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Managing the Maze –Your Guide to Position Classification and Position Management...is the second book in the series by author Susan Custard. Bringing more than 30 years of federal human resources experience to her work, Custard helps managers and Human Resource Directors to execute highly successful...

The Federal Manager's Handbook has been completely updated for 2014 will prove to be your indispensable resource and guide that will help ALL managers and supervisors not only survive--and even prosper--in such difficult times! Here's just a few of the issues this one-of-a-kind "manager's survival guide"...

The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2014, the fourth in the series, provides a dynamic and up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the...

Estimado Lector: Con “El Arte de Saludar y Presentar. El Teléfono y las Redes Sociales”, una Guía Práctica para la Gente de Hoy, continuamos con la Colección “El Complemento que le falta a TU Éxito”, en la que damos tips y consejos de comportamiento y buenas costumbres que todos...

Institutional racism may be described as a self-perpetuating and opaque process where, either intentionally or unintentionally, barriers and procedures which disadvantage ethnic minority groups are supported and maintained. It is often the direct linkage and thus the underlying cause for the lack...

Understanding Cultural Policy provides a practical, comprehensive introduction to thinking about how and why governments intervene in the arts and culture. Cultural policy expert Carole Rosenstein examines the field through comparative, historical, and administrative lenses, while engaging...

As a founder and managing director of Global Business Network, James Ogilvy helped develop the technique of scenario planning, which has become an integral part of strategic thinking in both business and government. Now Ogilvy shows how we can use this cutting-edge method for social change in our...

The first edition of The Growth Experiment, originally published in 1990 as a response to critics of the Reagan-era tax cuts, became a kind of bible for proponents of supply-side economics. This new and updated edition, which explores the economic effects of America's tax policy over the last five...

Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform offers readers differing theoretical perspectives to help examine the process of public sector reform, combined with an overview of major trends in the core areas of the functioning of the public sector. The book consists of three parts, the first addresses...

The US military today is a force of superbly trained men and women who are ready to deliver victory for our Nation. In support of the objectives of our National Security Strategy, it is routinely employed to shape the international security environment and stands ready to respond across the full...

Originally published in 1984, this study explores multiple theoretical perspectives as well as critically analysing the most recent evidence at the time to try and find a full explanation for inequality in the United States. Arguments of neoclassical economists and Marxist and institutional structuralists...

Bhutan became a member of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 1982, and today ADB is the largest multilateral development partner of the country. As of 31 December 2013, ADB has provided $486.29 million in loans and grants and $54.09 million in technical assistance. More than two-thirds of ADB's assistance...

Climate Change and the Private Sector explores the challenges of transforming our energy infrastructure to become carbon neutral and adapting to climate change in the twenty-first century. It examines the critical role that the private sector must play in these challenges. To transform the...

A preface asks whether laissez-faire economics is a perpetual motion machine with Say's Law as the machine. The scope of the essay is stated. Chapter 1 discusses Karl Marx's Surplus Value and flaws in its assertion. For example, lower wages produce cheaper goods that lower wages can buy at lower prices....