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It offers a thorough, applied, and concise introduction to the essential financial concepts and analytical tools that today's effective public servants need to know. Throughout the text, Kioko and Marlowe emphasize how financial information can and should inform every aspect of public sector strategy, from routine procurement decisions to budget preparation to program design to major new policy initiatives.

They draw upon dozens of real-world examples, cases, and applied problems to bring that relationship between information and strategy to life. Coverage includes basic principles of accounting and financial reporting, preparing and analyzing financial statements, cost analysis, and the process and politics of budget preparation.

Never before have strategic leaders been confronted with so much overwhelming change. The traditional approach is to teach the leader or leaders how to direct or control the organizations' reaction on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis. This approach is stressful and overwhelming for executive leaders, makes middle managers feel torn between honoring their senior leaders and listening to the demands of front line employees, and is alienating for front line employees.

Mayer, Warner, Siedel and Lieberman's Foundations of Business Law and the Legal Environment is an up-to-date textbook with comprehensive coverage of legal and regulatory issues for your introductory Legal Environment or Business Law course. This Virginia Tech course averages 14 sections with over students in Fall semesters. The textbook is an open educational resource, and may be customized and redistributed non-commercially with attribution. The globalization of the competitive landscape has forced companies to fundamentally rethink their strategies.

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Whereas once only a few industries such as oil could be labeled truly global, today many—from pharmaceuticals to aircraft to computers—have become global in scale and scope. As a consequence, creating a global competitive advantage has become a key strategic issue for many companies, and students need to possess an understanding of the impact of global strategies on a business.

The authors believe this free of charge book, Fundamentals of Infrastructure Management, will expand the impact of the material and help improve the practice of infrastructure management. We have provided problem assignments for various chapters, and we strongly urge readers to undertake the problems as a learning experience. This textbook provides an innovative, internationally oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility CSR and business ethics.

Drawing on case studies involving companies and countries around the world, the textbook explores the social, ethical, and business dynamics underlying CSR in such areas as global warming, genetically modified organisms GMO in food production, free trade and fair trade, anti-sweatshop and living-wage movements, organic foods and textiles, ethical marketing practices and codes, corporate speech and lobbying, and social enterprise.

The book is designed to encourage students and instructors to challenge their own assumptions and prejudices by stimulating a class debate based on each case study. Mayer, Warner, Siedel and Lieberman's Government Regulation and the Legal Environment of Business is an up-to-date textbook that covers legal issues that students must understand in today's highly regulated business environment. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style.

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The 3-Circle model was developed over the past several years, initially in strategic planning for auniversity graduate program and in an executive MBA course designed to integrate the concepts ofmarketing and competitive strategy. Over the course of time, the 3-Circle model has beensuccessfully used by hundreds of organizations throughout the world in establishing and growing their market positions.

Many of the case examples in this book demonstrating applications of the 3-Circle model applications are from executives who have attended executive education training at theUniversity of Notre Dame. The purpose of this book is to help boards of directors of nonprofit organizations improve their performance after completing the online board self-assessment tool found at www. However, it can also be used as a stand-alone resource for any board seeking to enhance its effectiveness in that it also contains the diagnostic questions on which the online tool is based.

Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, theirfamilies, and the communities they live in. This textbook provides workers with an introduction to effective injury prevention.

The book pays particular attention to how issues of precarious employment, gender, and ill health can be better handled in Canadian occupational health and safety OHS. This introduction to OHS differs from others because it contends that thepractice of occupational health and safety can only be properly understoodif we acknowledge that workers and employers have conflicting interests.

Specifically, we investigate which workplace hazards are recognized and controlled,the manner in which these hazards are controlled, and who makesthese decisions. These are all factors that reflect the broader political economyof employment and suggest that OHS is contested terrain.

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Human Relations by Laura Portolese-Dias addresses all of the critical topics to obtain career success as they relate to professional relationships. Human Resource Management teaches HRM strategies and theories that any manager—not just those in HR—needs to know about recruiting, selecting, training, and compensating people. International Business is one of the most challenging and exciting courses to teach in the Business School.

To teach a current, dynamic and complete course you need a textbook by authors as passionate and informed about International Business as you are. This book is designed as a foundational entry point to International Relations theory — structured to condense the most important information into the smallest space and present that information in an accessible manner. The first half of the book covers the theories that are most commonly taught in undergraduate programmes. The book then expands to present emerging approaches and offer wider perspectives.

Each chapter sets out the basics of a theory whilst also applying it to a real-world event or issue, creating a lively, readable and relevant guide that will help students to see not only what theories are — but why they matter. Through good economic times and bad, marketing remains the pivotal function in any business. Determining and satisfying the needs of customers through products that have value and accessibility and whose features are clearly communicated is the general purpose of any business.

It is also a fundamental definition of marketing. This text introduces students to the marketing strategies and tools that practitioners use to market their products.

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This textbook provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal acumen necessary for businesspeople to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials—and to their own lawyers.

Introduction to the Law of Property, Estate Planning and Insurance is an up-to-date textbook that covers legal issues that students must understand relating to real estate an especially important business asset , as well as estate planning and insurance. Introductory Business Statistics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the one-semester statistics course for business, economics, and related majors. Core statistical concepts and skills have been augmented with practical business examples, scenarios, and exercises.

The result is a meaningful understanding of the discipline, which will serve students in their business careers and real-world experiences. Tiemann's book, Introductory Business Statistics. This new edition still contains the basic ideas behind statistics, such as populations, samples, the difference between data and information, and sampling distributions as well as information on descriptive statistics and frequency distributions, normal and t-distributions, hypothesis testing, t-tests, f-tests, analysis of variance, non-parametric tests, and regression basics.

New topics include the chi-square test and categorical variables, null and alternative hypotheses for the test of independence, simple linear regression model, least squares method, coefficient of determination, confidence interval for the average of the dependent variable, and prediction interval for a specific value of the dependent variable. Law for Entrepreneurs is an up-to-date textbook that covers the broad spectrum of legal issues that entrepreneurs must understand when starting and running a business.

Law of Commercial Transactions is an up-to-date textbook that covers legal issues that students who engage in commercial transactions must understand. Organizations in the 21st century are in need of culturally intelligent managers and leaders. The pressure to build authentic global networks and to cultivate an appreciation and respect for cultural differences and similarities has driven cultural intelligence to the forefront of diversity and inclusion work. Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance is an up-to-date textbook that covers key legal issues relating to corporate management and finance.

Legal Aspects of Marketing and Sales is an up-to-date textbook that covers legal issues that students who will work in marketing or with marketing managers must understand. Teaching the strategic management course can be a challenge for many professors. Although students have taken these functional courses, many students have very little experience with major organizational choices.

It is this inexperience that can undermine many students' engagement in the course. Mastering Strategic Management is designed to enhance student engagement in three innovative ways. The first is through visual adaptations of the key content in the book. It is well documented that many of today's students are visual learners. To meet students' wants and needs and thereby create a much better teaching experience for professors , Mastering Strategic Management contains multiple graphic concept pages in ever section of every chapter of the book.

Think of graphic concept pages as almost like info-graphics for key concepts in each section. This feature sets Mastering Strategic Management apart from any strategic management book on the market today. The second way the authors capture student interest through their textbook is by using a real-world company as the running example in each chapter. For example, Chapter 1 in Mastering Strategic Management utilizes Blackberry to harness the conceptual coverage of the chapter in a running, corporate, application to which students will relate.

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Communication skills are essential for success in almost any role, but there are particular skills and techniques that you'll use more as a manager than you did as a regular worker. To meet students' wants and needs and thereby create a much better teaching experience for professors , Mastering Strategic Management contains multiple graphic concept pages in ever section of every chapter of the book. The book then expands to present emerging approaches and offer wider perspectives. Business Plan Development Guide Lee Swanson, University of Saskatchewan This textbook and its accompanying spreadsheet templates were designed with and for students wanting a practical and easy-to-follow guide for developing a business plan. Whereas once only a few industries such as oil could be labeled truly global, today many—from pharmaceuticals to aircraft to computers—have become global in scale and scope. By the Mind Tools Content Team.

Organizational Behavior bridges the gap between theory and practice with a distinct "experiential" approach. Principles of Management teaches management principles to tomorrow's business leaders by weaving three threads through every chapter: Principles of Marketing teaches the experience and process of actually doing marketing — not just the vocabulary.

It carries five dominant themes throughout in order to expose students to marketing in today's environment:. This book covers the basics of project management.

This includes the process of initiation, planning, execution, control and close out that all projects share. In a world that is becoming more virtual, more global, and more complex, the project manager's ability to function in this environment becomes critical to the success of the project. Project Management from Simple to Complex explores project management within this complex, virtual, and global environment. This book is intended for the Risk Management and Insurance course where Risk Management is emphasized.

Small Business Management in the 21st Century offers a unique perspective and set of capabilities for instructors. This book is suited for the Entrepreneurship or Innovation course with an emphasis on Sustainability or for a course devoted entirely to Sustainability. Ethics is about determining value; it's deciding what's worth doing and what doesn't matter so much.

Business ethics is the way we decide what kind of career to pursue, what choices we make on the job,which companies we want to work with, and what kind of economic world we want to live in and thenleave behind for those coming after. There are no perfect answers to these questions, but there's adifference between thinking them through and winging it.

Introduce the subject with a summary of your thinking, and then say where you need help. Also, as a manager, part of your job is to look after your team and protect it from unreasonable pressure. Another part of your job is to manage the way that your team interacts with other groups.

Then talk to these people to find out what they want from you, and what they can do to help you. However much you hope that you won't have to do it, there comes a time in most managers' careers when they have to discipline an employee. Discipline may be subtly different from basic feedback, because it doesn't always relate specifically to the employee's work.

You can give feedback on their phone manner, for example, but handling problems with timekeeping or personal grooming can need a different approach. Obvious breaches of the law or of company policy are easy to identify and deal with. But what of other situations? On one hand you don't want to seem petty. On the other hand, you can't let things go that should be dealt with.

Use these rules-of-thumb to decide whether you need to take action. If the answer to any is yes, then you need to arrange a time to speak to the employee in private. Does the issue affect the quality of the employee's deliverable to the client internal or external? A graphic designer regularly gets in to work late, although he stays late to make up for this. Customers are sometimes frustrated by not being able to get through to him at the start of the day, particularly when he's working on rush jobs. Individual designers tend to work on their own projects, with few meetings between design team members, so cohesiveness is not impacted.

However people are noticing his lack of punctuality, and other people's timekeeping is beginning to slip. The designer sitting next to the latecomer is unhappy that she has to field calls from clients before he reaches the office, and is unable to give a firm answer to the question "When will he be in? In this situation, the design team manager decides to speak to the latecomer because of the impact on his co-worker.

They agree that coming in to work late is not a problem he has a long commute, with heavy traffic en route but that he will commit to being in by 9.

He will work late to make up time, and will take on a task she doesn't like to make up for her extra phone handling. When you are faced with a potential discipline issue, take time to gather information about the situation, decide what you're going to do, and act. Discipline issues rarely go away of their own accord, and they usually get worse, often causing considerable resentment amongst other team members. Many of these points sound obvious, however it's incredibly easy to make these mistakes in the rush of everyday managerial life.

When you move from being a worker to a line manager, you need to develop a new set of skills, and make use of new tools and techniques. These will help you with the key management activities of organizing, motivating, developing and communicating with your team. Above all, learn how to delegate effectively. However, also learn how to motivate people, develop team members, communicate effectively with people inside and outside your team, and manage discipline effectively.

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