The Learning Alliance or The Legal Environment of Business

The Learning Alliance: Systems Thinking in Human Resource Development

Author: Stephen J Gill

Through numerous examples, this guide illustrates how you and your managers can work together to combine and implement systems technology with just-in-time and just-enough-learning strategies.

Step-by-step guidance and hands-on tools help you to:

• Implement each stage of the training process?from goal setting to follow-up and maintenance
• Produce and sustain measurable, consistently effective results

Plus, you'll get a comprehensive checklist for conducting an organizational training audit and getting started. Use this guide to get your organization's systems on track today!

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	The Authors
1	Beyond the Classroom: A Systems Approach to Organizational Learning	1
2	Facilitating the Learning Process: New Roles for Trainers	21
3	Barriers to Learning: Training Myths That Get in the Way	39
4	Impact Mapping: Creating a Shared Vision Among Stakeholders	59
5	Getting to the Heart of the Business: Principles for Highly Effective Training	77
6	Linking Training to Business Goals	91
7	Maintaining Customer Focus	109
8	Using Systems Thinking to Integrate Work and Learning	125
9	Using Measurement and Feedback for Continuous Improvement	151
10	Making the Paradigm Shift	168
	References	181
	Index	185

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The Legal Environment of Business

Author: Michael B Bixby

Our new text, The Legal Environment of Business, emphasizes students acquiring practical knowledge, not just memorizing concepts never to be used again. Our goal is to provide a book that students and professors will enjoy reading — a book that shows the relevancy of the law to current and future businesspeople.

• In Consultation

  
  The book contains ten scenarios based on contemporary legal issues in business, featuring detailed conversations between a manager and the firm's lawyer about the legal problem the business is facing.

• A Memo From Your Lawyer

  
  Several times in each chapter the authors give practical advice directly to the students concerning a legal issue examined in the chapter.

• Practical Exercises

  
  Each chapter concludes with a situation that calls for students to prepare a written memo in response, using legal terms and concepts explained in the chapter.

• Social/Ethical Issues

  
  Every chapter contains boxes asking the students to critically analyze the ethical, social, and public policy implications of certain legal principles and issues discussed in the chapter.

• Excerpted Cases

  
  Three or four court cases are excerpted in each chapter that deal with relevant legal issues. These cases have been carefully edited to remove previously undefined legal terminology.

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In the 22 chapters, the authors discuss the global, legal, regulatory, political, and social environment of business; legal issues in business organizations; common law subjects and their contemporary dimensions; legal issues involving consumers, competitors, and suppliers; legal rights of consumers, debtors, and creditors; and employer/employee legal issues. Each chapter contains three or four court cases that deal with relevant issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)