Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2000
`This is an insightful book... offers an in-depth understanding of the dynamics at work within organizations, but also offers ways forward for new researchers. [A]n original contribution to the area of occupational psychology. The book is appropriate for people who want to study organizational behaviour...
Unsafety
Disaster Management, Organizational Accidents, and Crisis Sciences for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and disasters in the modern era and clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of emerging problems, from the aging of vital infrastructure for the supply of water, gas, oil, and electricity to the...
by Beth Chase
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
If you are a leader of a faith-based nonprofit, it’s just a matter of time before you encounter the spirit whose mission is to take you out and divide your organization. In this book you will learn how to prevent, identify, and survive an internal organizational meltdown. “Underground Fire outlines...
Organizational Change in Practice
The Eight Deadly Sins Preventing Effective Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book challenges the practice or organizational change programmes. It uses two case studies in depth to illustrate that consulting companies can often get it wrong. Senior managers often do not know enough about managing change. The text is arranged around eight deadly sins to avoid in the practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The focus of this volume is on the role of emotions in organizational governance, which involves the complete gamut of organizational processes and procedures, including the means whereby organizations are controlled and directed. Traditionally organizational governance has been viewed as a largely...
Rethinking Organizational Change
The Role of Dialogue, Dialectic & Polyphony in the Organization
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
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 assessment of the differences between 'dialogue’...
Organizational Transformation
How to Achieve It, One Person at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
It is estimated that approximately seventy percent of organizations fail in their attempts to implement transformative change. This book will help lessen that rate. Using real-world examples, Bruce J. Avolio maps four states of change that any organization must go through: identifying and recognizing,...
by Haridimos Tsoukas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
When it comes to the field of organization and management theory, a philosophical perspective enables us to conduct organizational research imbued with the attitude of 'wonder'; it helps researchers question dominant images of thought underlying mainstream thinking, and provides fresh distinctions...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Volume 27 of Research in Organizational Change and Development introduces thought-provoking insights on inclusivity within organizations. These include: the philosophical foundation of organization development and change; positive organizational scholarship as a scientific base for sustainable change;...
Organizational Myopia
Problems of Rationality and Foresight in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Could the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers have been avoided? What about the control failures in the recent global financial crisis? Behind these apparently very different events, it is possible to identify a common element of organizational myopia - a syndrome that severely limits the capacity...
Organisational Identity and Self-Transformation
An Autopoietic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
David Seidl brings together two important issues in organization and management studies in this volume: the concept and related theory of organizational identity, and autopoietic organization theory (as originally developed by Niklas Luhmann). The contribution of the book is twofold: it provides an...
Effective Organizational Change
Leading Through Sensemaking
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Organizations are constantly evolving, and intelligent leadership is needed during times of transformation. Change leaders must help people become aware of, understand and find meaning in the new things which arise — they must oversee a sensemaking process.
Addressing this need, Effective...
Understanding Organizations
Theories and Images
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
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Understanding Organizations: Theories and Images introduces students to the key principles of understanding, designing, and managing organizations in an accessible and practical way. The book provides a conceptual toolkit containing...
Time, Talent, Energy
Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Teams Productive Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Managing Your Scarcest Resources
Business leaders know that the key to competitive success is smart management of scarce resources. That's why companies allocate their financial capital so carefully. But capital today is cheap and abundant, no longer a source of advantage. The truly scarce...