Management models: many students will come across them in their studies, yet it is only when actually working with them that the function and benefit of management models are revealed. Students often find it hard to select and apply management models. This textbook will assist them to do so. 101 Management Models is aimed particularly at students of economic and technical studies and social sciences in higher education.

There are many reasons why things go wrong in the way teams work together. With this book you learn to what degree certain factors can influence the way your team operates. The starting point for a lot of the questions and assignments is always your team. You will be confronted with questions such as ‘How does that work in my team? What do I want to improve? and How can I go about that?’. The book closes with a procedure that your team can use for setting up a work programme for ‘team impr...

This informative, comprehensive, yet practical guide provides readers with a complete tool-kit of how to approach global sourcing successfully.

Based on real world experiences on implementing and sustaining global sourcing the book provides readers with key guidance on:

* Foundations of Strategic Sourcing

* Management, risk, governance and legal considerations

* Organizational change, innovation and relationship management

* Transition planning and the end-game

* Successful principle...

Based on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span,Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart-when cooperationis so clearly in everyone's interest. With major new contributions from MichaelMinkov's analysis of data from the World Values Survey, as well as an account ofthe evolution of cultures by Gert Jan Hofstede.

So much is expected of managers; supervising the staff, running the department, motivating employees, open communication, delegating tasks, finding creative solutions, providing and processing feedback, creating budgets, reaching targets. Who couldn’t use help with all this?

Whether you are just starting out in a supervisory role or are a highly experienced manager, you will find this book an enormous benefit. For the new supervisor it will answer such questions as ‘Just how do I deal with ...

Who wouldn’t love to get more work done in less time, have time for family, sports and hobbies, thus creating a relaxed way of life? Trouble is, between the dream and the reality there’s a clock in the way, and it only let you have 24 hours in any one day. There’s no way round that.

Most people find being under time pressure very unpleasant; the awful realisation that 24 hours just aren’t enough to do what they want or have to do. Sound familiar? You can do something about that ‘against...