Organizational theory and behaviour

This innovative guide brings together practical solutions to the documentation challenges faced by today's organizations.

Human Resource Management (HRM) plays an important and strategic role in the success of international joint ventures.

The ability to discover and respond to societal needs in the field of culture requires an integrated, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral approach.

Rulemaking refines, and in some instances defines, the mission of every government agency and affects the lives and activities of all citizens and often non-citizens.

Foregrounding the vital importance of interpersonal communication and cultural competence in the workplace, this book offers concise, practical strategies for daily communication in a global business environment.

This book presents the seven entrepreneurial activities (SEA) model of new organizational constitution, a prescriptive extension of the four flows model tradition of communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) theory.

Foregrounding the vital importance of interpersonal communication and cultural competence in the workplace, this book offers concise, practical strategies for daily communication in a global business environment.

Management research has traditionally assumed that leaders play an essential role in both public and private organizations and are required for a business to run smoothly.

We all live in and with organizations such as companies, project groups, the local authorities, school, associations, churches, political parties and the state.

Bill Lucia and Deb Kelly embarked on a journey to transform their company.

This book focuses on the core theoretical concept of "e;Ma thinking"e; - an idea that serves as springboard for the thoughts and actions of distinguished practitioners, innovators, and researchers.

Universities are under pressure.

Research in Organizational Change and Development (ROCD) brings forth the latest scholarly work and practice in the fields of organization development and organizational change.

This book examines change processes and the challenge of ambidexterity in military organizations.

In the last two decades there has been an explosion of research inspired by Michel Foucault's suggestion of a new concept, 'governmentality'.

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity.

While the operation and structure of the public workforce is not a matter that is on the minds of most, the consequences for the nature and effectiveness of government are substantial.

WINNER: Independent Press Awards 2018 - Business Motivation CategoryUnlocking Happiness at Work takes you on a journey into why and how leaders should become compassionate capitalists and ensure that their teams thrive.

At the turn of the century the term "e;gamification"e; was introduced as a concept to understand the process of using game mechanics in "e;non-game"e; contexts.

Imagine if you were present as?

A five-time Space Shuttle commander reveals what astronauts know about improving performance and productivity under pressure.

Will your next leader be insignificantor indispensable?

The global economy and free market philosophy have resulted in higher global competition and increased expectations from customers.

Drawing on the author's extensive experience training mentors, The Mentor's Way outlines eight rules for engaging in a mentoring relationship.

Learn to collaborate productively from anywhere.

Why are elite jewelers reluctant to sell turquoise, despite strong demand?

So läuft's rund im Team!

Many make the mistake of thinking because a thing is common, it is probably harmless.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of corporate reputation, aiming to enhance understanding, management processes, and measurement methods associated with this crucial concept.

This book investigates the influence of personal values on managerial behaviour in modern organizations, and how this impacts upon company performance and relationships.

Adopting a critical realist position, this book renders transaction cost economics (TCE) into a behavioral theory of organizational decision-making by foregrounding psychological processes and introducing and integrating with effectuation theory.

This book offers a new framework for conceptualizing and managing organizations when using new information and communication technologies, for example decision support and artificial intelligence.

Leadership is struggleThe question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world.

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

Information technology (IT) use has generally been regarded as a positive phenomenon which always generates desirable outcomes.

Information technology (IT) use has generally been regarded as a positive phenomenon which always generates desirable outcomes.

Brings together the research of world-class commentators on China from across Europe to explore the policy aspects of the China-EU relationship.

Drawing on contemporary debates and responding to an analytic lacuna in organization and management studies and calls from organizational practice, Phenomenology of the Embodied Organization explores the fundamental and integral role of the body and embodiment in organizational life-worlds.

The key aim of the volume of original papers on the theory and practice of ODE featured in Organization Design and Engineering is to contribute towards overcoming the academic challenges stated above.

Volume 27 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains five peer-reviewed papers highlighting key aspects of employment relations across a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Presenteeism presents the important issues related to the nature and extent of presenteeism and cited examples from different studies.

History, geography, culture, and the legal framework influence the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in and around organisations.

Banks, Bankers, and Bankruptcies Under Crisis uses case studies of failed banks, banks that would have failed without taxpayer intervention, and in some cases banks obliged to merge under government pressure, to better understand global banking today.

This volume explores the temporal structures and dynamics at stake in contemporary management and organization in relation to technology, power and politics.

This book examines the cognitive, social and behavioural skills that leaders need to have within their capability portfolio and how this can be applied to drive a diversity agenda in their organizations.

By returning to the source and the source texts, this book deepens the understanding of certain important ideas and notions which affect our present thinking.

This book focuses on business firms as catalysts and agents of social and economic change, and explores the argument that sustainable development is the perfect opportunity for businesses to strengthen the evolving notion of corporate social responsibility, while achieving long-term growth through innovation, research and development.