Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
This is Volume 3 of the Handbook of Industrial Organization series (HIO). Volumes 1 & 2 published simultaneously in 1989 and many of the chapters were widely cited and appeared on graduate reading lists. Since the first volumes published, the field of industrial organization has continued to evolve...
The Handbook for Working with Difficult Groups
How They Are Difficult, Why They Are Difficult and What You Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
WE'VE ALL EXPERIENCED the challenges associated with working with groups, but The Handbook for Working with Difficult Groups turns the idea of "difficult groups" on its head. Rather than view groups as inherently difficult, it looks at the factors that make working with groups difficult....
Thinking Through Crisis
Improving Teamwork and Leadership in High-Risk Fields
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this strikingly original analysis of the complex dynamics of high-risk fields demonstrates that teamwork is more important than technical prowess in averting disasters. Thinking Through Crisis narrates critical incidents from initiation to resolution in...
Leading Loyalty
Cracking the Code to Customer Devotion
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
In business, if people merely like you, you’re in trouble. They need to love you! Learn how building loyalty and modeling great customer service behavior to develop frontline teams is the key to building raving fans.**
To thrive in today’s economy, it’s not enough for customers to merely...
by Laszlo Tihanyi, Timothy Devinney, Torben Pedersen
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Institutional theory has been used increasingly by international business and management researchers to explain the behavior and strategies of multinational enterprises. If early international business research was dominated by the application of transaction cost and neoclassical economics, reviews...
Behavioral Economics
Toward a New Economics by Integration with Traditional Economics
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This book is intended as a textbook for a course in behavioral economics for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who have already learned basic economics. The book will also be useful for introducing behavioral economics to researchers. Unlike some general audience books that discuss behavioral...
Ethical Leadership
Progress with a Moral Compass
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book introduces readers to the moral dilemmas associated with business decisions, helping students to understand the moral and ethical considerations leaders face in the workplace, and providing a framework for balancing business demands with doing the right thing.
The author walks readers...
Economic Ironies Throughout History
Applied Philosophical Insights for Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Economics for Alfred Marshall, the last of the classical economists, is concerned with activities in the ordinary business of life. In that milieu, we find conflicts and chaotic behavior among people, firms, and countries, which make them conduct their affairs in different, and sometimes, ironic ways....
The End Game
A Training Guide for Those Who Truly Want to End Sexual Harassment
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Sexual harassment training is ineffective when it ignores the problem. Current training defines sexual harassment and outlines mechanical procedures for handling it, but it does not offer a realistic look at the complex nature between sex and power. Organizations face millions in financial losses...
Mapping Managerial Implications of Green Strategy
A Framework for Sustainable Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Around the world, small manufacturing enterprises in market-based economies are facing daily challenges posed by emerging green imperatives and opportunities. These issues impact future decisions, allocation of resources, and encourage managers to refocus their strategies.
This book investigates...
Go Together
How the Concept of Ubuntu Will Change How You Live, Work, and Lead
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
“**A slim volume that could become the new at-work reference.” —Booklist
Workplace positivity expert Shola Richards (Making Work Work) explores a radical new concept for rethinking our personal, professional, and social lives: togetherness.**
The illusion that we are separate from...
by Robert Spillane
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Office politics, power struggles, ulterior motives, personality differences ...all combine to make this cynical poke at the "executive branch" of a typical office highly entertaining. The setting takes you to a management training program where several managers are invited to attend.
As...
by George Caspar Homans
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
George C. Homans's classic volume The Human Group was among the first to study the small group as a microcosm of society. It introduced a method of analysis and a set of influential theories that cut across areas of specialization on the personality, community, and industry.The study of even the smallest...
The Dark Side of the Workplace
Managing Incivility
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
The workplace can be a hotbed of difficulty and incivility—from rumors spread about an individual, to the agonies of stress, to physical attacks and even death. Evidence suggests that not only does incivility have significant implications for employees, organizations and society, it is also on the...