Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
The Rainmaker Effect
Contradictions of the Learning Organization
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The belief that rainmakers bring rain is a superstition, but they are able to create cohesion among the people who believe in their powers. Stefan Kühl describes how the rainmaker effect works in the model of the learning organization. Many of the modern management principles that are billed as formulas...
Designing Organizations
A Very Brief Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
When (re-)designing organizations, one must first be clear about what is meant by the structures of an organization and what can be done in order to change them. In this book, we present communication channels, programs and personnel as central structures. We also unfold the aspects that come to the...
Gender Equity in Science and Engineering
Advancing Change in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Women faculty’s participation in academic science and engineering is critical for future US global competitiveness, yet their underrepresentation particularly in senior positions remains a widespread problem. To overcome persistent institutional resistance and barriers to change, the NSF ADVANCE...
World Society
The Writings of John W. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
John W. Meyer's work broke new grounds in institutional thought in sociology and made him a central thinker for the emerging interdisciplinary field of neoinstitutionalism, while at the same time establishing institutional thought's comparative variant, world society theory. His scholarship plays...
by Stephen Fineman, David B P Sims, Professor Yiannis Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
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Organizing and Organizations is well loved by students and lecturers for its accessible, conversational tone and insightful real-life examples introducing the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. Fineman, Gabriel...
Managing Performance Abroad
A New Model for Understanding Expatriate Adjustment
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In a global economy full of multinational firms, international human resource management (including expatriation, career management, and talent management) is a growing topic in the business and management literature and in universities. A thorough understanding of the adjustment of expatriates to...
The Ethical Leader
Why Doing the Right Thing Can Be the Key to Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Ethical behaviour by businesses, or their staff, is often seen as the corporate and social responsibility icing on an organizational cake – something that is nice to do but never really essential. But by turning this view around – and making ethical behaviour a primary focus – Witzel shows how...
by Kazuki Hamada, Shufuku Hiraoka
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Traditionally, innovation has been considered difficult to manage, as it occurs through contingent discoveries and inventions. For effective innovation management, it is necessary to determine what provides new value to customers and achieve this new value efficiently, while solving the technical...
Boundary-Spanning in Organizations
Network, Influence and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In more recent times, the essence of the gatekeeper's role has moved to the 'boundary spanner' - a systems thinker who understands the specific needs and interests of the organization and whose greatest asset is their ability to move across and through the formal and informal features of the modern...
Style Differences in Cognition, Learning, and Management
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book aims to mark fifteen years of contributions to the field of style research in cognition and learning presented at the annual conference of the European Learning Styles Information Network. The style field is a multidisciplinary, global community made up of researchers in several domains...
Case Analysis RealNetworks - RealNetworks still hot in business?
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Organisation and Administration, grade: 1,7 (A-), University of Constance (FB Politics/Business Administration/Department for Management), course: Startegic management: concepts and cases, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...
Succession Planning
Promoting Organizational Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This book examines current research related to succession planning strategies and tactics. The authors compare and contrast the rationale and processes needed for effective and efficient succession planning. This is a comprehensive endeavor exploring succession planning across today’s key disciplines:...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The diverse topics in this volume bring together developments in the field of organization studies. Although the approaches are by no means undifferentiated the articles share a commitment to a revitalized organizational analysis, an historically based analysis and one which attempts to understand...
by Hans de Bruijn, Ernst Ten Heuvelhof
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Getting what you want – even if you are the boss – isn’t always easy. Almost every organization, big or small, works among a network of competing interests. Whether it’s governments pushing through policies, companies trying to increase profits, or even families deciding where to move house,...