Product Description: The Informal sector accounts for a large percentage of employment in developing economies because of the lack of modern wages jobs and very high structural unemployment. If this sector is to help address the problems of poverty and unemployment, then it needs to become more productive and attitudes to its role need to change...read more

Product Description: Leadership research demonstrates that there are serious shortcomings in the quality and competence of leaders in our organizations. The recent global financial crisis has also reminded us that, if our society and economies are to move forward sustainability, we must have the right kind of leaders and the right kind of leadership throughout our organizations...read more

Product Description: This book seeks to set leadership theory in the African context. It recognises that strong leadership among African leaders should take into account typical African circumstances, values and beliefs.The text, designed for undergraduate and graduate courses in leadership and management, provides practical, real-life examples, exercises and case studies, and is best suited to courses that emphasise application...read more

Product Description: `One of the great challenges for teachers in many tertiary institutions is to effectively understand the complex multicultural classroom, both as a consequence of increasing international student mobility and as a result of the raised cultural diversity of domestic populations...read more

Product Description: "Refugees from Vietnam" sets out to identify the social policy issues that arise when mass settlement of refugees takes place, particularly in an unfamiliar social context. It also tries to offer ways forward which would allow the resettlement process to be more successful from the viewpoint of the refugees and of the host community...read more