This text highlights the changes and challenges to the role of the HR business partner and provides an overview of emerging service delivery models for the HR function and what these mean for the HR business partner in the modern enterprise.

Written by the authors of How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free, this book is a handbook for couples who need tools to be happy in their relationships. It's a handbook on how to achieve mutual happiness, through cooperative negotiation and communication. Couples are led through a step-by-step process whereby each one learns how to take care of what he or she wants and care for a partner's happiness at the same time. The clear and concise instructions and guidelines teach couples the skills they need to create a mutually supportive partnership allowing each individual to be satisfied in their relationship. It is based on The Negotiation Tree, an ingenious tool that can help any couple turn a struggle or fight into a cooperative problem-solving session. The book is designed especially for: * People who seek a model for equal partnership. * Couples who want to transform struggle into teamwork. * Couples who are married, cohabiting, or dating. * Couples who are in a traditional or alternative relationship. How to Be Happy Partners is the perfect tool for designing and creating a relationship unique to your individual personalities and situation. With it, any couple can learn to work together to create a loving, sustainable, healthy, and happy partnership that both will treasure.

With HR professionals increasingly expected to be “business partners”, are you prepared with the skills and tools to make a positive difference to your organization? As the recognised definitive guide to the topic, HR: The Business Partner, second edition, offers practical insights to take you through the challenging process of business partnering, including: • No-nonsense description of what business partnering entails, with case studies to illustrate real-life practice • Detailed coverage of the common challenges and advice on how to overcome them • Guidance on how to develop the skills and confidence required to work effectively Covering the transition from working operationally to working strategically and the tools, techniques and skill sets needed for partnering, this inexpensive guide will help to both add real value to your business and to develop your career in business partnering. If you are aspiring to or about to embark on a business partner role, this book will provide you with ideas and inspiration for the position.

Many of us dream of being like Dr. Dolittle, able to speak joyfully with animals. Now you can bring that dream to life! In Mindful Partners: The Zen art and science of working with animals, Dr. Jenifer Zeligs takes you on a transformative journey to the deepest level of connection with animals. Dr. Zeligs combines breakthroughs in behavioral sciences with centuries of contemplative wisdom, guiding readers to see behavior as it fundamentally exists and how actions and reactions are born, practiced, and altered. She teaches the reader to use mindfulness to develop a special kind of partnership in which both parties share a mutually beneficial connection. The book is filled with intimate and amusing accounts of Dr. Zeligs’ 40-year history of partnerships across the animal kingdom—from improving the welfare of horses and dogs to filming wild whales using trained sea lions. It teaches you to partner with any animal to create a strong connection, establish interspecies communication, develop calm behavior, respond when things go wrong, reduce aggression, build confidence, overcome fears, and motivate without causing stress. This is an empowering guide to connecting with animals, drawing on the best of science, as well as traditions of inspirational wisdom.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Over a million copies sold! “An eminently practical guide to an emotionally intelligent—and long-lasting—marriage.”—Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work has revolutionized the way we understand, repair, and strengthen marriages. John Gottman’s unprecedented study of couples over a period of years has allowed him to observe the habits that can make—and break—a marriage. Here is the culmination of that work: the seven principles that guide couples on a path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Straightforward yet profound, these principles teach partners new approaches for resolving conflicts, creating new common ground, and achieving greater levels of intimacy. Gottman offers strategies and resources to help couples collaborate more effectively to resolve any problem, whether dealing with issues related to sex, money, religion, work, family, or anything else. Packed with new exercises and the latest research out of the esteemed Gottman Institute, this revised edition of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the definitive guide for anyone who wants their relationship to attain its highest potential.

Research clearly indicates that there is a strong need for the Human Resources (HR) function, and the people in it, to adopt a more strategic and business-linked approach. In one study business executives ranked the HR function as third, after sales and customer service, as a function that makes a very significant contribution to a company's bottom line. Unfortunately research also indicates that few HR functions have become strategic. Most still operate in a primarily administrative and tactical manner—the very work that is increasingly being outsourced. Clearly there is a gap between what business leaders and employees need from their HR departments and what HR is providing. HR functions must become more integrated into the business, with some people on the HR team assuming the role of Strategic Business Partner (SBP). Here, Dana and Jim Robinson offer guidance for HR, Organization Development and Learning professionals who aspire to transform themselves into effective Strategic Business Partners. They explain how SBPs build partnerships, based upon credibility and trust, with key organization leaders. These partnerships provide SBPs with opportunities to identify and support projects directly aligned with business goals. The success of these projects deepens the SBPs' credibility, enabling them to be viewed as strategic partners. At this higher level of accountability, SBPs work with business leaders to form long-range business strategies and plans, creating and implementing people initiatives that link into and support the business strategies and plans. This practical guide offers case studies, exercises, tips, and tools you can use to become a Strategic Business Partner in your organization.

The Limited Liability Partnership were introduced in India vide the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008. LLP has combined the flexibility of a partnership and the advantages of limited liability of a company at a low compliance cost. Limited Liability Partnership Law effective from 1st April 2009 is a new business vehicle that provides the benefits of limited liability of a company but allows its partners the flexibility of organizing their internal management on the basis of a mutually arrived agreement. The new concept of LLP is gaining strength in India. Procedures for LLP compliance have changed since 2009. Taxation of LLP has been made clear by the provisions made in the Income-tax Act, 1961 through the Finance (No 2) Act 2009 and Finance Act, 2010. An attempt has been made in this book to analyze the provisions of Limited Liability Partnership Act, Rules and its taxation keeping in mind the practical difficulties, which a business entity/professional could face while adhering to the provisions contained in laws. Tables, charts and examples have been used sparingly to make the provisions understand easily. Book would be immensely useful for Company Secretaries, Law professionals, Chartered Accountants and everyone concerned with formation, incorporation, conversion, administration & management, accounting & audit and taxation of a LLP. Section I - General 1......... Objects and Reasons for Limited Liability Partnership 2......... Miscellaneous 3......... Limited Liability Partnership background in India 4......... Salient features of Limited Liability Partnership 5......... Meaning and nature of Limited Liability Partnership 6......... Importance of LLP after Companies Act, 2013 Section II - Incorporation 7......... Incorporation of Limited Liability Partnership 8......... Miscellaneous 9......... Registered office/other office of a LLP and its change 10....... Limited Liability Partnership Agreements 11....... Partners of Limited Liability Partnership 12....... Number of Partners in Limited Liability Partnership 13....... Designated Partners Section III - Conversion 14....... Conversion of partnership firm into LLP 15....... Conversion of Private Company into LLP 16....... Conversion of unlisted Public Company into LLP 17....... Conversion of Professional Firms into LLP 18....... Conversion of LLP into Company Section IV - Administration and Management 19....... Contribution 20....... Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in LLP 21....... Extent of Liability 22....... Investigation 23....... Compromise, Arrangement or Reconstruction Section V - Accounts and Audit 24....... Accounts and Returns 25....... Applicability of Accounting Standards 26....... Assignment and transfer of partnership rights 27....... Destruction of old records 28....... Electronic filing of documents 29....... Forms to be certified by professionals 30....... Audit of LLP Section VI - Taxation 31....... Basic taxation aspects of LLP 32....... Residential status of LLP 33....... Tax rates of LLP 34....... Remuneration to partners 35....... Interest on partners' contribution 36....... Taxation of introduction and withdrawal of capital assets by partners 37....... Computation of taxable income of Limited Liability Partnership 38....... Taxation of conversion of Firms into Limited Liability Partnership 39....... Taxation of conversion of Companies into Limited Liability Partnership 40....... Taxation of Conversion of Limited Liability Partnership into Company 41....... Taxability of amounts received by partners from Limited Liability Partnership 42....... Liability of partners for tax dues in case of liquidation 43....... Other tax compliances Section VII - Winding up & Dissolution 44....... Winding up and Dissolution Section VIII - Miscellaneous 45....... Payment of Fees 46....... Penalties and prosecution 47....... Other matters related to LLP 48....... Forms under LLP laws 49....... Foreign Limited Liability Partnerships 50....... Comparison of Limited Liability Partnership with Firm 51....... Simultaneous comparison of Limited Liability Partnership with Company and Partnership firm Section IX - AnnexuresAnnexure 1... Draft Limited Liability Partnership Agreement - 1 Annexure 2... Draft LLP Agreement - 2 (As per Section 23(4) of LLP Act, 2008) Annexure 3... Draft Limited Liability Partnership Agreement - 3 Annexure 4... Draft Limited Liability Partnership Agreement - 4 Annexure 5... Draft Limited Liability Partnership Agreement - 5 Annexure 6... Draft Limited Liability Partnership Agreement - 6 Annexure 7... Draft Limited Liability Partnership Agreement - 7 Annexure 8... Draft Limited Liability Partnership Agreement - 8 Annexure 9... Draft Limited Liability Partnership Agreement - 9 Annexure 10. Supplementary Limited Liability Partnership Agreement

··Awarded the Descartes Prize 2004 of the European Commission·· How do gender inequalities translate at the top of politics and business? Is the gender gap eliminated for the most influential players in industrial democratic society? This informed and compelling analysis examines the demographic characteristics, family circumstances and career paths of a group of elite women. The book is noteworthy for being one of the first empirically based studies of women elites. Drawing on a sample from no less than 27 countries, a convincing and highly original picture is constructed that informs readers of career paths, values, social networks and gender battles for women elites. Co-ordinated by Mino Vianello and Gwen Moore, the research fills in a huge gap about how power actually operates in industrial-democratic societies. It enables us to test the view that substantial equality between the sexes has been achieved in the twenty first century. It constitutes a landmark work, both in the study of gender difference and the analysis of power. The findings will be of interest to academics and advanced students in a wide range of disciplines including stratification, globalization, political science, international relations, gender, sociology, organizational studies and much more.