Sex at Work: Attraction, Harassment, Flirtation and Discrimination
After nearly two generations of law, politics, and business practices aimed at balancing the roles that men and women play in the workplace, sex remains a major controversy in business. Mari Florence considers all the company policies, both good and bad, and helps make sense out of a confusing array of sexual mores and motives. Mari Florence is a Los Angeles-based journalist and author. Her previous books include The Enterprising Woman and the SO/HO Desk Reference Guide.
Dealing with Dilemmas: Where Business Analytics Fall Short
Observing how business management is obsessed with analysis and numbers, Dealing with Dilemmas shows there is an entire class of problems that cannot be solved by analysis: business dilemmas. Dilemmas, representing a large part of strategic decision-making, require the opposite approach of analysis; synthesis. Dealing with Dilemmas shows how popular performance management methodologies can be used in new and previously unexplored ways.
Power: I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour? The world, as Nick Bilton—with tongue-in-cheek—shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are experiencing is the twenty-first-century version of the fear that always takes hold as new technology replaces the old.
Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy
As globalization and competition pose new opportunities and challenges, firms strive to discover effective and efficient e-business models and applications to contribute to their sustainability, growth, and innovation. The Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Global Economy creates a repository for educators, researchers, and industry professionals to collaborate and discuss their research ideas, theories, practical experiences, challenges, and opportunities, ...
This book covers a lot of ground for business people expanding their formal training or needing a refresher in economics. While it is impossible to go in depth into every economic topic in one book, the authors identify the important subjects that affect businesses today. I found the Microeconomics of Product Markets especially useful for business decision makers to have the right context when evaluating choices.
