Texas Real Estate Brokerage and Law of Agency or A Critique of Political Policy

Texas Real Estate Brokerage and Law of Agency

Author: Charles J Jacobus

Master agency relationships with TEXAS REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE AND LAW OF AGENCY! Through a straight-forward and step-by-step approach, this real estate text provides you with the up-to-date information that you need to succeed in this course and your career. Discussion questions, answers to most-asked questions, current forms, index of terms and major headings, and recent court cases are just a few of the tools found throughout the text that make learning easy.

Look this: Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval or The All New Atkins Advantage

A Critique of Political Policy, Vol. 1

Author: Karl Marx

Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of Late Capitalism, one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of Capital.

Macroeconomics or Nonprofit Strategic Positioning

Macroeconomics: An Integrated Approach

Author: Alan J Auerbach

This paperback edition is not available in the U.S. and Canada.

Many undergraduate texts treat macroeconomics as a set of distinct topics rather than as a unified body of theory and empirical findings. In contrast, this text by Alan Auerbach and Laurence Kotlikoff uses a single analytic framework--the two-period life-cycle model--to explore and connect each of the major issues in contemporary macroeconomics. The model describes the evolution of the economy over time in terms of the behavior of overlapping generations of individuals, each of whom lives for two periods: youth and old age. This versatile framework can encompass most macroeconomic schools of thought through the alteration of key assumptions. The use of one basic model also allows the authors to explore important topics not always addressed adequately in other texts; these include credit constraints, real business cycles, generational accounting, and international capital flows markets.

Written in a clear, accessible style, this shortened and simplified second edition provides a systematic way to interpret macroeconomic outcomes, to understand various policy proposals, and to appreciate how individuals and firms fit into the big picture.

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Nonprofit Strategic Positioning: Decide Where to Be, Plan What to Do

Author: Thomas A McLaughlin

Nonprofit Strategic Positioning: Decide Where to Be, Plan What to Do is the first nonprofit-oriented book to describe strategic positioning as an alternative to traditional strategic planning. Even in the nonprofit sector, strategic planning is becoming discredited as a formulaic, go-nowhere exercise. This book will take the reader on a stimulating journey through nonprofit strategy development and implementation. The book is timely because the nonprofit sector has reached a turning point where the need to be more business-like is undeniable, and the continuing retreat of the public sector has left even wider gaps in services that nonprofits will be asked to fill. Nonprofit Strategic Positioning: Decide Where to Be, Plan What to Do offers a fresh new way for nonprofits to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Table of Contents:

Sect. 1	Preplanning	1
Sect. 2	The logic of strategic positioning	7
Sect. 3	The formal points of control	17
Sect. 4	Prepare	39
Sect. 5	Scan your future	47
Sect. 6	Scan for internal strengths	101
Sect. 7	Decide where to be	141

Econometrics or Strategies for Business and Technical Writing

Econometrics: A Modern Introduction

Author: Michael Murray

Econometrics: A Modern Introduction conditions students to think like econometricians right from the start by opening with a unique Monte Carlo exercise, and connects econometrics to economic theory through a series of exemplary econometric analyses presented throughout the text.  Students learn to critically evaluate economic conclusions through the use of original data and compelling topics such as discrimination, demand for cocaine, capital punishment, and infant mortality. 

Table of Contents:

1	What is econometrics?	1
2	Choosing estimators : intuition and Monte Carlo methods	24
3	Linear estimators and the Gauss-Markov theorem	70
4	BLUE estimators for the slope and intercept of a straight line	119
5	Residuals	164
6	Multiple regression	212
7	Testing single hypotheses in regression models	267
8	Superfluous and omitted variables, multicollinearity, and binary variables	308
9	Testing multiple hypotheses
10	Heteroskedastic disturbances	385
11	Autoregressive disturbances	436
12	Large-sample properties of estimators : consistency and asymptotic efficiency	492
13	Instrumental variables estimation	535
14	Systems of equations	593
15	Randomized experiments and natural experiments	640
16	Analyzing panel data	678
17	Forecasting	716
18	Stochastically trending variables	753
19	Logit and probit models : truncated and censored samples	811
	Statistical appendix : a review of probability and statistics	849

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Strategies for Business and Technical Writing

Author: Harty

sHORT RETAIL DESCRIPTION: A must-have reference book for business and technical writers of any level, Strategies for Business and Technical Writing will help you plan, organize, create, and polish your writing. You know the ability to communicate effectively both in person and on paper will help you advance in your career—the selections in this book will help you write effective letters, reports, memos, resumes, and other professional documents. The new edition features helpful models, tips, and advice from top experts, including David V. Lewis, Making Your Correspondence Get Results, The Royal Bank of Canada, Letters That Sell, Vincent Vinci, Ten Report Writing Pitfalls: How to Avoid Them, and Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts, Ten Ways to Make Your Technical Documents Shout “Read Me!” Whether you are a student, or seasoned professional, this book will help you plan, create, and improve your business and technical writing.Readings, advice, and models from top experts to help writers improve their technical and business writing skills. Correspondence, ethics, proposals, email, reports, memos, letters, resumes, business writing, technical writing, business communication, technical communication.

Following the Money or Poverty and the Underclass

Following the Money: Corporate Disclosure in an Age of Globalization

Author: George J Benston

"A few years ago, Americans held out their systems of corporate governance and financial disclosure as models to be emulated by the rest of the world. But in late 2001 U.S. policymakers and corporate leaders found themselves facing the largest corporate accounting scandals in American history. The spectacular collapses of Enron and WorldCom - as well as the discovery of accounting irregularities at other large U.S. companies - seemed to call into question the efficacy of the entire system of corporate governance in the United States." "In response, Congress quickly enacted a comprehensive package of reform measures in what has come to be known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ followed by making fundamental changes to their listing requirements. The private sector acted as well. Accounting firms - watching in horror as one of their largest, Arthur Andersen, collapsed after a criminal conviction for document shredding - tightened their auditing procedures. Stock analysis and ratings agencies, hit hard by a series of disclosures about their failings, changed their practices as well." Using the Enron case as a point of departure, the authors argue that the major problem lies not in the accounting and auditing standards themselves, but in the system of enforcing those standards. Rather than attempting to craft a single set of accounting and reporting standards for all companies throughout the world, the authors advise policymakers to allow competition between the two major sets of standards: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and International Financial Reporting Standards.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
1	The Crisis in Corporate Disclosure	1
2	What's Wrong - and Right - with Corporate Accounting and Auditing in the United States	18
3	Fixing Corporate Disclosure	49
4	Disclosure Challenges Ahead	80
App	What Are the Major Differences between GAAP and IFRS, and Why Do They Matter?	95
	Notes	105
	Contributors	117
	Index	119

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Poverty and the Underclass: Changing Perceptions of the Poor in America

Author: William A A Kelso

An excellent introduction to the debate about poverty in America. He emphasizes how little we still know about this critical problem. Poverty in the land of plenty remains a mystery."
—Lawrence M. Mead, author of The New Politics of Poverty

A thoughtful analysis of one of America's most vexing social problems. Kelso eschews the platitudes of both left and right to examine the intractable nature of poverty and its diverse causes. He is especially insightful in his dissection of the role culture plays in poverty—and for the concern government should have for the character of its citizens."
—Linda Chavez, author of Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation

Kelso's book provides an excellent overview of poverty and the underclass in American society, along with perceptive observations about how contemporary views of the poor are changing."
—Kenrick S. Thompson, Professor of Sociology, Northern Michigan University

The much-heralded War on Poverty has failed. The number of children living in poverty is steadily on the rise and an increasingly destructive underclass brutalizes urban neighborhoods. America's patience with the poor seems to have run out: even cities that have traditionally been havens for the homeless are arresting, harassing, and expelling their street people.

In this timely work, William Kelso analyzes how the persistence of poverty has resulted in a reversal of liberal and conservative positions during the last thirty years. While liberals in the 1960s hoped to eliminate the causes of poverty, today they increasingly seem resigned to merely treating its effects. Theoriginal liberal objective of giving the poor a helping hand by promoting equal opportunity has given way to a new agenda of entitlements and equal results. In contrast, conservatives who once suggested that trying to eliminate poverty was futile, now seek ways to eradicate the actual causes of poverty.

Poverty and the Underclass suggests that the arguments of both the left and right are misguided and offers new explanations for the persistence of poverty. Looking beyond the codewords that have come to obscure the debate—underclass, family values, the culture of poverty,—Kelso emphasizes that poverty is not a monolithic condition, but a vast and multidimensional problem.

During his Presidential campaign, Bill Clinton called for an overhaul of the welfare system and spoke of a new covenant to unite both the left and right in developing a common agenda for fighting poverty. In this urgent, landmark work, William Kelso merges conservative, radical, and liberal ideals to suggest how the intractable problem of poverty may be solved at long last by implementing the principles of this new covenant.

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Kelso analyzes how the persistence of poverty has reversed liberal and conservative positions during the last 30 years, suggests that the arguments of both the left and the right are misguided, offers new explanations for the persistence of poverty, and merges conservative, radical, and liberal ideas to suggest how the problem of poverty may be solved. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Modern Political Economy and Latin America or Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations

Modern Political Economy and Latin America: Theory and Policy

Author: Jeff Frieden

Modern Political Economy and Latin America consists of 35 carefully selected readings about the relationship between politics and economics in Latin American. Jeffry Frieden, Manuel Pastor, Jr., and Michael Tomz have edited the readings, organized them thematically, and included a series of introductions to guide readers through the material. The editors identify the theoretical underpinnings of each article and highlight its contribution to ongoing debates. Latin American economies are undergoing profound transformations. In the wake of a decade-long debt crisis, countries through the region are embracing the free market and rebuilding democratic institutions. Nonetheless, significant obstacles to the consolidation of economic and political reform lie ahead. Modern political economy, informed by recent advances in economics and political science, provides powerful tools for analyzing the challenges and opportunities facing Latin America. This book offers an innovative and accessible guide to these new analytical tools.

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Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations

Author: Elwood F Holton III

Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations features contributions from leading experts in the field learning transfer, and offers the most current information, ideas, and theories on the topic and aptly illustrates how to put transfer systems into action. In this book, the authors move beyond explanation to intervention by contributing their most recent thinking on how best to intervene in organizational contexts to influence the transfer of learning. Written for chief learning officers, training and development practitioners, management development professionals, and human resource management practitioners, this important volume shows how to create systems that ensure employees are getting and retaining the information, skills, and knowledge necessary to accomplish tasks on the job.

Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations addresses learning transfer on both the individual and organizational level. This volume shows how to diagnose learning transfer systems, create a transfer-ready profile, and assess and place employees to maximize transfer. The book includes information on how to determine what process should be followed to design an organization-specific learning transfer system intervention. The authors focus on the actual learning process and show how to use front-end analysis to avoid transfer problems. In addition, they outline the issues associated with such popular work-based learning initiatives as action learning and communities of practice, and they also present applications on learning transfer within e-learning and team training contexts.

Supercharging Supply Chains or Core Concepts of Government and Not for Profit Accounting

Supercharging Supply Chains: New Ways to Increase Value Through Global Operational Excellence

Author: Christopher Gopal

New research and experiences are demonstrating that shareholder value is improved dramatically when companies reach higher levels of operational excellence. Supply chain management, when planned, designed, and executed effectively, is the key to achieving high levels of operating performance which, in turn, drives shareholder value.

The Ernst & Young Global Supply Chain Management Consulting Practice has assisted hundreds of well-known, multinational companies in minimizing their total costs, growing the business profitability, and achieving higher levels of customer satisfaction. Supercharging Supply Chains through speed, focus, and customer intensity enables smart companies to realize their visions and business strategies better than their competitors. Saving millions, increasing customer shares, and increasing "free cash flow" are kinds of benefits being reached by those select companies that operate high-performing supply chains in their global markets.

Now, for the first time, key partners and leaders of the firm's Global Supply Chain Management Team reveal their proven approaches and industry-leading experiences to help your business improve.

Beginning with an innovative view of supply chain excellence and its impact on shareholder value, Supercharging Supply Chains examines numerous management issues: why and how operational excellence helps companies sell more products; what new ideas are being implemented to achieve this excellence within the key business processes of Plan, Buy, Make, and Sell; how to introduce new products effectively into global supply chains; and how the best companies are making it happen.

SuperchargingSupply Chains cites case examples of such leading names as Procter & Gamble, 3M, Reebok, Dell Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Ford Motor, and several others to illustrate how the leaders benefit from these new ways of achieving value through operational excellence.

Insightfully written by leaders in global supply chain management, and featuring their innovative perspectives and unparalleled expertise, this book is essential reading for all business executives and managers who want to achieve operational excellence and global supply chain success.

"More than a treatise, Supercharging Supply Chains gives senior managers clear, strategic insights linking this much talked about subject to free cash flow and shareholder value goals. Well organized, the authors provide a strong, practical framework for understanding how cost, time, and speed are changing the way successful companies achieve operational excellence." - John W. Snow, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, CSX Corporation

"Supercharging Supply Chains is a book whose timing is right. In today's global markets competition is fierce, and the best companies are competing more and more through operational excellence." - Ken Watchmaker, Chief Financial Officer Reebok International, Ltd.

"Probably one of the largest untapped opportunities in business today . . . Supercharging Supply Chains is loaded with practical advice on how to drive added value through integrated demand/supply management. We will put it to good use!" - Ralph W. Drayer, Vice President Efficient Consumer Response, The Procter & Gamble Company

"With this book, readers get innovative and strategic perspectives for the global and regional management of the entire supply chain. At the same time, large cost reduction potentials are unlocked through supply chain management to improve your competitive position." - Hans-Dieter Panzer General Manager Logistics, Siemens

John W. Snow

More than a treatise, Supercharging Supply Chains gives senior managers clear, strategic insights linking this much talked about subject to free cash flow and shareholder value goals. Well organized, the authors provide a strong, practical framework for understanding how cost, time, and speed are changing the way successful companies achieve operational excellence.

Ken Watchmaker

Supercharging Supply Chains is a book whose timing is right. In today's global markets competition is fierce, and the best companies are competing more and more through operational excellence.

Ralph W. Drayer

Probably one of the largest untapped opportunities in business today . . . Supercharging Supply Chains is loaded with practical advice on how to drive added value through integrated demand/supply management. We will put it to good use!

Hans-Dieter Panzer

With this book, readers get innovative and strategic perspectives for the global and regional management of the entire supply chain. At the same time, large cost reduction potentials are unlocked through supply chain management to improve your competitive position.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Ch. 1	Shareholder Value: Is It the Business of Operations?	1
Ch. 2	The Business of Operations: Confronting the Issues	15
Ch. 3	Planning for Value: Synchronizing Demand and Supply	65
Ch. 4	Selling More: Winning the Customer with Operational Excellence	101
Ch. 5	Buying Smarter: Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Management	131
Ch. 6	The New Logistics: Moving Less ... Faster!	173
Ch. 7	Improving the Odds: New Product Introductions and the Supply Chain	209
Ch. 8	Making It Happen: The Value-Producing Supply Chain	233
App	Findings from a Study on Supply Chain Partnerships	243
	Index	265
	About the Authors	271

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Core Concepts of Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting

Author: Michael H Granof

Michael Granof and Penelope Wardlow's new text offers concise, accessible, and highly flexible coverage of the core concepts, practices, and principles of government and not-for-profit accounting.

Based on Granof's highly successful GOVERNMENT AND NOT-FOR-PROFIT ACCOUNTING,2/E, this new text identifies the key issues and unique features of government and not-for-profit accounting, and explores the reasons for current accounting standards, including the new financial reporting model for governments (GASB Statement No. 34). The text also explores related financial management issues, sets forth the strengths and limitations of financial reports, and discusses how financial statements may be interpreted and used by a variety of interested parties, such as future managers, bond analysts, and members of legislatures and governing boards.

FEATURES*Begins with a thorough exploration of the environment and objectives of government and not-for-profit organizations, how they differ from businesses, and how and why the environment and objectives affect the reporting and interpretation of accounting information.
*Discusses the reasons for and advantages and limitations of accounting standards throughout the text.
*Problems give students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with recording and reporting accounting information.
*Includes a full chapter on financial analysis for governments and not-for-profit organizations.
*Discusses the basic financial statements of Orlando, Florida, one of the first adopters of Statement NO.34. Orlando's financial report also is available on the internet.

Valuable Disconnects in Organizational Learning Systems or Strategic Management

Valuable Disconnects in Organizational Learning Systems: Integrating Bold Visions and Harsh Realities

Author: Kevin Ford

Valuable Disconnects in Organizational Learning Systems: Integrating Bold Visions and Harsh Realities offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how knowledge, skills and capabilities are developed in organizations--and how this process offers deep insights into the predictable barriers to success. Written in a clear, accessible style, it highlights the crucial part "disconnects" play in the learning cycle--a role that it is essential to understand in today's increasingly knowledge-driven work systems.

The conceptual framework of the text is grounded in scholarly research and detailed case studies that focus on an organization's front-line operating practices, the governance of training and learning activities, and ties to the strategic level. The book highlights six types of organizational learning--including learning that is incremental, experimental, continuous, synergistic, entrenched, and revolutionary--all of which have different implications for theory and practice.

The book is organized into three parts. Part I, Bold Visions, introduces the importance and great potential of systems for learning, training, and knowledge. Part II, Harsh Realities, takes a detailed look at the dynamics of "disconnects," "divergence," and "dilemmas" in the learning process.
Finally, Part III, Integration, highlights the interconnections between the Bold Visions and the Harsh Realities.

Valuable Disconnects in Organizational Learning Systems: Integrating Bold Visions and Harsh Realities is essential reading for organizational leaders at all levels and it is ideal for courses in industrial/organizational psychology, business, and public policy.

Table of Contents:

1	Pressure in the system	1
2	Building capability	21
3	The slipepry slope	39
4	Predictable disconnects	59
5	Enduring dilemmas	81
6	Divergent learning	104
7	Changing skill sets	124
8	Changing mindsets	148
9	Sustaining learning systems	171

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Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization

Author: Michael A Hitt

Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization, 6th edition provides the most accurate, relevant, and complete presentation of strategic management today. Authors Michael A. Hitt, R. Duane Ireland, and Robert E. Hoskisson thoroughly revised each chapter, weaving cutting-edge ideas, research, and modern practice to create a presentation that captures the dynamic nature of the field. The authors integrate the traditional industrial organizational model of strategic management with the more modern resource-based view of the firm to explain how firms use the strategic management process to build a sustained competitive advantage.

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This textbook for strategic management and business policy courses shows how organizations analyze competitive forces to develop competitive advantages systematically. In the second half of the book, 40 new full-length case studies from a variety of industries illustrate use of the strategic management process. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

Strategic Fund Development or Biotechnology in Industrial Waste Treatment and Bioremediation

Strategic Fund Development: Building Profitable Relationships That Last

Author: Simone Joyaux

Discover a unique new relationship strategy for successful fund raising and how to implement it using specific methods. Learn to conduct strategic planning, market to donors, develop a constituency and empower volunteers to be effective fund raisers. Charts, case studies, and expected results help guide the way. This is an essential book for anyone looking for a new, comprehensive approach to fund raising in nonprofit organizations.

Booknews

Directed at development officers and chief executives in not-for- profit organizations, this resource offers tools and techniques for building stronger organizations and raising more money. Chapters focus on relationships within an organization, between the organization and the community, with the constituents, and with the volunteers. This second edition also includes a chapter on fund development plans, and an expanded section on leadership. Joyaux is a consultant and a professor of philanthropy and development at St. Mary's University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Positioning Your Organization To Survive - The Four Relationships That Are Critical to Effective and Productive Fund Development	1
Ch. 2	The First Relationship - Within Your Organization: Creating the Infrastructure That Produces a Healthy Organization	13
Ch. 3	The Second Relationship - With Your Community: Ensuring Your Organization's Relevance through Strategic Planning	57
App. 3-A	Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity: Research Outline for the Strategic Planning Process	95
	App. 3-B: Sample Constituency Surveys	100
App. 3-C	New Century Plan: YMCA of Greater Providence	114
App. 3-D	Strategic Planning at the Lucy Robbins Welles Library, Newington, Connecticut	128
Ch. 4	The Third Relationship - With Your Constituents: Developing Connections So Constituents Are Ready To Be Asked	153
App. 4-A	Identifying the Predisposed for Your Organization	202
App. 4-B	Constituency Development Worksheets: How We Can Build Relationships That Support Our Organization	204
	App. 4-C: Prospect Worksheet	212
App. 4-D	Case Statement - Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket	217
App. 4-E	Case Statement - Children's Aid and Family Services	222
App. 4-F	Excerpt from Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket Fund Development Plan for Fiscal Year 1996	241
Ch. 5	The Fourth Relationship - With Your Volunteers: Enabling Them To Take Meaningful Action on Behalf of Your Organization	244
App. 5-A	Passionate Board Member Running Wild: A Real-Life Story with an Enabling Response	267
App. 5-B	Key Roles in Fund Development: Board, Board Member, Committee, Staff	270
App. 5-C	Assess Your Performance as an Enabler	272
Ch. 6	Creating the Most Effective Fund Development Plan for Your Organization	274
App. 6-A	Women's Foundation of Southern Arizona	285
App. 6-B	The Fund for Community Progress	297
App. 6-C	Tockwotton Home	303
App. 6-D	Children's Aid and Family Services Development Plan for Endowment and Annual Support	311
Ch. 7	In Conclusion	326
App. A	Components of Fund Development	327
App. B	Sample Questions for a Development Audit	329
App. C	A Donor Bill of Rights	335
App. D	NSFRE Code of Ethical Principles and Standards of Professional Practice	336
App. E	The Accountable Not-for-Profit Organization	338
App. F	Thoughts about Creating a Case for Support	339
	Selected Bibliography - To Help You Be a Better Fundraiser and Organizational Development Specialist	342
	Index	345
	About the Author	354

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Biotechnology in Industrial Waste Treatment and Bioremediation

Author: Hickey

Biotechnology in Industrial Waste Treatment and Bioremediationaddresses the increasingly important topic of waste treatment. Focusing on microbiological degradation of contaminants, it offers a representative picture of the current status of environmental biotechnology and lays a solid foundation of the methods and applications of bioremediation. The expert presentations of case studies in this new book demonstrate successful treatment schemes and technologies meeting regulatory standards. These case studies represent an international cross-section of strategies for developing and implementing the evolving technologies of bioremediation.

Biotechnology in Industrial Waste Treatment and Bioremediation examines the primary waste streams, including air, water, soils, and sediments, and explores specific treatment methodologies for industrial and environmental contaminants.

This broad and unique coverage allows treatment firms and regulatory authorities to determine and develop appropriate treatment strategies for site-specific problems of waste remediation. The observations and successful field applications compiled in Biotechnology in Industrial Waste Treatment and Bioremediation make it an excellent reference for understanding, evaluating, developing, and operating efficient and cost-effective full-scale treatment systems.

Management or Essentials of Accounting for Governmental and Not for Profit Organizations

Management

Author: Angelo Kinicki

Blending scholarship and imaginative writing, ASU business professor Kinicki (of Kreitner/Kinicki Organizational Behavior 7e) and writer Williams (of Williams/Sawyer Using Information Technology 7e) have created a highly readable introductory management text with a truly unique student-centered layout certain to be well received by today's visually oriented students. The authors present all basic management concepts and principles in "bite-size" chunks, 2- to 6-page sections to optimize student learning. The text emphasizes practicality of information presented and supports both the instructor and the students with a wealth of classroom-tested resources.

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Essentials of Accounting for Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizations

Author: Paul A Copley

Copley’s Essentials of Accounting for Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizations, 9e is best suited for those professors whose objective is to provide more concise coverage than what is available in larger texts. There is more comprehensive coverage of accounting for governmental and not-for-profit organizations than what is available in an advanced text but concise enough to be used effectively in a semester, quarter, or even a half term course focusing on just these areas. The main focus of this text is on the preparation of external financial statements which is a challenge among governmental reporting. This edition incorporates all of the FASB, GASB, GAO and AICPA pronouncements passed since the last edition.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction to accounting and financial reporting for governmental and not-for-profit organizations	1
Ch. 2	Overview of financial reporting for state and local governments	25
Ch. 3	Budgetary accounting for the general and special revenue funds	68
Ch. 4	Accounting for the general and special revenue funds	94
Ch. 5	Accounting for other governmental fund types : capital projects, debt service, and permanent	132
Ch. 6	Proprietary funds	165
Ch. 7	Fiduciary (trust) funds, interfund transactions	202
Ch. 8	Government-wide statements, fixed assets, long-term debt	237
Ch. 9	Accounting for special-purpose entities, including public colleges and universities	276
Ch. 10	Accounting for private not-for-profit organizations	310
Ch. 11	College and university accounting - private institutions	344
Ch. 12	Accounting for hospitals and other health care providers	372
Ch. 13	Auditing, tax-exempt organizations, and evaluating performance	399
	Glossary : governmental and not-for-profit accounting terminology	436

Conflict to Cooperation or Targeted Evaluation Process

Conflict to Cooperation: A Process for Mediating Group Differences

Author: Garry McDaniel

A Process for Mediating Group Differences Unproductive conflict is a significant barrier to organizational improvement and an impediment to positive relationships between individuals on and off the job. Conflict to Cooperation: A Process for Mediating Group Differences provides executives, managers, employees, and family members with practical, easily applied skills for turning everyday conflicts into opportunities for cooperation. Written by Dr. Garry McDaniel, the book is based 25 years of experience in Fortune 500 companies, government, nonprofits, and public school systems. Practical examples, exercises, and templates are provided that help readers learn:

Hidden costs of unproductive conflict on personal and organizational productivity

How to identify principles for guiding positive behavior

A process for mediating conflict on the job conflict Practical methods for analyzing and resolving real conflicts

How to apply this system in families, community groups, and other settings Managers will appreciate the simple, easily applied method for coaching employees to resolve their own conflicts. This is a 'must-read' book for any work team, department, or organization where conflicts are causing moderate or high levels of stress, frustration, and wasted productivity on the job.

Comments From Readers:

"Conflict to Cooperation provides readers with a sensible system for understanding how individuals and groups can work together to resolve conflict constructively."

Richard Bettis, President, Texas Hospital Association

"Finally, a practical process that provides managers with the tools they need to coach employees to resolve their own conflicts!"

BettyOtter-Nickerson, CEO, GallerWatch.Com

"If Conflict is undermining your performance, and it probably is, this book will help. It provides ideas, tools, and guidelines for creating a system that turns conflict into opportunities to enhance performance."

Dr. Michael Beyerlein, Director for the Center for the Study of Work Teams

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Targeted Evaluation Process: A Performance Consultant's Guide to Asking the Right Questions and Getting the Results You Trust

Author: Wendy L Combs

Manage training evaluation with an organized and systematic approach to build flexible interventions, determine whether performance interventions achieved goals, and how-to partner with stakeholders throughout the process. Included are practical tools, templates, and sample questions.

Microsoft Office XP or Blackwell Cases in Human Resource and Change Management

Microsoft Office XP: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Enhanced

Author: Gary B Shelly

Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, this text offers a clear screen-by-screen, step-by-step approach to learning the fundamentals of Microsoft Office XP.

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Blackwell Cases in Human Resource and Change Management

Author: John Storey

Containing 26 entirely new cases from a wide range of countries, Blackwell Cases in Human Resource and Change Management vividly captures the crucial contemporary issues and trends in HR and strategic change management.
Drawing on in-depth research by leading authorities in the field, each case, accompanied by analyses and lists of further readings, offers real life illustrations of modern theory and practice and includes pertinent discussion questions for students.
In addition to all of the 'core' areas of resourcing, developing, IR, and equal opportunities, there is also coverage of process engineering, mergers and acquisitions, ways of limiting the need for redundancies and insight into how managers can learn to enact strategic change.
Blackwell Cases in Human Resource and Change Management is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students of HRM and change management.

Table of Contents:

	List of Contributors
	Preface and Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Global Products and Quality Caterers: Acquisitions: managing to motivate and the construction of new psychological contracts	15
2	BMW: Using the scenario analysis technique for HRM policy construction at BMW	31
3	Transitions and Transformations: Four case studies in business-focused change	43
4	ChocCo: Plant managers developing HR strategies in an uncertain organizational climate	73
5	Oticon: Thinking the unthinkable: radical (and successful) organizational change	78
6	Volkswagen: Cutting labour costs without redundancies	86
7	The Danish Patent Office: How and why OD interventions can fail	100
8	Saarland Steel: Restructuring and managing redundancy	106
9	American Medical Technologies Inc.: Learning the capabilities needed to implement strategic change	124
10	Optus: New recruitment and selection in an enterprise culture	147
11	Manuflex plc: Introducing equal opportunities	160
12	Three Roads to Quality: Variations in total quality management	173
13	Next Patient Please: The operating theatres problem at Leicester General Hospital NHS Trust	190
14	The Ministry of Education: Action learning based management development	206
15	British Rail: Lessons in absence control	216
16	LeisureCo: Customer service, employee involvement and the Flexible Firm	228
17	Royal Mail: A new industrial relations framework	238
18	COCO, CECO and DECO: Managing HR in the non-union firm	241
19	Metropol: Devolving management and equal opportunities in local government	260
20	Richer Sounds: Payment for customer service	266
21	Unilever: Flexible working: introducing annualized hours and 24-hour working	275
22	Superco: Employee involvement in food retailing	281
23	FMS at Diesel Engines plc: The flexible manufacturing system	299
24	ABB: Local presence and cross-border learning within a multinational	320
25	Indian Snacks: Change and continuity	344
26	Food and Drink International: International staffing: policy and practice	356
	Index	365

The Guidebook for Performance Improvement or Breakthrough Performance

The Guidebook for Performance Improvement: Working with Individuals and Organizations

Author: Roger Ed Kaufman

The ultimate resource for improvement and planning! This treasure trove of information gives you expert direction for helping your organization and its employees improve performance. Unlike most resources on organizational improvement that consider only the micro- (individual) and macro- (organization) levels, this guide incorporates the mega- (customer/client) level in planning success.

Among the many leading contributors to this volume are:
• Dale M. Brethower
• Diane Dormant
• Judith Hale
• Roger Kaufman
• Danny G. Langdon
• Bette Madson
• Ann W. Parkman
• Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan
• Odin Westgaard
• Jack Zigon . . . and many more!

You'll learn vital performance improvement steps including:
• Defining objectives and ensuring that they are useful
• Determining what results to achieve
• Designing and implementing interventions, programs, and activities that will achieve results
• Planning appropriate evaluation efforts . . . and much more!

The Guidebook for Performance Improvement draws on all the current improvement approaches--quality, reengineering, job-task analysis, reward programs, and others--synthesizes those ideas, and offers you a wide range of success strategies to maximize workplace performance. A desk reference like no other, this book gives you cutting-edge tips and techniques for achieving organizational breakthroughs.Selected Contents:--The Origins and Critical Attributes of Human Performance Technology

Research and Development Origins of Performance Systems

Social Responsibility

--A Strategic-Planning Framework: Mega Planning

Preparing Performance Indicators and Objectives

Needs-Assessment Basics

Business-Unit Performance Analysis and Development

Organizational Mapping

Job-Task Analysis

--The Hierarchy of Interventions

Applications of Total Quality Concepts to Organizational Effectiveness

Developing Front-line Employees: A New Challenge for Achieving Organizational Effectiveness

Job Aids

Recruitment and Turnover

Accountability for Staff Turnover

Performance Management

Program Management: Its Relationship to the Project

Rewards and Performance Incentives

Developing Test and Assessment Items

Quality Management/Continuous Improvement

Performance Appraisal

Look this: What Is Six SIGMA or Essential Windows Communication Foundation

Breakthrough Performance: Accelerating the Transformation of Health Care Organizations

Author: Ellen Marszalek Gaucher

Transform your organization. Learn to inspire the critical shared sense of urgency that is key to effective and successful innovation with acclaimed quality management gurus Ellen Gaucher and Richard Coffey as your guides. Drawing on analysis of the most current research and highlighting instructive case examples, Gaucher and Coffey will show you how to enhance organizational readiness and stimulate innovation beyond evolutionary incremental upgrades to achieve revolutionary breakthrough-level improvement in organizational performance.

Peter S. Pruessing

This is a comprehensive overview of the concepts, applications, and literature of innovation with a wide variety of examples from enlightened contemporary industry. The authors state that they not only want to provide ""insights, approaches, and tools"" for leaders but actually want to stimulate ""big changes"" in personal and organizational performance for everyone who reads the book. This book suffers from an identity crisis -- or, perhaps more accurately, a crisis of ""voice,"" resulting from an attempt to speak to every audience. This undermines the utility the book would otherwise have for specific audiences. It claims to be written for organizational leaders and managers within healthcare (the primary audience); leaders and managers in other industries looking for ""practical knowledge"" to guide breakthroughs; and general readers who just want to know more about breakthrough change, including university students and employees interested in understanding and contributing to their organizations' successes. Unfortunately, it reads like a compendium for college students in a survey course, and as a result, the voice is actually rather pedestrian (which does the subject injustice) and fails to capture the excitement of breakthrough experience. This is all the more puzzling because the authors are successful and respected practitioners who are excited about their subject. This is a wide-ranging and useful discussion of breakthrough performance for those who want an overview with a lot of references, illustrations, and working examples. The references are current and demonstrate that the authors are sophisticated advocates who are in touch with their field. Ironically, the primaryaudience will find precious little here that is actually about healthcare -- even the one chapter with healthcare in the title is about general management principles not specific to healthcare or even illustrated with concrete healthcare examples. In short, this book summarizes contemporary thinking about organizational management, customer service, quality improvement, empowerment of employees, leadership, change management, ""value,"" etc. This is one of those books that makes a reviewer feel guilty. The authors are recognized experts who have assembled a substantial amount of information about an important topic, but it felt like every clichй in the book was being thrown at the reader, as were references and quotations seemingly intended to impress more than enlighten. I can imagine a serious student finding this helpful in getting grounded in these principles and their real life applications, but I can't imagine experienced leaders and managers in healthcare organizations finding much of this new or energizing or responsible for a personal epiphany. I wanted to like it more and to appreciate the service the authors were providing, but instead I found myself impatient and wishing for a breakthrough that didn't happen.

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Reviewer: Peter S. Pruessing (Medical College of Wisconsin)
Description: This is a comprehensive overview of the concepts, applications, and literature of innovation with a wide variety of examples from enlightened contemporary industry.
Purpose: The authors state that they not only want to provide "insights, approaches, and tools" for leaders but actually want to stimulate "big changes" in personal and organizational performance for everyone who reads the book.
Audience: This book suffers from an identity crisis:or, perhaps more accurately, a crisis of "voice," resulting from an attempt to speak to every audience. This undermines the utility the book would otherwise have for specific audiences. It claims to be written for organizational leaders and managers within healthcare (the primary audience); leaders and managers in other industries looking for "practical knowledge" to guide breakthroughs; and general readers who just want to know more about breakthrough change, including university students and employees interested in understanding and contributing to their organizations' successes. Unfortunately, it reads like a compendium for college students in a survey course, and as a result, the voice is actually rather pedestrian (which does the subject injustice) and fails to capture the excitement of breakthrough experience. This is all the more puzzling because the authors are successful and respected practitioners who are excited about their subject.
Features: This is a wide-ranging and useful discussion of breakthrough performance for those who want an overview with a lot of references, illustrations, and working examples. The references are current and demonstrate that the authors are sophisticated advocates who are in touch with their field. Ironically, the primary audience will find precious little here that is actually about healthcare:even the one chapter with healthcare in the title is about general management principles not specific to healthcare or even illustrated with concrete healthcare examples. In short, this book summarizes contemporary thinking about organizational management, customer service, quality improvement, empowerment of employees, leadership, change management, "value," etc.
Assessment: This is one of those books that makes a reviewer feel guilty. The authors are recognized experts who have assembled a substantial amount of information about an important topic, but it felt like every clichй in the book was being thrown at the reader, as were references and quotations seemingly intended to impress more than enlighten. I can imagine a serious student finding this helpful in getting grounded in these principles and their real life applications, but I can't imagine experienced leaders and managers in healthcare organizations finding much of this new or energizing or responsible for a personal epiphany. I wanted to like it more and to appreciate the service the authors were providing, but instead I found myself impatient and wishing for a breakthrough that didn't happen.

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Shows organizational leaders and managers in health care how to enhance organizational readiness and stimulate innovation to achieve breakthrough-level improvement in organizational performance. Provides tools to help organizations develop new products or services that have breakthroughs in performance, or provide products or services at substantially lower costs to customers. Gaucher is affiliated with Wellmark, Inc., Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa and South Dakota. Coffey is affiliated with the University of Michigan Health System. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rating

2 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

Tables, Figures, and Exhibits.
Preface.
The Authors.
Health Care's New Sense of Urgency.
The Relationship Between Business Excellence and Breakthrough Performance.
Creating a Climate for Breakthrough Performance.
The Characteristics of Breakthrough Performance.
How Health Care Leaders Create Breakthrough Performance.
Sharpening Your Customer Focus.
Aligning the Organization for Action.
Team Culture for Breakthrough Performance.
Involving the Individual.
Seven Indispensable Tools for Breakthrough.
The Baldrige Criteria: Your Secret Weapon.
Conclusion.
Appendix A. A CompAndium of Questions for Breakthrough.
Appendix B. Actions to Achieve Breakthrough.
References.
Index.

Markets in Vice Markets in Virtue or Applied Macroeconometrics

Markets in Vice, Markets in Virtue

Author: John Braithwait

This sweeping, comparative study of taxation in the United States and Australia shows that even as governments in the Western world have become increasingly sophisticated tax collectors, a competitive and ruthless market in advice on tax avoidance has developed. The same competitive forces in the late twentieth century which have driven down prices and sparked efficiencies in the production of fast food or computer parts have helped stimulate the markets for "bads" like tax shelters and problem gambling. Braithwaite draws the surprising conclusion that effective regulation could actually flip markets in vice to markets of virtue. Essential reading for anyone involved in policy, governance, and regulation, Markets in Vice, Markets in Virtue provides a blueprint for restoring the equity of Western tax systems and a breakthrough theory of how regulators can support markets in virtue and curtail markets in vice.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Competition policy and efficient vice	3
Ch. 2	Tax systems in crisis	16
Ch. 3	The Australian advice market	37
Ch. 4	Enforcement challenges	60
Ch. 5	Australian innovation in regulating aggressive tax planning	68
Ch. 6	The New York advice market	103
Ch. 7	International arbitrage	120
Ch. 8	IRS enforcement initiatives	127
Ch. 9	Comparing the drivers of and responses to aggressive tax planning in Australia and the US	137
Ch. 10	Reforming the law	144
Ch. 11	Meta risk management using natural systems	156
Ch. 12	Intelligent tax office culture	167
Ch. 13	Reforming enforcement strategy	177
Ch. 14	Flipping markets in vice to markets in virtue	197

Interesting book: Genealogy Online for Dummies with CDROM or Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe

Applied Macroeconometrics

Author: Carlo A Favero

Until the 1970s, there was a consensus in applied macroeconometrics, both regarding the theoretical foundation and the empirical specification of macroeconometric modelling, commonly known as the Cowles Commission approach. This is no longer the case: the Cowles Commission approach broke down in the 1970s, replaced by three prominent competing methods of empirical research: the LSE (London School of Economics) approach, the VAR approach, and the intertemporal optimization/Real Business Cycle approach. This book discusses and illustrates the empirical research strategy of these three alternative approaches by interpreting them as different proposals to solve problems observed in the Cowles Commission approach.

Becoming a Public Relations Writer or Race Gender and Leadership Reenvisioning Organizational Leadership From the Perspectives of African American Women Executives

Becoming a Public Relations Writer: A Writing Process Workbook for the Profession

Author: Ronald D Smith

Using no-nonsense language, realistic examples, easy-to-follow steps and practical exercises, this book guides students through various types of public relations writing. A focus on ethical and legal issues is woven throughout, with examples and exercises that deal with public relations as practiced by corporations, non-profit agencies, and other types of organizations large and small. In addition, the book addresses the most comprehensive list of public relations writing formats to be found anywhere--from old standbys like news releases to electronic mail and other opportunities in new technologies.

Laying the foundation for an integrated approach that touches on public relations advertising and direct mail, this second edition is divided into four parts. Part I deals with principles of effective writing useful in all disciplines. Part II focuses on news as the bridge an organization can build to its various publics. Part III takes you through a variety of writing formats and environments that provide an internal or controlled approach. Part IV is the wrap up that pulls together the various writing styles presented in this book as part of an integrated communication package.

Becoming a Public Relations Writer is a different kind of textbook for college and university students. It provides writing instruction for people preparing to enter the profession and guides students with models and step-by-step patterns designed to increase competence and build confidence in students on their way to becoming public relations writers.

Books about: A History of Everyday Things or An Introduction to Classical Econometric Theory

Race, Gender, and Leadership Reenvisioning Organizational Leadership From the Perspectives of African American Women Executives

Author: Patricia Parker

Much has been written about a model of leadership that emphasizes women's values and experiences, that is in some ways distinct from male models of leadership. This book redirects the focus to a view of leadership as a multicultural phenomenon that moves beyond dualistic notions of "masculine" and "feminine" leadership, and focuses more specifically on leadership as the management of meaning, including the meanings of the notion of "organizational leader."

This volume focuses on leadership "traditions" revealed in the history of Black women in America and exemplified in the leadership approaches of 15 African American women executives who came of age during the civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960's and 1970's and climbed to the top of major U.S. organizations. It advances a vision of organizational leadership that challenges traditional masculine and feminine notions of leadership development and practice, providing insights on organizational leadership in the era of post-industrialization and globalization. Additionally, by placing African American women at the center of analysis, this book provides insights into the ways in which race and gender structure key leadership processes in today's diverse and changing workplace. It is a must-read for scholars and researchers in organizational communication, management, leadership, African American studies, and related areas.

Procedures for the Automated Office or First Course In Business Statistics

Procedures for the Automated Office

Author: Sharon Burton

• Ensure success using basic office procedures,
• Enhance professional development, and
• Build greater confidence

Learn the skills that make every office worker a communication link—in person, over the telephone, via computer, and in writing:

• How to End Your Day Section: Prepare for practical functions of the workday.
• Online Information Services, Service Providers and Browsers: Make your job easier.
• Electronic Conferencing: Choose the right communication tool.

Enhance Your Skills

• Action Planning
• Surfing the Net
• Basic Skills Workshops
• Projects, Activities, and Applications

New interesting textbook: 101 Things To Do With Gelatin or Between the Lakes

First Course In Business Statistics

Author: James T McClav

Designed for readers with a background in basic algebra, this best-selling introduction to statistics for business and economics emphasizes inference—with extensive coverage of data collection and analysis as needed to evaluate the reported results of statistical studies and make good business decisions. It stresses the development of statistical thinking, the assessment of credibility and value of the inferences made from data—both by those who consume and those who produce them—and features numerous case studies, examples, and exercises—all drawing on real business situations and recent economic events. Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking. Methods for Describing Sets of Data. Probability. Random Variables and Probability Distributions. Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Estimation with Confidence Intervals. Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Tests of Hypothesis. Comparing Population Means. Comparing Population Proportions. Simple Linear Regression. Introduction to Multiple Regression. Basic Methods for Quality Improvement. For anyone interested in statistics for business and economics.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	What Is Statistics?	1
Ch. 2	Methods for Describing Sets of Data	21
Ch. 3	Probability	125
Ch. 4	Random Variables and Probability Distributions	179
Ch. 5	Sampling Distributions	257
Ch. 6	Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Estimation	291
Ch. 7	Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Tests of Hypotheses	327
Ch. 8	Comparing Two Population Means	385
Ch. 9	Comparing Population Proportions	447
Ch. 10	Regression Analysis	493
Ch. 11	Methods for Quality Improvement	607
	Appendix A: Basic Counting Rules	681
	Appendix B: Tables	685
	Appendix C: Demographic Data Set	715
	Appendix D: ASP Tutorial	719
	Answers to Exercises	725
	Index	739

Home and Work or The Nature of the Firm

Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic

Author: Jeanne Boydston

Over the course of a two hundred year period, women's domestic labor gradually lost its footing as a recognized aspect of economic life in America. The image of the colonial "goodwife," valued for her contribution to household prosperity, had been replaced by the image of a "dependent" and a "non-producer." This book is a history of housework in the United States prior to the Civil War. More particularly, it is a history of women's unpaid domestic labor in the context of the emergence of an industrialized society in the northern United States. Boydston argues that just as a capitalist economic order had first to teach that wages were the measure of a man's worth, it had at the same time, implicitly or explicitly, to teach that those who did not draw wages were dependent and not essential to the "real economy." Developing a striking account of the gender and labor systems that characterized industrializing America, Boydston explains how this effected the devaluation of women's unpaid labor.

Look this: Simplifying Sugar Flowers or Early American Herb Recipes

The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Development

Author: Oliver E Williamson

In 1937, Ronald H. Coase published "The Nature of the Firm," a classic paper that raised fundamental questions about the concept of the firm in economic theory. Coase proposed that the comparative costs of organizing transactions through markets rather than within firms are the primary determinants of the size and scope of firms. Coase won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics for this work. This volume derives from a conference held in 1987 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Coase's classic article. The first chapter affords an overview of the volume. It is followed by a republication of the 1937 article, and by the three lectures Coase presented at the conference. These lectures provide a lively and informative history of the origins and development of his thought. Subsequent chapters explore a wide-range of theoretical and empirical issues that have arisen in the transaction cost economic tradition. They illustrate the power of the transaction cost approach to enhance understanding not only of business firms, but of problems of economic organization generally. In addition to Coase's work, contributors include Sherwin Rosen, Paul Joskow, Oliver Hart, Harold Demsetz, Scott Masten, Benjamin Klein, as well as the volume's editors, Oliver E. Williamson, and Sidney G. Winter. The Nature of the Firm includes Coase's acceptance speech for his Nobel Prize in Economics.

Strategic Compensation or Organizational Behavior

Strategic Compensation

Author: Joe Martocchio

This book is well suited to a variety of students, including undergraduate and master’s degree students studying compensation. Martocchio provides a framework for understanding strategic compensation that can be used by all business professionals and business majors.

Booknews

A text for undergraduate and graduate business students, including those in community colleges, addressing traditional aspects of compensation, such as job analysis and pay structure, as well as recent topics including knowledge-based pay and executive compensation. Contains sections on the context of compensation practice, bases for pay, designing compensation systems, employee benefits, and contemporary strategic compensation challenges. Includes chapter objectives, summaries, key terms, discussion questions, and exercises, with answers on a Web site. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Organizational Behavior: An Introduction to Your Life in Organizations

Author: Rae Andr

Key Benefit:  This text organizes the research of the field to show how it can be used to solve organizational problems, and provides many pedagogical supports for this problem-solving approach. 

Key Topics: The author examines cross-cultural relationships, global issues that impact businesses today, and the relevance of OB to future careers.

Market: For undergraduate and applied graduate courses in OB.

Table of Contents:

Individuals and Relationships

1.  Why Mastering Organizational Behavior Is Essential to Your Career

2.  Your Personality and Style

3.  Decision Making

4.  Fundamentals of Motivation

5.  Motivating Individuals in Their Jobs

6.  Health and Stress at Work

7.  Communication and Interpersonal Relationships

8.  Cross-Cultural Relationships

Groups and Networks

9.  Groups and Their Influence

10.  Improving Team Decision Making

11.  The Challenge of Leadership

12.  Leadership Roles and Skills

13.  Power and Influence

14.  Conflicts Good and Bad

Organizational Dynamics

15.  Designing Effective Organizations

16.  Organizational Structure as a Design Tool

17.  Organizational Culture

18.  Changing Organizations

Looking Ahead to Using OB in Your Career

19.  OB Is for Life

 

Consumer Health or Accounting for Hospitality Industry

Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions

Author: Stephen Barrett

The most comprehensive text in Consumer Health,this edition continues to provide a vast amount of information to enable consumers to choose health products and services intelligently. New texts now come packaged with Health and Human Performance PowerWeb!

Table of Contents:

Part I Dynamics of the Health Marketplace

1 Consumer Health Issues

2 Separating Fact from Fiction

3 Frauds and Quackery

4 Advertising and Other Promotional Activities

Part II Health-Care Approaches

5 Science-Based Health Care

6 Mental and Behavioral Help

7 Dental Care

8 The "CAM" Movement

9 Self-Care

10 Health-Care Facilities

Part III Nutrition and Fitness

11 Basic Nutrition Concepts

12 Nutrition Fads, Fallacies, and Scams

13 Weight Control

14 Fitness Concepts, Products, and Services

Part IV Major Health Problems

15 Cardiovascular Diseases

16 Cancer

17 HIV / AIDS

Part V Other Products and Services

18 Drug Products

19 Skin Care and Image Enhancement

20 Sexual and Reproductive Health

21 Health Devices

22 Coping with Death

Part VI Protection of the Consumer

23 Health Insurance

24 Health-Care Economics

25 Consumer Laws, Agencies, and Strategies

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Accounting for Hospitality Industry

Author: Elisa S Moncarz

Focusing on clear and detailed coverage of accounting principles and procedures geared to the hospitality environment of the new millennium, Accounting for the Hospitality Industry provides current and future hospitality managers with the skills needed to face future industry challenges. With their collective teaching experience of close to five decades, Professors Moncarz and Portocarrero equip hospitality management students with accounting knowledge and expertise that will be essential for success in the hospitality industry of the 21st century.

Special features of this text that facilitate the learning process include:

• Organized into three sections — each of which may be taught independently
• The "why" and "how" of accounting concepts and procedures emphasized throughout
• An innovative approach that emphasizes the importance of matching expenses against revenues to help understand the process of adjusting entries
• Full recognition, where appropriate, of current pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and other accounting authorities
• A brief explanation of Canadian payroll taxes
• A chart of accounts based on a slight simplification of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry
• A complete set of financial statements for Outback Steakhouse
• A Companion Website that offers students the framework for solving exercises and problems in Excel spreadsheet format

Using a simple, logical flow of information, it is designed not only to teach accounting and accounting procedures but more importantly, to make students aware of the usefulness ofaccounting to hospitality industry managers.

Furniture Marketing or Communication and Organizational Crisis

Furniture Marketing: From Product Development to Distribution

Author: Richard R Bennington

Furniture Marketing, 2nd Edition, contains an overview of how furniture products are developed, marketed, and presented to targeted retailers and consumers. Bennington focuses on developing an appreciation for furniture as a functional art form. This new edition covers the entire industry, including types of furniture, design periods, product development, and manufacturing. The text also explains how to sell furniture through pricing, promotion, and distribution. Residential furniture is the main focus of Furniture Marketing, but there is a chapter on contract furniture. This book can serve as a helpful reference for students as well as beginning and experienced employees of manufacturers, retailers, and wholesalers.

Table of Contents:

• Furniture Marketing—An Overview
• Upholstered Furniture
• Case Goods
• Other Residential Furniture Products
• Furniture Design
• Product Development
• The Furniture Manufacturing Process
• Marketing Through Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning
• Marketing Research and Information Systems
• The Ultimate Consumer Market
• Pricing Methods and Practices
• Personal Furniture Selling
• Advertising
• Sales Promotion and Public Relations
• Marketing Channels for Home Furnishings
• Furniture Retailing
• Furniture Wholesaling
• Wholesale Furniture Markets
• Physical Distribution and Inventory Management
• International Furniture Marketing
• Contract Furniture Marketing

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Communication and Organizational Crisis

Author: Matthew W Seeger

Taking a broad view of organizational crisis, the authors synthesize a rich and diverse body of theory, research, and practice and apply it to every kind of crisis imaginable, from oil spills to nuclear disasters, airplane crashes, shuttle explosions, and corporate implosions such as Enron.

Introduction to Paralegal Studies and the Law or Making Meetings Work

Introduction to Paralegal Studies and the Law: A Practical Approach

Author: Linda L Edwards

Introduction to Paralegal Studies is designed for students enrolled in paralegal/legal assisting programs in two-year or four-year college programs. Corporate law departments, law firms, legal clinics, public defender and prosecutor offices can also use it as a training resource for paralegals and legal assistants.

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Making Meetings Work: Achieving High Quality Group Decisions

Author: John E Tropman

"Finally, there is a book on meetings that offers concrete tools and techniques to improve the quality of group decision making. In the many executive seminars in which John E. Tropman has presented his research and his recommended approach to meetings, I am consistently impressed with the group's reaction--that these suggestions can really be applied! Alumni have experienced success with Tropman's 'agenda bell' for scheduling the flow of the meeting; elimination of 'reports by function'; and use of 'fraction rules' to organize and prepare for the meeting and structure it. Whether an organization is implementing a Total Quality initiative or an individual is seeking to improve the quality of decision making in meetings, Tropman's Making Meetings Work is a valuable resource and a welcome addition to the literature on meetings. --Deborah G. Corsini, The Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University "A very detailed and in-depth discussion of what makes meetings work well and what usually makes meetings a waste of time. What is particularly helpful is that the author equally addresses pre and post meeting work, an area which managers may often neglect for the sake of time or expediency, particularly evaluation. What is most interesting though is that, while it does reflect upon what does not work in meetings the emphasis is upon using techniques that have been found to produce excellent meetings." --Maggie McCourt-Mooney in Journal of

Booknews

Offers strategies for planning and conducting meetings, focusing on what sets a "good" meeting apart from a "bad" one. Presents seven principles and 14 commandments for managing meetings, and details techniques for creating agendas, managing public meetings, dealing with conflicts and emotional issues, and assigning roles. Discusses implementing TQM meetings, and looks at the negative culture of meetings and how to change it. Includes a sample agenda, minutes, and report, and a sample evaluation form. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Paradigm Shift: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy	11
Pt. II	Managing for Meeting Success	21
Pt. III	Becoming a Meeting Master: Some Tips on Application	145
Pt. IV	Strategic Perspectives on Meetings	163
Pt. V	Leadership in Family Meeting and Civic/Community Meeting Decision Making	199
	App. A: Writing Samples	225
	App. B: Sample Evaluation Sheet	231
	References	233
	Bibliography	235
	Print References	239
	Index	241
	About the Author	247

Social Entrepreneurship or Forecasting Economic Time Series

Social Entrepreneurship: The Art of Mission-Based Venture Development

Author: Peter C Brinckerhoff

Until very recently, popular belief held that business skills were not needed at charitable organizations. No longer. Far from interfering with an organizations ability to provide needed services, techniques such as marketing, cash flow analysis, property management, and good use of technology all contribute to a charitable organizations mission capability. Unlike a not-for-profit that thinks of itself as a charity, the successful not-for-profit is really a mission-based business. In an era of rapid change, increasing competition, and the need for more accountability to governments, foundations, insurers, and donors, knowing how to innovate, compete, and take reasonable risks on behalf of the mission is critical. It is, in short, the era of the social entrepreneur.

The skilled social entrepreneur has the ability to get the most mission out of the resources at hand-including traditional business techniques. Finally, here is a book that will help you learn their techniques. In Social Entrepreneurship, you will learn how successful social entrepreneurs:

• Focus on community wants and needs
• Match those with core competencies to provide the quality services
• Assess risk and gauge opportunity
• Develop new project ideas and test their feasibility
• Write a business plan
• Project finances in the plan
• Tap into new sources of funding
• Develop the idea of social entrepreneurship throughout the organization
• Make sure that mission, not money, is the bottom line

Also included are the seven essential steps of the not-for-profit business development process, real-world case studies, sample business plans, and aself-assessment process to determine if your organization is ready for social entrepreneurism. In addition to entrepreneurs, middle managers, policy setters, volunteers, and a host of other important staff members will get value from the mission-beneficial information in this book. Most important, Social Entrepreneurship will help you to help your organization succeed and thrive-and make your job more interesting and productive.

Praise for Social Entrepreneurship
The Art of Mission-Based Venture Development

"A great read . . . contains both the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications that those of us in nonprofit leadership badly need. I will share it with my management team and board."-Joseph M. Hafey, President and CEO, Public Health Institute

"A sound, practical guide for developing social entrepreneurs. Brinckerhoff makes taking mission-related business risks on behalf of the people served less risky with the step-by-step application of business ideas and techniques. Warnings, real-world examples, and hands-on advice keep the reader on track to sensible risk taking."-Connie Kirk, President and CEO, Tommy Nobis Center

"Peter C. Brinckerhoffs new and masterfully written book has a lot of practical information in it for any organization that wants to learn how to become and stay entrepreneurial. Brinckerhoff provides the right kind of information to any organization interested in succeeding in a highly competitive and service-oriented environment . . . [and] stresses the importance of an organizations encouraging innovation and risk only if it does not lose sight of its core values, its strengths, and its mission. That is excellent advice for any organization and for anyone who ventures into entrepreneurial waters."-Andrew H. Souerwine, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Management and Organization The School of Business Administration, University of Connecticut

Booknews

Treating the not-for-profit organization as a mission-based business (rather than a charity), this book offers guidance on innovating, competing, and taking acceptable risks to meet the organization's goals. It outlines basic business techniques and applies these to the needs of the community the organization serves. Among the skills detailed are assessing risk and opportunity, developing project ideas and testing their feasibility, writing a business plan, projecting finances, finding new sources of funding, and self-assessment. Case studies and sample business plans are also included. Brinckerhoff is a consultant. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Forecasting Economic Time Series

Author: Michael Clements

David Hendry is one of the world's leading econometricians, and in this major new work he and Michael Clements provide an extended formal analysis of economic forecasting with econometric models: their analysis builds in many of the features of the real world that are often overlooked in traditional, textbook analyses of forecasting. Consequently, Clements and Hendry are able to suggest ways in which existing forecasting practices can be improved, as well as providing a rationale for some of the habitual practices of forecasters that have hitherto lacked a scientific foundation.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Preface
	Common acronyms
1	An introduction to forecasting	1
2	First principles	33
3	Evaluating forecast accuracy	52
4	Forecasting in univariate processes	79
5	Monte Carlo techniques	107
6	Forecasting in cointegrated systems	119
7	Forecasting with large-scale macroeconometric models	157
8	A theory of intercept corrections: beyond mechanistic forecasts	180
9	Forecasting using leading indicators	207
10	Combining forecasts	227
11	Multi-step estimation	243
12	Parsimony	280
13	Testing forecast accuracy	312
14	Postscript	329
	Glossary	335
	References	339
	Author index	359
	Subject index	363

Key Questions in Career Counseling or International Law from Below

Key Questions in Career Counseling: Techniques to Deliver Effective Career Counseling Services

Author: Janice M Guerriero

This book's purpose is to provide a tool for career services personnel to deliver more effective, consistent career counseling. Its primary objective is to present a career counseling process model, including sequential stages and steps, along with a method (the Key Questions Technique) for successfully implementing the model. It is intended to serve as the bridge between the theoretical and the applied worlds of career counseling, and it is hoped that this book will increase the standards of professionalism and objectivity for the many diverse practitioners who currently conduct career counseling in the workplace.

AUDIENCE:
Managers and supervisors responsible for employee development, human resources professionals, internal career advisors, coaches and consultants, and adjunct and outplacement consultants; a required or supplemental text for courses in career counseling, school/community vocational counseling, occupational therapy, human resources development, and workplace and outplacement counseling.

Table of Contents:

	About the Authors
	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	The Career Counseling Process Model	7
Ch. 3	The Key Questions Technique	15
Ch. 4	The Foundation Stage	21
Ch. 5	The Assessment Stage	26
Ch. 6	The Feedback Stage	38
Ch. 7	The Goal-Setting Stage	45
Ch. 8	The Resistance Resolution Stage	53
Ch. 9	The Follow-Through Stage	65
Ch. 10	Effective Career Counseling	75
App. A	Career Counseling Process Model Checklist	84
App. B	Career Counseling Process Handout	93
App. C	Career Assessment Materials and Publishers	95
App. D	Career Data Profile	97
App. E	Clarification Tools: Fish Bone Diagram and Force Field Analysis	100
App. F	Strategic Career Action Plan	102
App. G	Resistance Resolution Decision Tree	105
App. H	Change Techniques: Catastrophizing and Chunking	106
App. I	Intervention Tools: Emotional Roller Coaster, Periods of Transition in Job Change, Stages of Change Model, and Cost Payoff Matrix	107
App. J	Tools to Address Capabilities: Strengths and Personal Descriptors, Managing Self/Others, CCIO Model, and Analysis of Job	110
App. K	Tools to Affirm the Plan: Triggers That Disrupt a Career Routine and Linking Individual Needs With Organizational Needs	118
	Index	120

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International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance

Author: Balakrishnan Rajagopal

Balakrishnan Rajagopal's fundamental critique of modern international law draws attention to traditional Third World engagements. Rajagopal challenges current approaches to international law and politics either through states or through individuals. With transnational and local social movement action now becoming increasingly visible and important--as witnessed in Seattle in 1999, he demonstrates that a new global order must consider seriously the resistance of social movements in the development of international law.