Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
Social Organizations
Interaction Inside, Outside and Between Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 1994
In this lively and wide-ranging essay, Göran Ahrne sketches an organizational theory of society. Combining the insights of organization theory with the traditional concerns of social theory, he makes an innovative and creative contribution to both fields.
Using a broad definition of organizations,...
The Changing Organization
Agency Theory in a Cross-Cultural Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The Changing Organization provides a multidisciplinary approach for studying the management of change under conditions of complexity. Single-discipline approaches frequently miss essential elements that reduce the possibility of coherence within a multi-agency organizational setting. Combining a systems...
by Michael Lauderdale
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Survey of Organizational Excellence is revolutionizing the operation of Texas state agencies and other governmental and private organizations. Developed and refined over the last twenty years by a team of researchers led by Michael Lauderdale, the survey is a proven tool for improving the effectiveness...
by Stephen Willis, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2019
This book uses the Power through Collaboration (PtC) Formula to perform a postmortem on the excessive death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. The postmortem agrees with Congressional investigations that a “failure of leadership” produced dysfunctional emergency preparedness and response....
Developing Mission Statements
A Very Brief Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Companies are no longer the only organizations that develop mission statements; administrations, hospitals, universities, schools and associations are following. After a phase of euphoria in which true miracles were expected, mission statements have come under increasing critique for their moralizing...
Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World
Advancing Research in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
While research in organisational studies has become increasingly rich and complex, organisation researchers are constantly challenged by the growing quest for theoretical advancement and innovation. To conduct theoretically rigorous and innovative research, contemporary researchers and students must...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This textbook provides first-hand, inside accounts of the process of doing research in organizations. It is intended both for students of research methods in sociology and social psychology, and for students of organization studies, organizational behaviour and management. The contributors tackle...
Experimental Econophysics
Properties and Mechanisms of Laboratory Markets
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Experimental Econophysics describes the method of controlled human experiments, which is developed by physicists to study some problems in economics or finance, namely, stylized facts, fluctuation phenomena, herd behavior, contrarian behavior,
hedge behavior, cooperation, business cycles, partial...
by Philip H. Mirvis, Abraham B. Rami Shani
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness highlights research and practice aimed at understanding how organizations and more inclusive systems of actors develop a continuous, unfaltering focus on sustainability. It will examine how they organize to achieve expanded purposes, the associated changes...
Self-Initiated Expatriation
Individual, Organizational, and National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Globalization and the development of multinational organizations have led to an increase in the number of people spending part of their lives living and working in foreign countries. While the contemporary literature has focused on organizational expatriates sent overseas by their employers, self-initiated...
Sex, Work and Sex Work
Eroticizing Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Sex is much more rife in the workplace than many would think according to this fascinating and controversial new book. It argues that not only does sexuality pervade every aspect of organizations, but also that organization pervades every aspect of our sexuality.
This two-way conceptualization...
Common Knowledge?
An Ethnography of Wikipedia
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
With an emphasis on peer–produced content and collaboration, Wikipedia exemplifies a departure from traditional management and organizational models. This iconic "project" has been variously characterized as a hive mind and an information revolution, attracting millions of new users even...
Managing Organizational Change (RLE: Organizations)
Human Factors and Automation
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The United States Internal Revenue Service introduced a multi-million dollar program to automate its operations in the early 1980s. This book describes a multidisciplinary study of the experiences of several thousand users in this program, based primarily on questionnaires, observation and interviews....
Little Book of Healthy Organizations
Tools For Understanding And Transforming Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The best way to change the world may be one organization at a time. With this ambitious claim, the authors of this highly readable primer provide insightful analysis for evaluating and improving the health of any organization. They advocate a "systems approach," which views organizations as living...