Airline Operations and Management: A Management Textbook presents a survey of the airline industry, with a strong managerial perspective. It integrates and applies the fundamentals of several management disciplines, particularly operations, marketing, economics and finance, to develop a comprehensive overview. It also provides readers with a solid historical background, and offers a global perspective of the industry, with examples drawn from airlines around the world.

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This book focuses on the interrelationship between nature and the human economy. This is an introductory account of the subject, including a wide-ranging guide to further and more advanced relevant literature.

This book discusses challenges that arise for multinational companies from not having a single ‘nationality’ and being exposed to a variety of simultaneous country-specific, legally, and culturally constructed nationalities at home and abroad. The chapters were originally published in the journal Business History.

Manfred Kets de Vries is one of the most authoritative voices on organizational dynamics, leadership, executive coaching, and psychotherapy today. The book offers a unique and original approach to answering the micro- and macro-psychological questions of how to mitigate against populism and autocratic leadership.

Innovations in e-health can significantly enhance healthcare accessibility, efficiency, and patient safety.

Many shops have simplified their production control by using card-based systems such as kanban and Constant Work-in-Process (ConWIP). Although these systems provide a simple and highly effective visual approach for controlling manufacturing and service operations, all too many shops struggle with failed implementations or achieve results that fall below expectations. These outcomes can be attributed to a poor fit between the actual control problem and the solution applied.

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This book provides a wide-ranging guide to the complex, multidisciplinary area of coaching, exploring coaching theories and approaches, genres and settings, and professional issues.

Grasp the fundamentals of Human Resource Management with this engaging and accessible text, ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The fourth European edition of Microeconomics and Behaviour builds on its core analytical foundations, and embeds them in accessible and engaging real-world examples to demonstrate the relationship between economic thinking and analysis and human behaviour. By blending theory with practical application, students are encouraged to think like economists and critically assess the technical tools of microeconomics and to find more interesting and innovative ways of applying them, ultimately devel...

This illuminating guide to the core skills and techniques of the relational approach to coaching brings the intersubjective, collaborative relationship between coach and client into focus. The authors use key case examples from a variety of settings to illustrate the skills needed at different stages of the coaching relationship, including chapters on:

Establishing the Working Alliance

Inquiring Collaboratively

Use of Self

The Presenting Past

Enactments, Games, Ruptures and Repairs

Endings in...