The Global Supply Chain and Risk Management

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The heightened intensity of global competition has increased the necessity of manufacturing and distribution organizations to continuously improve production, product quality, cost, and delivery. Supply chain professionals must be knowledgeable about the relevance of supply chain concepts—adapt supply chain to customer needs, customize logistics networks, align demand planning across the entire supply chain, and differentiate products close to customers.
The goal of The Global Supply Chain and Risk Management is to assist in meeting these challenges as to the education of many supply chain practitioners, the implementation of formal supply chain contingency and control systems and the continued edification in recent global developments for all those working in the ?eld. It is written for two groups, those who are preparing for a career in supply chain and for those seeking to improve their proficiency. The book will teach the best practices, high-tech and analytical solutions for the entire global supply chain—customer service to inventory planning to transportation to warehousing.

Corporate Governance in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, Volume III: Gatekeeper Functions

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Corporate governance has evolved as a central issue for public companies in the aftermath of the 2007–2009 global financial crisis. Corporate governance is a process (journey) of managing corporate affairs to create shareholder value and protect interests of other stakeholders. This book presents a road map for various functions and measures of corporate governance.
The participants in the corporate governance process are the board of directors, executives, stakeholders, internal and external auditors, financial analysts, legal counsel, and regulators. This book is organized into four separate volumes; each volume can be utilized separately or in an integrated form. The first volume consists of five chapters that address the relevance and importance of corporate governance as well as the framework and structure of corporate governance. The second volume consists of four chapters that present the three prevailing corporate governance functions of oversight, management, and monitoring. The third volume consists of four chapters that address corporate governance functions performed by corporate gate- keepers, including policy makers, regulators, standard-setters, internal auditors, external auditors, legal counsel, and financial advisors. The fourth volume consists of five chapters that address the emerging issues in corporate governance, including governance for private companies and nonprofit organizations and convergence in global corporate governance.

African American Entrepreneurs: Successes and Struggles of Entrepreneurs of Color in America

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African American entrepreneurs are key contributors to the American economy. Faced with numerous challenges, many African American entrepreneurs have learned to transcend tough obstacles, leverage resources, and strategically pursue opportunities to achieve business success.
This book captures the stories and mindsets of contemporary African Americans in their quest for the American dream.

Precision Recruitment Skills: How to Find the Right Person For the Right Job, the First Time

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This book is great for anyone in management who has ever experienced the stress, frustration, and costs associated with poor recruitment decisions. Presented in an easy- to-read, engaging, step-by-step format, Rod Matthews has detailed practical ways to reduce the time and money spent on recruitment, while increasing the likelihood of recruiting the right person the first time. Complete with practical exercises, it contains insightful steps for improving skills around recruitment advertising, interview preparation, interviewing candidates, and what happens after the interview.
In this humorous and engaging book, the author offers key insights from his extensive experience in dealing with people at all levels of organizations. It is highly recommended as a must-read manual for anyone whose job involves recruitment.

Conflict and Leadership: How to Harness the Power of Conflict to Create Better Leaders and Build Thriving Teams

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Conflict is one of the greatest sources of tolerated business expenses and loss. This is despite the fact that this expense and loss can, in most cases, be easily turned around to revenue and gain. In the nonprofit world one of the greatest inhibitors of mission success is not that there isn’t enough funding, or the challenging nature of the cause. It is the simple fact that teams struggle to work well together.
What if conflict was the starting point for developing trust? What if it catalyzed a deeper, more meaningful understanding between team members? What if it was crucial for building stronger and more powerful organizations? Last of all, what if there were simple steps you could take to automatically help your teams communicate and work together more easily? This book shows you how.

Moving into The Express Lane: How to Rapidly Increase The Value of Your Business

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Moving into the Express Lane: How to Rapidly Increase the Value of Your Business will show readers how to exponentially increase their company’s value by aligning operations strategy with the business model. Increasing a business’s value and potential sale price is important for business transitions as well as for ongoing operations to accelerate revenue growth, increase profits and cash flow, and to allow the company to increase capacity and grow without capital expense. Many companies focus on implementing tactics, such as Lean, without a strategic framework, which renders their efforts fruitless. By taking a holistic operations-based view of strategy and tactics, executives can dramatically improve their company’s value.
The concepts and resources in Moving into the Express Lane are useful to manufacturing, distribution, and retail organizations, as well as any company that has an operations component and suppliers. Executives, managers, and practitioners at all levels—as well as consultants—will use it as a desktop reference.

The Effect of Supply Chain Management on Business Performance

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Supply chain management (SCM) is the process of managing the operations of a system of organizations, people, activi- ties, information, and resources involved in ef?ciently moving products or services from suppliers to customers. SCM can effectively conduct the movements of physical items, knowledge, and information from the original supplier to the final end-user.
In this book, we explore the systemic analysis of SCM and its effect on business development performance. We identify the structural problems in the supply chain, clarify how they influence the functioning of business development, and suggest elaboration of strategic approaches to address those problems. The author includes professional perspectives and insights from experts including various SCM sources.

Corporate Maturity and the “Authentic Company”

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Corporate maturity is introduced as a new and valuable concept that provides a holistic view of an organization’s performance, culture and resilience. This book presents a general model of corporate maturity, applicable to any sector and demonstrates how an organization can enhance its maturity, particularly through a focus on ethics, good governance and community outcomes.
The author shows how mature organizations are those that find connections between corporate purpose and wider social needs. The authentic company, much in demand by investors, consumers, regulators, and employees, is one that can be trusted to deliver these needs as result of deeply embedded integrity, uncompromising unconditionality and outcomes rooted in sustainable communities.

The Basics of Foreign Exchange Markets: A Monetary Systems Approach, Second Edition

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In an increasingly interdependent global economy, an understanding of foreign exchange markets is more critical than ever. These markets are inextricably entwined with underlying monetary standards and consequently they are treated conjointly in this book. Four different foreign exchange rate regimes are analyzed including exchange rates under commodity money, fiduciary money, flat money (with fixed exchange rates), and flat money (with flexible exchange rates).
For more than eight decades, most countries have operated with flat money. Proponents maintain that flat money provides individual countries with much greater monetary autonomy. Yet both analytics and experience indicate that this is not always the case. Whether a country has more monetary autonomy depends on whether flat money is paired with fixed or flexible exchange rates. Although flexible exchange rate regimes are not without their critics, it has become increasingly apparent that flat money with flexible rates provides individual countries much greater monetary autonomy. This arrangement allows participants in foreign exchange markets greater latitude for adjusting to the wide variations in national monetary policies that are prevalent with flat money.
Several audiences may find this book beneficial: undergraduate students in economics and finance, students of international business, graduate students, students in executive programs who need to expand their knowledge of international finance, and practicing executives and managers—especially those who are employed by companies operating globally.

Competing in Financial Markets: How to Play With the Best of Them

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Competing in the financial markets will give both the novice and intermediate traders alike a comprehensive understanding of how to trade in the financial markets without losing their shirts. This book is primarily aimed at the undergraduate whose ambition is to either become a trader in a financial organization or trade online through a financial brokers trading platform. It provides seasoned online traders with new insights into financial assets other than currencies.
In simple-to-understand, concise language, enhanced by relevant graphics, all the key trading tools available for traders are explained in enough detail that novice traders should be able to understand and learn how to trade effectively in the financial markets. Chapter by chapter, this book builds a comprehensive understanding of the basic building blocks of trading assets, covering key charting and technical tools including fundamental analysis and the key economic events. The author exposes the myth that trading is an unfathomable mystery.