Study of management problems in respect of marketing profitability, with particular reference to the USA - covers theoretical aspects of profitability measurement, profit planning, costing, budgeting, production control, price policy, managerial accounting, etc.
"This book prepares readers to master an IT and managerial discipline quickly gaining momentum in organizations of all sizes--Business Process Management (BPM). It describes how BPM treats processes as a portfolio of strategic assets that create and deliver customer and sharehol…
Configuration Management for Senior Managers is written to help managers in product manufacturing and engineering environments identify the ways in which they can streamline their products and processes through proactive documentation control and product lifecycle management. Ex…
Argues that current "common sense" in management forms a historically and culturally specific way of thinking about work and society which is highly unlikely to be appropriate for the 21st century. Considers: some aspects of social relationships in the US in the period 1790-1870…
"The chief aim of Jobs and Fairness is to bring together evidence about the validity of the first hypothesis: about the material benefits which employee ownership may be expected to bring. Accordingly, after an extended discussion of theoretical and background questions, it cons…
Examines the transfer of interest institutions and the subsequent transformation of workplace relations in the east German clothing industry after reunification in 1989. Focuses on the functioning of the newly introduced works councils. Based on surveys of trade union members in…
Monograph on the evolution of philosophys and ideologies concerning work - reviews the historical background of forced labour, work ethics of the Protestant religion, the international division of labour, the birth of the industrial society, examines theories on industrial worke…
