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Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing
Joan Wagner Ed. · University of Regina
Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing is designed for a single-semester introduction to the professional nurse’s leadership role as both a care provider and a formal leader. An assortment of authors with diverse nursing leadership roles have contributed to this textbook. These diverse voices are focused on providing student nurses with the foundational tools, techniques, and knowledge required to empower them to meet the leadership challenges found within the incessantly changing health c
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Computer Applications for Managers
Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
This text is aimed at beginning to intermediate computer users. It teaches a range of computer skills from the basics of using Windows, to basic internet literacy, to creating projects using Microsoft Office. Assignments show step-by-step visuals to help students complete projects, and include integration across Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access.
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Business Information Systems - Design an App for That
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This text is designed to help students get a feel for what a career in Management Information Systems (MIS) would be like. Our students report that they learn more about information systems from their internships than from their IS courses. Consequently, we designed a course that looks very much like an internship—an introduction to the field followed by a substantial project.
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Business English for Success
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This text starts with a solid foundation in written communication with several opportunities to both review the fundamentals as well as to demonstrate mastery and move on to more challenging assignments. Our students are sometimes learning English as they enter a business program and benefit from the attention to the basics. At the same time this text often articulates as a course-equivalent for English or fulfills a writing requirement for a degree program.
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BUS 310: Business Communications (Buch)
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This text focuses on the concepts, strategies, and principles of effective communication in business situations. Tools to communicate effectively in a fast-paced technological, global marketplace are emphasized. The course provides opportunities to create, edit, evaluate, and critique business documents and reports. A formal research paper using analytical skills, graphics, and the ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations is required.
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The Parallel Entrepreneur
Ryan Buckley · Diablo Valley College
Building a product on the internet is relatively easy these days. It’s the making money part that’s hard. I wrote this book to help you become parallel entrepreneurs faster than I did, and to encourage you to do so while you have the safety net of a day job. In writing this book, I interviewed dozens of entrepreneurs who have done it more successfully than I have. These entrepreneurs have at least two income streams generating $10,000 per month, and they’ve developed their companies both solo an
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Nursing Management and Professional Concepts
Ernstmeyer & Christman (Eds.) · OpenRN
This book introduces concepts related to nursing leadership and management, prioritization strategies, delegation and supervision, legal implications of nursing practice, ethical nursing practice, collaboration within the interprofessional team, health care economics, quality and evidence-based practice, advocacy, preparation for the RN role, and the avoidance of burnout with self-care.
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Electronic Commerce - The Strategic Perspective
Richard T. Watson, Pierre Berthon, Leyland F. Pitt, George M. Zinkhan · LibreTexts
This book is written both for practitioners and business students. Managers wishing to understand how electronic commerce is revolutionizing business will find that our comprehensive coverage of essential business issues (e.g., pricing and distribution) answers many of their questions. Advanced business students (junior, seniors, and graduate students) will find that the blend of academic structure and practical examples provides an engaging formula for learning.
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BUSI1215 Organizational Behaviour
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University 101 - Study, Strategize and Succeed (KPU Learning Centres)
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Liberty, Equality, and Due Process: Cases, Controversies, and Contexts in Constitutional Law
Ruthann Robson · City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law
This Casebook is intended as a Casebook for a course in Constitutional rights, focused on the guarantees of liberty, equal protection, and due process in the United States Constitution. It stresses the doctrinal developments but also explores the theoretical and historical contours focusing on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Crawford Automation – A Guided Application of Structured Problem Solving
Stephen Thomson, Kevin Hollis, and Laurie Turnbull · Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning and Conestoga College
This is a multimedia-enabled case in which students will be guided, by an industry expert, to apply structured problem-solving that addresses a typical supply chain problem, missing parts. What first appears as the issue may be a symptom of a root cause(s). The case utilizes videos, data files for analytics, audio recording, and videogame-style exercises to find the missing box of parts.
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Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications
Ashman et al. · Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Student Engagement Activities for Business Communications is a compilation resource for instructors of workplace writing and oral presentations. The activities in this book can add value and energy to the classroom by engaging students in activities that support their learning. Handouts, links, activity variations, and debrief questions are included.
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Employee Recruitment and Retention
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
This text applies the skills and tools necessary to hire and retain qualified employees. Legal issues, testing, screening, interviewing, selecting and negotiating techniques will be demonstrated and assessed for each learner.
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Introduction to Professional Communications
Melissa Ashman · Kwantlen Polytechnic University
No matter your field, having professional communication skills is essential to success in today's workplace. This book covers key business communications topics that will help you in your career, including intercultural communication, team work, professional writing, audience analysis and adapting messages, document formatting, oral communication, and more.
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Nutrition Science and Global Food Issues
Mardi Parelman · San Diego Miramar College
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Business Ethics
OpenStax · LibreTexts
Business Ethics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester business ethics course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including case studies, application scenarios, and links to video interviews with executives, all of which help instill in students a sense of ethical awareness and responsibility.
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Irrigation Systems Management (AET 021)
Dean E. Eisenhauer, Derrel L. Martin, Derek M. Heeren, Glenn J. Hoffman · University of Nebraska Lincoln
Our goal is for the reader to understand the complexities of irrigation systems and how they are to be managed to meet the water needs of the crop production system. This is not an irrigation engineering design book; we have purposely minimized the presentation of design steps and the supporting equations. The intended audience of the book is upper-level undergraduate students and graduate in agricultural or natural resource sciences.
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BMT 2590: Employee Training and Development 2021
Denean Robinson & Charles L. Perry · Prince George's Community College
In this course students are introduced to effective organizational training and development in the workplace. Students begin by examining the different theories of development training. This serves as the basis for a needs assessment using a SWOT analysis. Students examine the cost effectiveness of a training, as well as the benefits and challenges associated with the use of technology in organizational training. Additionally, students examine how to determine the appropriate training methods
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Technical Project Management in Living and Geometric Order
Jeffrey Russell, Wayne Pferdehirt, and John Nelson · University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Technical Project Management class is designed to help students build on their past experiences and develop effective strategies for managing complex technical projects, with an emphasis on applying project management concepts to real-world problems. In the weekly web conferences, the class comes together in community to discuss the lesson topics, considering the practical applications of the concepts in each subject area.