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  • Working for the State

    Employment Relations in the Public Services

    Edited by S. Corby, G. Symon ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book examines the impact of public sector reforms and reorganisations on the experiences of the UK public sector's six million workers and those employed in the private sector but providing public services. Chapters bring long-standing topics up-to-date, such as worker representation and reward. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Adjudicating Employment Rights

    A Cross-National Approach

    by S. Corby, P. Burgess ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Adjudicating Employment Rights compares and analyses institutions for resolving employment rights disputes in ten countries. In addition to detailed individual chapters, the study offers a theoretical perspective and an evaluation of national institutions against key yardsticks. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Wealth of Nations

    Complete Works

    by Adam Smith ...
    The book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth, and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. By reflecting upon the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Dealing with Dysfunction

    Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector

    by Jorrit de Jong ...
    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    How can we intervene in the systemic bureaucratic dysfunction that beleaguers the public sector? De Jong examines the roots of this dysfunction and presents a novel approach to solving it. Drawing from academic literature on bureaucracy and problem solving in the public sector, and the clinical work of the Kafka Brigade-a social enterprise based in the Netherlands dedicated to diagnosing and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Mindless

    Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans

    by Simon Head ...
    We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs) -- the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle class workers in the process. CBSs are ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Catalytic Governance

    Leading Change in the Information Age

    by Patricia Meredith, Steven A. Rosell, Ged R. Davis ...
    Although the information age offers individuals from all walks of life the power to make their voices heard, we often end up with a cacophony of competing voices rather than a conversation. With so many people empowered to join the decision-making process, the number and diversity of stakeholders in governance situations poses a special challenge: how do you steer when so many hands are on the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Governance Report 2017

    by The Hertie School of Governance ...
    Series series Hertie Governance Report
    Looking at recent developments around the world, it seems that democratic values -- from freedom of association and speech to fair and free elections and a system of checks and balances -- have come under threat. Experts have, however, disproportionately focused on the problems of democracy in the West, and pointed to familiar sets of shortcomings and emerging deficiencies. By contrast, and with ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Perspectives in Business Informatics Research

    16th International Conference, BIR 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 28–30, 2017, Proceedings

    Edited by Björn Johansson, Charles Møller, Atanu Chaudhuri, Frantisek Sudzina ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2017, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2017.This year the BIR conference attracted 59 submissions from 23 countries. They were reviewed by 45 members of the Program Committee, and as a result, 17 full papers and 3 short papers were selected for presentation at the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Why the Third Way failed

    Economics, morality and the origins of the 'Big Society'

    by Bill Jordan ...
    In the wake of the economic crash, public policy is in search of a new moral compass. This book explains why the Third Way's combination of market-friendly and abstract, value-led principles has failed, and shows what is needed for an adequate replacement as a political and moral project. It criticises the economic analysis on which the Third Way approach to policy was founded and suggests an ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Tourism, Security and Safety

    Edited by Yoel Mansfeld, Abraham Pizam ...
    The topic of safety and security in the tourism industry is of vital importance globally. In recent years, and mainly after the 9/11 event, both academics and practitioners have started to look into crisis management issues seeking workable solutions in order to mitigate the negative impacts of safety and security incidences on the tourism industry and affected destinations. Tourism, Safety and ... Read more

    $265.00 USD

  • With Respect, Minister

    A View from Inside Whitehall

    by Brian Unwin ...
    How have the workings of the British civil service changed over the past forty years? In this new memoir, Sir Brian Unwin discloses his veritable wealth of experience behind the scenes of British government. His reflections chart a course from his education at Oxford and Yale, through to a seven year stint as President of the European Investment Bank. On the way, his vivid and diverse career ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Trade Unions in Renewal

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by Peter Fairbrother, Charlotte Yates ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context
    This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The authors consider the recent re-examination by trade union movements of the basis of union organization and activity in the face of a harsher economic and political climate. One of the impetuses for this re-examination has ... Read more

    $101.99 USD