Organizational theory and behaviour

The groundbreaking follow-up to the international bestseller--a hands-on guide to putting McKinsey techniques to work in your organizationMcKinsey & Company is the most respected and most secretive consulting firm in the world, and business readers just can't seem to get enough of all things McKinsey.

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Transform Average Employees into Powerhouse Performers I cannot think of a more important message and timely book.

Leadership Skills for Managers is an in-depth exploration of the abilities and qualities of a leader (as opposed to just a manager).

A new style of leader is emerging from the world's most successful organizations.

Learn from the executive who made Verizon Wireless #1 what it takes to drive results, develop people, and build careers Happy employees don't make good results; good results make happy employees.

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One of the world's foremost experts on the topic of the future of work and human capital, Lynda Gratton argues that global corporations can be major players in changing the world, with their massive networks of human resources, varieties of expertise, and vast organizational skills.

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Lead your team through today's rapid changesThe only guarantee in business is change.

Work is changing.

The term "e;managerialism"e; is widely used not only in the world of business and government and this book details the theory behind the illusive idea.

Violent mutiny was common in seafaring enterprises during the Age of Discovery-so common, in fact, that dealing with mutineers was an essential skill for captains and other leaders of the time.

Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations: Leading Relationships with Stakeholders provides practical information, rooted in organizational behavior theory, for the effective and successful management of nonprofit organizations and key stakeholder groups.

This book explores the way that culture and societal values impact the economies of eight European countries, focussing on businesses and their organisation and management processes.

This book examines healthcare innovation processes, shedding light on the controversies endemic to innovation, which make such processes notoriously challenging.

This book is one of the first to provide an overview of recent developments in social psychological theory as it applies to organizational issues.

To excel in today's exacting world, organizations need to combine strategic planning and strategic thinking.

This Handbook incorporates a variety of disciplines and approaches in order to provide a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the issues that result from increasing age diversity at work.

This book is intended to be an important contribution to scholars with an interest in the burgeoning area of theory and research on organizational justice.

This book brings together current research on stigma, stigma management, and stigma theory as applied to business and management at the micro, meso, and macro levels.

Wanting to create a favorable impression with others is a basic part of human nature in both work and personal life.

A comprehensive and critical review of the global scholarly literature on diversity, this book presents findings from original UK-based research involving in-depth organizational case studies, interviews, observation and documentary data from over fifty organizations.

This book addresses possible applications of computer simulation to theory building in management and organizational theory.

This book describes and analyses the impact of the 2007-2008 financial crisis upon the working conditions of employees in the financial services sector in Britain.

Vision and visuality are two concepts widely discussed and debated in philosophy and social science literature.

This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 21/2 years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group.

This book contributes new insights into the organization of free/open source (F/OS) software communities by examining the links between learning, division of labour and commercialization, demonstrating the need for a synthesis of work on both community organization and cooperation to understand F/OS community dynamics.

This book explains how to organize and manage modifications during the solution realization phase of problem solving so improvements become the new way of life.

This book seeks to integrate the scholarship on justice and affect.

The action plan you need to ensure everyone's understood-digitally and across generationsAccording to social scientist and award-winning CEO Dr.

Take the Kata path to scientific thinking and superior results!

The analysis of how institutions are formed, how they operate and change, and how they influence behavior in society has become a major subject of inquiry in politics, sociology, and economics.

Is your firms board creating valueor destroying it?

As you're well aware, your individual energy ebbs and flows--leading to high and low productivity cycles.

Find the right innovation modelInnovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and implementing a new idea, many companies miss the markplans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context.

Although much as been written about how to make better decisions, a decision by itself changes nothing.

Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.

How you respond to failure makes all the difference.

Its not just health professionals in Emergency Departments that need to communicate effectively under difficult conditions involving time pressure, high stress, and conflict.

The Energy Saving Guide: Tables for Assessing the Profitability of Energy Saving Measures with Explanatory Notes and Worked Examples describes the means of comparing investment in energy saving measures with other types of financial investment.

Technology-Based Training provides information pertinent to the importance and influence of technology in the field of training.

This comprehensive online course is designed to equip you with the essential skills for effective team working.

The world of safety for professionals can often be unclear.

We are in a decisive decade that demands more inspired and informed practitioners who can use positive futures to rebalance the present.

Quantitative Planning and Control: Essays in Honor of William Wager Cooper on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday features a collection of papers prepared by students and associates of William Wager Cooper to honor him on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.