Metacognition - cognitive processes that apply to themselves - is becoming increasingly recognized as a fundamental aspect of human psychology. In this broad-ranging book, internationally renowned authors show how a full analysis of human reasoning and behaviour requires an understanding of both cognitive and metacognitive activities. Important ...
All executives need advice. Equally, providing advice is a dangerous game: speaking truth to power demands diplomatic skills. This text looks at the way in which advice is provided to the summit of government in 12 advanced industrialized countries. It looks at the organization and staffing of advice for the heads of executives in eight European ...
Global business is more than a vision of the future; it is a present reality for hundreds of thousands of managers from enterprises great and small. If you are one of them, and travel on business, you know that cross-cultural dealings make great demands on our interpersonal skills. The territory is strange and local habits perplexing. You know ...
Business is becoming increasingly global in scale, and this trend will increase throughout the 1990s, both with the advent of the Single Market, and the further internationalization of world markets generally. The cross-cultural business dealings which this phenomenon necessitates call for a high level of communication skills, and managers are ...
This book i sone of two volumes in which leading scholars examine the way in which EU member states co-ordinate their European policies. Eschewing the 'Europeanisation' problematic within which the issue is usually adressed, this book adopts a broader, more inclusive approach. It examines domestic processes and investigates co-ordination in ten ...
Designed to help business managers deal more successfully with international markets, this guide tackles overseas negotiation strategies, presentation skills and cultural issues. It aims to provide those who do business in foreign countries with advice on the problems they may encounter.
Older people have been characterized by two mutually contradictory stereotypes. One the one hand they have been portrayed as a powerful lobby, growing demographically and able to demand large redistributions of the nation's income in their direction. On the other hand they have been typified as a marginalized group at high risk of poverty and ...
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