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by Lisa Guerin, J.D., Deborah C. England
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
AUDIENCE:
Managers, HR professionals, supervisors, human resource professionals, small business owners, and anyone else who needs to understand and apply family and medical leave laws (particularly the FMLA).
REASONS TO BUY THIS NEW EDITION:
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is...
Energy Trade in South Asia
Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The South Asia Regional Energy Study was completed as an important component of the technical assistance project Preparing the Energy Sector Dialogue and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Energy Center Capacity Development. It involved examining regional energy trade opportunities among...
by Editors of D&C
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
From The Bag Making Bible by Lisa Lam
Half the fun of making this cheerful bag is choosing three fabrics that all look fabulous together. Once you have chosen the fabrics you’ll find this bag just kind of makes itself! The more you piece it together (like a colorful jigsaw) the more you’ll want...
by Alexandra De Vito, M.C.R.P., John Balouziyeh
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Over the past sixty years, the field of international development has come full circle, returning to priorities that value people over gross domestic product. Principles for successful development, such as institution building, managed competition to reduce corruption, human organization, the design...
by D.L. DeAngelis, J.Y. Zhuang, J.C. Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
After the 1998 flood of the Yangtze River, one of the world’s most important rivers, environmental experts realized that, to control flooding, much more attention must be paid to vegetation cover on bare lands, thin forest land, and shrub-covered land in mountain areas. In 1999, an environmental...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context
Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...
Integrity in the Business Panorama
Models of European Best-Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
This volume explores the value of business integrity and ethics as a "best practice" model in business strategy. The authors define business integrity, explore areas in which integrity is often absent or discredited, and provide a framework and tools to help build better business ethics...
Moral Leadership in Business
Towards a Business Culture of Integrity
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This brief explores the concept of moral leadership in organizations. Specifically, it examines ways in which companies can strengthen their reputation in the market and increase performance by taking leading positions in the realm of business ethics. It presents research from top scholars of Eastern...
Who You Were Meant to Be
A Guide to Finding or Recovering Your Life's Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Are you happy with your life? Are you where you want to be? Are you doing what you want to do? What holds you back: your family, work, your relationships, yourself?
This inspiring book touches a chord which is universal: the desire to find one's purpose and fulfill it. It aims to help us understand...
Peace versus Justice
Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward...
How College Affects Students
21st Century Evidence that Higher Education Works
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The bestselling analysis of higher education's impact, updated with the latest data
How College Affects Students synthesizes over 1,800 individual research investigations to provide a deeper understanding of how the undergraduate experience affects student populations. Volume 3 contains the...
Supernova Advisor Teams
A Pathway to Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Strengthen and unify your Financial Advisor Team
Teams are the principle building blocks of the strategy of successful organizations. The focus of your organization may be on service, quality, cost, value, speed, efficiency, performance, or any other similar goals, but teams remain the central...
by Anne C. Coon Ph.D., Judith Ann Feuerherm
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
In Thriving in Retirement: Lessons from Baby Boomer Women, profiles of highly diverse professional women are interwoven with information gleaned from surveys, interviews, and focus groups, thereby allowing readers to identify with individuals similar to themselves, whether through profession, education,...