Organizational theory and behaviour

In life, delegation is fundamental.

Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis, and Disaster Management is a practical guide for those involved in all aspects of emergency preparedness, resilience, and response.

Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis, and Disaster Management is a practical guide for those involved in all aspects of emergency preparedness, resilience, and response.

This book provides the first systematic assessment of trends in inequality in job quality in Britain in recent decades.

It is over twenty years since scholars began to question the adequacy of the extant career theory for illuminating women's lives.

Management, the pursuit of objectives through the organization and co-ordination of people, has been and is a core feature-and function-of modern society.

Management, the pursuit of objectives through the organization and co-ordination of people, has been and is a core feature-and function-of modern society.

Providing you with an accessible and authoritative guide to neighbourhood policing and the counter-terrorism measures available to police officers, Preventing Terrorism and Violent Extremism presents the tools and operational know-how needed to tackle the range of threats to both national security and community safety.

Providing you with an accessible and authoritative guide to neighbourhood policing and the counter-terrorism measures available to police officers, Preventing Terrorism and Violent Extremism presents the tools and operational know-how needed to tackle the range of threats to both national security and community safety.

This book focuses on the state of Organization Theory, its purpose, object, and practical relevance.

This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current issues and debates in the field of health care management.

This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current issues and debates in the field of health care management.

With the growing influence of discursive and narrative perspectives on organizing, organizational scholars are focusing increasing attention on the constitutive role that language and communication play in organizational processes.

Blackstone's Policing for the PCSO is the third edition of the bestselling Blackstone's PCSO Handbook, representing the changing needs of this unique group within the police service.

Blackstone's Policing for the PCSO is the third edition of the bestselling Blackstone's PCSO Handbook, representing the changing needs of this unique group within the police service.

Today, an increasing number of researchers, citizens, politicians, civil organizations, activists, and corporations are concerned with questions such as: Can the financial rationality of firms be constrained by social concerns?

Business model innovation is an important source of competitive advantage and corporate renewal.

Hyper-Organization offers an institutional explanation for the expansion of formal organization in the contemporary era-in numbers, internal complexity, social domains, and national contexts.

Many deep concerns in the life sciences and medicine have to do with the enactment, ordering and displacement of a broad range of values.

The topic of organizational identity has been fast growing in management and organization studies in the last 20 years.

The topic of organizational identity has been fast growing in management and organization studies in the last 20 years.

Game-changing disruptions will likely unfold on your watch.

We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt.

In recent years scholars and practitioners have increasingly recognized that human resource management (HRM) has paid insufficient attention to the impact of context.

In recent years scholars and practitioners have increasingly recognized that human resource management (HRM) has paid insufficient attention to the impact of context.

The scope of criminal justice surveillance has expanded rapidly in recent decades.

The scope of criminal justice surveillance has expanded rapidly in recent decades.

Organizations are the dominant social invention for generating resources and distributing them.

Organizations are the dominant social invention for generating resources and distributing them.

This book stands as the full body of scholarly work on western theories of social sciences.

Transitioning new engineers into professionals who can blend in and contribute to the technical organization is, at best, doubtful.

This book stands as the full body of scholarly work on western theories of social sciences.

Transitioning new engineers into professionals who can blend in and contribute to the technical organization is, at best, doubtful.

Business Book Awards 2026 Shortlisted in Leadership categoryNobody likes to talk about endings.

Organizations are a part of everyday life, whether in schools, hospitals, police stations or commercial companies.

Throughout a long and distinguished career, Charles Handy has spent much of his time observing organizations and the behaviour of the people in them.

Who has said what about organizations and their management?

This book spans seventy years of theory from Max Weber's seminal writings on bureaucratic organization to the latest management thinking represented by Handy, Peters and Waterman.

THE ESSENTIAL MARKETING WISDOM OF PETER DRUCKER"e;Bill Cohen has done us a wonderful service by faithfully combing through Peter Drucker's vast writings and weaving together Peter's thoughts on marketing.

How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolvedOrganizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more.

Reinvent your organization for the hybrid age.

Imagine?

How do corporations and other organizations maintain and transmit their cultures over time?

Why were the American POWs imprisoned at the ';Hanoi Hilton' so resilient in captivity and so successful in their subsequent careers?

The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level.

We need a new approach for solving tough problems in a complex worldwe need to collaborate smarter.