Security and Crime Prevention or Evolving Practices in Human Resource Management Responses to a Changing World of Work

Security and Crime Prevention

Author: Robert L OBlock

Rising crime rates of all types indicate the need for crime prevention not only in government but also in business and neighborhoods. Security and Crime Prevention, Second Edition, contains the practical information necessary for creating safe and secure communities, businesses, and individuals.

This highly readable and useful reference contains the most up-to-date material and has been adopted by many colleges and universities as the standard textbook in the field. In addition it provides the professional with the most effective information for personal, business and community-based loss prevention and private security.
Robert L. O'Block taught at the college level for 17 years and was a full professor and department head of an Administration of Justice baccalaureate program before leaving academia to become Executive Director of the American Board of Forensic Examiners. Dr. O'Block earned his Ph.D. form Kansas State University where his work centered on criminology, sociology, psychology, administration, and education. His articles have appeared in the journals The Police Chief and The Journal of Police Science and Administration. Dr. O'Block is a winner of Oregon State University's Distinguished Educational Research Award, and his personal biography was published in American Men and Women Of Science.
Joseph F. Donnermeyer is Director of the National Rural Crime Prevention Center and an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at the Ohio State University. He previously served as a crime prevention specialist for the Indiana Cooperative Extension Service at Purdue University. Mr. Donnermeyer is a member of the Ohio CrimePrevention Association, the Rural Sociological Society, and the American Sociological Sociological Society.
Stephen E. Doeren is an assistant professor and the graduate program coordinator in the Department of Administration of Justice at the Wichita State University. He is a member of the graduate faculty and formerly served as the undergraduate coordinator in the Department from 1977 to 1982. In addition to his academic background in criminal justice, Dr. Doeren has supervisory-level criminal justice agency experience. He has served as a correctional treatment administrator and penologist with the Louisiana Department of Corrections. Dr.Doeren is active in such professional organizations as the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association, and the National Corrections Recreation Association.

Table of Contents:

Crime and Crime Prevention, Personal Crime Prevention, Business Crime Prevention, Community-Based Crime Prevention

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Evolving Practices in Human Resource Management: Responses to a Changing World of Work

Author: Allen I Kraut

Written for non-experts in jargon-free language, this work shows how to create systems within organizations that preempt the monetary, strategic, and emotional costs associated with on-the-job conflict. Its clear and simple approach translates advanced concepts into practical how-tos and provides readers with four guiding principles they can follow to create conflict control systems of their own. Amply illustrated with real-world examples, it details the policies, procedures, and practices that make for successful control systems and tells precisely how to implement them.

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Draws on insights from the latest research, best practices from successful organizations, and the views of leading industrial and organizational psychologists to explore the shifts in demographics, economics, regulations, technology, and values and how they affect the practices employed by human resource managers and organizational psychologists. Addressing specific human resource functions aimed at enhancing effective performance and the individual's sense of personal and social fulfillment, examines the assumptions that underlie traditional practices and reveals areas where new realities demand new strategies and innovations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

Business Marketing Management or Joyce Lain Kennedys Career Book

Business Marketing Management: A Strategic View of Industrial and Organizational Markets

Author: Michael D Hutt

Providing the most current and complete treatment of business-to-business marketing, this comprehensive market leader captures and integrates the latest developments in market analysis, relationship management, supply chain management, marketing strategy development, and electronic commerce. Popular in both the United States and Europe since its first edition, the text provides expanded treatment of relationship strategies, the technology adoption life cycle, strategy formulation in high-tech industries, new product and service development for business markets, and Internet strategies.

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New edition of a standard undergraduate textbook on the similarities between consumer-goods and business-to-business marketing. A basic marketing principles course (or relevant managerial experience) is assumed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Joyce Lain Kennedy's Career Book

Author: joyce lain

The Career Book continues to provide essential advice, current statistics, and future outlooks. It includes insights on every career-management issue, including: discovering your interests and aptitudes, setting goals, researching careers and companies, finding help, predicting trends, keeping a positive attitude, getting experience and training, planning for college and beyond, and choosing and succeeding on your first full-time job.

Contemporary Advertising or Managing Wine and Wine Sales

Contemporary Advertising

Author: William F Arens

Contemporary Advertising is perhaps the most popular advertising text on the market. It is known for its current,real-world examples and clear writing style. As a result of market feedback and the author's knowledge of current trends in the field of advertising,the seventh edition places an increased emphasis on Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) and the role of IMC in planning advertising strategy.

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Managing Wine and Wine Sales

Author: Joseph Fattorini

This is the first UK textbook to deal specifically with the management of wine sales. It covers all aspects of choosing, purchasing and storing wine in a restaurant, how to draw up wine lists, market and then sell wines, train specialist staff, and select the necessary equipment. The study of wine is an increasingly important part of hotel, catering and related studies. The text adopts a specific hotel and catering emphasis and broadens out into related areas of beverage management.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Development of wine in the hotel and restaurant sector
3. The wine consumer
4. Selecting wine for a restaurant list
5. Purchasing wine
6. Beverage control
7. Developing a wine list
8. Merchandising wine
9. Wine service skills
10. Training specialist staff

ActiveBook Business Today or Postmodern Consumer Research

ActiveBook, Business Today

Author: Michael H H Mescon

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The activebook^™ experience is an interactive, online, digital book that integrates multimedia resources with the textbook to greatly enhance student learning.

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Postmodern Consumer Research: The Study of Consumption as Text, Vol. 1

Author: Elizabeth Hirschman

Published in cooperation with the Association for Consumer Research "A clearly written and useful work. Their book lays out organizing principles that delineate the underlying epistemologies current in consumer research, providing insightful exposure to philosophical positions and associated research methods for both the experienced researcher and the novice. . . . The book provides insight into current epistemologies and associated methods and is an important resource for all consumer behavior researchers. It should be taken as a starting point for delving into and understanding consumer research, a springboard that directs the researcher to relevant theorists and provides a framework for assessing research perspectives." --Journal of Marketing Research The methodological choices now confronting consumer researchers are daunting. For many years, researchers have wrestled with issues related to the nature of knowledge in the study of consumption phenomena. In Postmodern Consumer Research, Elizabeth C. Hirschman and Morris B. Holbrook examine philosophies and methods of consumer research along an objectivist-subjectivist continuum. First, they present philosophical concepts regarding the origin and content of knowledge relevant to consumer-behavior phenomena. Then, they consider a set of research methods aimed at implementing inquiry from the viewpoint of each particular philosophical perspective. They conclude by discussing criteria for evaluating research conducted using the various methods and argue for increased collegial harmony and temperance. An invaluable contribution to the field, this volume will interest researchers, professionals, and students in the areas ofmanagement, qualitative research, organizational studies, and research methods.