OECD Economic Surveys : China [online]

Author: OECD

"Finds that China's spectacular expansion has continued in recent years, making for impressive improvements in living standards. The slowdown associated with the global financial and economic crisis was contained by massive fiscal and monetary policy stimulus, which has boosted domestic demand. This survey includes chapters on recent achievements and prospects, monetary policy, financial reforms, product market regulation and competition, inequality, the labour market, old-age security and the health care system. " - abstract.

Executive remuneration in Australia [book]

Author: Australia. Productivity Commission

The Commission's final recommendations constitute an integrated package of reforms that would strengthen board decision-making on executive remuneration, by reducing board 'clubbiness', removing potential for conflicts of interest and enhancing accountability for pay outcomes. Shareholders would get better information and would have more 'say on pay'.

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Available at: Australia. Productivity Commission. Inquiry Report; No 49 (December 2009)

Best practice board reporting : handbook [Ref Standard]

Author: Standards Australia

Provides guidelines on the content, presentation and other features of information presented in board reports, so that Board members can discharge their duties in the best interest of the entity. It is directed at board members, its key stakeholders and those involved in the preparation of the reports.

Find it at: Ref Standard HB 403:2004

Coping with toxic managers, subordinates, and other difficult people [book]

Author: Roy H. Lubit.

Many managers engage in destructive behavior that does considerable harm to their subordinates, their organization and eventually themselves. Whether they are narcissistic, unethical, rigid or aggressive, or simply depressed/anxious/burned out, working with them can be a nightmare. Moreover, they can do serious damage to their organizations by diverting energy from productive work, damaging cooperation and knowledge sharing, impairing retention of the best people, weakening morale, and making poor business decisions.

In Coping with Toxic Managers, psychiatrist and organizational consultant Dr. Roy Lubit shows you how to develop your emotional intelligence and protect yourself and your organization from the destructive impact of toxic managers.

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Call number: 650.13 COP 2004

Research companion to the dysfunctional workplace : management challenges and symptoms [book]

Editors: Janice Langan-Fox, Cary L. Cooper, & Richard J. Klimoski

"From personality disorders to wars over 'territory', this book chronicles and reveals the true nature of often hidden workplace problems including bullying, unethical behaviour, loss of trust, organizational deviance, cowardice, workaholism, negative humour and emotions, mismanagement, and malfunctioning performance and selection systems." - cover.

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Call number: 658.3045 RES 2008

Clever : leading your smartest, most creative people [book]

Authors: Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones

Research shows that a handful of star performers create disproportionate amounts of value for their organizations. They aren't defined by their IQ or their academic credentials. And they aren't "free-agent" types who create value on their own. Rather, they are highly talented, extraordinary thinkers who need their organizations' commercial and financial resources to fulfill their potential.". "Leadership and change experts Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones call these invaluable individuals 'clevers'. They can be brilliant, difficult - and sometimes even dangerous. Your organization's competitiveness depends on how well you lead them, but traditional leadership strategies won't be effective. In Clever, Goffee and Jones outline a set of unconventional guidelines for setting up your clevers - and your organization - for success.

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Call number: 658.4092 CLE 2009

Reforming capital gains tax : the myths and reality behind Australia's most misunderstood tax [book]

Author: Stephen Kirchner, Centre for Independent Studies

"Argues for further reform of capital gains tax, building on the approach taken by the Ralph reforms a decade ago. Reform options include a flat tax rate for capital gains, the abolition of minimum holding periods for concessional tax treatment, and the reinstatement of the indexation of capital gains for inflation." - page 2.

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Available in journal collection @ Centre for Independent Studies (Australia). CIS Policy Monograph; No 103 (November 2009)

Unrealised gains : the competitive possibilities of tax reform [book]
Author: Business Council of Australia

The Business Council of Australia's final submission to the Australia's future tax system review, chaired by Dr Ken Henry.
"Calls for a tax system that maximises community wealth. Among the reforms proposed in Unrealised Gains are lower corporate tax and lower taxes on local savings, measures that support a shift in focus over time away from taxing the means of production to taxing consumption. In the tougher economic environment of the next decade, our biggest growth opportunity will come from attracting a larger share of scarce global investment capital.Lower corporate tax and lower tax on local savings will boost investment. And higher investment in turn will raise productivity, wages and living standards over the next 20 years." - publisher's website.

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Call number: 336.2050994 UNR 2009

Tourism development and the environment : beyond sustainability? [book]

Author: Richard Sharpley

Challenges the sustainable tourism development paradigm that has come to dominate both theoretical and practical approaches to tourism development over the last two decades. It extends the sustainable tourism debate beyond the arguably managerialist 'blueprint' and destination-focused approach that continues to characterise even the most recent 'sustainability' agenda within tourism development.

Reviewing the evolution of the sustainable tourism development concept, its contemporary manifestations in academic literature and policy developments and processes, the author compares its limitations to prevailing political-economic, socio-cultural and environmental contexts.

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Call number: 338.4791 TOU 2009

Think your boss is incompetent? You're probably right. (journal article)
By Mark Buchanan
From New Scientist, 12/19/2009, Vol. 204, Issue 2739
"The article focuses on the idea that high-level incompetence is inevitable in people who are promoted. It argues that people are promoted for performing their jobs more than expected, but when they perform their new roles, incompetence arises. The author adds that a promotion may likely regress the baseline competence of a person, including his or her morale. Details of a study on why people who get promoted become incompetent are also presented."

Venture Capital and Later Stage Private Equity, Australia, 2008-09
Source: ABS 5678.0
The survey provides details of venture capital and later stage private equity activity from venture capital and later stage private equity fund managers. The information includes in broad terms fund commitments and drawdowns by source of funds, assets and liabilities of the venture capital and later stage private equity funds, financing flows between the funds and their investors and investee companies and the stage and industry characteristics of venture capital deals undertaken during the latest financial year.

Boulevard of broken dreams : why public efforts to boost entrepreneurship and venture capital have failed--and what to do about it [book]
Author: Josh Lerner
"When has governmental sponsorship succeeded in boosting growth, and when has it fallen terribly short? Should the government be involved in such undertakings at all? Boulevard of Broken Dreams is the first extensive look at the ways governments have supported entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across decades and continents. Josh Lerner, one of the foremost experts in the field, provides valuable insights into why some public initiatives work while others are hobbled by pitfalls, and he offers suggestions for how public ventures should be implemented in the future." - cover.
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Call number: 338.04 BOU 2009

Ford's principles of corporations law, 14th ed. [book]

Authors: R. P. Austin & I. M. Ramsay

"Responds to recent Australian Commonwealth legislation, including legislation dealing with rights issues, the powers of the Takeovers Panel, the rights and obligations of external administrators of companies, and cross-border insolvency." - cover.
Sections include: Companies and Company Law, A Company as a Corporate Entity, The Law of Corporate Governance, Corporate Liability, Corporate Finance, Corporate Control and Restructuring, and External Administration.

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Call number: 346.94066 FOR 2010

How markets fail : the logic of economic calamities [book]

Author: John Cassidy

Why are financial markets and housing markets so prone to bubbles? Why doesn't rising prosperity make people happier? Why do many people contribute generously to charity but fail to save for their own retirement? What is the economic answer to global warming? These questions all involve behaviour that many would regard as irrational - and market outcomes that are far from ideal.
Standard economics has been dominated by rational choice models, which regard the free market as a giant super-computer that magically coordinates the activities of consumers and firms, to the benefit of all. Using fascinating new insights from behavioural economics, and vivid contemporary and historical examples, Cassidy shows how people's myopia, gullibility, copycat behaviour, overconfidence, loss aversion, and sense of altruism and fairness all help us understand the world in ways that rational choice economics does not.
This is the book that both explains the current moment and explains past and future such moments. We will continue to get things wrong. But at least now we will be having the right conversation.

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Call number: 330.01 HOW 2009

Australia and the global economy [book]

Editors: Tony Ciro, Bruno Mascitelli, Siva Muthaly

"Re-examines the importance of international trade and globalisation to the Australian economy. In 2008-2009 the world witnessed a spectacular collapse of confidence in financial markets. Many thought that the world would re-enter into a Great Depression. Fearing the worst, governments, central bankers and policy makers devised stimulus measures designed to increase consumer spending and industrial production." - cover.

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Call number: 337.94 AUS 2009

Winning and losing in business [audio CD]

Author: Michael Schildberger / Business Essentials

Introduction -- Economic update -- Winning and losing in business -- Marketing : think differently -- Where the property market is heading -- Convincing customers to buy -- Tax update -- Survey reveals poor cash flow tracking -- Sharemarket update -- Workplace stress : friend or foe?

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Invisible hand versus visible fist :securing the future wealth of nations [book]

Author: P.J. O'Rourke

In the 25th John Bonython lecture, PJ O’Rourke presents his view of the economic and financial crisis that is shaking the world. In a tour de force from Adam Smith to Bulgarian blue jeans, from Chicken Little to Barack Obama, O’Rourke solves the problems of our time. What is still puzzling to the world’s leaders becomes clear when seen through the eyes of America’s leading satirist.
PJ O’Rourke’s answer to a decline in the value of speculative assets? To pay less for them. And what should be done about the recession? Nothing. Because the cure is worse than the disease.

Find it in the journal collection, at Centre for Independent Studies (Australia). CIS Occasional Paper; No 115 (December 2009) or
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Coaching for better results: key practices of high performance leaders (journal article)
By Clinton O. Longenecker
from Industrial and Commercial Training Vol 42 Iss 1 2010, pp. 32- 40
"The purpose of this paper is to explore the issue of workplace coaching and offers insight into the various coaching practices that are necessary to produce better employee performance and results."

Role of HR in the new world of sustainability (journal article)
By Isabel Rimanoczy and Tony Pearson
from Industrial and Commercial Training Vol 42 Iss 1 2010, pp. 11- 17
"The purpose of the paper is to assess the strategic role that the human resource department (HRD) can play in the development and implementation of an organization's sustainability program. "

Five reasons why 100% pure is so successful (journal article)
from NZ Marketing Magazine, 01/09/2009, pp. 22-28
"The article presents five reasons why the 100% Pure marketing campaign of Tourism New Zealand (TNZ) is successful. It is stated that the brand has consistency, with the format, logo, message and imagery being the same since the beginning. It is noted that the campaign has authenticity as TNZ has put effort in improving the quality of tourism operators. The author shares that TNZ focused on key markets such as Europe, the U.S. and Japan and identified one type of tourist in each."