Theories of Macro Organizational Behavior: A Handbook of Ideas and Explanations

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Seeing objects as they are: a better understanding of camera and lens characteristics will help to optimize your AOI application.(Automated Optical Inspection): ... An article from: EE-Evaluation Engineering
Tom Lecklider
Manufacturer: Nelson Publishing
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ASIN: B00082TNNU
Release Date: 2005-08-01

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Title: Seeing objects as they are: a better understanding of camera and lens characteristics will help to optimize your AOI application.(Automated Optical Inspection)
Author: Tom Lecklider
Publication: EE-Evaluation Engineering (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Nelson Publishing
Volume: 43 Issue: 7 Page: 78(5)

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Understanding Business Objects
Robert E. Shelton
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
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This bold new interpretation of Anglo-German appeasement challenges existing accounts, both orthodox and revisionist, by focusing on the economic motivations behind appeasement rather than on the workings of foreign policy. Scott Newton argues that appeasement stemmed from the determination of interwar administrations, particularly that of Neville Chamberlain, to protect the liberal-capitalist status quo established in the collapse of Lloyd George's attempts at reconstruction after 1918. Newton shows that the Government, aided and abetted by the Bank of England, the City, and large-scale industry, maintained its search for detente well beyond the outbreak of war, up until Churchill became Prime Minister in May 1940. The author goes on to reveal that certain circles within the establishment loyal to the prewar order continued their efforts to reach agreement with Germany even after 1940. He argues that the Hess affair represented the appeasers' last throw: the subsequent entry of the USSR and the USA into the conflict guaranteed the impossibility of a separate Anglo-German settlement, and combined with war socialism at home to open the door to a new era characterized by the welfare state and the Anglo-American special relationship. This is the first major study to provide a thorough analysis of the domestic political and economic background to appeasement, and to explain fully the reasons behind the persistence of the appeasement lobby even beyond the outbreak of war.

Profits of Peace : The Political Economy of Anglo-German Appeasement

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Profits of Peace : The Political Economy of Anglo-German Appeasement
Scott Newton
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press(UK)
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ASIN: B000OL22QU

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Designed for time-pressed teams and team facilitators seeking to cut their instructional design time and session preparation in half, this compact 3-ring binder features a complete set of 10 team skills training designs-with accompanying video presentation-that can easily be completed during the course of a regular team meeting-in only 45 minutes or less. With Turbo Training, there's no need to schedule special training sessions. Trainers simply select the training design of their choice-making group decisions, assessing the teams's spirit, performance management, conflict and the team, and interpersonal skills, and five more. Each package includes a facilitator's guide with step-by-step instructions and reproducible trainer materials, a team member handbook, plus a 5-minute video introduction to the topic by the author professional team consultant.

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Chinese and Japanese trade unions may seem emasculated and weak when compared with their Western counterparts in that they do not stand up to management to protect the interests of workers. The author's careful analysis in Law and Industrial Relations: China and Japan after World War II probes the reasons for this difference, tearing down stereotypical notions about societies with a Confucian heritage, to examine the significant role of law in shaping industrial relations in modern China and Japan. Through a comparative analysis of their trade union laws, this work analyses the role of law in shaping postwar industrial relations in China and Japan and the interplay amongst such elements as the State or the Party, management, and workers. The work focuses on industrial relations in commercial and industrial enterprises, addressing such issues as the performance or nonperformance of trade unions in China and Japan and possible explanations, and the prospects and limitations of using codified laws to effect change or control in the postwar industrial settings of these two countries. The work's helpful features include + a comparative approach, + the use of case studies to maximize objectivity and insight, + a unified and clearly expressed thesis and conclusions including a summary of findings, + footnotes and cross references, + an index, and + concise explanations of the relevant legal provisions and the manner in which they have been applied. This ground-breaking work enables academics and international labour law practitioners to understand industrial relations in these two countries in light of their own particular circumstances, to ascertain whether their trade unions have fulfilled their role as representatives of workers, and to evaluate the efficacy of law as an agent of social change and/or social control. Law and Industrial Relations: China and Japan after World War II also achieves a broader purpose: breaking through stereotypes of East Asian peoples to promote international understanding, generate thought-provoking issues and insights, and stimulate more research.

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War on A Mountain........1999-06-11

Gotta Read It!!

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With advances in information technology people are being empowered to connect, collaborate, create wealth and self-order without bureaucracy or representative government. Infinite Wealth shows how the frantic change within organizations over the past twenty years, is part of a process of creating a new type of wealth creation enterprise enabled through the Internet.

The transition from bureaucracy to mass privatization is part of a shift from an Industrial Age to an Information Age civilization. Two hundred years ago we did the same thing as all of the Agricultural Age social institutions were replaced by those of the Industrial Age. Today we are witnessing a shift towards owning partners or networks of self-directed teams connected through the Internet. It is a win/win collaboration where the more an individual partner wins the (financially and otherwise) more the organization, partners, customers and all stakeholders win. As we move closer to mass privatization, Internet based organizations arise with thousands of independent owning partners specializing in various niches.

Infinite Wealth illuminates our environment, allowing us to clearly see the big picture and how the individual pieces of today's activity fit into a coherent new worldview, thus making sense of today's chaos. This revolutionary synthesis empowers you to understand what is occurring and to make effective personal choices regarding your work and life. Regardless of who you are, presently you have the unprecedented opportunity to significantly increase your personal wealth and happiness while helping to create a thriving win/win world.

Synthesizes management trends to show a new system for organizing work, business and society for the Information age
Shows why in the next ten years you are likely to become wealthy while helping to create a win/win world
Passionately written, globally focused, and grounded in the author's extensive business experience

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Understanding the coming Future.......2001-03-11

With the publication of Infinite Wealth, Barry Carter has established himself as a voice on the leading edge of the synergic paradigm.

The synergic paradigm is a place where you and I can be much more by working together than we could ever be by working separately. It is a place where we both can win. It is a place where we can create a win-win world in contrast to our present win/lose and often lose/lose world.

To solve the problems facing us (humanity) at the beginning of the 21st Century will require nothing less than our learning to work together. We must learn to Co-Operate. As Barry Carter explains in his Conclusion to Infinite Wealth:

"Our social institutions are dying. The pain we feel is the pain of death and birth simultaneously, the death of one civilization and the birth of a new one. We have entered a period in which the conservative person who does not take risks and needs stability has become the risk taker, the radical, and the gambler. It is a period in which the one who refuses to change will surely be the one who will lose the most in the coming years. There is no going back to the way things used to be. Back to the basics is a failed policy. The future has already begun, and the trend is clear.

"Starting today you must have a completely new outlook on life. You must be responsible. You can no longer depend on employers, unions, or governments to look out for your economic well-being, to provide you with a job, retirement, social security, health care, or a safety net.

"From this day forward you and your global network of partners are responsible for creating work and wealth for yourselves. If you have no network you have no security. All of the rules have changed. The guarantees and promises made to you by Industrial Age society are null and void and will be breached.

"The government and controlled economies have no choice. The power bestowed on them in the Industrial Age is slipping away--to you the individual supplier and customer. You the individual supplier and customer have no choice about accepting this responsibility. Mass victimization is no longer an option.

"Because most companies and employees are not seriously preparing, the number of companies that fail to make the transition could be extremely high. And there likely will be no unemployment benefits, no welfare, and no Social Security safety nets to catch those who fall. Your network is your security. As we stand poised on the edge of the greatest advancement and growth boom in history, we may stumble. Many may lose life, fortune, and standard of living and suffer tremendous hardship.

"We the individuals are the only ones who can make the change. Our corporate and political leaders do not have the power, vision, or intelligence to address the root causes. We the people must wake up from the Industrial Age sleep into which our factory-style schools, jobs, and governing system have lulled us. We must come out of our defined compartments and take responsibility. Our leaders cannot do what has to be done to correct our problems; this responsibility does not lie in their bureaus of specialty. It is not in their job descriptions.

"History has shown that real change usually comes only through crisis. The evidence shows that the crisis has begun. Tens of thousands are dead from the transition. We can possibly lessen or prevent the crisis if we align ourselves with the change. Today we have the technology, knowledge, power, ability, intelligence, and willingness to move faster toward win-win wealth creation.

"We must use intelligence to recognize what is occurring and move with the natural flow of things and with all deliberate speed. Either way, we have to make the transition. Meandering along simply means that we will pay a higher price in life, death, suffering, standard of living, and debt for our children. Meandering also risks complete collapse and possibly a dark millennium.

"The universe does not guarantee our standard of living or our survival. Perhaps our ancestors had to meander during periods of social transition because there was little or no precedent and little knowledge to use the precedents there were. We are fortunate because we can learn from their mistakes. As the late Carl Sagan said, "we see further because we stand on their shoulders" (1980).

"Becoming aligned with the coming change will allow us to avoid pain and to prosper. Let's get on with it. Let's stop the bleeding and start the fun, passion, and living! This will be the most fun and exciting time of our lives!"

Barry Carter has discovered one of the biggest secrets of science: "When you read and understand the work of a world's leading expert, you can become the world's second leading expert."

Carter spent 12 years of his life studying the world's leading experts in the synergic paradigm. In Infinite Wealth, he shares what he has learned and interprets his new understanding from his unique perspective developed from working as a cog in the wheel of our present Industrial Civilization. With this interpretation he has expanded the paradigm. As a synergic scientist working in the field for 27 years, I was surprised and delighted to learn more. Infinite Wealth has much to offer to both novice and expert.

This is an important book that explains the shape of the coming future. I recommend that every thinking human read it!

Survival Manifesto for Anyone with A Brain.......2001-02-12

First off, this book made the cut above another ten or so options on the fringes (the amazon reviews helped). It was a good choice. The author captures the essence of many other books as well as real-world experience with two fundamental points that every manager and every employee--including fast-food employees and others in "drone" jobs--needs to absorb: first, that the existing bureaucratization of the economy at every level is costing so much as to place those companies in jeopardy during the forthcoming economic shake-out, and second, that the sooner every individual begins the process of inventorying their personal capabilities and creating the networks for offering their personal services and knowledge via the Internet to all comers, the sooner they will be able to share in the profits associated with their direct individual contributions to the new economy.

The Department of Defense acquisition and contracting examples are especially shocking because they show, so credibly and in detail, how we have institutionalized multi-billion dollar waste.

This is a special book. It is by a practical man who has drawn very personal and transformative lessons from the school of hard knocks, and whose recounting of those lessons have value for anyone who expects to work for a living today and in the future. This is not a "get rich quick" book as much as it is a "get rich together or get left behind" book.

Infinite Wealth - Not exactly as you might think.......2000-02-11

Assuming that Futurists do their homework right, one should be able to act on their insights with a fair degree of confidence. With "Infinite Wealth" the same trending snapshots caught by noted futurists such as Faith Popcorn, Alvin Toffler and John Naisbitt take on more personalized dimensions. Barry Carter opens up before his readers doors to personal fulfillment, inviting them to join the driving forces of 21st Century new economies. If ever there was insider information worth its weight in gold, this is it.

Whether or not you are already a pioneer of the emerging Free Agent Nation, this book is a must read! If you are one of tens-of-millions sensing that the world you thought you knew is changing, not certain where you might fit in, I highly recommend "Infinite Wealth" as a beginner's guide to learning. But be forewarned! "Infinite Wealth" is not really about material wealth - per say, and if that is what you seek...well then maybe you should read the book. Otherwise, you may never know what hit you.

An Excellent Book..........2000-01-25

If you can overlook certain things that I find a bit grating--especially the author's touting companies like Microsoft and Amway as exemplars of the new "win/win" economy (I prefer to see them as the WORST examples of the exploitative Industrial Age economy)--you will realize this is an important and timely book. The author has created an inspiring and stimulating collage--his work itself an example of the infinite possibilities for creativity that the Information Age offers.

I regularly scour library catalogs for new books in subjects like "Information Society" and "Knowledge Management." This is one of the few that I've read from cover to cover.

Infinite Wealth.......2000-01-11

I wish I had this book at my disposal when I started to change the management system at my own company. I begun a bold and seemingly insane program to get our employees more interested and involved in the company's future for the same reason Barry Carter decided to write this book. We both realized that today's big corporations are nothing more than mini Soviet Unions, controlled and socialized economies, where wealth creation is inefficient, the people are unmotivated and unhappy. (When I first got in contact with him, he thought I read his book). With this book I could have explained to my partners and the employees why I thought we needed to change and avoid the traditional pyramid structure in our company and create a self-managed environment.

The author provides a clear historical and organizational analysis of our current corporate environment through his personal experience and skillful inclusion of other modern thinkers on the subject. I started my movement from a gut feel, and was doing it by the seat of my pants, while feeling like an idiot sometimes, not being able clearly define the final structure, and at the same time, I felt very lonely in the wilderness. After reading his book, everyone at my company would have clearly seen the advantages and reasons for abandoning the old management structure and creating a modern organization that could have thrived in the Information Age. I highly recommend this book and the WEB site to anyone who is aware of our changing world, who wants to survive in business, and who cares about the customers and employees by creating or changing a company to the new way of doing business, where wealth creation is maximized, while people are creative and happy.

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This monumental handbook is dedicated to the sources of super-optimizing, including: Thomas Saaty on multi-criteria decision-aiding software, Lawrence Susskind on alternative policy-dispute resolution, and Robert Reich on growth economics, which are the fields of management science, law, and social science, applied here toward building a super-optimum, win-win society.

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Maximizing ROI on Software Development explains how to execute best quality software development and testing while maximizing business value. It discusses Applied ROI in the context of methodologies such as Agile and Extreme Programming, and traditional methodologies including Six Sigma, the Capability Maturity Model® (CMM®), Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and Product Line Models (PLM). The text discusses what is important in global terms and details how best to choose teams and partners, including outsourcers, and how to employ the latest tools and technologies. It provides models, metrics, and detailed case studies to improve current and future development projects, whether in house or outsourced, near shore or off-shore. The book offers perspectives on how quality improvement through software quality assurance (SQA) testing, planning, and execution is a powerful and effective route toward maximizing return on investment. Divided into seven chapters, this friendly and informative guide can be read quickly, then used as a reliable reference by team leaders and members. It begins by reviewing software development, tools, and methodologies, followed by an examination of how development, maintenance, and integration have become more complex and will continue to do so. The book discusses best practices for managing this complexity and explores the business case for maximizing ROI. The text then provides a comprehensive analysis of ROI from several perspectives, covering nomenclature, project success and failure, mathematics, processes, work products, and techniques. It details how to make global teams successful and how to evaluate Applied ROI implementation, and it includes case studies for wireless, enterprise, and CRM systems.

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not just a narrow ROI text.......2005-08-08

Sikka wants you to measure ROI on a software project that you manage. He explains that without a rigorous metric, how can you tell whether you are doing well or not? Accordingly and naturally, a lot of the book concerns how to measure ROI for a software team.

But in doing so, Sikka broadens the scope of the book. He discusses how you might want to develop software using a globally dispersed team. Aha, offshoring, you think! Well, yes. But not purely to save money. He points out that if you have parts of the team throughout the world, then development can proceed on a 24 hour basis. He warns of the difficulties. This is definitely non-trivial to get right. But the payoff is quicker time to market, with development cost a secondary issue.

Also, another advantage is that it tends to lead you to selling to a global market. If so, having your people in several countries can be invaluable in helping you be closer to those markets. Synergies to be reaped here.

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This book gives readers an inside look at associations and the techniques they can use to reach their members. This premier guide thoroughly examines the association market--including motivation, decision making, and ``hot buttons.'' Readers will also find: case studies and examples from actual companies and associations in addition to key association personnel; resource appendixes that include associations able to assist in marketing; information on how to develop a marketing proposal specifically for associations--including a sample proposal; all the aspects of an association that makes it the ideal partner.

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Profits through association
Gary C Teagno
Manufacturer: G.C. Teagno
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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The impact of technological change on market structure can be much more drastic than that of traditional sources of competition such as price. The analysis of technological change has come from two discrete perspectives economics and organizational behavior. In Corporate Vision and Rapid Technological Change, these two traditions are brought together. The authors present an economic analysis of technological change and market structure and an organizational strategy towards technological change and corporate structure.

In a radical departure from the existing literature, Peter Swann and Jas Gill argue that the connections between technological change and market structure cannot be properly understood without an appreciation of the role of strategic vision within firms. They show that the direct measurement of the rate of technological change, as opposed to traditional, indirect measures such as patent counts or R & D expenditure is essential if change in market structure is to beunderstood.

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Pen or writing implement?.......2001-05-18

Why does he use all these unnecessary, fancy, confusing, mind bending words? The author loses and confuses the reader.

It's a mistake to buy any other book.......1999-12-13

It's rare to read a text book cover to cover, but you'll find it easy to do with Marakas' DSS text. He writes as if he is lecturing in class - the examples are clear (and lively, which is rare in academia!), the language flows and the presentation of the material makes it easy even for beginners in the field (like me) to understand. Don't miss out on this text!

This book is the killer click........1999-11-20

Excellent book. Very practical approach to an extremelly complex and soft subject.

Decision Support Systems: In The 21st Century

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Decision Support Systems: In The 21st Century

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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0130093947

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Publisher: Edition: second

Research needs for water quality management in the 21st century: a spatial decision support system.: An article from: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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Research needs for water quality management in the 21st century: a spatial decision support system.: An article from: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Stephen B. Lovejoy , John G. Lee , Timothy O. Randhir , and Bernard A. Engel
Manufacturer: Soil & Water Conservation Society
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Binding: Digital

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Soil Science | Agricultural Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, published by Soil & Water Conservation Society on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 4559 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A spatial decision support system (SDSS) incorporating biophysical process and economic analysis models is proposed to advance research on the effect of agricultural crop production on water quality and the cost benefits of abatement strategies. The SDSS integrates a geographic information system with other spatial process simulation models such as AGNPS and ANSWERS to enhance the quality and quantity of information for cost-beneficial and effective natural resource conservation decisions.

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Title: Research needs for water quality management in the 21st century: a spatial decision support system.
Author: Stephen B. Lovejoy
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Soil & Water Conservation Society
Volume: v52 Issue: n1 Page: p18(4)

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