Manufacturing and new product development have become a new world of their own, and leaders must understand their complexities to survive. PTC President and Chief Operating Officer James E. Heppelmann describes the problems and suggests ways to cope.

For anyone who hires employees this is a must-have book. It is also essential for anyone searching for a new job. This new book contains a wide variety of carefully worded questions that will help make the employee search easier. These questions can help everyone in the working world.

Corporate Creativity is the ultimate guide for executives and managers looking to increase creativity and innovation in their companies. This anthology of provocative essays, drawn from the pages of Design Management Review and Design Management Journal, explores personal, team, and organizational creativity, and it is packed with insights from the most respected names in the industry: Jeffrey Mauzy, Robert Rassmussen, Leonard Glick, Gerald Nadler, Stefano Marzano, and many others. These e...

This manual is for:Anyone working in a team, who wants to make it work.Anyone struggling in a team but who wants to make a contribution and give meaning to their daily work routine: particularly the leaders and the coaches, but also those working in human resources.Anyone who believes that a team's human capital is worth much more than the sum of the individuals in it (and their 'cost') - as long as the team functions well.How do we make the team function well? ...

The sales team can often make or break the success of new brands or products. This comprehensive guide provides strategies, models and checklists to help managers and directors strengthen the relationships of their firm's sales force with their own or other brands, maximizing turnover and profit in the long run.

Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ultimately defining what discrimination is, and is not, in the American imagination.Dobbin show...

Want to be seen as a good team leader? Like the idea of being able to get the best from those you manage? Keen to adapt your management style to suit the individual and the situation? It might be that your team is made up of very different personalities and you are looking for the best way to incorporate this into a cohesive team. If you manage teams and want to ensure you get the best performance from your team, then this book is for you.How will this book benefit me?The p...

Embracing social technologies at work is not just a blog from the CEO. It is about understanding all the opportunities where social media and technology activities could improve your company from marketing to operations. A practical guide for managers and an informative window into the world of social technologies in business.

Do you know what motivates your employees? According to a recent survey, money is not the most motivating factor for employees in the workplace — it’s their peers. Is that the case for your staff? In this newly revised edition of 365 Ways to Motivate and Reward Your Employees Every Day — With Little or No Money, we have new surveys, techniques, and ideas that will help you figure out how to motivate your employees.In this second edition, we discuss the different motivators — intern...

Illustrates how decision-making in organizations has to go beyond economic criteria and the individual level, due to the impossibility of making decisions that do not affect other human beings. The author reviews the conventional analyses of decision-making that do not take into account how decisions affect others and suggests an alternate model.

Helping to create inclusive work environments for non-binary people, this book builds knowledge of non-binary identities and provides practical solutions to many of the basic workplace problems this group face.Working with and including non-binary people in the workplace is beneficial for both employer and employee, as it attracts and retains younger and non-binary workers by helping promote an inclusive brand, as well as satisfying equality obligations.Based on novel resea...

Exploring major questions such as what people want from their work and why, Just Work discusses both new and enduring themes, examining to what extent this is accounted for by a changing environment of work since the 1970s.