Product Description: This hands-on manual provides Latinas with the tools they need to succeed at work by examining some of the societal and cultural obstacles that hinder their progress.• Case studies that illustrate inspirational stories of Latina women• A list of recommended behaviors for becoming successful at work• Practical tips and techniques for creating a career path• Interviews with some of the most successful Latinas in the United State...read more

Product Description: Hispanics are the largest minority group and the fastest growing demographic in the United States. But their supervisors are often non-Hispanics who do not understand how they see the business world and so are not able to work with their Hispanic employees effectively...read more

Product Description: On October 27, 2006, when Mexican police opened fire on a crowd of protesters in the city of Oaxaca, killing three people, including American journalist Brad Roland Will, the world became aware of a social conflict that at its core was about the right to an education...read more

Product Description: Leveraging the growing influence of Hispanics in the U.S. workforce has taken on new urgency: by 2050 Hispanics will represent 32 percent of the nation's population and 55 percent of its workers. In this provocative new work, noted authority Louis Nevaer and veteran HR executive Vaso Perimenis Ekstein deliver both the strategies and the hands-on tools needed to tackle what many human resource experts consider one of the greatest challenges facing corporate America today...read more

Product Description: This insightful analysis of the first 10 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) offers a valuable assessment of the opportunities - as well as the potential perils - that lie ahead. Nevaer presents five industries (construction, financial services, energy, education, and environmental) with significant opportunities for growth in NAFTA's second decade and strategies to realize their potential...read more

Product Description: Not only are Hispanics the largest minority group in the United States, but Mexico is fast becoming our major trading partner, surpassing even Japan. In fact, the U.S. now has the fourth largest Spanish-speaking population in the world, after Mexico, Spain, and Argentina...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The bubble burst. Within months, dot-com once-millionaires were scratching around for jobs. Nevaer proves that the laws of classical economics were never repealed, and that the New Economy was more Old Economy than many people believed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How did America's largest clothing retailer, an institution that changed the way Americans shopped and dressed, manage to rise so fast, then fall so hard? From its boom years in the 1970s, Gap's performance went from bad to dismal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: As decisively as the collapse of the Soviet Union signaled a most definite conclusion to that utopian undertaking gone mad, so has NAFTA ended an economic counterpart in Mexico. The United States and Canada are embarking on a grand experiment, incorporating Mexico into their very own economies, creating the largest trading bloc in the world consisting of more than 360 million consumers in an economy that will surpass seven trillion American dollars...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In a timely and important contribution to the management literature, Louis Nevaer and Steven Deck take a careful, critical look at the various forms of corporate restructurings prevalent today-alliances, mergers, and acquisitions-and at their long-term implications for the structure of corporate America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The unprecedented global economic growth of recent decades is closely tied to the trading relations that have developed in the postwar period. The authors of The Protectionist Threat to Corporate America explore the potential impact of protectionism on these relationships, arguing that trade barriers pose a danger not only to U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The authors examine the reasons for the problems currently afflicting corporate America, particularly the loss of global competitive advantage, and review the track record of traditional strategic planning and portfolio management...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at the impact of the Federal deficit on the U.S. economy, explains how to set realistic goals within these constraints, and covers cash management, project financing, and pension administration (view table of contents)