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Implementing Management Innovations: Lessons Learned from Activity
Based Costing in the U.S. Automobile Industry is the result of a
long-term study of the implementation of activity based costing
(ABC) inside two of America's largest automobile companies. The
research advances our theoretical and practical understanding of
the implementation of management innovations by tracing the
evolution of ABC from the corporate level down to its eventual
rollout at the plants. Another distinguishing feature of the study
is the blend of field research methods and hypothesis testing to
determine the factors that led to implementation success for
managers and ABC development teams. Many of the findings of the
study have implications for the implementation of other types of
management innovations.
The face of entertainment has changed radically over the last
decade--and dangerously so. Stars like Britney, Paris, Lindsay, Amy
Winehouse--and their media enablers--have altered what we consider
"normal" behavior. According to addiction specialist Dr. Drew
Pinsky and business and entertainment expert Dr. S. Mark Young, a
high proportion of celebrities suffer from traits associated with
clinical narcissism--vanity, exhibitionism, entitlement,
exploitativeness--and the rest of us, especially young people, are
mirroring what we witness nightly on our TV and computer
screens.
A provocative, eye-opening study, The Mirror Effect sounds a
timely warning, raising important questions about our changing
culture--and provides insights for parents, young people, and
anyone who wonders what the cult of celebrity is really doing to
America.
Why do people in a business negotiation settle for less than
each of them could and should receive? Two rational players face
off in an economic game. Each pursues interests as conventional
theory dictates, but all too often, the result is suboptimal. Why
do they fail to capture what Dr. Young calls the cooperative
surplus? Dr. Young proposes that the root of the problem lies in
the philosophical assumptions underlying decision and game theory.
The common understanding of economic rationality is fundamentally
flawed, he says. It assumes that rational players are always
self-interested and that they will make decisions on the basis of
consequences. Arguing that no theory of economic rationality
developed from this foundation can lead to the desired prescriptive
results, Dr. Young maintains that a successful prescriptive theory
of rationality must start from a different premise: the notion of
actors as autonomous agents who act over and above their
inclinations to express their identity.
Dr. Young advances his own notion of economic rationality, then
seeks to establish rules by which rational economic players can
jointly create a common base for business negotiation. The results
of bargaining will then be in equilibrium, and a solution optimal
to both sides can be reached. Already praised by philosophers in
Europe for its innovative vision and practicality, this book is a
must for business executives and attorneys engaged in business
negotiations, as well as for their colleagues with similar
interests in the academic community.
KEY BENEFIT: This sixth edition of the best-selling Learning the
Art of Helping: Building Blocks and Techniques emphasizes the
techniques and skills necessary to be effective in the art of
helping, from basic building blocks to advanced therapeutic
techniques. The text is practical, innovative, and focused on the
relationship between helper and client. The author incorporates the
latest research on effective treatments, while offering an
integrative perspective. The author's conversational tone is
appealing to students, yet the book is carefully referenced for
instructors. The goal is to make beginning helpers become
"reflective practitioners." "Stop and Reflect" sections, exercises,
homework, class discussion topics, and Journal Starters support
this approach. The sixth edition includes new sections highlighting
issues of culture in research, challenges related to gender
differences, and helping skills specific to children. KEY TOPICS:
Helping as a Personal Journey; The Therapeutic Relationship;
Invitational Skills; Reflecting Skills: Paraphrasing; Reflecting
Skills: Reflecting Feelings; Advanced Reflecting Skills: Reflecting
Meaning and Summarizing; Challenging Skills; Assessment and Goal
Setting; Change Techniques, Part I; Change Techniques, Part II;
Evaluation, Reflection, and Termination; Skills for Helping Someone
Who Is Different MARKET: Learning the Art of Helping is appropriate
for courses in Counseling Process, Skills, and Techniques and
Counseling Interventions, or as a refresher and hands-on resource
for counselors new to their professions
Meaningful learning aids and real-life scenarios help students
learn to become reflective practitioners. Counseling Today:
Foundations of Professional Identity does more than overview
professional practice competencies-it actively engages students
using relatable, real-life scenarios and effective pedagogical aids
designed for the way they learn best. As students are introduced to
current research, controversial topics, and authentic counseling
stories, they are challenged to think critically and reflect on
what they learn. This approach keeps them involved in their
learning as they acquire the skills they need to develop their
professional identities. Filled with more first-person accounts,
new social justice themes, over 300 updated reference citations,
and the latest CACREP standards, the 2nd Edition gives readers true
insight into the way that counseling is practiced today. Also
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Mark Yonge had, for many years, wanted to write a book about
railway projects that were started but never completed. The
physical evidence of these works throughout England although
rapidly vanishing, can still be seen in places to this day. The
reader can view several examples which include viaducts,
earthworks, bridges, partially completed tunnels, an abandoned
tunnel boring machine and the beginnings of a major London airport.
Behind all these tales are stories of intrigue, manipulation,
interference by the armed forces and sometimes great sadness
brought about by personal ambition and ruin. These remaining assets
are in the main, not protected by legislation and are thus at risk
of demolition at any time. It is to be hoped that this record of
their existence in the 2020s may go a little way towards recording
some of our more interesting and neglected features of railway
history for the benefit of future generations.
Implementing Management Innovations: Lessons Learned from Activity
Based Costing in the U.S. Automobile Industry is the result of a
long-term study of the implementation of activity based costing
(ABC) inside two of America's largest automobile companies. The
research advances our theoretical and practical understanding of
the implementation of management innovations by tracing the
evolution of ABC from the corporate level down to its eventual
rollout at the plants. Another distinguishing feature of the study
is the blend of field research methods and hypothesis testing to
determine the factors that led to implementation success for
managers and ABC development teams. Many of the findings of the
study have implications for the implementation of other types of
management innovations.
Advances in Marine Biology has always offered marine biologists
in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a variety of topics. As well as
many volumes that provide a selection of important topics, the
series also includes thematic volumes that examine a particular
field in detail. Two recent thematic volumes, one on ocean
biogeography and another on the biology of calanoid copepods,
provide comprehensive reviews of these topics and include
previously unpublished data.
This volume contains two detailed reviews. The first discusses the
population genetics of bathyal and abyssal organisms. The second
covers growth performance and mortality in aquatic macrobenthic
invertebrates.
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