Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
by Dr. P. Christopher Earley, Dr. Harbir Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2000
Presenting cross-cultural research on a wide range of organizational topics, this book ranges from the individual to the macro level. Among the issues examined are: organizational trust in international settings, HRM issues in international joint ventures, developing strategic advantage across borders, and social partnerships for sustainable growth.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This book charts the state of organizational research and theory during the 1960s. A compendium of results, references, concepts ideas and theories, this Handbook will be of interest to both academics in organizational theory and managers facing operating problems of organizations.
The Psychoanalysis of Career Choice, Job Performance, and Satisfaction
How to Flourish in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Freud said that "love and work" are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the "good life." While psychoanalysis has masterfully contributed to understanding the experience of love, it has only made a modest contribution...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
For the past two decades, creativity and innovation have been viewed by researchers as critical to organizational success and survival. Understanding the factors that facilitate or inhibit creativity and innovation at the individual level has been the focus of much of the research in this area. However,...
Learning Models for Innovation in Organizations
Examining Roles of Knowledge Transfer and Human Resources Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
In order to strive for a competitive advantage in their industry, organizations have begun achieving innovation through knowledge-driven learning models to ensure that organizational activities are efficient and effective. Learning Models for Innovation in Organizations: Examining Roles of Knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005
The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science, as well as in modern social and political theory. This book sets out to show why bureaucracy persists and what values it embodies and upholds. Thus the book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms...
Researching with Feeling
The Emotional Aspects of Social and Organizational Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Why should researchers be interested in their feelings and emotions as they carry out research? Emotion is what it is to exist, to be human, and is present in every sphere of our lives. All activities are infused with emotion, even those that are constructed as ‘rational’, because rationality...
Innovative Knowledge Management
Concepts for Organizational Creativity and Collaborative Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Knowledge and creativity are now the major driving forces behind pioneering companies that are achieving competitive edge crucial to competing in today''s economy. Innovative Knowledge Management: Concepts for Organizational Creativity and Collaborative Design provides a valuable resource for promoting...
by Frederik Tell, Christian Berggren, Stefano Brusoni
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Knowledge integration - the purposeful combination of specialized and complementary knowledge to achieve specific tasks - is becoming increasingly important for organizations facing rapidly changing institutional environments, globalized markets, and fast-paced technological developments. The need...
Experiencing Emergence in Organizations
Local Interaction and the Emergence of Global Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Examining the experiences of organizational practitioners, this informative book features contributions from experienced leaders, consultants and managers in various organizations, and narrative accounts of the contributors work address key topical questions.
Rather than offering descriptions...
A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organisations
Taking Experience Seriously
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Part of the Complexity as the Experience of Organizing series, this book applies complex responsiveness theory to real-life leadership experiences. It features contributions from and details the experience of organizational practitioners, leaders, consultants and managers from various organizations...
American Pragmatism and Organization
Issues and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Emerging during the late nineteenth century in the diverse scholarship of US commentators such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey, American pragmatism shaped many intellectual currents within a range of disciplines including politics, education, administrative science and religion....
Appetite for Innovation
Creativity and Change at elBulli
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The name elBulli is synonymous with creativity and innovation. Located in Catalonia, Spain, the three-star Michelin restaurant led the world to "molecular" or "techno-emotional" cooking and made creations, such as pine-nut marshmallows, rose-scented mozzarella, liquid olives, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
The issue of gender in organizations has attracted much attention and debate over a number of years. The focus of examination is inequality of opportunity between the genders and the impact this has on organizations, individual men and women, and society as a whole. It is undoubtedly the case that...