This respected market leader offers students a comprehensive, practical introduction to workplace writing that prepares them for a range of communication tasks. An abundance of real-world examples and problems, as well as an accessible writing style and detailed guidelines set this text apart. Through four logically sequenced sections, the author guides students from exploring simple business communications to conducting research, documenting sources, and tackling advanced tasks such as proposals and oral presentations. With each new task, the author prepares students to become effective problem solvers at work, learning to select the best communication tools to accomplish their goals. The Eighth Edition features a new, more contemporary and open design as well as updated topical coverage. In addition, new guidelines, case studies, model reports, and exercises make the discussion of occupational writing more current than ever. Integrated web sites accompany the text, providing students with dynamic learning opportunities and instructors with enhanced teaching options.

Product Description: In a world of self-driving cars and big data, smart algorithms and Siri, we know that artificial intelligence is getting smarter every day. Though all these nifty devices and programs might make our lives easier, they're also well on their way to making "good" jobs obsolete...read more

Product Description: Presents details of pay, responsibilities, training and skill required, working conditions, and outlook for three hundred jobs that do not require a college degree.

Product Description: No bachelors degree? As people like Bill Gates, Rachael Ray, and Matt Drudge have shown, it is no problem. Discover the 300 jobs with the best pay, fastest growth, and most openings no four year degree required. The author has taken massive data from the Department of Labor s Occupational Information Network database and other sources and turned it into a useful , interesting resource for workers who want good jobs and career advancement without four years in college...read more

In just two steps, "300 Best Jobs without a Four-Year Degree" helps the non-college grad quickly and easily narrow their career options and learn more about jobs of interest. Step One: Readers browse a variety of "best jobs" lists. Step Two: Readers learn more about the jobs of interest by looking up their descriptions. Features more than 50 "best jobs" lists, including best pay, fastest growth, most openings, best part-time, best for self-employment, and more.

In just two steps, "300 Best Jobs without a Four-Year Degree" helps the non-college grad quickly and easily narrow their career options and learn more about jobs of interest. Step One: Readers browse a variety of "best jobs" lists. Step Two: Readers learn more about the jobs of interest by looking up their descriptions. Features more than 50 "best jobs" lists, including best pay, fastest growth, most openings, best part-time, best for self-employment, and more.

Lists 25 of the fastest-growing, highest-paying jobs, describing a history of the job, educational and training requirements, and providing interviews with professionals in the field.

Product Description: Today, economic success is seen as depending on the creation of a high-skilled workforce. This is the first book to offer a comparative examination of national routes to a 'high skill' economy. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book presents a bold, new invention - the Computerized Job Market (CJM) - that could, in the future, come to replace the labor market as we and our forebears have known it since the industrial revolution. James Cooke Brown, who also invented the popular board game Careers, first introduced CJM's in his science fiction book The Troika Incident...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The task faced by modern labour market analysts is a complex one. Alternative working arrangements are collectively referred to as `non-standard employment' even though they lack a common set of characteristics in terms of participants, occupations and skill levels...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An exploration of the evolving workplace comments on distributed work, network commuting, technological advances, the impact of technology on communities, and successful examples of organizational change. (view table of contents)

Product Description: There is increasing convergence in the problems facing cities in all regions, with immigrant ghettos and slums coexisting with modern skyscrapers and luxury shops. This book presents the immense problems and the enormity of the tasks confronting those who lead the world's large cities, whether in developing countries, transitional economies, or the industrialized world...read more

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Product Description: Dr. Duane argues that there is no universal approach to human resource (HR) planning and that each organization must develop its own policies and practices, based on its own special needs and characteristics. Indeed, this is the only way an organization can stay competitive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Employment has been adopted as a leading concern for the United Nations World Social Summit in March 1995. This important study, prepared for the Summit by the World Institute for Development Economics Research, comprises a wide-ranging set of investigations of the rapidly changing situation in the North, the new market economies of Eastern Europe and the increasingly heterogeneous economies of the South...read more

Product Description: Volume 2 contains case studies.Employment has been adopted as a leading concern for the United Nations World Social Summit in March 1995. This important study, prepared for the Summit by the World Institute for Development Economics Research, comprises a wide-ranging set of investigations of the rapidly changing situation in the North, the new market economies of Eastern Europe and the increasingly heterogeneous economies of the South...read more

Product Description: Volume 2 contains case studies.Employment has been adopted as a leading concern for the United Nations World Social Summit in March 1995. This important study, prepared for the Summit by the World Institute for Development Economics Research, comprises a wide-ranging set of investigations of the rapidly changing situation in the North, the new market economies of Eastern Europe and the increasingly heterogeneous economies of the South...read more