Organizational theory and behaviour

Ken Rogers and Errol Chadwick draw on their decades of experience as executive managers, and as consultants to large corporations in this guide to achieving enduring corporate success.

In Civility at Work, Lew Bayer describes the business case for civility and explains how organizations can increase employee retention, performance, and overall revenue by creating a workplace culture of human kindness and civility.

Agility: Management Principles for a Volatile World is required reading for anyone managing individuals in small to medium-sized businesses, large corporations, non-profit organizations, and government offices.

This book explores the intersections between leadership and velocity (the speed of now) to identify key leadership competencies needed for the 21st Century.

The global economy and free market philosophy have resulted in higher global competition and increased expectations from customers.

In Lean on Civility: Strategies for Changing Culture in Manufacturing Workplaces, the authors explain how incorporating civility can drive success in your business.

Transforming Towards Life orients change agents, policy makers, activists, business leaders, ecologists, economists, and thoughtful people everywhere to the values and practices needed to build a world where all can flourish, where 'all' includes all humanity and all of life's beings.

The Barn Door Is Open: Frameworks and Tools for Success and Fulfillment in the Workplace is a business book, a playful and humorous read, an intelligent metaphorical and philosophical tale anchored in the tools and techniques of innovative and proven management frameworks.

Design: A Business Case challenges you to stimulate innovation in your own organization as an ongoing and integral dialogue between complementary skills-to bridge mind and matter, image and identity.

This book explores the nuances of different aspects of agility on a personal level.

This book presents a new way to look at communication within projects.

This book presents notable examples of attempts by experienced managers to implement bad ideas that lead to failed change so that change managers are better equipped to avoid common pitfalls in managing change.

Behind the Scenes of Health Care presents an extensive review of motivation and commitment among health care workers in support and bedside care roles.

Level Up Leadership is the first book with applied leadership development in one comprehensive read.

Mark Schwartz, author of leadership classics A Seat at the Table and The Art of Business Value, reveals a new (empowering) model for the often soul-shattering, frustrating, Kafkaesque nightmare we call bureaucracy.

Untenable helps identify untenable situations, describes the barriers to addressing them, and suggests novel ways to approach them.

Research shows that 90 percent of a project manager's time is spent communicating with various stakeholders.

This book provides a short introduction to the philosophy of humanism and discusses how and why it is being applied to business and why it is so effective when you do so.

Leadership is a universal phenomenon that has been consistently identified as playing a critical role in the success or failure of organizations.

All managers, regardless of where they work, must understand certain basic concepts such as the functions, roles, and skills associated with the managerial position and the styles available to managers for use in any given situation.

The focus of this book is aimed at providing a mechanism to determine the individual and cumulative contribution of portfolio components to strategic objectives so that the right decisions can be made regarding those components.

A wide range of conceptualizations of "e;management"e; have been offered and it is often difficult for managers to fully understand their roles within the organization; however, managers striving for effectiveness would do well to invest effort into understanding the functions, roles, and skills associated with managerial positions.

Practicing Leadership is intended to serve as a guide to basic principles of leadership and begins with an overview of definitions and conceptions of leadership and then continues with discussions of the roles and activities expected from an effective leader; personality traits and attributes which can be learned and perfected by persons that aspire to leadership positions; styles of leadership, which encompass the strategies used by leaders to engage with their followers and leadership in developing countries.

This book is perfect for leaders across the enterprise who have a difficult time attracting, retaining, understanding ,and communicating with their millennial employees and job candidates.

This book illustrates how the traditional practice of project management advances to handle the more complex problems inherent to strategic organizational transformation.

This second edition of An Overview of the Public Relations Function examines current thought to help busy managers and students master the most important concepts of management in communication quickly, accessibly, and with an eye to helping an organization achieve excellence through cutting-edge, research-based strategic public relations management.

This book highlights the significance of perceptiveness that takes readers to formidable heights, showing relevance in most revered professions and in the corporate world.

Temperatism is more than a bleeding heart version of the capitalist ideal.

Gallup's State of the American Workplace showed that workplaces that are actively engaged outperform workplaces that are disengaged in every measure.

Supply Chain Optimization Field Guide is an essential book to help readers understand the dynamics of how a global business operates.

The objective of Creating a Culture for Information Systems Success is to assist CIOs and IT managers on how to use their managerial actions to create a suitable cultural environment in the organization that leads to a successful and sustainable implementation of information systems function.

The way we design and work within our organizations is profoundly impacted by digital technologies and complexity.

This book offers a refreshing approach that provides unique insights, examples, tools, techniques, checklists, and templates for successful collaborations.

In order to survive and attain market leadership, organizations must engage in longer-term strategic quality activities to address radical, paradigm-shifting improvements that affect the organization and its competitive position.

This book is about understanding the nature of design and organization in complex living systems.

This book provides a guide to co-designing learning environments and relationships.

Today's business leaders are required to navigate a difficult path between building and maintaining a stable, effective and successful organization, and rolling out a seemingly endless series of complex change initiatives to ensure ongoing relevance in the marketplace.

Over the last 20 years, the topic of conversation when it comes to HR, is whether or not it should even exist.

How to Use Limited Liability Companies & Limited Partnerships offers key asset protection benefits to entrepreneurs and investors.

How and why influence is gained and maintained has undergone a fundamental transformation.

This is one of the most important Agile books since The Phoenix Project.

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution barrels forward and the pace of disruption accelerates, all organizations must operate with agility.

When it comes to solving complex problems, we often perform elaborate rituals in the guise of best practices that promise a world of order, certainty, and control.

Liftoff!

Meetings don't have to be painfully inefficient snoozefestsif you design them.

Finally - a people management guide that goes way beyond the typical "e;problem employee"e; books to help you understand and manage the entire emotional culture of your organization.

Finally - a people management guide that goes way beyond the typical "e;problem employee"e; books to help you understand and manage the entire emotional culture of your organization.

This book critically examines existing organizational learning theories that often center on employees and adopt a neo-classical organizational view.

This book critically examines existing organizational learning theories that often center on employees and adopt a neo-classical organizational view.