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Canada's Top 100 Employers: 2001 (Canada's Top 100 Employers)
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Thoroughness is questionable.......2000-09-01
Richard Yerema appears to have made a little niche for himself in this field but it seems to me he has gotten a little complacent on how he determines a "Top" employer. I don't have experience across a lot of industries, but in my field - Oil and Gas Companies - the fact that he chose Husky Oil is unbelievable and, in fact, is so bad it colors my opinion of the rest of the book. Everyone who works in the Calgary oil patch knows Husky's reputation as a low paying, demoralizing, old school, top down company. The only way Mr. Yerema could possibly have even considered them was if he simply took what thier HR flaks told him as gospel and never followed up with anyone outside the company. The fact is Husky has not been able to attract any quality talent for over ten years, thier compensation is in the bottom quartile of the industry surveys, Thier goal is "median", thier average age is 5 to 7 years above average. Any cursory investigation should have turned this up and more. If he is this far out of the loop on my industry how close can he be in yours?
Publisher's Response.......2000-08-21
This is a response to the comments of Mr. Kahiel fromStittsville, Ontario. The book is broad because it covers a wide range of industries in cities across Canada. If he is looking for employers in one industry (hi tech) in one area (Ottawa), he should consult a larger directory like "The Career Directory" (1000 employers) or "Who's Hiring 2000" (5000 employers), which both let him target a large number of employers in specific industries and cities.
"Canada's Top 100 Employers" profiles the best places to work in the nation and is intended to highlight best- practices in many industries.
The book has received outstanding reviews from dozens of Canadian newspapers and media outlets. The book was recently #2 on the Globe and Mail's business best-seller's list. END
Very generic........2000-07-30
This book doesn't worth the money... The author made a big mistake by trying to cover all Canada-Wide and all sectors... I found very few employer in the hi-tech capital (Ottawa), and the most important part, the information provided was very basics and very generic. review for 2001 edition
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The founders of our Republic envisioned education as providing for all citizens the necessary apprenticeship in the understanding and practice of democracy. To make democracy safe we must have universal schooling; to make schooling safe for education we must have democracy. But since the founding of our country the study and practice of democracy in our schools has weakened. We must return to the primary purpose of education and ensure that it is indeed for everyone. The Agenda for Education in a Democracy proposed by the authors is more than an effort to simply revitalize a faltering civics curriculum. It is about restoring a shared humanity to the educational process. It is about the need to make caring, compassion, freedom, dignity, and responsibility central to the mission of schooling. It is about placing power and responsibility—a concept more demanding of the individual than is accountability—in the hands of those who need and deserve it. It is about taking the idea of excellence seriously. It is about taking democracy seriously. It is about having real faith in real people to do what is right, just, and honorable.
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Negotiation is a critical skill needed for effective management.
NEGOTIATION: READINGS EXERCISES, AND CASES, 5/e takes an experiential approach and explores the major concepts and theories of the psychology of bargaining and negotiation, and the dynamics of interpersonal and inter-group conflict and its resolution. It is relevant to a broad spectrum of management students, not only human resource management or industrial relations candidates. It contains approximately 50 readings, 32 exercises, 9 cases and 5 questionnaires.
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Dense but thorough.......2007-10-05
The book is very good, but dense. You need to read over the book carefully to get everything out of it.
Negotiation.......2007-03-26
Excellent book on negotiation! I wish I had read this many years ago as it would have saved a lot of money and relationships in both my business and personnal negotiations.
Teaching Review.......2006-03-01
The text from Lewicki, Barry, and Saunders is the most complete - and comprehensive - compilation of articles, cases, and exercises I've found in my teaching Negotiations at college, University, and corporate business.
The authors/editors have selected excellent articles from some of the foremost writers on Negotiation ... and coupled them with cases which highlight what you've just read. I have recommended it to friends, and continute to select it for graduate level courses in Negotiations. My students like the text, and plan to keep it on their shelves (rather than sell it back to the bookstore).
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Negotiation: Readings, Exercises, and Cases
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Updated with more than 50 percent new articles, Negotiation explores the major concepts and theories of negotiation and bargaining psychology, and helps professionals understand and resolve both interpersonal and inter-group conflicts.
Roy J. Lewicki is a professor at Ohio State University.
David M. Saunders is a dean at the University of Calgary.
John Minton is the president and CEO of Havatar Associates, Inc.
Bruce Barry is on the faculty of Vanderbilt University.
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Great Resource.......2006-02-18
I purchased this book as a requirement for an MBA class, and am certainly glad my professor uses it! I have found it to be a very readable, practical and informative book. The readings are by assorted authors from both the academic and professional world, which provides a great understanding of how concepts are actually used. I would recommend this to anyone, student or professional, who is interested in learning more about how negotiation really works.
Academic.......2000-06-24
The articles in this book are great reading. They provide thoughtful insite on many different topics. The cases, however, are completely useless without the instructors' manual. As best I can tell, the instructors' manual is not available for purchase unless you are using this book for a class. Therefore, in my opinion, this book is a poor value outside the academic world.
Comprehensive collection of articles and exercises........1998-07-24
This falls between the average "how to" and academic journal type articles. Great for classroom use, or for enterprising individuals who want to teach themselves about negotiation. Nearly all the authorities in organizational behavior and negotiation are included here. Nice variety of approaches to the subject. Exercises cover the range and include material on natural environment and on international negotiation. International material needs more, but gives good beginning frameworks. Exercises need teacher's manual (forthcoming?).
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BEST BOOK EVER.......2005-02-18
THIS IS THE ABOLUTLE BEST BOOK EVER!!!!! IT IS SO MAD CRAZY GOOD, IT BLEW MY MIND!!!! IT IS THE BEST BOOK EVER!!!!! (AND I SHOULD KNOW, FOR I AM QUITE ERUDITE!!!!!)
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Strategic Management, 6e is modular in format and complemented by a casebook containing 39 cases. Instructors have the option to blend modules in the text with selected cases from the casebook, or the text can be used as a standalone or even with other cases of the instructorÆs choice. Strategic Management, 6e is contemporary, comprehensive, and flexible, making it the perfect fit for courses in the challenging field of strategy and policy.
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Excellent strategic management book.......2005-08-11
Having this be a required book in a recent course on strategic management, I was pleasantly surprised by the content. This book should be required reading for all who are interested in strategic management. Digman provides students with a great place to start for understanding strategy. Digman gives a clear and concise review of the basics that everyone in an organization needs to understand the foundation of strategy. This book works well with Digman's case study book. All cases are right-on, useful, and very meaningful. Anyone interested in strategy process can use the simple model provided in the book. I would say this is one of the best books I have ever read on this subject.
I highly recommend this excellent book.
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Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a century, Sven Beckert brings to light a neglected--and critical--chapter in the social history of the U.S.: the rise of an American bourgeoisie. The Monied Metropolis is the first comprehensive history of New York's economic elite, the most powerful group in nineteenth-century America. Beckert explains how a small and diverse group of New Yorkers came to wield unprecedented economic, social, and political power from 1850 to the turn of the twentieth century. He reveals the central role of the Civil War in realigning New York's economic elite, and how the New York bourgeoisie reoriented its ideology during Reconstruction, abandoning the free labor views of the antebellum years for laissez-faire liberalism. Sven Beckert is the Dunwalke Associate at Harvard University. He is the recipient of several honors and fellowships, including the Aby Warburg Foundation prize for academic excellence, a MacArthur Dissertation Fellowship and a Andrew W. Mellon fellowship. This is his first book.
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The Power Behind the Glory.......2004-04-28
Sven Beckert's history seeks to describe the consolidation of the American bourgeoisie from 1850 to 1896. The key term here is "bourgeoisie", whom Beckert equates with "upper class" and "economic elite" and not simply with "middle class" which too many people equate with "most Americans." The story starts with an upper class dominated by merchants and bankers, many of them with economic ties to the South and to slavery. At the time industrialists were a relatively weak section of the upper class, with many of them from artisan origins and ruling over relatively small factories. In the 1850s the upper class would be divided over its response to slavery and to what extent it should compromise with the South. At the same time much of what we might consider upper class culture (museums, orchestras, theatres) were relatively inclusive, while the upper class was dispersed over the city. Ethnicity was relatively unimportant (it helped that there were few Catholics in the upper class) and easily transcended in daily life. Much of the upper class embraced a somber, diligent hard-working life.
The story that Beckert then relates is one of how manufacturers increased their importance within the New York bourgeoisie. In this they were joined by more powerful financiers and lawyers. As time went on corporations became more complex and vertically integrated, investments became more sophisticated and diverse and businesses became more national and international. Beckert tells the story of how the New York City upper class found itself in a position of unrivalled influence after the Civil War decimated its main rival in the American ruling class, the Southern slaveholders. At the same time the New York bourgeoisie became more exclusive. As the century ended it was geographically more segregated from the rest of the city. Its influence in the world of culture helped to separate it from the common people (the new Metropolitan Museum of Art wasn't even open on Sundays until 1891, the day most New Yorkers were able to see it). At the same time the New York bourgeoisie became more anti-Semitic. It was also a ruling class that more openly displayed its wealth, such as the famous 1897 Martin ball where the hostess wore a necklace that had belonged to Marie-Antoinette, while Caroline Astor had gems worth $250,000 sown into her dress.
At the same time the old republican ideology which emphasized economic independence for all slowly dissolved as it became clear that proletarianization was to be a fact of life. Where once the upper class embraced social mobility they now viewed the world through the lens of Social Darwinism. The New York bourgeoisie took a hard line on strikes and in what the most original part of Beckert's account, in 1877 tried their to eviscerate universal suffrage. The Chamber of Commerce, the Stock Exchange, the Union League Club, the New York Board of Trade and other powerful upper-class institutions all endorsed a proposal that would have imposed on the city council a board of finance with all power regarding taxation and expenditures elected under a suffrage that would have disenfranchised up to two-thirds of the New York electorate. This was unsuccessful, but their hard line on strikes helped to explain why the rate of injured strikers was more than forty times that for France in the nineties. In the 1870s the American trade union movement was one of the strongest in the world. By the 1920s it was one of the weakest. (Theodore Roosevelt suggested that one take a dozen Populists against the wall and shoot them dead). Their power benefited from the weaknesses of the state, where both bureaucracies and the federal government were weak and reactionary courts existed to fill the vacuum. Politics was a sphere where the wealthy could manipulate their power and influence to gain special favors and to crush radical strikers, while the claims of other classes could be peremptorily dismissed. Yet at the same time the laissez-faire state could not provide the more sophistical protection that a more sophisticated economy needed. So as the book concludes we are on the verge of encountering progressivism.
Although well detailed, Beckert's style is not the most involving and many of the footnotes are somewhat repetitive. A bibliography listing archival sources would also have helped. One problem with Beckert is that it does fully not explain the political success of the New York bourgeoisie. True, over time the New York upper class had to accept the more ethnic and more free spending Tammany. The New York bourgeoisie played a decreasing role in city government. Yet they still made up most if not all of the mayors and they were able to cut taxation levels by a third from 1879 to 1896. It strikes me as a bit odd to say that the New York bourgeoisie was having problems attracting the more conventional middle class. In the Gilded Age they seemed to have little trouble getting the population to vote for nearly indistinguishable pro-business politicians. Some of these explanations for its power are reasonable (it no longer had to share power with slaveholders or aristocrats), while others are weaker (running political parties, argues Beckert, was expensive and the wealthy were those who could most easily pay. But was there ever a time when European socialist parties outspent their rivals?) At the end something is missing in this account.
The DeFacto Capital of America.......2001-12-21
This book tells about the rise of the "upper class" in New York city in the 19th century. New York was the most important city then, and is the center for finance, insurance, fashion, publishing, broadcasting, and other national businesses.
Our Revolution, and afterwards, put an end to any aristocracy of large landowners. DeTocqueville noted how the "law of partition" replaced entailment and did away with large estates by forcing their dissolution thru the inheritance laws. The author notes that few historical studies were written to document this "upper class" of that time, given its importance then, and now. He tells how a "class culture" was expressed in shared habits and manners (such as a dining room), interior design, gender roles, and the concept of "society"" clubs, debutante balls, voluntary associations, etc. These habits all required wealth that excluded the majority of the people. The goal of this book is to explain the role of the "upper class" in the history of New York and the nation.
The author says that workers can only be powerful when they act collectively in trade unions or politics, while the "upper class" exert power through their wealth (p.13).
New York's preeminence in European trade gave its impetus to manufacturing that supplied much of the growing nation. Upper class New Yorkers represented the largest and most diverse of the economic elite, surpassing other cities. New York was most involved in the cotton trade then. Banking, extending credit for future crops, grew out of commerce; it became more profitable than merchandising. European capital was used.
Page 31 tells the reason why merchant houses could no then be incorporated for limited liability: they lacked a public purpose. Page 33 tells of the importance of proper marriages to merchant companies. Marrying the boss' daughter was not just Horatio Alger fiction. Most wealth then was due to inheritance (p.36). A display of luxury began to replace democratic simplicity (p.42). Funerals developed as a public ritual.
One feature of the expansion of the 1850s was the creation of socially exclusive neighborhoods (p.55). It continued the separation of workplace and home: commuting was invented! Political clubs, like the Chamber of Commerce, were formed to support the policies of the merchants and bankers. New social clubs, like the Union Club, were formed to unite the merchants and financial elite. Churches also became exclusive to the elites and shifted locations to follow the wealthy.
Page 78 tells how the merchants and bankers interests were allied with the Southern planters, while manufacturers were not. The increasing political power of ordinary people led to public works that benefitted ordinary people. He tells how the wealthy learned to influence a party by funding the organization in the 1850s. Page 81 tells of the effects of political decisions on commerce. The elites needed votes to get their agenda across; but since their agenda was against the interests of the voters it failed to win. So they resorted to lobbying and corruption to further their agenda (p.83). The merchants and financiers involved in the cotton trade supported the Democratic Party and its attempts to reconcile sectional differences. Manufacturers supported the new Republican Party.
New Yorks's banks were an enormous source of money for the federal government. In effect, they were the only source for bonds and loans. The federal government raised money with an excise tax and an income tax (p.118). The Civil War and high tariffs turned the US towards the West and away from cotton exports and European imports. It helped manufacturing, and not just for the war effort.
While the book's 330 pages of text seem aimed at a general audience, the 130 pages of notes is too long.
The End of the American Dream.......2001-12-10
In his introduction to this highly readable, deeply-researched history of the New York bourgeoisie, Beckert says that the current trend in American history of examining the unknown voices of average Americans is laudable. But, he points out, since it is the rich and powerful who make the conditions under which average Americans live, they are also deserving of study. (At least I think that's what Beckert was driving at; I took the book back to the library and am writing this review from memory).
When I first moved to New York I went with a friend to the Steinway showroom. He was studying piano at Julliard and wanted to try out a couple of pianos to see how different they were from his old 1923 grand. I don't know where my friend is these days, but Steinway is still there, just as it has been from the 1840s (if not before -- I don't have the book, so I can't check). But what I do know is that Steinway and the manufacture of pianos through the period covered in this great book, is just one of the many stories that Beckert tells to illustrate his main idea: from small manufactories, great industrial fortunes grew up, from a small mercantile elite great financiers were born, from the Civil War the New York merchants and especially the new manufacturing class profited mightily.
The eariler merchants, who had kept the manufacturers out of their exclusive society, had to let them inside the charmed circle. (After all the manufacturers wealth often outstripped that of the earlier merchant class. The money made from the exportation of cotton and the importation had been good, but it didn't compare to the vast wealth born out industry). In the process, the old merchant class taught the new manufacturing class (many of whom were fair and equitable in their dealings with workers, who saw them often as co-workers, as honest hard-working Americans who were deserving of their wages, as free man in the spirit of the American Revolution), that their employees were of a lower racial and societal order. Peter Cooper (Cooper Union) never bought into this lie, but many others did.
And so the great consolidation of wealthy New Yorkers was accomplshed as the newly wealthy were taught about perquisites of power. In the process, the new manufacturing elite grew increasingly distant from their employees. And later, as newly efficient industrial processes robbed craftsmen of their importance in the creation of goods, and immigrants were brought in to work for pennies a day and set against each other so that labor costs could be cut, tensions and misunderstandings flourished. The monied class looked for and found ideologies to support their views of themselves of an elite -- Spencer's social darwinism, for example. In addition to ideologies, they used their vast fortunes to build armories the length of Manhattan to protect themselves from the rabble (who only a generation before had been freeborn Americans worthy of respect.) Steinway, for instance, had done his best in earlier days to pay decent wages. But when they unionized and sought better wages, he and his fellow piano manufacturers conspired to lock out any piano union employees who supported a strike against any other piano manufacturer. From a belief in the goodness of men, and the perfectability of the American system through the agency of freeborn men, the discourse changed to the adoption of a bogus science that justified their weath and power. The same the story was eventually told everywhere in America.
A short review can't hope to do this book justice. It tells a vast, complex story with admirable clarity and continuity. I may just get it out of the library again and read it for a third time!
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The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age
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An exploration of the ideological conflicts and practical experiences of late-nineteenth-century American workers who pursued "cooperation" as an alternative to "competitive" capitalism.
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A barely-known part of the cooperative movement.......2005-09-17
While we know better, many of us tend to think that the worker-cooperative movement was born in the 60's and that we have little to learn from the past. Here's a book that makes clear that the golden age of cooperation in the United States was in the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. Very instructive,
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Packed with tips, charts, and quizzes, this in-depth guide shows how to practice powerful interpersonal and communication skills to increase personal and professional success. It tells how to build a positive self-image, give electric presentations and speeches, present a well-rounded and pleasing personality, write clearly and confidently, and avoid the top 10 conversational mistakes. With this book as a guide, readers will learn how to boost communications and interactions to achieve outstandingly positive results and enhanced personal relationships.
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When an emergency strikes, is your cultural institution prepared to protect the people on-site, as well as the premises and its collections? This workbook, originally published in English and now available in French and Spanish editions offers guidance to institutions seeking to develop their
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Divided into three parts, the book addresses the groups generally responsible for developing and implementing emergency procedures: institution directors, emergency preparedness managers, and departmental team leaders. Several chapters detail the practical aspects of communication, training, and
team formation to handle the safety of staff and visitors, collections, buildings, and records. Emergencies covered include natural, as well as human-caused, events.
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- "Must" reading for all museum and gallery professionals.
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Building an Emergency Plan: A Guide for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions (Getty Conservation Institute)
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In case of earthquake, floods, or human-caused emergencies such as fires, how does a cultural institution protect the people on site, its collections, and the premises from harm? Building an Emergency Plan provides a step-by-step guide that a cultural institution can follow to develop its own
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"Must" reading for all museum and gallery professionals........2000-04-04
Compiled by the collaborative efforts of Valerie Dorge and Sharon Jones, Building An Emergency Plan: A Guide For Museums And Other Cultural Institutions provides concise and practical "how to" information to help professionals develop site-specific plans to protect museum and art institute visitors, staff, premises, and collections in the event of an emergency. Building An Emergency Plan is an guide manual taking readers step-by-step through the process of devising an emergency plan tailored to his or her specific institution. Dorge and Jones advocate a team approach and outline the responsibilities of the director, the emergency preparedness manager, and departmental team leaders. The text is "user friendly" in format and includes "Questions to Consider" and Suggested Exercises" that aid the reader to identify and address their institution's particular needs. Building An Emergency Plan is enhanced further with emergency preparedness maters such as evacuation procedures, supply and equipment lists, and action checklists. While Building An Emergency Plan cannot avoid the occupance of disasters to the institution, it can go a long, long way toward mitigating the adverse consequences of them and facilitate the return of operations to normal as quickly as possible.
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NIOSH publications catalog, 1970-1977 (DHEW)
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- Demographic Yearbook = Annuaire Demographique 1995 (Demographic Yearbook/Annuaire Demographique)
- Directory of Japanese-Affiliated Companies in the U. S. A. and Canada, 1997-98 (Directory, Japanese-Affiliated Companies in USA and Canada/Beikoku Kanada Nikkei Kigyo Dairekutori)
- Dynamics in a non-scale R&D growth model with human capital: Explaining the Japanese and South Korean development experiences [An article from: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control]
- Enciclopedia Practica De LA Contabilidad
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