Organizational theory and behaviour

Safety-related computer systems are those which may lead to loss of life, injury or plant and environmental damage.

Zaleznik takes managers into Freud's world of psychoanalysis and shows managers what they need to know about themselves and their employees to better motivate and lead.

Popular Culture and Social Change: The Hidden Work of Public Relations argues the complicated and contradictory relationship between public relations, popular culture and social change is a neglected theoretical project.

People are increasingly disenchanted with performance improvement techniques that fail to deliver.

There is nothing wrong with the tribe just as there is nothing wrong with the nation.

This book is about the underlying mechanisms of agile management that control work processes in the context of industrial tech development.

The book examines the mechanisms that generate myopia in organizations and explores how organizations can foresee and contain unexpected events.

Motivation, ability and potential for development are crucial for performance and the achievement of objectives.

This book provides an account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of exponential random graph models (ERGMs).

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

Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography.

This groundbreaking book reveals what it takes for managers of any generation to succeed in this fast-paced and exciting new environment.

Understanding experience at work, especially in toxic organizations, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include all senses.

Winner of the National Communication Association's Public Relations Division 2023 Outstanding Book AwardThis handbook is a resource for students, faculty, and researchers who are focused on understanding the role communication plays in the formation and execution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities.

Organisations today are being challenged to make sense of changes in environments that, now more than ever, are described as VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous).

Within management thinking, behaviours have become repetitive, and organizational performance is stagnant or declining.

From the first, specialization and coordination have presented governments with a conundrum: specialized program might be best for delivering one service to the public, but combining such programs for all public services inevitably produces costly redundancies and inefficiencies.

`An unusually comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of how organizations and the men and women who work within them are affected by gendered processes and relations.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, and regular corporate scandals, there has been a growing concern with the moral and ethical foundations of business.

In the new knowledge economy, traditional modes of thinking are no longer effective.

The manifestation of the colonial nation-state as a legal-bureaucratic-police structure - an exploitation tool - undermined customary modes of governance in colonies.

Privatization was the fundamental pillar of transition from plan to market in former socialist countries.

The purpose of this book, originally published in 1991, is to provide managers with a practical approach to planning and managing significant changes.

This special volume brings together leading scholars in the field of organisation studies to reflect on the universal phenomena of hierarchy (vertical organisation of tasks) and bureaucracy (rule-bound execution of tasks).

The Oxford Handbook of Strategic Sales and Sales Management is an unrivalled overview by leading academics in the field of sales and marketing management.

High levels of well-being at work is good for the employee and the organization.

Bei einer voranschreitenden internationalen Verflechtung wirtschaftlicher Prozesse werden Fragen des interkulturellen Managements zunehmend wichtiger.

This volume providesnew conceptual insights, robust empirical studies, and thought-provokingchapters to help organizations improve health and wellbeing insociety.

This book is the first to present a rich selection of over 30 real-world cases of how leading organizations conduct Business Process Management (BPM).

This book offers a holistic introduction to Organizational Change Management through a distinct and timely perspective of organizational change agency.

Manage your team from anywhere.

The recent growth in research on the topic of evolutionary novelties inspired this volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations.

This book, first published in 1969, was written for the manager or potential manager concerned with strategic decision-making.

The evolution of leadership into a widely accepted concept occurred without any shared understanding and acceptance of its meaning and relevance in contemporary society.

Studying Learning and Development is the essential textbook for anyone studying the field in order to further their professional development, and HR practitioners wishing to extend their understanding of its background and practical application.

This non-traditional, OB-oriented book is designed to provide teachers in Organizational Behavior and management courses, as well as corporate workshops, with a highly effective way to address important issues in modern-days' management and organizational behavior-related issues.

This edited book is intended for use by students, academics and practitioners who take interest in outsourcing and offshoring of information technology and business pr- esses.

How do managers and leaders know what to do when they are caught off guard or taken by surprise?

Learning in Organizations: An Evidence-Based Approach examines the variety of systematic approaches and strategies for learning and development used in the workplace through the implementation of formal training, guided instruction, developmental job experiences, and self-directed learning.

This book presents a new view of innovation, seeking to disclose how strategic reflexivity is embodied in specific innovation practices and management roles.

The lack of women on boards has galvanised much public and policy interest, which has led to many countries introducing quotas for women on boards, or to concerted voluntary action.

"e;The next generation resource for leaders .

The world changes like the patterns in a kaleidoscope: trends expand, contract, break up, melt, disintegrate and disappear, while others are formed.