A practical, easy-to-read text with a managerial approach to operations management For undergraduate and graduate course in operations management. Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains provides students with a comprehensive framework for addressing operational process and supply chain issues and uses a systemised approach whilst focusing on issues of current interest. The 13th Edition provides ample opportunities for students to experience the role of a manager with challenging p...

What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence, technology breakthroughs, or new business models, but management innovation--new ways of mobilizing talent, allocating resources, and formulating strategies. Through history, management innovation has enabled companies to cross new performance thresholds and build enduring advantages. In The Future of Management, Gary Hamel argues that organizations need management innovation now more than ever.

Why? The management paradigm of...

Now in its third EMEA edition, Management has been comprehensively updated to provide students with a practical approach to key concepts and theories with up-to-date regional examples to enrich their learning and allow for a practical understanding of the topic. A wide range of inspiring real-world features are revealed as students are guided through and prepared for the various challenges facing managers today.

The future isn’t about where we will work, but how. For years we have struggled to balance work and life, with most of us feeling overwhelmed and burned out because our relationship to work is broken. This “isn't just a book about remote work. It's a book that helps us imagine a future where our lives—at the office and home—are happier, more productive, and genuinely meaningful” (Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit).

Out of Office is a book for every office work...

In the bestselling tradition of Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office, The Confidence Code, and How Women Rise, former PepsiCo chief operations officer Grace Puma and former Nike president of consumer-direct Christiana Smith Shi show women how to manage their career journeys, build professional value, get paid what they’re worth, and enjoy full lives in and out of work.

- Offers a comprehensible and complete definition of culture;

- clear connection between the solid theoretical framework, insightful models and practical solutions for real-world problems;

- with in-depth examination of Hofstede’scultural dimensions theory, the culture shock process and intercultural sensitivity.

Using a solid theoretical framework, the book Intercultural competences gives students insight into what culture actually entails. The book provides students sufficient tools to in...

- International Business can be widely used as a general introduction to international entrepreneurship;

- appealing examples from everyday practice and facts & figures make international business come to life;

- places international entrepreneurship in a European context.

International Business is an accessible textbook that highlights the basic principles of international entrepreneurship. It is the English version of Internationaal ondernemen and can be widely used as an introduction to in...

Handbook Organisation and Management, A Practical Approach is de Engelstalige editie van Handboek Organisatie en Management, een praktische benadering.

• Praktijkgerichte inleiding op het vakgebied;

• behandelt actuele thema’s zoals digitale business transformatie en maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen;

• met uitgebreide online ondersteuning, talrijke opdrachten en actuele cases.

In deze interactieve inleiding op het vakgebied wordt de theorie van management en organisatie door J...

How do you provide exceptional service to demanding customers?

They're standing at your check-in desk, calling you on the phone, chatting with you online. Maybe they're seated in business class on your flight. Or eating at one of the tables you're waiting on. As a service employee, you encounter dozens or even hundreds of customers a day. Some of them are easygoing. With them, you can't go wrong. But some are demanding. They set the bar high and let you know it.

How should you serve these cus...

Do you tend to keep your comments about others to yourself? Is there a difference between giving feedback to an employee, a colleague or your boss? Do you avoid complimenting others or praising them for their efforts?

Many people would answer these questions with a resounding ‘yes’. They are uncomfortable dealing with feedback and would rather sidestep the issue entirely. But open, honest communication enables others to learn and grow, which ultimately improves their performance in the fut...