Business Analytics: Solving Business Problems with R offers a practical, hands-on introduction to analytical methods, including machine learning in real-world business scenarios. Connecting business decisions and analytical methods across multiple fields, this book guides readers through a wide range of business problems and their fitting analytical solutions, offering examples and implementation using R.

Debunks and uncovers a number of enduring myths about famous theorists such as Adam Smith and Abraham Maslow in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.

Considering strategy as something an organization has and which its members do, the new 2nd edition deals with a selection of topics that have been central in recent academic debates in the strategy-as-practice area.

The second edition of Employment Relations reflects on current research and future directions in the field, with a unique focus on fairness and trust. It is packed with student learning features and mapped to CIPD learning outcomes at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

A fresh and critical perspective on coaching and mentoring challenges commonly held assumptions about the field.

Organizational Behavior: A Skill-Building Approach examines how individual characteristics, group dynamics, and organizational factors affect performance, motivation, and job satisfaction, providing students with a holistic understanding of OB. Packed with critical thinking opportunities, experiential exercises, and real-world case studies, Organizational Behavior provides students with a fun, hands-on introduction to the fascinating world of OB.

Based on the idea that strategic corporate social responsibility offers the most holistic and effective approach to CSR, this revised new edition of Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility presents the key concepts, theories and philosophical approaches to CSR, along with the practical tools needed to implement this knowledge in the real world.

The perfect accompaniment to existing textbooks for courses on human resource management.

The antidote to heavy-going, complex and lengthy textbooks on studying strategy.

Based on the theory of the Rhetorical Arena and the multivocal approach, this guide explores a new perspective on crisis communication, and what happens when external voices start communicating as a crisis breaks out.