Author: Jack M. Nilles
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: managing, workforce, virtual, strategies, telework
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1998-08-31
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0471293164
ISBN-13: 9780471293163
In Managing Telework, Jack Nilles illustrates that telework is undeniably the corporate wave of the future on a global level. Telework, or telecommuting, a term coined originally by Nilles, means basically moving the work to the worker instead of the other way around. Although there are both risks and opportunities involved in managing a virtual workforce, the opportunities usually far outweigh the risks. As Nilles explains, the key to a successful virtual workforce is making the best use of those opportunities through proper planning and the development of an appropriate management style. Man
Authors:Barry Trebes, Bronwyn Mitchell,
Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing
Keywords: managing, change, book, reality, nec
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0727733958
ISBN-13: 9780727733955
Changing cultures, management practices and procedures is a key component of successfully implementing NEC contracts. This manual is aimed at helping users to manage the process more effectively.It covers: compensation events what are they, where to find a list, how to identify, quotations, assessment of quotations; implementation; schedule of cost components when they are used, how they interact with the payment clauses; actual cost; the fee; cost components; contract data part two; putting it all together; audits; working on multiple projects on the same site.
Author: Mike Hudson
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: managing, nonprofit, organizations, challenges, new, leading, edge
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-05-19
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 078797806X
ISBN-13: 9780787978068
In Managing at the Leading Edge, United Kingdom’s nonprofit expert Mike Hudson (a modern-day Alexis de Tocqueville) offers an outsider-looking-in guide to the management and governance of nonprofits in the United States. In this important book, he tackles three major questions: What are the leading-edge approaches to managing nonprofit organizations? What should managers and board members be doing differently to enhance the performance of their organizations? How can the impact of the nonprofit sector be significantly increased? Basing his interviews on face-to-face interviews with leading n
Author: Alison Hall
Publisher: Open University Press
Keywords: managing, practice, guides, universities, people, colleges
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $63.95
ISBN-10: 0335209939
ISBN-13: 9780335209934
The most important asset of any university or college is its staff, yet the majority of line managers in higher education institutions are not appointed on the basis of their experience of, or expertise in, managing people. This book is a practical guide to people management for these managers. With contributions from Professor Robin Middlehurst, Tom Kennie and Catherine Simm, Alison Hall guides readers through the employment cycle, from recruitment to parting company, addressing en route those issues that cause line managers to lose most sleep. Illustrated throughout with case studies a
Author: George F. Simons D.Min
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: managing, cultural, differences, difference, eurodiversity, guide, business
Number of Pages: 355
Published: 2002-09-03
List price: $63.95
ISBN-10: 0877193819
ISBN-13: 9780877193814
How has cultural diversity affected the business climate of the growing European Union? What are European institutions and enterprises doing to manage it? In ’EuroDiversity,’ Dr. Simons gathers issue-centered perspectives on how Europe’s entwined past, present, and future have made it the most strikingly diverse part of the world and what this means for doing business there. ’EuroDiversity’ provides:* Insights into Europe’s cultural challenges of globalization, diversity dilemmas, and opportunities* Case studies, best practices, and resources for finding the
Authors:Jack H. Grossman, J. Robert Parkinso,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: managing, yourself, others, transition, smooth, successful, manager, becoming
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-10-22
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0658014897
ISBN-13: 9780658014895
Becoming a Successful Manager provides hands-on exercises and advice to help neophyte managers make the difficult transition from managing only themselves to managing others. It shows new managers how to create a positive, productive environment, one that motivates and brings out the best in employees while providing maximum benefit to their employers.
Author: Prof. Richard N. L. Andrews
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: managing, policy, second, environmental, history, environment, ourselves, american
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2006-09-18
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 030011124X
ISBN-13: 9780300111248
In this book, Richard N. L. Andrews looks at American environmental policy over the past four hundred years, shows how it affects environmental issues and public policy decisions today, and poses the central policy challenges for the future. This second edition brings the book up to date through President George W. Bush’s first term and the current state of American environmental politics and policy.
