Organisational theory and behaviour Books

Embracing listening as a useful tool for strengthening organization-publics and organization-employee relationships, this book offers theoretical and practical insights for listening across myriad strategic communication contexts.

Leadership has gone through many changes in the last couple of decades. We have realized that outstanding leadership is not about being authoritarian and exercising control. It is not only about the intelligence quotient (IQ) but also about emotional...

This book examines how business schools seek to honour the ambition to both teach scientifically verified theories and practically useful concepts and models, and how the tensions derived from this duality may be problematic to handle.

This research monograph indicates how factors of smart organizations in local administration lead to sustainable and resilient development processes.

This book interweaves the postmodern approach to management studies and, based on its innovative research, reintroduces moral pragmatism in Business Ethics.

The book explores the rise of neo-liberalization in academic system in a highly unlikely place: Sweden, a country with a strong social democratic tradition and a long history of state regulation of higher education.

The purpose of this book is to investigate gender diversity practices and discourse developed by listed companies in Turkey. It pursues this aim by advancing knowledge about business relations affecting workplace gender diversity.

Sexuality in the Swedish Police is based on the experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual police officers and the author's observations of police work. Written at the intersection of organizational, gender, and police studies, the book analyses how...

Completely revised with fresh examples and all new chapters, the second edition of Red-Hot Cold Call Selling reveals the secrets, strategies, and tips readers can use to elevate their prospecting skills and take their sales into the stratosphere.

Absolute Honesty shows how to establish and maintain a culture where honest communication is the norm, and employees can speak openly without fear of retribution. The book illustrates the impact that truthfulness and accountability can have on...

This scholarly book in SIOP's Organizational Frontier series looks at research on enhancing knowledge acquisition and its application in organizations. It concentrates on training, design and delivery given the changing nature of work and organizations...

This book presents a comprehensive cross-section of experienced professionals who discuss their efforts to fully integrate employee assistance, work/life, and wellness services.

How do leaders learn to lead? How do leaders set themselves up for success? This book explores the real-life experiences of a wide variety of leaders from different industries, sectors, and countries to bring to light new lessons on the importance of...

This volume provides new perspectives on assessing the performance of nonprofit organizations whilst meeting the information needs of decision-makers, both internal and external.

This volume explores how practical wisdom can be conceptualised and applied to practices that respond to the life-worldly realities of organisations. At the same time, it relates to praxis understood as situated conduct in an ethico-political...

This book was written as the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began to have a devastating effect on employment across the globe. The crisis has served to highlight many deepseated, often longstanding challenges to employment relationships. These include...

This book explores the identified research gap and new field of study of organizational reliability. It develops a definition and theoretical internal structure of the notion of organizational reliability as well as a theoretical background...

For any company, defining the most efficient marketing concept to create a competitive customer experience (CX) is vital for sustained development. The focus of this research is the creation of a comprehensible practical approach to the development of...

The result of half a century of research and experimentation in economics and management, this Treatise is intended for management practitioners. Socio-economic management (SEAM) makes the demands of humanism in professional life and sustainable economic...

The Leadership Leap: Transforming Managers into Visionaries by Maxwell Stonebridge is a groundbreaking guide designed to elevate your leadership skills to new heights. As the business landscape becomes more complex, fast-paced, and uncertain, the...

After more than a decade of service with the same employer, and more than 30 years of experience, Marcy Rich thought she had positioned herself for inevitable career advancement. After obtaining her master’s degree, attending extra-curricular...

Emotional Tornados in Your Workplace Can Be Just as Destructive as the Natural KindIf your company employs human beings, there are emotions at work. Emotions are part your company's culture and need to be as astutely managed as any other potential...

Walking down a dirt path to a desired destination, every one of us has several options. One option is to get discouraged by the distance to the desired destination but these rarely arrive in a timely manner if at all. Some not only decide to give up,...

This book brings to life the classic thought experiment of a natural state. Provides data on the economic aspects of social conflict of 400.000 people living in a virtual anarchy; showing evil actions and rules exist from an economic perspective...

This monograph aims to develop a theoretical framework for regional CU and empirically verify this framework based on ICT clusters in Europe. It advances the theory of upgrading by linking the VC governance and capability approaches, broadening the...

This book presents seven internal dimensions that have a direct impact on an organization's global competitiveness and sustainability: purpose, leadership, passion, people-centered, customer-centric, infrastructure, and viability. A useful read for...

This co-edited volume examines the history, policies, economics and various regulations of digitalisation in Turkey. Covering all the relevant aspects of digitalisation, this book will be of interest to academics and students, particularly to those with...

This book discusses the existing management approaches for dealing with changes -- namely readiness, maturity, and resilience. Although these concepts have been discussed for several years now, their importance grows when companies must deal with...

Managing in Organisations is a concise, accessible and practical approach to the difficult job of line management. It offers a kit of management tools and a range of worked examples that can be used to address the key tasks that managers face in the...

This pathbreaking book, written by leading thinker in gender and organisations, Elisabeth Kelan, raises awareness of certain forms of gender binarity and inequality that are reinforced through digitalisation, so that organisations can understand more...

Branding, or external corporate messaging, will fail unless your internal stakeholders know, accept, and adopt that messaging. The only remedy is intrabranding: continuously selling and enforcing your corporate brand inside your enterprise. The...

The secret is . . . there is no one secret. Learn how to tailor your own personal plan to increasing productivity.

The objective of Occupy Management: Inspirations and Ideas for Self-Organization and Self-Management is to make it evident to the student why and how he or she can manage without becoming part of corporate power structures. Aimed at postgraduate students...

Human resource management systems differ across corporations around the world. Japan has unique characteristics that create specific challenges for HRM and there is currently a lack of research focusing on Japanese HR issues available to westerners. This...

Big mistakes, misconduct, serious accidents and other disasters are normally followed by investigations which explore what went wrong. These produce recommendations to limit the damage from a future event, or to prevent it altogether. In many cases, this...

Based in Lean Thinking principles as used by some of the most successful businesses in the world and over 17 years experience in implementing change strategies and tactics. But That's Just Common Sense! is written as a step by step guide to installing a...

Confidential data and our personal privacy are under threat as never before. With breaches and cyber attacks on the rise, political and legal pressure is growing on business and government to step up and meet this challenge.Unfortunately, organisations...

This book presents notable examples of attempts by experienced managers to implement bad ideas that lead to failed change so that change managers are better equipped to avoid common pitfalls in managing change.Change management efforts often fail...

Temperatism is more than a bleeding heart version of the capitalist ideal. Its purpose is to tackle key injustices and social inequality that are symptoms of the capitalist market system. By focusing on an agenda of doing good, temperatism seeks to...

With the large-scale advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), the world is in constant flux. This has been exacerbated by the fallout of Covid-19. To be relevant in the next few decades, any business that wants to develop their Leadership cadres...

Ever wondered why some family businesses survive and others don't? Would you like to discover the "secret sauce", the vital ingredient? In this book, Paul draws on his 40 years of experience in advising family businesses to identify just that...

Embark on a journey of exploration and revelation as you ride The Self-Awareness Superhighway. Join Dr Nia D Thomas, an academically acclaimed and experienced leader to explore the essence of self-awareness, the definition of leader effectiveness and the...

The Basic Of Human Resource Management Book 2 is the second book in a trilogy of booksentitled The Basic Of Human Resource Management Book. Book 2 describes how to manage organizations and people. The explanation in this book is very basic to an...