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Business Law I Essentials
OpenStax · LibreTexts
Business Law I Essentials is a brief introductory textbook designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of courses on Business Law or the Legal Environment of Business. Business Law I Essentials may need to be supplemented with additional content, cases, or related materials, and is offered as a foundational resource that focuses on the baseline concepts, issues, and approaches.
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Fundamentals of Global Strategy
Anonymous · LibreTexts
Creating a global competitive advantage has become a key strategic issue for many companies, and students need to possess an understanding of the impact of global strategies on a business. Crafting a global strategy requires making decisions about which strategy elements can and should be globalized and to what extent, and de Kluyver's Fundamentals of Global Strategy can help you illuminate these facts to your students.
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Introduction to Human Resources (MPTC)
Marla Stilwill · Moraine Park Technical College
Introduction to Human Resource Management is an introductory textbook that explains how organizations recruit, select, train, evaluate, and compensate employees while following employment laws and supporting ethical workplace practices. It also emphasizes how HR contributes strategically to organizational success through topics such as diversity and inclusion, employee relations, and performance management.
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A Guide to Technical Communications: Strategies and Applications
Lynn Hall and Leah Wahlin · The Ohio State University
A textbook focused on developing both technical and professional communication skills
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Business Writing For Everyone
Arley Cruthers · Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Business Writing For Everyone is an inclusive guide to writing in the workplace. The book takes a process-oriented, storytelling approach to composition: focusing less on genre and more on the decisions that effective business communicators make. Business Writing For Everyone also contains interactive H5P activities for students to test their learning, and activities for further reflection that instructors can use in the classroom or assign as homework.
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Idea to Essay: Collected Strategies and Readings for the College Writer 4e
The Butler Community College English Department · Butler Community College
English 101 is a college-level freshman composition course focused on developing expository and persuasive writing skills through various writing exercises, research, and argumentation.
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Managing Technology Projects
Robert Slate and Daniel Slate · De Anza College and the University of Notre Dame
Built around real-world technology projects and the decisions that shape them, this case study collection gives students opportunities to apply project management principles to authentic scenarios. Cases explore challenges involving legal and regulatory compliance, contracts, patents, trade secrets, and the complex decisions technology leaders face as they move projects from planning to execution.
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Business Communication (Eckelmann)
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The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This text is a book for today's student, who expects learning to be comprised not only of substance, but also of interactive exercises and multimedia. This book streamlines the presentation of material to ensure that every page is relevant, engaging, and interesting to undergraduate business students, without losing the depth of coverage that they need to be successful in their academic journeys and in their professional careers.
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The History of Human Resources in the United States
Robert Lloyd and Wayne Aho · Fort Hays State University
The Human Resources department of an organization performs human resource management, overseeing various aspects of employment, such as compliance with labor law and employment standards, interviewing and selection, performance management, administration of employee benefits, organizing of employee files with the required documents for future reference, and some aspects of recruitment (also known as talent acquisition) and employee offboarding.
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Cultural Heritage Tourism Event Planning and Management (Lumen)
LibreTexts
This text explores the core principles of event planning and management as it specifically relates to cultural heritage tourism, demonstrating the principles through the case study of three existing cultural heritage festivals. Student will learn the core principles of event planning and management by examining three different real world case studies and exploring a cultural heritage tourism event of the student’s choice and writing an event management plan for this event.
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Senior Internship: Advanced leadership Development
William R. Thibodeaux and Jean-Pierre Daigle · Nicholls State University
The senior level internship text is structured to: (1) Analyze your work environment, (2) Evaluate structure, roles and tasks, (3) Understand their method to achieve desired results, (4) What is working, what would you do differently - create.
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COLL 175: Reading Strategies Across the Curriculum
Peter Mancini · Johnson County Community College
In this course, students identify and apply evidence-based text strategies that improve high-level comprehension of paired-course materials.
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JPP 207 Substantive Criminal Law
matthew.mackelly · Concordia University Wisconsin
Criminal Law begins with the foundations of law and the legal system and then extensively explores criminal laws and defenses using general state principles, federal law, the Constitution, and the Model Penal Code as guidelines. Although it is neither possible nor desirable to discuss every criminal law, this textbook provides a basic yet thorough overview of the American criminal justice system.
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An Introduction to Cooperation and Mutualism
Michael Boland · University of Minnesota
This textbook introduces readers to the idea of cooperation and mutualism. Cooperatives and mutuals are participatory organizations in which members participate in control and governance, receive economic benefits through patronage refunds or net income, and become owners through equity. These mutual-benefit organizations exist alongside non-profit organizations and investor-benefit organizations through the global economy.
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COLL 110- Introduction to Personal Leadership
Valerie Mann · Johnson County Community College
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Developing New Products and Services
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This text outlines the important ideas of cultural intelligence and the steps that must be considered and then practiced to become a culturally intelligent leader. This text emphasizes that cultural intelligence is both a strategy and a tool towards cultural competency and proficiency. This book outlines the importance of understanding culture and its impact on organizations, the strategic value of cultural intelligence, and the significance of integrating and practicing cultural intelligence.
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Leadership and Adult Supervision in ECE
Laura Daly · Woodland Community College
Leadership and Adult Supervision in Early Childhood Education explores the relational and ethical work of supervising, mentoring, coaching, and leading adults in early care and education settings. Grounded in the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct, the text emphasizes ethical decision-making, reflective practice, and relationship-based leadership. Designed for students and emerging leaders, it integrates theory with real-world application in adult supervision and professional practice.
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Legal Basics for Entrepreneurs
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
This text covers the broad spectrum of legal issues that entrepreneurs must understand when starting and running a business. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style.
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BMT1570: Small Business Management
Thomisha M Duru-Nnebue · Prince George's Community College
This text offers a unique perspective and set of capabilities for instructors. The authors designed this book with a “less can be more” approach, and by treating small business management as a practical human activity rather than as an abstract theoretical concept.