Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
In Praise of Bureaucracy
Weber - Organization - Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2000
In this provocative study, Paul du Gay makes a compelling case for the continuing importance of bureaucracy. Taking inspiration from the work of Max Weber, du Gay launches a staunch defence of `the bureaucratic ethos' and highlights its continuing relevance to the achievement of social order and good...
Institutions and Organizations
Ideas, Interests, and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Creating a clear, analytical framework, this fully updated fourth edition of Institutions and Organizations: Ideas, Interests, and Identities, by W. Richard Scott, offers a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between institutional theory and the study of organizations. Reflecting the richness...
Institutional Work
Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
The 'institutional' approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of social life - such as marriage and bureaucracy - act as mechanisms of social control. Such approaches have traditionally focused attention on the relationships between organizations and the fields in which they...
The Conversational Firm
Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By promoting open dialogue across the corporate hierarchy, the firm has fostered a uniquely engaged workforce and an enviable capacity for change. Yet the path hasn't always been easy. TechCo has confronted...
Managing Diversity in Organizations
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book equips students with a thorough understanding of the advantages and challenges presented by workplace diversity, suggesting techniques to manage diversity effectively and maximize its benefits. Readers will learn to work with diverse groups to create a productive organization in which everyone...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Gender Equality in a Global Perspective looks to discuss whether Gender Equality can be adopted as it has been defined in international documents anywhere, or whether it needs to be adapted in a more local context; discuss which factors and perspectives need to be taken into account when adapting...
The Handbook for Teaching Leadership
Knowing, Doing, and Being
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
The last twenty-five years have witnessed an explosion in the field of leadership education. This volume brings together leading international scholars across disciplines to chronicle the current state of leadership education and establish a solid foundation on which to grow the field. It encourages...
by Jorgen Sandberg, Professor Axel Targama
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
'An excellent and much needed contribution to the management literature'
- Gareth Morgan
'Trough accurate examples and instructive accounts of what constitutes understanding at work, the Author leads us to the core link between understanding and managerial practicing. It is deeply informative,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The shifting influence of growing organizational cultures and individual standards has caused significant changes to modern organizations. By creating a better understanding of these influences, the quality of organizations can be improved. Exploring the Influence of Personal Values and Cultures in the...
Fully Charged
How Great Leaders Boost Their Organization's Energy and Ignite High Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
As you're well aware, your individual energy ebbs and flows--leading to high and low productivity cycles. Fail to manage your energy correctly, and you risk falling into traps including inertia, complacency, and frenzied, unfocused activity that only erodes the quality of your life.
The same...
Handbook for Strategic HR - Section 4
Thinking Systematically and Strategically
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Thinking systemically and strategically means moving beyond a focus on the individual to understand the larger organizational and environmental systems and how the dynamics of those systems impact work performance and the readiness for change. This section will explain how certain problems recur and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In this textbook Alan Bryman provides a detailed and critical examination of the literature on leadership in organizations, giving special recognition to the needs of students of organizational behaviour and the social psychology of organizations. After an examination of the complexity of the concept...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Since the beginning of the century, there have been calls for the integration of traditional individualistic (micro) and management (macro) paradigms in Human Resource Management studies. In order to understand this so-called ’black box,’ the HR field needs research which is more sensitive to...
Workplace Health and Safety
International Perspectives on Worker Representation
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
A cutting edge look at the experience of worker representation in the employment relations of workplace health and safety. Examining the extent to which existing arrangements deliver results, this book reflects on whether the effectiveness of worker representation is eroded or enhanced by current regulatory and organizational constructs.