Management & management techniques (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Engineering asset management encompasses all types of engineered assets including built environment, infrastructure, plant, equipment, hardware systems and components. Following the release of ISO 5500x set of standards, the 9th WCEAM addresses the h...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This book offers a detailed and full analysis of the strategy which enabled the Swatch Group to establish itself on the world market. In particular, it tackles the issues of production restructuring, with the opening of subsidiaries in Asia, and the ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This guide is designed for systems researchers – emerging and seasoned – searching for holistic approaches of inquiry into complexity, which the Systems Sciences provide. The authors share insight into the foundations of research that are not only sy...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:In the first book of its kind, Turnbull traces the development and implementation of actuarial ideas, from the conception of Equitable Life in the mid-18th century to the start of the 21st century. This book analyses the historical development of Bri...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:The author argues that power in organizations has negative and counter-productive effects: management should be based on self-guidance and maximizing each individual's creative resources. Arguing that mangers should focus on developing efficiency, em...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book describes how auditors exercise different levels of professional skepticism and how they are exposed to different types of affective information on clients’ behavior. Based on the author’s empirical study of 56 auditors, it shows that audit...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:This second volume of two discusses the employment of action learning in different contexts, including healthcare, education, government, military and the business world. Use of action learning in delivery of Future Search Conferences is addressed, a...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book grows from a conference on the state of the art and recent advances in Efficiency and Productivity. Papers were commissioned from leading researchers in the field, and include eight explorations into the analytical foundations of efficien...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book reports on practical approaches for facilitating the process of achieving excellence in the management and leadership of organizational resources. It shows how the principles of creating shared value can be applied to ensure faster learning...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book compares the unique features of workplace mediation to other contexts of mediation, as well as the specific competences each situation requires of the mediator. It covers many important issues related to workplace mediation and discusses in...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:In diesem Essential erfahren Sie, wie Sie Ihr Unternehmen strategisch, organisatorisch und kommunikativ auf Krisensituationen vorbereiten und in einer akuten Krise professionell agieren. Gezeigt wird, wie Abläufe, Verantwortlichkeiten, Verständigungs...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book aims to identify promising future developmental opportunities and applications for Tech Mining. Specifically, the enclosed contributions will pursue three converging themes:The increasing availability of electronic text data resources relat...