I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they were in my youth. Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches, carrying six inside, and making a two days' journey out of what people now go over in a couple of hours with a whizz and a flash, and a screaming whistle, enough to deafen one. Then letters came in but three times a week; indeed, in some places in Scotland where I…
All health service providers want to get the most out of their investments. To enable them to do so, they need to actively manage health service assets, ensuring that they are used efficiently and optimally. All management takes place in the context of your health system’s policies and finances. If these are favourable, the management of health service assets can be effective and efficient, a…
An economist must be “mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher, in some degree . . . as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near the earth as a politician.” So remarked John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist who, as much as anyone, could be called the father of macroeconomics. No single statement summarizes better what it means to be an economist. …
I feel encouraged by the widespread response from teachers and students alike to the first edition. I am presenting this second edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged, to my readers in all humbleness. All possible efforts have been made to enhance further the usefulness of the book. The feedback received from different sources has been incorporated. In this edition a new chapter on “The…
This book is not just one of the many introductions to Human Resource Management that are published, year after year, for use in HRM classes. Authors of those introductions face many challenges, such as the need to produce something that is both theoretically sound and practically valuable, or to find a way to integrate discussions on a variety of topics into one comprehensible teaching too…
The development of this Small Business Management Skills (SBMS)- facilitators’ guide was necessitated by the need to equip the pastoralist community with the basic business skills at their level. SBMS is meant for those already doing group or individual businesses and is also recommended for start ups. The objective of this manual is to facilitate the participants to learn by doing.This is a…
As investments involve large resources both financial and human, wrong investment decisions are very expensive to correct and detrimental to the sustainability of institutions. Managers are responsible for comparing and evaluating alternative projects so as to allocate limited resources and maximize the firm’s wealth or shareholders value Basic techniques of making capital investment appra…