Games Lawyers Play...and Clients Too
"He was lying to you, I said reading with my head down, half listening to her lawyer story in the background."A few years ago, those words slipped out - to a client no less - and have culminated in the writing of this funny, honest, andblunt assessment of the practice of law. David M. Cook shares the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about lawyers, clients and the realities of the legal system. You'll learn: - What the attorneys are really thinking when you meet them forthe first time - Why clients feel compelled to manipulate their stories andactions versus the reality - What's really going on with the judge and how he or she got there - About Bill Collectors - who are these people?- Why it can be so expensive to hire an attorney- What happens when your attorney isn't paying attention to your case- How to interview, hire and fire an attorney Experience an entertaining, compelling, and totally honest view of the legal system, legal clients, and the crazies attracted to the field. In Games Lawyers Play, you'll learn how you can become extremely effective in your interactions with a system that often lacks logic.
Women Seen and Heard Speaker’s Journal
Women Seen and Heard Journal provides women readers with the opportunity to explore the basis for any reticence they might have as public speakers. The Journal will develop self-awareness with regard to her own values, interests, ideas and opinions. There are more opportunities for women to advance into leadership roles, but for women to become leaders, they need to develop mastery of presentation skills in a range of situations, to include speaking up in business meetings to presenting a formal presentation at a conference, pitching to investors or donors, or running for office and speaking to the press. The chapters provide prompts that will allow each woman to respond privately -in her own separate journal- as she explores her family/work/travel history and how that affected her communication skills. Chapters focus on a woman's role models, assertiveness, authenticity, gaining credibility at the podium, and preparing for a career as a professional speaker. The Templates provide fool-proof worksheets for organizing 9 different types of presentations. The authors are professional speakers with media experience and share what they know from their own experience and coaching others.
Selling Ethically
Can you sell with integrity and still make a profit? Yes!In Selling Ethically: A Business Parable Connecting Integrity with Profits, author Joel Malkoff--a.k.a. the Ethics Giver--reveals the powerful and surprising link between business ethics and profits. Drawing on the wisdom of biblical sages, modern thought leaders, and the tenets of Malkoff's faith, this heartfelt and relatable business parable is inspired by experiences from the author's own business career. Having generated more than a half-billion dollars in sales, Malkoff proves that ethical business conduct isn't just the right thing to do--it's essential for: - building better customer relationships - selling more products and services via customer referrals - increasing your sales revenue and profits In Selling Ethically, business executive David King, the parable's protagonist, has a near-death experience; he suddenly finds his life--and his business career--on trial in a heavenly court. There, he fights not only to defend a lifetime's worth of business decisions-but for the ultimate fate of his soul.King's journey leads to powerful professional and personal discoveries and the realization that ethical business practice and profits are inextricably linked.
Virtual Leadership
How do you lead employees well when you don't physically work with them?In Virtual Leadership, Bart Banfield simplifies the complexities of working and leading in a twenty-first-century remote work environment. Through these pages, you will learn: - How to influence those you lead in a virtual work environment- Why change within the workplace is inevitable- The benefits of health and wellness in the virtual work environment- How to create a culture of coaching within your organization- Why self-awareness matters and makes you a better virtual leaderThe world's workforce is changing rapidly, and businesses must evolve or risk getting passed by. Virtual Leadership will show you concrete principles of effective leadership for the twenty-first century.
Get High
How do you feel when you-Accomplish a task with speed, efficiency and finesse?-Achieve something that you thought you could not?-Keep getting consistently better in what you do?You will feel proud, happy and experience a sense of accomplishment, right? You get a kick and feel high and mighty about yourself, don't you? So, when you achieve what you want to, you surely "Get High"!That is what this book is about. To enable you to get to a higher version of yourself in whatever work you do. It has short stories that you can learn from and activities that will enable you to achieve your goals to maximize your growth potential.Go ahead. Be your own coach for high performance. Achieve what you want.Because YOU CAN.
Moral Reasoning at Work
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Moral dilemmas are a pervasive feature of working life. Moral Reasoning at Work offers a fresh perspective on how to live with them using ethics and moral psychology research. It argues that decision-makers must go beyond compliance and traditional approaches to ethics to prepare for moral dilemmas. The second edition has been updated with a range of examples from the author's more recent research, to reflect current issues affecting organizations in the digital age. With two new chapters on artificial intelligence and social media, this new edition provides an up-to-date overview of ethical challenges in organizations. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Equitable Research Partnerships
This open access book offers insights into the development of the ground-breaking Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings (GCC) and the San Code of Research Ethics. Using a new, intuitive moral framework predicated on fairness, respect, care and honesty, both codes target ethics dumping - the export of unethical research practices from a high-income setting to a lower- or middle-income setting. The book is a rich resource of information and argument for any research stakeholder who opposes double standards in research. It will be indispensable for applicants to European Union framework programmes, as the GCC is now a mandatory reference document for EU funding. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Equitable Research Partnerships
This open access book offers insights into the development of the ground-breaking Global Code of Conduct for Research in Resource-Poor Settings (GCC) and the San Code of Research Ethics. Using a new, intuitive moral framework predicated on fairness, respect, care and honesty, both codes target ethics dumping - the export of unethical research practices from a high-income setting to a lower- or middle-income setting. The book is a rich resource of information and argument for any research stakeholder who opposes double standards in research. It will be indispensable for applicants to European Union framework programmes, as the GCC is now a mandatory reference document for EU funding. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Mediation in Collective Labor Conflicts
This open access book opens up the black box of mediation in collective conflicts through the analyses and comparisons of various systems. Mediation and related third party interventions such as conciliation and facilitation are discussed as effective prevention and regulation tools for different types of collective labor conflicts. These interventions fit in a new developed five-phase model of collective conflicts in organizations, going from capacity building in latent conflicts, through conciliation, mediation and arbitration in escalating phases, to rebuilding of trust after hot conflicts. The authors promote understanding and discussion with regards to labor mediation systems, presenting comparative research on the perspectives of mediators and users of mediation. This book describes and analyses laws, regulations and practices of mediation in seventeen countries, with a relative strong emphasis on Europe. Part 1 presents theoretical frameworks on conciliation and mediation in collective labor conflicts. Part 2 presents regulations and practices in 12 European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Part 3 discusses mediation in these collective conflicts in Australia, China, India, South Africa and the USA. Part 4 offers conclusions and ways forward. This book offers analyses, good practices and developments for third party intervention in collective labor conflicts in global and local changing environments. This book is a must-read for policy makers, social partners at different levels, as well as scholars and practitioners in industrial relations, human resources management and conflict management, particularly conciliators and mediators. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Moral Reasoning at Work
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Moral dilemmas are a pervasive feature of working life. Moral Reasoning at Work offers a fresh perspective on how to live with them using ethics and moral psychology research. It argues that decision-makers must go beyond compliance and traditional approaches to ethics to prepare for moral dilemmas. The second edition has been updated with a range of examples from the author's more recent research, to reflect current issues affecting organizations in the digital age. With two new chapters on artificial intelligence and social media, this new edition provides an up-to-date overview of ethical challenges in organizations. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Mediation in Collective Labor Conflicts
This open access book opens up the black box of mediation in collective conflicts through the analyses and comparisons of various systems. Mediation and related third party interventions such as conciliation and facilitation are discussed as effective prevention and regulation tools for different types of collective labor conflicts. These interventions fit in a new developed five-phase model of collective conflicts in organizations, going from capacity building in latent conflicts, through conciliation, mediation and arbitration in escalating phases, to rebuilding of trust after hot conflicts. The authors promote understanding and discussion with regards to labor mediation systems, presenting comparative research on the perspectives of mediators and users of mediation. This book describes and analyses laws, regulations and practices of mediation in seventeen countries, with a relative strong emphasis on Europe. Part 1 presents theoretical frameworks on conciliation and mediation in collective labor conflicts. Part 2 presents regulations and practices in 12 European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Part 3 discusses mediation in these collective conflicts in Australia, China, India, South Africa and the USA. Part 4 offers conclusions and ways forward. This book offers analyses, good practices and developments for third party intervention in collective labor conflicts in global and local changing environments. This book is a must-read for policy makers, social partners at different levels, as well as scholars and practitioners in industrial relations, human resources management and conflict management, particularly conciliators and mediators. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
ClearRevise Edexcel GCSE Business 1BS0
Illustrated revision and practiceAbsolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of revision guide for the 2020s. This guide has been expertly compiled and edited by successful teachers of Business, highly experienced examiners, business professionals and a good dollop of scientific research into what makes revision most effective.Past examinations questions and case studies are essential to good preparation, improving understanding and confidence. This guide has combined revision with tips and more practice questions than you could shake a stick at. All the essential ingredients for getting a grade you can be really proud of.Each specification topic has been referenced and distilled into the key points to make in an examination for top marks. Questions on all topics assessing knowledge, application and analysis are all specifically and carefully devised throughout this book.
The Workshop Survival Guide
Need to run a workshop? Your attendees are trusting you with their time and attention. What are you giving them in return?Most workshops don't work. They fail to deliver real results and they fail to keep the audience energetic and engaged. They're stressful to run and painful to attend.Designing and running a brilliant workshop is easier than you think. It's not about flashy showmanship or natural charisma. Instead, it's about following a set of clear, simple rules for structuring and arranging the day.Discover and use key design principles such as: Naturally refresh and maintain the audience's attention and energy by alternating the "teaching format" (e.g. lecture, small group discussion, hands-on practice) every 20 minutes and making strategic use of good breaksDramatically improve your educational impact by choosing an exercise which is properly matched to the type of knowledge/skill/wisdom currently being taughtSave dozens of hours by beginning your design process with a simple "skeleton" of Learning Outcomes and timings rather than jumping straight into slides and materialsFinish on time, every time, by intentionally designing flexible "schedule springs" into your session, allowing you to seamlessly adjust to delays and bad luck, and to ensure that everyone learns what they came for without running lateThe first half of the book covers everything you'll need to know about designing and refining the session itself. With a good design in hand, teaching a brilliant workshop goes from arduous to nearly automatic.The second half of the book shifts from ahead-of-time design to day-of facilitation.Learn the essential facilitation needed to solve unexpected problems and run a smooth, stress-free workshop: Reliable tools and tactics for crowd control, recovering attention, and shifting between tasks (without feeling like you're fighting against your audience)Clear guidance for picking the best room setup, and also improving a "bad" room to make the most of itSpotting and problem-solving the six major types of "difficult" attentees who are being either accidentally or intentionally disruptive (including the most common issue of bringing a hostile expert onto your side)Checklists and reminders of what to bring, what to do, and when to do it, in order to ensure that nothing gets forgotten, overlooked, or lostAt no point in the book will we ask you to "put on a big smile" or "project confidence". That's fluffy BS which doesn't work. Instead, we'll give you clear, concrete tools for managing a crowd and seamlessly guiding everyone to an effective outcome.Why we're the right authors to help you succeedOver the last 15 years, we've designed and run a huge number of successful workshops (and a few major flops) covering every type of audience: executives, undergrads, MBAs, disadvantaged youths, busy professionals, and more. We've designed everything from 20-minute teasers to 3-month intensives, in locations ranging from Costa Rica and Qatar to London and Berlin.We've taught for companies like HP and Deloitte and for universities like Oxford and NYU. We've built workshops for every price point, from free upskilling (paid for by the state or employer) through to $4000-per-seat premium events. We've taught casual sessions, with beer in hand and flip-flop on foot, through to formal, posh affairs with glitzy venues and high-end catering. In every case, no matter where it was located or who it was for, the process outlined in these pages worked.Perhaps most importantly, we can teach you how to do this. We've trained up teachers from scratch who are now billing upwards of $5000 per day and getting invited back to teach again and again. This stuff isn't complicated. You can learn it!
Selling Ethically
Can you sell with integrity and still make a profit? Yes!In Selling Ethically: A Business Parable Connecting Integrity with Profits, author Joel Malkoff--a.k.a. the Ethics Giver--reveals the powerful and surprising link between business ethics and profits. Drawing on the wisdom of biblical sages, modern thought leaders, and the tenets of Malkoff's faith, this heartfelt and relatable business parable is inspired by experiences from the author's own business career. Having generated more than a half-billion dollars in sales, Malkoff proves that ethical business conduct isn't just the right thing to do--it's essential for: - building better customer relationships - selling more products and services via customer referrals - increasing your sales revenue and profits In Selling Ethically, business executive David King, the parable's protagonist, has a near-death experience; he suddenly finds his life--and his business career--on trial in a heavenly court. There, he fights not only to defend a lifetime's worth of business decisions-but for the ultimate fate of his soul.King's journey leads to powerful professional and personal discoveries and the realization that ethical business practice and profits are inextricably linked.
Resilient
Kathy Coover's Book Helps You Create the Life of Your Dreams! Kathy Coover delivers the ultimate formula for success in her new book. She not only reveals the principles, strategies, and mindset she's used her entire career but also details the formula that will help you excel in direct sales. Dream big again using Kathy's formula for creating a vision of your perfect life. Learn how to create a bold + daring goal that can help lift everything you do. Discover the daily benchmarks of success and how to achieve them. Read the success secrets of 20 top leaders as they built their Isagenix teams. Find out how to distinguish between good ideas and great opportunities. Learn how to ask as if you expect to get a yes. A personal-growth playbook and powerful blueprint for success, "Resilient" is Kathy's long-awaited guide to creating the life you want and deserve. You'll also learn: Income-producing activities that can lead to real results. What it means to be a servant leader and why it can pay off big. How to use a vision board + affirmations to focus on aspired outcomes. How to build a sustainable team. Plus, so much more! "Resilient" is not only the ideal success manual and inspirational book for you but also a powerful enrollment tool that conveys the excitement and life-changing potential of the Isagenix income opportunity! For information, please visit www.kathycoover.com.
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To educate young adults up until readers of much mature ages about how to enhance life-choices and be a better and more successful version of yourself.
Business Ethics and Rational Corporate Policies
This book is about providing a comprehensive framework for understanding business ethics and corporate governance.As internal doubts persist on whether an individual adheres to business ethics and corporate policies, readers need to utilize this book in order to develop moral reasoning by demonstrating the moral entity consideration principle.This is vital in terms of coping with an internationalized business environment where human resources must adhere to multidimensional and demanding policies, while attempting to develop their mindset capacity of ethical thinking.This book is about providing a comprehensive framework for understanding business ethics and corporate governance, by analyzing the moral aspects of a plethora of challenges regarding human resources management, policy making, corporate responsibility, code of conduct, agency theory, workforce planning, information systems, and employment relationship.
Grappling With The Gray
Grappling with the Gray offers a collection of case studies, real and hypothetical, intended to ignite thoughtful consideration of ethical dilemmas in our personal and professional lives. Simply stated, a business culture driven by profits at the expense of values is destined to fail. Research shows that companies ranked highest for ethics grow faster than companies that aren't. Work environments are more pleasant. Employees are more satisfied, engaged, loyal, passionate, and productive. Turnover costs are less. Brand image shines. Cultivating a culture of ethics is the time-tested formula for spectacular success. The thought questions and discussions that follow each case study offer the opportunity to develop the ethical mindset that enables us to see the bigger picture, engage in civil debate, and work effectively toward consensus. Raising our ethical awareness ultimately produces a culture where compliance laws take care of themselves and a workforce that feels empowered, appreciated, and invested in a common vision that accelerates success.
Granting Joy
Practice what you preach! For 20+years, I have been practicing and now it's time to share what has worked for me in the various Fortune 500 companies where I have been successfully employed, delivering results and engaging cross-functional teams to achieve those audacious corporate and personal goals. I have always been a proponent of engaging employees to drive business results. Even as a young engineer, I believed in the power of people and their desire to do their best to solve complex problems, execute major projects, and unearth ground-breaking ideas from within. This book outlines a simple roadmap that is from a practitioner's point of view. And, it is buoyed by the current research that supports the roadmap and its methods. My objective is to compel other managers, business leaders, and teachers to get on the employee engagement bus by providing a practical roadmap that yields results.
Marketing Analytics
The authors of the pioneering Cutting-Edge Marketing Analytics return to the vital conversation of leveraging big data with Marketing Analytics: Essential Tools for Data-Driven Decisions, which updates and expands on the earlier book as we enter the 2020s. As they illustrate, big data analytics is the engine that drives marketing, providing a forward-looking, predictive perspective for marketing decision-making. The book presents actual cases and data, giving readers invaluable real-world instruction. The cases show how to identify relevant data, choose the best analytics technique, and investigate the link between marketing plans and customer behavior. These actual scenarios shed light on the most pressing marketing questions, such as setting the optimal price for one's product or designing effective digital marketing campaigns. Big data is currently the most powerful resource to the marketing professional, and this book illustrates how to fully harness that power to effectively maximize marketing efforts.
Raise and Rise
Are you an entrepreneur looking for funds in the digital economy? Raise and Rise offers a goldmine of in-depth knowledge about capital sources and tools for a modern startup featuring venture capital, crowdfunding (including blockchain-based), royalty financing, family offices and angel investors. Knitting together a vivid conversation with solid data, anecdotes, links, fun analyses and curious cases (Uber, Elio Motors, Spotify, and more), Dr. Victoria Silchenko goes beyond conventional narratives and unapologetically reveals the facts that might change your perspective on the best sources of startup financing. Her book takes you on a deep dive into the murky world of funding tools including those built on blockchain technology while providing a fundamental perspective about the digital economy along with a clear explanation of how modern finance works and how money is created. In an era when finding funding is the most important skill of all, this book asks and then answers big questions like these: -Why is obtaining funds for a startup so difficult when there is an abundance of finance available?-Why has Silicon Valley become the world's most powerful startup hub?-How do venture capitalists make investment choices, and do I stand a chance?-What type of crowdfunding would make the most sense for my venture?-How do I raise funds if I don't want to give up my equity?-What about alternative exit options?-Can I get funds via issuing my own cryptocurrency? -Why do I need to build a platform to make it big? -How do I make the most sizable impact with my venture? If you are puzzled about any of the above questions, you are in good hands. Based in Los Angeles, Dr. Silchenko is an economist-turned entrepreneur-turned educator who knows the entrepreneurial start-up struggle first-hand. The field of entrepreneurial venture financing in particular has been her research focus for almost two decades. Besides providing invaluable insights and solid advice about which capital sources might work best based on your particular story, the author makes a compelling case about why raising funding has turned out to be key and why obtaining funding for a startup keeps being remarkably difficult despite an abundance of finance available in the marketplace. The book is as helpful as it is unsettling, making you pause and reflect about the current financial system, who we like to worship, and the importance of building socially-impactful ventures, stressing that acquiring capital is not the purpose of a startup, just as breathing oxygen is not the purpose of human life.
Bitcoin & Black Powernomics
Bitcoin & Black Powernomics is a book for anyone in the community who wants to know the basics of Bitcoin and Blockchain technology. It approaches Bitcoin from a Black perspective and explains how and why BTC has become universally accepted as a money. It pivots to America's political roots and President Nixon's Deal of 1971 that mostly hurt Black America. Today that deal is a $250 trillion global debt denominated economic structure that is not sustainable and repeatedly showing signs of impending failure. Bitcoin & Black Powernomics makes the case that learning and using Bitcoin technology is Black America's best weapon in the struggle for freedom, equality and justice. New Bitcoiners will find their consciousness raised, their sovereignty realized and why and how Bitcoin translates their decisions and values into the economic sphere.
The Gender Pay Gap
This book serves as a resource for both the academic and corporate community, building the reader's awareness of the gender pay gap, its magnitude, ramifications, and providing action plans to address the challenge. This concise guide also provides an eResource with instructor's manual and PowerPoint slides for each chapter.
Successful Outsourcing and Multi-Sourcing
There are books on outsourcing, but most are by academics or consultants. Few address multi-sourcing. The author of Successful Outsourcing and Multi-Sourcing, is a practitioner who headed an operation that handles over 500 million customer contacts a year with less than 30 staff, through both outsourcing and multi-sourcing. Multi-sourcing occurs where each individual function is contracted directly by the client rather than using a large system integrator or prime contractor. This approach lowers costs, reduces reliance on suppliers, speeds up change and generates a greater degree of innovation. The downside is it places much more of the risk on the client and needs specialist skills to run effectively. As well as a focus on multi-sourcing, the book addresses the question of why a business should outsource in the first place and how decisions to do this should be strategic, rather than it being something that happens by accident. Chapters then illuminate the benefits of single-sourcing; the benefits of multi-sourcing; how best to decide what outsourcing model to choose; how to transition to outsourcing; and what steps to take to maximise benefit and minimise risk. Downsides are clearly spelled out and alternatives to outsourcing are examined, including partial outsourcing and insourcing. This book serves as a valuable source of practical guidance for organisations looking at outsourcing strategy, outsourcing professionals, and those teaching or studying business topics.
Behavioral Ethics in Practice
A research-based behavioural ethics primer focuses on how we make moral choices and explains why our internal biases, external social pressures, and situational factors such as time often influence our better nature (and judgment) and lead to ethical missteps.
Capital Structure and Shari’ah Compliance of Non-Financial Firms
In the present financial world, various niche markets play an increasingly important role. One of the fastest-growing niches is, without a doubt, Islamic finance. Indeed, sustainable finance needs constantly evolving innovations, and this book offers valuable insights into Islamic capital structure and Shari'ah equity screening enriching academic discourse. "In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of a new generation of academics and professionals specializing in various aspects of Islamic finance as knowledge and practice. This has brought about a new dynamism and also further sophistication. This book is one of such contributions, as it develops knowledge which is then transformed into practice whereby practical impact is also achieved. Being an academic book, it provokes readers' thoughts, offering a critique of the implications of the currently applied Shari'ah screenings methodologies. As a transformative practical piece, by developing an innovative screening ratio, in this book, Dr. Yildirim extends his focus on the risk-sharing based financing hierarchy, covers thoughts and the underlying philosophy, and proposes an Islamic version of a pecking order hierarchy. This framework can be considered the foundation for developing an Islamic capital structure theory. This book will benefit academics, professionals, investors, as well as policymakers working in the Islamic finance industry and would like to explore more." (Professor Dr. Mehmet Asutay, Durham University Business School, UK) "This book offers, for the first time after the inception of Shari'ah screening methodologies, a groundbreaking new stock screening solution that is comprehensible, practical, and foremost entirely derived from the primary sources of Islam (Qur'an and Sunnah). Congratulations to Dr. Ramazan for his outstanding contribution to Islamic finance and capital markets." (Associate Professor Dr. Ahcene Lahsasna) "This excellent book is a must-have for all corporate finance students/researchers interested in the theoretical aspect of capital structure and the religious discussion of Shari'ah equity screening. This book should become a companion to those involved in a quantitative research environment and aim to conduct a comparative analysis; an ideal resource for everyone, from Shari'ah scholars to Islamic finance practitioners and beginners to experts." (Professor Dr. M. Kabir Hassan, University of New Orleans, USA)
Effective Time Management
Before you can improve your use of time, you need to know how much time you have - typically eight hours in a workday - and how you currently use this time. Keeping a time log for a week and using it to record how long it takes you to complete each of the activities you perform can help you to do this.You should categorize activities and assign them priority levels so that you can create a summary of how you allocate your time over a typical week. From this summary, you can determine where you are wasting time and then address those areas.Energy levels fluctuate throughout the day. Knowing how these "peaks" and "valleys" affect your ability to perform certain tasks can help you schedule your tasks in the most effective way.Generally, energy levels are highest in the morning, so this is a good time to handle difficult or complex tasks that require good short-term memory and high concentration.In the early afternoon, your energy levels start to drop, so it's best to focus on only moderately demanding tasks. By late afternoon, you have the least energy and should focus on tasks that are the easiest to complete. Afternoons lend themselves to creative tasks, processing information, or drawing on long-term memory.Energy levels are moderate in the evening, so this is a suitable time for repetitive tasks that require concentration.The Myers-Briggs test measures your preferences in terms of information gathering, decision making, energy source, and dealing with the outside world to determine your personality type and how you are likely to behave.These personality traits affect how you manage your time. Each personality type has certain strengths and weaknesses. So knowing more about yourself can help you to determine how to improve your time management skills.To manage your time and work effectively, you need to start with goals. You need to set goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-related. Once goals are set, you break them down into tasks to create a comprehensive to-do list. These tasks should be action-centered, incremental, measurable, and scheduled.Once you know what tasks you need to perform to achieve your goals, you should prioritize each according to its importance and urgency. To do this, you can use a priority matrix, which categorizes tasks as either urgent and important, urgent but not important, not urgent but important, or not urgent and not important.To prioritize your workload effectively, you can sequence or queue the tasks you need to perform.
Communicating Effectively with Senior Executives
Communicating with a senior executive is probably not something you do every day, and you're probably glad about that. Whether by phone, e-mail, or in person, communicating with a senior executive can be a daunting and stressful challenge. But it can also be an incredible opportunity to get your point across, influence decisions, and establish yourself as someone with value to contribute. It's an opportunity you'll want to make the most of.Given what's at stake, it's critical that you prepare this communication properly and professionally. Doing this will not only impress the senior executive, it will maximize your chances of successfully achieving the goal of the communication.Proper preparation begins with considering the characteristics and drivers that influence a senior executive's decision-making. You also need to be clear about the parameters of your communication. What is it you want to communicate? What are you trying to achieve?If your communication is going to succeed, you also need to follow certain other principles. For example, your message must be to the point and relevant. It must correspond to the executive's personality and decision-making style. And you need to be on top of the financial and customer implications of what you're saying.This course will help you shape and clarify your communications with senior executives. It will outline the principles to follow and present some very important tips on building credibility with senior executives. These principles and tips are all crucial to ensure that you're taken seriously.Finally, this course will provide detailed guidance on how best to approach and plan your meetings with senior executives. Overall, the course will help you make your communications with senior executives more productive and beneficial to all concerned.Does the idea of communicating with senior executives in your company make your heart race, give you chills of terror, or make your mind go completely blank? Communication isn't everybody's strength, but in business, having the skills to effectively communicate your ideas to senior executives will make you a better manager.You probably know there's a big difference between a meeting and chatting with a senior executive in the parking lot. Or between presenting a new idea to senior executives and reporting on how your project is progressing.You must be prepared to communicate with senior executives in both formal and informal settings. You'll also explore different communication platforms like presentations, e-mail, phone calls, and elevator pitches, and learn about the advantages and disadvantages of each. Then you'll be able to use what you've learned to choose the most appropriate platform to deliver your message.You'll also learn how to adapt your approach for different purposes depending on what you're trying to achieve with your communication. The purpose of your communication may be to report, propose, or make a request. But whatever your purpose, this course will teach you appropriate principles and guidelines to follow so you get your message across effectively.
Public Speaking Strategies
Speaking in public can be difficult. Most people are either afraid of embarrassment or afraid to make a bad impression. To overcome these fears and become an effective communicator, it's vital to acquire public speaking skills.When we think about public speaking, we usually think of formal occasions like corporate updates and conferences. But public speaking actually refers to every time you talk to a group of people, whether they're friends, clients, colleagues, or customers. Speaking in public is the most basic, direct, and powerful way you can communicate.Learning how to become an effective public speaker can help you succeed in your career.Public speaking skills benefit both the speaker and the listener. Audiences learn from you and are entertained when you effectively communicate your ideas.And you, as the speaker, benefit by leaving a lasting impression of competence and confidence in your chosen field.This course can help you to prepare effective public speeches. It sets out the preparations you should make before getting up to talk to a group - including choosing your topic and researching it properly as well as writing and practicing your speech. Making these preparations can help you become an effective public speaker.This course begins by detailing how to select an effective topic for your speech - one that you feel comfortable talking about, fulfills your objectives, and resonates with your audience.Next, it outlines how to effectively research your topic and prepare for making your speech. Thorough research is the foundation of an effective speech. Also, making preparations minimizes the possibility of mishaps during your speech.Finally, this course sets out how to write and practice your speech. Structuring your speech correctly and practicing it beforehand contribute toward a successful public speaking experience.Can you think of a time, with your family or friends, when you were telling a story and every eye was on you? When you were relaxed and the words came easily? Don't you wish it was that easy every time you had a formal public speaking engagement? Most people are capable of communicating effectively in an informal situation. But when a formal speech is required, the same people often feel overwhelmed.For most people, public speaking doesn't come naturally. It takes practice and preparation to get your delivery just perfect. In this course you'll learn techniques to increase your confidence and your public speaking skills.You'll begin by learning the basics of good speech delivery - how to start strong by encouraging your confidence, making a good first impression, and building rapport with your audience. You'll also learn how to hold the attention of the audience and finish strong.You'll learn how to recognize some of the common challenges of public speaking, such as an audience losing focus, being uncooperative, asking difficult questions, or heckling. And you'll learn techniques to deal with each challenge effectively.This course will also teach you techniques to overcome your public speaking anxiety. You'll learn how to adequately prepare leading up to your speech, and how important it is to relax before you speak.You'll learn how to get acquainted with your location and listeners and how to focus on your key points when you get nervous. Finally, you'll learn how practicing public speaking will lead to greater confidence.The last section of this course will give you a chance to practice all you've learned and simulate delivering a speech with confidence.You'll practice conquering your anxiety, handling difficult questions, dealing with hecklers, and regaining the focus of an audience that's fading.
Professionalism and Business Etiquette
What do you think of when you hear the words "business etiquette"? Fancy dinners attended by CEOs? Particular rules for writing letters? Advice about which suit is the "right" suit?All of those things were once considered "business etiquette." But times have definitely changed. Business is no longer the private domain of people in suits and ties. And there's a greater sense of equality between men and women as well as between managers and employees.There's no longer a single set of etiquette "rules" that fits every company or every business situation. The right thing to do in one environment may be unthinkable in another. So today's business etiquette isn't rigid. It's flexible, and the right behavior depends on: -the culture inside the company, -your audience, including your co-workers, customers, and supervisors, -the goals you want to achieve.In this course, you'll learn how to think about culture, audience, and goals to guide you to the correct behavior in many business environments. Specifically, the course will cover behaviors you face every day, including: -fitting in, or adapting to the culture around you, -getting along with the people you work with, -handling sensitive situations, -knowing when to lead and when to follow."To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business." -- Emily PostWould you know how to use good manners if, as a new employee at a conservative financial institution, your boss told you to "disseminate to the necessary people what you feel are the key findings in the financial report"? Knowing what to do would be good business. What style would you use in your message, and which findings would you include? Which communication medium would you use?The more you understand the role etiquette plays in business communication, the better chance you have of handling uncertain communication situations with style and grace.You'll also know when it's best to use a range of communication tools, from memos and e-mail messages to cellular phones and conference calls.In this course, you'll learn how to make intelligent choices about communication etiquette in your workplace. You'll examine the typical causes of etiquette mistakes in modern communication, learn about a model to help you make communication etiquette decisions, and analyze whether the model was used appropriately for a range of communication situations and tools. You'll also explore etiquette guidelines that apply to the most frequently used communication media in the business world today.What does the word "meeting" mean to you?Regardless of who you are, the word "meeting" probably evokes a strong emotion. Whether that emotion is delight or apprehension, meetings affect everyone in the business world. So why is there such a range of intense feelings when it comes to meetings? Maybe because no two meetings are alike. Some are productive and even fun, and others are like being stuck in traffic, in the smog, on a 100-degree day. What explains such differences in business meetings? What makes one meeting good and another one bad?When meeting facilitators or people who have to participate in meetings begin to apply etiquette to business meeting situations, strange things begin to happen. They're treated better at meetings, and the meetings become more enjoyable and productive.Can learning the principles of proper meeting etiquette really make that much of a difference?You bet it can. Proper etiquette can have a transforming effect on almost any situation, and the business meeting is no exception. In this course, you'll learn about the etiquette of: -business meeting basics, -planning for a meeting, -running a meeting.In days past, workers were more willing to work for a respectable supervisor. Workers still do a better job for supervisors who understand the power of "words and looks." Today, we call those words and looks "etiquette."
Project Management for Non-Project Managers
Organizations are developing project managers from within more and more. Employees who are proficient in their area of expertise are being asked to take on project management.This book explores the basic concepts and fundamentals of project management.Project management processThe first lesson focuses on the project management process: highlighting the importance of effective project management, who's involved with projects, and an introduction to the four phases of the project management process.Project manager roleThe second lesson focuses on the project manager role: highlighting typical roles a project manager must fill to be successful, the value of the project manager, how to deliver the right amount of project management, and how to manage small to medium projects.This book will provide individuals who are not professional project managers with the knowledge required to build a solid understanding of the fundamentals of project management, helping them transition to the role of project manager.Today's business world is a complex and rapidly changing place. Organizations and individuals cannot survive without accepting and embracing change. Change involves your situation: something is different; a bigger office, a new colleague, the reorganization of staff responsibilities.Transition involves a journey; it is the process of disengagement, transformation, and acceptance of change.Put simply, change is the event and transition is the process that takes you there. While it is important to know the terms, concepts, techniques, and skills that are involved in project management, it is even more important to be able to put these to work on the job.A project manager is expected to deal with intangible issues such as human dynamics, establishing authority, and managing people and expectations. This often requires a complex balance of personal and practical skills.Project management is about the management of people, but it is also about managing the way an organization works, and the way the people within it work.As a project manager, you will need to realize that people are inseparable from process. It is not only practical skills, but leadership ability, management skills, and the ability to communicate that are imperative to successful projects.Benjamin Franklin wrote, "For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horseshoe nail."A small problem overlooked in the early stages of project management can grow to be a critical failure in the later stages.The Initiating and Planning phases of project management are vital to the success of the project. Without the proper tools and information, effective project management is impossible.Imagine what would happen if the head chef of a busy restaurant didn't have the right ingredients for the evening menu. What do you think would happen if she didn't have a plan for efficiently preparing all of the meals during the supper rush?If you don't initiate your project properly, you might not have everything you need to meet your goals. And if you don't plan your project well, you might not meet your goals on time - or at all.This book examines the importance of properly initiating and planning a project, and explores ways to make your initiating and planning efforts more effective.Your project plan is complete. Tasks are clearly outlined, the schedule is in place, and the money is budgeted to the cent. You're getting ready to dig in and start the actual work.You're feeling confident that the project is going to go exactly as planned. How could anything go wrong?Managing is the third phase of project management. You may be tempted to think now that the planning is over the rest of the project will be easy.
聶c籀mo Generar Estado de Flujo (Flow) En Las Redes Sociales? El Caso de Facebook, Instagram, Youtube Y Twitter
Durante los 繳ltimos a簽os se han hecho m繳ltiples investigaciones sobre estado de flujo (flow), todas ellas de muy diversa naturaleza, dada la versatilidad del concepto para ser aplicado a distintos contextos. Lo que se pretende con el presente trabajo es contribuir y ampliar la literatura sobre estado de flujo en la esfera online, m獺s concretamente, en el 獺mbito de las redes sociales; buscando as穩 que las marcas contemplen este constructo en sus estrategias de marketing digital. Para ello, en primer lugar, se establece un marco te籀rico en el que definimos y describimos los aspectos m獺s importantes del estado de flujo. Posteriormente, ahondamos en las caracter穩sticas de dicho fen籀meno pero, esta vez, aplicado al entorno virtual, y lo relacionamos con t矇rminos propios de la disciplina comercial. Por 繳ltimo, y a modo de estudio emp穩rico del que extraer conclusiones pr獺cticas, se realiza un an獺lisis estad穩stico para conocer la percepci籀n de los individuos acerca de las experiencias 籀ptimas que ofrecen las distintas redes sociales.
Introduction to Islamic Banking and Finance: An Economic Analysis
This book, Introduction to Islamic Banking and Finance: An Economic Analysis, covers the basic principles of Islamic economics and finance. It discusses both the theory of Islamic economics and finance as well as the applications in the design of instruments of finance as well as Islamic financial institutions. The book enables its readers to gain an understanding of the structures and operations of Islamic banking, Islamic capital market investments, risk management, and taxation for Islamic banking contracts.The book sets forth the following objectives: An overview of the principles of Islamic economics and understand their contrast with mainstream economics. An overview of basic rules of commercial law in Islamic jurisprudence. An overview of basic principles, structures and operations of Islamic banking both in the liability side and asset side operations. An understanding of Islamic capital market instruments and investment management including some unique activities peculiar to Islamic investments, such as stock screening and income purification. An illustration of different Takaful structures, which are applied for risk management by individuals and corporates.
Humor, Seriously
WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER - Anyone--even you!--can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the popular class at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Don't miss the authors' TED Talk, "Why great leaders take humor seriously," online now. "The ultimate guide to using the magical power of funny as a tool for leadership and a force for good."--Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When and Drive We are living through a period of unprecedented uncertainty and upheaval in both our personal and professional lives. So it should come as a surprise to exactly no one that trust, human connection, and mental well-being are all on the decline. This may seem like no laughing matter. Yet, the research shows that humor and laughter are among the most valuable tools we have at our disposal for strengthening bonds and relationships, diffusing stress and tension, boosting resilience, and performing when the stakes are high. That's why Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas teach the popular course Humor: Serious Business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where they help some of the world's most hard-driving, blazer-wearing business minds infuse more humor and levity into their work and lives. In Humor, Seriously, they draw on findings by behavioral scientists, world-class comedians, and inspiring business leaders to reveal how humor works and--more important--how you can use more of it, better. Aaker and Bagdonas unpack the theory and application of humor: what makes something funny, how to mine your life for material, and simple ways to identify and leverage your unique humor style. They show how to use humor to rebuild vital connections; appear more confident, competent, and authentic at work; and foster cultures where levity and creativity can thrive. President Dwight David Eisenhower once said, "A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." If Dwight David Eisenhower, the second least naturally funny president (after Franklin Pierce), thought humor was necessary to win wars, build highways, and warn against the military-industrial complex, then you might consider learning it too.
Influenceher
A powerful clarion call for women leaders to harness their faith to transform the world of business--and cultivate a more diverse, supportive system for all Women around the globe are being divinely called to change the world of business with a new kind of leadership. It's time for us to wake up and prepare for the challenge. Why are we still seeing gender pay gaps and a lack of diversity in our workforces? We all know these systemic inequalities persist, so why haven't we fixed them yet? Dion Johnson has excelled in her field as a black woman in a white man's world; facially disfigured in a beauty-obsessed world; a devoted Christian in a secular world. She knows first-hand how unequal the system can be. In 2013, Dion, led by God, began challenging women leaders to respond to the call to show up, speak up and shake things the hell up in their industry. Since then, Dion has served passionately as a strategic ally supporting women to evolve, rise above leadership challenges, and be more influential in their role. In this book she offers a development framework for senior leaders who want to initiate hard change without sabotaging their health or self-esteem. Influential Woman has the power to spark a revolution in the way we lead and do business--to make the marketplace a force for love, justice and equality. We are influential women and now is our time to rise up and take action!
Lean Out
More than fifty years since the passage of the Equal Pay Act, the wage gap still hovers at 80 percent. Half a billion dollars are spent annually on corporate diversity programs, yet only 5 percent of CEOs in the Fortune 500 are women. Lean Out is an ambitious attempt to answer the question few dare to ask: What have we gotten wrong about women at work?Based on in-depth research and personal experiences, Lean Out is inspired by the journey of Marissa Orr, a single mom of three trying to succeed in her fifteen-year career at the world's top tech giants. In an eye-opening account, Orr exposes the systemic dysfunction at the heart of today's most powerful corporations and how their pursuit to close the gender gap has come at the expense of female well-being. "Fewer women at the top is a clear signal that the system is broken," says Orr. "With female-dominant strengths such as empathy and consensus-building being the future of business, the headlines forecast that women will dominate the future generations of corporate leaders. But that won't happen until prescriptions for success stop requiring women to act more like men, mistaking traits such as empathy as signals of weakness." Lean Out provides a new and refreshingly candid perspective on what it's really like for today's corporate underdogs, while challenging modern feminist rhetoric and debunking the belief that everyone has to be the same in order to be equal. Offering compelling new arguments for the reasons more women don't make it to the top, Lean Out presents a revolutionary path forward, to change the life trajectories of women in the corporate world and beyond.
Napoleon Hill’s First Editions
The Best of Napoleon Hill's Early Works with Commentary from Entrepreneur Media for Today's Modern World First published in 1937, Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Richhas launched decades of entrepreneurs and remains a bestseller in financial self-help in the present day. Entrepreneur Media presents the best of the author's early works with reflection thoughtful commentary by today's modern entrepreneurs, small business owners, and thought leaders. This book cracks open Hill's key philosophies of business and wealth, and helps to translate many mid-century phrases and common references now largely obscure today. The reader is invited to reflect and take action, bridging the gap between generations of entrepreneurs to teach them how to master their personal and professional success as they run, start, and grow their enterprises.
Digital Retirement
Retirement is all about Income not Assets.If you are out of time and need a boost to your retirement income, this may be the most important book you can read in order to create the income you need for your retirement. In just 9 months, Michelle Kulp, created $2,300 per month in passive income and has replaced her social security income by writing one short book per month. Michelle is creating Wealth Through Words and wants to invite you on this incredible journey with her.Answer the following questions: Would you like to retire sooner rather than later?Are you unprepared for retirement?Have you lost thousands of dollars in your 401K and are fearful for your future?Do you worry that social security might not be around when you're ready to collect?Would you like to retire in the next 12 months?If you answered YES to any of these questions, then Digital Retirement will give you a proven strategy for creating a brand new financial future.Consider that the average Social Security Benefit is $1,503 per month. This can be accomplished, as the author demonstrates, by writing as little as eight books! That's a lifetime of work that you can create in eight months. Moreover, statistics show that roughly 50% of Americans reach their full retirement age (FRA) with less than $25,000 and that one in three Americans have less than $5,000 saved for retirement.If you want to maintain your lifestyle when you retire, then it's time to take matters into your own hands...literally.Here's some of what you'll discover in Digital Retirement The 4 Secrets To Wealth That Will Protect Your Financial FutureThe Exact Framework The Author Used To Replace Her Social Security Income in just 9 monthsWhy Less Is More When It Comes To Writing BooksHow To Find High-Profit Topics How One Fiction Author Created $40K/Month In Just 3 YearsAnd More!It's time you get out of trading hours for dollars and instead start creating passive income.If you're ready to learn a proven system that can take you from Broke Retiree to Rich Retiree, then click the BUY NOW button and let's get started on your new path to FINANCIAL FREEDOM!
Die Business Judgement Rule
Diese Open-Access-Publikation vermittelt Personen aus Wirtschaft und Lehre durch pragmatische und fokussierte Darstellungsweise sowohl die Grundsystematik der Organhaftung als auch die in der Praxis 瓣u?erst relevante Problematik der Organhaftung bei unklaren Rechtslagen. Gleichzeitig wird durch Auslegung der Legalit瓣tspflicht untersucht, ob der gegenw瓣rtig in der Rechtsprechung verfolgte Ansatz zur L繹sung der Frage nach einer Haftungsprivilegierung bei unklaren Rechtslagen dogmatisch sinnvoll ist oder ob nicht gegebenenfalls durch Rechtsfortbildung ein praktisch und dogmatisch sinnvollerer L繹sungsansatz gefunden werden kann.
Rahmungen Informeller Kompetenzentwicklung
Christin Ehrlich entwickelt anhand empirischer Daten und theoretischer ?berlegungen ein Modell der 'Rahmungen informeller Kompetenzentwicklung', welches es erlaubt, F羹hrungskr瓣fteentwicklung vor dem Hintergrund eines integrativen Verst瓣ndnisses als Zusammenspiel formaler, non-formaler und informeller Prozesse zu sehen und eine tiefergehende Analyse informeller Kompetenzentwicklungsprozesse in der betrieblichen Bildungsarbeit erm繹glicht. Die Autorin zeigt konkrete Ma?nahmen f羹r deren Gestaltung auf, wobei die Wichtigkeit des Individuums sowie gleichzeitig die Kraft der sozialen Beziehungen und die Relevanz des Umfeldes hervorgehoben werden.
Leading Issues in Islamic Economics and Finance
The book discusses leading issues in Islamic economics and finance that continue to remain in a fluid, non-consensual state in the profession. It examines the nature and significance of Islamic economics. The book deals with the mainstream topics including growth, environment, distributive justice, monetary policy, risk treatment, methodology and Basel Accords to rehabilitate them for the Islamic discipline within the framework of scarcity, self-interest and gain maximization. Further, it explores the role of the state in directing the economy toward achieving Islamic goals of development and welfare.
Your Message Matters
Are you one of the many people who long to ditch the cubicle and go to work for yourself, on your own terms? What's holding you back? Self-doubt, fear, technology challenges, the feeling that there are already too many other people doing what you want to do? It's time to face those things head-on and transform your passion into a thriving business. Why? Because your message matters.In this uplifting and practical book, blogger, speaker, and business coach Jonathan Milligan gives you a simple 4-step framework to rise above the noise and build a real business. He shows you how to believe, define, craft, and market your message so that you can fulfill your unique purpose in this life. With plenty of helpful assessment tools and proven strategies--including how to create 7 perpetual income streams in 12 months from just one message--this is your go-to guide for living your dreams and impacting the world for good.
Own It. Love It. Make It Work.: How to Make Any Job Your Dream Job. Workbook
A step-by-step workbook to turn any job into your dream job In Own It. Love It. Make It Work., renowned productivity consultant Carson Tate revealed why many of us are not engaged in our jobs-and offered a new strategy to take ownership of our careers, lives, and happiness. Now, she shows you exactly how to put her ideas into practice with a companion workbook that clearly guides you through the process. Designed to work hand-in-hand with Own It. Love It Make It Work., the Workbook supplements each chapter with exercises, guidance, and tools to execute Tate's strategy seamlessly. You'll navigate through each concept based on your own situation and personal career goals. In addition to complementary material, the workbook also features entirely new content, including: - Questions to help you clarify your career goals and what you need to be engaged and fulfilled - Concepts that you and your colleagues can explore together - A revealing quiz that will show you which action step to take first, second, third, until you have your dream job - Hands-on practices to cultivate happiness and well being - How trust and purpose can become the bedrock of your professional life A practical tool kit to leverage your unique strengths, skills and talents and custom-build your career, this all-new workbook offers you a refreshing opportunity for a radical realignment of your work, your goals, and your entire life.
Good Guys
The key to advancing gender equality? Men.Women are at a disadvantage. At home, they often face an unequal division of household chores and childcare, and in the workplace, they deal with lower pay, lack of credit for their contributions, roadblocks to promotion, sexual harassment, and more. And while organizations are looking to address these issues, too many gender-inclusion initiatives focus on how women themselves should respond, reinforcing the perception that these are "women's issues" and that men—often the most influential stakeholders in an organization—don't need to be involved.Gender-in-the-workplace experts David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson counter this perception. In this important book, they show that men have a crucial role to play in promoting gender equality at work. Research shows that when men are deliberately engaged in gender-inclusion programs, 96 percent of women in those organizations perceive real progress in gender equality, compared with only 30 percent of women in organizations without strong male engagement.Good Guys is the first practical, research-based guide for how to be a male ally to women in the workplace. Filled with firsthand accounts from both men and women, and tips for getting started, the book shows how men can partner with their female colleagues to advance women's leadership and equality by breaking ingrained gender stereotypes, overcoming unconscious biases, developing and supporting the talented women around them, and creating productive and respectful working relationships with women.
Moral Blindness in Business
In this book, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff investigates moral blindness in business and public administration based on Hannah Arendt's concept of banality of evil in her famous report on the Nazi-criminal Adolf Eichmann trail in Jerusalem in 1961. Moral blindness and evil in management is instrumental wrongdoing inflicted upon human beings as a violation of their dignity and humanity. Organizational evil in business, bureaucracies and public administration is analysed with focus on obedience to authority and systemic role conformity of managers and administrators. This includes the critical question about how concepts of banality of evil and moral blindness can explain ethical insensibility and lack of moral understanding in business and administration. Rendtorff proposes a humanistic vision of management and ethical leadership. Moral thinking, responsibility and moral judgment is essential in management and governance in business and administration. This book is a must-read for academics and practitioners studying and working in philosophy of management, business ethics, political philosophy, administration ethics and corporate social responsibility.
Absolute Essentials of Business Behavioural Ethics
This book provides an entertaining overview of how dishonesty and unethical behaviour has been studied in psychological experiments and the malleable nature of business ethics.
Introduction to Islamic Banking and Finance: An Economic Analysis
This book, Introduction to Islamic Banking and Finance: An Economic Analysis, covers the basic principles of Islamic economics and finance. It discusses both the theory of Islamic economics and finance as well as the applications in the design of instruments of finance as well as Islamic financial institutions. The book enables its readers to gain an understanding of the structures and operations of Islamic banking, Islamic capital market investments, risk management, and taxation for Islamic banking contracts.The book sets forth the following objectives: An overview of the principles of Islamic economics and understand their contrast with mainstream economics. An overview of basic rules of commercial law in Islamic jurisprudence. An overview of basic principles, structures and operations of Islamic banking both in the liability side and asset side operations. An understanding of Islamic capital market instruments and investment management including some unique activities peculiar to Islamic investments, such as stock screening and income purification. An illustration of different Takaful structures, which are applied for risk management by individuals and corporates.
Intrinsic Csr and Competition
This edited book is at the intersection of the discussion on family-owned business, the CSR agenda and company competition in Europe. The authors contribute to the debates on corporate social responsibility by arguing that formal management systems are not the one-size-fits-all solution they are typically presented to be. Exploring alternative interpretations of the profile environmental management activities have in SMEs, the book evaluates the way in which cultural and ethical values are embedded in European SMEs in order to drive and orientate CSR successfully without following the mainstream 'systems' approach. It addresses several values of thought within the CSR debate such as intrinsic CSR, the role of virtue ethics and moral theory in corporate culture, environmental sustainability and vision-driven CSR. Focusing on a European perspective, the book heuristically explores an alternative model for the integration of CSR, innovation dynamics and economic success driven by intrinsic values rather than extrinsic post-decision rationalisations.
