From Downsizing to Recovery: Strategic Transition Options for Organizations and Individuals

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A complete guide to the organizational, humane, and legal issues involved in downsizing.

FROM DOWNSIZING TO RECOVERY: STRATEGIC TRANSITION OPTIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS

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FROM DOWNSIZING TO RECOVERY: STRATEGIC TRANSITION OPTIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS
Richard L. & Branstead, Elizabeth & Moravec, Milan Knowdell
Manufacturer: Palo Alto, Ca: CPP Books, 1994
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This book provides solutions to the problem many professional hair designers face by not having learned to effectively package themselves and their services for top earnings. Moderate income will be a thing of the past when these merchandising, promotion, consultation and pricing ideas are put into action. The 10 years the author has spent uncovering the secrets of top-earning professionals will create financial gain in 30 days or less. Salon professionals regard this book as the most practical information fueling their success.

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Family Law, Fourth Edition, addresses the need to rethink the traditional family model. To assist that effort, the materials in this book have been selected to develop several important themes:

The tension between private ordering and state supervision in family law

The importance of constitutional doctrines that have been invoked to limit state regulation of family law

Attention to the ethical dilemmas unique to the field: Is it appropriate, for example, to represent both husband and wife in a divorce? How can an attorney represent a child who is too young to talk?

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This is a casebook that covers all the major aspects of domestic relations.

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The Springer Handbook of Enzymes provides concise data on some 3,700 enzymes sufficiently well characterized for application in analytical, synthetic and biotechnology processes as well as in food industry. Data sheets are arranged in their EC-Number sequence. The new edition reflects considerable progress in enzymology: the total material has more than doubled, and the complete 2nd edition will consist of approximately 30 volumes, each comprising one enzyme class. Each entry is correlated with references and one or more source organisms. This collection is an indispensable source of information for researchers in biochemistry, biotechnology, organic and analytical chemistry, and food sciences.

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Glencoe Earth Science: Teacher Wraparound Edition
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Glencoe Science Voyages: Exploring the Life, Earth, and Physical Sciences (Green Level Teacher Wraparound Edition)

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Ralph M. Feather
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Glencoe Science Florida Physical Science with Earth Science Teacher Wraparound Edition
Jr.,PhD Charles William McLaughlin,PhD Marilyn Thompson,EdD Dinah Zike Ralph M.Feather
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc.
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GREAT (OOP) BOOK!.......2007-02-25

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Why Can't You Unscramble an egg?
Vicki Cobb
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A droll and gentle satire of the colorful characters who make up the opera world

A Nut at the Opera is a colorful and hilarious look at a fictitious opera world as seen through the eyes of artist Maurice Vellekoop. With characters such as Olga Pickuptruckskaya and Valda Heck and references ranging throughout the history of opera, nothing—from the heights of Wagnerian solemnity to the excesses of French spectacle—escapes the elegant skewering of Vellekoop’s pen.

With an introduction by Stewart Hamilton, radio personality and host of CBC Radio’s Opera Quiz, and featuring Vellekoop’s trademark lavish, over-the-top illustrations throughout, A Nut at the Opera is for the opera aesthete. The initial drawings were originally conceived as a series of birthday cards for a dear friend of the artist’s who is now deceased; they form a fond tribute to this teacher and mentor.

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This authoritative biographical guide to warfare in the twentieth century is at once fascinating reading and an invaluable work of reference for anyone interested in modern military history. As well as the First and Second World Wars, the book takes in key figures from Vietnam, Korea, and other key conflicts.

Those whose lives and careers are covered here include not only major military leaders, but also politicians, inventors, and other major public figures central to the course of modern military history. From Che Guevara to Mao Zhedong, from Albert Speer to Norman Schwarzkopf, and from Josef Stalin to Charles de Gaulle, this volume's breadth of coverage makes it a unique and indispensable guide to an important and absorbing element of modern history.

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Whos Who in Twentieth Century Warfare
Spencer C Tucker
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The image of middle-class women chaining themselves to the rails of 10 Downing Street, smashing windows of public buildings, and going on hunger strikes in the cause of "votes for women" have become visually synonymous with the British suffragette movement over the past century. Their story has become a defining moment in feminist history, in effect separating women's fight for voting rights from contemporary issues in British political history and disconnecting their militancy from other forms of political activism in Britain in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing upon private papers, pamphlets, newspapers, and the records of a range of suffrage and political organizations, Laura E. Nym Mayhall examines militancy as both a political idea and a set of practices that suffragettes employed to challenge their exclusion from the political nation. She traces the development of the suffragettes' concept of resistance from its origins within radical liberal discourse in the 1860s, to its emergence as political practice during Britain's involvement in the South African War, its reliance on dramatic spectacle by suffragette organizations, and its memorialization following enfranchisement. She reads closely the language and tactics militants used, analyzing their challenges in the courtroom, on the street, and through legislation as reasoned actions of female citizens. The differences in strategy among militants are highlighted, not just in the use of violence, but also in their acceptance and rejection of the authority of the law and their definitions of the ideal relationship between individuals and the state. Variations in the nature of protest continued even during World War I, when most suffragettes suspended their activities to serve the nation's war effort, while others joined peace movements, opposed the state's reduction of civil liberties in wartime, and continued the struggle for suffrage. Mayhall's revealing account of the militant suffrage movement sheds new light upon the social history of gender but, more importantly, it connects this movement to the political and intellectual history of Britain. Not only did militancy play an essential role in the achievement of women's political rights but it also contributed to the practice of engaged citizenship and the growth of liberal democracy.

The Militant Suffrage Movement : Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930

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The Militant Suffrage Movement : Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930
Laura E. Nym Mayhall
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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ASIN: B000OKEIGI

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Conceptual model building is accepted as a key phase in Soft Systems Methodology. Despite the recognition of the importance of the SSM, students are still experiencing difficulty with the basic process of conceptual model building. This book addresses that issue.

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"SSM offers an elegantly simple approach that is both powerful, yet non-threatening and one that forces organisations to confront questions essential to their very survival such as, "Are we doing the right thing?" From the Foreword by Mike Duffy, Operations Director, The Smith Group Since its inception more than thirty years ago, the benefits of using Soft Systems Methodology for problem solving has gained worldwide recognition. Yet, despite recognising the importance of SSM, students and practitioners still experience considerable difficulty with the intellectual process involved. Based on a lifetime experience as an academic and consultant, Brian Wilson provides guidance on how to develop a range of conceptual models across a variety of business problems. Building on his earlier work in Systems: Concepts, Methodologies and Applications he takes a practical approach to the topic based on the premise that all organisations are unique. He develops concepts to articulate ways of thinking about complexity. These are an alternative to mathematically-based concepts, and they offer rigorous, and defensible ways of answering the question 'What do we take the organisation to be?' A model of the most appropriate and relevant concept for your own organisation can then be successfully developed and applied. Of relevance to organisations of any type, or any size, this book shows how model building within SSM can be used to cope with real-life problems. It will be an invaluable resource for students and practitioners in both the public and private sectors.

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Well written and informative introduction to SSM.......2002-07-01

Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is an offshoot of systems thinking and has its roots in Peter Checkland's seminal 1981 book, "Systems Thinking, Systems Practice" (now out of print). This book shows how to apply SSM to the problem sets for which it was designed: the unpredictable behavior of human actions, which are often counter to the logic we apply to "hard" problems such as computer systems behavior and other systems that follow predictable laws of physics.

As a consultant who aligns information systems to business processes this book provided me with a streamlined approach to dealing with the human factor, especially organizational politics and resistance to change - both of which I routinely deal with. The approach is reasonably straightforward, and involves the following steps:

- Frame the problem and surrounding situation
- Use 'rich pictures' portray the situation. A 'rich picture' is an informal rendering, and should capture issues and thinking, systems and interactions.
- Develop a root definitions and perspectives from which to view the situation (Clients, Actors, Transformations, World-view and Environment). A 'root definition' is a process that transforms an input into an output - a typical process flow.
- Build a conceptual model of what the system to remedy the problem or situation needs to accomplish. The basis of the conceptual model is human activity.
- Compare the model to the ideal, examine alternatives and select the best option.
- Design and implement the system or solution.

The approach taken by the author is to provide the knowledge needed to employ SSM in a sequence of chapters that lead you through models and methodology, the principles of human activity modeling, system selection, business process reengineering issues, the consensus primary task model, the relationships to training and HR, and generic model building.

Consensus primary task model (CPTM) is a key element of the approach in this book and is crucial to successfully employing SSM, which, after all, is designed to deal with the ambiguities of people. The CPTM is an aggregation of the conceptual models, which results in a 'strawman' model that is used to build consensus. From this evolves into the agreed upon model and approach.

The key differences between the usual 'committee' approach and SSM are the structure and framework, ensuring that viewpoints are systematically examined, and the emphasis on consensus instead of compromise. While the book makes SSM appear to be easy, which is a function of the author's clear writing, employing it in the real world requires training and discipline. It's especially well suited to organizational change management projects as well as strategic planning.

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