Saddam Defiant: The Threat Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction, And The Crisis Of Global Security

History

Butler, Richard

Military

Public Affairs Press

Satan Island had earned its name from its blood-stained history of head hunting.  Now the copper-rich island was exploding into riots and guerrilla warfare.  Writer Michael Barron, urged on by the mysterious girl Mariella, finds himself caught up in a frightening chain of events that stretch back to World War Two in a macabre search for a secret - the secret a Japanese pilot had taken to his grave...

Lift-off at Satan

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

St.Martin's Press

<p>The story of the escapees from the hell concentration camp of Van Dieman.</p>

The Men That God Forgot

Religious vocation: An unnecessary mystery

Greenwood Press

Designing Organizations: A Decision-Making Perspective

The structure of an organization is central to its performance. In this text, Richard Butler explores current concepts of organizational design and relates them to the latest theories about strategic decision-making. He integrates many strands of organizational and management theory into a single model which can be applied internationally and to any kind of organization. The book emphasizes that organizational design needs to strike a balance between too tight and too loose a structure in order to achieve both adaptability and efficiency. Within the model, the author covers topics such as the organization of technology, strategy, effectiveness, departmentalization, power and coalition management, reward systems and learning. He also discusses aspects of co-operatives, voluntary organizations and Japanese management methods.

Designing organizations: A decision-making perspective

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Routledge

Cengage Learning EMEA

"Strategic Investment Decision Making" is based upon a study of strategic investment decisions in a wide range of UK and international companies. The authors examine these decisions from the perspective of organizational decision-making theory. They find that investments are not made only by the application of formal quantitative procedures but also involve the more qualitative processes of judgement, negotiation and inspiration. The concept of decision effectiveness is examined and two primary factors identified. These are: the "objectives-attainment" factor and the "learning factor". A number of case studies are presented to illustrate decisions which achieve different combinations of these effective factors. For example, one case turned out to be ineffective in terms of objectives-attainment but highly effective in terms of organizational learning that took place. This learning led to some significant structural and procedural changes in the organization. Through a combination of case studies and statistical analyisis, the authors develop a general model of decision effectiveness.

Strategic Investment Decisions: Theory, Practice and Process

Sharp, John

Pike, Richard

Davies, Leslie

<p>This collection explores the theme of change in tourism. Key issues stemming from political change, the effects of new forms of technology, new forms of tourism such as eco-tourism and changes in traditional forms of tourism are looked at in detail. Contributors also look at resource constraints and approaches to planning for tourism in the future. Drawn from the work of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, this volume is international and multidisciplinary in approach, and it offers a variety of viewpoints on important aspects of change in tourism.</p>

Change in Tourism: People, Places, Processes

Sports & Outdoors

Chapman & Hall

Where All the Girls Are Sweeter

Where all the girls are sweeter

P. Davies

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