Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership
Casting Light or Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Ethics is at the heart of leadership.All leaders assume ethical burdens and must make every effort to make informed ethical decisions and foster ethical behavior among followers.The Sixth Edition of Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow explores the ethical demands...
Never Check E-Mail In the Morning
And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
IS IT ME OR IS IT THEM?
Maintaining control in today's hectic workplace is a challenge -- everything is lean, competitive, and uncertain. What does it take to survive?
Making Work Work is Julie Morgenstern's most important book yet. Through the mastery of brand-new strategies, Morgenstern...
by Chester Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Successfully Rediscover Your Willpower Instinct
Willpower refers to the psychological factor of being highly committed and focused in doing a task or pursuing a goal. On the other hand, discipline involves the actual investment of effort, time and resources, requiring self-control. It is often associated...
The small BIG
small changes that spark big influence
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
At some point today you will have to influence someone - your boss, client, spouse, or even your friends. What is the smallest change you can make to your request that will lead to the biggest difference in the outcome?
In The small BIG, three heavyweights from the world of persuasion science...
The Smart Swarm
How to Work Efficiently, Communicate Effectively, and Make Better Decisions Usin g the Secrets of Flocks, Schools, and Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
What ants, bees, fish, and smart swarms can teach us about communication, organization, and decision-making
The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take...
The Organization of the Future 2
Visions, Strategies, and Insights on Managing in a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
With 26 inspiring chapters, this book celebrates the wisdom of some of the most recognized thought leaders of our day: emerging and established experts who share their unique vision of what the organization of the future should look like and must do to survive in the turbulent 21st Century.
Outsmart...
by Professor Paul A. Argenti
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Corporate Responsibility offers a concise and comprehensive introduction to the functional area of corporate responsibility. Readers will learn how corporate responsibility is good for business and how leaders balance their organization’s needs with responsibilities to key constituencies in society....
Weird Ideas That Work
11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2002
A breakthrough in management thinking, “weird ideas” can help every organization achieve a balance between sustaining performance and fostering new ideas. To succeed, you need to be both conventional and counterintuitive.
Creativity, new ideas, innovation—in any age they are keys to success....
by Peter F. Drucker
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Peter F. Drucker argues that what underlies the current malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide is that their theory of the business no longer works. The story is a familiar one: a company that was a superstar only yesterday finds itself stagnating and frustrated, in trouble...
Leadership
Power and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Advice for leaders in every arena of life on facilitating problem solving, creativity, innovation, and a sense of mutual ownership.
The answer to resolving a problem in any relationship is likely found where the power is located. Who are the true leaders, what are their expectations, and how well...
by Mary Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Great teams don’t just happen.
How often have you sat in team meetings complaining to yourself, “Why does it take forever for this group to make a simple decision? What are we even trying to achieve?” As a team leader, you have the power to improve things. It’s up to you to get people...
The Imagination Gap
Stop Thinking the Way You Should and Start Making Extraordinary Things Happen
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Everyone has imagination. Imagination helps us see new possibilities for the future, navigate in times of uncertainty, and spark new ideas. But most of us do not know how to use imagination to its fullest potential or how to harness the power of imagination to overcome obstacles. The result: our most...
Social Preference, Institution, and Distribution
An Experimental and Philosophical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This is the first book to examine behavioral theories on social preference from institutional and philosophical perspectives using economic experiments. The experimental method in economics has challenged central behavioral assumptions based on rationality and selfishness, proposing empirical evidence...
Experimental Economics
Volume II: Economic Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
How do applications affect behavior? Experimental Economics Volume II seeks to answer these questions by examining the auction mechanism, imperfect competition and incentives to understand financial crises, political preferences and elections, and more.