Authors:Michelle Bertho, Beverly Crawford, Edward A. Fogarty
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: volumes, praeger, perspectives, three, states, globalization, united, impact
Number of Pages: 980
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $300.00
ISBN-10: 0275991814
ISBN-13: 9780275991814

Over the past decade, a virtual cottage industry has arisen to produce books and articles describing the nature, origins, and impact of globalization. Largely and surprisingly absent from this literature, however, has been extensive discussion of how globalization is affecting the United States itself. Indeed, it is rarely even acknowledged that while the United States may be providing a crucial impetus to globalization, the process of globalization — once set in motion — has become a force unto itself. Thus globalization has its own logic and demands that are having a profound i

Author: William B. Gamble
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: global, market, advantage, competitive, america, freedom
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2007-10-30
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0275998789
ISBN-13: 9780275998783

Globalization brings far more benefits to the U.S. economy than it takes away. In a timely response to books that fuel anxiety over globalization, William Gamble shows that both Europe and emerging economic powers like China and India have serious long-terms problems linked to their cultures, political structures, occasional instability, and state ownership of companies. These and other factors will eventually put a brake on the economic growth and manufacturing output of the Old World and hot emerging economies. As Gamble proves, American institutions, while imperfect, are stable, flexible, a

Author: Allen Parkman
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: heart, wedded, bliss, head, business, marriage, using, smart
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0275994554
ISBN-13: 9780275994556

In this eye-opening book, Parkman shows how we can use our heads—in addition to our hearts—to find wedded bliss and avoid a failed marriage. Smart Marriage provides a framework Parkman claims will increase the chance of long-term success in marriage and help couples to weather the storms that come with all marriages. This framework will enable couples to jointly make good decisions, avoid financial stress and the other traps that bring so many into divorce court, and do right by the most important outcome of most marriages: the children.  It might seem too practical, at fir

Author: James Hoopes
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: cult, moral, leadership, bush, george, ceo, failure, hail
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0313347840
ISBN-13: 9780313347849

An unethical and undemocratic cult of business leadership seems to hold sway over the minds of President George W. Bush and many other leaders in our society. According to ethics and leadership expert James Hoopes, this cult claims that leadership is attained and exercised through morality. But by instilling false pride and moral egotism in executives, the leadership cult intensifies the tendency of power to corrupt. For the first time, Hail to the CEO pulls back the curtain on the cult of moral leadership, revealing its dangers while showing readers how to lead with greater integrity and co

Author: Martin F. Stankard
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: excellence, iso9000, search, performance, systems, organizational, management
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2002-06-30
List price: $103.95
ISBN-10: 1567204783
ISBN-13: 9781567204780

Organizations can and must be viewed as "systems." This may be the only means of achieving or exceeding the crucial ISO9000 standard of performance. Stankard’s research proves that there are ways to design management actions that will enable organizations to facilitate goal-oriented performance.

Authors:Lillian H. Chaney, Jeanette S. Martin,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: america’s, largest, trading, partners, customs, culture, success, essential, guide, business, passport
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-11-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0275997162
ISBN-13: 9780275997168

Like it or not, every business—even one conducted from the kitchen table—is global. No matter the industry, employees now routinely travel to other countries or interact with foreign customers, vendors, or fellow employees. Or they conduct business over the phone, via e-mail, or through video links. As a result, they have to understand international customs and etiquette or risk losing customers or botching business relations. And understanding business customs in other cultures isn’t merely playing good defense—it often leads to new products or service enhancements t

Authors:J. Pittman McGehee, Damon J. Thomas,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: spirituality, psychology, religion, finding, church, invisible
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-11-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 031336530X
ISBN-13: 9780313365300

While nearly half of Americans identify themselves with a fundamentalist brand of religion, and a sizable minority has rejected religion altogether, there is a vast middle ground. This book is aimed at that huge group of people who describe themselves as spiritual but not religious. In other words, people who are open to encountering the divine and the transcendent, and indeed actively seek these experiences. The authors help readers improve their understanding of the religious nature of the psyche, the origins of myths and religions in the collective unconscious, and the ways in which organ