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21. |  Questionnaire Design, 3rd Edition By: Ian Brace Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Questionnaire Design, 3rd Edition Questionnaires are vital for the market researcher: they draw accurate information from respondents, give structure to interviews, provide a standard form on which facts, comments and attitudes can be recorded, and facilitate data processing. Questionnaire Design explains the role of questionnaires in market research and looks at different types of questionnaire, examining when and how they should be deployed. The book explains how to plan, structure and compose the right questionnaire for the research you are undertaking. Fully updated with new content on encouraging respondent involvement,...
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22. |  HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS, VOL 4A By: Orley Ashenfelter; David Card Publisher: North Holland Publication Date: 28-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS, VOL 4A
What new tools and models are enriching labor economics? "Developments in Research Methods and their Application" (volume 4A) summarizes recent advances in the ways economists study wages, employment, and labor markets. Mixing conceptual models and empirical work, contributors cover subjects as diverse as field and laboratory experiments, program evaluation, and behavioral models. The combinations of these improved empirical findings with new models reveal how labor economists are developing new and innovative ways to measure key parameters and test important hypotheses. ...
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23. |  Modern Empirical Developments in Corporate Takeovers By: B. Espen Eckbo Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 12-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Modern Empirical Developments in Corporate Takeovers
A selection of republished corporate finance articles and book chapters that can serve as an advanced corporate finance supplementary text for courses that use no textbooks. Combining convenience and an affordable price with retypeset pages and a high-quality index, the 600 pages of volume two, "Bidding Strategies, Financing, and Corporate Control", focus on a range of special topics, ranging from theories and evidence on strategic bidding behavior (offer premiums, toeholds, bidder competition, winner’s curse adjustments, and managerial overconfidence), issues arising when bidding for...
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24. |  FT Essential Guide to Leading Your Team By: Graham Yemm Publisher: FT Publishing International Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: FT Essential Guide to Leading Your Team
The tools and ideas to help you lead with confidence and achieve better results through your team. This book provides all the tools and skills to help you be more effective in leading your team and achieving higher levels of performance. It focuses on three key elements: you as the leader, the principles of team working and team building, and getting individuals to contribute and perform. As well as identifying obstacles and pitfalls, it assists you in improving your skills and coaches you to work out what you could be doing better.
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25. |  FT Essential Guide to Negotiations By: Geof Cox Publisher: FT Publishing International Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: FT Essential Guide to Negotiations
A practical and clear guide showing you how to lead and secure a win: win outcome in all your business deals. This book will take you through the steps, actions and communications skills necessary to ensure successful business negotiations. Introducing a four-phase process that underpins successful negotiations and sharing the practices and actions of highly effective negotiators in a straightforward and practical manner, this detailed, step by step guide will help you go into negotiations fully equipped with the key tools that you need to secure a win: win outcome.
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26. |  Living Leadership, 3rd Edition By: George Binney; Colin Williams; Gerhard Wilke Publisher: FT Publishing International Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Living Leadership, 3rd Edition
Reassess your leadership style, discover how to connect with people, and become a leader who can make things happen in the real world. Built on a unique four-year experiment working alongside real leaders in real businesses, Living Leadership explodes the myth of the charismatic, transformational leader, to show that real progress comes from the dramatically ordinary aspects of leadership. From building relationships, to working with the grain of the organisation rather than against it, and to knowing our limitations as much as pushing every boundary, the new edition of this...
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27. |  By: Jo Owen Publisher: Pearson Business Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 20-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Manage, 3rd Edition
The ultimate how-to of management. Based on years of management practice and actually watching what good managers do, it cuts through the noise of management theory, to show you how to develop the skills, behaviour and emotions to thrive as a manager. In How to Manage youll learn how to: Evaluate your own management potential Assess team members and help them discover how they can improve Identify and build the core skills you need to succeed Recognise the rules of survival and success in your organisation
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28. |  By: Robin Stuart-Kotze; Chris Dunn Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 02-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Who Are Your Best People?
Do you know who the best people in your team are? Have you got a clear idea of how much they deliver? Many companies still proclaim that Our people are our most important asset, yet fail to treat that asset as valuable. In fact they often ignore their in-house talent, believing that the only way to get the top people is to seek elsewhere. Who Are Your Best People? destroys the widely-accepted myth of a talent shortage and shows how you can unearth and value the hidden talent that already exist in your organisation. This book will open your eyes to the reality of talent...
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29. |  By: K. Alex Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 18-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cost Accounting
Cost Accounting is designed to provide essential skill sets to managers for planning and controlling their business financials. Covering a wide range of topics, this book is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of business study courses offered by universities across India. It also meets the requirement of the students of CA, ICWA and CS.
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30. |  By: V. Rajasekaran; R. Lalitha Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 14-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cost Accounting
Cost Accounting sets a new standard for cost accounting textbooks. It aims at equipping students with a solid grounding in the concepts of cost accounting. With rich pedagogy and an easy-to-understand approach, it meets the specific requirements of the undergraduate students of different Indian universities. This book can also be useful for the students of CA, CS, MBA and ICWA level of Indian universities.
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31. |  Management Research Methodology: Integration of Principles, Methods and Techniques By: K. N. Krishnaswamy; Appa Iyer Sivakumar; M. Mathirajan Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 19-JUL-2006 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Management Research Methodology: Integration of Principles, Methods and Techniques
The subject of management research methodology is enthralling and complex. A student or a practitioner of management research is beguiled by uncertainties in the search and identification of the research problem, intrigued by the ramifications of research design, and confounded by obstacles in obtaining accurate data and complexities of data analysis. Management Research Methodology: Integration of Principles, Methods and Techniques seeks a balanced treatment of all these aspects and blends problem-solving techniques, creativity aspects, mathematical modelling and qualitative approaches in...
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32. |  A Primer on Corporate Governance, Second Edition By: Cornelis A. de Kluyver Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 10-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Primer on Corporate Governance, Second Edition This long-awaited second edition book is a primer on corporate governance for large, publicly held companies in the United States—the system that defines the distribution of rights and responsibilities among different participants in a corporation, and spells out the rules and procedures for making decisions on corporate affairs. As with any complex system, corporate governance functions best when all of its constituent elements work in harmony, when each performs its assigned role, with the right incentives, properly aligned interests, and the right tools for the job. The turbulent history...
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33. |  Effective Interviewing and Information Gathering By: Thomas Diamante Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 15-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Effective Interviewing and Information Gathering This book is an invaluable, instructional field manual for you or any professional who needs to obtain and interpret information gathered directly by and from people, without recourse to a technological intermediary, such as online search. In the role of interviewer, interrogator, or evaluator, there are many opportunities to get it wrong. As advanced as our information-gathering technology may be, it is still impossible to get inside the head of an interviewee by conducting a Google search; so hit them with the tactics spelled out in this book instead in order to protect yourself from being...
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34. |  E-Marketing in Developed and Developing Countries By: Hatem El-Gohary; Riyad Eid Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-APR-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: E-Marketing in Developed and Developing Countries While e-marketing has emerged as an aid in allowing businesses to reach a broader audience, evolutions in computer science and technology have made its comprehension a bit more complex. E-Marketing in Developed and Developing Countries: Emerging Practice s aims to create a deeper understanding of the policies and practices that are involved in a successful e-marketing environment. This publication highlights the strategies and applications currently being used in both developed and developing countries; proving to be beneficial for entrepreneurs, policy makers, researchers, and students...
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35. |  Financial Times Guide to Technical Analysis By: Jacinta Chan Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Financial Times Guide to Technical Analysis
Beginning with the very basics of technical analysis and market price behaviour, this book teaches you how to apply these concepts and principles to your own trading. With this comprehensive and straight talking guide you will soon be using the same successful techniques and formulas as the professionals. Learn how to: Understand those trading systems that will generate high returns Identify price patterns and trends Use the right technical indicators to get the best out of the markets Write and execute a trading plan that increases your chances of...
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36. |  By: David Jones Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Who Cares Wins
Written by the CEO of Havas Worldwide, this bookshows you how to use social media to engage with customers and grow your business. This isn't a book about social media and the inexorable rise of Facebook and Twitter. Nor is it a book about CSR or business doing good. Instead it's actually the first book that recognises that far from being two separate subjects, they are intrinsically interlinked. And that the most successful leaders and businesses in the future will be those who are the most socially responsible.
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37. |  The Indian Financial System: Markets, Institutions and Services, 3rd Edition By: Bharati V. Pathak Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 21-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Indian Financial System: Markets, Institutions and Services, 3rd Edition
The Indian Financial System: Markets, Institutions and Services is a comprehensive reference book about the financial system. This book is meant for students, professionals, and academicians. It seeks to help the readers hold their own in the modern business scenario. The book is divided into five units. The first unit introduces the economy and the financial system. The second unit covers various concepts of financial markets such as the capital market, the derivatives market, and the debt market. Unit III discusses financial institutions and topics like insurance and mutual funds. The...
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38. |  FT Essential Guide to Writing a Business Plan By: Vaughan Evans Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: FT Essential Guide to Writing a Business Plan
Whether you seek financial backing or board consent, this book will give you the critical knowledge you need to get the go-ahead. Written by a seasoned practitioner with years of experience in both writing and evaluating business plans for funding, it will help you formulate a coherent, consistent and convincing business plan with your backers needs in mind. Follow its guidance and your plan will have every chance of winning the backing you need for your business to succeed. FT ESSENTIAL GUIDES : THE KNOW-HOW YOU NEED TO GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT
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39. |  The Performance Appraisal Tool Kit By: Paul Falcone; Winston Tan Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 15-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 16-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Performance Appraisal Tool Kit A well-crafted performance plan has the power to dramatically impact a company’s bottom line by increasing efficiency and effectiveness in the workplace. This uniquely practical book provides a customizable appraisal template covering the essential areas of performance and conduct and reveals how you can adapt it to fit varying business strategies. Taking into account factors such as workforce composition, company growth stage, and organizational goals and challenges, The Performance Appraisal Tool Kit shows you how to: • Profile ideal employee performance and behavior
• Design competencies...
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40. |  The Coaching for Leadership Case Study Workbook Publisher: Pfeiffer Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Coaching for Leadership Case Study Workbook
Based on the best-selling Coaching for Leadership (which contains an invaluable and timeless collection of thoughts and theory from some of the world's best thinkers) this workbook is filled with illustrative case studies, examples, exercises, and activities. It addresses matrix effects (what role the organization's structure influenced the outcome), personal dynamics (the psychology and logic about how the story evolved) and additional questions for coaching practice and questions for leaders. The workbook contains its own unique material related to Organizational Behavior, Organizational...
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