Discusses management models and concepts, strategies for sharing knowledge, and ways to implement the concept within a company.

• Illustrates how to make money and keep it with time-honored strategies • Insightful real-life anecdotes to illustrate key concepts

You’re no idiot, of course. You know that your employees are essential to your company’s success. But when it comes to training, motivating, hiring, and firing them, you feel like a few of the many hats you wear don’t fit as well as they should. Don’t outsource your HR function just yet! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Human Resource Management will simplify everything you need to know about the people business. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you learn: --How to locate, hire, and retain the most qualified people for positions. --What you need to know about the law and regulations to avoid costly legal battles. --How to organize and administer an effective compensation and benefits plan. --Training tools and techniques to boost employee motivation and performance.

Act on your dreams of starting a business with this lighthearted, user-friendly guide that provides expert advice on business planning, financing, legal concerns, and marketing issues--all the information one needs to become his or her own boss. Line drawings.

This fully updated edition features new templates, forms, and examples and complies with official PMI and PMBOK standards for project management.

Dr. Sunny Baker gives readers a step-by-step guide to choosing, using and interpreting statistical analyses for business. She approaches statistical evaluations as concepts, using no math and focusing on what businesspeople need to interpret.

Manage the risk and maximize the reward! Risk. It's what business is all about. The key to success is to anticipating and managing the risks that can impact business. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Risk Management provides the key information necessary to manage business risk successfully. • The basic categories of business risk • How to indentify the specific factors that affect any particular business • How to create practical risk models to plan ahead • How to lessen the impact of risk events should they happen • How to profit from strategic risk taking

- Everything readers need to know to start up and operate a wildly popular mobile food business - Includes crucial marketing expertise from a successful food truck entrepreneur

Provides managers techniques such as intervention and arbitration to maintain a productive working environment despite problem employees, and discusses ways employees can effectively communicate with difficult bosses and co-workers.

Rev. ed. of: Complete idiot's almanac of business letters and memos. c1997.