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This book tells the inspiring story of the 1984 U.S. men's Olympic volleyball team. After many years playing as underdogs, a maverick coach would take over and push the players to their physical and emotional limits. Their journey to the Olympics reveals the value of teamwork, never giving up, and trusting in an innovative style of leadership.

Drawing on contributions from various manufacturing fields, this book offers a comprehensive perspective by combining theoretical concepts with practical applications. It emphasizes future developments, the integration of technologies, and the crucial role of humans in manufacturing companies.

This volume is a study of the economic problems created by fiscal transfer pricing, as well as the relevance of these problems to an international and purely Canadian context.

Discover the strategies and expert insights that will build your sustainability skillset and arm you with everything you need to make a meaningful impact.

The Psychology of Leadership blends research, fascinating true stories, humor, and self-improvement advice to deliver 18 simple yet powerful principles to master the mental game of leadership.

This book, the first to articulate the ubiquitous applicability of Simulation Decomposition (SimDec) and written by the leading proponents of the technique, provides the necessary background to fully understand the underlying approach and then demonstrates its applicability to a wide spectrum of fields.

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the past, present, and future direction of death rituals and deathcare systems within Japan.

This book is a comprehensive study that deals with the subject of collaboration with suppliers, considering the CSR guidelines. It presents new research about suppliers, their importance in supply chains, and in the context of social responsibility and acts as a new source of content that fills the gap in this area.

Labour and Business in Modern Britain (1989) examines the history of labour relations in British business using important empirical research. The study of 'labour process' and the dynamics of the labour market are key, and each chapter stands alone as an investigation of an episode, an industry, or an important theoretical question.

International and Comparative Industrial Relations (1987) analyses the factors which have shaped industrial relations in a range of different countries, including the characteristics of the major groups and parties concerned, and the nature and types of bargaining relationships which have evolved.

Industrial Action (1980) examines in a comparative analysis the principal elements involved in industrial action - strikes, work-to-rule, go-slows etc - in four key industries in Australia - construction, shipbuilding, the waterfront and telecommunications.

Originally published in 1984, this book investigates the validity of educational qualifications: how they are determined, what justifications exist for them and how they change.

Originally published in 1987, this book focusses on the relationship between higher education and employment and is based on case studies from Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Egypt, Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, Yemen, Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, the USSR, Zambia, West Bengal (India), Mali, Nepal, France, Indonesia and Peru.

Agenda for Change (1991) examines the experiences of five industrialised market economies in a period of profound change in industrial relations. It looks at the national history and culture affecting industrial relations, the obstacles to change, and the roles of employers, unions and governments in bringing about improvement.

Originally published in 1976, the 14 papers in this collection discuss the history and significance of the concept of 'involuntary unemployment', particularly as seen from a Keynesian perspective. The micro-economic foundations of employment and job-search theory and the significance of employment statistics are also examined.

Originally published in 1923, this volume collected an analysed material bearing on the UK Government practice during the early part of the 20th Century in settling wages in 4 key government departments.

This book provides a contemporary collection of studies that advances the understanding of agency in institutions through sport. In doing so, the chapters in this book bridge the theoretical divide between mainstream management and sport management to help facilitate a joint venture for future research.

Britain experienced the impact of recession more immediately and sharply; over one million factory jobs were lost. Originally published in 1983 and now reissued iwth a new Preface by the author, this book points to the industries, corporations and places in which job losses occurred between 1976 and 1981.

Originally published in 1983, this book promotes understanding of the provision for the young unemployed in Britain in the 1980s, both in policy and practice, through a series of research-based papers.

Originally published in 1985, this book brings together diverse perspectives of global policy and experience concerning threatened or high levels of youth unemployment and the measures taken in the countries concerned.

Industrial Relations in the Public Services (1989) assesses the changes in industrial relations following Thatcher's 1979 election in three particular parts of the public sector: local authorities, the national health service and the civil service.

Industrial Relations in a Changing World (1975) shows how industrial relations embrace very deep-rooted attitudes and institutions, and that change, if it is to be radical, is slow. This book exposes the long-term trends underlying developments in industrial relations in the 1970s.

Industrial Relations and Health Services (1982) provides a comparative treatment of labour and industrial relations in health services in Canada, Britain and the USA. The differences between the systems in these three countries illuminate the particular responses and policies that need to be made in varying circumstances.

Industrial Relations (1968) discusses the impact of the changing industrial relations environment on the supply of labour, trade unions, management, collective bargaining, wage policy, factory level relationships, industrial social policy, the law, politics and public policy and its administration in the labour field.

This monograph aims to develop a theoretical framework for regional CU and empirically verify this framework based on ICT clusters in Europe. It advances the theory of upgrading by linking the VC governance and capability approaches, broadening the empirical evidence on the conditions of CU, and providing policy recommendations.