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NEW EDITIONS OF LOMA 330
MANAGEMENT AND STATISTICS TEXTS AVAILABLE
ATLANTA,
GEORGIA, UNITED STATES - MAY 31, 2007 - LOMA, the leading trade association
to the international insurance and financial services industry and worldwide
leader in learning and professional development, announces new editions of its
Management and Statistics textbooks for LOMA 330: Management Principles and
Practices. Both texts are assigned reading for the course.
Management
Principles and Practices, Third Edition (2007), authored by Robert Kreitner,
is co-published by LOMA and Houghton Mifflin Custom Publishing. An engaging and
readable overview of management theory, research, and practice, the text
includes many new topics of relevance, including "offshoring" of jobs;
new technology to watch; competencies for successful cross-cultural adaptation;
new data on ethics training; and pointers for conducing successful meetings. The
text has an overriding focus on change and emphasizes skill development,
managing diversity, and ethical concerns.
Statistics
and Decision Sciences in Information Management, Second Edition (2007),
was authored by Elizabeth A. Mulligan, FLMI, FLHC, PCS, AAPA, AIRC, ARA, AIAA,
PAHM, and is designed to give readers a basic understanding of how information
captured by information systems is presented to, and used by, decision makers in
insurance and financial services companies.
LOMA
330: Management Principles and Practices is one course within LOMA's
award-winning Fellow, Life Management Institute (FLMI) Program curriculum, which
provides key knowledge of how the insurance industry operates. The 10 self-study
courses deliver a comprehensive business education in the context of the
insurance and financial services industry. The FLMI Program features a solid
introduction to industry terms, functional areas, processes, and area- and
product-specific knowledge in marketing, administration and financial reporting.
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LOMA:
Established in 1924, with 1,200 plus member companies in over 80 countries,
LOMA is committed to a business partnership with its world-wide members in the
insurance and financial services industry to improve their management and
operations through quality employee development, research, information sharing,
and related products and services. To find out more about LOMA and the learning
opportunities it offers, visit LOMA's Web site at www.loma.org. |
