Social Sustainability for Business demonstrates the need for a transformational change to the way businesses across the globe operate. What has become the standard, accepted "business model," with a focus on corporate profit, shareholder wealth maximization, and GDP growth, is no longer a sustainable business model for workers, consumers, communities, society, the planet, or any of its inhabitants and ecosystems. The authors argue that the current commercial system depletes natural resources, denigrates human rights, and inhibits positive social and technological innovation. To address these issues, they focus on societal goals-such as a sustainable planet, meeting human rights of workers, and safe products for consumers-and outline steps that organizations and individuals must take to achieve them. Readers will gain insight into the psychological barriers to and influences on sustainable behavior. They will also learn how reconsidering corporate social responsibility and business ethics can stop and reverse the destruction of a profit-based approach. Cases on modern examples of sustainability or lack thereof explain how establishing and maintaining a socially sustainable business system can protect the environment, meet the rights of its people, and ensure that their needs are met tomorrow. End-of-chapter and end-of-case discussion questions will help students in sustainability classes to think critically about the practical impact of the topics discussed.

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Social Sustainability for Business demonstrates the need for a transformational change to the way businesses across the globe operate. What has become the standard, accepted "business model," with a focus on corporate profit, shareholder wealth maximization, and GDP growth, is no longer a sustainable business model for workers, consumers, communities, society, the planet, or any of its inhabitants and ecosystems. The authors argue that the current commercial system depletes natural resources, denigrates human rights, and inhibits positive social and technological innovation. To address these issues, they focus on societal goals-such as a sustainable planet, meeting human rights of workers, and safe products for consumers-and outline steps that organizations and individuals must take to achieve them. Readers will gain insight into the psychological barriers to and influences on sustainable behavior. They will also learn how reconsidering corporate social responsibility and business ethics can stop and reverse the destruction of a profit-based approach. Cases on modern examples of sustainability or lack thereof explain how establishing and maintaining a socially sustainable business system can protect the environment, meet the rights of its people, and ensure that their needs are met tomorrow. End-of-chapter and end-of-case discussion questions will help students in sustainability classes to think critically about the practical impact of the topics discussed.

Die Produktqualitat ist ein entscheidender Erfolgsfaktor im wachsenden Wettbewerb. Qualitatssicherung wird daher immer wichtiger, aber auch immer komplexer.
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Umfassend und alltagsnah
o Alle wichtigen Prufverfahren zur Bestimmung der ausseren Merkmale, der mechanisch-technologischen und der physikalischen Eigenschaften von Textilien
o Pruf- und messtechnische Grundlagen
o Grundlagen der Bestimmung des mechanischen Formanderungsverhaltens
o Auswertung textiler Prufungen
o Fragen des Qualitatsmanagements
Kompakt und praxisgerecht
o Pruf- und Messverfahren mit Bezug zu den entsprechenden Normen, Regeln und Vorschriften
o Hinweise auf die zukunftige Europa-Norm
o Klar gegliedert, mit anschaulichen Abbildungen, Tabellen und Diagrammen
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