Organizational theory and behaviour

This book is for anyone who wants to lead change.

Push forward diversity, equity, inclusion, and racial justice at your organization.

Twoworld-renowned strategists detail the seven leadership imperatives fortransforming companies in the new digitalera.

Building anti-racist companies by design creates great places to work for all.

This fifteenth volume reviews the current status of many of the major themes that this series has explored.

Research on Emotion in Organizations is the publication of the Emonet listserv http://www.

This volume contains a further selection of the best papers presented at the Seventh Emonet conference (Montreal, Canada, August 2010), following on from Volume 7 and augmented once again with invited chapters authored by leading scholars in the field.

This book explores the possibility of a progressive and transformative management which, while grounded in the analytic tradition and values of CMS, also confronts practical demands of meeting social needs.

Research in Organizational Change and Development provides a special platform for scholars and practitioners to share new research-based insights.

The call for a change of culture is commonplace in corporate and governmental settings.

Organizations need not sacrifice workplace diversity in the quest for positive global reputation and profit.

This special volume brings together leading scholars in the field of organisation studies to reflect on the universal phenomena of hierarchy (vertical organisation of tasks) and bureaucracy (rule-bound execution of tasks).

Both history and current events attest to the continued significance of religion in society.

The latest volume of Research in Managing Groups and Teams focuses on multiteam systems (MTSs), or systems of interdependent teams working toward a shared goal.

The Institutional Logics Perspective is one of the fastest growing new theoretical areas in organization studies (Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury, 2012).

This volume attempts to build a bridge between POB and Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS).

The Institutional Logics Perspective is one of the fastest growing new theoretical areas in organization studies (Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury, 2012).

Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness highlights research and practice aimed at understanding how organizations and more inclusive systems of actors develop a continuous, unfaltering focus on sustainability.

Organizations are central actors of modern society.

Some 20 years after the emergence of configurational theory as a key perspective in organization studies in the 1990s, this approach has yet to deliver on its promise.

The focus of this volume is on the role of emotions in organizational governance, which involves the complete gamut of organizational processes and procedures, including the means whereby organizations are controlled and directed.

Global and Culturally Diverse Leaders and Leadership explores diverse cultural leadership styles and paradigms that are dynamic, complex, globally authentic and culturally competent for the 21st century.

Nowhere is the study of workplace ethics more relevant today than in the context of empowering organizations to meet their goals in corporate social responsibility and sustainability (CSR/S).

Talent Management (TM) is an issue of critical importance for today's senior managers.

Behavioral strategy has evolved as a field the last decades both intellectually and institutionally.

The book intends to make a contribution to new theoretical concepts and knowledge to existing leadership theory.

Based on three years of meta- research into team effectiveness and coaching, this book explores some of the most common contradictions and debates around the topic of team coaching and presents readers with a framework to enable them to explore this field for themselves, reflecting on their own experience and drawing their own conclusions.

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

This volume focuses on the crucial role of emotions in forming and sustaining individual and collective identities at work.

This book was born from the desire to analyze the role of social recruitment in human resources management.

In a global age of disruption, future organisational change is not avoidable.

Highlights include a reflection on forty years of collaboration and provides an inside perspective on collegial partnerships; the first recipients of the Pasmore-Woodman Award (AOM 2015) consider personal recollections as well as general principles about successful academic partnerships; one of the first women in the field provides a perspective on the interdependence of research and practice through a gender lens; while reflecting on the role of women in ODC across a fifty-year time period; strategies for managing changes in the research question when conducting field-based action research advances our understanding of evidence-based practice through the application of theory; Dialogic OD, a relatively new perspective in the field, is explored by discussing a case in which 'social space' serves as 'transitional space' and the ODC practitioner is provided a theoretically informed set of principles that can be applied and evaluated across contexts; the nature and role of organization identity shades new insights about the potential impact of organization development work on company culture and effectiveness; the challenges of integrating business strategy and organization development in the fast changing newspaper industry.

Differences in management behavior across organizations are attributed to differences in priorities and objectives or differences in the style and preferences of the individuals involved.

International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion examines the complex nature of equality, diversity and inclusion in the world of work through interdisciplinary, comparative and critical perspectives.

The sustainability of agri-food supply chains is particularly relevant for global sustainable development.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the issues surrounding allyship as one of the tools in the arsenal of organisational leaders to further advance the goal of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in organisations.

The application of continuously changing ubiquitous computing and network technologies and the ensuing new networked society is challenging the traditional perspectives of what is human and social capital.

In almost any industry, the day-to-day lived experiences of workers directly shape production processes.

This double volume presents a collection of 23 papers on how institutions matter to socio-economic life.

This book provides a guide to co-designing learning environments and relationships.

This book highlights the significance of perceptiveness that takes readers to formidable heights, showing relevance in most revered professions and in the corporate world.

The way we design and work within our organizations is profoundly impacted by digital technologies and complexity.

Today's business leaders are required to navigate a difficult path between building and maintaining a stable, effective and successful organization, and rolling out a seemingly endless series of complex change initiatives to ensure ongoing relevance in the marketplace.

This second edition of An Overview of the Public Relations Function examines current thought to help busy managers and students master the most important concepts of management in communication quickly, accessibly, and with an eye to helping an organization achieve excellence through cutting-edge, research-based strategic public relations management.

Untenable helps identify untenable situations, describes the barriers to addressing them, and suggests novel ways to approach them.

Practicing Leadership is intended to serve as a guide to basic principles of leadership and begins with an overview of definitions and conceptions of leadership and then continues with discussions of the roles and activities expected from an effective leader; personality traits and attributes which can be learned and perfected by persons that aspire to leadership positions; styles of leadership, which encompass the strategies used by leaders to engage with their followers and leadership in developing countries.

The objective of Creating a Culture for Information Systems Success is to assist CIOs and IT managers on how to use their managerial actions to create a suitable cultural environment in the organization that leads to a successful and sustainable implementation of information systems function.

This book provides a short introduction to the philosophy of humanism and discusses how and why it is being applied to business and why it is so effective when you do so.

Supply Chain Optimization Field Guide is an essential book to help readers understand the dynamics of how a global business operates.

Many books and articles have been written about how firms can achieve and sustain high performance.