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This textbook covers the fundamentals of organizational development and change (ODC) theory while offering a comprehensive, structured, and systematic approach to guide change management strategies at the organization level.

This book presents the findings of a comparative study on office work culture in Germany and China.

This book examines performance evaluation in the context of assessing the non-financial outcomes of human activities.

While pornography is stigmatized as "e;dirty work,"e; it faces many of the same operational considerations as traditional industries.

This book explores missing data techniques and provides a detailed and easy-to-read introduction to multiple imputation, covering the theoretical aspects of the topic and offering hands-on help with the implementation.

This book focuses on managing diversity in regions and times of political tensions.

This book illustrates the foundations of status research from the perspective of recruiting.

This book focuses on how to promote innovation and an entrepreneurial mindset within organizations in the context of structural changes.

This book provides information on the generation and the effects of hazardous substances that are produced during welding and allied processes.

This book is intended to serve as the basis for a first course in Python programming for graduate students in political science and related fields.

When leadership teams do not perform at their best, everyone suffers.

This volume provides comprehensible, strength-based perspectives on contemporary research and practice related to navigating mistakes, errors and failures across cultures.

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Although researchers have made great strides in clarifying the meaning of employee engagement, scholars are ambivalent as to whether employee engagement is distinct from other constructs related to the employee-organization relationship, and it is argued that there is a need for further scholarly examination and exploration, particularly within the context of  the rapidly changing work environment where twenty-first-century technology and behaviour meet twentieth-century organization, demanding innovative responses to the challenges of employee engagement.

Business decisions are not just based on abstract theories or models.

This book briefly analyzes the performance of selected Italian universities during a pre-crisis period and an economic crisis period, on the basis of graduate characteristics and graduate placement statistics.

Through sound exegetical methodologies and the current research on organizational leadership, this book uses biblical examples to explore the realities of leadership fatigue.

This book explores the workplace experiences, opportunities, and challenges that emerge from the nuances of diversity and inclusion dynamics in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

This book focuses on virtual teams, which are fraught with cooperation problems.

Executive compensation and its fairness to stakeholders are topics of heated debate on platforms ranging from news forums to financial markets.

An executive's transition into any leadership role can be a challenge.

The transition to Industry 4.

The digitalization of businesses calls for new forms of leadership and collaboration, as traditional human resources strategies are reaching their limits.

This book analyzes the brand communities of major American multinationals across three industries: finance, tech, and consumer goods.

This multidisciplinary book represents an initial attempt to connect adult learning and knowledge management in theory and practice.

Rapidly growing technology and globalization have put tremendous pressure on management teams.

This book provides a detailed guide for surgeons and surgical trainees on a variety of facets relevant to wellbeing, and how to maintain wellbeing throughout a career in academic surgery.

This book presents an unprecedented qualitative research study on relational changes in mediation with a truly interdisciplinary outset, drawing on the literature on psychology, alternative dispute resolution and business.

This volume offers a new conceptualization of career wellbeing by viewing the construct as an individual's long-term contentment with their career outcomes, career achievements, career changes and their sustainable employability amidst the complexities of the contemporary and emerging future digital-driven work environment.

This book explores the career experiences of Generation A, the half-million individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who will reach adulthood in the next decade.

This book provides a critical overview of the policy frameworks underpinning the contemporary practices of non-conviction information disclosure during pre-employment 'screening'.

Contributing to the debate on work performance evaluation in a time of technological transformation, this book explores the impact of digitisation on production and organisation models, as well as on the rights and interests of the stakeholders involved.

This book introduces demographic applications which employ current demographic concepts and theories and cutting-edge methods and findings, all of which have and will continue to have an impact in the broad area of social demography.

This book applies cutting-edge methods from cognitive and evolutionary theories to develop models of conflict between hierarchically-structured cognitive entities under circumstances of imprecision, uncertainty and stress.

This book examines the well-covered subject of leadership from a unique perspective: history's vast catalogue of leadership successes and failures.

This book offers strategic leaders with essential information for their most important role:  the change management function of positioning the organization for success into the future.

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

This book provides deep insights into intercultural collaboration among business partners, employees, managers, and entrepreneurs in Chinese-African professional interactions.

Demographic change is affecting societies and organizations alike.

This book systematically assesses the political and social values of the more than 1.

This book, written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, explores the transformation of organizations in today's volatile, uncertain, and ambiguous (VUCA) world.

This book systematically assesses the value systems of active Muslims around the globe.

Collaborating in virtual teams is a new reality in modern project management and work environments.

The power of gender difference, not gender equality, is a secret source for success.

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.

This volume examines the involvement of minority- or women-owned businesses in technology-based research, with particular focus on the differences in research outcomes in achieving commercialization.

"e;Globally, emergency services are witnessing a period of unprecedented uncertainty and change caused by pressure on their budgets, reduced manpower and changing patterns of demand and service delivery.

This book focuses on experimental research in two disciplines that have a lot of common ground in terms of theory, experimental designs used, and methods for the analysis of experimental research data: education and psychology.

This book presents an introduction to linear univariate and multivariate time series analysis, providing brief theoretical insights into each topic, and from the beginning illustrating the theory with software examples.

This volume provides theoretical perspectives on and approaches to the development or enhancement of positive psychological capacities within various multi-cultural professional and organizational contexts.