International Management: Managing Across Borders and Cultures: Text and Cases

This text guides the reader as to what actions to take, and how to develop the skills necessary to design and implement global strategies, to conduct effective cross-national interactions and to manage daily operations in foreign subsidiaries.

Assessing the Environment—Political, Economic, Legal, Technological; Managing Interdependence: Social Responsibility and Ethics; Understanding the Role of Culture; Communicating Across Cultures; Cross-cultural Negotiation and Decision Making; Formulating Strategy; Global Alliances and Strategy Implementation; Organization Structure and Control Systems; Staffing, Training, and Compensation for Global Operations; Developing a Global Management Cadre; Motivating and Leading

Essentials of strategic management

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Thorough yet concise, Essentials of Strategic Management, is a brief version of the authors’ market-leading text Strategic Management: An Integrated Approach. Following the same framework as the larger book, ESSENTIALS helps students identify and focus on core concepts in the field in a more succinct, streamlined format. Based on real-world practices and current thinking, the text’s presentation of strategic management features an increased emphasis on the “business model” concept as a way of framing the issues of competitive advantage. Cutting-edge research, new strategic management theory, and a hands-on approach allow students to explore major topics in management, including corporate performance, governance, strategic leadership, technology, and business ethics. In addition, a high-quality case program examines small, medium, and large companies–both domestic and international–so that students gain experience putting chapter concepts into real-world practice in a variety of scenarios.

Canadian maverick: the life and times of Ivan C. Rand

In Canadian Maverick, bestselling author William Kaplan critically examines the life and times of lawyer, politician, academic, and Supreme Court Justice Ivan C. Rand. Born to a working-class New Brunswick family, Rand’s hard work and impressive intellect led to an extraordinary career that redefined Canada’s legal landscape.

Rand’s 1943 appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada invigorated what was then a pedestrian institution. His work in labour law, including his development of the Rand Formula, and his key judgments in civil liberties cases inspired a generation of Canadian judges, lawyers, and law students.

Working in the shadows: a year of doing the jobs (most) Americans won’t do

What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona, and worked the graveyard shift at a chicken slaughterhouse in rural Alabama. He dodged taxis—not always successfully—as a bicycle delivery “boy” for an upscale Manhattan restaurant, and was fired from a flower shop by a boss who, he quickly realized, was nuts.

The encyclopedia of strikes in American history

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Strikes have been part of American labor relations from colonial days to the present, reflecting the widespread class conflict that has run throughout the nation’s history. Against employers and their goons, against the police, the National Guard, local, state, and national officials, against racist vigilantes, against their union leaders, and against each other, American workers have walked off the job for higher wages, better benefits, bargaining rights, legislation, job control, and just plain dignity. At times, their actions have motivated groundbreaking legislation, defining new rights for all citizens; at other times they have led to loss of workers’ lives.

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Retirement policy issues in Canada

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After fifteen years of economic expansion, Canada is now experiencing shortages of skilled workers in a number of areas – a mere hint of what’s to come, given the eight-million plus baby boomers who will be retiring from the Canadian labour force over the next fifteen years or so.

This on-coming wave of retirements will have major implications for the economic well-being of both the retirees – particularly since people are living longer after retirement – and the Canadian economy at large. In Retirement Policy Issues in Canada, contributors look at Canada’s changing retirement landscape in broad terms.

Your brain at work: strategies for overcoming distraction, regaining focus, and working smarter all day long

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Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two young children, Emily is the newly promoted VP of marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from clients′ offices as an independent IT consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.

In this book, we travel inside Emily and Paul′s brains as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they′re presented with, figure out how to prioritize it, organize it and act on it. Fortunately for Emily and Paul, they′re in good hands: David Rock knows how the brain works-and more specifically, how it works in a work setting. Rock shows how it′s possible for Emily and Paul, and thus the reader, not only to survive in today′s overwhelming work environment but succeed in it-and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.

Globalization, wages, and the quality of jobs: five country studies

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Trade liberalization holds both promises and perils for workers around the world. This book uses a new analytical framework to show that while globalization has been associated with improvements in working conditions in the exposed sectors (apparel and textile), questions remain about the durability and generalization of such improvements.

Absent Citizens: Disability Politics and Policy in Canada

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Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic deficiencies in Canadian society and emphasizes the effects that these omissions have on the lives of citizens with disabilities.