Organizational theory and behaviour

From authors used to operating between the commercial, public and independent sectors of the mixed cultural economy, Understanding Creative Business bridges the gap between creative practice and mainstream business organisation, entrepreneurship and management.

Understanding Organisation Development is essential reading for students studying Organisation Development (OD) as part of a wider HR degree or professional qualification, is the core textbook for the CIPD level 5 Unit 5UOD, and is ideal for professionals looking for a solid theoretical grounding that they can apply in practice.

The four main tenets of life are explored in this unique new book that examines the issues that touch each executive, or for that matter, people in general.

Der Einsatz von flexibel automatisierten Fertigungskonzepten in den Produktionsbereichen der Unternehmen des Maschinenbaus hat sich in den letzten Jahren durchgesetzt.

The business environment is a fundamental subject in any Business Studies degree course.

Much has been said and written about Japan's manufacturing prowess.

The sales team can often make or break the success of new brands or products.

Football Managers have to deal with a number of unique pressures, yet the challenges of the football manager are similar to those of managers in other sectors.

On October 24th, 1994, the pro-government German newspaper 'Die Welt' reported that the Minister of Family Affairs, Mrs.

Turn team members into innovatorsMost organizations approach innovation as if it were a sideline activity.

Through change and development, human service organizations can promote the well-being of their clients more effectively.

It is of central importance for companies to be innovative.

Established trust scholars from around the world consider the development and maintenance of trust in a wide variety of organizational settings.

The cultural sector is gaining increasing importance in our economies, consistantly registering growth rates above average GDP.

Global customers, supply chains and more integrated business functions mean that work now cuts across the traditional vertical silos of country and function.

This case study seeks to explain how organizations grow and the limits to that growth when an organization engaged in policy implementation lacks the resources necessary to achieve policy goals.

This book is a philosophical exploration of the relationship between leadership and organization.

This book contributes a basic framework for and specific insights into interdisciplinary connections between production, logistics, and traffic subsystems.

The Ostrich Effect goes beyond the typical "e;how to"e; approach of most books that deal with difficult conversations at work.

Design: A Business Case challenges you to stimulate innovation in your own organization as an ongoing and integral dialogue between complementary skills-to bridge mind and matter, image and identity.

Stress is defined as a feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize.

`[Challenges] mainstream accounts of organizational behaviour and management which treat gender as an optional extra.

Lean is a type of organizational change brought about through improvement methods based on cost reduction mechanism.

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

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

Times have changed.

Solidarity is an 'unthought' in the fields of organizational theory and management sciences.

Social regeneration is about the transformative processes that, through institutional choices that embody cooperation and inclusion, develop opportunities and capabilities for weak categories, and transversally for society.

Previous editions of Action Learning in Practice established this authoritative overview of action learning around the world.

This book represents the first study of economic restructuring in reform era China to apply the concepts of identity and corporate space; notions that have become increasingly relevant as foreign invested and Chinese ventures face complex operational and societal issues in the wake of globalization.

From medicine to education, evidence-based approaches aim to evaluate and apply scientific evidence to a problem in order to arrive at the best possible solution.

Imitation and emulation are mechanisms of competition in international relations that are theoretically posited but empirically diffuse.

Das Buch zeigt, welchen Einfluss die digitale Transformation auf das Services Management hat und wie ein Wandel in der Unternehmensorganisation erfolgreich umgesetzt werden kann.

You're no idiot, of course.

The field of management and organizational history has reached a level of maturity that means an overview is long overdue.

President Obama's former United States chief of protocol looks at why diplomacy and etiquette matter-and how they can help you in everyday life.

The Australian workplace continues to become more ethnically diverse as multiculturalism becomes a lived reality on a substantial scale.

People are happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with.

The Employability Market Orientation (EMO) model, which is more extensive than traditional approaches in the field of personal marketing, along with a questionnaire for its measurement, makes the employee "e;anti-fragile"e; behaving as a micro-entrepreneur (workpreneur).

Improve the delivery of library services by implementing total quality management (TQM), a system of continuous improvement employing participative management and centered on the needs of customers.

Principled Persuasion in Employee Communication highlights a new but significant dilemma for organisational leaders.

This book addresses the contemporary aspects of employee voice through theoretical and practical analysis.

Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach introduces the most recent theoretical and empirical insights on positive organizational practices, addressing emerging topics such as resilience, job crafting, responsible leadership and mindfulness.

This edited collection brings together voices of the strongest thought leaders on diversity, equity and inclusion in the field of statistics and data science, with the goal of encouraging and steering the profession into the regular practice of inclusive and humanistic leadership.

This volume explores the work environment in multinational corporations.

Healthy and successful organizations require the people who work within them to be happy, resilient and creative.

The term 'consumption' is generally thought of as process by which individuals purchase goods and services.

Debunking much of the received wisdom regarding the sources of leadership team dysfunctionality, Leadership Team Alignment presents a targeted strategy for building and managing a top executive team to gain competitive advantage.

For you as an IT manager, changes in business models and fast-paced innovation and product lifecycles pose a big challenge: you are required to anticipate the impact of future changes, and to make rapid decisions backed up by solid facts.