Organizational theory and behaviour

Public administrators need to be empowered to make difficult decisions.

In the last decade, research on negative social evaluations, from adverse reputation to extreme stigmatization, has burgeoned both at the individual and organizational level.

All organisations, whether private or public sector, seek to improve criminal justice workplace practice from an evidence base, but often find it difficult to effectively translate research findings into policy or design best-practice interventions.

This study, originally published in 1990, introduces a rich array of approaches to defining and developing the competency of managerial performance.

This book presents a collection of research papers that explore how ICT experts, managers, and policymakers can address sustainability issues in digital transformation (DT) by considering people practices, organizational processes, and platform design issues.

Traditional policy analysis approaches are characterized by a focus on system modeling and choosing among policy alternatives.

This book analyses the role of employment relations in the context of economic development in some of the key Asian economies: China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, the Phillipines, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

Coming Face to Face with your own practice is an emerging approach to management and professional research that has a significant impact on management practice.

Made to Work analyses the conditions of mobile knowledge work (MKW) in contemporary worklives, contrasting and drawing parallels among three highly significant sectors of the Knowledge Economy: academia, information communication technology (ICT) management, and digital creative work.

Written by authors who have real-world experience of leading teams and major projects, this book explores a new approach to project success: the continuous process of enabling and empowering teams to reach the optimal levels of performance.

Leadership Coaching offers a new model of coaching for leadership development.

There's a scene in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass in which the Red Queen, having just led a chase with Alice in which neither seems to have moved from the spot where they began, explains to the perplexed girl: "e;It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.

This thought-provoking and engaging book is for you, whatever your seniority, in the private or public sector - if you are curious about the role and purpose of leadership in a turbulent world.

Self-determination theory is a theory of human motivation that is being increasingly used by organizations to make strategic HR decisions and train managers.

Monetary incentives, as a driving force for human behavior, are the main theme of this book.

Mastering RFP solicitations is a critical skill required of every public procurement professional.

For centuries, almost all economic activity was family-based.

The definitive classic on high-performance teamsThe Wisdom of Teams is the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization.

International Business and Culture: Challenges in Cross-Cultural Marketing and Management explores the intricate relationship between culture and business, offering valuable insights for both practitioners and scholars.

The first critical study of ''empty labor'', the time during which employees engage in non-work activities during the working day.

In all periods of time, there is a perceived shortage of qualified, credible, and robust leadership skills.

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving health care quality and access.

Why are some work partnerships exceptional while most are not?

It's so important that the generations to come understand and share in the founder's vision and philosophy.

This book explores theories and brings empirical evidence of innovations in learning and teaching and practice-driven leadership and governance of higher education institutions across developed and developing countries aiming to recover and sustain during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic.

People interact and perform in group settings in all areas of life.

Advertising today is not only under sterner scrutiny by the various federal regulatory and judicial bodies but is also facing an ominous storm of public criticism because of certain abuses.

In this book, first published in 1971, the author develops and tests a productivity system based on Added Value as the measure of company income and output.

This is a research-based book on whistle-blowing in organizations.

Part manual, part memoir and part call to action, this book demonstrates why the core skill needed by leaders in the next decade and into the future will be authentic and effective communication.

This book explores leadership and management in social sector organizations, which include, NGOs, non-profits, social enterprises, social businesses, and cross-sector collaborations focusing on advancing human dignity and social justice.

Bureaucracy is a curse - it seems we can't live with it, we can't live without it.

Apply the industrial engineering science of invention and assembly to how software is described, planned, and built, allowing you to be free to flex your practices according to your needs, putting principle over habit and rules.

Die Umweltberichterstattung dokumentiert die von einem Unternehmen ausgegangenen Umwelteinwirkungen und -belastungen.

The ethics of data and analytics, in many ways, is no different than any endeavor to find the "e;right"e; answer.

This book addresses the social and organisational dynamics which underlie recent technological and work developments within organisations.

The digital and increasingly digitised world is shaped by the interplay of new technological opportunities and ubiquitous societal trends.

This book deepens the understanding of cultural conditions for implementing organizational and process changes in higher education institutions.

Today's consumers are more knowledgeable, networked, and vocal.

This book explores startups that have thrived against the odds in places where startup success was deemed to be unlikely.

The ecological, social and technological challenges of the Anthropocene require developing and implementing new economic, business, and financial models to create sustainable value for a wide range of stakeholders including nature, society, and future generations.

Interconnecting the concepts of sustainability, innovation and transformation, this book explains how organizations have successfully transformed themselves and wider society to foster a more sustainable future, and identifies the difficulties and challenges along the way.

This book assesses the state of international manufacturing strategy and clarifies how recent developments, for example regarding configuration, technology, and the environment, are impacting on its content and direction and on its relationship to manufacturing performance.

A case-rich textbook that gives students and managers the tools they need to deal with the messy reality of change.

How do leaders influence others?

A series of empirical studies illustrating the importance of paying attention to the real-time achievement of organisational processes and practices.

For many years, Organisational Behaviour has been the number one introduction into organisational psychology.

There is a widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be.