System engineering management

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Julie Mowinski and Lisa Francis-Jennings

Find out how change agents in different regions of the world initiate change within the public, private and voluntary sectors. How different types of change interventions challenge main stream approaches to strategic implementation and turnaround efforts. A uniting perspective is the ongoing reflections of the change agents and their practice in relation to evaluating and continually improving their style, methods and tools. What can you learn from these personal journeys? - A comfortable and safe environment for open communication and information sharing - A straight line is not always the shortest route - Find drivers for change in the most unlikely places - Achieve collective action and a common identity in a disparate environment - Temper a target-oriented approach with inclusive methods to achieve greater success - Dare to enable bottom-up change leadership - Raise our inner consciousness to become better change leaders.

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Casey Ichniowski ... [et al

"This volume contributes to a growing consensus about effective workplace practices. The volume combines detailed studies of single industries (automobile assembly, apparel, and machine tools) with cross-industry studies of financial performance. Compared with most past investigations, the research described here has better measures of both workplace practices and organizational performance. The contributors find that systems of innovative human resource management practices can have large effects on business performance. Success comes not from any single innovation, but from a coherent system encompassing pay, training, and employee involvement."--BOOK JACKET.

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William L. Shanklin

How to avoid classic entrepreneurial errors when developing a business or marketing a product and how to improve your chances for success.

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Pat Caplan

Are disputes ever really resolved, or do people need to find ways of accommodating them and living with the consequences? Can dispute settlement procedures at the local level be transferred to wider environments? In attempting to answer these questions, some of the foremost specialists in the anthropology of law and disputing behaviour examine how people in a variety of social settings, ranging from Ireland to East Africa, deal with quarrels and seek to resolve or accommodate them. This stimulating volume should be of interest to anyone concerned about the huge increase in conflict in many parts of the world.