Within the digital era, agile working is imperative for organisations and workers to meet the needs of customers, service-users and ever-changing markets.
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.
This book explores the differences between Western and non-Western cultures to provide a more comprehensive understanding of psychological contract and its consequences on employees' behavioral, attitudinal, and cognitive outcomes.
This book brings together the most current thinking and research on educator stress and how education systems can support quality teachers and quality education.
This book analyzes the evolution of marketing and the ways in which marketing actions can be rendered more effective, before setting out a new approach to marketing, termed The Extra Step (TES) in recognition of the importance that it attributes to the final extra step in enhancing the effectiveness of marketing efforts.
Presenting some of the most significant research on the modern understanding of luxury, this edited collection of articles from the Journal of Brand Management explores the complex relationships consumers tie with luxury, and the unique characteristics of luxury brand management.
This volume deals with the construction of categorizations of health at work on the basis of individuals' perceptions and analyses of the psychosocial health effects at their work.
This volume includes the full proceedings from the 2011 World Marketing Congress held in Reims, France with the theme The Customer is NOT Always Right?
Behaviour change is hard, but O'Mara shows that by adopting strategies that are well-founded in the science of brain and behaviour individuals and organisations can adapt to the demands of the modern world.
This volume introduces a series of different data-driven computational methods for analyzing group processes through didactic and tutorial-based examples.
This book offers insights into facilitating sustainable careers through the study of a wide interdisciplinary range of policy investigations and assessment of ongoing practices in the field.
This monograph presents various approaches to understanding the multiple levels, layers, and definitions of culture, cross-cultural research, cross-cultural competence, the role of culture in organizations, organizational culture, and the role of multiple culture layers in individual workers' workplace attitudes, performance, and general experiences.
This book presents research and best practice examples from the Asia Pacific region to address the gap in global expertise on psychosocial factors at work.
This book compares the unique features of workplace mediation to other contexts of mediation, as well as the specific competences each situation requires of the mediator.
This book describes how the violent dimension of intergroup relations can be better understood if the interplay between psychological and social-developmental factors is taken into account.
This stimulating book surveys the research on the challenges and opportunities encountered when working within culturally and geographically diverse organizational settings.
This book examines the problems that a "e;laissez faire"e; attitude from managers can create in the workplace, as well as the ensuing illness such problems may cause among employees.
This book presents the latest research on national brand and private label marketing, in the form of original, rigorous and relevant contributions from the 2016 National Brands and Private Label Marketing conference in Barcelona.
Developing resilience skills has the potential to shield firefighters and other emergency responders from the negative effects of stressful incidents and situations.
This is the first book to focus on the scope of social work practice within military settings from an international perspective, and therefore addresses what has been a significant gap in the literature.
This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwork and collaborative problem solving.
This book provides a comprehensive, updated summary of research evidence on the effects of stressful working and employment conditions on workers' health, as based on one of the worldwide leading theoretical models, effort-reward imbalance.
This book presents 9 theory-based and practice-oriented methods for assessing and stimulating a multi-voiced dialogical self in the context of groups, teams, cultures, and organizations.
This book draws on a wide range ofpractical examples to describe how conflicts within organisations aretraditionally managed and the complementary conflict management methods that canbe employed.
This volume presents research on women's experiences, attitudes and perceptions, considering their work roles and in the context of their lives outside work.
This book examines the challenges andsocial, economic and corporate trends that future leaders will need to deal with,as well as the technical, social and communication skills they will require in order to succeed.
This book presents the most recent theoretical insights and practical intervention methods to (re)build trust between management and organized employees in organizations.
This book offers detailed strategies, methodologies, approaches, practice guidelines, and policy implications effective for professional coaching on the individual, group and organizational level.
This timely resource offers fresh research on companies'use of social media platforms from Twitter and Facebook to LinkedIn and othercareer sites to find and hire personnel.
In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, the authors focus on organizational analysis to understand workplace wellbeing, deviating from previous research that mostly looks at the individual worker or intervention.