Organizational Behavior is designed to help students, professionals, and managers develop the competencies and skills that are needed to effectively contribute to an organization. This proven text's strengths lie in its classic research, coverage of contemporary and emerging OB topics, and excellent case selection. Throughout the text, seven core competencies-Managing Self, Managing Diversity, Managing Ethics, Managing Across Cultures, Managing Teams, Managing Communications, and Managing Change-are emphasized and illustrated for the student.

Esta obra plantea el entrenamiento de los principios tacticos defensivos, a traves de tareas integradas que procuren la mejora simultanea de los aspectos tecnicos, tacticos, fisicos y psicologicos. La estructura metodologica de estas actividades, requiere una practica cercana a la situacion real de competicion, y en la que se establezcan los procesos de relacion interna propios del juego, con el objetivo fundamental de que el jugador fomente y potencie el pensamiento tactico y la capacidad de juego, debido esencialmente a una continua toma de decisiones. La obra esta compuesta por una primera parte de fundamentacion, que describe de forma clara, la relacion entre entrenamiento integrado y desarrollo de la tactica defensiva. La segunda parte, de caracter totalmente practico, consta de 450 actividades practicas de facil aplicacion al trabajo diario

This book includes all the papers presented at a second World Congress of Science and Football (Liverpool 1987) (Eindhoven).

In this book an international group of sports scientists examine the major sports and the physiological demands of each.

Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time -- the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world are so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they became a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller. The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, The Bridges of Madison County gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere -- and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.

Research Methods in Sports Coaching is a key resource for any student, researcher or practitioner wishing to undertake research into sports coaching. It takes the reader through each phase of the research process, from identifying valuable research questions, to data collection and analyses, to the presentation and dissemination of research findings. It is the only book to focus on the particular challenges and techniques of sports coaching research, with each chapter including examples, cases and scenarios from the real world of sports coaching. The book introduces and explores important philosophical, theoretical and practical considerations in conducting coaching research, including contextual discussions about why it’s important to do sports coaching research, how to judge the quality of coaching research, and how sports coaching research might meet the needs of coaching practitioners. Written by a team of leading international scholars and researchers from the UK, US, Canada and Australia, and bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book is an essential course text for any research methods course taken as part of a degree programme in sports coaching or coach education.

The second edition of this broadly based book continues to examine and update the basic and applied aspects of strength and power in sport from the neurophysiology of the basic motor unit to training for specific activities. Authorship is, again, international and includes leading physiologists and clinicians.