Organisational theory and behaviour Books

Economic and business growth is driven by the continuous re-evaluation and optimization of current policies and practices. By implementing more effective procedures, businesses can increase their levels of competitiveness. Factors Affecting Firm...

This book focuses on the element of leadership that has largely been neglected in the literature: character. Often thought to be a subjective construct, the book demonstrates the concrete behaviors associated with different character dimensions in order...

This book considers management theories and approaches specifically in the context of developing countries. In recent years, international business scholarship has increased its focus on the developing world, which represents 80 percent of the global...

"Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford" with the aid of Edward Berens is a timeless and insightful guide for university college students who're about to start their academic adventure at Oxford University. As an intelligent creator, Berens...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Organisation und Verwaltung - Sonstiges, Note: 1,3, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg (Professur für Verwaltungswissenschaft, insb. Steuerung öffentlicher Organisationen),...

Three Horizons is a simple, intuitive framework for thinking about the future. But it is about much more than simply stretching our thinking to embrace the short, medium and long term. Three Horizons is a prompt for developing a ‘future...

The Internet has transformed the way we live and work – by unleashing the power of shared ideas, the power of instant communication, the power of cooperation while being separated by time and distance. The image of an organisation as a static...

The book Mastering anti-corruption - The practitioners' view is aimed at presenting different ways and modes of mastering anti-corruption in selected countries. By showing examples and cases the authors of particular chapters would like to emphasize...

The book Mastering anti-corruption - The practitioners' view is aimed at presenting different ways and modes of mastering anti-corruption in selected countries. By showing examples and cases the authors of particular chapters would like to emphasize...

Introducing our PHR Study Guide 2024-2025: 3 Practice Tests and PHR Exam Prep for HRCI [Aligned to the New Outline]! Trivium Test Prep's PHR Study Guide includes everything you need to pass the PHR the first time.Quick review of the concepts covered...

Since the beginning of the century, there have been calls for the integration of traditional individualistic (micro) and management (macro) paradigms in Human Resource Management studies. In order to understand this so-called 'black box,' the HR field...

This book aims to mark fifteen years of contributions to the field of style research in cognition and learning presented at the annual conference of the European Learning Styles Information Network. The style field is a multidisciplinary, global...

This book provides professionals with an easy reference resource for successfully implementing a performance management system in a multinational company. Providing research-based strategies for reconciling the global-local dilemma is the focus of the...

First published in 1988. In a few short years during and just after the Great War, the Labour Party and the trade unions established themselves firmly at the centre of the British political and industrial scene. But at the same time, the politics and...

Does the idea of a nontraditional work schedule elicit fear in you? What about excitement? Either way, it's time to broaden your perspective on what professional success can look like.Even if you're a 'yes' person, who struggles with the guilt of letting...

This book is for anyone who designs, writes, publishes, or selects content for humans. What's Behind Your Brand? provides a unique perspective on how word choice and images can bring people in-or shut them out-of your brand's message. Dr. Jen O'Ryan...

MANAGEMENT GEMS FOR ALL TIME: Recipe for Business & Everyday SuccessThis book contains a thematic assembly of management ideas from diverse and interesting sources. Its captivating case-study style gives character and life to the messages, while making...

SAIL OR SINK (SOS) delivers three new breakthrough discoveries.• The Organizational Effectiveness Survey,SM the only validated diagnostic assessment that can verifiably measure the trilogy of traits that make up organization culture.• The only...

How do you set your own mood? If you are a team leader, a team captain, or a team coach, you also set the team mood. Do you understand how to continually improve in this critical role? If you are a parent or guardian, the mood you set in the home and for...

The study of human behavior within organizational settings is referred to as organizational behavior. It also studies the interface between human behavior and the organization. The study of organizational behavior is broadly classified into a few...

This 2nd edition of Executive Ethics provides a variety of contemporary and timely readings squarely focused on the ethical dilemmas and challenges faced by today's C-suite executives. In addition to identifying these dilemmas and challenges, the...

A volume in the series: Contemporary Perspectives in Corporate Social Performance and Policy. Editor(s): Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch, Silesian University of Technology, Poland.Corporate Social Performance In The Age Of Irresponsibility - Cross National...

Does culture connect to your bottom line? Absolutely! At the end of the day, there are two kinds of leaders: those who do not get why it is vitally important to build and sustain an accountable culture and those who do. This book makes a compelling case...

E=mc2 You may think you know what this familiar formula means, but until you read Sam Silverstein's breakthrough book, you will not know its true power or its potential. This is the Accountability Formula(TM), and it forms the heart of the Theory of...

The Violence Volcano is for managers and workers in all types of business andgovernment organizations, including law enforcement and other first-responders.Its purpose is to assist all organizations and their employees in fulfilling their...

The daily planner to get your messy life in order. Manifest purpose and organization with this planner. Undated pages allow you to be responsible for what you put in each day you use this planner. Reminder section for writing in important things you...

In this volume the authors develop a systematic and chronologically based critique of the major concepts, figures and schools in organization. Themes discussed include: the development of scientific management and the responses of Gramsci and Lenin to...

This collection highlights a number of directions in which organization theory could develop. It also argues the need for an historical analysis of the sociology of organizations. Other issues discussed are the ideological stance of contemporary...

This unique book written by four world leaders in reputation research, presents the latest cutting-edge thinking on organizational improvement. It covers media management, crisis management, the use of logos and other aspects of corporate identity, and...

Claves de la estructura organizativa, se integra a la colección "Módulos de management" cuya característica es la presentación de los contenidos en unidades breves que sintetizan un concepto, una metodología o una guía práctica que permitirán al lector...

This book is offered for those who are looking to make a meaningful leadership difference in this challenging and chaotic world. It will inspire you to become the best possible boss you can be!

Written by former Toyota associates, Toyota By Toyota: Reflections from the Inside Leaders on the Techniques That Revolutionized the Industry focuses on the purpose of Lean methodologies, techniques, and principles. It compiles more than a century of...

For leaders and team members, the tribal framework provides a perspective for measuring the capacity of a team to generate novel ideas and see those ideas through to a successful conclusion.

This book shows how economics can be used to clarify and stimulate thinking about organisations and their decision problems. It is mainly designed for university students of economics, management and business studies and of public and social...

In this textbook Alan Bryman provides a detailed and critical examination of the literature on leadership in organizations, giving special recognition to the needs of students of organizational behaviour and the social psychology of organizations. After...

This book is a successor to the earlier and widely-used Business Organization. In this book the author helps the student to develop his or her own critical and conceptual understanding of the subject. As the author reviews the various approaches -...

This book represents a selected collection of the writings, from 1950 to 1960, of members of the Human Relations Research Group (HRRG), from UCLA. The writings are followed by independent comments and appraisal from different viewpoints, prepared by...

This volume presents a critical analysis of sociological theorizing and power which enables the reader to grasp fully the nature of power, rule and domination in organizational life. By making use of the discussions he recorded at a construction site,...

Getting strategies and structures right for changing market conditions and successfully matching strategies and structures with each other, are crucial. This volume reviews and develops the extensive literature in the areas of business policy and...

Organizational Identity and Memory analyzes the relationship between organizational identity and organizational memory, in particular history and commemoration. The goal is to further our understanding of the role of this relationship in processes...

In the last two decades there has been an explosion of research inspired by Michel Foucault's suggestion of a new concept, 'governmentality'. The distinctive feature of modern governmentality is that across all sorts of fields, rule is predicated upon...

Aimed at researchers, academics, and advanced students alike, this book lays the groundwork for the application of uniquely African theoretical and practical perspectives for sustainable management and organizational operation, as explained from a...

Rethinking Organizational Change: The Role of Dialogue, Dialectic & Polyphony in the Organization makes an important scholarly contribution to our understanding of dialogue applied to the management of change. Muayyad Jabri offers an involved...

This book seeks to answer the question of 'leadership for what?'. We shall outline an answer by focusing on responsible leadership of purpose through an inter-disciplinary perspective. Responsible leadership moves the axis of leadership from...