Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Objective Based Safety Training or Capitalism and Modernity

Objective-Based Safety Training

Author: Kenneth L Miller

What are the four major areas always in the safety practitioner's mind? Preventing injuries - preventing catastrophic losses - protecting the organization from regulatory problems - and showing value to the organization. This book prepares the safety management practitioner for training in a diverse workforce while creating a program that meets the specific needs of a client or corporation. It evaluates the barriers that a trainer may encounter and offers techniques to overcome them. This book will assist the trainer to create a training program which is geared towards adult learning. Showing that training is hitting the mark through behavioral change supports the overall organization's goals.

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For safety training programs to be perceived as value-added assets, professionals must mesh safe workplace objectives with bottom-line organizational culture (Part one). In Part two, training expert Miller details how to assess the company's needs; match training methods with these needs, learning theory, and regulatory requirements; and empower employees through self- directed work teams. Part three focuses on evaluation, risk assessment, and "the good, bad, and the ugly" of the field. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.



New interesting book: Thanks or Flipcook Baking

Capitalism and Modernity: An Excursus on Marx and Weber

Author: Derek Sayer

The nature of modernity, and its connection with capitalism, are questions at the heart of contemporary sociological debate. In Capitalism and Modernity, Derek Sayer critically re-examines the answers given by two of the greatest social theorists of capitalism, Karl Marx and Max Weber. He provides a fresh reading of both men's work, and breaks new ground in showing the remarkable relevance of their thought to the modern condition. From behind the well-worn stereotypes of "the Marx-Weber debate" emerges a disturbing critique of modern sociality, subjectivity, and power which has lost none of its intellectual force or moral relevance.

Clearly and compellingly written, Capitalism and Modernity is a major work of original scholarship. As an authoritative yet accessible commentary on a debate central to modern sociology and politics, this work is likely to become a seminal text in social theory.



Table of Contents:
Preface: Introduction: Chapter 1 Mors immortalis; Chapter 2 Power and the subject; Chapter 3 The Ghost in the machine; Chapter 4 Without regard for persons; Suggestions for further reading: Bibliography

Monday, February 16, 2009

Preventing Corporate Embezzlement or Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

Preventing Corporate Embezzlement

Author: Paul Shaw

Internal loss is one of the most costly forms of loss. Embezzlement is one of the least detected and prosecuted forms of internal theft. Preventing Corporate Embezzlement is a professional reference that offers solutions. Managers, auditors and others charged with protecting assets must achieve a heightened awareness of embezzlement. They need to recognize and understand the opportunities, methods, and varieties of embezzlement, as well as establish internal controls that will prevent and detect embezzlement.

Practical tool for detecting and combatting embezzlement: checklists, forms and evaluations Offers how-to advice on avoiding lawsuits by practicing preventive law Lists further resources, publications and directories on embezzlement, internal controls and security, risk management, insurance, auditors, and security services and equipment



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Interesting book: Sanit� pubblica introducente: Strategie per promuovere cambiamento sociale

Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: Comparisons and Contrasts

Author: Richard Bessel

Can Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany be compared? This collaborative volume explores the parallels and contrasts between the two regimes. Its ten essays examine the rise of the Fascist and Nazi movements; the relation of the regimes to workers, women, and war; and how the regimes may be viewed in a long-term perspective. The essays take stock of recent research, advance fresh theories about the histories of Nazism and Fascism, and provide a basis for informed comparison of two regimes central to twentieth-century history.



Sunday, February 15, 2009

Integral Logistics Management or Operations Research Models and Methods

Integral Logistics Management: Planning and Control of Comprehensive Business Processes

Author: Paul Schonsleben

In today's global economy, small to medium-sized companies increasingly depend on computer-aided planning and control. And rightly so, for the large amounts of data these tasks involve cannot be handled quickly - and accurately - enough by other methods. The success of magic formulas, catchwords, and simplifying theories in logistics management depends upon the people using them.

An exhaustive understanding of logistics forms the basis of this book. It emphasizes integral analysis and design covering logistics networks through the entire production process to the end user and back again. The author examines business objectives and methods in detail. Along with the familiar concepts of production planning and control systems, he discusses the integration of planning and control in research and development.

Integral Logistics Management: Planning and Control of Comprehensive Business Processes provides a comprehensive understanding of logistics. The book handles both classical and novel approaches to nonrepetitive (one-of-a-kind) production.

You will find not only the most recent trends in supply chain management, virtual organizations, and agile companies, but also the concepts of Just-In-Time (JIT) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Materials Resource Planning II (MRP II).



See also: The Sims 2 or Information Security Governance

Operations Research Models and Methods

Author: Paul A Jensen

In a rapidly developing field like Operations Research, its easy to get overwhelmed by the variety of topics and analytic techniques. Paul Jensen and Jonathan Bard help you master the expensive field by focusing on the fundamental models and methodologies underlying the practice of Operations Research.

Bridging the gap between theory and practice, the authors presents the quantitative tools and models most important to understanding modern operations research. You'll come to appreciate the power of OR techniques in solving real-world problems and applications in your own field. You'll learn how to translate complex situations into mathematical models, solve models and turn models into solutions. A CD (included free, inside the cover) contains advanced topics, as well as robust, yet easy-to-use, Excel add-ins that support the methods discussed in the text.

Features*Divide each subject into methods and models, giving you greater flexibility in how you approach the material.
*Concise and focused presentation highlights central ideas. The first CD includes advanced topics and applications.
*Excel add-ins on the accompanying CD will help you solve almost all of the problems and exercises in the book.
*Many examples throughout the text will help you better understand mathematical material.
*Trial versions of software on the CD allow you to use some of the commercial tools available to OR practitioners. These include Premium Solver for Education from Frontline Systems, Inc., MPL Modeling System from Maximal Software, Inc., and the Extended Simulation System from Imagine That, Inc.
*A comprehensive website for the book offers step-by-step procedures for manyof the methods discussed in the book.



Table of Contents:
1Problem Solving with Operations Research1
2Linear Programming Models17
3Linear Programming Methods56
4Sensitivity Analysis, Duality, and Interior Point Methods111
5Network Flow Programming Models146
6Network Flow Programming Methods182
7Integer Programming Models223
8Integer Programming Methods266
9Nonlinear Programming Models315
10Nonlinear Programming Methods359
11Models for Stochastic Processes409
12Discrete-Time Markov Chains427
13Mathematics of Discrete-Time Markov Chains466
14Continuous-Time Markov Chains493
15Mathematics of Continuous-Time Markov Chains526
16Queuing Models550
17Queuing Networks and Decision Models586
18Simulation614
Index669