This much-loved textbook responds to the ever-growing importance of leadership to a healthcare professional's role. It summarises all of the key theories, information and research and applies to the healthcare context.

This bestselling introduction to research supports nursing students by demystifying jargon, explaining the key concepts and building their skills in applying research principles to their studies and practice.

This popular, market-leading textbook for corporate communication continues to be the authoritative and definitive textbook for students and educators. The text has been fully updated to include:* changes to the workplace in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and its impacts on employee communication via platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams * the ongoing impacts of digital disruption and transformation on corporate communication at the advent of the 'metaverse' and alongside consideration o...

This book explains 'big ideas' in mathematics in simple terms supported by classroom examples to show how they can be applied in primary schools to enable learning.

An essential guide to critical care nursing that includes all the key scientific knowledge and procedures that students will need to know when entering the critical care environment.

Human Resources for the Non-HR Manager gives every manager, regardless of their functional role, access to cutting-edge research and evidence-based recommendations so they can approach their people management responsibilities with confidence. Day-to-day people management is increasingly the responsibility of front-line managers, not HR professionals. But managers are often poorly prepared for these responsibilities; they receive little training (and sometimes have little interest!) in HR.

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Capitalism has gone astray. Today we face ecological exhaustion, persistent inequality, financialization, stress on communities, short-termism, and new power concentrations.

An avalanche of new economic thinking and a reorientation of European values show the way toward a different economy. A new perspective is necessary if we want to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and if we consider our planet as ‘Our Common Home,’ for present and future generations.

This book argues that ...

Einstein famously quoted: “…We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them….”. Einstein recognized that the thinking or mindset that led to the creation of a problem may not be sufficient to find a solution. If we continue to approach problems with the same mindset, we are likely to get stuck in a loop of repeating the same actions and expecting different results, which Einstein famously referred to as "insanity." This quote emphasizes the need for in...

This book talks about how to exploit business and service design techniques for business advantage in the financial sector. It does so, not through the theory but rather through how to deal with the enduring business issues and by addressing practical problems. The business issues that banks are using this new technology to address are long lasting. Hence the need to look at:

• how banks exploit the opportunities created by this new technology and

• how the banks will function differently.

These business issues are faced by both established banks and the relatively new Fintech sector. Fintechs have the advantage of being end-to-end designed from the outset but do not have the brand or depth of data available to established playe...