This book delves into the origins, developments, and applications of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies and reporting frameworks, offering a comprehensive exploration of the transformative role of ESG in shaping the future of corporate and financial decision-making. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of how ESG strategy influences investment decisions, business strategy, and customer relationships in today's dynamic economic landscape. The book combines theory and...

Neurodiversity in Organisations closes the gap between practice and theory on the topic of neurodiversity in the world of work. Over the course of this book, the various forms of neurodiversity are described, as well as the ways in which employees and managers must successfully operate in their presence. The neurodiversity paradigm is a framework for understanding human brain function that considers the diversity within sensory processing, motor abilities, social comfort, cognition, and fo...

Resilient Supply Chain Management is the ideal guide for professionals and practitioners who wish to incorporate quality management (QM) concepts into their practice to achieve a competitive advantage across all business functions. Today's supply chains face unprecedented risks from trade wars, civil unrest, extreme weather, and volatile market dynamics. Resilience is the ability to withstand these risks without hampering the growth of your business, and resilience in supply chains is esse...

Rethinking Quality provides a thorough exploration of modern and innovative Quality Management (QM), delving into the processes and thinking required throughout the business value chain. The best and most agile quality practices in performance, particularly in production, trading, service, and information, are presented and interpreted.Beginning by renegotiating and extending how we think about QM, this text teaches the reader about modern developments and trends within this field....

This book explores neurodiversity and neurodivergence in the workplace from a practical perspective. There are estimates and surveys that assume 15 to 20 percent of all employees are neurodivergent, including people with attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit-hyperactive disorder (ADHD), dyslexia, dyscalculia, and autism. In contrast to neurotypical people, they have a different way of absorbing and processing information or expressing feelings than the majority, presenting ch...

Digital transformation, AI and the use of human-like machines are among the most important social and economic developments of our time. In addition to applications and concepts of digitalization and artificial intelligence, this book describes how companies can implement strategies to successfully transform a company into a digital champion. In addition, numerous practical examples in the areas of supply chain management, production, sustainability and education are presented.

Deal Making: The Secrets of Successful Negotiations is a practical guide for business students and professionals alike, structured around the author's insightful 6-phase model of successful negotiations. As a former managing director at leading automobile and railway manufacturers, the extreme pressure of difficult and lengthy negotiations with hundreds of millions of euros at stake was everyday life for Professor Marc Helmold. He has turned his extensive industry experience into a structu...

In today's dynamic and fast-changing world, traditional leadership models are reaching their limits. New Leadership introduces a forward-thinking, human-centered approach to managing organizations — one that empowers individuals, fosters collaboration, and builds cultures rooted in trust, purpose, and adaptability.Rather than relying on rigid hierarchies and top-down control, New Leadership promotes flat structures and lean processes. Employees are encouraged to work independently ...

This book provides a practical and user-friendly approach to successfully transform an organization into a lean organization throughout the business value chain. The author describes comprehensively how lean management principles enable organizations to concentrate on value-adding activities and processes to achieve a long-term and sustainable competitive advantage. The book shows how lean management principles are ultimately applied in industries and explores the concepts of Kaizen and Le...

This book provides readers a holistic and pragmatic approach towards supply management in China. It elaborates on how supply management should integrate the optimum level, and a combination of quality, cost and delivery. In addition to serving as a guide on how to address cultural barriers, apply supply tools and concepts, it also illustrates the best practices in supply management in China. It draws from a large number of best practices of companies from automotive to railway, to convince...

The concept of environmental, social and governance (ESG) is rapidly emerging as the new global industry standard and an important benchmarking tool for socially responsible investments. Major corporations seek the expertise of specialized consultants to develop and implement tailored ESG framework for their businesses.This book offers a guide to ESG and its practical applications. Beyond introducing the structured procedures of the most common ESG approaches, it delves into the co...

The rise of China poses a significant challenge to the existing, Western-dominated world economic order. The effectiveness of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is contingent on a smooth transition of the world’s economic center toward the Asia-Pacific Region. For Western investors, the vast market opportunities can be tempting. However, the lack of experience and knowledge of international management in China – a country with radically different business rules and cult...