With humour, honesty and directness, Tompkins bottles his years of experience and insight in this Third Edition that offers students the fundamentals they need to master, with the practical know-how they can immediately put to use.

This book provides an introduction to the key concepts in programming, statistics and machine learning needed by business analytics students, assuming no prior knowledge and taking a step-by-step approach to help students build up their confidence.

The Second Edition of this esteemed text explores leadership from the head to the toe of an organization - whether that leadership is traditional or virtual, and whether the organization is corporate or non-profit.

Global Strategy is a groundbreaking textbook that redefines the field of global strategy, shifting the focus from scaling established businesses to creating innovative businesses responding to international market needs. It equips future multinational leaders with the tools and insights needed to succeed in the rapidly evolving world of global business.

Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Value Creation (Sixth Edition) redefines corporate social responsibility (CSR) as being central to the value-creating purpose of the firm. Based on a theory of empowered stakeholders, this bestselling text argues that the responsibility of a corporation is to create value, broadly defined. The primary challenge for managers today is to balance the competing interests of the firm's stakeholders' understanding that what they expect today ma...

Bestselling authors Robert N. Lussier and John R. Hendon explore the important strategic function HR plays in today's organization, helping the reader develop the skills they need to recruit, select, train, and develop talent.

Discovering Leadership: Designing Your Success, Second Edition provides a comprehensive practice-based introduction to leadership. The text guides students to design their leadership purposefully and mindfully as they develop their leadership knowledge, skills, and dispositions.

Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the 'Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.

McGuire's student-friendly introduction to the field of HRD provides a good balance of theory and practice.

The theoretical foundations of management strategy are identified and outlined in this text. Five theories are considered in the light of questions about how organizations operate efficiently, cost minimization, wealth creation, individual self-interest and continued growth.