industrial management

An introduction to the nationally recognized education & training career pathway using informal self-assessment elements, career profiles, informative sidebar features, and back matter activities.

Discusses how properly utilizing technology and making smart business decisions can still cause a company to lose their market leadership, describing patterns of innovation from a variety of industries, and explaining why it can sometimes be better to invest in lower-performing products.

"Uses the founding fathers with their traits of ingenuity, determination, passion, resourcefulness as an example for leaders in modern businesses"--OCLC.

Labor unions have helped shape American history, but are they still relevant today? In this volume of critical perspectives, readers will hear from experts in the field about the history of labor unions and their lasting, and controversial, effects on American workers. Readers will be exposed to a range of voices, encouraging them to think critically and analyze the given facts in order to form their own opinions on the issue. Each article provides thought-provoking questions to help boost further discussion of topics.

Discusses the concept that organizations create major impacts by making small changes.

Reveals the ten rules entrepreneur Sam Walton lived and worked by, explaining how those rules helped him become a successful businessman and how they can help others become successful.

Discusses what is required to ensure that companies will be successful and prosper well into the future. Profiles 18 landmark companies such as Wal-Mart, Walt Disney, IBM, and Johnson & Johnson.