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Retain Talent Through Learning and Development

 

 

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The main functions of a learning and development department are to provide learning opportunities to employees, enrich their knowledge and skills, improve their personal cultivation, and help them develop their careers within the organization. The aim is to align employee goals and performance with the organization. To the surprise of many people, the ultimate objective of a learning and development department is to retain talents.

This book talks about the reasons for employees quitting their jobs, the different kinds of learning methods and course contents, trends in learning and development, how to change employees from forced learning to voluntary learning and how organizations can use learning and development as tools to retain talents.


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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion - A quantitative approach and in-depth analysis  

 

 

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The discourse surrounding Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) has gained significant traction, emerging as a complex and pressing issue today. Corporations, organizations, and governments are increasingly embracing EDI as a central tenet of their core values. At the heart of this movement is the pursuit of justice—a resolute commitment to dismantling systemic discrimination that has marginalized identifiable groups, including women, seniors, and visible minorities. The overarching aim is to redress historical imbalances by enhancing their representation across various spheres, such as employment and education.

This book undertakes a comprehensive examination of the multifaceted journey toward equity through diversity and inclusion. It advocates for organizations and governments to adopt a quantitative approach to diversity, offering illustrative examples to guide their efforts. By embracing these principles and adopting a quantitative perspective on diversity, organizations and governments can steer their endeavours toward a more equitable future.

 

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Residential Property Management

 

 

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In order to realize the maximum value of an investment property, effective property management is crucial to all owners. While most owners rely on agency or in-house property managers to take care of their properties, some will personally manage their own. Regardless, professional knowledge is required to attain maximum revenue with minimum costs and ensure that the property value is not placed in jeopardy.


This book is a practical guide that helps property managers, employees, and owners manage their residential rental buildings effectively and professionally, emphasizing the balance between responsibility and service to the owners and tenants.


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Real Estate Investment

 

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This book helps investors analyze the increasingly sophisticated real estate marketplace by studying properties from different angles, especially from the financial aspects. Simple investment calculations sufficed in the past, but investors in today’s real estate market must perform complex comparisons to get the best analyses for their investments.


Real estate professionals always emphasize the importance of the location of a property. Therefore, it is crucial to talk about real estate planning and development theories in this book. Financial professionals use the present value of future earnings as the benchmark for analyzing returns. Therefore, this book focuses on the estimation, analysis and comparison of cash flows and returns so that buyers and sellers can carefully study alternatives and make informed decisions.

This book provides investors and analysts with reliable tools to make sound decisions while acknowledging that solving individual situations requires flexibility and creativity.

 

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Life Lease

 

 

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Life lease is a relatively new concept in some jurisdictions. Most people, including real estate brokers and lawyers, may not be familiar with the operations of a life lease, and some people even have never heard about it. Since it is not common in many areas, there is a lack of legislation to protect consumers. However, the need for life lease communities has significantly increased due to the baby boomers. It is because most of the baby boomers can afford life lease style living and would buy them for their retirement life.


There are different life lease sponsors in the market. Although most of them are non-profit organizations, the prices, quality and services vary among them. I hope this book can help consumers select the right life lease community and provide the sponsors with some ideas to improve their business models.
 

 

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Entrepreneurship: Theories and Practices

 

 

 

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We learn business concepts, models, techniques, and theories from institutions and books. The topics are rich, and the common subjects include marketing, selling, and management. They are all valuable knowledge that all business people rely on to do their jobs, make important decisions, run their business and develop their enterprises. However, most of us will only utilize a few areas of those subjects as we are specialized in a particular job. An entrepreneur needs to know much more.


This book is a practical guide for entrepreneurs with critical theories. Its analysis starts from the stage before there is any product or service to the stage of expansion of a business. Through different stages, the entrepreneurs will be able to assess their own situation and prepare themselves accordingly. If you fail to prepare yourself, you will have to prepare to fail.

 

 

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Canadian Human Rights in a Nutshell

 

 

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The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that women were not “persons” according to the British North America Act so that women in Canada were ineligible for appointment to the Senate. There was a lack of human rights laws in Canada ...


Now, the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms set the basic framework of human rights protection that applies to every province and territory.

Human resources professionals should know how human rights affect their work.
 

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Differential Cogitation

 

 

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People always say “Think outside of the box!” and show you success stories of such a creative thinking method, but no one can show you exactly How to think outside of the box?


Learning how to think creatively is like learning how to drive a car. The engineers may tell you how a car works, the mechanism of an engine, the transmission, steering and braking systems. They may also tell you all the terminologies of a car, brake bias, fuel injection, PSI, etc. However, knowing all those things will not make you a good driver. People who say “Think outside of the box!” is like shouting “Drive Safe!” to a teenager without a driver’s license but tries to drive a car. They cannot help or teach the teenager how to drive just by telling them to do so.

A book that tells you how your brain works or how to define problem-solving techniques cannot help or teach you how to think creatively. In other words, you cannot think outside of the box just by knowing the terminologies and how our brain works. Differential Cogitation will tell you how to make your brain work and how to solve problems so that you can think like a CEO! Become a Professional Problem Solver!
 

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Why Do Some Franchises Fail

 

 

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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary and Oxford dictionary, an entrepreneur is basically the one “who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business.” Simply speaking, an entrepreneur is a business owner who also manages the business personally. Therefore, owning a franchise business also fits into the idea of entrepreneurship. However, not all franchisors are good, and not all franchisors will succeed for long. This book tells you why.


Most mistakes made by the franchisors are related to the operations of their franchise business (the franchisors’ operations) and not to those of their own business (the franchisees’ operations). The purpose of this book is to reveal the common mistakes that franchisors make so that these unfortunate failures will not happen again.

If you are a prospective franchisee, you will benefit from understanding the logic behind franchise businesses to aid you in making wise decisions.


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Fatal Mistakes in Home Buying and Real Estate Investment

 

 

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Most of the failures in home buying and real estate investment were due to uninformed decisions. Those people either bought the wrong type of property or simply missed the opportunity to make big profits from it. That is, buying or not buying real estate can both be a mistake, and may cost you money.


Many of the mistakes made by those people stem from the myths shared among friends and relatives, as such, they can be avoided. The purpose of this book is to tell you the facts so that you can prevent those unfortunate failures from happening.
If you don't make any of these mistakes, your success is guaranteed!

 

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Feng Shui 123 (Second Edition)

 

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All books containing information about traditional Feng Shui are ancient books written in Literary Chinese (an ancient written Chinese in a very short form, even many Chinese people would have difficulties in understanding them). Many of these books have been explained in modern Chinese and translated into English (such as Yi Jing), but still, they are too difficult and abstract for beginners.


Most of the modern Feng Shui books are written in Chinese only. The majority of them were written by the masters from different streams, the authors used only the theories that they believed. Other books were published by editors, most of them consolidated different theories into the books with contradictions - a result of poor editing. All the above makes self-studying Feng Shui very difficult.
 
Following a Feng Shui master may be a good way to learn Feng Shui.  Unfortunately, the master-apprentice system has been destroyed by our fast moving industrial society. People do not have the patience to learn full-time for more than a decade before practicing. Moreover, many masters do not teach their students all they know, they teach only their children their secret theories.  That is, they will keep some theories as their secrets and will only tell their own children. This further damaged the master-apprentice system.
 
Moreover, learning from a master limits knowledge to that particular stream.  Unlike other academic subjects, Feng Shui masters do not teach or advocate theories that do not belong to their school. This further limits the flow of Feng Shui knowledge.

 

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Real Estate Everyone Can Afford It (Second Edition)


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This practical guide to real estate investment is easy to read and understand. Packed with innovative ideas and typical examples, this book can assist homebuyers to fulfill their dreams and help real estate investors to establish their real estate kingdom even under the toughest market conditions. This book will show you how to:

Invest $1 and get an instant return of $7, absolutely risk-free.
Select from more than three practical "no money down" methods to buy real estate.
Buy real properties when the house prices are far above your budget.
Flip lands with the least amount of money.
Take benefit of mortgages.
Deal with foreclosure properties.

Calculate return on investment and cash flow correctly.
Evaluate properties easily but professionally.

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Basic Feng Shui Guide

 

 

 

 

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This basic Feng Shui guide informs you of the common Feng Shui problems that you may come across and what types of property you should avoid from buying.

It contains mainly the excerpts from another book "Feng Shui 123" and talks about traditional and genuine Feng Shui theories. This guide is good for real estate agents, home buyers, business owners and all other people who are interested in Feng Shui and want to see if there are any Feng Shui problems in their properties.

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