Product Description: Appraisals are vital to any modern organisation. They keep the company vision in place; set standards and objectives; offer two-way feedback; and, identify training & development needs. All vital issues for a successful organization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Too often a marketing communications campaign begins with the words, "We need a new logo." Jim Armstrong suggests that such campaigns should really begin with unearthing, capturing, and communicating the "cause" of a business-the "why" it exists versus simply what it does...read more

Product Description: Roll up your sleeves and make change happen! Collaborative Change shows you what you need to do in order to launch effective, successful performance improvement initiatives. The authors draw on their forty years of combined experience in the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Falsey offers a complete guide to the purpose and development of corporate philosophies and mission statements--the codified principles that guide the actions and operations of corporations. In addition to explaining the basic features, goals, and use of mission statements, Falsey also includes detailed information about the philosophies and statements of prominent companies such as WR Grace & Co...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book brings together a collection of actual corporate statements for public and private companies. It includes examples of vision and mission statements, guiding beliefs, corporate values, objectives, overviews, goals, credos, mottoes, slogans, corporate philosophies, strategies, and environmental statements...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Looks at how to write a mission statement that delivers a powerful message. Shows how to make the statement one of concrete, practical utility, not just inspirational value. Provides a useful Mission Statement Checklist and advice on how to evaluate the completed statement.

Product Description: "Let's put a man on the moon in 10 years." This was a dream with a deadline - the deadline was met, the dream came true and history was made. Your vision may not be quite as groundbreaking as JFK's, but achieving it could still have a major impact on your business...read more

Product Description: This text presents and comments on 80 exemplary ethics statements from leading corporations and organizations worldwide. It offers these seven principles to follow in developing such statements: write it; tailor it; communicate it; promote it; revise it; live it; and enforce/reinforce it...read more

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Product Description: "It's time for corporate America to go back to school and here's the proven textbook for the course!"

High-level HR practitioners get the practical but strategic documents they need to organize their department and keep it running flawlessly. HR Architect: Tools to Design the HR Organization consists of 3 binders, each focusing on one of the following: Human Resources Mission Statements, Human Resources Organization Charts, and Human Resources Job Descriptions. Use the Series to communicate a description of the work of HR and how it complements your organization’s business direction, without limiting your strategic options; understand how to correlate job titles to reporting functions to create a recognizable picture of the chain of command; and compare how other companies prepare job descriptions for a broad range of HR job titles.

Discusses the secrets of business success, arguing that, for a business to succeed, it must be innovative, morally compelling, and philosophically positive, and looks at the role of both luck and intelligence in the accomplishment of one's business goals.

This guide demonstrates how to write an organizational mission statement that really describes the values of the organization, and how to make sure that the values expressed are seen to affect every aspect of the work of the business or organization.

Product Description: Management by Missions is the idea of distributing the corporate mission to all levels of a company. The corporate mission is then made operational through objectives, which have no value in themselves, but are vital as a means to fulfil the mission...read more

Product Description: First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: More and more libraries are recognizing the importance of developing or revising their mission statements. This survey of 161 college libraries focuses on the impact that rapidly changing technologies have had on the creation or modification of mission statements...read more

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In a BusinessWeek magazine best-seller, the author of Jesus, CEO leads readers through the steps of finding and fulfilling their mission, emphasizing the spiritual dimension of the process. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

Product Description: Say It And Live It is the first collection of provocative, passionate, and intelligent corporate mission statements -- the most powerful and popular managerial tool in business today. A corporate mission statement is the most dramatic presentation of a company's vision and its goal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The 6th edition of this established text is streamlined to a more manageable format, with the Appendices moved to the web-site and a significant shortening of the main text. There is a greater focus on the global analysis of industry and competition; and analysis of the internal environment. In consultation with feedback from their adopters, the authors have concentrated on the fundamentals of strategy analysis and the underlying sources of profit. This reflects waning interest among senior executives in the pursuit of short-term shareholder value. As ever students are provided with the guidance they need to strategic planning, analysis of the health services environment (internal and external) and lessons on implementation; with additional discussionssion of organizational capability, deeper treatment of sustainability and corporate social responsibility and more coverageof the sources of organizational inertia and competency traps. This edition is rich in new examples from real-world health care organizations. Chapters are brought to life by the 'Introductory Incidents', 'Learning Objectives', 'Perspectives', 'Strategy Capsules', useful chapter summaries; and questions for class discussion. All cases and examples have been updated or replaced. In this edition the teaching materials and web supplements have been greatly enhanced, with power-point slides, to give lecturers a unique resource.

A comprehensive, concise text on strategic management as it applied to a variety of health care organizations: physicians offices, hospitals, long-term care, health departments and others. The central theme of the text is that business-oriented strategic management can improve the success of health care organizations. New to the fourth edition: each chapter has been fully updated and revised situational analysis and implementation are explicitly tied together through the value chain framework it includes 22 case studies, of which 10 are brand-new. The text also retains the important features that have made previous editions of the book such a success. Each chapter contains: a generous number of examples and exhibits summaries and conclusions key terms and concepts questions for class discussion additional readings appendices that assist readers by presenting ways to analyze health care cases and make oral presentations. The text is supported by PowerPoint Slides and a Teacher's Manual. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/ginter for details.