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Brief Summary Employee Relations in an Organizational Context offers a comprehensive yet accessible look at the topic area, which considers the core topics of employee relations while providing coverage of key developments in the field. Designed to develop a thorough grounding in how the relationship between employee and organization is structured and influenced, topics discussed include the foundations of this overarching relationship, the external factors that affect it, the role of management and employees themselves, employee involvement and participation, and grievances, discipline and dismissal. A range of interactive features are used to really engage you with the subject matter under discussion and allow you to work and absorb the material: individual chapter objectives help you focus your learning and evaluate your progress, activities encourage you to reflect on the concepts addressed or delve a little deeper into specific issues, case studies from across the public, private and voluntary sectors illustrate the theoretical examples explored, whilst examples to work through are provided at the end of each chapter to cement learning and test understanding. Employee Relations in an Organizational Context will give you the in depth appreciation for the different factors that impact the employee-company relationship and allow you to apply the theory in practice within your own organization. Online resources offered include lecturer's guides and PowerPoints slides. ISBN:9781843981381 Author:Kathy Daniels

Brief Summary Which of Apple, Google and Microsoft had an office with a "drawer of broken dreams" ---and what (real) objects lay inside it? When did Microsoft have the chance to catch Google in making money from search ---and who vetoed it? Why did Google test 40 shades of blue on its users? How long did outside developers wait before asking to write apps for Apple's iPhone after Steve Jobs announced it? Who said that Microsoft should have its own music player -- and why did it fail? Digital Wars starts in 1998, when the internet and computing business was about to be upended -- by an antitrust case, a tiny startup and a former giant rebuilding itself. Arthur looks at what are now the three best-known tech companies and through the voices of former and current staff examines their different strategies to try to win the battle to control the exploding network connecting the world. Microsoft was a giant -- soon to become the highest-valued company in the world, while Apple was a minnow and Google just a startup. By February 10 2012, Apple was worth more ($462bn) than both Microsoft ($258bn) and Google ($198bn) combined. The chance had come from tumultuous battles between the three. To win their battles: Apple used design, the vertical model of controlling the hardware and software and a relentless focus on the customer to the exclusion of others. Microsoft depended on the high quality of its employees' programming skills and its monopolies in software to try to move into new markets - such as search and music. Google focused on being quick, efficient and using the power of data analysis - not human "taste" - to make decisions and get ahead of would-be rivals. With exclusive information from interviews with current and former employees of the three companies Arthur also addresses: • What the inventors of the hard drive used in the iPod thought it would really be used for • How Apple transformed the smartphone market • Which of Android or Apple forced Microsoft to abandon Windows Mobile • What happened to Microsoft's tablet plans ISBN:9780749464134 Author:Charles Arthur