Management: leadership and motivation

The book represents a dramatic step forward in discussing the principles, processes, and practices of visionary strategic leadership.

As the inaugural issue in the Leadership for School Improvement (LSI) Special Interest Group (SIG) Book Series, this volume serves as a reflection on the foundations of the field of school improvement.

In a modern world in which one can observe managerial and investors' behaviors characterized by high risk, short term orientation, moral hazard and speculation, there is a need to form a new ethical paradigm to drive a more ethical oriented education and a substantial change to norms regulating markets and business behavior to sensitize investors and financial practitioners, so that humanity can evolve in a sustainable way.

In this issue of Research Human Resource Management we consider some of the challenges facing organizations today including changes in the population, the increased competition for talent, and the rise in the use of technology.

The contributors in this book identify and clearly discuss contemporary and critical issues, challenges and opportunities in HRM.

HRM ethics is a root cause of many important problems in business ethics, and may represent the solution to even more.

The faking of personality tests in a selection context has been perceived as somewhat of a nuisance variable, and largely ignored, or glossed over by the academic literature.

Women and Leadership around the World is the third volume in a new series of books (Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice) that will is now being published to inform leadership scholars and practitioners.

Strategic Alliances for Innovation and R&D is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that focuses on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances.

This book analyzes the impact of culture on employee justice judgments and reactions to perceptions of fairness and unfairness.

This book includes contributions from a variety of different perspectives on employee turnover.

This book was written to bring together a summary of the current knowledge on merit pay and to further advance understanding of this type of incentive pay plan.

This book is divided into three parts.

The first volume of the series, Maintaining Focus, Energy, and Options Over the Career, examines how individuals enact and keep their career vital over their work life.

Sections covered in this book include: defining virtual organizations and implications for human resource management; outsourcing human resources; job analysis and competency assessment; training and development; performance management; compensation; and negotiations.

This volume covers such topics as Developing Theories of Fairness Motivation; Development of Justice Integration Theory; and The Roles of Empathy, Self-esteem, and Moral Development in Interactional Fairness.

To disrupt current polarization and tribalism, and meet the growing demands of globalization, organizations and communities must evolve.

Conflict management is an overlooked area in leadership development.

The rapidly transforming environment that we live in has made human resource development (HRD) all the more necessary for the success of today's organizations.

To disrupt current polarization and tribalism, and meet the growing demands of globalization, organizations and communities must evolve.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are one of top investment priorities in these days.

Hardly a month goes by without news of a high profile corporate failure that raises the question of the role of the board.

At the 1998 annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, we organized a roundtable discussion session titled "e;Innovating organizational justice: Cultural, value, and stakeholders' perspectives.

Sections covered in this book include: defining virtual organizations and implications for human resource management; outsourcing human resources; job analysis and competency assessment; training and development; performance management; compensation; and negotiations.

Since the term "e;workforce diversity"e; was first coined in the 1990s, the topic has received consistent and increasing attention by researchers.

This edited book is intended to address the need for an updated look at the HRM legal and regulatory environment.

The purpose of this book is to explore the talents, work styles, attitudes, and issues that members of the Millennial generation are bringing with them as they enter the workforce.

This book presents innovative approaches to reducing poverty through the commitment, involvement, and leadership of individuals, for-profit businesses, and not-for-profit organizations.

The latest volume in the Research in Management series, co-edited by Linda L.

The Optimizing Talent Workbook will guide you through a hands-on, practical application of what you learned from Optimizing Talent: What Every Leader Needs to Know to Sustain the Ultimate Workforce.

The proper balance of managerial "e;administrative-control"e; and managerial "e;team-leadership"e; depends upon the work context.

This workbook is designed for all levels of leaders who aspire to create a high performance life, team, or organization.

This book is the 20th volume in the Research in Management Consulting series and the sixth major collaboration with Henri Savall, Veronique Zardet, and their team of intervenerresearchers from the Socio-Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations (ISEOR) in LyonEcully, France.

Every day we wake up, send our children to school, go to work, attend sports or other entertainment events, etc.

Succession planning at all levels of an organization is crucial.

The more complex and ambiguous this world becomes, the greater the uncertainty leaders will face in their day to day professional and personal lives, and the greater the need to recognize and develop their leadership skills to help be the voice of reason when there's nothing around them but chaos.

Ethical business creates social value.

In this book we introduce the basics of the federal budget process, provide an historical background on the foundation and development of the budget process, indicate how defense spending may be measured and how it impacts the economy, describe and analyze how Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES) operates and should function to produce the annual defense budget proposal to Congress, analyze the role of Congress in debating and deciding on defense appropriations and the politics of the budgetary process including the use of supplemental appropriations to fund national defense, analyze budget execution dynamics, identify the principal participants in the defense budget process in the Pentagon and military commands, assess federal and Department of Defense (DoD) financial management and business process challenges and issues, and describe the processes used to resource acquisition of defense war fighting assets, including reforms in acquisition and linkages between PPBES and the defense acquisition process.

This book offers a first-hand look at the importance of human resource management (HRM) processes to not just one public agency but a large group of public administration entities that rely on a public HRM agency (the Personnel Board of Jefferson County) for its HRM processes.

This volume not only illustrates the research that is being done in the area of human resources in entrepreneurial firms but it raises many issues that exemplify the complexity of the topic.

This work looks at new directions in human resource management.

In the Foreword to The Dialogical Challenge of Leadership Development, eminent scholar Ken Gergen shrewdly points to dialogue as an optimal tool for organizational communication in the 21st Century.

Through courses, internships, community engagement, social organizations, and daily interactions with others, every day we accumulate experiences; however, learning does not happen through experience but from reflection on experiences.

Proven Solutions for Improving Supply Chain Performance is a collection of about 175 descriptions of scientific management studies in the management of supply chains.

This volume of Research in Social Issues in Management critically examines theoretical underpinnings of organizational justice and corporate social responsibility by identifying motives underlying desires for justice and by considering responses to injustice.

This book is about preparing our thinking, feeling, and acting for the rapidly expanding "e;knowledge era.

The current volume, the fourth in the series, provides a broad look at the meaning and understanding of diversity and inclusion in organizations.

In an era of constant connection, it can be challenging to prioritize time for reflection.

This book focuses on capturing one of the most important elements in successful leadership - giving followers a voice and motivating them to use that voice to help the leader be successful.

This book offers an advanced breakthrough formula to build, implement, and cultivate an authentic, distinctive, and memorable personal brand, which forms the key to enduring personal success.