This book chronicles how four resort cities (Asheville, Aspen, Key West and Laguna Beach) addressed failing economic situations to reinvent themselves and prosper.
2017 marks the silver anniversary of the Research in Organizational Change and Development series, founded in 1987 by Dick Woodman and Bill Pasmore, and currently edited by Rami Shani and Debra Noumair.
This book illustrates how the traditional practice of project management advances to handle the more complex problems inherent to strategic organizational transformation.
Design: A Business Case challenges you to stimulate innovation in your own organization as an ongoing and integral dialogue between complementary skills-to bridge mind and matter, image and identity.
The essential resource for designing and implementing employee benefits-bringing you up to date on critical new industry changesFor nearly three decades, HR professionals and consultants have depended on The Handbook of Employee Benefits for authoritative answers to their questions about designing and implementing competitive employee benefits packages.
The definitive classic on high-performance teamsThe Wisdom of Teams is the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization.
Recent changes to the funding and governance of higher education and scientific research systems are affecting both the organisation of the sciences and the nature of universities as strategic actors in many countries.
This volume includes the role of persuasion in learning and education in the process of organization change and development; the role of leaders in the exploration of alternative ways to create and lead high performing organizations; understanding better the role and impact of the OD practitioner mindset on the evolving process of the change and development effort; developing a deeper level understanding of the connection between organization change content and change strategy; the challenge of system wide transformation in the emerging complex business context; the role and dynamics of sense-making and sense-giving in enhancing and facilitating change; new perspectives about different ways to create organization agility; ways to create responsive business process via a tapestry of learning mechanisms; and, the development of dynamic capability and different ways to accelerate global hybrid team effectiveness.
For 25 years Research in Organizational Change and Development has provided a special platform for scholars and practitioners to share new research-based insights.
All managers, regardless of where they work, must understand certain basic concepts such as the functions, roles, and skills associated with the managerial position and the styles available to managers for use in any given situation.
A wide range of conceptualizations of "e;management"e; have been offered and it is often difficult for managers to fully understand their roles within the organization; however, managers striving for effectiveness would do well to invest effort into understanding the functions, roles, and skills associated with managerial positions.
In Lean on Civility: Strategies for Changing Culture in Manufacturing Workplaces, the authors explain how incorporating civility can drive success in your business.
The study of multinational companies (MNCs) has been split for many decades into two camps which hardly 'talked' to each other: a) predominantly economic and functionalist oriented International Business Researchers, and b) largely social constructivist and critical management oriented Organization Theorists.
A Transition Town group involved in preparations for peak oil and climate change; an intentional community, founded with the highest ideals; a nonprofit dedicated to social changemillions of such voluntary groups exist around the world.
In their bestselling work The ExtraordinaryLeader, performance thought leaders JohnZenger and Joseph Folkman revealed the 16key competencies that separate the top 10percent of leaders from the rest.
