Management & Strategy

The first Spanish business textbook to combine professional and intercultural skillsClaves promotes advanced Spanish-language proficiency alongside intercultural understanding, pragmatic skills, communication strategies, and genre-specific conventions necessary for learners to interact effectively with business partners across all Spanish-speaking countries. With its companion website for homework activities, it focuses on core business topics and skills, while inviting learners to explore and reflect on culturally embedded social and communication practices, both their own and those of others. The textbook engages learners with real-life examples of workplace situations and business communications contributed by business professionals. Activities foster classroom communication practice. Business topics covered include employability, company structure, human resources, workplace communication technology, marketing and advertising, international expansion, finance, and socioeconomic indicators across the Spanish-speaking world. Claves invites even learners without prior business knowledge to grow the practical skills and strategies necessary to work in business across the Spanish-speaking world.

The book describes Japan's efforts since 2015 to exit the deflationary 'lost decades' and chart a new economic course through digital and green transformation, as well as 'new/sustainable capitalism.' The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.

In today's dynamic organisational landscape, striving for a diverse workforce does not automatically translate into an inclusive workplace. The book provides practical insights and hands-on tools for how everyone can work towards an organisation that is more inclusive, diverse, equitable, accessible, and ultimately more enjoyable for all.

In today's dynamic organisational landscape, striving for a diverse workforce does not automatically translate into an inclusive workplace. The book provides practical insights and hands-on tools for how everyone can work towards an organisation that is more inclusive, diverse, equitable, accessible, and ultimately more enjoyable for all.

Industry 5.0 is a new paradigm aiming to address social and environmental sustainability in future industries. This book explores various models and execution frameworks across different sectors, enabling organizations to stay competitive by integrating digital technologies with human creativity.

Leveraging the power of emotional intelligence ensures you are better able to relate and respond to your clients, allowing you to unlock higher sales.

Projects generally require skills and effort from multiple disciplines to develop project deliverables. Projects are executed in teams, as project tasks require multiple skills, judgment, and experience. Project teams roles should be assigned based on strengths of individuals. Project team process is a mediating mechanism linking variables such as members, team, and organizational characteristics that include structure, culture, supporting systems, performance and incentive systems, employee morality, and top management support. Team performance or teamwork is impacted by the structure of a team. Team structural characteristics include the number of team members, the status hierarchy, roles and responsibilities, and accepted norms for behaviors of individuals within the team. Further, understanding characteristics of virtual teams and their key attributes for improving global project performance are of critical importance. Social and behavioral skills that each person brings are important influencing factors in interactions with other team members and in forming a cohesive and productive team. Also, organization and national cultures influence their behaviors. Project Teams is an attempt to address all these topics in detail and offer a practical approach to managing projects successfully in the current business environment by including concepts, processes, techniques, and tools to manage and enhance performance of project teams and projects. This book would be meaningful for project management professionals and project managers in any organization and can be a useful resource for academic institutions in teaching management and project management disciplines.

Public Sector Ethics: Compliance, Integrity, and Comparison presents a comprehensive treatment of the subject of ethics in the public sector. What structural elements are necessary and how to create organizations that make ethics their priority are the questions that this edited volume addresses.

This volume in the Advances in Global Leadership series continues to advance both global leadership research and practice by bridging and integrating conceptual, empirical, and practitioner perspectives to provide a deeper understanding of this rapidly growing field of study.

Building on the award-winning success of the first edition, Integrated Management offers Initiatives we would want to achieve regardless of their proven positive impacts on a single bottom line, as they are practices that benefit the environment and society in dynamic ways that for too long have been overlooked.

Pricing power is a simple concept, yet so many successful people overlook it, leaving money on the table. It's not about charging more; it's about discovering the only type of value your customers will pay more for.Not all value is equal. Want to 2X your earnings? If you operate with a 15-percent profit margin, you could grow your business by 100 percent, managing twice the resources and doubling your complexity. Or you could simply increase your pricing power by 15 percent. While few know how, the companies, leaders, and productive individuals embracing the lessons of Re-Valuing do it every day.Join the Re-Value Revolution and Ignite Your Team to: Discover what your customers are willing to pay more for.Identify where your business is leaking value and intervene.Cut through competing priorities by asking the right questions.Ensure your strategies will stand the test of time.REVALUE shares a wealth of game-changing insights within an easy-to-apply framework, distilling a 20] year pursuit into an entertaining read that you can easily digest on your next domestic plane ride.

This important new textbook provides a concise and practice-oriented introduction to the humanitarian sector and the key debates surrounding it. This exciting new textbook will be important for students wanting a comprehensive introduction, as well as for practitioners to stimulate critical thinking and enhance their practical skills.

This important new textbook provides a concise and practice-oriented introduction to the humanitarian sector and the key debates surrounding it. This exciting new textbook will be important for students wanting a comprehensive introduction, as well as for practitioners to stimulate critical thinking and enhance their practical skills.

Embrace the future with confidence and harness the transformative power of artificial intelligence to supercharge your nonprofit's efficiency and impact.Guided by our motto "Don't be afraid, be prepared," this book demystifies AI, making it accessible and practical for everyday use in your organization. It provides straightforward strategies and real-world examples to show how AI can streamline operations, enhance your mission's impact, and revolutionize problem-solving.This guide is your key to navigating the evolving landscape of nonprofit management, arming you with the tools and knowledge needed to thrive in an era of innovation. Prepare to lead your organization toward a successful, impactful future.

4-Gen Leadership: Thriving in a Multi-Generational Workplace is a practical guide for those aspiring to be multi-generational leaders in today's evolving business landscape. 4-gen leadership is the philosophy and actions leaders can take to help all generations (baby boomers, Gen X, millennials, and Gen Z) be accepted, honored, and united into one effective, harmonious team. The authors have created a resource that leaders across every industry at all levels of leadership will find useful. This book helps established and emerging leaders understand the generations in their workforce and how to bridge the new generation gaps in their organizations.Each chapter contains reflective questions to help the readers apply the book's concepts to their work environment; a section titled Voices from the Generations, which shares insightful views from one of the many successful leaders interviewed for the project; a Real-World Connection segment, which is a scenario in which the readers see how a hypothetical problem might be solved by using a multi-gen leadership lens; and finally, an activity worksheet that points readers toward the next steps they can take to strengthen their multi-gen leadership skills and the culture.

Operating outside the law, self-appointed groups of citizens fashioning themselves as 'paedophile hunters' bait and expose individuals seeking to engage children sexually, both on- and offline. Following four years of unprecedented access to one of the UK's most prolific hunting groups, Mark de Rond explores the nuances of their work.