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	Depersonalized Bullying at Work New York: Springer, 2015 Premilla D’Cruz The book advances the nascent concept of depersonalized workplace bullying, highlighting its distinctive features, proposing a theoretical framework and making recommendations for intervention. Furthering insights into depersonalized bullying at work is critical due to the anticipated increased incidence of the phenomenon in the light of the competitive contemporary business economy, which complicates organizational survival. Drawing on ... Read More Back to the main page Contradictions of Employee Involvement in Organizational Change: The Transformation Efforts in NCJM, an Indian Industrial Cooperative New York: Lexington Books, 2015 George Kandathil This monograph narrates the decade-long struggle of workers, unions, and management in transforming one of the largest ailing family-owned jute businesses in India, into a sustainable worker-owned and governed cooperative. It focuses on the variation in the three groups’ involvement in the transformation. It begins with the employees’ struggles in taking over the business, ... Read More Back to the main page Leadership Lessons from the Military New Delhi: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2014 Dheeraj Sharma Leadership Lessons from the Military articulates what lessons from military leadership can be applied to the business context and how to go about it. The book shows how executives can leverage time-tested military practices to create lasting competitive advantage. Business leaders can learn how military leaders tie individual goals with the organizational goals, resulting in a ... Read More Back to the main page Energy Policies for Low Carbon Sustainable Transport in Asia Energy Policy, 2015 P. R. Shukla and Subash Dhar Transformation of Asia's transport sector has vital implications for climate change, sustainable development and energy indicators. Papers in this special issue show how transport transitions in Asia may play out in different socio-economic and policy scenarios, including a low carbon scenario equivalent to 2 °C stabilization. Accounting for heterogeneity of national transport systems, these papers use ... Read More Back to the main page Global Public Health Policies: Case Studies from India on Planning and Implementation New York: Business Expert Press, 2015. K. V. Ramani Health issues (physical, mental, and social well-being) affecting any community, instead of health issues of individuals, are addressed under the broad category “Public Health”. As per WHO, public health refers to all organized measures (whether public or private) to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life among the population as a whole. Public ... Read More Back to the main page Effective People Gurgaon: Random House India, 2015 T. V. Rao In this book, bestselling author T.V. Rao studies and analyses effective doctors, actors, civil servants, social workers, educationists, nation builders and entrepreneurs. Some of them seem to go beyond the tenets of effectiveness and shine out as what the author calls Very Effective People and Super Effective People. Read More Back to the main page Contracts and Arbitration for Managers Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2016 Anurag K. Agarwal This book presents contracts and arbitration from a business perspective. The book targets managers and engineers – who do not have a formal law education– but grapple with issues related with contracts and arbitration very often. It will help them in dealing with these issues while making strategic business decisions. Read More Back to the main page

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