Organizational theory and behaviour

This book presents notable examples of attempts by experienced managers to implement bad ideas that lead to failed change so that change managers are better equipped to avoid common pitfalls in managing change.

Level Up Leadership is the first book with applied leadership development in one comprehensive read.

This book presents the first ever comprehensive approach to evaluating and redesigning Human Resource Development (HRD) function and intervention to maximise their contribution to business excellence.

Estimates say that as many as eight out of ten new businesses fail within the first eighteen months.

This book is about understanding the nature of design and organization in complex living systems.

Behind the Scenes of Health Care presents an extensive review of motivation and commitment among health care workers in support and bedside care roles.

The focus of this book is aimed at providing a mechanism to determine the individual and cumulative contribution of portfolio components to strategic objectives so that the right decisions can be made regarding those components.

This book is perfect for leaders across the enterprise who have a difficult time attracting, retaining, understanding ,and communicating with their millennial employees and job candidates.

The Barn Door Is Open: Frameworks and Tools for Success and Fulfillment in the Workplace is a business book, a playful and humorous read, an intelligent metaphorical and philosophical tale anchored in the tools and techniques of innovative and proven management frameworks.

Transforming Towards Life orients change agents, policy makers, activists, business leaders, ecologists, economists, and thoughtful people everywhere to the values and practices needed to build a world where all can flourish, where 'all' includes all humanity and all of life's beings.

Reflecting on the evolving organisation of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their growing presence in international business, this book focuses on value creation by subsidiaries in transition economies, and uses Poland as an example.

Health systems worldwide are grappling with the challenge of coordinating difference in an increasingly complex care environment.

This book offers a comprehensive and readable introduction to modern business and data analytics.

This book explores opportunities and limitations with regard to transferring knowledge and tools from the corporate world to manage monasteries or other types of religious institutions.

This book deepens the understanding of cultural conditions for implementing organizational and process changes in higher education institutions.

Offering a pragmatic understanding of customer engagement as an object of effective marketing management, this book takes an integrative approach and brings together different streams of marketing research, such as customer activism and value formation.

Contrary to the notion that leaders contribute to positive behaviour within organisations, this book reflects growing interest in the 'dark side' of leadership: the unethical and immoral personalities that can reside in positions of power.

Patient-oriented approaches to healthcare management have been brought to the fore in recent years, yet this book underlines how even further change is needed in order to fully mobilise the experiential knowledge of patients, and ultimately improve our healthcare systems.

Addressing the effect of big data analytics-capable information systems on organizational ambidexterity, this book investigates how these systems can be used to enhance organizational agility and flexibility, generally considered to be two key determinants of organizational ambidexterity.

This innovative book analyses the evolving nature of leadership, exploring an ever-increasing range of theoretical concepts and applying these to practices within healthcare organisations.

This book draws on the author's own experience as a practitioner, collaborations with professionals from small and medium-sized businesses with international scope in North Macedonia and Belgium, and academic research.

Exploring the diversity of small firms, this contributed volume focuses on the crucial topic of work and the ways in which it is regulated, and offers reflections on the future of labour more generally.

With spirituality being brought to the fore of management and organisation studies, this timely collection takes a closer look at the relationship between religion and work in India.

This book focuses on the crucial sustainability challenge of reducing food waste at the level of consumer-society.

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

This book explores the growing phenomenon of the social media storm in the context of educational establishments.

Two seminal crises of the early 21st century - the 9/11 terrorist attacks and COVID-19 pandemic - have led emerging generations of workers to prioritize the meaning and purpose of work.

Competitive paradigms, which are constantly being shifted, and turbulent environmental conditions, which today are a constant, tend to dictate rather than inform strategic decision making regarding an organization's status quo and desired outcomes.

This book explores how and why an event is a precursor to the emergence of a crisis and how a given crisis affects an organization and its stakeholders.

As a method for empirical inquiry, autoethnography has gained much purchase among business school academics.

In order to be developed, inter-organizational relationships, as well as organizational cultures, rely on communication, learning, trust, commitment, and shared meanings and symbols.

This book is the fourth in the series on leadership, interprofessional education and practice, following on from Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2014), Leadership and Collaboration: Further Developments for IPE and Collaborative Practice (2015) and Leading Research and Evaluation in Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (2016).

This book examines the principles and procedures implemented by Moses for developing leaders.

Given our rapidly changing world, companies are virtually forced to engage in continuous performance monitoring.

This book presents the fundamental concepts of organizational learning (OL) and related topics.

This book examines the interplay between IT solutions and specific management methods in organizations.

This book focuses on the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on organizations and society as a whole.

This book showcases a selection of arts-based research methods used in the empirical study of business, organisation and the humanities.

This proceedings volume provides a fresh perspective on current challenges in cooperation and coopetition in the age of Industry 4.

How can artist-scientist collaboration be of value to science and technology organizations?

The digital revolution is changing virtually every aspect of the business world.

This book describes the steps undertaken by language researchers to disseminate their findings at sites of practice.

The lack of congruence between theory and practice in business remains a widely discussed topic.

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.

This title provides managers, executives and other professionals with an innovative method for critical decision-making.

This handbook proposes to present best practices in managing and leading the 21st century workforce.

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.

The primary focus of this book is an examination of longitudinal team communication and its impact on team performance.

This book is the first independent exploration of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile's (FIA) institutional history.