Im Zeitraum zwischen dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs und der ersten Hälfte der 1970er Jahre entstand in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland eine neue, unternehmensbezogene und humanwissenschaftlich gestützte Expertenkultur, diejenige der betrieblichen Humanexperten.
Manfred Kets de Vries, Professor of Leadership Development, INSEAD: The author takes us on an exciting journey to explain what coaching is all about, providing us with a roadmap that is second to none.
In her latest book, Angelique du Toit goes beyond the techniques and goals explored in most coaching texts to examine the process of coaching and the importance of sense-making for creating meaning and encouraging self-reflection.
This practical text offers management students as well as professionals a comprehensive guide to an essential management function: the use of power and authority to achieve specific objectives.
Action Research is an invaluable guide to both novice and experienced researchers from a diversity of disciplines, backgrounds, and levels of study for understanding how action research works in real-life contexts.
The second edition of International Political Economy continues to be the perfect short introduction to the fundamental theories and issues of international political economy (IPE).
Work Matters brings together a strong collection of narratives from the ethnographic field to discover the reality of pressure and change in the modern workplace.
This book reveals that the manipulation of culture was of more importance than the character of the original cultural stock in explaining Japan's modern industrialization.
This book explains harmonisation techniques that can be used in survey research to align national systems of categories and definitions in such a way that comparison is possible across countries and cultures.
The purpose of the present edited book 'Advances in Management Research: Emerging Challenges and Trends' is to provide a wide range of paradigmatic and theoretical substantive research articles in management research.
This original and ambitious work provides a fascinating examination of organizations from both a post-modern and new organizational economics perspective.
Strategic workforce planning can often be complex and technical, so how can organizations demystify the processes to effectively prepare for current and future workforce requirements?
Systematisch und fundiert beleuchtet das Praxishandbuch Personalentwicklung das Arbeitsfeld der strategieorientierten Personalentwicklung (PE) - von der Analyse des Qualifizierungsbedarfs über die zahlreichen Instrumente und Minitechniken der PE und das Management des Lemtransfers bis hin zur Evaluation der Maßnahmen.
This book addresses how institutional and diplomatic rituals shaped the European Union's sanction of Hamas after the latter's success in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections.
How can we be sure that all those projects, programmes and activities that depend for their quality, efficiency and effectiveness on people's performance have met their objectives?
In the European Union many individuals will partake in drinking a little wine with their lunch or dinner to aid their enjoyment of the meal or as an appetizer for food.
Das Buch zeigt anhand aktueller Forschungsthemen und Praxisbeispiele, welche Veränderungen die digitale Transformation in den Lernprozessen von und in Organisationen ausgelöst hat.
Comparative Causal Mapping: The CMAP3 Method, by Mauri Laukkanen and Mingde Wang, is an introduction to the conceptual backgrounds of causal (cognitive) mapping and to the typical methods in comparative and composite causal mapping, based on either interview or questionnaire primary data or on secondary documentary data.
In an increasingly globalised world, an understanding of the diversity in the concept and practice of employee wellbeing, how it is presented, experienced, regulated and contested, is particularly vital.
Creativity is increasingly being recognized as an important source of competitive advantage because a single creative idea that is both novel and useful may take an organization in a profitable new direction.
The financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession alerted those seeking to protect old-age security, about the extreme risks confronting the financial and political institutions comprising our retirement system.
