Author: Naomi Stanford Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136436863 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
Organization Design looks at how you need to change the ways your organization does things in order to increase productivity, performance, and profit. Providing the knowledge and method to handle the kind of recurring organisational change that all businesses face, those which do not involve transforming the entire enterprise but which necessitate significant change at the business unit, divisional, functional, facility or local levels. The problem lies in knowing what needs to change and how to change it. Taking the organisation as a designed system, it describes four major elements of organizations: the work - the basic tasks to be done by the organisation and its parts, the people - characteristics of individuals in the organization, formal organization - structures eg the organisation hierarchy, processes, and methods that are formally created to get individuals to perform tasks, informal organization - emerging arrangements including variations to the norm, processes, and relationships, commonly described as the culture or 'the way we do things round here'. The way these four elements relate, combine and interact affects productivity, performance and profit. Most books on this subject target a wide management audience rather than HR, this is specifically written for HR practitioners and line managers working together to achieve the goal. It clarifies why and how organisations need to be in a state of readiness to design or redesign and emphasises that people as well as business processes must be part of design considerations.
Author: Emile Benoit Publisher: ISBN: 9780231881807 Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Languages : en Pages : 275
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Chronicles the economic results of a shift in focus from nationalism in Europe to integration. It describes the European Economic Community, its evolution, and its structure, then deals with the origin and nature of the Great Split between the two European trade blocs. It then considers the effects of European integration on U.S. Foreign trade and payments and the profitability of U.S. direct investments in Europe, the advantages and disadvantages of particular countries as bases for U.S. investment, alternative strategies for exploiting European markets, and some distinctive characteristics of European business as compared to American business.
Author: Rosie Harris Publisher: ISBN: 9780750525114 Category : Domestic fiction Languages : en Pages : 365
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Set in 1920's Wales this is the story of two sisters driven apart by their love for the same man and the choices they are forced to make for their very different futures.
Author: Robert Scott Publisher: ISBN: 9780997416329 Category : Languages : en Pages : 352
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Bob Johnstone returns to New Zealand and Whitecliffs where he spent school holidays. He finds conspiracies, murder, and deceit, reaching from 1940s Holland to 1980s New Zealand, where crime, death, and romance flip him battered head over busted heels. At the center is beautiful, red-haired Lucyo, whose reappearance is as mysterious as her death.
Author: Bartlett Jere Whiting Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674219816 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 626
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p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."
Author: Bridget Heos Publisher: Lerner Publications ISBN: 1467700797 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
Book Description
On cloud nine. A pretty penny. The sixty-four-thousand-dollar question. Have you heard these crazy expressions? People use them even when the sky is cloud-free and there are no pennies in sight! That's because these sayings are idioms—phrases that mean something different than what the words in them actually say. But don't let idioms put you at sixes and sevens. Let's explore a variety of idioms related to money and numbers and figure out what people really mean when they use them.
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