Short Term Financial Management or Work Motivation

Short-Term Financial Management

Author: Terry Maness

Short-term financial management skills are increasingly important. Written by authors who both hold Certified Cash Managers credentials, this comprehensive book offers broad coverage of treasury and working capital management, while using valuation and the cash flow timeline as integrating themes. Its complete coverage includes current developments in treasury management, banking deregulation, globalization of financial services delivery, e-commerce, international cash management and foreign exchange risk—all with a decision-making emphasis throughout. In addition, Short-Term Financial Management highlights examples of companies using the Internet for treasury management and other emerging trends.

Go to: Losing Hearts and Minds or The Econometric Modelling of Financial Time Series

Work Motivation: History, Theory, Research, and Practice (Foundations for Organizational Science Series)

Author: Gary P Latham

Work Motivation: History, Theory, Research, and Practice provides unique behavioral science frameworks for motivating employees in organizational settings. Drawing upon his experiences as a staff psychologist in and consultant to organizations, author Gary P. Latham has written this book in a "mentor voice" that is highly personal and rich in examples, including enduring influences of mentors on researchers in the field.

Key features:

• Includes anecdotes concerning the major thought leaders in the field such as Bandura, Frese, Hough, Judge, Kanfer, Lawler, Locke, Pinder, Rousseau, and Vroom, with behind-the-scenes accounts from North America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
• Offers a chronological review of research and theories of motivation in the workplace from the end of the 19th century to the present.
• Provides a taxonomy for the study and practice of motivation covering needs, values, work setting, goals, moods, and emotions.

This is an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying work motivation in the departments of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : thirteen critical incidents in the life of a scientist/practitioner
Pt. I	The 20th century : understanding the past	1
Ch. 1	1900-1925 : biology, behavior, and money	3
Ch. 2	1925-1950 : Dust Bowl empiricism	13
Ch. 3	1950-1975 : the emergence of theory	27
Ch. 4	1975-2000 : the employee is immersed in thought	59
Ch. 5	20th-century controversies	99
Pt. II	The 21st century : examining the present 2000-2005	125
Ch. 6	Needs : the starting point of motivation	127
Ch. 7	Personality traits : distal predictors of motivation	133
Ch. 8	Values : trans-situational goals	149
Ch. 9	Cognition : goals, feedback, and self-regulation	175
Ch. 10	Social cognitive theory	207
Ch. 11	Affect/emotion : the employee has feelings too	221
Pt. III	Future directions and potential misdirections	241
Ch. 12	Boundaryless psychology	243
Pt. IV	Epilogue	263
Ch. 13	The art of practice	265