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This book successfully assimilates the wide variety of topics that make up this area including: the individual and the organisation, the organisation and its management and the design of organisations. It concentrates on principles and methods rather than on particular empirical studies or organisational techniques. New and expanded topics in this new edition include: research methodology, the impact of IT, Flexible structures and workforces. The author provides broad coverage of the subjects making it suitable for a wide variety of course syllabi in the business area.
International business is a wide-ranging subject which incorporates theories, concepts and practices from a large number of academic fields. Accordingly this book collects together into a single volume all the relevant essential topics, presenting them in a clear, concise and informative way. The second edition is enhanced with material on national images and their impact on customer behaviour, internationalisation and the Upsalla model, relocation decisions, international relationship marketing, networking, environmental policies of multinationals, SMEs and international business, regional corporate strategies, the Far East situation and EU enlargement .
This text seeks to present and explain the concepts, techniques, frameworks and methodologies of strategic management in a concise, straightforward way. It gives the reader all the essential information needed to identify central issues in strategic management and planning and hence be able to make up his or her own mind on the best approaches to strategic problems. The major amendment for the second edition is a new chapter on the (physical) environmental aspects of corporate strategy, incorporating sustainable development, legal constraints, EU and Third World influences, codes of practice, packaging and labelling, and other critical issues. Also, significant additions are made to pan-company marketing, strategic vision and thrust, contingency planning, management of service, strategic flexibility and fit, market-led change, theories of internationalisation, ethical dilemmas, downsizing, and relationship marketing. The planning and control material is placed into a wider contextual framework.
Now in its third edition, this successful introduction to management covers the subject in a concise, no-nonsense, comprehensive manner. The considered use of effective diagrams, cases and tests result in an efficient, clearly-structured, compact book ideal for quick learning. The author has significantly updated examples in this new edition to retain their relevance to students whilst integrating the latest thinking on the subject.
The term 'employee relations' describes all those aspects of personnel and human resources management that concern the regulation of management/worker relationships arising from collective agreements, collective employment behaviour and the operation of procedures for facilitating interactions between workers and their employing firms.
The second edition of this successful introduction to employee relations adopts a wide perspective - regarding the subject as an important facet of general management and not merely as a description of institutional rules.
The second edition of this successful introduction to employee relations adopts a wide perspective - regarding the subject as an important facet of general management and not merely as a description of institutional rules.
Written in a concise, clearly structured format, this new text encompasses all subject areas usually included in a European business course.
It includes exhaustive detail, accessibly presented, on EU laws and regulations; management systems and practices throughout Europe; Western Europe's business relationships with the rest of the world; the challenge posed to the E by East Europe and many other key topics. The author covers the subject in a concise no-nonsense manner and the considered use of effective diagrams, cases and tests results in an efficient, compact book ideal for quick learning.
It includes exhaustive detail, accessibly presented, on EU laws and regulations; management systems and practices throughout Europe; Western Europe's business relationships with the rest of the world; the challenge posed to the E by East Europe and many other key topics. The author covers the subject in a concise no-nonsense manner and the considered use of effective diagrams, cases and tests results in an efficient, compact book ideal for quick learning.