This fully revised third edition provides a comprehensive exploration of performance management in the public sector, incorporating nearly 200 new references from the latest decade of performance management research. The book presents fresh evidence on the uses and effects of performance management.

Sustainable Management: The Complete Guide to Principles and Practice is both a core textbook, and a guide for teachers in one convenient volume.

Quantum Computing Strategy: Foundations and Applicability is an essential reference for technology enthusiasts, business leaders, policymakers, and educators seeking to understand the benefit quantum computing brings for enterprises. It is designed to be a self-contained learning resource.

Rural Healthcare was the first textbook of rural medicine in the UK. In this fully revised second edition it continues to fulfil the requirement for a resource dedicated to the particular needs of those living and practising in rural areas.

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Managing People in Sport Organizations is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of managing people within a strategic framework.

This concise and clear book provides actionable solutions to every manager’s and leader’s newest problem: How to work effectively with Gen Z employees.

We're building more products today than ever before, but most of them fail--not because we can't complete what we want to build but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product. What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That's the promise of Running Lean.

In this inspiring book, Ash Maurya takes you through an exacting strategy for achieving product/market fit for your fledgling venture. You'll learn ideas an...

This textbook presents an innovative new perspective on the economics of development, including insights from a broad range of disciplines. It starts with the current state of affairs, a discussion of data availability, reliability, and analysis, and an historic overview of the deep influence of fundamental factors on human prosperity. Next, it focuses on the role of human interaction in terms of trade, capital, and knowledge flows, as well as the associated implications for institutions, con...