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Human Foundations of Management explores the human foundation of
management and economic activity in a way that is accessible to
readers. The structure and contents of this book examines those
aspects of the human being which are relevant to management and
economic activities.
Human Foundations of Management explores the human foundation of
management and economic activity in a way that is accessible to
readers. The structure and contents of this book examines those
aspects of the human being which are relevant to management and
economic activities.
The recent financial crisis has awakened a renewed sensibility to
ethics in business and management, and an increasing interest in a
better understanding of how ethics and economics are intertwined.
Managers and executives must understand not just the moral value of
ethical behaviour, but also how this can strengthen and benefit the
organization.
The recent financial crisis has awakened a renewed sensibility to
ethics in business and management, and an increasing interest in a
better understanding of how ethics and economics are intertwined.
Managers and executives must understand not just the moral value of
ethical behaviour, but also how this can strengthens and benefits
the organization
The warriors of medieval Italy practised a complex and complete
martial art, which included the wielding of sword, axe and spear
with wrestling, knife-fighting and mounted combat. In the waning
years of the 14th century, Fiore dei Liberi was a famed master of
this art, whose students included some of the most renowned and
dangerous fighting men of his day. Credited by fencing historians
as the father of Italian swordmanship, toward the end of his life,
Master Fiore preserved his teachings in a series of illustrated
manuscripts, four of which have survived to the present day, and
have become the basis of a worldwide effort to reconstruct this
lost martial art. This magnum opus, Il Fior di Batalgia (The Flower
of Battle), composed in early 1409, is one of the oldest, most
extensive, and most clearly elucidated martial arts treatises from
the medieval period. Flowers of Battle is a multi-volume series of
lavishly illustrated hardcover books, combining full colour
facsimiles of the Master's original manuscripts, professional,
annotated translations, and extensive peer-reviewed essays. Volume
III, Florius de Arte Luctandi, presents a translation,
transcription and reproduction of chronologically the last, most
recently discovered, and visually most lush Flower of Battle
manuscript. This posthumous work raises more questions than it
answers: for whom was the manuscript creared and why? Why was it
translated into a complex, humanistic Latin, and from what prior
source? Why are there clear nomenclatures and instruction
differences between this and the other three manuscripts, and do
these changes reflect an evolution in the Master's thinking, or
errors in transmission? Mondschein and Mele tackle these questions
and more in a lavishly illustrated introduction that seeks to set
the manuscript in context, as an objet d'art, as an example of
Renaissance patronage, and as a practical martial arts memorial.
Series Note: Vol. I: Historical Overview and the Getty Manuscript
Vol. II: Flos Duellatorum Vol. III: Florius de Arte Luctandi Vol.
IV: The Pierpont-Morgan Manuscript and General Concordance Vol. V:
Leaves of Battle - Fiore dei Liberi's Martial Heirs and Influence
Develops an overall force-management framework for identifying
roles and organizations to provide analysis and diagnosis of
understrength conditions and to also execute appropriate policy
interventions to solve the problems. Develops an overall
force-management framework for identifying roles and organizations
to provide analysis and diagnosis of understrength conditions and
to also execute appropriate policy interventions to solve the
problems. Key to force management as a whole is operational-level
(career-field) force management, which provides both the policy
framework that guides tactical-level (individual career) management
and the basic informational input for strategic-level (total Air
Force workforce) decisions.
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