services, from identifying opportunities, to the point of being able to confidently go into production.What You'll LearnDefine people’s real problems and needsCollaboratively create innovative ideasValidate product/feature ideas quickly and cheaply as a teamExplore a lightweight introduction to the techniques of modern product developmentWho This Book Is ForProduct Owners, Product Managers, Business Analysts, Development Team Members, Designers, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches or anyone in a role responsible for designing, developing, or sustaining products or services, with the purpose of maximizing their value.Die als sog. „Direktabspaltung“ diskutierte Form der Abspaltung ist ein besonderer Fall der theoretischen Diskussion einer umwandlungsrechtlichen Gestaltung, die in…
der Praxis allerdings - so scheint es - tatsächlich nicht aufgegriffen wird. Mit dieser Gestaltungsidee sollen in Anwendung des Umwandlungsrechts Anteile der Muttergesellschaft an einer Tochtergesellschaft direkt und unmittelbar an die Gesellschafter der Muttergesellschaft ausgeschüttet werden. Soweit sich die Rechtsliteratur mit diesem Thema befasst, bejaht es die Zulässigkeit einer Direktabspaltung. Allerdings drängt sich die Frage auf, warum ein gemäß der theoretischen Rechtsdiskussion angeblich zulässiger Transaktionsweg tatsächlich dennoch gemieden wird, welche Unsicherheiten die Praxis von einer Verwendung abhält und ob eine Direktabspaltung bei genauer Betrachtung rechtlich wirklich zulässig ist. Diesen Fragen will die vorliegende Arbeit nachgehen, um die wahren Gründe für die praktische Zurückhaltung bei der Anwendung der Direktabspaltung zu erkennenStudying Human Resource Management: A Guide to the Study, Context and Practice of HR
By Stephen Taylor, Carol Woodhams. 2022
Studying Human Resource Management is an ideal textbook for anyone studying the CIPD Level 5 Associate Diploma in People Management.…
Fully updated throughout, this book provides thorough coverage of the study of HRM, managing and co-ordinating the HR function, organisational performance and culture in practice as well as business issues in the context of HR. Written by experts in the field with both academic and practitioner experience, Studying Human Resource Management includes invaluable discussion on professional behaviours for people professionals and guidance on how to manage HR data and information and most importantly, how to use it to make evidence-based decisions. There are also now two brand new chapters on diversity and inclusion (D&I) and wellbeing at work. Each chapter includes key learning outcomes to summarise the content that will be covered and to help students track their progress, reflective activities to consolidate learning and further reading suggestions to support wider engagement with areas of particular interest. This book also includes case studies to help students understand how the theory applies in practice. Online resources include Powerpoint slides, a lecturer guide and annotated web links.Coaching People through Organizational Change: Practical Tools to Support Employees through Business Transformation
By Sue Noble, Amy Tarrant. 2022
How can I coach employees effectively when business change is constant? What tools and techniques can I use both in-person…
and remotely? How can I reduce the stress caused by business transformation to boost productivity and wellbeing? Coaching People through Organizational Change is a practical guide for professional coaches and managers alike. It is specifically designed to support those coaching employees during uncertain times in a new world of work which is in a constant state of flux. It outlines what organizational change is, the different forms it can take and how to use evidenced-based coaching techniques to support the delivery of lasting business change. It will help those coaching to develop a greater understanding of how the brain makes decisions and adjusts to change and provides practical advice and guidance that can be used to deliver the most effective coaching intervention.Including over 20 tools and frameworks each supported by a suggestion for what type of organizational change the activity is best suited for, this is invaluable reading for anyone responsible for coaching and talent development whether as a professional coach or a line manager. Including country-agnostic advice that can be used with employees both in-person and remotely, this book will help to reduce stress and presenteeism and to boost productivity, performance, resilience and wellbeing.Marketing Metrics: Leverage Analytics and Data to Optimize Marketing Strategies
By Christina Inge. 2022
Stop feeling overwhelmed by data and start using it to its full potential, to create an agile and forward-looking strategy…
that enables customer-centric marketing, builds your brand and develops product strategies.Many brands talk about creating a marketing strategy powered by data, analytics and metrics. Yet too often they're still overwhelmed by data, or unsure of how to use it to create a flexible and future-focused strategy that doesn't just validate what's happened in the past. Marketing Metrics takes readers through all the stages of implementing a data-first strategy, from early-stage adoption to more advanced customization. Featuring examples from a range of organizations including Coca-Cola and Mercedes-Benz, it shows how to create a strategy which leverages consumer data for customer-centric marketing, establishes the ROI of channels and campaigns, strengthens brands and creates data-driven product strategies.Covering the range of new global laws that impact consumer privacy and data collection and usage, Marketing Metrics shows how to use data in a non-invasive, secure and ethical way. Also showing how to communicate critical data to the right stakeholders and the skills of the data-savvy marketer, this is a clear and jargon-free guide to creating a future-focused and data-powered marketing strategy.Organizational Planning and Analysis: Building the Capability to Secure Business Performance
By Rupert Morrison. 2022
What is the cost of employees today and what will this be in the future? This book explains how to…
take a data-driven approach to workforce planning and allow the business to reach its strategic goals.Organizational Planning and Analysis (OP&A) is a data-driven approach to workforce planning. It allows HR professionals, OD practitioners and business leaders to monitor an organization's activities and analyse business data to regularly adjust plans to ensure that the business succeeds. This book covers everything from how to build an OP&A function, the difference between strategic and operational workforce planning and how to manage demand and supply through to how to match people to new or changing roles and develop robust succession planning. Organizational Planning and Analysis also covers how OP&A works with HR operations including recruitment, L&D, reward and performance management and includes a chapter on new human capital analytics which allow a business to improve the return on investment for each of its employees. Full of practical advice and step by step guidance, this book is also supported by case studies from organizations including KPMG, Sainsbury's, WPP, Accenture, TSB, Johnson & Johnson, Aer Lingus and FedEx.Learning Ecosystems: Creating Innovative, Lean and Tech-driven Learning Strategies
By Katja Schipperheijn. 2022
Building and sustaining an organization which is nimble, adaptable, resilient and future proof is both complex and urgent. Only those…
with flexible and innovative Learnscapes will succeed.Learning Ecosystems explains how organizations evolve into LearnScapes where learning techniques are aligned with continuous interaction with the ecosystem they are part of. It explains how to upskill and reskill a workforce continuously in an increasingly collaborative and tech-enabled world. Full of practical guidance and strategic advice, this book covers how to take a lifelong approach to learning in the organization and the core competencies needed for this. It explains what to do when building a value and data-driven learning strategy and discusses the symbiosis of people and technology. This book explores lean learning, data analytics, learning technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and the ethics of using these technologies. There is also crucial guidance on how to take a human-centric approach to innovation. Learning Ecosystems demonstrates the value of continuous improvement and offers techniques for a variety of situations including problem analyses, experimentation and algorithmic business thinking. Most importantly, it provides guidance on how to build a learning culture and a learning ecosystem throughout the company. Supported by case studies from companies including Etihad Airways, ING, ESF and FEDEX, this is essential reading from a leading learning innovator who has helped global organizations to rethink their learning strategies to achieve sustained business growth.Blockchain and the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Practical Applications
By Nick Vyas, Aljosja Beije, Bhaskar Krishnamachari. 2022
Blockchain is a transformative driver for change in all industries. Learn from the latest research and case studies how this…
technology can and will be used to revolutionize supply chain management.Blockchain and the Supply Chain provides a complete overview of blockchain and the key benefits of integrating this technology into the supply chain. This textbook explains how track and trace can be improved, transaction efficiency increased, visibility enhanced, and more through blockchain. With extensive case studies, learning is underpinned by practical insights as well as cutting-edge research. Clear and accessible information is provided to students on how blockchain will affect supply chain processes, metrics and performance and how to capitalize on the potential of this technology.The fully revised new edition includes the latest information on Enterprise Blockchain, Ethereum and Hyperledger. Focus is also placed on the application of Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine learning (ML) and other technologies that support supply chains and their integration with blockchain. This textbook highlights how to use blockchain as an enabler and key driver for solutions in the end-to-end supply chain. Online resources include lecture slides and example assignments and quizzes.The Creative Thinking Handbook: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Problem Solving in Business
By Chris Griffiths, Melina Costi, Caragh Medlicott. 2022
Creativity directly impacts results and productivity, yet few of us understand how it happens or how to put it into…
practice. This book shows you not only how to get things done, but how to do them better and more creatively. The Creative Thinking Handbook provides the correct application for creative thinking and action, by offering clear, practical tools and strategies so that you can develop creative thinking skills and help find brilliant solutions for any professional challenge. Based on research and proven-to-work creative thinking models, Chris Griffiths and Melina Costi present a clear introduction to what creative thinking is, explain why we all need to do it and will help you generate ideas and make better decisions.The Creative Thinking Handbook gets you to think differently by thinking creatively.Human Resource Management: People and Organisations
By Stephen Taylor, Carol Woodhams. 2022
Human Resource Management: People and Organisations provides thorough coverage of key HR topics and their context to enable students to…
excel in their academic studies and begin a successful career as a people professional. Now fully updated for a third edition, Human Resource Management: People and Organisations covers everything from essential UK employment law and managing the employment relationship through to resourcing and workforce planning, employee engagement and reward management. There is also expert discussion on organisation design and development as well as advice on how to improve organisational performance. This edition now includes brand new chapters on people management in an international context, wellbeing at work and equity, diversity and inclusion This book is fully supported by a range of pedagogical features including learning outcomes to summarise the content that will be covered in each chapter and track progress, reflective activities to consolidate learning and further reading suggestions to aid wider engagement with areas of particular interest. Case studies throughout also help students understand how the theory applies in practice. It is ideal reading for anyone studying the CIPD Associate Diploma in People Management as well as those in the early stages of their career in HR.. Online resources include PowerPoint slides, a lecturer guide and annotated web links.Ergonomics in Fashion Design: A Laypersons' Approach (Design Science and Innovation)
By Prabir Mukhopadhyay. 2023
This volume discusses the relevance of different ergonomic principles in fashion, lifestyle, and accessory design. Written in a simple and…
concise language, the book makes the subject interesting to those unfamiliar with the technicalities in ergonomics. The contents provide a broad overview of the relevance of ergonomics in fashion design, and touches upon the systems aspects of ergonomics in fashion design. It also includes ergonomic issues like dimensions, adornment of different body parts, thermoregulation through clothing. The volume highlights the application of ergonomics in different domains of fashion (sports, medicine, etc) followed by ergonomic issues in fashion designing for elderly and the disabled. Ergonomic issues in fashion design for different context like crowded places, mass transportation etc are also discussed. This volume will be of interest to those in academia and industry alike.Making Your Voice Heard: How to own your space, access your inner power and become influential
By Connson Chou Locke. 2020
Why are some people more influential than others? What is it that makes people sit up and take notice? Making…
Your Voice Heard is a fresh take on how to successfully influence others, regardless of your gender or background. Drawing on the latest research in social psychology, Dr Connson Chou Locke will look at why we are prone to miscommunicate and how to overcome these barriers. This practical guide, based on her hugely popular Guardian Masterclass, will help you hone your personal style, and enhance your presence and influence with ease. Discover:*The latest insights on influencing people who have more power than you*Gender in the workplace: how to sidestep unconscious bias*Energy and body cues: what does your body communicate about you? *Tips on how to make an impact and be seen as a leader *How to make a strong first impression*Practical exercises to help you communicate with confidenceConnson Chou Locke is Professorial Lecturer in Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science where she teaches leadership, organizational behaviour, and negotiation. Connson Locke holds a PhD and MSc in Business Administration, with a specialty in organizational behaviour, from the University of California at Berkeley and a BA in Sociology from Harvard University. Her highly popular Guardian Masterclass 'Developing your presence, power and influence' regularly sells out. Her clients include Harvard Medical School, Orange Group, KPMG, and the United Nations System Staff College.Website: makingyourvoiceheard.com(p) 2020 Octopus Publishing GroupMetabolical: The truth about processed food and how it poisons people and the planet
By Dr Robert Lustig. 2021
It's not what you eat that's damaging your health it's how that food is 'made'. The truth behind ultra-processed food…
that the food industry doesn't want you to know.Did you know that 62% of the food in our supermarkets is not only processed but 'ultra-processed' (ingredients from other foods are combined to make something 'new', often in colours that do not exist in nature) and that data shows that by eating this kind of food over time we are literally slowly poisoning ourselves?In the hard-hitting, ground-breaking tradition of his NY Times bestseller FAT CHANCE, which revealed the dangers of sugar, Dr Robert Lustig persuasively presents a stark exposé of how our addiction to processed foods (aided and abetted by the food industry, big ag, big pharma, institutional medicine and the government) is behind the lethal increase in major non-communicable diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease, cancer and dementia. We have come to accept that these chronic diseases are simply part of the 'natural ageing process', but Dr Lustig makes the case that this is simply not true. The solution on both a personal and societal level is a return to unprocessed food and Dr Lustig offers a doable plan for us to heal and restore our own health and wellbeing with real food, and in the process boosting our immunity to viruses like Covid-19.(P) 2021 HarperCollins PublishersThe developments in our environment and society has made it clear that the way we run our businesses and govern…
our nations is not sustainable in the long run. This is also why more and more companies and organizations are pursuing sustainable business through various Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. However, many companies experience that although they facilitate a CSR strategy on corporate level, CSR is often not embedded in their business and/or integrated across their functions. If companies are to achieve the full business potential and performance impact of CSR, sustainability has to be operationalized, targeted and measured across the value chain through empowered employees and in alignment with the business strategy of the company. Though state-of-the-art CSR research, theories and models, the theoretical platform for sustainable business and CSR is presented in this book. However, CSR is carried out in practice, and not just in theory. This is why each chapter is supplemented with practical case examples explaining the way in which different companies and their managers have integrated sustainable business in their strategy and across the organizations’ different functions. As is evident both in theory and practice, the success of CSR integration is highly affected by industrial context, as the unique characteristics of the industry have an impact on the key sustainability challenges and business opportunities of the specific company and industry. In support of this evidence, the book also reveals how CSR can be implemented across private and public organizations as well as small & medium sized entities (SMEs).Strategic Human Resource Management at Tertiary Level (River Publishers Series In Innovation And Change In Education Ser.)
By M. D. Tiwari, Iti Tiwari, Seema Shah. 2022
In this book, we focus on HRM and how modern technology is helping in ensuring the effectiveness of HR functions.…
This would indicate that HRIS was viewed rather favorably as an administrative tool, but not a strategic one. This volume covers all these aspects.It is evident to all that climate change is happening - the results can be seen in many countries. Floods,…
freaks storms, wind speeds of more than 80 mph, heat waves, droughts, rising sea levels and disappearing glaciers, largely due to excessive use of fossil fuels.Climate change acceleration began slowly in the 1970s but has now increased beyond our ability to stop it or reduce its impact. Using renewable energy effectively on a large scale will put an end or considerably slow down this process in many parts of the world. This book shows that some countries are making greater efforts than others. Installations of the 70s and 80s were limited to kilowatts while in the 2010s we speak in terms of megawatts. The cost of most renewable energy systems have been reduced by so much that they have reached parity with fossil fuels, or are even cheaper. The most effective progress has been made in photovoltaic systems, whilst concentrated solar power, biomass, wind energy and hydro-power have greatly improved payback periods too.While much is hoped from the outcome of the December 2015 Paris climate summit, realistically in the past very few nations honoured their pledges. A great deal of aid has been given to poor countries which are suffering from climate change, however the donor nations have failed to restrict their own carbon emissions. Many poor countries feel they are being expected to forgo the industrial benefits which came from the industrial revolution powered by fossil fuels. The book will outline the achievements of renewable energy by the end of 2015 / beginning of 2016.Tourism Policy and Planning: Yesterday, Today, And Tomorrow
By Jason Swanson, Ginger Smith, Maria Allen, David Edgell. 2008
For many communities and countries throughout the world tourism is the most valuable industry Economic changes taking place in…
China India and the United States with almost 3 billion people half the world s population for example will have major impacts on the global tourism markets of tomorrow Social-cultural changes in Europe with borderless tourism crossings and a common currency are increasing opportunities for tourism growth East Asia and the Pacific Rim are experiencing unprecedented growth and change in tourism From the perspective of economic policy tourism for local communities is a vital economic development tool producing income creating jobs spawning new businesses spurring economic development promoting economic diversification developing new products and contributing to economic integration If local and national governments are committed to broad based tourism policies then tourism will provide its citizens with a higher quality of life while it generates sustained economic environmental and social benefits The wellspring to future growth for tourism throughout the world is a commitment toward good policy Governments the private sector and not-for-profit agencies must be the leaders in a sustainable tourism policy that transcends the economic benefits and embraces environmental and cultural interests as well Tourism Policy and Planning Yesterday Today and Tomorrow addresses key ingredients for positive tourism policies and planning that will lead this generation and the next toward a greater quality of life resulting from tourism growth The aim of this book is to provide government policy-makers at all levels business leaders not-for-profit executives university professors students tourism industry managers and the general public with an introduction and examination of important policy and planning issues in tourismSustainable Human Resource Management: Policies and Practices
By Carolina Machado. 2019
Sustainable Human Resource Management: Policies and Practices covers issues related to sustainable human resource management in a context where organizations…
are continually facing significant challenges related to the continuous change in the market, as well as in the environment. Organized in different chapters, the book includes contributions from renowned international researchers in the field of sustainability and organizations, and human resource management.Providing recent research advances on Sustainable Human Resource Management, it can be used in an undergraduate management and engineering course (for example, management, human resource management, industrial, manufacturing, economics, etc.), or as a subject on human resource management and industrial engineering at the postgraduate level. Also, this book can serve as a useful reference for academics, researchers, managers and manufacture and industrial engineers, as well as all professionals who work in fields related to management and human resource management, sustainability and industrial engineering.