Intro to Information Technology
Author: Efrain Turban
Introduction to Information Technology second edition is based on the fundamental premise that the major role of information technology (IT) is to support employees, regardless of their functional area (e.g. sales, marketing, accounting, HR) or level in the organization. The unique theme of "What's in IT for me/ IT's About Business" provides relevance for majors and non-majors. The text takes a hands-on approach with the popular Virtual Company, has strong coverage of e-commerce, an excellent variety and volume of examples, a strong website with real world applications and cases, and a presentation that makes the material accessible through an attractive design. The text shows IT through a global perspective and emphasizes the importance of making connections among individuals, groups and organizations. The text is ideal for undergraduate business majors with no prerequisite computer courses, and the new edition builds upon the advantages of the previous edition by further tying the text together with the online material.
Interesting textbook: Leadership Through the Ages or The Oster Conspiracy of 1938
Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market
Author: Richard Layard
Why has unemployment fallen in some countries and not in others? This classic book is now re-issued with an updated introduction, which shows how well the analysis explains recent developments. The book is both a textbook and an original monograph in which the authors set out their analytic framework which has now become standard in some countries. The book both explains unemployment and shows how it can be reduced. It contains a long overview chapter which is accessible to any non-specialist with an elementary knowledge of economics.
"Convincingly refutes the idea that countries have no choice but to live with high unemployment."--The Economist
Table of Contents:
| 1 | Overview | 1 |
| 2 | Wage-bargaining and unions | 83 |
| 3 | Efficiency wages | 150 |
| 4 | Wage behaviour : the evidence | 173 |
| 5 | Job search : the duration of unemployment | 216 |
| 6 | Mismatch : the structure of unemployment | 285 |
| 7 | The pricing and employment behaviour of firms | 336 |
| 8 | The macroeconomics of unemployment | 361 |
| 9 | Explaining post-war unemployment in OECD countries | 397 |
| 10 | Policies to cut unemployment | 471 |
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