Organization Behaviour

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• Overview of organization in the new millennium
• Learning, aptitude, interest, and attention of an individual
• Attitude, value, perception and  attribution of an individual
• Personality
• Motivation
• Job design, job satisfaction and other job related issues
• Leadership
• Power and politics
• Conflict and communication process in organization

Handbook of Production Management Methods

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1. Trends in Manufacturing Methods

2. List of Manufacturing Methods

• List of manufacturing methods
• Classification of methods by type
• Mapping the methods by main class

3. Mapping Systems

• Mapping by methods objective
• Mapping by functions that the methods focuses on
• Mapping the manufacturing methods
  

Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Recent Developments

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1. FMS in Perspective

• FMS: an investigation for research and applications
• FMS planning since the early eighties - experiences, recommendations, and future tendencies

2. Flexibility Issues

• Manufacturing systems: Flexibility assessment
• Flexibility and productivity in complex production processes
• Flexibility in pull and push type production ordering systems - Some ways to increase flexibility in manufacturing systems
  

Competency-Based Human Resource Management

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Part One: Finding a New Focus

• Why a focus on jobs is not enough
• An overview of competency-based human resources management practices

Part Two: Understanding Competency-Based HR Management

• A need for implementing competency-based HR management
• Competency-based planning
• Competency-based employee recruitment and selection
• Competency-based employee training
• Competency-based performance management
• Competency-based employee rewards
• Competency-based employee development
  

Introduction to Product/Service-System Design

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Part I Offering Dimension

• PSS layer method - Application to microenergy systems
• Life-cycle perspectives of product/service-system: In design theory
• Life-cycle perspectives of product/service-system: Practical design experiences
• Systematic generation of PSS concepts using a service CAD tool
• Value creation in PSS design through product and packaging innovation processes
  

Materials and Financial Management

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Chapter I Materials Management
Chapter II Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
Chapter III Stores Management and Control
Chapter IV Standardization, Simplification, Classification, and Coding of Materials
Chapter V Forecasting
Chapter VI Inventory Planning
Chapter VII Materials Requirements Planning
Chapter VIII Break-Even Analysis

Planning and Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities

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• Introduction: Contexts, structures and processes of case management.
• Case management with people with intellectual disabilities: Purpose, tensions and challenges.
• Understanding intellectual disabilities.
• Balancing rights, risk and protection of adults.
• Walk a day in my shoes: Managing unmet need on a daily basis.
• Case management in a rights-based environment: Structure, context and roles.
• Working with other organizations and other service sectors.
• Working to empower families: Perspective of care managers.
• A life managed or life lived? A parental view on case management.
• Taking it personally: Challenging poor and abusive care management practice.

A Modern Approach to Operations Management

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1. Production systems and operations management

• introduction
• related issues of operations management
• operations function in organizations
• role of models in operations management
• classifying problems

2. Location of production and service facilities

• introduction
• reasons for location changes
• general factors influencing location
• general procedures for facility location
• some other facility location models

Fundamentals of Human Resource Management

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Part 1 Understanding HRM

• Strategic implications of a dynamic environment
• Fundamentals of HRM

Part 2 The Legal and Ethical Context of HRM

• Equal employment opportunity
• Employee rights and HR communications

Part 3 Staffing the Organization 

• Human resources planning and job analysis
• Recruiting
• Foundations of selection

Positive Working Relationships

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Contents:

1 Communicating to connect

What is communication?
Models of the communication process
Barriers to communication
Skills for verbal communications
Recap

2 Behaving assertively

Understanding assertiveness
Getting to assertive thinking
Techniques for behaving assertively
Recap

Quality and Operations Management

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1. The Language of Quality

• What is quality?
• What is TQM?

2. Improvement

• You and your customers
• Approaches to improvement
• Improvement tools and techniques
• Employee involvement 

Extreme Risk Management

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Chapter 1 Plausibility versus Probability: Two Worldviews
Chapter 2 The Evolution of Modern Analytics
Chapter 3 Natural Selection on Wall Street
Chapter 4 A Review: Risk Management Metrics, Models, and Best Practice
Chapter 5 Systemic Risk and Systems Thinking
Chapter 6 Belief Systems and the Inadvertent Conspiracy: The Global Capital Markets as System
Chapter 7 Analytic Tradecraft and Model Risk
Chapter 8 The Future as Forecast: Probability, Likelihood, and Uncertainty
Chapter 9 An Alternative Path to Actionable Intelligence

Production and Operations Management

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1 INTRODUCTION TO PRODUCTION AND OPERATION MANAGEMENT

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Historical Evolution of Production and Operations Management
1.3 Concept of Production
1.4 Production System
1.4.1 Classification of Production System
1.5 Production Management
1.5.1 Objectives of Production Management
1.6 Operating System
1.6.1 Concept of Operations
1.6.2 Distinction between Manufacturing Operations and Service Operations
1.7 Operations Management
1.7.1 A Framework for Managing Operations
1.7.2 Objectives of Operations Management
1.8 Managing Global Operations
1.9 Scope of Production and Operations Management

Education Facility Security Handbook

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Section 1: Security Basics

First Steps
Asset Protection and Risk-Threat Assessment
Design Basis Threat
Design Basis Threat Worksheet
Vulnerability Assessment
Major Steps in Conducting a Vulnerability Assessment
Determining the Vulnerability Rating
Redundancy Factor

Disaster and Recovery Planning - A Guide for Facility Managers

Contents:
Chapter 1 - Disaster Planning And Recovery Issues
Chapter 2 - Regulatory Influences
Chapter 3 - Emergency Preparedness
Chapter 4 - The Nature Of Disasters
Chapter 5 - Fire/Life Safety
Chapter 6 - Bomb Threats
Chapter 7 - Evacuation
Chapter 8 - Earthquakes
Chapter 9 - Computer And Data Protection

New Directions in the Study of Work and Employment

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- PART 1 RETHINKING INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

• Reconceptualizing industrial relations in a global, knowledge-driven economy (Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld)
• The original industrial relations paradigm: foundation for revitalizing the field (Bruce E. Kaufman)
• A meta-paradigm for revitalizing industrial relations (John W. Budd)
• An institutional environments approach to industrial relations (John Godard)

Application to Production Management

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Book Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Basic principles to of group technology
3. Process planning for group technology
4. Production planning for group technology
5. Machine loading for group technology