Telephone Survey Methods or Agricultural Markets and Prices

Telephone Survey Methods: Sampling, Selection, and Supervision, Vol. 7

Author: Paul J Lavrakas

"From generating phone numbers to structuring the work of interviewers and supervisors, this book covers it all. New to this edition is a focus on the total survey error concept, a comparison of CATI and PAPI procedures, mixed-mode surveys, and new telecommunication technologies." --Canadian Journal of Communication "Telephone Survey Methods is a useful and practical guide to conducting telephone surveys particularly for those who are seeking sampling and administrative guidelines." --Journal of Official Statistics What quality control methods can be employed most effectively to structure and monitor interviews and convert refusals? What telephone numbers should be used in random digit dialing? How can eligible respondents be chosen and their cooperation secured? Addressing these and other survey issues, this completely revised edition of Telephone Survey Methods offers researchers a guide to thinking about and executing telephone surveys. From generating phone numbers to structuring the work of interviewers and supervisers, this book covers it all. New to this edition is a focus on the total survey error concept, a comparison of CATI with PAPI procedures, mixed-mode surveys, and new telecommunication technologies. In addition, the book covers such topics as how to control the sampling pool, how to identify the appropriate respondent, and how to improve on-the-job training of interviewers.

Table of Contents:

	Preface to Second Edition
1	Introduction	1
2	Generating Telephone Survey Sampling Pools	27
3	Processing Telephone Survey Sampling Pools	59
4	Selecting Respondents and Securing Cooperation	98
5	Supervision I: Structuring Interviewers' Work	124
6	Supervision II: Structuring Supervisory Work	146
	Glossary of Terms	163
	References	170
	Index	176
	About the Author	181

Agricultural Markets and Prices

Author: Darren Hudson

This text incorporates new information and devotes more time and space to the issues of agricultural industrialization and market structure likely to be faced by applied economists.

• Responds to a critical need to train students to work in the new world of agricultural markets
  
• Explicitly integrates empirical analysis of issues while maintaining the theoretical and practical issues of applied market analysis
  
• Places a high emphasis on market structure, imperfect competition, vertical coordination, contracting, etc., providing students with the necessary background to understand the new environment in which they will be expected to operate
  
• Includes some introduction to game theory with applications
  
• Contains practical examples, “key questions”, exercises, and questions posed to students that can be used by instructors to stimulate classroom discussion.

Understanding Social Policy or New Canadian Families

Understanding Social Policy

Author: Michael Hill

The seventh edition of Michael Hill's Understanding Social Policy updates his successful text to take into account policy innovations since Labour came to power in 1997 and to reflect the many ways in which the debate about social policy is changing.
A website is now available to complement this text at blackwellpublishing.com/socialpolicy

• Investigates current constitutional changes, such as devolution and the changing central/local relationship and their potential impact upon social policy.

• Places UK social policy in the wider context of the European Union, both by looking at the relevance of EU policies and by comparing the UK with other EU members.

• Focuses upon employment policies as both policies to be seen as closely linked to social security ones and as an influence on welfare in general.

• Examines contemporary developments in pensions policy.

• Looks at the many links between health policy and other policies.

• Explores the implications of social divisions - class, gender and ethnicity - for social policy outcomes.

Table of Contents:

	Preface to the Seventh Edition
1	What is Social Policy?	1
2	The History of Social Policy	13
3	The Making of Social Policy	48
4	Implementation	83
5	Social Security	102
6	Employment Policy	130
7	Health Policy	155
8	The Personal Social Services	180
9	Education	201
10	Housing	225
11	UK Social Policy in Comparative Perspective	245
12	Social Policy, Politics and Society	260
	References	281
	Index	294

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New Canadian Families

Author: David Cheal

This is a core text for second and third year university courses on the sociology of the family in Canada.

The Reflecting Glass or Medium and Message

The Reflecting Glass: Professional Coaching for Leadership Development

Author: Lucy West

Leadership is currently one of the most hotly discussed topics in business. This is the first book to not only identify the characteristics of successful leadership but to show how these qualities can be developed.The Reflecting Glass surveys the field of executive coaching, including its origins, the theoretical framework underpinning it, the forms it can take and the value it adds.Based on the experience of two leading practitioners and with contributions from other key players it provides a detailed methodology for working one-to-one with people at the top of organisations in order to help them become fully effective. Executive coaching has experienced exponential growth over the last five years but as yet there has been little critical appraisal of the activity. This book provides that critique. By describing and benchmarking good practice, The Reflecting Glass will be a valuable tool for those in leadership positions considering executive coaching for themselves, as well as the HR professional.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures and Tables
	Notes on the Authors
	Notes on the Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
Pt. I	The Emerging Discipline of Professional Development Coaching
Ch. 1	Development Coaching Defined	3
Ch. 2	The Supply and Demand Factors	15
Pt. II	A Framework for Professional Coaching for Leadership Development
Ch. 3	Development Coaching: A Model	29
Ch. 4	Case Studies	43
Ch. 5	The Process of Professional Development Coaching	58
Ch. 6	The Required Competencies	70
Pt. III	Key Issues within Professional Coaching for Leadership Development
Ch. 7	Evaluating Development Coaching	85
Ch. 8	Ethics and Standards in Coaching	95
Ch. 9	Training for Development Coaches	102
Pt. IV	Emerging Trends for Professional Coaching for Leadership Development
Ch. 10	The Evolving Marketplace for Development Coaching	115
Ch. 11	The Internationalisation of Coaching	131
Pt. V	The Future for Professional Coaching for Leadership Development
Ch. 12	A Vision for Development Coaching	145
Ch. 13	The Organisational Sponsor's Perspective: Development Coaching in the BBC	157
Ch. 14	Development Coaching in a Consulting Context	169
Ch. 15	An Assessment of Professional Coaching for Leadership Development	181
App. 1	A Map of the Coaching Terrain	193
App. 2	Three Schools of Psychology and Counselling	199
	Index	205

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Medium and Message: Television Advertising and American Elections

Author: Kenneth M Goldstein

This unique book uses a combination of sophisticated methodologies and cutting edge data to present accessible insights on American politics and campaign advertising in the United States. KEY TOPICS Its contributing authors tackle politically and policy relevant questions on the use and effect of political advertising, address campaign finance reform, and focus on improving the quality of elections. For political professionals, journalists, all the players involved in federal campaigns—and anyone with an interest in them.

The Ultimate Advantage or Industrial Organizational Psychology

The Ultimate Advantage: Creating the High-Involvement Organization

Author: Edward E E Lawler

Offers an integrated overview of just how an organization must be designed to realize the full potential of high-involvement management. Details the types of management and reward systems, leadership behaviors, job design, and training programs that make high-involvement organizations really work at such thriving companies as Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, and Xerox. Shows how to implement such specific practices as work teams, skill-based pay, gainsharing, and improvement groups.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	The Author
Pt. 1	Searching for Competitive Advantage
1	Make Management an Advantage	3
2	Choose the Right Management Style	25
Pt. 2	Designing Organizations, Work, and Rewards
3	Create a High-Involvement Structure	51
4	Identify Work Design Alternatives	77
5	Develop Involving Work	101
6	Foster Organization-Improvement Groups	122
7	Pay the Person, Not the Job	144
8	Reward Performance	172
Pt. 3	Managing Information and Human Resources
9	Promote Open Information Channels	205
10	Establish High-Involvement Management Practices	225
11	Support Positive Managerial Behavior	254
12	Involve Unions in the Organization	282
Pt. 4	Creating High-Involvement Organizations
13	Develop High-Involvement Business Units	307
14	Manage the Change Toward High-Involvement	323
	References	349
	Index	363

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Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Understanding the Workplace

Author: Paul E Levy

This student-friendly textbook, written by a leading researcher at one of the nation's top I/O programs, is unique in its emphasis on how I/O psychologists are trained; its social/contextual approach to performance appraisal; and the strength of its pedagogy, including "practitioner forums." This edition features full integration of changes and events that are currently taking place in today's work environments. Industrial/Organizational Psychology focuses on the psychology of the workforce, employee health and well-being, organizational behavior, motivation, human resources, and various dynamics of work interaction. Levy's book has been well received by reviewers for its applied approach and for the author's personal, direct, and casual tone, which sets it apart in the field.

• Up-to-date research coverage includes group polarization, team performance, team diversity, and team conflict (all in Chapter 12: Group Process and Team Work)
• Additional current topics include thorough treatment of Personnel Law, Employee Selection, a unique separate chapter on Criterion Measurement, work-family issues, and violence in the workplace.
• Additional features includes Practitioner Forum sections, Learning Objectives, and Review Questions.

Selling or Your New Business

Selling: Building Relationships and Achieving Results

Author: Douglas J Dalrympl

Salesmanship is an essential skill that carries over into many industries. In Selling, the latest text from the Business series in the Wiley Pathways imprint, students learn up-to-date information and techniques on prospecting, planning sales calls, making great presentations, and closing the sale.

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Your New Business: A Personal Plan for Success

Author: Charles L Martin

Examines all the basic steps to take before starting a business.

Operations Management or Banking on the Environment

Operations Management

Author: R Dan Reid

This 2nd Value Edition features all the content of Operations Management, 2nd Edition in a paperback format for a new low price. Taking a balanced, integrative approach, Operations Management, 2nd Value Edition demonstrates the critical impact OM has in today’s business environments, and shows how it relates to every department in an organization. Authors R. Dan Reid and Nada R. Sanders provide clear, focused, and highly engaging coverage of key operations management topics, and make strong connections across concepts and chapters.

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Banking on the Environment: Multilateral Development Banks and Their Environmental Performance in Central and Eastern Europe

Author: Tamar L Gutner

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are increasingly expected to address environmental issues in their economic development lending. Yet the banks have been accused of failing to implement their own environmental policies, thereby contributing to environmental degradation in borrowing countries. In this book Tamar Gutner analyzes the environmental policies of three MDBs: the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the European Investment Bank. She compares their performance in Central and Eastern Europe, where the need for economic and environmental reform has been particularly urgent, and where these MDBs are among the largest donors.

Gutner finds many obstacles to efforts to "green" the three banks, most notably a mismatch between the environmental mandates and existing patterns of institutional design and incentives. The depth and scope of the banks’ green activities reflect the degree of shareholder commitment to environmental issues and how demand-driven the MDB is designed to be. Surprisingly, the World Bank, the most scrutinized and criticized of the three MDBs, has been rather more responsive than its counterparts to its environmental mandate in the region.

The discussion is framed by larger explorations of the behavior of international organizations and the sources of their innovation and inertia in addressing new policy issues. Gutner demonstrates the need to examine the impact of different stages of the policy process on new mandates and to incorporate both political and institutional variables when developing theories about the behavior of international institutions.

Table of Contents:

	Series Forward
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction and Overview	1
2	Intellectual Context: Understanding MDB Greenness	19
3	Bargaining and Delegation: The Birth of Environmental Mandates	47
4	Policy Process: Institutionalizing Environmental Objectives	75
5	MDB Environmental Policies and Practice in Central and Eastern Europe	131
6	Conclusions	193
	Notes	203
	References	241
	Index	259

Organization Theories and Public Administration or Principles of Internet Marketing

Organization Theories and Public Administration

Author: Charles R Davis

This new work offers a substantive political theory approach to organizational theory. It differs significantly from most organizational perspectives in that it applies political theory to four prevalent organizational models found in administration today. Most such models fall within the province of government or corporate management and fail to deal with the democratic and public dimensions of organization. In this study, Davis examines various organizational theories' prospects to generate authentic public organization. He also suggests alternative considerations by which to facilitate more genuine "public" organization. An important contribution to the literature in organizational theory and public administration, this work will be of interest to scholars and students in these and related fields.

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Principles of Internet Marketing

Author: Ward Hanson

This pioneering textbook lays the foundation for using the most exciting marketing medium in decades. It shows what makes the Internet new and different, what techniques work and which don't, and how the Internet is creating value for customers and profits for companies. Most importantly, it shows how Internet Marketing fits into the rest of an organization's marketing strategy.

Hospitality World or Student Lecture Aid for Use with Managerial Accounting

Hospitality World!: An Introduction

Author: Denise Dupr

Hospitality World! Harold E. Lane and Denise Dupré Take a vacation from textbook doldrums. Travel around the globe for a page-turning perspective of hospitality management. Denise Dupreé. CEO of Dupré LTD, and Harold E. Lane, Professor Emeritus of Boston University, give students a complete tour with their comprehensive new text, Hospitality World! International in scope, this innovative book takes a hands-on approach to the industry. Case scenarios and skill-building exercises give future managers a framework to develop their personal visions. Highlights of the practical, up-to-date approach begin in the first section where the Olympic torch is held high to illuminate the intricacies of tourism management at the 1996 Olympic Games. Then it’s off on a world-wide tour from the perspective of several lodging owners and restaurateurs. Amidst the challenge of the text, Hospitality World! covers the basics—from the history of the industry to current developments. The complex management concepts of human resources, marketing, management information systems, and accounting are made simple. Students use what they learn about lodging and foodservices, entertainment, travel distribution channels, and transportation to solve complex case questions. The final case study investigates the international world of Disney. Ethics and service are also explored, focusing on the issues and trends that managers face today. Hot topics include branding, diversity, ecotourism, strategic alliances, and technology applications. Authors Lane and Dupré offer their fresh and inspired view of the industry, arming readers with the tools to succeed in the fast-paced and excitingHospitality World!

Table of Contents:

OVERVIEW.
Hospitality's History: Then and Now.
The Big Picture.
The Hospitality Business is a Service Business.
An International Perspective.
Tourism Visited.
PLACES TO STAY.
Lodging: More Than Hotels.
How Things Work: Lodging Operations.
PLACES TO EAT.
Foodservice: More Than Restaurants.
How Things Work: Foodservice Operations.
MANAGEMENT TOOLS.
A Human Resources Tool Box.
A Hospitality Marketer's Tool Box.
A Management Information Systems Tool Box.
An Accounting Tool Box.
STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY.
So You Want to Own a Hotel?
So You Want to Own a Restaurant?
ISSUES AND TRENDS.
Business Ethics.
Strategic Thinking: Looking Toward the Twenty-First Century.
FOR STUDENT ONLY.
Taking Your Place in the World of Hospitality.
The World of Disney Mini Cases.
Index.

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Student Lecture Aid for Use with Managerial Accounting

Author: Ray H Garrison

Much like Ready Notes, this booklet offers a hard-copy version of all of the Teaching Transparencies. Students can annotate the material during the lecture and take notes in the space provided.

Best Impressions in Hospitality or Ecological Economics

Best Impressions in Hospitality

Author: Angie Michael

Whether you are a manager, team member, or just someone looking to enter the hospitality industry, Best Impressions in Hospitality is the book you need to put yourself ahead of the pack. Filled with advice from industry professionals, this comprehensive reference discusses in depth every nuance of the hospitality profession, from appearance, grooming, and uniforms to body language, customer relations, and business etiquette. First impressions are critical. Let this effective training resource arm you with the skills and information you need to succeed in the increasingly competitive hospitality industry.

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Provides advice on hair style, clothing, makeup, body language, business etiquette, and uniforms for professionals working in hotels or other hospitality industries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: First Impressions in Hospitality.

Chapter 2: Professional Dress for Men and Women.

Chapter 3: Professional Dress for Men in Hospitality.

Chapter 4: Professional Dress for Women in Hospitality.

Chapter 5: Casual Days in Hospitality?

Chapter 6: Universal Standards.

Chapter 7: Wearing Your Uniform with Class.

Chapter 8: Hospitality: What You Say, What You Do.

Chapter 9: Business Etiquette: Charming the Bottom Line.

Chapter 10: The Art of Selecting Uniforms.

Chapter 11: Putting It All Together. Glossary.
Appendix A: Self-Assessment Checklist - How's My Image?
Appendix B: Additional Resources and Readings. Index.

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Ecological Economics: A Political Economics Approach to Environment and Development

Author: Peter Soderbaum

Ecological economics is a hot topic today as an alternative to 'neo-classical' environmental economics. It seeks to 'socially construct' a political economics that will deal with environmental problems and make the individual more visible in economic analysis. A leading authority in the field describes the principles, strategies and instruments of social change from the point of view of key players — governmental agencies, business corporations, environmental and religious organizations and universities — and underlines their responsibilities in the market economy.

This critical text in the search for an interdisciplinary economics that facilitates social and environmental development offers a pluralistic and democratic approach to addressing environmental problems and balances the priorities of economic growth and international competitiveness with environmental sustainability. It emphasizes the need to articulate ideologies, worldviews, ethics and related scientific perspectives as part of economics.

This illuminating account of the theories and means that will bring us closer to a sustainable society considers tools such as environmental impact assessment (EIA) and describes success indicators such as environmental labeling and environmental management systems (EMS). It highlights strategies and policies that facilitate social change and sets out future agendas for the individual actors in political economics.

Beyond the Typewriter or Working Girls

Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930

Author: Sharon H Hartman Strom

By World War I, managers wanted young women with some high school education for new "light manufacturing" jobs in the office. Women could be paid significantly less than men with equivalent educations and the "marriage bar"--the practice of not hiring or retaining married women--ensured that most of them would leave the workplace before the issue of higher salaries arose. Encouraged by free training gained in high schools and by working conditions better than those available in factories, young working-class women sought out office jobs. Facing sexual discrimination in most of the professions and higher-level office jobs, middle-class women often found themselves "falling into" clerical positions. Sharon Hartman Strom details office working conditions and practices, drawing upon archival and anecdotal data. She analyzes women office-workers' ambitions and explores how the influences of scientific management, personnel management, and secondary vocational education affected office workplaces and hierarchies. Strom illustrates how businessmen manipulated concepts of scientific management to maintain male dominance and professional status and to confine women to supportive positions. She finds that women's responses to the reorganized workplace were varied; although they were able to advance professionally in only limited ways, they used their jobs as a means of pursuing friendships, education, and independence.

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Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

Author: Yvonne Tasker

Working Girls investigates the thematic concerns of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and its ambivalent articulation of women as both active, and defined by sexual performance, asking whether new Hollywood cinema has responded to feminism and contemporary sexual identities. Whether analyzing the rise of films centered around female friendships, or the entrance of pop stars such as Whitney Houston and Madonna into film, Working Girls is an authoritative investigation of the presence of women both as film makers and actors in contemporary mainstream cinema.

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Tasker (film and cultural studies, U. of Sunderland) investigates contemporary cinema's complex relationship with gender and sexual identities in the wake of feminism, and explores four versions of the working woman common in Hollywood films--spunky heroines of action movies, female police and FBI agents, the singer as movie star, and sharp-shooting cowgirls of the new Westerns. She also discusses the increasing prominence of women as producers and directors. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of contributors
	Shuffle
	Preface: curvatures in space-time-truth	1
Pt. 1	Embodied knowledge and virtual space
1	Embodied knowledge and virtual space: gender, nature and history	15
2	The digital unconscious	30
3	Physical, psychological and virtual realities	45
Pt. 2	Nature and virtue
4	Nature = x: notes on Spinozist ethics	63
5	Embodying virtue: a buddhist perspective on virtual reality	76
6	Redesigning the present	88
Pt. 3	Embodying truth
7	Hubble telescope: the artist in the eye of the storm	105
8	A more convivial perspective system for artists	109
9	Ancient oaks: a one-act play	122
10	Culture, technology and subjectivity: an 'ethical' analysis	132
Pt. 4	When becoming meets becoming
11	The dream garden: notes on a virtual idyll	149
12	The 'return-beat': 'curved perceptions' in music and dance	157
13	'Peak practices': the production and regulation of ecstatic bodies	168
Pt. 5	Between saying and showing
14	[Sait]	181
15	+ and [actual symbol not reproducible]	196
16	PDF: the digital hostess	206
17	Messages from Sir Arthur and the Rev. Bill	213
	Index

Cases and Materials on Sales or Performance Management

Cases and Materials on Sales

Author: Jr Benfield

This edition continues the organization of the previous editions, with a chapter introducing law school students to the organizations which prepared the Uniform Commercial Code and the Code's basic coverage. Chapters then review the creation of the sales contract, the terms of the contract, the performance of the contract, and damages for breach. The final chapters deal with excuse by impossibility or frustration, property rights of buyers against third parties, and documentary transactions.

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Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces (to Close the Intelligence Gap)

Author: Gary Cokins

Praise for Performance Management

"We are witnessing a convergence among advanced management concepts and practices. Performance management is a means to pull it all together, to understand the strengths and limitations of each management practice and leverage it for competitive advantage. Cokins' book walks us through all this in a manner that makes something confusing much less so.
There is no one right answer for any situation. The answer lies in a balance of concepts and the integration of them. Performance Management is the glue that holds them all together.
This book helps the reader understand the breadth of PM. It's not just about measuring!"
—John F. Morrow, CPA, AICPA Vice President, The New Finance

"Gary Cokins has articulated the '411' of performance management. His combination of personal anecdotes with fundamental cost and performance management theories provides business leaders at all levels, in any industry or profession, a solid resource for practicing their work.
This book is not only an invaluable resource for those new to performance management but provides guidance, wisdom, support, and insight to all industry leaders and managers. Cokins has organized and simplified the many complex performance management theories, associated tools, and infrastructure for the reader.
Buy it, read it, and give it to your colleagues—then celebrate your successes!"
—Sue Swertfeger, Senior Manager, Owens & Minor

Table of Contents:

	About the Author
	About the Web Site
	Preface
1	Why the Need for Performance Management as a System?	1
2	Integrating a Suite of Proven Methodologies	21
3	Support from Fact-Based Data and Information Technology	31
4	Measurement Problems and Solutions	41
5	Strategy Maps and Scorecards as a Solution	48
6	Strategic Objectives' Drive Gears: Cascading Measures	53
7	A Recipe for Implementation	58
8	The Human Side of Collaboration	68
9	Fact-Based Management Accounting Data	75
10	Scorecards and Strategy Maps: Enablers for Performance Management	80
11	If Activity-Based Management Is the Answer, What Is the Question?	85
12	Activity-Based Management Model Design and Principles: Key to Success	98
13	Operational (Local) Activity-Based Management for Continuous Improvement	110
14	Strategic Activity-Based Management for Customer and Channel Profitability Analysis	117
15	Predictive Costing, Predictive Accounting, and Budgeting	131
16	Activity-Based Management Supports Performance Management	142
17	Customer Intelligence and Customer Relationship Management	151
18	Supplier Intelligence: Managing Economic Profit across the Value Chain	173
19	Process Intelligence with Six Sigma Quality and Lean Thinking	194
20	Shareholder Intelligence: Return on Whose Investment?	214
21	Employee Intelligence: Human Capital Management	237
22	Data Management and Mining with Performance Management	249
23	Final Thoughts: Linking Customers to Shareholders	262
	Index	273

WorkPlace Health Protection or The Managed Care Answer Book

Workplace Health Protection

Author: Robert G G Confer

This timely reference presents guidelines for establishing industrial hygiene programs. Organizations with established industrial hygiene programs, as well as those without, find this comprehensive reference a must when evaluating existing procedures and developing grass roots programs. The author presents a 50-element set of performance criteria for evaluating industrial hygiene programs. Information for these 50 elements is based on established industry practice, consensus standards, technical literature, trade association publications, and evolutionary procedures that are implemented based on their effectiveness in protecting the health of employees. This reference includes an objective statement, general background information, a considerations section addressing exposure/control issues, and a checklist for each element.

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The Managed Care Answer Book

Author: Gayle McCracken Tuttl

This text aims to provide answer to questions such as what happens when you get dropped from a managed care panel? How do you get paid? Why can't you get on a managed care panel? This book is an extended question and answer session where issues are tackled from the providers perspective.; Armed with the resources, examples and explanations provided in this book, clinicians will be positioned to make the decisions that contribute to success under managed care.

Melissa E. Abraham

This book is an extended question and answer session about issues pertinent to mental health providers who work or will be working in a managed care environment. Topics such as authorization and financing are explained in a manner that is relevant to the day-to-day practice of mental health clinicians. The purpose is to provide a "nuts-and-bolts" resource for psychotherapists about the business of providing services in a managed care setting. Mental health practitioners are frequently frustrated by the complex terminology and logistics of health care delivery in today's environment, and this book was written to clarify the issues most important to mental health clinicians. This book is written for all levels of mental health professionals, and is most appropriate for those who are on the service delivery side, rather than more experienced health care administrators. The authors' choice of questions and topics follows from their extensive experience in managed care and behavioral health care delivery. The book discusses trends occurring in the managed care environment and includes some general predictions about the changes that might develop in the near future. Terminology and implications of managed care concepts such as accountability, decision-making/utilization management, outcomes measurement and monitoring, profiling and credentialing, treatment plans, and authorization are explained in straightforward, lay terms. This book is a useful read for those involved in direct provision of mental health services. The book is organized more as a read-through text rather than a desk-top reference, and is more appropriate for "beginners" in managed care than for better informed behavioralhealth care administrators. It provides easy-to-read descriptions and practical examples that illustrate how particular features of managed care are relevant to one's own daily practice, and also clarifies some common misconceptions.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Melissa E. Abraham, MS (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
Description: This book is an extended question and answer session about issues pertinent to mental health providers who work or will be working in a managed care environment. Topics such as authorization and financing are explained in a manner that is relevant to the day-to-day practice of mental health clinicians.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a "nuts-and-bolts" resource for psychotherapists about the business of providing services in a managed care setting. Mental health practitioners are frequently frustrated by the complex terminology and logistics of health care delivery in today's environment, and this book was written to clarify the issues most important to mental health clinicians.
Audience: This book is written for all levels of mental health professionals, and is most appropriate for those who are on the service delivery side, rather than more experienced health care administrators. The authors' choice of questions and topics follows from their extensive experience in managed care and behavioral health care delivery.
Features: The book discusses trends occurring in the managed care environment and includes some general predictions about the changes that might develop in the near future. Terminology and implications of managed care concepts such as accountability, decision-making/utilization management, outcomes measurement and monitoring, profiling and credentialing, treatment plans, and authorization are explained in straightforward, lay terms.
Assessment: This book is a useful read for those involved in direct provision of mental health services. The book is organized more as a read-through text rather than a desk-top reference, and is more appropriate for "beginners" in managed care than for better informed behavioral health care administrators. It provides easy-to-read descriptions and practical examples that illustrate how particular features of managed care are relevant to one's own daily practice, and also clarifies some common misconceptions.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
Ch. 1	Psychotherapy: Cottage to Industry	1
Ch. 2	How It Works: For You, or Against You	23
Ch. 3	The Shapes We're In	58
Ch. 4	The Check Is in the Mail	76
Ch. 5	To Market, To Market	91
Ch. 6	Life After Managed Care	115
	App. A. Glossary	125
App. B	Provider Guidelines	131
App. C	Managed Behavioral Health "Carve-Out" Firms	133
App. D	Outcomes Measurement Tools	139
	App. E. Sample Forms	141
	Bibliography	145
	Index	149

Other Peoples Money or Intermediate Microeconomics

Other People's Money: Debt Denomination and Financial Instability in Emerging Market Economies

Author: Barry Eichengreen

Recent crises in emerging markets have been heavily driven by balance-sheet or net-worth effects. Episodes in countries as far-flung as Indonesia and Argentina have shown that exchange rate adjustments that would normally help to restore balance can be destabilizing, even catastrophic, for countries whose debts are denominated in foreign currencies. Many economists instinctually assume that developing countries allow their foreign debts to be denominated in dollars, yen, or euros because they simply don't know better.
Presenting evidence that even emerging markets with strong policies and institutions experience this problem, Other People's Money recognizes that the situation must be attributed to more than ignorance. Instead, the contributors suggest that the problem is linked to the operation of international financial markets, which prevent countries from borrowing in their own currencies. A comprehensive analysis of the sources of this problem and its consequences, Other People's Money takes the study one step further, proposing a solution that would involve having the World Bank and regional development banks themselves borrow and lend in emerging market currencies.

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Intermediate Microeconomics

Author: William S Neilson

INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS is a concise, well-written treatment of microeconomic theory and applications. It combines a thorough treatment of standard neoclassical material with extensive coverage of modern microeconomic theory, including game theory and the analysis of risk and uncertainty.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction. 2. Preferences. 3. Consumer Choice. 4. Risk. 5. Production. 6. Cost and Profit. 7. Perfect Competition and Welfare. 8. Monopoly Power. 9. Game Theory. 10. Oligopoly. 11. Collusion. 12. Labor Markets. 13. Information Economics. 14. Auctions. 15. Negative Externalities and Public Goods.

Knowledge Works or Leadership

Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba

Author: W Mark Mark Fruin

This book describes why, for the past twenty-five years, Japanese productivity has been growing more rapidly than productivity in the U.S. Unlike other books on the subject of the Japanese success in manufacturing, it looks at what actually happens in factories. The author brings his experience of working at the Yanagicho Works of the Toshiba Corporation, in Kawasaki City. Like so many Japanese factories, this one is highly productive, efficient, and flexible. While the factory is ordinary looking on the outside, its workers are anything but ordinary as they constantly strive to improve the way they work and the quality of the products they produce. The key to this is the continuous creation and application of knowledge throughout the factory, from workers on the shop floor, to research and development engineers, to top management. Fruin explains how Japanese culture and religion prepare workers for their role in this process of creating and disseminating knowledge.

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Leadership: 4 Competencies for Success

Author: Robert Portnoy

Combining practical insights from the real business world together with the academic theory and research that underlie methods and techniques, this innovative book prepares readers for the rigors of leading people in just about any situation, not just organizations -- i.e., it trains leaders to think before they act. From assessment through implementation, it focuses on four competencies -- specific behavior characteristics that delineate the "ingredients" of leadership: Directional Thinking, Consequential Thinking, Influence Strategies, and Communication Skills.Begins with a four-chapter Assessment in which readers provide information about how they would use the four Competencies to address specific situations, challenges, and dilemmas. Outlines a Relationship Life Cycle -- a flow chart, linked to a case study at each step, that depicts how relationships begin and evolve and how they either deal effectively with conflict and survive or ignore conflict and as a result allow it to escalate and destroy the relationship. Interpersonal communication skills are then explained and illustrated as a way to help leaders both prevent and resolve interpersonal conflict in both business and personal settings. Includes a Speaker Effectiveness Index -- that serves as both an assessment and development tool for better understanding and improving presentation skills. Includes T-Charts that explain and illustrate how to make a balanced decision. Contains a Q&A chapter that addresses frequently asked questions about leadership and -- in particular -- how to develop and implement a mentoring program in an organization using the 4 Competencies. For leaders, andaspiring leaders, in any type of organization or situation..

Table of Contents:

Keys to the Competencies.
Introduction. 4 Competencies for Success.

I. THE ASSESSMENT.

1. The Behavior Interview.
2. The In-Basket.
3. Ask the Consultant.
4. Scoring Your Results.

II. THE COMPETENCIES.

5. Directional Thinking.
6. Consequential Thinking.
7. Influence Strategies.
8. Communication Skills.

III. APPLICATIONS.

9. Frequently Asked Questions About Leadership.
10. Assessment Guidelines and Some Final Thoughts.
Index.

Class Construction or Market Driven Journalism

Class Construction: White Working-Class Student Identity in the New Millennium

Author: Carrie Frei

Class Construction White Working-Class Student Identity in the New Millennium explores the identity development of a group of white working-class high school students in a de-industrialized area of the Northeast. This ethnographic study explores class, racial and gender identity construction, and focuses on the ways the students' perceptions of their current and future classed, raced, and gendered selves are negotiated within the context of the school structure.

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Market-Driven Journalism: Let the Citizen Beware?

Author: John H McManus

Recipient of the 1994 Sigma Delta Chi Medallion of Excellence from the Society of Professional Journalists

"Market-Driven Journalism could change the way you view television news. The book will be of interest to anyone who cares that democracy is at stake. . . . The book should be read by those who work in television. . . those who plan to work in news, and those who teach them. It is an aspect of news production most textbooks fail to mention."

--Journalism Educator

"In Market-Driven Journalism, John H. McManus offers a unified theory to explain the nature of news in our entrepreneurial society. No one can read this ambitious book without gaining new insights into the roles played by business and the public in the news production processes."

--Ralph L. Lowenstein, Dean, College of Journalism and Communications,

University of Florida

"Market-Driven Journalism is a book that everyone in the television news business and all the college faculty members who are teaching the next generation of television news people should read. It spells out what is missing in local television news and explains why it is missing. This volume does for local television news what Herbert Gans did for network television news in Deciding What's New."

--Guido H. Stempel III, Distinguished Professor of Journalism,

Ohio University, and Former Editor, Journalism Quarterly

"In this devastating and disturbing dissection of local television news, John McManus skillfully blends social theory and empirical field research. His book should be read by everyone concerned with how the ethos of professional journalism can be reconciledwith the pressures on media to generate audiences and profits."

--Leo Bogart, Senior Fellow, The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center,

and former Executive Vice President, Newspaper Advertising Bureau

"This is an impressive, well-framed, and rigorously examined study of the connection between market forces and news values--truly a matter of important public concern."

--Everette E. Dennis, Executive Director, The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center

"Market-Driven Journalism should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking television journalism as a career or for anyone who is sincerely interested in the role of television news in a working democracy."

--Alan S. Goldstein, former News Director, KRON-TV, San Francisco, CA

"John McManus has done a signal job of relating how market-driven journalism works and what it is doing to the American news audience. His conclusions are disturbing--and right on the mark. A solid piece of research, this is must reading for every broadcast journalist and anyone who aspires to be one."

--D. Charles Whitney, University of Texas at Austin

Today, the formerly revered practice of news reporting for the public interest has been usurped by the MBA/corporate-driven view that the news is a "product" and the reader or viewer a "customer." This book is the first to provide a comprehensive theory of commercial news production. Its systematic study of the way in which firms deploy resources, such as reporters or photographers, to maximize return to stockholders, leads to an exploration of the ways such practices affect journalistic quality. The author examines the application of market logic to news and, because of its growing importance, particularly to local broadcast news. In the past, local television news was viewed by journalists in other media as fluff, an inconsequential market-driven medium; but this book illustrates that since the mid-1980s, as newspapers and network TV have faced increasing competition and a shrinking advertising market, their programming style has also become increasingly driven by market forces rather than by traditional journalistic practices.

Market-Driven Journalism is a critical companion for all courses on the media and broadcasting, and essential reading for all journalists and scholars in the field.

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Provides a comprehensive theory of commercial news production, systematically studying the way in which firms deploy resources, such as reporters or photographers, to maximize return to stockholders, and exploring the ways such practices affect journalistic quality. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	The Rise of Market-Driven Journalism	1
2	The Nature of News Reconsidered	17
3	Environmental Influences on News Production: How Culture, Technology, and Laws and Regulation Shape News	40
4	Finding the Logic of Commercial News Production	57
5	Does Serving the Market Conflict With Serving the Public?	85
6	The First Stage of News Production: Learning What's Happening	92
7	The Second Stage of News Production: Selecting Events for Coverage	110
8	The Third Stage of News Production: Reporting the Story	138
9	The Journalists Respond	165
10	So What?: Market Journalism's Effect on Society	183
11	Where Do We Go From Here?	199
	Appendix A	213
	Appendix B	218
	Appendix C	223
	References	227
	Index	237
	About the Author	243

Market Driven Thinking or Taxation Wealth and Saving

Market-Driven Thinking: Achieving Contextual Intelligence

Author: Arch G Woodsid

Market-Driven Thinking provides a useful mental model and tools for learning about how executives and customers think within marketplace contexts. When the need to learn about how executives and customer think is recognized, a solution is usually implemented automatically, with no thought given to the relative worth of alternative methods to learn fill the need. Thus, the "dominant logics" (most often implemented methods) to learn about thinking are written surveys and focus group interviews—two research methods that that almost always fail to provide valid and useful answers on how and why executives and customers think the way they do.

Through descriptive research, MDT examines the actual thinking and actions by executives and customers related to making marketplace decisions. The book aims to achieve three objectives:
* Increase the reader's knowledge of the unconscious and conscious thinking processes of participants marketplace contexts
* Provide research tools useful for revealing the unconscious and conscious thinking processes of executives and customers
* Provide in-depth examples of these research tools in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer contexts

This book asks how we actually go about thinking, examining this process and its influences within the context of B2B and B2C marketplaces in developed nations.

* Looks at thought and choice in both B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer) contexts
* Provides models and research tools to reveal thinking processes in marketplace decisions, illustrated by case studies and examples
* Challenges traditional research methods such as surveys and focusgroups

Table of Contents:

1	Thinking, deciding, and acting by executives and customers	3
2	Case study research methods for learning how executives and customers think, decide, and act	17
3	Mapping contingent thinking by B2B marketers and customers	35
4	Balanced and unbalanced unconscious conscious thinking : a Jewish couple buys a German car and additional transformation stories	65
5	Advancing understanding of customer's means end chains : Eric drinks twelve cans of beer and talks to girls	85
6	Advancing from subjective to confirmatory personal introspection	103
7	Customer automatic thinking and store choice : why asking customers to think about a named store is a mistake	129
8	Automatic thinking and vendor choices by customers of industrial distributors : mapping customer's vendor mind positions	139
9	Applying the long interview method for comparing executive and customer thinking	163
10	Holistic case-based modeling of customer's thinking/doing brand experiences	191
11	The influences of brand imprinting and short-term marketing on subsequent customer choices	249
12	Customer variety-seeking influence on subsequent brand choice behavior	265

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Taxation, Wealth, and Saving

Author: David F F Bradford

The papers in this volume reflect David Bradford's dual experience as a theoretical economist and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury for Tax Policy and Director of the Treasury's Office of Tax Analysis. While at the Treasury, Bradford was involved in producing the 1977 report entitled Blueprints for Basic Tax Reform. Blueprints describes two models for fundamental income tax reform. One is based on the Haig-Simons income concept, which still dominates American income tax thinking. The other, which builds on an intellectual tradition dating back to John Stuart Mill, is based on consumption. Eventually Bradford became convinced that the politically unpopular consumption-based model was the superior one. Since he left the Treasury, much of his professional focus has been on economic analysis of the income tax system and on tax policy advocacy.

The book is divided into four parts. Part I covers the broad issues involved in comparing income to consumption as a tax base. Part II, which presents some of the most interesting analytical challenges concerning income and consumption taxes, contains the most technical papers in the collection. Part III addresses the potential deployment of the consumption approach to taxation. Moving in another direction, Part IV focuses on savings and investment, in particular the gap between the statistical evidence of rates of saving and investment and the economic theory that describes this behavior.

Practical Guide to Occupational Health and Safety or Doing Statistics for Business with Excel

Practical Guide to Occupational Health and Safety

Author: Paul A Erickson

Written with corporate regulatory compliance officers, health and safety managers, loss control managers, and human resource specialists in mind, this book offers workplace-tested strategies for meeting the health and safety need of a modern corporation. Emphasizing the practical means of achieving compliance with OSHA regulations, this book also provides a unique assessment of the more extensive factors that influence the management of workplace health and safety. The integration of practical regulation strategies with corporate objectives is particularly relevant to graduate curricula in business management, public policy, and occupational medicine.
Key Features
* Provides practical guidelines for industrial compliance with major OSHA regulations
* Presents concise explanations of technical and scientific concepts underlying regulatory requirements
* Integrates specific examples of the global economy's influence on the design and implementation of workplace health and safety
* Elucidates the effects of health and safety programs on financial and legal risk management practices in industry
* Includes explanations of practical alternative compliance strategies for company health and safety officers

Salvatore Cali

This book summarizes the regulatory, managerial, and technical considerations of occupational health and safety. It provides overviews and discussions that are a starting point for additional study. The book is written to provide a conceptual and practical framework for occupational health and safety practitioners who do not have formal training. This material provides a context for a wide range of information relevant to the field. The book is more appropriate as a conceptual tool for managerial personnel than a source of technical information. The material is useful for health and safety practitioners from nontechnical fields who wish to strengthen their overall understanding of occupational issues. The book is also useful for graduate students if presented in conjunction with reference materials. The breadth and content of the book demonstrate the author's depth of experience. The book is strong on diagrams and flowcharts, but it has minimal illustrations or images. There are few references to sources of information other than the Code of Federal Regulations. Additional reference and support materials would enhance the material's accessibility. The book provides very good discussions of the larger issues regarding health and safety. These discussions made parts I and III interesting, but case studies or specific historical events would help make the issues more relevant and accessible. Similarly, part II would benefit from the inclusion of specific applications for the health and safety programs addressed. Overall, the book is concise, comprehensive, and accurate regarding the technical and managerial issues.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Salvatore Cali, MPH (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: This book summarizes the regulatory, managerial, and technical considerations of occupational health and safety. It provides overviews and discussions that are a starting point for additional study.
Purpose: The book is written to provide a conceptual and practical framework for occupational health and safety practitioners who do not have formal training. This material provides a context for a wide range of information relevant to the field. The book is more appropriate as a conceptual tool for managerial personnel than a source of technical information.
Audience: The material is useful for health and safety practitioners from nontechnical fields who wish to strengthen their overall understanding of occupational issues. The book is also useful for graduate students if presented in conjunction with reference materials. The breadth and content of the book demonstrate the author's depth of experience.
Features: The book is strong on diagrams and flowcharts, but it has minimal illustrations or images. There are few references to sources of information other than the Code of Federal Regulations. Additional reference and support materials would enhance the material's accessibility.
Assessment: The book provides very good discussions of the larger issues regarding health and safety. These discussions made parts I and III interesting, but case studies or specific historical events would help make the issues more relevant and accessible. Similarly, part II would benefit from the inclusion of specific applications for the health and safety programs addressed. Overall, the book is concise, comprehensive, and accurate regarding the technical and managerial issues.

Booknews

Offers workplace-tested strategies for meeting the health and safety needs of a modern corporation, for corporate regulatory compliance officers, health and safety managers, loss control managers, and human resource specialists. Emphasizes practical means of achieving compliance with OSHA regulations in discussion of factors that influence the management of workplace health and safety. Can be used in graduate courses in business management, public policy, and occupational medicine. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Scope of Occupational Health and Safety
2	Hazard and Risk Assessment
3	Occupational Health and Safety Standards
4	The HSE Audit
5	Hazard Communication
6	Laboratory Standard
7	Lockout-Tagout
8	Confined Space Entry and Hotwork
9	Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices
10	Respiratory Protection
11	Hearing Conservation
12	Hazardous Waste Management
13	Emergency Response
14	Management of Change
15	Bloodborne Pathogens
16	Chemical Surveillance and Monitoring
17	Medical Surveillance
18	Integrated Personnel Training
19	Data and Information Management
20	Business Management, Health and Safety, and Environmental Quality: An Assessment of Trends
	Index

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Doing Statistics for Business with Excel: Data, Inference, and Decision Making

Author: Marilyn K Pelosi

This book teaches students how to do statistics and how to use statistics as a tool for making intelligent, informed decisions. Doing Statistics For Business, Second Edition is data driven, emphasizing statistical reasoning, interpretation, and decision-making with an emphasis is on comparison and interpretation rather than rote calculation. The cases are based on real business situations and data that are relevant to student life.

Booknews

This textbook for an introductory business statistics course emphasizes statistical reasoning, interpretation, and decision making. In each chapter, Pelosi (Western New England College) and Sandifer (Southern Connecticut State U.) use cases to illustrate the use of statistics in the business world. A sampling of topics includes analyzing bivariate data, probability, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and improving and managing quality. The CD-ROM contains solutions to problems, an interactive tutorial, and the KADDSTAT statistical analysis program. The volume does not contain bibliographical references. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

FASB Cases on Recognition and Measurement or The Institutionalization of Europe

FASB Cases on Recognition and Measurement

Author: L Todd Johnson

Focusing on issues of recognition and measurement in financial statements, the cases in this collection cover a variety of important conceptual topics in accounting. Designed to be interesting, challenging and useful, each case concerns a specific situation, thereby offering an effective vehicle for encapsulating and conveying the essence of complex abstract issues. The brief, one- or two-page format of the cases makes them readily digestible and easily remembered.

Table of Contents:

Partial table of contents:
Asset Disposal.
Baltimore Canyon.
Bank Loan.
Bond.
Chemical Plant.
Early Retirement Incentives.
Exploratory Well.
Frequent Flier.
Future Tax Rate Changes.
Gasoline Tank.
Hula Hoop.
Income Tax Carryforward.
Instant Millionaire.
Insurance.
Leisure Home.
Loan Commitment Fee.
Note Receivable.
Penalty Clause.
Plant Maintenance Costs.
Promotional Prize.
Purchase-Sale Commitment.
Sabbatical.
Sick Pay.
Smokestack.
Sweat Equity.
Toxic Dump.
Venture.

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The Institutionalization of Europe

Author: Alec Stone Sweet

In 1950, a European political space existed, but only as a very limited site of international governance; today, the European Union governs in an ever-growing number of policy domains. This book provides an eye-opening account of the development of the European Union, from a relatively specialized assembly of economic cooperation to the complex entity that governs today.

Selling Today or Is Geography Destiny

Selling Today: Creating Customer Value

Author: Gerald L L Manning

Selling Today: Creating Customer Value, one of the most popular sales information books on the market, offers readers a blend of time-proven fundamentals and new practices needed to succeed in today's information economy. It emphasizes the need for salespeople to be guided by the new principle of personal selling: establishing partnerships that are maintained by customer value, created by the salesperson. This edition stresses the need for sales professionals to cope with new forces shaping the world of sales and marketing, and emphasizes the strategies for long-term success. It provides comprehensive coverage of consultative selling, strategic selling, partnering, and value-added selling. Sales force automation is also a major theme. For sales and marketing professionals.

Table of Contents:

I. DEVELOPING A PERSONAL SELLING PHILOSOPHY.

1. Personal Selling and the Marketing Concept.
2. Personal Selling Opportunities in the Age of Information.

II. DEVELOPING A RELATIONSHIP STRATEGY.

3. Creating Value with a Relationship Strategy.
4. Ethics-The Foundation for Relationships in Selling.

III. DEVELOPING A PRODUCT STRATEGY.

5. Creating Product Solutions.
6. Product-Selling Strategies that Add Value.

IV. DEVELOPING A CUSTOMER STRATEGY.

7. Understanding Buyer Behavior.
8. Developing a Prospect Base.

V. DEVELOPING A PRESENTATION STRATEGY.

9. Approaching the Customer.
10. Creating the Consultative Sales Presentation.
11. Custom Fitting the Sales Demonstration.
12. Negotiating Buyer Concerns.
13. Closing the Sale and Confirming the Partnership.
14. Servicing the Sale and Building the Partnership.

VI. MANAGEMENT OF SELF AND OTHERS.

15. Management of Self: The Key to Greater Sales Productivity.
16. Communication Styles: Managing the Relationship Process.
17. Management of the Sales Force.

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Is Geography Destiny?: Lessons from Latin America

Author: John Luke Gallup

Geographic interpretations of development recently have become the subject of much renewed interest and debate within scholarly and public policy circles. Focusing on Latin America, this book examines how physical and human geography has influenced the region’s potential for economic and social development.

The book assesses how geography affects differences in development between countries and more specifically between Latin America and other regions of the world. The effects of geography on regional development are examined through four channels: the productivity of land, health conditions, frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and access to markets. The book then explores how geography has influenced development within countries through case studies of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru—countries significant for their geographical diversity as well as their wide socioeconomic disparities. These case studies illustrate numerous exceptions to international patterns and prove that while geography matters, it need not determine a country's destiny.

Using the knowledge gained from these two perspectives, the book concludes with recommendations for policies that can help countries overcome the limitations imposed by geography and thereby enhance their potential for economic and social development.

Foreign Affairs

It has long been a conundrum: Why, with so rich a natural resource base, did Latin America slip so far behind Europe and North America in terms of economic development? And why, even among developing countries, are inequalities greater in Latin America than in other regions? Over the last decade, recycled culturalist arguments, stripped of their original racist and anti-Catholic language, have held sway. The influence of geography on Latin American development is not a new topic either — after all, the philosophes posed this question in the eighteenth century. This valuable study's novel approach is to look at the intersection between physical characteristics, such as climate, topography, and soil quality, and economic and social development indicators. Latin America includes an enormous variety of climates and ecozones, and the authors address a remarkable range of factors, from tropical soils and land productivity to disease, urbanization, and access to world markets, that vary widely both within individual countries and across the region, reminding readers that geographic factors must be taken into account when making policy.

Corporate Internet Planning Guide or Marketing Foundations and Functions

Corporate Internet Planning Guide: Aligning Internet Strategy with Business Goals

Author: Richard J Gascoyn

This timely book breaks down the complicated process into simplified problem-solving steps that will help you confidently plan, develop, implement, and manage a corporate-wide Internet or Intranet strategy. You'll find all the tools you need here in a format you can put to work right away. Planning questions, checklists, and examples help you analyze your company's capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses, enabling you to create a customized plan for maximum impact - or if you're already online - to evaluate, enhance, and redefine your current Internet/Intranet strategy.

Booknews

Offers advice on identifying a company's internet and intranet needs, building an internet business case, developing an internet strategy to enhance all aspects of the enterprise, strengthen a company's overall strategic direction, and implement an internet plan. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Introduction
1	A Call to Action: Build the Internet/Intranet into Your Business	1
2	Rediscovering Your Customer: Serving Existing Needs and Predicting New Ones	19
3	Strategic Objectives: Your Internet/Intranet Business Case	41
4	Layered Access: How External and Internal Users Work with Your Site	91
5	The Ten Essential Steps for a Successful Internet Strategy	107
6	Reinventing Marketing: Steps to Implement Innovative Marketing Strategies	143
7	Integrating Technology: Making It Work in Your Business	169
8	Jobs, People, and Managers: How the Internet/Intranet Should Transform Your Organization	217
9	Legal and Regulatory Issues: Protecting Your Business for the Future	237
10	Business Risks and Barriers: Overcoming the Obstacles that could Limit Your Success	259
11	Measuring Success: Assessing Your Position Realistically and Analyzing Results	275
App. A	Resources to Help Develop and Execute an Internet Strategy	301
	App. B: Bibliography	307
	Index	311

Interesting textbook: US Armed Forces Survival Guide or Advanced Sports Nutrition

Marketing Foundations and Functions: Text

Author: James L Burrow

Marketing Foundations and Functions is designed to follow the recommendations set forth in the competency-based National Marketing Curriculum. This is the ideal, complete educational package for a course which stresses marketing principles and skills from the stand-point of the career marketer. This four-color, hardbound text comes with a highly functional Teacher's Edition with valuable marginal suggestions to help make the course entertaining and interactive.

Leaders and the Leadership Process or Measuring Patient Safety

Leaders and the Leadership Process: Readings,Self-Assessments,and Applications

Author: Jon L Pierc

Leaders and Leadership is a collection of readings on leadership intended to give students a feel for the breadth and richness of this study. The set of readings aims to provide students with a sense of the complexity associated with organizational leadership as well as an understanding of the pieces that serve to define leadership. The text encourages students to engage in dialogue and to think critically about the leaders and the leadership process.

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Measuring Patient Safety

Author: Robin Purdy Newhous

The vital nature of improving patient safety requires nurses to assume leadership roles in measuring and improving the structures, processes, and patient outcomes in the clinical setting. This book will enable them to impact patient safety with knowledge and confidence.

Table of Contents:

1	Patient safety as a measure of healthcare quality	1
2	Using performance improvement to support patient safety	13
3	Moving forward : planning a safety project	27
4	Rapid cycle safety improvement	39
5	The metrics of measuring patient safety	51
6	Dissemination of findings	67
7	Safer care for patients on mechanical ventilation	79
8	Medication reconciliation in the ICU	89
9	Chemotherapy safety	95
10	Preventing patient aggression : assessment and reporting as first steps	107
11	Resources for conducting a safety project	121
App	The Johns Hopkins hospital performance improvement workbook	137

E Commerce Security or Time Series

E-Commerce Security: Advice from Experts

Author: Khosrow Pour

Covering a wide range of existing e-commerce security issues, this book proposes solutions to security risks facing managers today. Experts in the field of e-commerce and e-commerce security offer insights into key issues such as the tactics of hackers, spamming, viruses, and future challenges facing e-commerce professionals. Strategies businesses can use to protect themselves from damages inflicted by hackers that attempt to locate vulnerabilities in an e-commerce system are described. How security architecture assists businesses in averting some forms of security troubles as well as how top management and e-commerce security professionals must continue to work toward protecting their e-commerce systems and clients from attack are explored in detail.

Author Biography: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour is the executive director of the Information Resources Management Association. He is also the editor of the Information Resources Management Journal, Annals of Cases on Information Technology, and Information Management. He serves on the editorial review boards of six other international information systems journals. He is the author or editor of 15 books and more than 30 articles published in journals such as Journal of Information Systems Management, Business Review, and Journal of Systems Management. He is a frequent speaker at many international meetings and organizations, such as the Association of Federal Information Resource Management, the Contract Management Association, the Financial Women Association, the National Association of States Information Resources Executives, and IBM. He lives in EDITOR: Khosrow-Pour, Mehdi

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Time Series: Applications to Finance

Author: Ngai Hang Chan

Elements of Financial Time Series fills a gap in the market in the area of financial time series analysis by giving both conceptual and practical illustrations. Examples and discussions in the later chapters of the book make recent developments in time series more accessible. Examples from finance are maximized as much as possible throughout the book.
* Full set of exercises is displayed at the end of each chapter.
* First seven chapters cover standard topics in time series at a high-intensity level.
* Recent and timely developments in nonstandard time series techniques are illustrated with real finance examples in detail.
* Examples are systemically illustrated with S-plus with codes and data available on an associated Web site.

Booknews

A graduate textbook developed for a quick course comprising six weeks of three-hour lectures. Students are expected to be well prepared either in finance or in such theoretical disciplines as pure mathematics or theoretical sciences. The goal is to balance theoretical background with examples of applications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Introduction	1
2	Probability Models	15
3	Autoregressive Moving Average Models	23
4	Estimation in the Time Domain	39
5	Examples in SPLUS	59
6	Forecasting	69
7	Spectral Analysis	79
8	Nonstationarity	93
9	Heteroskedasticity	101
10	Multivariate Time Series	117
11	State Space Models	137
12	Multivariate GARCH	153
13	Cointegrations and Common Trends	173
	References	195
	Index	201

Transboundary Environmental Negotiation or Organizational Cognition

Transboundary Environmental Negotiation: New Approaches to Global Cooperation

Author: Kevin Gallagher

Transboundary Environmental Negotiation is an important collection of articles generated by faculty and graduate students at MIT, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. The contributors emphasize the ways in which global environmental treaty-making can be improved. They highlight new environmental problems that pose difficult global negotiation challenges and suggest new strategies for involving a range of nongovernmental actors in ways that can overcome the obstacles to transboundary environmentalism.

Booknews

Each of the 18 essays appearing here was previously published in an issue of the series, Papers on International Environmental Negotiation, published annually by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School from 1992 to 2001. The 24 contributing authors analyze the weaknesses of the international environmental treaty- making system; discuss the changes in attitudes, actors, and treaty- making arrangements necessary for more effective treaty making; identify several transboundary environmental problems which need global attention and could be more effectively negotiated if a new treaty-making system were in place; and discuss some ways of gauging the success of a more integrative system. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
	About the Contributors
Pt. 1	Reshaping Attitudes: The Need to Rethink the Basis for Global Environmental Action	1
1	Defining the "Common Heritage of Mankind"	3
2	All Commons Are Local: The Antarctic Treaty System as a Regional Model for Effective Environmental Management	24
3	International Environmental Negotiation: A Strategy for the South	41
Pt. 2	A Shifting Cast of Characters: Beyond the State as Unitary Actor	83
4	Voluntary Codes of Management: New Opportunities for Increased Corporate Accountability	85
5	Science and Scientists in International Environmental Negotiations	107
6	Science and Economics in Climate Change and Other International Environmental Negotiations	130
7	Promoting North-South NGO Collaboration in Environmental Negotiations: The Role of U.S. Foundations	154
8	The Role of the Media in Environmental Issues: Newspaper Coverage in Four Countries	172
Pt. 3	New Tools and Arrangements: Adding Elements to the Treaty-Making System	201
9	Integrating Information Technology into Environmental Treaty Making	205
10	Enforcing International Environmental Treaties in Domestic Legal Systems	230
11	Capacity-Building Strategies in Support of Multilateral Environmental Agreements	252
Pt. 4	Possible New Treaties: Utilizing the Elements of a New System	277
12	Global Treaty on Renewable Energy	279
13	A Proposal for an Environmental Right-to-Know Convention: Negotiating the Barriers	304
14	The Global Nitrogen Initiative: An Opportunity for Sustainable Development and Global Change	335
15	A Proposed International Framework Convention on Bioinvasive Species	361
16	Harder than Physics: Negotiating an International Regime to Limit Transboundary Consequences of Nuclear Waste Disposal	376
Pt. 5	Gauging the Success of a More Integrative System	393
17	Linking Human Rights and Environmental Quality	395
18	The Potential for Environmental Contributions to Peace	414
	Bibliography	429
	Name Index	449
	Subject Index	457

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Organizational Cognition: Computation and Interpretation

Author: Theresa K Lant

Organizational Cognition is a collection of chapters written by scholars from around the world. The editors outline the history of two approaches to the study of cognition in organizations, the computational approach and the interpretive approach. The chapters represent some of the most cutting-edge research on organizational cognition, covering research that spans many levels of analysis. Much of the work in the book demonstrates how computational and interpretive approaches can be combined in a way that provides greater insight into cognitive processes in and among organizations. The editors conclude by elaborating the likely boundary conditions of each approach and how they can be combined for a more complete understanding of cognition in organizations.

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Outlines the history of two approaches to the study of cognition in organizations, the computational approach and the interpretive approach. Presents cutting-edge research at many different levels of analysis, as well as research that spans levels of analysis. Demonstrates how computational and interpretive approaches can be combined in a way that provides greater insight into cognitive processes in and among organizations. The editors teach management at New York University. Material originated at a spring 1998 conference held at New York University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)