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Business for Professionals/ManagementS. R. Balzac, Stow, MA, USAOrganizational Psychology forManagersNo matter how monolithic it may appear, an organization is a collection of moving parts. Whetherwe are looking at building teams, providing leadership, hiring and training employees, problemsolving, managing time effectively, or setting aggressive, inspiring goals, every decision can easilyimpact every other decision. The complexity canquickly become overwhelming.Features7 Contains never-before published research intoorganizational psychology 7 Offers senior-levelmanagers practical methods for decoding complexorganizational systems and behavior 7 Authorteaches organizational psychology at WentworthInstitute of Technology and is a leading consultanton organizational developmentContentsChapter 1: The Vortex: Organizations as Systems.Chapter 2: Telling Your Story: OrganizationalVision as a Driver of Success.- Chapter 3: The LifeCycle of a Team: Development, Problem Solving,and Decision Making.- Chapter 4: Leadership,Power, and Emotional Intelligence.- Chapter5: Motivating and Loyalty: Creating a Motivated Work Force.- Chapter 6: Recruiting withConfidence: Developing Effective Strategies andHaving the Confidence to Use Them.- Chapter 7:Justice and Fairness in Organizations.- Chapter 8:Organizational Learning.- Chapter 9: The Mythof Productivity: Measurement, Goal Setting, andthe High Performance Cycle.- Chapter 10 Masterof Time and Space.- Chapter 11: OrganizationalStress: A Two-Edged Sword.- Chapter 12: The Success Mind: Building Optimism and Focusing Will.Fields of interestManagement/Business for Professionals; Organization/Planning; General PsychologyTarget groupsProfessional/practitionerT.‑M. Choi, C.‑L. Hui, Y. Yu, The Hong KongPolytechnic University, Hongkong, China, People’sRepublic (Eds)Intelligent Fashion ForecastingSystems: Models andApplicationsFeatures7 The first edited volume on intelligent fashionforecasting systems 7 Providing the state of thearts of knowledge, with both theories and applications 7 Supplementing the literature on fashionforecasting which used to be qualitative onlyContentsPart I: Introduction, review and exploratorystudies.- 1.1 Introduction: Intelligent FashionForecasting.- 1.2 Sales forecasting in Apparel andFashion Industry: a review.- Collaborative Planning Forecasting Replenishment Schemes in Apparel Supply Chain Systems: Cases and ResearchOpportunities.- Part II: Theoretical modelingresearch.- 2.1 Measuring Forecasting Accuracy:Problems and Recommendations (by the exampleof SKU-level judgmental adjustments).- 2.2 Forecasting Demand for Fashion Goods: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach.- Forecasting FashionStore Reservations: Booking Horizon Forecastingwith Dynamic Updating.- Part III: Intelligentfashion forecasting: applications and analysis.- 3.1Fuzzy Forecast Combining for Apparel DemandForecasting.- 3.2 Intelligent Fashion Colour TrendForecasting Schemes: A Comparative Study.- 3.3Neural Networks Based for Romanian ClothingSector. Fields of interestBusiness Information Systems; InformationSystems Applications (incl.Internet); Production/Logistics/Supply Chain ManagementTarget groupsProfessional/practitionerProduct categoryContributed volumespringer.com/NEWSonlineW. Grundmann, Handelsschule Weidenstieg,HamburgLeasing und FactoringFormen, Rechtsgrundlagen, VerträgeDieses Buch hilft bei der systematischen Vorbereitung auf die Abschlussprüfung zum Leasingfachwirt. Die Inhalte sind dazu übersichtlich nachFormen, Vertragsarten, weiteren rechtlichen undsteuerlichen Aspekten gegliedert. Zur Festigungdes Erlernten bzw. zur eigenen Kontrolle dienendie Aufgaben am Ende der Kapitel. Auch für auszubildende Bankkaufleute, die sich besonders fürdie Finanzierungsformen Leasing und Factoringinteressieren, ist dieses Buch ein idealer Leitfaden.Features7 Das gesamte Prüfungswissen für den Bildungsgang Leasingfachwirt 7 Kompakte Übersichtenerleichtern die Aneignung des Stoffes 7 Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungshinweisen helfen bei derSelbstkontrolleInhaltLeasingformen.- Abgrenzung der Leasingfinanzierung von der Kreditfinanzierung, demMietkauf sowie der Vermietung.- Rechtsnatur vonLeasingverträgen.- Vertragliche Ausgestaltungdes Finanzierungsleasings.- Finanzierungsleasingund das Verbraucherdarlehensrecht.- Leasing undKWG.- Steuerrechtliche Aspekte von Leasing.- Refinanzierung von Leasingverträgen.- Kündigungund Rückabwicklung von Leasingverträgen.- Besonderheiten beim Kfz-Leasing.- Computerleasing/DV-Leasing.- Gebäudeleasing.- Formendes Factoring.- Abgrenung des Factoring vonanderen Finanzierungsformen.- Rechtsnatur vonFactoringvereinbarungen.- Steuerrechtliche Aspekte von wirtschaft; FinanzmarktökonomieZielgruppenExperten, PraktikerKategorieFachbuchProduct categoryProfessional bookDue September 20132014. 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News 8/2013P. Malaval, C. Bénaroya, Toulouse Business School,Toulouse Cedex 7, FranceJ. Aflalo, ATPCO-Airline Tariff Publishing Company,Dulles, VA, USA (Ed)Aerospace MarketingManagementA Handbook for the Entire Value ChainThis book presents an overall picture of both B2Band B2C marketing strategies, concepts and tools,in the aeronautics sector. This is a significantupdate to an earlier book successfully publishedin the nineties which was released in Europe,China, and the USA. It addresses the most recenttrends such as Social Marketing and the internet,Customer Orientation, Project Marketing and Concurrent Engineering, Coopetition, and ExtendedEnterprise. Aerospace Marketing Managementis the first marketing handbook richly illustrated with executive and expert inputs as well asexamples from parts suppliers, aircraft builders,airlines, helicopter manufacturers, aeronauticsservice providers, airports, defence and militarycompanies, and industrial integrators (tier-1, tier2). This book is designed as a ready reference forprofessionals and graduates from both Engineering and Business Schools.Features7 The sole marketing book dealing with thewhole value chain (civil & defence) from parts,engine through airframers to airlines andairports 7 The most complete and appealinghandbook with accurate and up-to-date case studies 7 Enriched by numerous testimonials andcontributions from executives and experts Fields of interestMarketing; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Production/Logistics/Supply Chain ManagementTarget groupsProfessional/practitionerProduct categoryProfessional bookBusiness for Professionals/ManagementH. Plattner, Hasso Plattner Institute EnterprisePlatform and Integration, Potsdam, Germany;C. Meinel, Hasso Plattner Institute for SoftwareSystems Engineering, Potsdam, Germany; L. Leifer,Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA (Eds)Design Thinking ResearchBuilding Innovation Eco-SystemsThis book summarizes the results of DesignThinking Research carried out at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and HassoPlattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. The authors offer readers a closer look at Design Thinking with its processes of innovations and methods.The contents of the articles range from how todesign ideas, methods, and technologies via creativity experiments and wicked problem solutions,to creative collaboration in the real world and theconnectivity of designers and engineers. But thetopics go beyond this in their detailed exploration of design thinking and its use in IT systemsengineering fields and even from a managementperspective. The authors show how these methodsand strategies work in companies, introduce newtechnologies and their functions and demonstratehow Design Thinking can influence as diverse atopic area as marriage.Features7 Based on scientific evidence from the HPIStanford Design Thinking Research Program 7 Covers more than just best practice indesign thinking and innovation 7 Points outhow design thinking can be used to innovate ITdevelopmentContentsAll Design Activity is Ultimately Social in Nature.Design Thinkers Must Preserve Ambiguity.- AllDesign is Re-design.- Make Ideas Tangible.Fields of interestBusiness Information Systems; Innovation/Technology Management; Software EngineeringTarget groupsResearchProduct categoryContributed volumeP. Vanderbroeck, Zürich, SwitzerlandLeadership Strategies forWomenLessons from Four Queens on Leadership andCareer DevelopmentHow do women leaders make it to the top of anorganization? How can women stay at the topwhen most of their colleagues are men? Whatshould women do to exercise leadership well?This book tells the stories of four powerful womenwho knew the answers to these three questions.Therefore, this book also explicitly identifies thekey factors in these leaders’ career success, andit elucidates the competencies that enabled thewomen to exercise leadership effectively. The foursuccess stories offer women who already serve inleadership roles and those who aspire to becomegreat leaders both inspiration and practical lessonsthat can be applied to real-world challenges.Features7 A fresh and unique perspective on the topic ofwomen leadership and careers 7 Do’s and don’tson how to progress your career and be successfulas a woman in a man’s world 7 Real examplesof successful women leaders that can inspire bothcurrent and future women leaders ContentsIntroduction.- I Cleopatra VII: Leveraging Difference.- II Isabella of Spain: A woman WithVisions.- III Elizabeth I of England: Managing aTeam of Men.- IV Catherine the Great: LeadingStrategic Growth.- V Four Queens: Lessons inCareer Development.- VI Four Queens: Lessons inLeadership.Fields of interestManagement/Business for Professionals; BusinessStrategy/Leadership; Human Resource ManagementTarget groupsProfessional/practitionerProduct categoryProfessional bookDue September 2013Due August 2013Due September 20132014. Approx. 350 p. 100 illus. (Management forProfessionals) Hardcover7 * (D) 85,59 (A) 87,99 sFr 106,507 79,99 72.00ISBN 978-3-319-01353-42014. VIII, 252 p. 72 illus., 39 in color. (UnderstandingInnovation) Hardcover7 * (D) 106,99 (A) 109,99 sFr 133,507 99,99 90.00ISBN 978-3-319-01302-22014. XIII, 101 p. 20 illus., 8 in color. (Management forProfessionals) Hardcover7 * (D) 53,49 (A) 54,99 sFr 67,007 49,99 44.99ISBN 978-3-642-39622-99 HTODMJ abdfde 9 HTODMJ abdac 9 HTOGPC djgc j 195