Precision Agriculture and Food Production
The world faces a dilemma of food scarcity and abundance, with massive waste. A cocoa farmer in Africa earns less than $1 a day, yet rich countries have easy access to food. This book studies the food system, from corporate models to the role of science and technology.
This book offers HR practitioners and researchers a hands-on guide to measuring workplace diversity with Simpson’s diversity index. With examples from real employment data, it illustrates how to analyze demographic diversity and use regression to assess its influencing factors.
This hands-on guide shows HR practitioners and researchers how to apply the Shannon diversity index to measure workplace diversity. With practical examples, it also illustrates how regression methods can assess the factors that influence age, ethnic, and gender diversity.
Massive oil revenues led Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to invest their enormous wealth abroad. This book shows how foreign investment is a crucial tool for diversification and a strategy for preserving and expanding their oil wealth for the future.
A Comparison of Effort Estimation Techniques on Software Projects
This book compares industry approaches to software effort estimation, from traditional function points to agile story points. Using real-life case studies, learn to apply each technique immediately and answer the question all managers dread: “How is your project going?”
This book offers HR practitioners and researchers a hands-on guide to measuring workplace diversity. It shows how to apply diversity indices and use regression methods to assess the organizational factors that influence age, ethnic, and gender diversity, with practical examples.
Management Footsteps and Foundations
For the first time, the foundations of management are brought to life through historical analysis. This daringly innovative book takes the reader on a journey through human history from a management perspective, utterly transforming our understanding of the subject.
Developing Third-Generation Learning Organizations
To build the agile, knowledge-creating organization of the future, leaders must first undergo their own transformation. This book offers the theory and methodology needed to guide this process, outlining how developing people leads to enhanced profitability.
Based on real science, this book offers a new methodology for assessing coaching’s effects on managers’ personalities. It shows how they can respond to the challenges they face in a more effective and professional way.
Financial mathematics is the base for corporate finance, financial management, and investment. This textbook provides knowledge necessary for every financier, economist, and financial analyst. It is for students and specialists who want to master quantitative methods in finance.
This book explores the philosophical foundations of justice, arguing our modern views on equality and class struggle fail those in need. A renewed Jewish perspective is offered, proposing poverty alleviation based on a generalized responsibility to help vulnerable neighbors.
Neoteric Developments in Management Science in Engineering
This book identifies the major research categories in Management Science in Engineering (MSE) and evaluates and classifies each journal. Compiled by leading academics and editors, it is an essential resource for scientists, researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students.
Bandol is more than an idyllic town. It is the only French wine appellation where the Mourvèdre grape is dominant. Discover stories of celebrity residents and aged rosé, plus tasting notes and food pairings for over 50 wine producers and their best bottles.
Beyond defining moments like the Bay of Pigs, this book reveals lesser-known events: Che’s adventures, Castro’s possible link to JFK’s assassination, and Cuba’s silent wars. Utilizing sources previously available only in Spanish, it corrects the record on the Cuban Revolution.
This book explores how innovative technology can facilitate a post-COVID transition to a net-zero carbon economy. It examines the roles of central banks, green finance, and digital payments in addressing transition risks and achieving a sustainable future.
This book presents research on Costs of Quality (CoQ) management in China. Based on case studies from Chinese enterprises, it shows professionals and executives how to adopt strategic CoQ management to enhance product quality and improve business performance.
Enhancing Organizational Leadership Practice
This book helps organizational leaders balance three core responsibilities: organizational, stakeholder, and ethical. Using Western and Chinese concepts and practical examples, it reframes human resources as a capital investment, enhancing leadership effectiveness.
This book takes a step-by-step, data-driven approach to HR analytics. Learn to use visualization and machine learning tools to solve issues like controlling attrition and improving performance, deriving valuable insights to support your HR strategies and make better decisions.
The Future of Project Management
This book gives decision-makers, project workers, and students insight into the modern challenges of project management, from digitization to AI. It argues that modern project management is based on people, their values, and the intelligent use of emerging technologies.
This book provides practical, evidence-based strategies to cultivate diversity and inclusion. Learn to support employees’ sense of belonging and psychological safety, address harassment and microaggressions, and implement systemic change for vibrant, productive workplaces.
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