Industrial Management category: 1113 books
by Craig C. Pinder
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
This second edition of the best-selling textbook on Work Motivation in Organizational Behavior provides an update of the critical analysis of the scientific literature on this topic, and provides a highly integrated treatment of leading theories, including their historical roots and progression over...
by Iris Bohnet
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back and de-biasing minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Behavioral design offers a new solution. Iris Bohnet shows that by de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts—often at low cost and high speed.
Controlling Risk
Thirty Techniques for Operating Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Jim Wetherbee, the only five-time Space Shuttle commander, presents thirty techniques that astronauts use—not only to stay alive in the unforgiving and deadly environment of space, but also to conduct high-quality operations and accomplish complex missions. These same techniques, based on the foundational...
Learn or Die
Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
To compete with today's increasing globalization and rapidly evolving technologies, individuals and organizations must take their ability to learn—the foundation for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation—to a much higher level. In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess combines...
Mastery in Coaching
A Complete Psychological Toolkit for Advanced Coaching
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
The reasons that coaching works so well and can produce such dramatic results are grounded in psychology, so it follows that some of the most powerful coaching methods available draw on psychological thinking. Published with the Association for Coaching, Mastery in Coaching presents the latest thinking...
Mindfulness Starts Here
An Eight-Week Guide to Skillful Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Living a rushed, demanding life and wishing for mental calm to deal with the difficulties you face? Stressed out by tangled thoughts and frazzled feelings? Mindfulness Starts Here offers you a way to ease stress with clear instructions on these points: • How mindfulness works using Five Skillful...
by Rob Nielsen, Jennifer A. Marrone, Holly S. Ferraro
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The media is saturated with images of leaders as powerful, headstrong individuals, who are certain of their position and willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their organizational goals or personal ambitions. In reality, far too often, a leader’s ego gets in the way of sound decision making,...
Leader Interpersonal and Influence Skills
The Soft Skills of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This edited volume explores different models, conceptualizations, and measures of leader interpersonal and influence "soft skills" that are so necessary for effective leadership. These include the communication skills, persuasion skills, political savvy, and emotional abilities used by leaders to...
Leadership, Coaching and Followership
An Important Equation
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
This volume presents evidence-based ideas on all three converging forces to suit an array of individuals and their organisations. The volume is thick with evidence, detail and case studies that the reader can draw upon and apply to their own situations.
Defining exactly what is leadership...
by Scott Highhouse, Dennis Doverspike, Robert M Guion
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This second edition provides managers and students the nuts and bolts of assessment processes and selection techniques. With this knowledge, managers learn to make informed personnel decisions based on the results of tests and assessments. The book emphasizes that employee performance predictions...
The Genuine Contact Way
Nourishing a Culture of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Birgitt maintains that there is leadership capacity within everyone and that it is time for people to awaken their leadership potential. According to the author, personal and professional leadership development cannot be separated. This book offers the reader the opportunity to take a deep dive into...
Managing for Resilience
A Practical Guide for Employee Wellbeing and Organizational Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
In an era of longer hours and shorter contracts, of tighter margins and frequent organizational change, stress can undermine both the mental health and performance of employees. A culture of resilience in the workplace, however, offers the potential to support psychological wellbeing and improve the...
Understanding the High Performance Workplace
The Line Between Motivation and Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book asks the crucial question: When does high performance supervision become abusive supervision? As more organizations push to adopt high performance work practices (HPWP), the onus increasingly falls on supervisors to do whatever it takes to maximize the productivity of their work teams. In...
Zen Your Work
Create Your Ideal Work Experience Through Mindful Self-Mastery
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Use mindfulness techniques to handle toxic stress in the workplace and to create your ideal professional experience from the inside out.
While working in a particularly toxic environment, Karlyn Borysenko came to this liberating realization: she couldn't control other people, but she could...