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21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook

Highlights the most important topics, issues, questions and debates in today’s business world. (100 entries)
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Activist Group Tactics to Influence Companies
Firms are entities with a considerable influence on social life. They affect wealth and welfare by offering jobs to workers, selling services and ...
Career Management
In the developed countries, we have moved a long way beyond times past when most people had “employment” or “jobs” rather than ...
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Growth, innovation, and flexibility are the main traits associated with entrepreneurship.
Cultural Differences in Perceptions of Fairness in Organizational Contexts
What is perceived as fair in organizations has been a topic that has received an enormous amount of research attention as it has the potential to impact ...
Excessive Work and its Business Consequences
As global competition increases, people have been asked to learn to do more with less.
Factors Influencing Women Managers’ Success
Although the number of women in management has doubled over the last 30 years, women are still underrepresented in managerial positions worldwide.
Flexible Labor
This chapter deals with one of the most discussed topics among contemporary management practitioners and scholars: flexible labor.
Future Directions in Labor Relations: A 2025 Perspective
Since the enactment of the Railway Labor Act in 1926 and the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, American workers in the private sector have enjoyed ...
Global Business Citizenship: A Model of Social Responsibility and Ethical ...
Corporations often claim to be socially responsible and “good citizens,” and stakeholders typically want them to act this way.
Global Mind-Set
The topic of globalization has been around in varying forms since the beginning of the industrial revolution in the 18th century.
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Aging and Work Motivation
In developed countries around the world such as Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, midlife (aged 45–65) and older ...
Artistic Methods and Business Disorganization
The idea that artists’ work can usefully inform business practice has gained support in recent years.
Arts Management Issues in the 21st Century
Arts management is a relatively new field in management research but one that is attracting increasing attention.
Balancing the Implications of Employee Telework: Understanding the Impacts for ...
Telework is an increasingly popular form of 21st-century work in which individuals carry out their jobs away from the central company office using ...
Business Imitation
Imitative behavior is pervasive in the business world, where it can be observed across a wide range of Business decisions.
Business Process Outsourcing Management Issues
Innovation is an essential and enduring aspect of any human enterprise. Management of contemporary organizations is no exception.
Careers in Transition
The world of careers has gone through a number of significant changes, with a major transformation in the 1980s–1990s of the 20th century.