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Continuous improvements in business operations have allowed
companies more opportunities to grow and expand. This not only
leads to higher success in increasing day-to-day profits, but it
enhances overall organizational productivity. Evolution of the
Post-Bureaucratic Organization is a pivotal source of research
containing integrated and consistent theoretical frameworks on
post-bureaucratic organizations, multidisciplinary perspectives,
and provides case studies related to the critical aspects of the
emergence of post-bureaucratic organizations. Featuring extensive
coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such
as business ethics, organizational communication, and cultural
perspectives, this book is ideally designed for scholars, PhD and
post-graduate university students, managers, and practitioners.
This 2nd edition (of the original Successful Private Practice in
Neuropsychology) provides an updated overview of key principles and
processes for establishing, maintaining and developing
neuropsychology practice and neuro-rehabilitation program (NRP)
treatment in medical center and/or private practice settings.
Essential elements of an entrepreneurial model that work well in
the medical center context and the necessary role of variety and
peer review in the private practice setting are also
discussed.
How to gather and report NPE and other evaluation findings with a
neuro- rehabilitation focus that lead to specific
neuro-rehabilitation recommendations. Benefit this will make your
evaluations and reports more desirable and sought after in the
setting and community where you work.Updated billing/diagnostic
code recommendations to accurately capture the actual time spent in
evaluating and/or treating patients. Benefit increased appropriate
billing and collections for your timeRecommendations for clinical
neuropsychology postdoctoral fellowship training of a Navy
psychologist. Benefit: you may be able to obtain funding for an
experienced Navy clinical psychologist who wants formal training in
neuropsychology. This can expand your clinical services, increase
variety and quality of your training program and ultimately support
improved care for returning American military personnel."
This comprehensive yet accessible textbook provides readers with an
advanced and applied approach to traditional international business
that integrates key cross-cultural management topics. Its ten
chapters give profound insights into analysing, selecting and
entering international markets, strategic partnerships, strategic
positioning, global value chains, organizational designs,
intercultural interaction, leadership and motivation and
international human resources management. For each of these topics,
advanced and contemporary theoretical and analytical frameworks are
discussed and translated into toolsets that will assist readers in
solving practical challenges. Key Features: A strong connection of
theoretical foundations with illustrative case studies Integration
of current trends and challenges, such as intercultural competence,
migration and digitalization, offshoring and global value chains
Comprehensive practical examples from multinational firms that
demonstrate the value of the frameworks and toolsets included in
each chapter An integrative case study that picks up key practical
challenges in each chapter and invites the reader to apply
theories, frameworks and toolsets A supplementary website that
provides multiple materials for furthering readers' knowledge,
including toolsets, further cases and exercises, accompanying
videos, quizzes, and presentation slides International Business
Strategy and Cross-Cultural Management is a key resource for
postgraduate courses on international business management,
globalization and entrepreneurship, international human resource
management and global marketing. It will also serve as a
complementary text for lecturers and students involved in the
X-Culture project.
Ideal for college students in intermediate finance courses, this
book uniquely applies mathematical formulas to teach the
underpinnings of financial and lending decisions, covering common
applications in real estate, capital budgeting, and commercial
loans. An updated and expanded version of the time-honored classic
text on financial math, this book provides, in one place, a
complete and practical treatment of the four primary venues for
finance: commercial lending, financial formulas, mortgage lending,
and resource allocation or capital budgeting techniques. With an
emphasis on understanding the principles involved rather than blind
reliance on formulas, the book provides rigorous and thorough
explanations of the mathematical calculations used in determining
the time value of money, valuation of loans by commercial banks,
valuation of mortgages, and the cost of capital and capital
budgeting techniques for single as well as mutually exclusive
projects. This new edition devotes an entire chapter to a method of
evaluating mutually exclusive projects without resorting to any
imposed conditions. Two chapters not found in the previous edition
address special topics in finance, including a novel and innovative
way to approach amortization tables and the time value of money for
cash flows when they increase geometrically or arithmetically. This
new edition also features helpful how-to sections on Excel
applications at the end of each appropriate chapter. Lays the
foundation of all the topics that are typically covered in a
financial management textbook or class Demonstrates how the mastery
of a few basic concepts-such as the time value of money under all
possible situations-allows for a precise understanding of more
complex topics in finance Describes how all advanced capital
budgeting techniques can be reduced to the simplest technique-the
payback period method Examines traditional financial techniques
using simple interest rate and accounting rate of return methods to
conclusively show how these practices are now defunct
Private Equity and Management Buy-outs provides a balanced view of
the often polarized private equity debate. This careful and
objective analysis of the presence of private equity in buy-out
firms reviews the effects of this ownership transfer in terms of
firm performance and survival, thus placing private equity in a
broader context of implications for value creation. The analysis
provides an overview of international trends in private equity and
develops a conceptual framework for understanding the heterogeneity
of private equity deals. Systematic evidence from large-scale
studies of private equity and buy-outs are used to shed light on
short- and longer-term economic and social effects. For the first
time the broader scope of the key issues now facing private equity
and buy-outs are brought together in the contributions herein. The
book includes highlights such as: * empirical evidence on a special
organizational form of private equity; * examination of backed
buy-outs (perspectives from strategy, finance, HRM and management
accounting); * discussion on the level of PE involvement; *
challenging further debate on economic and social key issues
regarding policy implications and a future research agenda.
Academics and researchers - postgraduate and above - in business
schools and schools of economics will find this book enlightening.
It will also hold great interest for practitioners in the fields of
mergers and acquisitions, general, strategic and financial
management, and corporate entrepreneurship and corporate
governance.
The Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) model of leadership has shown that
effective leader-follower relationships predict employee well-being
and performance. Less research, however, addressed how diversity
variables may affect the development of leader-member exchange and
outcomes. This book moves the field forward by addressing the 21st
century challenges of how diversity may impact the development of
effective working relationships. Key trends in the workforce
suggest that the impact of diverse employees will challenge a
leader's ability to develop effective working relationships with
all direct reports. New frameworks are needed to understand how
various groups such as women, Hispanics, African Americans,
Millennials, LGBTQ, and persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder
develop effective working relationships with their supervisors.
This edited volume will bring together the top scholars in the
field to address these segments of the workforce and offer
practical advice for managers. This book will be used in college
undergraduate and/or graduate level leadership classes. It might
also be adopted for courses in managing diversity. Scholars will
find the book a useful reference work. In addition, practicing
managers will be interested in the implications of developing
effective working relationships in diverse leader-member dyads.
This important book brings together a set of original key
contributions to knowledge management in developing economies. It
encompasses a wide range of countries throughout Africa, Asia, the
Middle East, and Latin America as well as the transition economies
of the former socialist countries in Eastern Europe. These
carefully selected country case studies represent a broad range of
issues in managing knowledge. They consider the way in which
knowledge management processes and practices are influenced by
local culture and institutions as well as by interaction with the
broader international community. The need for an aggregated
analytical approach in untangling the increasingly complex process
through which knowledge processes are created, transferred and
deployed is also highlighted. The book provides a strong nexus
between theory and practice by offering solutions to problems such
as: minimising knowledge leakage, creating knowledge-sharing
cultures and promoting management learning. Presenting the latest
research on intercultural knowledge management, this book will be
warmly welcomed by researchers, students and lecturers with an
interest in international management and knowledge management. Its
strong focus on practitioner implications will provide
international managers with invaluable suggestions on how to
maximise knowledge sharing in international joint ventures and
subsidiary operations.
Joris Knoben illustrates that the number of firm relocations has
grown steadily and considerably over the last decade and, at the
same time, relationships between organizations have become more
important to firm performance. It is often argued that these
relationships require geographical stability, and so the author
explores how these two seemingly contradictory observations can be
reconciled. Insights from economic geography and organization
science are utilized to develop a multidisciplinary firm-level
perspective on the causes and consequences of firm relocation.
Subsequently, this framework is tested empirically. The results
show that incorporating the level of embeddedness as well as the
spatial mobility of firms into a single framework leads to
significantly better explanations of both the spatial behavior of
firms as well as of the outcomes of this behavior. All-in-all, the
findings indicate that there is a tradeoff between spatial mobility
and inter-organizational stability. This multidisciplinary
perspective on the relations between organizational networks,
spatial firm mobility, and firm performance will be of great
interest to a range of scholars, including organization scientists,
regional scientists and economic geographers and, managers of
relocating companies as well as consultants in this field.
Worldwide, public sector organizations are implementing commercial
packaged software solutions, or enterprise resource planning (ERP)
systems, to increase productivity and customer service as well as
to deploy manageable business processes. To that end, this book
provides workable solutions from experienced public sector program
and project managers, consulting leaders and academic researchers
who have proven expertise in large scale public sector ERP
implementation.Existing research shows that while public sector
enterprises generally agree by consensus, and thus have different
management cultures than their private sector counterparts, their
management practices are driven by a private sector model. Given
the tremendous growth in public sector ERP spending and the risks
associated with such politically-charged projects, new approaches
to change management must be explored. The contributors present
expertly researched federal, commercial and academic views on how
public sector organizations are integrating their business
processes, and how they relate to the private sector experience.
The discussion covers all aspects of the new private sector
management paradigm, including strategic planning, change
management, process change, and information system implementation.
The contributors provide details on the implementation steps, and
make suggestions for how public sector program managers and
contractor teams should plan change management and ERP initiatives.
Researchers and students in the areas of management, public sector
enterprises and public policy will find the volume's insights of
great value. Managers with oversight in public sector organizations
will find the volume of great practical interest.
We live in a rapidly changing world. The spread of mobile and
internet-based tools has altered how customers discover and
purchase new products. If your business does not adapt to meet this
latest consumer revolution, you will be left behind. Specifically
for the hospitality industry, hoteliers and aspiring hoteliers must
be able to comprehend how all aspects of hotel operations are
impacted. The inspiration for "Llamas Rule" is to give hoteliers a
new tool in their arsenal- one that takes into account all the
recent changes to our system of commerce. This is not an
introductory textbook on the hospitality industry, but rather a
compilation of selected topics that highlight both modern success
stories and potential pitfalls. This book will bolster your
management skills by explaining many of the sales, marketing,
branding, technological and psychological principles at work behind
such contemporary facets of hotel operations as websites, travel
agencies, internet-based sales channels and mobile apps as well as
the more traditional aspects like on-site amenities, guestroom
features, F&B, reservations, housekeeping and the front desk
operations. Above all, it is stressed that the success of a
property, even with all that has changed in recent years,
nonetheless depends on the relationship a hotel fosters with its
guests. This is the hotelier's guidebook that recognizes future
developments while celebrating the past.
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