Organizational theory and behaviour

Although difficult, complicated, and sometimes discouraging, collaboration is recognized as a viable approach for addressing uncertain, complex and wicked problems.

Although difficult, complicated, and sometimes discouraging, collaboration is recognized as a viable approach for addressing uncertain, complex and wicked problems.

This book presents a realistic perspective on the paradoxes employees face when navigating work and personal responsibilities for career success.

This book presents a realistic perspective on the paradoxes employees face when navigating work and personal responsibilities for career success.

In a global climate of increasing complexity and uncertainty, there have been calls for a more responsible form of leadership in business and society.

In a global climate of increasing complexity and uncertainty, there have been calls for a more responsible form of leadership in business and society.

What does silent citizenship mean in a democracy?

What does silent citizenship mean in a democracy?

Why People Stay is the result of a doctoral study that revealed participants' sense of commitment (to the organization, to the team, to the mission, or to something else).

Organizational or corporate 'culture' is the most overused and least understood word in business, if not society.

There has been a growing interest among scholars in the fields of organizational behaviour and industrial psychology in what can be termed "e;the dark side of the organizations.

There has been a growing interest among scholars in the fields of organizational behaviour and industrial psychology in what can be termed "e;the dark side of the organizations.

There is a growing interest in the knowledge economy, and the new types of job and ways of working associated with it.

There is a growing interest in the knowledge economy, and the new types of job and ways of working associated with it.

Getting what you want - even if you are the boss - isn't always easy.

Getting what you want - even if you are the boss - isn't always easy.

This edited book inserts postfeminism (PF) as a critical concept into understandings of work and organization.

This edited book inserts postfeminism (PF) as a critical concept into understandings of work and organization.

Translating for performance is a difficult - and hotly contested - activity.

Translating for performance is a difficult - and hotly contested - activity.

With this book, museum professionals can learn how to unleash creative potential throughout their institution.

With this book, museum professionals can learn how to unleash creative potential throughout their institution.

This important new collection provides not only a comprehensive overview of how organizational interventions can improve health and well-being in the workplace - addressing its causes rather than the symptoms - but also the practical issues faced in their design, implementation and evaluation.

This important new collection provides not only a comprehensive overview of how organizational interventions can improve health and well-being in the workplace - addressing its causes rather than the symptoms - but also the practical issues faced in their design, implementation and evaluation.

This book investigates the intersection of Christian faith and entrepreneurship in the global marketplace through empirical micro-level research on various Christian-based firms in North and Central America, Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Recent financial crises and other high-profile mismanagement cases have brought a spotlight to the quality of leader character in the business sector.

Recent financial crises and other high-profile mismanagement cases have brought a spotlight to the quality of leader character in the business sector.

In order to create truly sustainable universities, we require new methods of visualising and interpreting them holistically as institutions built on complex relationships and systems, rather than as individual departments and people operating independently.

In order to create truly sustainable universities, we require new methods of visualising and interpreting them holistically as institutions built on complex relationships and systems, rather than as individual departments and people operating independently.

Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardA novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern worldReligion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe.

Cognitive behavioral psychotherapy is much more than a series of skills and techniques, but rather a vital human activity.

The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis is a wide-ranging exploration and examination of the organizational conflicts and dilemmas that have troubled psychoanalysis since its inception.

The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis is a wide-ranging exploration and examination of the organizational conflicts and dilemmas that have troubled psychoanalysis since its inception.

The growing complexity of projects today, as well as the uncertainty inherent in innovative projects, is making obsolete traditional project management practices and procedures, which are based on the notion that much about a project is known at its start.

Most project managers would agree that every project is unique.

This book contains forewords by Sheila Haugh and Grace H Chickadonz respectively - Senior Lecturer Psychotherapy, Centre for Psychological Therapies, Leeds Metropolitan University; Center for Human Encouragement, Rochester, New York, USA.

Action learning was developed in the UK in the 1960s and is now one of the most widely used development methods in healthcare.

Organisational Development in Healthcare introduces the practical ways in which change in health services can be promoted.

This book provides a vivid insight into working with a client who is a survivor of child sexual abuse.

Although the theory and methods of organization development (OD) assessment and diagnosis have been covered in other books, there is a lack of practitioner-focused guides that introduce real-world case studies and tools rooted in the methodology.

Although the theory and methods of organization development (OD) assessment and diagnosis have been covered in other books, there is a lack of practitioner-focused guides that introduce real-world case studies and tools rooted in the methodology.

Despite all the efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations.

Despite all the efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations.

This book provides a new understanding of the constellations of logics in Japanese management practices in Asia and the West.

This book provides a new understanding of the constellations of logics in Japanese management practices in Asia and the West.

How are identities formed among social workers, many of whom perform complex, challenging and ambiguous public sector functions on a regular basis?

How are identities formed among social workers, many of whom perform complex, challenging and ambiguous public sector functions on a regular basis?

Evaluating organization development (OD) and change is critical for any executive team, project manager, or consultant who wants to see the change effort sustain and successfully evolve.

First published in 1994, the essays collected in this book explore the impact and current status of the ideas put forth in David Silverman's The Theory of Organizations, and how they relate to future directions in organization theory.

First published in 1994, the essays collected in this book explore the impact and current status of the ideas put forth in David Silverman's The Theory of Organizations, and how they relate to future directions in organization theory.