Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
Change is Like a Slinky
30 Strategies for Promoting and Surviving Change in Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
A practical guide to navigate change in today's organizational climate. Change or perish: this is a current motto for leaders in all types of organizations. But how does one adapt to such fast and furious change and effectively lead the organization through change intact and more effective? Hans Finzel...
From Conflict to Creative Collaboration
A User's Guide to Dynamic Facilitation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
A detailed user’s guide for organizational consultants, facilitators, and mediators. As group facilitators, we can use methods like Open Space Technology, Future Search, and World Café to reliably evoke “group magic” when working with larger groups. Yet how can we tap into the generative power...
No More Excuses
The Five Accountabilities for Personal and Organizational Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Accountability is not a way of doing. Accountability is a way of thinking. Those who achieve greatness know true accountability makes all the difference between success and failure.
Based on extensive interviews with accountable leaders—from Fortune 500 CEOs to Hall of Fame athletes—No...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Leadership has never been more important – and divisive – than it is today. The idea and discourse of the leader remains a critical factor in organizational and societal performance, but there is evident tension between the persistent focus on the critical importance of individual leaders and...
The Language of Global Success
How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the...
by Alaina Love, Marc Cugnon
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Meet the indispensable people who can bring your organization to that crucial next level.
How many can you recognize?
And where do you fit in?
The Builder: Creating a strong sense of urgency to deliver results, they’re the driving force of a growing business
The Connector: Born communicators,...
Reinventing Business Models
How Firms Cope with Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Although research on business model innovation is flourishing internationally, many important questions on the 'how', 'what', and 'when' of this process remain largely unanswered, particularly in regard to the role of top management. This book answers some of those pressing questions by taking a deliberately...
by Dr Sahab Sabri, Dr Saeed Sabri-Matanagh
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
From the authors of ‘Organizational Development and Strategic Change’, this book is dedicated to equipping professionals with the tools and knowledge required to improve organisational performance within their organisation through digital transformation.
Dr Sahab Sabri and...
by Ann L Cunliffe, John Teta Luhman
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here
From agency theory to power and politics, this indispensable guide to the key concepts of organization theory is your compass as you navigate through the often complex and abstract theories about the design and functioning of organizations....
Analysing Health Care Organizations
A Personal Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Analysing Health Care Organizations seeks to link the world of health policy and management with the academic field of organization studies in a novel and additive way. It outlines the main developments in UK health care management apparent over the last thirty years and explores how they might be...
Critical Leadership
Leader-Follower Dynamics in a Public Organization
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Critical approaches to leadership studies have sought to challenge the normative position of leadership as residing solely within the formal leader and have gone as far as to undermine the traditionally held assumption of leadership as a "real" phenomenon.
The book offers a critical...
Permission to Speak Freely
How the Best Leaders Cultivate a Culture of Candor
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Lead So Your People Speak Freely
Candid communication enhances innovation, ownership, engagement, and performance. The benefits of hearing questions and uncertainties, good and bad ideas, and honest feedback are game-changing. Yet research shows that most of the time, people never share their...
Break the Cycle!
how managers block change without realizing it
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Most modern managers know much of what there is to know about change management. Still, things often go wrong in practice. This is almost entirely because our actions are not always steered by our knowledge. Without realizing it, we make assumptions about our employees that end up causing trouble...
by Bruce J. Avolio
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Conversational and accessible, this Second Edition of Bruce J. Avolio's groundbreaking book uses the full range leadership development model as an organizing framework and shows how it can be directly applied to improving leadership at the individual, team, and organizational levels. Filled with examples...