Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Amrine et al. Manufacturing Organization and Management, 6/e

Author(s):
Harold T Amrine
John A. Ritchey
Colin L. Moodie
Joseph F Kmec


Pages:640
Imprint:Pearson Education
Binding:Paperback


1993 copy right, reprinted in India, third impression 2009







Table of Content

THE MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT.
Productivity and Manufacturing Management.
Background of Manufacturing Management.
Modern Manufacturing Management.
ENGINEERING CONSIDERATIONS.
Engineering Functions and Activities.
Research and Development.
THE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM.
Organization and Planning for Manufacturing.
Design of Manufacturing Processes.
Industrial Equipment.
Industrial Maintenance.
Methods Engineering.
Work Measurement.
Materials Handling.
Physical Facilities.
MANUFACTURING COST CONTROL.
Fundamentals of Control.
Cost Control.
MATERIALS FLOW CONTROL.
Inventory Management and Control.
Purchasing.
Production Planning and Control.
QUALITY.
Quality Assurance.
Quality Control.
HUMAN RESOURCES.
Human Resource Management.
Labor Relations.
Wage and Salary Administration.
FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS.
Forms of Ownership.
Financial Management.
MARKETING MANAGEMENT.
Marketing.
Sales.


http://www.pearsoned.co.in/web/books/9788177582758_Manufacturing-Organization-and-Management_Harold-T-Amrine.aspx



You can preview the book in Google books

http://books.google.com/books?id=LzfVL6ge_MwC

Friday, November 25, 2011

Poor Economics - A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty - BIR

Authors
Esther Duflo
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics
MIT

Book website
http://pooreconomics.com/

Article about the book in Corporate Dossier, 25 November 2011
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/features/corporate-dossier/guru-speak-worlds-poor-want-better-nutrition-as-well-as-fun/articleshow/10859158.cms

£30,000 prize for the book
the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a8af73e6-0623-11e1-a079-00144feabdc0.html

Preview the book in Google Books
http://books.google.com/books/about/Poor_Economics.html?id=Tj0TF0IHIyAC

Book Review by William Easterly
Professor Economics at New York University
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703956904576287262026843944.html