Building Corporate Accountability: Emerging Practices in Social and Ethical Accounting, Auditing and Reporting

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Social and ethical accounting is emerging as a key tool for companies in the 1990s in response to calls for greater transparency and accountability to stakeholders, and as a means for managing companies in increasingly complex situations where social and environmental issues are significant in securing business success.

This is the first book to address the practices of social and ethical accounting, auditing and reporting, and their implications for the development of corporate social, ethical and environmental responsibility. It includes nine case studies, and a historical overview of developments. The editors introduce a methodological framework that allows emerging practice worldwide to be analysed, understood and improved.

This innovative book, written by international leaders in the field, will be of enormous value to business managers, particularly those responsible for corporate affairs, human resources, environmental management, financial management or planning. It will also be a useful text for business students.

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How to step out of the emotional drama a work.

How to recognize repeated no-win scenarios.

How to build a workforce where the collective energy is spent on productivity instead of emotional gamesmanship.

It's for those that agree the workplace is overrun with a victim mentality.

For those that sometimes find themselves feeling that life at work "isn't fair."

For those that have fears about speaking up at work.

For that that are worn down from playing the hero role at work.

It's about how to avoid and deal with destructive emotional traps in the workplace.

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Excellent ideas from an original thinker.......2006-01-29

Attending one of Don's seminars made the decision to buy this book an easy one. As a business consultant who deals with how HR impacts a business' bottom line, I found this book a veritable treasure trove of gems and nuggets of practical wisdom. His metaphor of "the stage" is pure genius and has yielded the unexpected bonus of benefiting my personal life as much as my professional. I would stake my reputation on recommending this book to anyone who has to manage people at the workplace, and fully expect his ideas to become universally accepted in the years to come.

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Managing Emotions in the Workplace

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ASIN: 0765609371

Book offers advice on becoming an office 'hero'. (News Makers).(review of "Victims, Villains and Heroes: Managing Emotions in the Workplace")(Review)(Brief ... An article from: San Diego Business Journal

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Book offers advice on becoming an office 'hero'. (News Makers).(review of "Victims, Villains and Heroes: Managing Emotions in the Workplace")(Review)(Brief ... An article from: San Diego Business Journal
Rene'e Beasley Jones
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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on July 29, 2002. The length of the article is 366 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Book offers advice on becoming an office 'hero'. (News Makers).(review of "Victims, Villains and Heroes: Managing Emotions in the Workplace")(Review)(Brief Article) (book review)
Author: Rene'e Beasley Jones
Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 29, 2002
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Managing emotions in the workplace.: An article from: Journal of Managerial Issues

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Managing emotions in the workplace.: An article from: Journal of Managerial Issues
J. Andrew Morris , and Daniel C. Feldman
Manufacturer: Pittsburg State University - Department of Economics
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Managerial Issues, published by Pittsburg State University - Department of Economics on September 22, 1997. The length of the article is 6283 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This study conceptualizes emotional labor (namely, the display of emotions during service interactions) in terms of frequency, duration, and emotional dissonance. To identify important antecedents and consequences of emotional labor, data were collected via survey questionnaires (N = 562). Results indicate that task routineness, power of role recipients, and job autonomy are the most significant antecedents of emotional labor, while emotional dissonance is the component of emotional labor which accounts for the most variance in the consequences of emotional labor. Implications for future research on emotional labor and the management of emotions within organizations are discussed as well.

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Title: Managing emotions in the workplace.
Author: J. Andrew Morris
Publication: Journal of Managerial Issues (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1997
Publisher: Pittsburg State University - Department of Economics
Volume: v9 Issue: n3 Page: p257(18)

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The main challenge faced by designers of self-organizing systems is how to validate and control non-deterministic dynamics. Over-engineering the system may completely suppress self-organization with an outside influence, eliminating emergent patterns and decreasing robustness, adaptability and scalability. Whilst leaving too much non-determinism in the system’s behaviour may make its verification and validation almost impossible. This book presents the state-of-the-practice in successfully engineered self-organizing systems, and examines ways to balance design and self organization in the context of applications.

As demonstrated throughout, finding this balance helps to deal with diverse practical challenges. The book begins with the more established fields of traffic management and structural health monitoring, building up towards robotic teams, solving challenging tasks deployed in tough environments. The second half of the book follows with a deeper look into the micro-level, and considers local interactions between agents. These interactions lead towards self-modifying digital circuitry and self-managing grids, self-organizing data visualization and intrusion detection in computer networks, immunocomputing and nature-inspired computation, and eventually to artificial life. The case studies described illustrate the richness of the topic and provide guidance to its intricate areas.

Many algorithms proposed and discussed in this volume are biologically inspired and readers will also gain an insight into cellular automata, genetic algorithms, artificial immune systems, snake-like locomotion, ant foraging, birds flocking and mutualistic biological ecosystems, amongst others. Demonstrating the practical relevance and applicability of self-organization, this book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in a wide range of fields.

Collectives and the Design of Complex Systems

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Collectives and the Design of Complex Systems

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ASIN: 0387401652

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With the advent of extremely affordable computing power, the world is becoming filled with distributed systems of computationally sophisticated components. However, no current scientific discipline offers a thorough understanding of the relation of such "collectives" and how well they meet performance criteria.

"Collectives and Design of Complex Systems" lays the foundation for the study of collective intelligence and how these entities can be developed to yield optimal performance. Partone describes how some information-processing problems can only be solved by the joint actions of large communities of computers, each running their own complex, decentralized machine-learning algorithms. Part two offers general analysis on the dynamics and structures of collectives. Finally, part three addresses economic,
model-free, and control-theory approaches to designing these complex systems. The work assumes a modest understanding of basic statistics and calculus.

Using an approach that integrates key theoretical principles with applications in real-world scenarios, this unique monograph surveys the latest research on the dynamics of collectives, their A.I. aspects, and critical design issues pertaining to them. Computer scientists, computer engineers, and all practitioners, researchers, and graduate students with an interest in this new and growing field will find the book an authoritative introduction and resource.

Human Factors in Simple and Complex Systems, Second Edition

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Human Factors in Simple and Complex Systems, Second Edition
Robert W. Proctor , and Trisha Van Zandt
Manufacturer: CRC
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ASIN: 0805841199

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The second edition of a bestseller, this book provides an understanding of the human factors issues often encountered in the design, implementation, and evaluation of products and systems. Emphasizing the close relationship between basic theory and application, the authors offer a framework for the research process and give an integrated view of the current state of knowledge regarding factors that influence human and system performance, examining how these factors can be accommodated in system design. This edition addresses such concepts as situation awareness and highlights topics of interest, with a special focus on computer applications and human-computer interaction.

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Virginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? That's what the panicked public thinks, thanks to a local TV reporter who got the leaked news from her boyfriend, Scarpetta's vile rival, Investigator Percy Ring. But the butchered bodies are so many red herrings intended to throw idiots like Ring off the track. Instead of a run-of-the-mill serial killer, we're dealing with a shadowy figure who has plans involving mutant smallpox, mass murder, and messing with Scarpetta's mind by e-mailing her gory photos of the murder scenes, along with cryptic AOL chat-room messages. The coolest innovation: Scarpetta's gorgeous genius niece, Lucy, equips her with a DataGlove and a VPL Eyephone, and she takes a creepy virtual tour of the e-mailed crime scene.

Unnatural Exposure boasts brisk storytelling, crackling dialogue, evocative prose about forensic-science sleuthing, and crisp character sketches, both of familiar characters like Scarpetta's gruff partner Pete Marino and bit players like the landfill employee falsely accused by Ring. Plus, let's face it: serial killers are old hat. Cornwell's most vivid villains are highly plausible backstabbing colleagues like Ring, who plots to destroy Lucy's FBI career by outing her as a lesbian. Some readers object to the rather abrupt ending, but, hey, it's less jarring than Hannibal's, and it's the logical culmination of Cornwell's philosophy about human nature. To illuminate the novel's finale, read Cornwell's remarks on paranoia in her Amazon.com interview. --Tim Appelo

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Kay Scarpetta is back.

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The details of a body, discovered in a Virginia landfill, mirror that of a case Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been investigating in Ireland but for Scarpetta, the game has only just begun.

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Unnatural Exposure - audio read by CJ Critt.......2007-03-09

I would like to comment on the reading of "Unnatural Exposure", by C.J. Critt. This was one of the worst readings I have heard and I've heard over 200 audio books. Her over-emphasis of words, several in every sentence, was very annoying and inappropriate. Her pronunciation of some words, particularly ones beginning with vowels was often wrong, i.e. "eventually", pronounced "aventually" and "exact", pronounced "ugzaxt", just to name two. When someone was being gentle or kind, like Benton, it didn't come through, rather the whole book was read of if Moreno was reading it, harsh and cynical. Had I not wanted to finish the story, having heard the whole series, I would have turned it off, it was so irritating. The whole thing was like an over-acted stage play. I will make an effort to not get any books read by Ms. Critt in the future.

If there's no other option..........2007-02-03

Normally, Cornwell is my "vacationer's last resort." I turn to her books when there's absolutely nothing else to read, a book in English is next to impossible to get, and a friend obligingly offeres a volume. As far as I am concerned, Cornwell is good enough at constructing an outline of a plot, at coming up with an idea. However, turning the idea into a novel... well, that's not exactly what I'd call a screaming success. This book is no exception. Everything you need to know about the plot can be found in the Editor's Reviews above, or has already been mentioned by other reviewers, so I won't go into that again. If you cannot guess the criminal in this one the moment said criminal makes the first appearance, then it must be your very first detective novel. There are lots of needless padding. Maybe it adds authenticity, but it also increases my exasperation. I don't know whether it is because Cornwell is paid by the word, or it is another manifestation of the horribly annoying trend in detective novels that became particularly obvious lately: they all want to be artsy, and high-brow, and deeply psychological, and what not. Cornwell isn't the new Dostoevsky, and instead of becoming atmospheric and insightful, her novels become boring. However, the thing that puts me off Cornwell the most is her conceit. When I read about blonde and blue-eyed Scarpetta, and have the blonde and blue-eyed Cornwell staring at me from the inside of the back cover, I begin to connect the dots. And the more I read about the perfect Kay, the more it annoys me to realize that Scarpetta has gradually become some kind of Cornwell's personal fantasy and obsession, and more than a literary alter ego; reading the book turns into being exposed to Cornwell's huge ego trip. The story, the investigation, "the human interest," all of it takes the back seat to promoting Patricia Cornwell and her inflated self-esteem. Unless it's an autobiography, I would like a book about the characters, not about the author, thank you very much!

If you like Scarpetta - - .......2006-10-21

Then you'll probably like this story.

My wife and I read books together and I'd sworn off Cornwell after Hornet's Nest (which on TV Cornwell admitted was some warmed over college material - and it showed horribly). The Scarpetta character (in some books) is unbelievably emotionally ultra-hyper (going from confident to terrified every time Marino knocks on the door).

In this book she was mercifully level headed almost ALL the time! What a relief. And there was a real story. I'm not really a fan of her work over the last 10 years but there's almost enough lab details here to satisfy. Sure wish she (Scarpetta) would learn to delegate - imagine the top lab expert for her state and she has to go to every crime scene and move bodies herself!

Anyway don't start here with the Scarpetta series - but if you already like the character, this one is a B+. Compared to other crime novels in general, it's still a C- in my estimation.

Worst Cornwell I've read.......2006-08-05

I've generally liked Cornwell's books, but this one was weak. I'd look elsewhere if you want to read Cornwell. The ending came very abruptly, with little climax or excitement.

Easy Read.......2006-07-14

This was a slow start for me that became a page turner. I can't say it was my favorite Scarpetta book - but likeable. I really like how Cornwell has created Scarpetta to be a real person and she really shows emotion in this book - caring for one that I haven't seemed to find in others. Caring for Wingo, the innocent mans mother ( don't want to give anything away), and after the virus breaks out - the state. I also like how Cornwell has finally let Kay be at peace with Mark's death, and how she enveloped Benton into it.

All in all, good read

Kay Scarpetta Series: Postmortem, Body of Evidence, All That Remains, Cruel and Unusual, The Body Farm, From Potter's Field, Cause of Death, Unnatural Exposure, Point of Origin, Black Notice, The Last Precinct, Blow Fly, Trace, Predator (Set of 14)

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Kay Scarpetta Series: Postmortem, Body of Evidence, All That Remains, Cruel and Unusual, The Body Farm, From Potter's Field, Cause of Death, Unnatural Exposure, Point of Origin, Black Notice, The Last Precinct, Blow Fly, Trace, Predator (Set of 14)
Patricia Cornwell
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Kay Scarpetta Series, Books 1 - 14; Postmortem, Body of Evidence, All That Remains, Cruel and Unusual, The Body Farm, From Potter's Field, Cause of Death, Unnatural Exposure, Point of Origin, Black Notice, The Last Precinct, Blow Fly, Trace, Predator

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Unnatural Exposure

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3 Patricia Cornwell Scarpetta mystery paperback book set: 8 UNNATURAL EXPOSURE / 10 BLACK NOTICE / and 13 TRACE

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3 Patricia Cornwell Scarpetta mystery paperback book set: 8 UNNATURAL EXPOSURE / 10 BLACK NOTICE / and 13 TRACE
Patricia D. Cornwell
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6 HBs: At Risk, Southern Cross, Unnatural Exposure, Trace, Predator, Black Notice

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6 HBs: At Risk, Southern Cross, Unnatural Exposure, Trace, Predator, Black Notice
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7 Titles By Patricia Cornwell Kay Scarpetta Series (8-14) : 8 Unnatural Exposure 9 Point of Origin 10 Black Notice 11 Last Precinct 12 Blow Fly 13 Trace 14 Predator

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7 Titles By Patricia Cornwell Kay Scarpetta Series (8-14) : 8 Unnatural Exposure 9 Point of Origin 10 Black Notice 11 Last Precinct 12 Blow Fly 13 Trace 14 Predator
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seven mmpb books. 7 Titles By Patricia Cornwell Kay Scarpetta Series (8-14) : 8 Unnatural Exposure 9 Point of Origin 10 Black Notice 11 Last Precinct 12 Blow Fly 13 Trace 14 Predator

First 9 Kay Scarpetta titles 1 Postmortem 2 Body of Evidence 3 All That Remains 4 Cruel and Unusual 5 The Body Farm 6 From Potter's Field 7 Cause of Death 8 Unnatural Exposure 9 Point of Origin

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First 9 Kay Scarpetta titles 1 Postmortem 2 Body of Evidence 3 All That Remains 4 Cruel and Unusual 5 The Body Farm 6 From Potter's Field 7 Cause of Death 8 Unnatural Exposure 9 Point of Origin
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lot 3 patricia cornwell portrait of a killer,trace, unnatural exposure

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lot 3 patricia cornwell portrait of a killer,trace, unnatural exposure
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three novels by patricia cornwell * trace, * portrait of a killer * unnatural exposure.

Set 13 titles in the Series 1 Postmortem 2 Body of Evidence 3 All That Remains 4 Cruel and Unusual 5 The Body Farm 6 From Potter's Field 7 Cause of Death 8 Unnatural Exposure 9 Point of Origin 10 Black Notice 11 Last Precinct 12 Blow Fly 13 Trace

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Set 13 titles in the Series 1 Postmortem 2 Body of Evidence 3 All That Remains 4 Cruel and Unusual 5 The Body Farm 6 From Potter's Field 7 Cause of Death 8 Unnatural Exposure 9 Point of Origin 10 Black Notice 11 Last Precinct 12 Blow Fly 13 Trace

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ANOTHER KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY...

UNNATURAL EXPOSURE
PATRICIA CORNWELL
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ANOTHER KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY..........2006-12-24

This is a somewhat interesting, Dr. Kay Scarpetta mystery, replete with its usual attention to forensic detail, as well as a myriad of subplots. Though not her best novel, it still manages to entertain the reader.

Once again, Dr. Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, finds herself on the hunt for a serial killer, when the body of an elderly, dismembered woman is discovered in a Virginia landfill. Moreover, a mutated, high tech, variant small pox virus appears to be on the loose, and Dr. Scarpetta finds herself receiving taunting emails from the alleged killer, signing as "deadoc". Couple all this with an overly ambitious and unscrupulous law enforcement agent named Percy Ring who arrests an obviously innocent man for the elderly woman's death, and the reader has an intriguing mystery to unravel.

Homicide Detective Pete Marino is pivotol to the success of this book. His relationship and repartee with Dr. Scarpetta contribute to many of the book's highlights, and it is he who gives dimension to the book, as he is simply a wonderful, down to earth character. Dr. Scarpetta's relationship with FBI Agent Wesley Benton is less memorable, as he is on the periphery of the story, for the most part, though in the end he provides closure for the torch Dr. Scarpetta was carrying for her ex-lover, Mark.

The only real fly in the ointment, however, is the continued appearance of Dr. Scarpetta's niece, Lucy, who is an obnoxious character. In the real world, Lucy would not be allowed to hold the position of responsibility that she does in the book, due to her compete immaturity. She is a loose cannon waitng to misfire at any moment. It flies in the face of her professionalism that Dr. Scarpetta seems unable to fathom this, but blood is thicker than water.

The ending is somewhat surprising, though in retrospect, the clues are, in fact, there for the reader to discern the identity of the killer. The problem is that the resolution occurs almost too abruptly, as if the author had only a limited number of pages in which to wrap it all up. While the book moves somewhat slowly for the most part, the last few chapters move at lightning speed. A better editing job may have helped make this book into a more cohesive, better written mystery. Still, Kay Scarpetta fans will find something to enjoy in this offering.

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