Administrative Office Management continues to provide students with the most up-to-date information reflecting contemporary management thinking, issues,... and trends that every office employee needs to know. The text provides a strong management-based background while utilizing a humanistic approach for managing and supervising staff in an office environment. The Short Course contains 15 chapters, as opposed to 20 chapters in the Complete Course.

This popular casebook, with its unique approach focusing on real problems and real administrative practice, is now out in a new edition. The latest... Supreme Court cases and the hottest issues, like the ethical issues involved in the torture memos, have been added. The new edition, however, retains its distinctive characteristics of using problems as the primary pedagogical tool, including problems that do not involve courts; raising the ethical issues peculiar to government lawyers; and orienting the course around administrative law practice, rather than theory. While theory is not ignored, it arises out of the crucible of reality-based problems, providing a basis for students to appreciate the theory.

Coaches and athletic program administrators face a wide array of challenges as they attempt to ensure that their programs are efficient and effective.... Difficult decisions are made on a daily basis regarding issues such as facility scheduling, fundraising, travel budgeting, and marketing. Their decisions concerning those and other matters determine a programs current and future success. This book guides future practitioners and current professionals in adapting the tools utilised by todays top business managers to assist them in meeting the demands they face on a daily basis. In developing this second edition, Dr Richard Leonard, a former coach himself at the collegiate level, updated the concepts of coaching administration to include the most recent business models and applied those theories to the professions of coaching and athletic program administration. While the foundational information from the widely adopted first edition remains intact, this new edition offers a greater focus on practical application of coaching administration. Updates include: new chapter designs; contemporary support references; additional administrative philosophies; a more comprehensive coverage of the individual topics of coaching administration. Ancillary materials available to instructors who adopt this textbook include a PowerPoint file with summaries, key terms, discussion questions, and application exercises from each chapter; an instructors supplement; and suggested term projects.

Administrative Topics in Athletic Training: Concepts to Practice is a dynamic text that addresses important administrative issues and procedures as well... as fundamental concepts, strategies, and techniques related to the management of all aspects of an athletic training health care delivery system. Unlike traditional organization and administration textbooks, this text delivers a multitude of content focused on classical management theory. Drs. Gary Harrelson, Greg Gardner, and Andrew Winterstein have presented a balance of theory and application in Administrative Topics in Athletic Training: Concepts to Practice, including case studies and scenarios in each chapter to help students realize immediate application of the content. Content areas covered include: • Leadership and management theory and concepts • Risk management and legal issues • Finance • Human Resources • Ethical issues • Athletic Training Administration • Medical records and documentation • Insurance and reimbursement • Organizational skills • Improving organizational performance • Employment issues • Case studies Unique benefits and features include: • Extensive discussion of management theory • Chapters on ethics and risk management • Strong focus on professional development issues • Presentation of unique reimbursement models • Discussion of issues in the educational setting With its valuable information, insightful theoretical concepts, helpful models, and practical case studies, Administrative Topics in Athletic Training: Concepts to Practice is a valuable text for any undergraduate, entry-level, or graduate education program in athletic training.

Nearly a decade ago, NCTM published Administrator's Guide: How to Support and Improve Mathematics Education in Your School. This updated Administrator's... Guide now positions school and district leaders to make sense of the past decade's many recommendations, with special emphasis on the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.Focusing on similarities between these new standards and those outlined in NCTM's influential Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, this handbook efficiently highlights reasoning processes that are essential in any high-quality mathematics program. Students who know these processes are set to do math in any context, real or abstract.Research indicates that many individuals within a school can and do contribute to the work of leading and managing a school. This guide can support anyone who is working to improve mathematics education either alone or with others.Make the most of the rare opportunity that the Common Core State Standards offer for rethinking school mathematics and creating exciting new pathways from high school to college and beyond.Includes answers to Frequently Asked Questions; and detailed lists of resources to support school mathematics programs.

This "how-to" resource gives K-12 school principals and other supervisory personnel a comprehensive action plan for improving teaching, student... achievement, and student test scores. Step-by-step, the author shows the reader all aspects of teaching standards that make students achieve and be successful, how to organize professional development that impacts school achievement, and how to match the curriculum to student achievement. Included are over 80 full-page forms, checklists and handouts that can be used as is or readily adapted to fit the user s needs.

Tested in hundreds of classrooms, this text is a student favorite that brings eight classical models of decision making to life, creating useful tools... in developing strategies to solve real-life problems. The frameworks include; classical, administrative, incremental, mixes scanning, political, and garbage can models as well as two models of shared decision making. After illustrating the use of these decision-making models to analyze and develop solution strategies, students have the opportunity to explore about fifty actual cases to build their own analyses and solution strategies. New, contemporary cases have been added to this edition throughout the text as well as a final chapter that encourages cooperative learning by incorporating a comprehensive case study to be handled as a group project.      

This Hornbook is a handy, streamlined one-volume abridgement of the 5th edition of Schoenbaum's comprehensive Practitioners' treatise on Admiralty and... Maritime Law. The Hornbook covers the essential topics of jurisdiction, admiralty rules and practice, maritime torts, seamen's remedies, maritime workers' compensation, carriage of goods by sea in international trade, charter parties, towage, pilotage, salvage, collision and limitation of liablility. Ideal for students and those wanting an introduction to this important field of law, this book places emphasis on the international aspects of maritime law.

This new casebook, written in "stand alone" fashion for maximum customization by instructors, provides a pragmatic look at contemporary admiralty... practice as well as a solid foundation for students contemplating a maritime law career. In assembling the text, the authors have drawn from a mix of older and newer cases, edited with a light touch, and even added touches of humor and references to popular culture. They also have:incorporated generous amounts of material from "emerging" areas of admiralty practice (such as cruise ship and pleasure boat claims);given equal time to "brown water" and "blue water" issues;devoted considerable attention to professional ethics;prepared chapter overviews, extensive notes, numerous cites to secondary sources, and a comprehensive index to help guide students through the readings; andincluded in each of the book's 62 sections a challenging problem (as well as a "citing" decision) to stimulate classroom discussion.

Lucas’ casebook provides detailed information on admiralty. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University... Casebook Series®, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases.

Addresses maritime tort law, collision law, worker injury claims, wrongful death, and platform injuries. Explores maritime property liens and the... seaman's employment contract, wages, and compromise of claims. Discusses marine insurance, towage and pilotage, salvage, and general average. Also covers sovereign immunity; joint and several liability, indemnity, and contribution; liability limitations; and jurisdiction and procedure in maritime claims.