Organizational theory and behaviour

This study, originally published in 1986, examines the general characteristics of Swedish management, the relevant aspects of Swedish history and society, and explores the relationship between them.

Human Resources for the Non-HR Manager gives every manager, regardless of their functional role, access to cutting-edge research and evidence-based recommendations so they can approach their people management responsibilities with confidence.

Despite two decades of investment in project management as many as 80 per cent of business change and IT projects continue to rack up cost overruns and fail to deliver their expected benefits.

Firms are increasingly collaborating with outside partners to access external knowledge that will enable them to successfully innovate and remain competitive in the marketplace.

Executives from The Second Citythe worlds premier comedy theater and school of improvisationreveal improvisational techniques that can help any organization develop innovators, encourage adaptable leaders, and build transformational businesses.

This book advances novel tools for the study, analysis, and development of public policy, essential in a world of growing diversity, complexity, and accelerating change.

This is a comprehensive, practical and engaging book designed to help readers to recognise bullying behaviour at work and identify and select inter-personal strategies for handling bullying behaviour.

A collection of personal family letters written from great entrepreneurs to their family members about business, success and life.

This book presents an in-depth study of how the drive to optimize organizational performance can be significantly improved by investigating the causal relationships between profitability, productivity, and sustainability (PPS).

The second edition of Responsible Leadership offers orienting knowledge on how to lead in a world of contested values-a world where leadership work extends beyond leaders and direct reports to a whole range of stakeholders inside and outside an organization.

Show managers of all stripes how to be key change leaders.

Lance Wright shows why business in the 21st century requires a new understanding of the intersection of risk, security, and human resource management.

This investigative analysis studies why key European countries responded differently to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and what can be learned from it.

The essays in this book discuss human behavior and the institutions of capitalism.

This concise handbook presents a framework to help leaders across sectors understand what their role should be in an extreme crisis and supplements this understanding with practical advice.

The book presents a critical framework for assessing whether organisational practice and function reinforces unseen potential differences amongst individuals in the workplace.

This edited volume presents complex issues surrounding economic and cultural injustices in the global South and the social imaginaries articulated by vulnerable communities in these extractive zones.

Most analysts of corporations and industries adopt the focal perspective of a single prototypical organization.

Drawing on a mixture of theory, cases, and interviews, Startups and Crisis Management provides a valuable overview of how new ventures fared in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ideas for 21st Century Education contains the papers presented at the Asian Education Symposium (AES 2016), held on November 22-23, 2016, in Bandung, Indonesia.

This edited book is the second in the book series "e;Managing the Post-Colony"e;.

In Civility at Work, Lew Bayer describes the business case for civility and explains how organizations can increase employee retention, performance, and overall revenue by creating a workplace culture of human kindness and civility.

In a world of organizations that are in constant change scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change.

This book presents the Cube One framework, which provides a basis for understanding, diagnosing, and improving organizational performance.

"e;Gil Crosby has accomplished what most of us in the world of applied behavioral science, in general, and OD and T-Group training, in particular, have not-making the theoretical father of our work accessible.

Drawing on the theoretical foundations laid out in earlier volumes of this series, this book describes an approach to organizational change and development that is informed by a complexity perspective.

Want to get those difficult colleagues off your back and restore your sanity?

Around the world, small manufacturing enterprises in market-based economies are facing daily challenges posed by emerging green imperatives and opportunities.

This book argues that by integrating effective knowledge management (KM) with project management (PM), the overall project success rate can be improved significantly.

This compelling book offers an important insight into the way organizations implement policies and procedures to prevent future disasters occurring.

Taylor leads readers through creativity and how it relates to leadership followed by the five stages of theory behind the idea: 1) preparation, 2) time-off (or incubation), 3) the spark, 4) selection, and 5) elaboration.

As concise and practical as ever, this new edition brings together principles and new theories in intercultural communication, focusing on communication as the foundation for management and global leadership.

This book focuses on the essentials that public administration students and public managers should know about administrative law-why we have administrative law, the constitutional structure for and constraints on public administration, and administrative law's formats for rulemaking, adjudication, enforcement, transparency, and judicial and legislative review of administrative activity.

Public Organizations in Asia introduces students to the fundamental theories of organizations and teaches them how to analyze different types of public organizations in East and Southeast Asia.

Transformation programs are an common feature of global companies carrying out major strategic change projects.

This book explains how to organize and manage modifications during the solution realization phase of problem solving so improvements become the new way of life.

Work environments are paved with challenges and uncertainties that can result in the risk of setbacks and personal failure.

Managers today are faced with numerous complex challenges speckled with paradoxes.

Über Ursachen für die stagnierende Verbreitung von betrieblicher Gesundheitsförderung (BGF) wird vielfältig spekuliert.

Big data, surveillance, crisis management.

Although many organizations see the need to transform and to reinvent themselves, for far too many leaders, "e;change"e; and "e;failure"e; are virtual synonyms.

At a time of growing pressure on health and social care services, this book draws together contributions which highlight contemporary challenges for their management.

There is a moral to this book, a bit of Confucian wisdom often ignored in social network analysis: "e;Worry not that no one knows you, seek to be worth knowing.

Presents research in Employee-Driven Innovation, an emergent field of study that meets the demand for exploiting new innovative potentials in organizations.

Robert Cooper, who died in 2013, was the leading theorist of organization working in England over the past few decades.

Monica Santana and Ramon Valle-Cabrera's wide-ranging study explores vital research and industrial issues that are central to understanding the concepts of the Future of Work and address key challenges in this evolving area of debate.

The Energy Saving Guide: Tables for Assessing the Profitability of Energy Saving Measures with Explanatory Notes and Worked Examples describes the means of comparing investment in energy saving measures with other types of financial investment.