Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
It is often claimed that we live in an expert society, a society where more and more individuals take expert roles in increasingly narrow fields. In contrast to more traditional experts most of these new experts lack generally accepted mechanisms for the certification and legitimation of their expertise....
Social and Community Informatics
Humans on the Net
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
As a discipline, Informatics has developed over the years from its initial focus on data processing and software development, towards a more recent emphasis on people’s use of technology and its impact on their working and private lives. Gunilla Bradley, an internationally recognized expert in this...
Leadership Dna, Book Two
Recognizing Good and Poor Leadership in the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The first book, Leadership DNA examined the false premise that anyone can be a leader. Paul Okum, a former US Army officer who has held numerous executive positions with the federal government, builds upon those insights in this second book, sharing techniques to identify, select, and help born leaders...
Enterprise Change Management
How to Prepare Your Organization for Continuous Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2016
One of the biggest challenges facing organizations today is the ability to deliver the necessary change to sustain competitive advantage and adapt to economic and market environments. However, the gap between what organizations would like to deliver and their capabilities to do so is getting increasingly...
The People Equation
Why Innovation Is People, Not Products
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
**The People Equation
Every business leader knows that the key to growth is innovation—if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got. Deborah Perry Piscione and David Crawley argue that ultimately the key to innovation is people. After all, creativity is a uniquely...
Collaborative Intelligence
Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Intelligence professionals are commonly viewed as solo operators. But these days intelligence work is mostly about collaboration. Interdisciplinary and even inter-organizational teams are necessary to solve the really hard problems intelligence professionals face. Tragically, these teams often devolve...
Coaching in Times of Crisis and Transformation
How to Help Individuals and Organizations Flourish
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Coaching in Times of Crisis and Transformation takes an in-depth look at crisis and change in the world we live in today and discusses its impact on both individuals and organizations. Covering not just coaching in the current crisis but any time of crisis and change, it offers a complete, practical...
The Psychology of Negotiations in the 21st Century Workplace
New Challenges and New Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The "litigation explosion" in the 21st century workplace means increasing costs and risks of lawsuits. Negotiation appears the attractive alternative to litigation. This new volume, with contributions from experts in psychology, management, and other disciplines, bridges the gap between...
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Women and Management: Global Issues and Promising Solutions [2 volumes]
Global Issues and Promising Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
For every woman still bumping the glass ceiling and every man who cares, these volumes recount challenges female leaders face—and strategies that will smooth the path to managerial positions in corporate America and worldwide.
• Prepares both women and men to meet the challenges of today's...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Power is an inescapable feature of human existence. It plays a role in all social contexts and is particularly important in the functioning of organizations and work groups. Organizational researchers have certainly recognised the importance of power but have traditionally focused on its negative...
Strategy, HRM, and Performance
A Contextual Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The book expounds the macro-level relationship between strategy, HRM, and performance, addressing important challenges that have constrained research and practice to date. Adopting a critical perspective, the first challenge is a narrow definition of 'performance' that has been largely driven by a...
Cultural Entrepreneurship
A New Agenda for the Study of Entrepreneurial Processes and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
This Element provides an overview of cultural entrepreneurship scholarship and seeks to lay the foundation for a broader and more integrative research agenda at the interface of organization theory and entrepreneurship. Its scholarly agenda includes a range of phenomena from the legitimation of new...
by Michael Lounsbury
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Organizations are central actors of modern society. No understanding of our world is complete without a theory of how they work. This insight is grounded in the foundational texts of classical social theory, and it remains as true as ever today. Be they multinational corporations or start-up firms,...
by Paul Tracey, Nelson Phillips, Michael Lounsbury
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Both history and current events attest to the continued significance of religion in society. Despite the role and importance of the institution of religion, and the profound influence that religious organizations continue to exert, it occupies a curiously marginal place in organization theory. At...