34 books
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is coming of age in business practice, teaching, and research. But it is not a well-defined field of study with clear boundaries; rather it is a field of practice that comprises several intellectual agendas and lines of inquiry. CSR is of interest to diverse groups, who in turn have different priorities. These groups include businesspersons, academia, governing bodies, non-governmental organizations, the community, and the ...
With the focus on safeguarding the environment, companies are under pressure to comply with environmental and social standards. What has emerged is the generation of Sustainability Reports (SRs) that detail the initiatives of the company in the context of sustainable development. Apart from discussing frameworks and approaches for efficient reporting, this book details experiences of Australia, Asia, India, Japan, Austria and Sweden with respect to SR.
This book is a combination of Human Resource Management concepts and those of Strategic Management, which help make a company more productive. It explains that the synergies and strategies that prove useful in one domain of an organization can serve as innovative methods to manage the same functions of another domain. Employees who can think laterally and who can look for areas of mutual interest between domains can use these concepts to adopt an attitude of ...
For globalization of business to be successful, businessmen must know the business and cultural milieu of foreign countries. This book opens the readers mind to various aspects of the international negotiating process as done in the Americas, Asia, Europe and the UAE. It can be useful to managers, government officials, students and teachers.
Learning is not merely the acquisition of new knowledge. It is a continuous process of keeping in touch with change that involves unlearning and relearning. Moreover, it is a continual, dynamic process requiring the learner to act, to experiment, to reflect upon his actions, analyze the reactions and, thus, be attuned to learning on the path of progress. Learning is vital for survival, growth, and development from individual, organizational, and the global ...
When a company conducts business with social responsibility to raise the living standards of its stakeholders, it is good corporate citizenship. To be a company with a conscience is the need of the hour. Cases discussed here include those of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, IBM, Nestlé, Unocal and National Dairy Development Board of India.
Asset Reconstruction Companies are valuable in helping ailing banks turn around their balance sheets to become profitable. This book brings upfront to the reader all the crucial parameters to be favored in asset reconstruction and is more than educative for banking and finance professionals. Read all about increasing the effectiveness of multi-source assessment systems and much more.
This is a unique book that looks at CSR in the context of Supply Chain Management. It explores how environmentally and socially responsible actions of businesses can help leverage supply chain sustainable progress, maintain quality, optimize energy, and protect the environment. Also included are experiences of the pulp and paper Industry in Lebanon and more.
Health is wealth, even in the workplace. In these days of overwork and high-pressured jobs, when we work too hard, our system protests. This book explores employee well-being, coherently brought out with the help of case studies on Johnson & Johnson’s Health and Wellness Program, Hayco Manufacturing Ltd, Karoshi, and others.
Corporate Social Responsibility is more than just image building. This book seeks to explore some concepts of CSR, its scope and practices, how it differs from business ethics, what is socially responsible investment, etc. Included are insightful cases on Reebok, The Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Argyle and CSR in India.
Downsizing is a very painful task for a company and harder for a longstanding employee to accept. It is prevalent in Japan, France and India where companies are forced to trim the workforce. This book introduces the reader to various aspects of downsizing and the experiences of some corporate houses with downsizing.
Global managers face numerous challenges due to cultural differences that manifest in their work life. With increased mobility, managers face more challenges in managing global business since the values and beliefs held by individuals vary from one country to another and even the way the organization is managed differs drastically from one nation to other. Globalization of businesses requires employees to equip themselves with cross-cultural skills. Managing a ...
For managers of global businesses, managing virtual work is imperative, but the greatest challenge lies in the fact that they are untrained to handle virtual teams. This requires knowledge of processes and protocols, flexibility in regional and cultural ways of functioning, etc. Read this book to know all about key aspects of management for virtual work. It is aimed at today’s global business managers, business students and those involved in virtual work.
Current day organizations are becoming more global in nature. Many organizations require their managers to spend considerable amount of time managing overseas business. These assignments can range from short business trips to lengthy business assignments. Working in a foreign culture poses its own challenges, which these global managers have to face in addition to their business responsibilities. Some of these challenges include managing in a multicultural ...
Moving from a bureaucratic set-up to a team-based work system is the order of the day. Working in teams gives rise to better productivity and leads to greater flexibility in the organizational system. No wonder it is gaining a lot of importance now, so organizations are more into supporting and nurturing teams.
The service sector in India is growing at a phenomenal pace – 9% since the mid-1990s. The growth in the IT/ITES services is especially noteworthy. It’s share of the global offshore market for IT services is 65%. A number of other sectors such as retailing, tourism, media, education, healthcare, etc. have a huge potential for growth and to fuel the growth a large number of suitably qualified and trained workforce is needed. India, with a high proportion of low ...
Today, virtual teams are fast gaining importance and will be the norm in a few years. To manage a virtual team, we must learn from past experiences and improvise on virtual team design and its management. Teams must be nurtured, monitored , kept on track, focused and motivated. This book discusses all these aspects of virtual teams and provides useful perspectives on organizational behavior, and related aspects of virtual team collaboration and designing ...
The Icfai University Press on Change Management: People Perspectives Change is the only constant. However puzzling this statement may seem, it is absolutely true. Look around you. Does anything remain the same? Look at yourself. You are not the same person you were a moment back! You are changing every moment. Your mind keeps absorbing new information, your perception is changing, and so on. An organization is no different. Not only does it continue to change ...
The book deals with the many ways in which employee performance can be understood and measured with techniques such as assessment and development centers, 360-degree feedback systems, balanced scorecard concept, etc. Cases include the CK Birla group and Wipro.
In Western Europe and USA, a vast number of people are telecommuters, and these numbers will rise to 100 million by 2008. Telecommuting gives workers a lot f flexibility and cuts down on commuting time. With modern telecommunication methods and sophisticated management tools, this is eminently possible, though one may never meet co-workers regularly. Read this book to find out all about this concept of working and how it can successfully be tied to business ...
Every leader wants to be equipped with the magic formula to be successful. What makes a leader successful? Many books have been written with an aim to offer the magic potion that will help them become successful. Many broach the theme of whether leaders are born or made. Going with the belief that leaders can be made, this book presents perspectives on the essential characteristics required of any leader to be successful. A leader with a strong character is a ...
Politics is considered by many as an obnoxious term. If there are two people in an organization, there is bound to be office politics, so say some experts. This is not hard to believe. One of the major reasons for the existence of office politics is limited resources which have to be shared among more than one contender. Resources such as capital, labour, equipment, come in short supply which are insufficient to meet everyone's needs. Organizational politics is ...
Green consumerism pertains to consumption, where corporates and individual consumers both, identify and value products and services generated in a sustainable manner. The choices that we, as consumers, make to consume certain products and services or to adopt a certain lifestyle, have a direct or indirect impact on the environment and our personal or collective well-being. This is why the topic of green consumerism has become a central focus for national and ...
Organizational culture is the system of shared actions, values and beliefs that develops within organizations and guides the behaviour of its members. It is said that each organization has its own distinct culture, which, in turn, is an outcome of its past experiences. It assumes the leader's role in shaping the organization s identity, the organization's collective learning based on responses to external changes, incidents that occur within the organization, the ...