The Management of Tourism provides detailed coverage of the breadth of issues involved in the management of tourism businesses. The book clearly demonstrates the scope and significance of tourism as a business. Avoiding a narrow approach to the subject, The Management of Tourism explains and supports fundamental business management aspects whilst ......
The Shaping of Technology and Institutions of the Market Economy
'The book provides a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners and policy-makers...In particular, it provides a good introduction to broader aspects of the field of innovation for researchers based within the engineering and science traditions' - Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management 'Howells has synthesised a broad range of ......
Leading Coherently draws insight from 36 exemplary leaders to describe a natural and potent relationship between leadership formation, performance, and sustainability. Through sharing their leadership stories, leaders from across the globe reveal prominent themes about how leaders are formed to the role of influencing others toward the achievement of goals. Leaders also reveal how leaders perform such influence on others, and how leaders sustain themselves and their leadership influence over time and adversity. Key Features: References leadership wisdom born of rich experience from a very diverse group of credible and respected leaders Describes elements of leadership formation, performance and sustainability that cut across gender, culture, and context Observes a dynamic relationship between leadership values, character, behavior, and dispositions Presents a model for assessing, and advancing coherent leadership Presents practical examples of how real-world leaders advance the coherency of their leadership practice This would be an ideal text for students in leadership programs at the bachelor's, master's and doctoral level. Aspiring and practicing leaders across all fields who are interested in understanding powerful influences within their formation, improving their performance, and sustaining themselves and their purpose will also find this book extremely helpful.
Aimed at aiding researchers to improve their data's quality, Computer-Assisted Interviewing helps readers identify the possibilities and difficulties which arise in computer-assisted interviewing. The author annotates samples of actual research questionnaires so that readers can compare the usual paper questionnaire against the extra statements needed for clear computer-assisted interviewing. In addition, the book includes an overview of the important features to consider if one wants to purchase a CADAC program.
Trends, Issues, and Challenges in Managerial Diversity
This book traces the experiences of women managers using a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analysis. Top scholars and researchers begin by examining historical and global perspectives, continue with individual and organizational issues such as ethnicity, health, and personal and family lifestyles, and conclude by exploring future trends in the issues of job discrimination and the restructuring of organizations from a feminist perspective. Each section concludes with a commentary from a leading authority.
This volume brings together some of the best writing published in the journal Management Learning since its re-launch under this title in 1994. This collection provides readings grouped under six key headings which reflect where some of the most influential and provocative work in the field has been done over recent years, namely: Organizational Learning and Learning Organizations; Individual Learning; Learning and New Technology; Critical Approaches to Management Education; Pedagogical Practice; Globalization and Management Learning; Along with an editorial introduction, this volume will provide a unique and invaluable resource for anyone studying or researching management learning and cognate areas, by bringing together some of the best peer-reviewed work in the field.
Containing practitioner-friendly resources, including charts, diagrams, sidebars, tools, strategies and real-life examples, this easy-to-use resource offers practical guidance to leaders experiencing conflict in their organizations. Leading Through Collaboration will also help those leaders who want to create a community aligned around a common ......
This volume brings together some of the best writing published in the journal Management Learning since its re-launch under this title in 1994. This collection provides readings grouped under six key headings which reflect where some of the most influential and provocative work in the field has been done over recent years, namely: Organizational Learning and Learning Organizations; Individual Learning; Learning and New Technology; Critical Approaches to Management Education; Pedagogical Practice; Globalization and Management Learning; Along with an editorial introduction, this volume will provide a unique and invaluable resource for anyone studying or researching management learning and cognate areas, by bringing together some of the best peer-reviewed work in the field.
The authors of this volume make an impassioned plea for dramatic changes in the content, processes and structures of school districts in the United States. Using examples to illustrate their controversial model, they provide a guide for the systematic planning of high-performance learning activities for an improved education system.
