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Transitions in Nursing: Preparing for Professional Practice, 3e

Churchill Livingstone, 2012

New edition of the essential text for senior nursing students transitioning to professional nursing practice.

Now in its third edition, the popular Transitions in Nursing continues to recognise the issues and challenges faced by senior students making the transition to nursing practice.

Transitions in...

Lectures in Game Theory for Computer Scientists

Cambridge University Press, 2011

Game playing is a powerful metaphor that fits many situations where interaction between autonomous agents plays a central role. Numerous tasks in computer science, such as design, synthesis, verification, testing, query evaluation, planning, etc. can be formulated in game-theoretic terms. Viewing them abstractly as games reveals the...

Managing Employee Well-being and Resilience for Innovation: Evidence from Knowledge-intensive Service Industries

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book employs a multidisciplinary and multi-level perspective to understand how well-being and resilience can influence innovation in knowledge-intensive contexts. Building on the authors’ work in the areas of innovation management, human resource management and the psychological aspects of employee well-being, rich...

Future Interaction Design

Springer, 2005

The perspectives and techniques used in human-computer interaction design, practice and research are broadening. This book looks at emerging approaches which are likely to contribute to the discipline in near future. The emphasis is on the social, cognitive, emotional, creative and active dimensions of the human actor. The underlying idea is that...

Other Fronts, Other Wars?: First World War Studies on the Eve of the Centennial (History of Warfare)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2014

Society for First World War Studies. It is a selection of papers from a conference held in Innsbruck in late September 2011.

The society began as a small-scale attempt to bring together an international group of postgraduate and postdoctoral students who work on the First World War in 2001. Over the years, the habit developed...

Complexity Theory And The Management Of Networks: Proceedings Of The Workshop On Organisational Networks as Distributed Systems of Knowledge University of Lecce, Italy, 2001

Imperial College Press, 2004

This proceedings volume presents a multidisciplinary analysis of modern businesses as complex systems and some managerial implications of managing complex networks in the knowledge economy. It discusses the impact of major forces that are altering today's business landscape, such as sweeping technological changes, unbundling of integrated...

Leading in Inter-Organizational Networks: Towards a Reflexive Practice

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

In view of the rising importance and prevalence of network-based collaboration, this book aims to meet the need for more theory in this area. Theoretically conceptualizing and empirically describing the practice of reflexive leadership in inter-organisational networks, it explores how member organisations approach reflexive...

Sport Management: Principles and Application

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005

Sport Management: principles and application provides a comprehensive introduction to the practical application of management principles within sport organisations operating at the community, state, national and professional levels in club based sporting systems. It presents an international balanced view between accepted practice...

The New Workplace: A Guide to the Human Impact of Modern Working Practices

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

We are all increasingly familiar with modern business terms such as total quality management, just-in-time production, e-business, lean manufacturing and teleworking. But what really lies behind these terms and what effect do these and other new practices have on productivity and performance and, crucially, what is their social and psychological...

The History of Information Security: A Comprehensive Handbook

Elsevier Limited, 2007

Information Security is usually achieved through a mix of technical, organizational and legal measures. These may include the application of cryptography, the hierarchical modeling of organizations in order to assure confidentiality, or the distribution of accountability and responsibility by law, among interested parties.

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Innovation and Technology - Strategies and Policies

Springer, 1997

Innovation and Technology -- Strategies and Policies contains a selection of outstanding contributions by world experts on how a culture of innovation is able to produce a response to fast global changes affecting society. The book describes major evolutionary directions and foreseen trends in: environment versus industry; technology...

Making Scorecards Actionable: Balancing Strategy and Control

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

"The attraction of balanced scorecards is to help translate strategy into the stories, business logic and tasks that grab people's imaginations and so result in purposeful action. Yet, too often, it hasn't worked that way. In a refreshingly honest and pragmatic way, the authors analyse both the successes and failures of companies using...

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