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Strategy Synthesis takes a truly global perspective. Contrasting viewpoint readings encourage discussion and debate, and illustrative cases help to acknowledge the importance of strategy in the world of business.Unlike most other books on the subject, the philosophy at the heart of this text is that an understanding of the topic of strategy can only be gained by grappling with a wider diversity of insights from many prominent thinkers, and the clear recognition that there is no simple answer to the question of what strategy is. This textbook bridges West and East, North and South, with insights from around the globe.
This exciting new edition delivers the comprehensive, detailed and sound conceptual framework that is essential in the management and supervision of social work. It offers a unique approach through its dual focus on management and supervision, providing a critical analysis of the contemporary debates related to the issues and challenges specific to social work management and the supervision of social workers. The content draws on South African and African practice examples throughout, as well as relevant research that can also be applied to other social service professions and courses.
Aimed at non-accounting management students, this textbook offers a thorough introduction to management accounting, approaching the subject from a managerial perspective, without sacrificing accuracy or detail.
Commercial Management: theory and practice defines the role of commercial management within project-oriented organisations, providing a framework for and helping to develop a critical understanding of the factors that influence commercial management practice. It also identifies generic aspects of this practice and provides a theoretical foundation to these activities, by reference to existing and emergent theories and concepts, as well as to relevant management best practice. The book is structured into four parts: Part 1 Introduction – Commercial Management in Project Environments explores the nature of commercial practice within project-oriented organisations at the buyer-seller interfac...
The book explores how strategic human resource management has implications for performance, through underlying theory, research evidence, examples from practice, and tools for practitioner application. The book presents not only details of how a strategic human resource management system might be effective in an organization, but also why.
In this book, the fundamental differences of opinion within strategic management are not ignored or smoothed over. The authors carefully guide the students through the many, often conflicting, perspectives in the field of strategy, in order to help them become true stategic thinkers.
Learning to Teach in an Inclusive Era starts a welcome conversation on educational inclusion. Such a conversation is missing in many developing countries; therefore, this is an important contribution to an emerging field that is still shrouded in uncertainty. Written by diverse lecturers in teacher education, this book is based on several authors’ interactions among themselves, with student-teachers in lecture rooms, in dissertation supervision, and on teaching practice supervision in several African countries. Such interactions revealed the tensions in understanding what inclusion is, and it is these tensions that the book tries to debunk by focusing on teaching methods that can make incl...
The book examines the domestic and international problems affecting management control and profit performance. Aimed at students, it provides a multi-disciplinary introduction to the transfer pricing issue.