Management & Strategy

Drawing from real-world examples, Meaningful Tourism showcases the remarkable positive outcomes that responsible travel can bring. Witness how communities thrive, cultures flourish, and environments rejuvenate when travellers embrace their role as stewards of the places they explore.

The Future of HRM in a World of Persistent Virtual Reality delves into how the integration of VR technologies is revolutionizing HRM practices, challenging traditional norms, and creating new paradigms for work, employee engagement, training, and recruitment.

This book examines the challenges and opportunities in the oil and gas industry, in the context of emerging markets and developing economies. It provides comprehensive coverage of the management and sustainability practices of the sector and the environmental impact and sustainability of resources.

The book analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the security environment and modern societies. Using a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to security issues, it draws attention to political, military, cultural, information, legal, psychological and social aspects.

This book provides a detailed account of the political economy around investment deal negotiations between African governments and private Chinese investors. It will be of interest to researchers working on Chinese and African investment, politics, institutions, business, economics, and international relations.

"This book is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the strategic decisions we make in our daily lives."-Ceyhun Elgin, Professor, Department of Economics, Bogazici University

Great line managers are decisive, clear, inclusive, compassionate and fair, but there are too few of them around just when we need them most. They can make or break an organisation and energise or destroy the relationship it has with its employees. At the same time, companies invest too little effort in ensuring that line managers have the skills, personality, emotional intelligence, compassion and know-how to excel.This book will help make sure that yoüll shine at the most important and influential management jobs you will ever have. It offers practical but evidence-based guidance on becoming an excellent line manager in a world of work that is more diverse, more hybrid and remote, more precarious, more stressful, more digitised and more demanding.Drawing on the author¿s own research and practical experience, together with best-practice case studies from contemporary organisations and interviews with innovators in the field, this book sets out a vision and a pathway for those who want to raise the standard of line management in modern organisations.

The Routledge Handbook of Public Sector Accounting explores new developments and transformations in auditing, management control, performance measurement, risk management and sustainability work in the contemporary world of the public sector and the functioning of accounting and management in that realm.

Pro WordPress is your ultimate guide to unlocking the full potential of  the world's leading content management system. From novice bloggers to seasoned developers, this comprehensive resource offers a step-by-step journey through every aspect of WordPress customization, security and performance optimization.With clear explanations and practical examples, you'll learn how to set up your WordPress environment, choose the right themes and plugins, and customize your site with advanced techniques such as custom post types, widgets, shortcodes, and more. Dive deep into the world of WordPress security and discover how to safeguard your website against cyber threats with strategies like two-factor authentication, secure file permissions, and regular security audits.But that's not all - this book also equips you with the tools and knowledge to optimize your site for lightning-fast performance and high search engine rankings. Learn how to leverage caching mechanisms, minimize HTTP requests, and implement SEO strategies to boost your site's speed and visibility.Whether you're managing a single WordPress site or overseeing a multisite network, you'll find invaluable insights and best practices for scalability and high availability. Real-world case studies provide inspiration and guidance, showcasing successful WordPress implementations and effective strategies for growth.Whether you're a business owner, freelancer, or aspiring web developer, Pro WordPress empowers you to take control of your online presence and build websites that stand out in today's competitive digital landscape. Unlock the full potential of WordPress and elevate your web development skills with this essential resource.You Will Learn:  The  WordPress ecosystem in its entirety, including its history, core features, and community dynamics. Develop expertise in customizing WordPress themes and plugins using CSS, PHP, and advanced techniques like custom post types and widgets Implement robust security measures to protect your WordPress site from common vulnerabilities, such as brute force attacks and malicious code injections Optimize your website's performance through caching mechanisms, image optimization, and other techniques to enhance user experience and SEO rankings More advanced topics such as managing multisite networks, scalability and high availability to effectively scale your WordPress projects and handle high traffic volumesWho is it for: Web designers and developers to business owners looking to develop a webiste of their own as well as bloggers and hobbyists who are looking to design, launch and maintain a website whatever the project.

Very little research has been conducted on how parliamentary oversight is undertaken in small countries and jurisdictions or across the southern Africa region (excluding South Africa). This ground-breaking book fills that void, providing rich insights into how oversight works in these countries.

This research monograph indicates how factors of smart organizations in local administration lead to sustainable and resilient development processes.

In Emotionally Charged, Dina Denham Smith and Alicia A. Grandey offer an easier and more effective way for leaders to manage the heightened pressures and emotionally charged landscape they face at work: emotional upskilling. Anchored in the science of emotions, emotional upskilling allows for the development of more advanced emotional capabilities to successfully navigate and perform in the new age of work. Denham Smith and Grandey not only replace misconceptions with facts, but they equip leaders to handle the many emotionally loaded events at work. This book will help leaders navigate today's workplace more smoothly, achieving high performance and fulfillment without compromising their well-being.

This book examines the new impacts and opportunities for asset managers based on the EU Action Plan for Sustainable Growth, which creates new standards, frameworks, and definitions for redirecting capital for sustainable growth. This approach disrupts the existing sustainability practices in asset management and requires asset managers to combine understanding of new portfolio engineering approaches with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) logistics and the EU taxonomy. The implications of this transformation affect theoretical models and current forms of asset management. Providing frameworks and tools to tackle the new requirements to create new business opportunities, this book is valuable for asset management professionals, practitioner, scholars, and students.

This book is an essential guide for product managers seeking to harness the power of data to drive their product decisions. It is a detailed resource for developing and maintaining data literacy, a core skill for product managers.Through a structured approach supported by practical insights and illustrative examples, readers will learn to prioritize decisions based on quantitative data rather than intuition, understand core data concepts, and analyze and leverage data effectively.Product managers will discover how data can transform decision-making processes, enabling evidence-based selection, prioritization, and resource allocation for product features. By using customer feedback, user behavior data, market research, and performance metrics, product managers can foster a culture that leverages data to create successful products.This introductory primer and reference guide is indispensable for product managers aiming to integrate data-driven methodologies into their practice, ensuring their decisions are informed, strategic, and impactful.

This book provides a complete teaching companion that an organization can use to educate on the hard topics of racism, antiracism, microaggressions, bias and allyships. It explores the experience of underrepresented minority trainees and other healthcare professionals with racism and allyship.Talking about racism is challenging due to the amount of associated pain, suffering and strong emotions. Creating a respectful, open, interactive and safe place to have conversations, teach and learn is paramount in order to produce change in the healthcare environment. Using narratives to facilitate difficult conversations is familiar to healthcare professionals, and with humility reminds us that we are all "patients" that also need healing. Narratives promote self-reflection and have the power to change beliefs and attitudes.The volume opens with introductory chapters that focus on definitions, historical context and the current climate of racism, bias, microaggressions and allyship. Narratives are presented in 42 chapters organized by themes of racism, microaggression, allyship, sexism and health equity. Each narrative is an honest representation of real-life encounters within the healthcare system. The narratives include personal experiences of racism in health care, explicit and implicit bias, microaggressions and experiences of anti-racist efforts and allyship. There are clear instructions on how to use the narratives for teaching and to facilitate discussion. Among the book's benefits: Explicitly includes the perspective of trainees and administration; Engages learners in affective and emotional learning as well as practical and cognitive learning modes; Provides a series of historical cases, consistent with the preferred and traditional learning modality of health professions; Includes an array of activities, tools and learning exercises.Racism, Microaggressions and Allyship in Health Care is a timely and essential text for medical student and resident training, graduate and undergraduate nursing programs, advanced practice care providers, clinical faculty and staff development, CME workshops, public health programs, and hospital administration. It also is a useful resource for undergraduate pre-medicine programs, structural racism courses, and advanced social science courses (health disparities, medical sociology, inequality, healthcare policy).

This book addresses the economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on Central and East European countries and examines the effect the pandemic has had on organizations in the region. It covers companies' responses to the crisis, the role of institutions in stabilizing markets, and the reshaping of global business trends.

Most successful organizations recognize Maintenance Parts and Procurement as a critical success factor to Asset Management Excellence and their fundamental supply chain value proposition. This book works as a guide to all the stakeholders that influence the success of their Maintenance Parts Operation and their enterprise's bottom line.

Lean manufacturing concepts are being applied to a variety of industries. These concepts ensure streamlined processes through a systematic analysis of wastes and elimination, while enhancing value. This book offers fundamentals, theoretical concepts, case studies, examples, along with insights for lean integration in Industry 4.0.

This book advances the debate on the hybrid areas of labour by taking the case of work arrangements that destabilise the dichotomies between standard and non-standard work, and between self-employment and dependent employment.

If your business operations are held back by bottlenecks and inefficiencies that drain profits, sap energy and limit growth, digital transformation is the solution. Scope to Scale is the ultimate guide for leaders who are ready to harness the transformative power of custom software to lighten workloads, create momentum and delight customers. This practical, step-by-step handbook takes you from assessing your business processes and crafting a strategic plan to optimising workflows, prototyping and implementation. Whether your goal is to streamline operations, boost productivity or innovate your service offerings, Scope to Scale empowers you to turn challenges into strengths. Read this book and learn to: ¿ Identify bottlenecks and opportunities in your current systems ¿ Design a digital strategy aligned with your values and business goals ¿ Confidently navigate the complexities of software implementation ¿ Enable your teams to focus on the high-impact tasks that matter most