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Much needed in these times when confidence in corporations has
eroded, A Business Tale offers you the inspiration to make ethical
choices even when it isn't easy or immediately rewarding. Wouldn't
it be nice if all executives had a magical rabbit?like the one in
the movie Harvey -- following them around reminding them to be
ethical? In this charming fable, Aristotle (Ari, for short) is a
pooka -- a mythical, invisible creature with a penchant for
advising against dishonesty. Our hero, Edgar P. Benchley, has been
able to see and hear Ari since childhood, and as he journeys
through his professional life, constantly faced with challenging
questions of good conduct, Ari helps remind him that nice guys can
succeed...even in the world of business. Following the story,
inside this book you'll find: real-life examples of ethical
situations a 10-step action plan for ethical behavior in the
workplace story formatting to impart basics of ethics in the
business world A Business Tale is an easy-to-read, unforgettable
"spoonful of sugar" to help companies and individuals digest the
sometimes tart lessons of practical morality in the workplace.
International aid and development is increasingly channelled
through religious groups and this collection examines the role that
these faith-based organizations play in managing international aid,
providing services, such as health and education, defending human
rights and protecting democracy. Focusing on Asia, Africa and the
Middle East, this book argues that greater engagement with faith
communities and organizations is needed, particularly in achieving
the Millennium Development Goals, and questions the traditional
securalism that has underpinned development policy and practice in
the North.
In this follow-up to "Balls and Strikes: The Money Game in
Professional Baseball" (Praeger, 1990), Jennings examines the state
of professional baseball's labor relations during a nearly 25 year
period, focusing on the background and the outcome of the 1994
baseball strike. Jennings concludes by suggesting ways to improve
future labor relations in the sport.
While the entire professional sports industry generates less
revenue than sales of Fruit of the Loom underwear, a lengthy strike
in professional baseball assures a national notoriety far beyond
its economic impact. When the 1994 strike was underway, scores of
members of Congress were involved in related investigations and
legislation, while President Clinton invoked the public interest in
his efforts to resolve the dispute.
This unique study of labor relations and the phenomenon of
peripheral bargaining focuses on the high-profile and bitter
dispute at the "New York Daily News" in 1990. Using a dramatic case
study involving one of New York City's oldest newspapers, 10
entrenched unions, the Chicago Tribune Company, publishing magnate
Robert Maxwell, and 1.2 million "Daily News" readers, Kenneth
Jennings provides systematic and extensive analysis of a rancorous
collective bargaining effort, revealing a new development in
labor-management relations; peripheral bargaining. This development
threatens to erode the well-established practice of traditional
bargaining and usher in a new, more hostile labor-management
era.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) found
Japan guilty of deliberately promoting drug abuse as a weapon to
further its imperialistic aims in Asia. This study provides the
historical context behind the IMTFE's findings from the annexation
of Taiwan in 1895 to the end of World War II. Given the extent to
which drug use permeated the politics, economy, and culture of
Asia, it was inevitable that Japan's rise as an imperial power
would lead to contact with, and increasing involvement in, the
opium and narcotics trade. This study argues that the nature of
that involvement should be understood not simply in terms of a
conspiracy to drug the people of Asia into submission, but rather
as indicative of the general twists and turns of Japanese
imperialism. Thus, opium and narcotics emerge not so much as a
weapon of, but rather as a metaphor for, Japanese imperialism in
Asia.
Labor-Management Cooperation in a Public Service Industry outlines
the historical aspects of labor-management cooperation and the
characteristics of the transit industry which made it conducive to
this cooperation. The second chapter discusses different
cooperative programs such as employee input programs, safety
programs, performance incentive programs, and training programs.
Administrative considerations are examined in chapter three, along
with the potential difficulties and calculating cost benefits. The
two appendices offer a case study analysis format and quantitative
assessment of four quality circles. This book contains extensive
interviews with nearly seventy mass transit practitioners.
Impressively researched and well written, this valuable study by
a business professor at the Universiy of North Florida. . . traces
the erosion of the reserve clause and the rise of arbitration in
salary disputes, examining the participants in
negotiations--players, owners, managers, agents, even
commissoners--and showing the stake each has in the money game.
Many striking points are made, i.e., there is no discrimination in
salaries of minority players and there is little relationship
between pay and performance. "Publishers Weekly"
Jennings . . . gives a detailed account of collective bargaining
in baseball during the last 25 years, leading up to the owners'
lockout this year. He discusses the participants on both sides and
how disunity among the club owners has contributed to the union's
ability to achieve large bargaining gains. He also deals with
salary arbitration and how it has been used to settle pay disputes,
noting that it can resemble 'a high-stakes crapshoot' that leaves
management incapable of controlling a teaM's payroll costs. For
aficionados of the sport, this book provides clarifying insight
into the complicated issues of baseball's labor relations and
offers fascinating anecdotes and a shrewd commentary on the diverse
and colorful personalities involved.
"New York Times Book RevieW"
Kenneth M. Jennings examines union-management relations in
professional baseball, bringing together all the information the
sports fan needs to follow the issues surrounding player-management
arbitration in this unique industry. Covering the history of
collective bargaining action in baseball from 1869 to the 1990
season, this book examines the issues that influence those
high-profile player-management-owner negotiations. "Balls and
StrikeS" reveals: how in recent years the Major League Baseball
Players' Association (MLBPA) has successfully parlayed owner
disunity into substantial gains for its members; that baseball, in
a statistical sense, surprisingly exhibits little discrimination
against black and Hispanic players; how there is very little
relationship between pay and performance in professional baseball.
Baseball fans and sports journalists as well as professionals in
management and labor relations, will find "Balls and StrikeS" a
fresh and exciting look at America's favorite pastime.
"Balls and StrikeS" presents the confrontations and
relationships between players and management from the perspective
of several hundred collective bargaining participants--the union
and management officials who negotiate the labor agreement and the
players who must approve and live with it. Kenneth M. Jennings
derives his perspective from a variety of media sources, related
biographies, autobiographies, and articles. The result is a highly
readable book about owners, commissioners, agents, the media,
manager-player relations, player pressures including drug and
alcohol problems, race and ethnic issues, and player mobility and
salaries. The book discusses the history of collective bargaining
action in baseball from 1869 to 1966; the year Marvin Miller became
president of the MLBPA, through the 1970s and Miller's successful
bargaining efforts, into the 1980s and the opening of the 1990
season. "Balls and StrikeS" discusses key participants in the
collective bargaining process--owners, agents, the media, managers,
and players--and concludes with a look at contemporary industrial
relations issues in professional baseball: drug and alcohol abuse;
racial discrimination; and the relationship between pay and
performance.
Grossman and Jennings examine 15 industrial companies and find
unique characteristics in their values and management
styles--characteristics that other companies would be wise to
understand and emulate. Each of the example companies knew they
were in business to make money. Dynamic, questioning, and actively
in step with society's changes, they constantly asked themselves
one critical question: What business are we in? The answers they
found, the principles of management they discovered and practiced,
and the values they recognized and adopted all led to
prosperity.
In the current age of gurus, buzzwords, and fad theories, these
companies' stories reaffirm that there are notions, principles, and
management techniques that have proved themselves over time and can
lead an organization toward a profitable, enduring corporate life.
The authors offer frank insights into how businesses survive and
grow. Anecdotal but based on solid research, with clarifying
diagrams and other illustrations, this book is a major contribution
to our understanding of the past, and a view of what is best in the
future of today's organizations.
For this book, fifteen distinguished historians were given a
deceptively simple task: identify their choice for the worst
military leader in history, and then explain why theirs is the
worst. From the clueless Conrad von Hötzendorf and George A.
Custer, to the criminal Baron Roman F. von Ungern-Sternberg and the
bungling Garnet Wolseley, this book presents a rogues’ gallery of
military incompetents. Rather than merely rehashing biographical
details, the contributors take an original and unconventional look
at military leadership in a way that will appeal to both
specialists and general readers alike. While there are plenty of
books that analyse the keys to success, The Worst Military Leaders
in History offers lessons of failure to avoid. In other words, this
book is a ‘how-not-to’ guide to leadership.
Spanning countries and centuries, a "how-not-to" guide to
leadership that reveals the most maladroit military commanders in
history. For this book, fifteen distinguished historians were given
a deceptively simple task: identify their choice for the worst
military leader in history and then explain why theirs is the
worst. From the clueless Conrad von Hoetzendorf and George A.
Custer to the criminal Baron Roman F. von Ungern-Sternberg and the
bungling Garnet Wolseley, this book presents a rogues' gallery of
military incompetents. Rather than merely rehashing biographical
details, the contributors take an original and unconventional look
at military leadership in a way that appeals to both specialists
and general readers alike. While there are plenty of books that
analyze the keys to success, The Worst Military Leaders in History
offers lessons of failure to avoid. In other words, this book is a
"how-not-to" guide to leadership.
This special issue of Clinics in Podiatric Medicnie and Surgery
will harken back to the series inaugural issue and cover the topic
of Implants. The issue will be guest edited by Dr. Meagan Jennings,
who has gathered a group of all female authors to contribute to
this volume. This issue will feature a special article on women in
podiatry and medicine, as well as on: Materials, Internal braces,
Suture Button fixation, Amnion applications, first MTPJ options,
TAR options, Orthobiologics, Infection protocols, and Skin grafts,
among others.
This issue of Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by LTC Deborah Kenny,
AN, USA, and Bonnie Jennings, DNSc, RN, FAAN, on the topic of
Uniformed Services Nursing will include the following article
topics: Pain Management of the Air Evacuation Patient; Iron
Deficiency Anemia in Active Duty Soldiers; Clinical Implications
for Sweat Calcium Loss in Soldiers; Clinical Implications
Associated with Disaster Nursing; Deployment Issues; Care of the
Military Person with Pressure Ulcers; Competencies Required for
Wartime; Military Nursing Response to the SARS Epidemic in Taiwan;
Deployment Issues in the Air Force; and Clinical Issues at
Landstuhl regional Medical Center in Germany.
A better approach to investing. This is not a typical investment
book. It is an experiential guide on cultivating the mindset and
behaviour necessary to weather inherently uncertain and
unpredictable markets. It doesn’t just tell you how to invest but
how to think better about investing. Referencing studies on
psychology, decision making, and investment behaviour, Jennings
provides a no-nonsense analysis of the financial markets and a
roadmap to navigating its inevitable twists and turns. Jennings
uses mental models to create a latticework of wisdom that will help
you evaluate investment advice and learn better behaviour in the
face of uncertainty. To name a few: ignore expert predictions, be
wary of stories, and try to invest like a dead person. An engaging
dive into investing psychology and best practices, The Uncertainty
Solution is an authoritative, accessible guide for both lay
investors and professionals inundated with financial news and data.
Read this book to improve your thinking about investing, practice
better investment behaviour, and ultimately, have more money.
Shawn Allen Brown wakes up in a hospital bed and in a daze of
confusion begins to reflect over his life. This book is not written
in chronological order, but as the chapters progress, something
very sinister begins to unfold. Shawn is a young street thug from a
family of criminals. Although he is part of the only white family
in his area of the black urban ghetto, Shawn's brother Barry is the
most feared and respected gang member around. But Shawn has his own
talents, including the sexual prowess of a porn star, the body of
an NFL running back and the brain of an A student. But he also has
the desires of a hardened criminal deep within his heart, until he
decides to straighten his life out by joining the military. In his
only opportunity to escape prison or the grave, Shawn is secretly
guided by a hidden hand, into becoming a guinea pig for a
clandestine military project that had singled him out when he was
only a child. The unknown things they inject in his body and the
events that follow will land him in a life or death battle and
leave him changed forever.
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