Organizational theory and behaviour

This book covers three main areas, namely the pharmaceuticals industry, the telecommunications sector and the banking sector, with a focus on manufacturing and service.

Bringing together international authors, this edited collection addresses the need for greater inclusivity within organizational policy and practice, in order to tackle both visible and invisible inequalities amongst employees.

Management Extra brings all the best management thinking together in one package.

Collectively led companies are considered more flexible, faster and more innovative.

This book consists of a selection of papers that discuss the challenges in the increasingly complex world of education and various educational problems such as moral degradation, lack of literacy, pedagogical curriculum and innovation, educational technology.

A sustainable European workforce has become increasingly relevant in our present day and age.

Playing with Purpose shows how a facilitator, coach, manager, people developer or trainer can invent or reinvigorate an artificial learning experience and make it so much more than a game.

Current recruitment and selection practices are essentially a cloning process which seeks to match applicants with the current corporate culture of the hiring organisation.

Economies around the globe have evolved into being largely service-oriented economies.

The coronavirus pandemic forced work back into the home on a massive scale.

First published in 1963, Edgar Anstey's work gives a detailed account on the inner workings of the committee.

This book explores the intricate connections that link the current digitalization of manufacturing to our daily lives and identities as members of highly technologized societies.

This volume discusses the emerging changes in Indian management culture both at the macro and micro levels and their impact on domestic and multinational businesses based in India.

Technology plays a critical role in transforming societies and economies through enhancing efficiency, connectivity and access to resources and services.

Subversion, Power and Hierarchy in Organisations and Society: Carnivalesque Leadership explores a leadership strategy that dates back centuries but has become so normalised that it can be invisible as a strategy.

Passion is a pervasive concept in the work domain.

Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom demonstrates that organizations can act wisely.

In today's world, where the pursuit of profit often takes precedence over the well-being of people and the planet, humanistic management offers a refreshing and much-needed alternative.

This book explores how the conceptual lens of Holistic Flexibility presents new advancements in systems thinking.

This book discusses the personal and professional challenges of conducting fieldwork in the difficult, sometimes threatening contexts of the transforming societies of post-socialist Europe and China.

This book presents a new approach to organizational culture based in the ontologies of process metaphysics, complexity theory, and social constructionism.

Navigating Corporate Cultures From Within offers a unique perspective on the management of headquarter-subsidiary-host market relationships with important insights on how to align corporate values with a localized mindset among culturally diverse employees and across a global enterprise.

Demystifying the entire workspace industry, for the non-expert and expert alike, this unique book sets out every step and consideration in how to lead a project to create a fantastic workspace.

In the light of multiple corporate debacles, financial crises and environmental disasters across the globe, the need for corporate goals to transition from simply maximising shareholder wealth to optimising stakeholder welfare is being echoed in various quarters.

Although the topic of job attitudes and other workplace psychological constructs such as perceptions, identity, bonds, and motivational states is important, there are no books addressing the topic as a whole.

This book shows, first of all, that leadership plays a crucial role in reinventing regions and branching out from an old path to something new in order to create more balanced and sustainable regional development.

Politische Prozesse in Unternehmen zählen sowohl zu den interessantesten als auch zu den vernachlässigsten Gebieten der Betriebswirtschaftslehre und der Organisationstheorie.

Storytelling is part of social action and interaction that actually shapes the future of organizations.

Das Buch beschreibt die Probleme und Gefahren, die im Großprojektmanagement auftreten können.

The most important resource an organization has is its staff, its human resources, and it is the task of management to help staff to reach their full potential in order to optimize the organization's competitive advantage.

Time is often taken for granted in daily life and the business world.

When institutions forget they repeat mistakes.

In recent years the professions have undergone radical transformation.

First published in 1987.

Coaching is a necessary skill for managers.

This book provides a timely, critical, and thought-provoking analysis of the implications of the disruption of COVID-19 to the foreign aid and development system, and the extent to which the system is retaining a level of relevance, legitimacy, or coherence.

Consultants are called upon more and more to help implement needed organizational changes, fill gaps in workforce capabilities, and solve significant business problems.

Socialize Your Patient Engagement Strategy makes the case for a fundamentally new approach to healthcare communication; one that mobilizes patients, healthcare professionals and uses new media to enable gathering, sharing and communication of information to achieve patient-centricity and provide better value for both organizations (in terms of profit) and patients (in terms of better service and improved health).

Police officers, social workers, teachers, and many other street-level bureaucrats exercise discretion in dealing with clients.

After the financial collapse of 2008 and the bailing out of banks in the US and the UK, the long-term viability of the neoliberal doctrine has come under new scrutiny.

Das "Lexikon des systemischen Arbeitens" ist in seiner aktualisierten und erweiterten Auflage das Ergebnis der fortgesetzten Zusammenarbeit namhafter systemischer Praktiker:innen, Forscher:innen und Lehrender im deutschsprachigen Raum.

In addition to traditional management tools, government administrators require a fundamental understanding of the tools available to address the ever-changing context of government communications.