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| Managing Careers: theory and practice |
| Language:English | Channel:Career |
This important new book addresses the concepts and principles of career planning and management in a contemporary context. Acknowledging the often-cited motto of many organizations, that people are their most important assets, this book explores systematic ways of retaining and developing talented people. It is ideal for students of HRM or at MBA level taking a module on career management. Additionally, it is of great interest to consultants, HR managers and individuals wishing to develop their ... |
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| Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All |
| Language:English | Channel:Career |
Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two young children, Emily is the newly promoted VP of marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from clients′ offices as an independent IT consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.
In this book, we travel inside Emily and Paul′s br... |
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| Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life |
| Language:English | Channel:Career |
The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Getting Things Done.
David Allen’s Getting Things Done hit a nerve and ignited a movement with businesses, students, soccer moms, and techies all the way from Silicon Valley to Europe and Asia. Now, David Allen leads the world on a new path to achieve focus, control, and perspective. Throw out everything you know about productivity-- Making It All Work will make life and work a game you can win. For those who have already experie... |
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| Managers in the Making: Careers, Development and Control in Corporate Britain and Japan (Industrial |
| Language:English | Channel:Career |
Using original data, Managers in the Making presents a thorough analysis of the processes by which managers are made in Britain and Japan. It provides a detailed comparative study of the careers, training, developmental experience and job demands of managers in eight named companies, matching British firms with Japanese counterparts. Using qualitative and quantitative data the authors offer an understanding of these processes within organizational, sectoral and national contexts. Managers' pe... |
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| Careers Education: Contesting Policy and Practice |
| Language:English | Channel:Career |
Careers Education takes a critical look at policy and practice in the context of the new role of the privatized Careers, Education and Guidance Service.
Suzy Harris places the present situation within the context of subordination to market principles; delineates the changing and uncertain relationship between schools and the Careers Service; shows how the politics of curriculum relevance marginalizes careers teaching; describes the downward path to complete exclusion from the National... |
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| Consumption and Identity at Work |
| Language:English | Channel:Career |
The realms of consumption have typically been seen to be distinct from those of work and production. This book examines how contemporary rhetorics and discourses of organizational change and reform are breaking down such distinctions - with significant implications for the construction of subjectivities and identities at work.
In particular, Paul du Gay shows how the capacities and predispositions required of consumers and those required of employees are increasingly difficult to di... |
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| NonProfits and Government (Field Guides to Finding a New Career) |
| Language:English | Channel:Career |
The new "Nonprofits and Government" guides career changers in exploring career possibilities in this interesting field. With invaluable tips and practical advice from professionals, this resource provides readers with an overview of nonprofits and government as well as ways to map out career goals for the future. The careers profiled include: Communications manager; Educator; Fundraiser; Grant; administrator; Legal advisor; Lobbyist; Public official; and, Volunteer coordinator. |
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| The Green Workplace: Sustainable Strategies that Benefit Employees, the Environment, and the Bottom |
| Language:English | Channel:Career |
As 21st-century companies realize they'll need to be green to compete, sustainable ideas are spreading like wildfire throughout all fields of modern business. In The Green Workplace, Leigh Stringer, an expert on sustainable workplace design and strategy, shows companies on the cusp of radically transforming their practices how to bring together diverse teams and establish new organizational governance for creative problem-solving in greening their workplace. Her hands-on green strategies are ... |
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