Gower business management training 2013

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January and June 2013

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Business, Management and Training Advanced Database Marketing

Branding and Product Design

Collaborative Wisdom

Innovative Methodologies and Applications for Managing Customer Relationships

An Integrated Perspective

From Pervasive Logic to Effective Operational Leadership

Edited by Kristof Coussement, Koen W. De Bock and Scott A. Neslin While the definition of database marketing hasn’t changed, its meaning has become more vivid, versatile and exciting than ever before. Advanced Database Marketing provides a state-of-the-art guide to the methods and applications that define this new era in database marketing, including advances in areas such as text mining, recommendation systems, internet marketing and dynamic customer management. An impressive list of contributors including many of the thought-leaders in database marketing from across the world bring together chapters that combine the best academic research and business applications.

The result is a definitive guide and reference for marketing and brand analysts, masters students, teachers and researchers in marketing analytics.

March 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

300 pages 978-1-4094-4461-9 978-1-4094-4462-6 978-1-4094-7355-8

£70.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409444619

Issues and Controversies Edited by Mihaela Kelemen, Keele University, UK, and Nick Rumens, University of Bristol, UK Bringing together contributions focused on the interconnections and interplay between American pragmatism and organisational phenomena, American Pragmatism and Organisation explores the theoretical possibilities afforded by pragmatist thinking for understanding organisation and management and illuminates the practical advantages of doing so.

230 pages 978-1-4094-2786-5 978-1-4094-2787-2 978-1-4094-6047-3

£55.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409427865

£45.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409446262

How to Be an Impeccable and Profitable Corporate Citizen Bribery and Corruption is written by the world’s leading practitioners in the fields of fraud prevention, detection and investigation, they have massive practical experience in commercial and governmental sectors. The book exposes the misconceptions, myths and, indeed, corruption of the word bribery and suggests effective solutions that go well beyond simple compliance.

It commits to assertive managerial rather than timorous legal solutions to anti-bribery and related laws. It explains how processes can be tested – using automated fraud detection software – to expose current cases of fraud and corruption or to provide assurance that controls are functioning as intended.

512 pages 978-1-4094-5357-4 978-1-4094-5358-1 978-1-4724-0452-7

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Management is an amazing insight into the essentials of management and a workable guidance to success in daily business. This open-minded and compelling exploration of The Prince combines reading pleasure with a great opportunity to participate in Machiavelli’s truly timeless wisdom. £25.00

£99.00

298 pages 978-1-4094-3460-3 978-1-4094-3461-0 978-1-4094-7354-1

£60.00

An End to Mismanagement, Tunnel Vision and Quackery Alan Waring Corporate Risk and Governance provides key reasons and insights into why increased regulation and ever more elaborate corporate risk ‘systems’ have failed, and continue to fail in many cases, to result in a proportionate increase in actual risk control. Over the past 25 years, there has been a growing realisation that failure to implement robust risk management in an organisation is likely to lead to damage to corporate finances, overall performance, reputation and share values. In extreme cases, corporate survival can be at stake. However, despite greater awareness and risk control efforts, major corporate risk failures continue to arise.

June 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

205 pages 978-1-4094-4836-5 978-1-4094-4837-2 978-1-4724-0244-8

£75.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409448365

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Counteracting Cyber Threats through Organizational Learning and Training New Edition Peter Trim, University of London and David Upton

The chapters in this book come from authors who have experience of different kinds of insider relationships with organisations. Some have been so ‘inside’ that they are employees. Some have felt themselves to be inside and yet called the organisation for which they work their client – external consultants whose work depended on developing insightful insider perspectives. All of the authors have substantial experience across diverse sector and client bases. Many of them are graduates or have been faculty members of London’s renowned Tavistock Institute Advanced Organisational Consultation programme. They are well able, therefore, to illuminate relational issues and dynamics, including the pulls on role and identity that can quickly undermine competence and practice. All their experience leads to the conclusion that understanding the system psycho-dynamics present in an organisation is essential.

196 pages 978-1-4094-4968-3 978-1-4094-4969-0 978-1-4094-7472-2

January 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

Cyber Security Culture

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409453574

May 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

This book examines the importance of collaborative wisdom within an organisation, how effective operational leadership is fundamentally about appropriate values, principles and perspectives which generate appropriate leadership experience, intuition, insight, judgment and ultimately, wisdom.

Corporate Risk and Governance

Bribery and Corruption

April 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

Greg Park

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409434603

Edited by Susan Rosina Whittle and Robin C. Stevens

Ralf Lisch

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409454649

150 pages 978-1-4094-4626-2 978-1-4094-4627-9 978-1-4094-6437-2

Roles, Risks and Consultancy Relationships

Machiavelli at 500

164 pages 978-1-4094-5464-9 978-1-4094-5465-6 978-1-4724-0073-4

March 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

Changing Organisations from Within

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Management

November 2012 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

Branding and Product Design examines how winning brands appear to be more creative and authentic than less successful ones. The book provides tools to help understand the role of products in building a brand and guidelines for how to bring branding and product design processes together. There are case studies based on the author’s research, her years of teaching, and her own practice. Interviews delivering an ‘insider’ perspective on major brands bring abstract concepts to life.

Mike Comer

American Pragmatism and Organisation

May 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

Monika Hestad

£60.00

Focusing on countermeasures against orchestrated cyberattacks, Cyber Security Culture is research-based and reinforced with insights from experts who do not normally release information into the public arena. It will enable managers in industry and government to understand how organisational learning and training can be utilised to develop a culture that protects an organisation from attacks. The authors provide information to help managers form policy and procedures, to undertake scenario-based planning and arrange appropriate training interventions, such as table top exercises. This book will interest Government officials, policy advisors, law enforcement officers and senior managers within companies, as well as academics and students in a range of disciplines including management and computer science. The knowledge provided will appeal to an international audience.

February 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

160 pages 978-1-4094-5694-0 978-1-4094-5695-7 978-1-4094-7457-9

£55.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409456940

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409449683

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Business, Management and Training Deception in Selection

The End of Shops

Interviewees and the Psychology of Deceit

Social Buying and the Battle for the Customer

Max A. Eggert Eggert’s Deception in Selection will help you, the recruiter, to understand how and why candidates deceive. The book examines proven techniques and tactics to balance the interview game, to restore equity in the face of the clever approaches that sophisticated candidates bring to the interview. Although there is no foolproof way of identifying deception, you can, with practice, become amazingly accurate if there is a commitment to master the basics. This is a must read guide from a best-selling business author for all those who participate in the selection process.

April 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

160 pages 978-1-4094-4561-6 978-1-4094-4562-3 978-1-4094-7477-7

£45.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409445616

Decision Sourcing lays bare the poverty of decision making processes in today’s corporate world and delivers insight into how Social tools are providing new sources of information, how they are challenging hierarchy and how they are providing opportunities for growth and agility through aligned and inclusive decision making. £49.50

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409442479

Design Leadership Securing the Strategic Value of Design Raymond Turner Design Leadership draws on the extensive experience of one of the world’s leading design practitioners, Turner, who brings his experience of working on some iconic major projects and for equally iconic design businesses to provide a perspective on the interface between design and business.

May 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

210 pages 978-1-4094-6323-8 978-1-4094-6324-5 978-1-4094-6325-2

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409463238

£35.00

January 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

242 pages 978-1-4094-5354-3 978-1-4094-5355-0 978-1-4094-6249-1

£55.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409453543

Energy Management in Business

Dale Roberts and Rooven Pakkiri

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190 pages 978-1-4094-4974-4 978-1-4094-4975-1 978-1-4094-6502-7

Hatherly rethinks accounting in the light of the financial crisis which exposed its limitations. Financial institutions reported increasing profits and healthy balance sheets whilst their business models undermined their own financial health and the economy. Accounts failed to provide feedback on business performance.

This failure highlighted the need for alignment between business and accounting models. To understand business performance we need to know about value: How much is created; how it is created, who it is created for, what kind it is; and how it is measured. Here, Hatherly provides an accounting model that addresses these questions.

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409449744

Decision Making for the Agile Social Enterprise

150 pages 978-1-4094-4247-9 978-1-4094-4248-6 978-1-4094-7364-0

Strategy, Stakeholders, and Business Value David Hatherly

Molenaar analyses the struggle, the risks and describes the countless opportunities and possibilities for the retail trade to turn the tide. He looks at the new buying behaviour of consumers (the new shopping), the evolution of retail (how it used to be, how it is now and what it has to become) and shows what the future for the shop will actually look like.

Shops need to change, to reassess their unique benefits and work in new ways with suppliers and customers if they are to survive. An online retailer is often seen as the answer, but is that really the case? The internet will see many changes, too. Many e-retailers will disappear or end up leading a rather languid existence. Only the large suppliers and webshops that can make best use of the opportunities offered by the Internet will survive.

May 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

Decision Sourcing

May 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

Cor Molenaar

The Failure and the Future of Accounting

The Manager’s Guide to Maximising and Sustaining Energy Reduction Kit Oung

The Organization’s Role in Achieving Individual and Organizational Health Edited by Ron Burke, York University, York, UK and Cary L. Cooper, Lancaster University, UK Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk

This book offers distilled practical concepts with real life case studies chosen to build insight, illustrate and allow managers and engineers to relate to a broad range of energy reduction opportunities. Energy Management in Business places the process firmly in the context of commercial and industrial business practice. The book is an excellent companion for any organisation seeking ISO 50001 certification, reduce energy consumption, as well as those that simply wish to better understand the options, strategies and risks that every business now faces.

January 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

278 pages 978-1-4094-5245-4 978-1-4094-5246-1 978-1-4724-0245-5

£45.00

Equality, Diversity and Opportunity Management

Morden’s Equality, Diversity and Opportunity Management explores the drivers behind this growing challenge. The author provides a multi-dimensional view that looks at all of the sources of the challenge, from the perspective of countries and cultures around the world. He then uses models, theories and his own personal experience to elaborate a strategy for addressing equality from the perspectives of leadership and governance; performance, risk and change management; and, lest you are tempted to under-estimate the significance of this developing agenda, from the perspective or crisis and corporate resilience too.

260 pages 978-1-4094-3278-4 978-1-4094-3279-1 978-1-4094-7456-2

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409432784

334 pages 978-1-4094-2776-6 978-1-4094-2777-3 978-1-4094-6045-9

£70.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409427766

Tony Morden

June 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

In earlier books in the Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk Series, Cooper and Burke have identified the role played by human frailties and organisational toxicity in influencing individual and family functioning, and satisfaction and performance, and both unit and organisational effectiveness and success. These factors included psychological, social and organisational risks to individuals and workplaces. The Fulfilling Workplace extends their work deeper into organisations, and the organisation’s role in coming to grips both with human frailties that end up causing damage, and toxic workplaces, again destructive to individual and organisational health.

February 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409452454

Strategies and Leadership £45.00

The Fulfilling Workplace

£70.00

Governance of the Petroleum Sector in an Emerging Developing Economy Edited by Kwaku Appiah-Adu, Central University Business School and the Centre for Advanced Strategic Analysis, Ghana Oil exploration in the developing world has been and continues to be in the media as a high profile and high risk activity. Using the perspective of Ghana and comparisons with countries such as Trinidad and Tobago, and Norway, the contributors to this book explore five critical areas and propose strategies for: Turning oil and gas wealth into sustainable and equitable development; Entrenching transparency and stakeholder engagement; Effective management of the oil and gas sector; Safeguarding security and the environment; Country specific models and lessons for Ghana and other African oil producing nations.

May 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

240 pages 978-1-4094-6307-8 978-1-4094-6308-5 978-1-4094-6309-2

£55.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409463078

New Titles January – June 2013

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Business, Management and Training A Handbook of Business Transformation Management Methodology Edited by Axel Uhl and Lars Alexander Gollenia Business Transformation Management (BTM) is the holistic management of extensive, complex changes on which an organisation’s future success strongly depends.

BTM², which stands for Business Transformation Management Methodology, is a robust new integrative approach, with an emphasis on the balance between the rational and emotional aspects of transformation.

In this handbook a wide range of theory is discussed to help understand the phenomenon of transformation, with new content on key elements of transformation management and new insights from various case studies.

It is intended for C-level executives, reflective managers and consultants, and those with an academic interest in change and transformation.

October 2012 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

344 pages 978-1-4094-4980-5 978-1-4094-4981-2 978-1-4094-8398-4

£65.00

Integrity in Business

Naked Project Management

Developing Ethical Behavior Across Cultures and Jurisdictions

The Bare Facts

Integrity in Business explores the complex nature of integrity and business and illustrates how organisations have avoided major setbacks to their reputations and value by encouraging integrity. It also examines those organisations that have failed or experienced serious reputational damage due to lack of preparation, lack of transparency and lack of leadership. Using his research from a review of significant fraud cases, legislative mandates and governmental and nongovernmental initiatives over the past 15 years, the author provides a rigorous and sophisticated guide to understanding and adopting an holistic business integrity strategyone which has a realistic chance of protecting your organisation from the kind of catastrophic loss or reputational damage that can easily be the result of an error of judgement in a world that is increasingly connected and driven by instant and social media.

June 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409449805

Health Communication and Mass Media

180 pages 978-0-566-09187-2 978-1-4094-5766-4 978-1-4094-6515-7

Making Sense of Organizational Learning

Edited by Rukhsana Ahmed and Benjamin R. Bates

Putting Theory into Practice

June 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

200 pages 978-1-4094-4713-9 978-1-4094-4714-6 978-1-4724-0164-9

£65.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409447139

Integral Dynamics Political Economy, Cultural Dynamics and the Future of the University

£60.00

Neela Bettridge and Philip Whiteley

Cyril Kirwan This book fills the gap left by academically sound but ultimately less practical works on the one hand, and ‘how-to’ books that pay little attention to the validity and reliability of what they propose and offer no guarantee of real improvement in performance on the other. Thinking practitioners, particularly those working in and around the fields of learning, management development, or organisation development, will find it invaluable. It will also be of interest to practising managers undertaking post-graduate study in HR and related disciplines, particularly those who are in a position to apply the theory back at work. Finally, it may also be of use to managers who are looking to influence others regarding the effectiveness of learning efforts in their areas of responsibility. The theory in the book can be used to support evidence-based argument for the adoption of organisation learning policies and practices, where they are not already in place.

May 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

150 pages 978-1-4094-4186-1 978-1-4094-4187-8 978-1-4094-6516-4

£65.00

This book explores what was learned by these leading companies (amongst others) when they transformed their market strategies from individual product and services suppliers to bundlers of complex integrated customer solutions. Over many years and specific cases, the author went through this process with senior managers in these companies and many others as a consultant and researcher. He has developed and tested many new concepts, maps and tools for use with these managers in developing strategies for these bundled product/service solutions.

136 pages 978-1-4094-4856-3 978-1-4094-4857-0 978-1-4094-7245-2

April 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

136 pages 978-1-4094-5574-5 978-1-4094-5575-2 978-1-4724-0819-8

£45.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409455745

Project Ethics Advances in Project Management

Roger More

May 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

New Normal, Radical Shift is both a philosophical and a practical book. It delivers a positive message for the thousands of conscientious, ethical business managers around the world to the effect that their way of doing business is better for their businesses as well as for society and all of the authors’ arguments to this effect are supported by exemplary case studies. It exposes issues that have not been at the forefront of the debate, particularly about the need for a departure from the centuries-old turf wars of left and right and the need to look more forensically at the needs of a modern economy and society. Business leaders, business educators and business students, consultants, politicians and policy makers will all learn from this challenging book.

Haukur Ingi Jonasson and Helgi Thor Ingason

Marketing High Profit Product/ Service Solutions

£70.00

£12.99

Changing Business and Politics for a Sustainable Future

Transformation and Innovation

618 pages 978-1-4094-5103-7 978-1-4094-5104-4 978-1-4094-7135-6

110 pages 978-1-4094-6105-0 978-1-4094-6106-7 978-1-4094-6107-4

New Normal, Radical Shift

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409441861

March 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

March 2013 Paperback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409461050

Ronnie Lessem, Alexander Schieffer, Junie T. Tong and Samuel D. Rima

The theory of integral dynamics is based on the view that the development of individual leaders or entrepreneurs requires the simultaneous development of institutions and societies. It seeks a specific way forward for each society, fundamentally different from, but drawing on, its past. Nearly every natural science has been transformed from an analytically-based approach to a dynamic one: now it is time for society and culture to follow suit locally and globally. Each culture, discipline and person is incomplete and in need of others in order to develop and evolve. The authors set out a programme for a new integral, trans-cultural and trans-disciplinary area of study, including, but extending beyond, economics and enterprise. It links self with community, enterprise and society, and focusing on the vital relationship between local identity and global integrity. Illustrated with examples relating the conceptual to the practical, this is a text for our trans-modern age.

Here is an introduction to project management from one of the best and most experienced writers. Project management depends largely on common sense and a logical, systematic approach. But it is necessary also to acquire some special skills to organise, schedule and control a project so that it produces the result that everyone wants. Lock explains and illustrates those skills in pragmatic and jargon-free terms. An entertaining case study runs through the chapters and the book covers all the vital topics in astonishingly few words. Naked Project Management is an essential primer for students and managers who need to understand how small projects should be managed, but without necessarily becoming permanent project managers themselves. Degree and other students for whom project management is an elective or small part of their course will love this compact time-saving and reasonably priced study resource.

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9780566091872

An Integrated Approach to Policy and Practice Health Communication and Mass Media is a much-needed resource for those with a professional or academic interest in the fast growing field of health communication.

It combines theoretically-driven original research identifying strong and successful use of media in health contexts. The chapters in this contributed volume engage and expand upon significant theories that inform efforts at mediated health communication and demonstrate the practical utility of these theories in on-going or recently completed projects. The chapter authors discuss both traditional media and communication systems, but also new web-based and mobile media.

Dennis Lock

Frank Holder

How relevant is ethics to project management? The book – which aims to demystify the field of ethics for project managers and managers in general – takes both a critical and a practical look at project management in terms of success criteria, and ethical opportunities and risks. The goal is to help the reader to use ethical theory to further identify opportunities and risks within their projects and thereby to advance more directly along the path of mature and sustainable managerial practice.

January 2013 Paperback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

156 pages 978-1-4094-1096-6 978-1-4094-1097-3 978-1-4094-8452-3

£28.50

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409410966

£65.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409448563

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409451037

Tel: +44(0)1235 827730

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Business, Management and Training Project Management

Rediscovering Sustainability

The Secret Life of Decisions

Tenth Edition

Economics of the Finite Earth

How Unconscious Bias Subverts Your Judgement

Dennis Lock

A.R.G. Heesterman and W.H. Heesterman

The 10th Edition of Project Management explains the entire project management process in great detail, and includes brand new chapters on implementing management change projects and the role of senior management support. Everything is reinforced throughout with case examples and diagrams, many new for this edition. As with previous editions, meticulous care has been taken to ensure that the text is reader-friendly and free of unnecessary jargon, with clear diagrams and a construction that is logically organised, well indexed and simple to navigate. The result is certain to maintain this book’s acclaimed status as the standard work for managers and students alike.

March 2013 Paperback Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

544 pages 978-1-4094-5269-0 978-1-4094-5419-9 978-1-4094-5420-5 978-1-4094-7476-0

£32.50 £70.00

Rediscovering Sustainability helps bridge the gap in understanding between scientists and the green movement on the one side and many economists on the other. The authors argue that the limitations of standard economics cause blind spots in its environmental economics sub-field. Examining the limitations of the neoclassical economics framework, Aart and Wiebina Heesterman explore relationships bearing on issues such as the understated cost of fuel for transport. They reveal how flawed economic theory and political compromise bear unhelpfully on an energy market constrained by emissions targets.

January 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

338 pages 978-1-4094-4456-5 978-1-4094-4457-2 978-1-4094-7336-7

£60.00

Requirements Management How to Ensure You Achieve What You Need from Your Projects

Techniques for Forecasting Funding Requirements, Costs and Timescales

Mario Kossmann

Derek Salkeld

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Risk and opportunity are inherent in projects and yet, whilst many organisations invest heavily in project management methodologies and processes in the hope of ensuring delivery on time and to budget, project sponsors, project board members or managers do not see that the root cause of the problem of overspend and late completion could be that their projects were underestimated in the first place. Often the techniques used to calculate the funding and time scales required are inadequate, because they failed to take properly into account the potential effects of risk and opportunity. The approach taken in Project Risk Analysis is to show and explain how risk and opportunity in a project will affect its funding requirement and its time scales, and how the understanding of this can be used to devise management controls that will benefit both the investor and the project manager.

March 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

350 pages 978-0-566-09186-5 978-1-4094-4497-8 978-1-4094-7237-7

£75.00

Poor requirements management is one of the top five contributors to poor project performance. In extreme, safety critical or emergency-relief situations, failure to satisfy the real needs of the project stakeholders may well lead directly to loss of life or human suffering; other, more mundane, projects can also be severely compromised.

Kossmann’s Requirements Management looks at the process from the perspectives of both Program and Project Management and Systems Engineering, showing the crucial role of RM in both contexts. The author puts great emphasis on the human aspects of any project, which is also significant given that over-emphasis on technical or technological aspects at the expense of the human side is another major source of project shortfalls.

April 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

202 pages 978-1-4094-5137-2 978-1-4094-5138-9 978-1-4094-7141-7

£60.00

Scientific Management a Century On

Project Stakeholder Management

Edited by Leonard Holmes and Christina Evans

Pernille Eskerod and Anna Lund Jepsen

Drawing on insights from academics with diverse backgrounds and interests and organised around ‘past’, ‘present’ and ‘future’ themes, this book is a thoughtprovoking read for curious professional managers, as well as for postgraduate students and academics teaching and researching organisational studies and management.

Fundamentals of Project Management

In Project Stakeholder Management, the authors give guidance on how to adopt an analytical and structured approach; how to document, store and retrieve your knowledge; how to plan your stakeholder interactions in advance; and how to make your plans explicit, at the very least internally. A well-conceived plan can prevent you from being carried away in the ‘heat of the moment’ and help you spend your limited resources for stakeholder management in the best way January 2013 Paperback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

120 pages 978-1-4094-0437-8 978-1-4094-0438-5 978-1-4094-8446-2

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200 pages 978-1-4094-5075-7 978-1-4094-5076-4 978-1-4724-0165-6

January 2013 Paperback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

214 pages 978-1-4094-5327-7 978-1-4094-5328-4 978-1-4724-0816-7

£25.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409453277

Foucault and the Spirit of 21st Century Capitalism Peter Kelly, University of Leicester, UK This book is an important contribution to the continuing debate about the nature of work related identities and the consequences of the intensification of the work regimes in which these identities are regulated and performed.

It helps analyse the various injunctions and incitements to develop new work ethics reflecting the ways in which people practice their freedom in relation to the world of paid work at the start of the 21st century.

April 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

222 pages 978-0-7546-4963-2 978-1-4094-5070-2 978-1-4094-7357-2

£55.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9780754649632

A Short Guide to Contract Risk Helena Haapio and George J. Siedel, University of Michigan, USA Short Guides to Business Risk

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409451372

Re-Tayloring Management

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9780566091865

This book is an essential read for developing and seasoned executives who have to work through high stakes decisions. It treats choosing wisely and the thinking involved as a skill that can be improved with the guided practice and supporting tools provided here.

The journey however starts with awareness that comes from outing the ‘secret’ forces that can sabotage the quality of our decisions.

The Self as Enterprise

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409444565

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409452690

Project Risk Analysis

Meena Thuraisingham

What makes this short guide from the authors of the acclaimed Proactive Law for Managers especially valuable, if not unique, is its down-to-earth managerial/legal approach. It is about understanding and using legally sound contracts as managerial tools for well thought-out, realistic risk allocation in business deals and relationships.

April 2013 Paperback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

190 pages 978-1-4094-4886-0 978-1-4094-4887-7 978-1-4094-7365-7

£17.99

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409448860

£65.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409450757

£26.50

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409404378

New Titles January – June 2013

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Business, Management and Training

A Short Guide to Risk Appetite

Spiritual Capital

Trust in Virtual Teams

David Hillson and Ruth Murray-Webster

A Moral Core for Social and Economic Justice

Organization, Strategies and Assurance for Successful Projects

Samuel D. Rima

Thomas P. Wise

Short Guides to Business Risk

Risk appetite is a hot topic, driven both by corporate governance requirements and senior managers’ need to make risk-based decisions. But despite the high level of interest, there is no consensus on what risk appetite is, how it should be expressed or measured, or how it can be practically used in business or projects. In A Short Guide to Risk Appetite Hillson and Ruth Murray-Webster cut through the confusion to produce clear definitions and simple guidelines, helping us to answer the important question: ‘How much risk should we take?

November 2012 Paperback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

162 pages 978-1-4094-4094-9 978-1-4094-4095-6 978-1-4094-8463-9

£17.99

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Smart Flexibility Moving Smart and Flexible Working from Theory to Practice Andy Lake Written for managers at the leading edge of change, Lake takes a strategic, comprehensive and integrated approach to Smart and Flexible Working. Taking an evidence-based approach, he sets out how to achieve measurable benefits across the Triple Bottom Line.

Smart Flexibility examines closely the roles of the People, Property and Technology functions that have to work together to achieve the benefits. There are separate chapters that look at the real impacts for sustainability, the impacts for ‘Smart Government’, how to manage the ‘Anywhere Anytime Team’ and how to take people on the journey towards a Smart Working organisational culture.

January 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

310 pages 978-0-566-08852-0 978-0-7546-9208-9 978-1-4094-7337-4

£70.00

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Smart Working Creating the Next Wave Anne Marie McEwan This book explains that smart working is more than flexible and mobile working. It is flexibility and autonomy – how people work, not just where and when. It discusses stimulating and harnessing collective intelligence within and beyond organisational boundaries, and shows that smart working is an outcome of designing organisational systems, working environments and governance principles that are good for business and for people.

Drawing on years of academic research, and experience of process innovation methodology, Smart Working reviews what is known about effective management and high performance work methods and shows how these insights can be used to advantage.

January 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

286 pages 978-1-4094-0456-9 978-1-4094-0457-6 978-1-4094-6014-5

Transformation and Innovation

In Spiritual Capital, Rima makes the case for a new moral foundation or core to business and economics that directly addresses today’s financial and business crisis. Based on solid academic research, Rima explains spiritual capital theory in terms of the resources needed for its creation, how it is formed, how it can be invested and what the return on investment can be. The book provides practical tools for measuring a personal or organisational store of spiritual capital; guidelines for engaging in spiritual capital formation; and advice for policy makers needing to understand the macro application of spiritual capital theory. This book is for business leaders interested in developing viable and sustainable enterprises and avoiding the disconnection between economic policy and social reality, as well as students of sociology, theology and economics, and anyone interested in social and economic justice, social innovation and corporate social responsibility.

January 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

324 pages 978-1-4094-0484-2 978-1-4094-0485-9 978-1-4094-6016-9

£55.00

180 pages 978-1-4094-5361-1 978-1-4094-5362-8 978-1-4724-0833-4

£65.00

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Uncertainty, Diversity and The Common Good Edited by Stefan Gröschl

Sustaining Cultural Development Unified Systems and New Governance in Cultural Life Edited by Biljana Mickov and James Doyle In Sustaining Cultural Development, Biljana Mickov and James Doyle argue that effective programmes to promote greater participation in cultural life require substantial investment in research and strategic planning. Using studies from contributors from cities throughout Europe, they look at ways to promote cultural life as the centre of the broader sustainable development of society. These studies illustrate how combining cultural identity, cultural diversity and creativity with increased participation of citizens in cultural life improves harmonised cultural development and promotes democracy. They indicate a shift from traditional governance of the cultural sector to a new, more horizontal, approach that links cultural workers at different levels in different sectors and different locations.

274 pages 978-1-4094-5396-3 978-1-4094-5397-0 978-1-4724-0458-9

June 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

Changing Norms and New Leadership Paradigms

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January 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

Trust in Virtual Teams is designed to provide a complete view of the role that quality assurance plays in the development of healthy, trusting, relationships in the virtual project environment. Using the latest research, Wise explains the elements of trust in project working and explores how to develop that trust. To do that he explains the three core types of trust: personality-, cognitive- and institutional and explores the role they play in a virtual working environment. The final part of the book provides you with a basis for developing quality assurance processes and organisational strategies to influence successful project team working.

£60.00

In Uncertainty, Diversity and the Common Good, contributors from leading academic institutions around the World, from perspectives that embrace philosophy; sociology; psychology; ecological and environmental economics; management; and entrepreneurship, discuss different models of socially responsible global leadership.

Responding to unpredictability meaningfully requires intelligences that enable managers to tackle the challenges of adaptation and change, and to develop a sustainable, lasting and consistent managerial approach. Corporate leaders are now responsible for social as well as economic activities and for creating enduring links between the two, for example through their work with local communities, in integrating minorities, and redistributing wealth. Many are actively seeking to embrace these responsibilities and corporate leadership is moving towards a model that incorporates social leadership. A new model of socially responsible leadership must pave the way for the leaders of tomorrow to address conflicting issues and to bring together dimensions that are incompatible within existing paradigms.

June 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

180 pages 978-1-4094-5339-0 978-1-4094-5340-6 978-1-4724-0808-2

£60.00

www.gowerpublishing.com/isbn/9781409453390

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