Organizational theory and behaviour

The book that defined the field, updated and expanded for today's organizations Organizational Culture and Leadership is the classic reference for managers and students seeking a deeper understanding of the inter-relationship of organizational culture dynamics and leadership.

This book offers an overview of the legal, political, and broad intergovernmental environment in which relations between local and state units of government take place, the historical roots of the conflict among them, and an analysis of contemporary problems concerning local authority, local revenues, state interventions and takeovers, and the restructuring of local governments.

Die Beiträge dieses Sonderheftes befassen sich mit dem hoch aktuellen Thema „Controlling-Organisation“ aus verschiedenen für Controller relevanten Blickwinkeln.

This book shows how the Bhagavad Gita (part of the great Indian epic - the Mahabharata) can be approached as a powerful tool for change management and as a catalyst for organizational transformation.

The growth and proliferation of technology in American society places new demands on the U.

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Most contemporary public managers will work in some type of collaborative or networked arrangement at some time in their professional careers.

Reading and Exercises in Organizational Behavior covers readings and exercises on organizational behavior.

This volume explores leadership as a form of loving one's employees, centering on the biblical concepts of Agapao and Agape.

The central task of contemporary strategic management is to look for sources of value and to achieve above- average firm performance.

For one-semester, undergraduate/graduate level courses in Organizational Behavior.

Dieses kompakte Lehrbuch führt in die Grundlagen der Organisationswissenschaft ein.

Gossip is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon, widely found and variously practiced.

This book refocuses thinking on how multinational enterprises (MNEs) can achieve a sustained contribution to European transition economies as these countries move from the processes of transformation into pursuit of more sustained development.

In this book, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff investigates moral blindness in business and public administration based on Hannah Arendt's concept of banality of evil in her famous report on the Nazi-criminal Adolf Eichmann trail in Jerusalem in 1961.

In the business world, especially in manufacturing or quality management, the term Six Sigma usually refers to a set of tools and methodologies developed by Motorola to improve processes by eliminating defects.

An authoritative and comprehensive graduate textbook on the modern insurance sectorThe traditional role of insurers is to insure idiosyncratic risk through products such as life annuities, life insurance, and health insurance.

Within Entrepreneurship Education, Team Academy (TA) is seen by some as an innovative pedagogical model that enhances social connectivity, as well as experiential, student-centred, and team-based learning.

Finanzkrise, Energiekrise, Klimakatastrophe, Massenarmut, Massenmigration, Fundamentalismus – wir leben in einem Zeitalter zerstörerischen Wandels.

This book shows ideas from cross-professional collaborators that offer resources for professional and research practices.

Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marx's theory of alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book develops an anti-methodological approach to studying working lives.

In the last decades diversity and its management has become a feature of modern and postmodern organizations.

The purpose of this book is to introduce the concept of transformational coaching and to educate professional business coaches or mangers-as-coaches in their organizations on the influential and relevant elements of Transformational Coaching for Effective Leadership designed for coaching individuals, teams, and businesses or applying such elements in any level of organization development intervention, either toward individuals, teams, groups, departments, or the organization itself.

As society faces increasing polarization and persistent inequities, who has public service motivation and how does this shape policy preferences?

This seminal book explores the complex relationship between popular geopolitics and nation branding among the Newly Independent States of Eurasia, and their combined role in shaping contemporary national image and statecraft within and beyond the region.

How the authority of medicine is continuously shaped by relationships among physicians, industry, colleagues, and organizations Exploring how the authority of medicine is controlled, negotiated, and organized, Managing Medical Authority asks: How is knowledge shared throughout the profession?

This book considers the differential occurrence and impact of deviance and dysfunction on family firms.

This book examines how corporate ethics, social responsibility, and prevention strategies against financial crime may remedy shortcomings of corporate governance.

Uses new approaches and solutions to tackle innovations in an international context.

Revised, expanded, and up-to-the-minute-the leading guide to serving the modern organization's onboarding needsIt's a challenge overlooked by many: The need to bring recent hires into the fold, smoothly, effectively, and rapidly.

Social Networks at Work provides the latest thinking, from top-notch experts, on social networks as they apply to industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology.

Setting out best practices and professional guidance for creating LGBT+ inclusive workplaces, this approachable and easy to follow book guides current and future leaders of all industries toward appropriate and proven ways to create safer working environments, update company policies, enhance continuing education and training, and better support LGBT+ people in the workplace.

Writing about Literature combines detailed practical and scholarly advice with a sense of the scope and creative possibilities of literary criticism, empowering the student reader to make his or her own discoveries and experiments with language.

How should a Western company manage cross-culturally corporate values in its foreign subsidiaries?

Critical and accessible, the new edition of this bestselling textbook offers valuable insight into contemporary management practices and encourages readers to reflect on the realities of the workplace.

Indiana had the largest and most politically significant state organization in the massive national Ku Klux Klan movement of the 1920s.

This book illustrates the agile transformation journey of a consulting organization.

This book applies organisation theory to the creative and performance aspects of music, through a dialogue between organisation theorists and practising musicians.

A lack of adequate and timely IT involvement in the merger and acquisition process costs companies millions of pounds every year.

This text focuses on leading across cultural, economic, social, national, and political boundaries simultaneously.

Service chain management enables service organisations to improve customer satisfaction and reduce operational costs through intelligent and optimised forecasting, planning and scheduling of the service chain, and its associated resources such as people, networks and other assets.

Young people are a vulnerable category of workers, finding themselves in a delicate phase of their working life: their first entry into the labour market.

This book is about promoting corporate responsibility in its original meaning: businesses should have a positive impact on society, and society should not only be a lever of making a profit.

Do human resource management practices actually work?

Leadership has never been more important - and divisive - than it is today.