Organizational theory and behaviour

Will your next leader be insignificantor indispensable?

Given that communication is the lifeblood of an organization, as a managerial leader you know you need to understand how to use communication strategies to build your team to achieve organizational objectives.

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

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.

Seven Moralities of Human Resource Management analyses morality of HRM from the perspective of American psychologist Laurence Kohlberg.

Conquering Global Markets offers assessments of the issues, statistics, cases, and best practices of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and alliances throughout the world.

Successes and Challenges of Emerging Economy Multinationals investigates a broad variety of cases presenting clear evidence of fast successful internationalization of emerging economy multinationals.

Examining the extent to which trade adversely affects domestic workers, Making Sense of Anti-Trade Sentiment documents statistical relationships between exports and imports and domestic employment/wages.

When it comes to mentoring, peer coaching is an undervalued workhorse.

Gain insight into people-organisational relationships and interrelated influences on human behaviour Ranked as one of the Top Ten most influential texts in business and management in the world According to the Financial Times' Teaching Power Rankings, 2021 (research by Open Syllabus) Management and Organisational Behaviour, 13th edition, by Mullins and Rees, provides an in-depth study guide that helps you understand the relationship between people and professional organisations, shedding new light on the understanding, prediction, and control of human behaviour at work.

The discussion in this book provides an introduction to the concept of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial business management.

Leaders are often aware of the benefits of coaching, but they may wonder how to expand individual coaching successes across their entire organization.

The sales team can often make or break the success of new brands or products.

Winning a sale doesn't happen by accident.

The Knowledge of Culture and the Culture of Knowledge explores the construct of information and information culture and its relationship to the prevailing culture.

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

The Multinational Enterprise and the Emergence of the Global Factory brings together research papers authored by Peter J.

Cultures and moral expectations differ around the globe, and so the management of corporate responsibilities has become increasingly complex.

Explores Alasdair MacIntyre's criticisms of the manager and retrieves an interdisciplinary approach to character transforming arguments.

Open Innovation through Strategic Alliances demonstrates the vital role and applications of strategic alliances between firms and research organizations in creating and applying knowledge for the development of new products, technologies, or business models.

Managing Organizations in the United Arab Emirates seeks to familiarize readers with the nature of doing business and managing organizations in the Middle East by bringing together case studies on United Arab Emirate (UAE) organizations, one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing economies in the world.

Commitment to sustainability and social responsibility goals will require the creation of new roles and entrepreneurial approaches.

The book explores how time is materialized and performed in organizations; examines how organizations and organizational members are constituted by and constitutive of material artefacts; and reflects on what a historical perspective on these materializations can bring to the study of organizations.

This book focuses on two central aspects of the risk managing process, namely 1.

Transnational Corporations and Transnational Governance examines the different kinds of distance-related barriers related to cross-border investment.

Presents research findings and theoretical developments in the International Business field, with special emphasis on the issues of internationalization, innovation and sustainability in Latin America.

The study of altruism, morality, and social solidarity is an emerging field of scholarship and research in sociology.