Organizational theory and behaviour

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Leadership can be learned: new evidence from neuroscience clearly points to ways that leaders can significantly improve how they engage with and motivate others.

Drawing on European philosophies, this book examines collective myopia and its role in global business through various case studies of Japanese organizations, including the Tokyo Electric Power Company.

An important part of every manager's job is changing people's behavior: to improve someone's performance, get them to better manage relationships with colleagues, or to stop them doing something.

The Workplace Community offers a structured, practical guide to developing collaborative knowledge-based communities in the workplace, from introducing employees and managers to new ways of working, to measuring effectiveness and providing corrective interventions for those who haven't achieved the desired results.

This insightful new study explores an emerging and growing interest in Sociology and Organization Studies which concerns the meanings and experiences of 'dirty' work.

The Intoxication of Power is a collection of contributions by thirteen authors from various academic disciplines sharing a concern for the development of understanding of the nature and origins of leadership hubris.

This two-volume work explores the management of religious and faith-based organizations.

Now in its third edition, this is the only outsourcing and offshoring book to offer a broad but coherent guide to the strategy, operations and management of ITO and BPO outsourcing and offshoring, from how to source new relationships to managing business processes in a national and global context.

By tapping into the same psychology that keeps gamers glued to Minecraft or World of Warcraft, innovative organizations are creating their own engaging and flexible learning experiences.

This book explores the value component of corporate culture of companies and their relationship with production efficiency and personal values of the employee.

Most research about financial stability and sustainable growth focuses on the financial sector and macroeconomics and neglects the real sector, microeconomics and psychology issues.

Institutional Impacts on Firm Internationalization addresses various aspects of the investigated phenomenon, providing an insight in the role of the varieties of capitalism on the globalization of business activities worldwide.

Since the height of the privatization debate in the 1990s, changes in government policy have resulted in significant transformation in the public sector.

Women's Voices in Management examines a wide array of women's voices across different geo-political, social and organizational contexts in management.

This book links game theory to business ethics by applying the classic Four Temperaments approach to a wide range of moral emotions, and offers academics and students of game theory a perspective that covers social preferences in a nontraditional way.

Entrepreneurial Profiles is intended to help students and practitioners of entrepreneurship think about what it takes to create a significant business, with focus on what it may take to create a successful and significant business.

Part of the Comparative Work and Employment Relations series, Putting Labour in its Place is an edited collection, containing cutting-edge research and theoretical innovation on global value chains, the nature of work and labour process theory.

This book provides an understanding of the processes in which unions engage with young people, and views and opinions young people hold relating to collective representation.

Employment Relations in South Korea provides readers with an overarching view of Korean employment relations and insight into recent changes, and also to help the general public understand more easily the various phenomena and changes in Korean employment relations.

Offering a critical assessment of the main conceptual debates concerning labour management partnership and cooperation at the workplace, this book evaluates the search for positive employment relations in five countries.

This study offers an analysis of the technological and entrepreneurial features of the Victorian telegraph service, together with the companies which ran it until nationalization in 1869.

Today's views of leadership and management have significantly expanded to incorporate a variety of elements such as rewards, visions, and worker participation.

The book addresses several research gaps in the study of organisations and rarely analysed areas such as the non-profit sector (NPOs).

In today's organizations, it is no longer the CEO who acts as the sole strategic leader.

Beyond Diversity and Intercultural Management develops a change model designed to challenge prevailing paradigms in the literature and conversations about equal employment opportunity, diversity, and intercultural management.

The Poetic Organization explores the inherent aspects of organization that revolve around poetic processes.

This book describes and analyses the impact of the 2007-2008 financial crisis upon the working conditions of employees in the financial services sector in Britain.

Solving the Strategy Delusion matters to anyone interested in realising strategy in the 21st century.

This two-volume work explores the management of religious and faith-based organizations.

China's outward foreign direct investment, for which Australia is one of the largest destinations, has rapidly increased and become an important source of global capital.

Leadership in Balance provides readers with a deeper understanding of the art, practice, and discipline of purpose-driven collaboration, and teaches them how new leadership habits of the mind will positively impact an organization's learning, growth, and change.

Management Control and Uncertainty recognizes that all control takes place under conditions of uncertainty: it does now, and it always has done.

(Re)Discovering University Autonomy has far reaching implications for leaders and managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers by addressing modern challenges to university autonomy in Europe and beyond in a new and innovative way.

Beyond Inclusion adopts a holistic and systems view of the organization, presents a behavioral model of organizational inclusion based upon research with thousands of employees, and discusses elements of organizational design that need to be adjusted to create, nurture, and sustain an inclusive culture.

This book offers a unique view of how innovation and competitiveness improve when organizations establish alliances with partners who have strong capabilities and broad social capital, allowing them to create value and growth as well as technological knowledge and legitimacy through new knowledge resources.

Offering guidance on the opportunities and threats for future generations, and featuring interviews with business leaders, this book provides a constructive look at change.

Institutional Advancement comprehensively reviews and evaluates the published empirical research on advancement in higher education of the last 23 years, covering fundraising, alumni relations, public relations, marketing, and the role of institutional leadership in all of these.

Combining the expertise of two consultants and academics from East and West, this book provides an international guide for family businesses, showing how to identify and implement the best governance strategies.

In this exciting work, Link and Scott summarize more than a decade of their research on public support of R&D in small, entrepreneurial firms, concluding public R&D investments, primarily funded by the U.

Professionals Making Judgments examines the role of judgment in professional work.

Resilience is a word that is used in many different ways in different contexts, this new and innovative book focuses on psychological resilience in the workplace, examining other key aspects such as physical health and resilient teams, drawing from the latest research and the authors own practical experience.

The concept of followership is not new, to the extent that it has been around since the beginning of time.

Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), Philosoph, Sprachforscher und Bildungspolitiker, droht in der Rede vom "Mythos Humboldt" verloren zu gehen.

Formation of company citizenship leads to success for the multinational companies by creating psychological alignments of the employee.

Every business discipline has a unique vantage point on value creation and destruction, and while specialists have devised solutions, leaders rarely use them because of the inherent complexity in trying to understand which parts fit together to help them achieve goals.

Traditional notions of work are transforming rapidly as we enter into the global workspace.

There is a modest but growing body of scholarly literature on experiences of retail work, with only a handful of studies existing on retail organizing.

A new up-to-date overview of coaching effectiveness with practical case studies to demonstrate how these techniques are applied in real businesses.

The way we work is overdue for change.