Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2016
Something is remarkably new in the present business culture, particularly in what is now called the Internet Century. Interestingly, power is now in the hands of consumers and, practically, they have unrestricted access to all industry sectors. Most significantly, within companies, working groups...
Understanding and Changing Your Management Style
Assessments and Tools for Self-Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
An update of the classic book that reveals the 6 keys to successful management In this new edition of his best-selling book, Robert Benfari explains that the best mangers are not born that way but share a mix of characteristics that can be analyzed, understood, and most importantly changed. He identifies...
Generative Collaboration
Releasing the Creative Power of Collective Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Working together with others in groups and teams is an increasingly common and important part of modern business and contemporary life. High performing teams demonstrate the characteristic of collective intelligence. Collective intelligence relates to the ability of people in a team, group or organization...
Touchpoint Leadership
Creating Collaborative Energy across Teams and Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
The early 21st century has witnessed an erosion of trust in business leaders - in their capacity to deliver sustained growth and in the integrity which underpins their decisions.
In responding to these challenges, Touchpoint Leadership puts forward a new leadership paradigm, asserting that...
Goal-focused Coaching
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This book offers a comprehensive, practical guide to goal-focused coaching. Addressing a significant gap in the literature, Ives and Cox contextualize goal-focused coaching within the broader coaching framework and explain the efficacy of this approach across a number of contexts and applications.
The...
Executive Ethics II
Ethical Dilemmas and Challenges for the C Suite, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This 2nd edition of Executive Ethics provides a variety of contemporary and timely readings squarely focused on the ethical dilemmas and challenges faced by today’s C?suite executives. In addition to identifying these dilemmas and challenges, the contributors provide both knowledge and insight on how...
Handbook for Strategic HR - Section 5
Employee Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Employee engagement makes a difference. HR professionals know this intuitively and so do leaders. They want employees to care about their work and actively engage with the job and the organization. But now we know that employee engagement is not just something that makes intuitive sense. It also reaps...
The Toyota Way to Service Excellence: Lean Transformation in Service Organizations
Lean Transformation in Service Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
The world’s bestselling Lean expert shows service-based organizations how to go Lean, gain value, and get results—The Toyota Way.
A must-read for service professionals of every level, this essential book takes the proven Lean principles of the bestselling Toyota Way series and applies them...
by Prof Sue Newell, Dr Maxine Robertson, Harry Scarbrough
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Thoroughly grounded in an extensive body of international research and analysis, Managing Knowledge Work and Innovation demonstrates that knowledge work depends primarily on the behaviours, attitudes and motivations of those who undertake and manage it and not simply on the implementation of information systems technology.
Managing in the Modern Corporation
The Intensification of Managerial Work in the USA, UK and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
In recent years, widespread organisational change in large corporations has almost invariably led to work intensification and increased stress for managers. Managing in the Modern Corporation explains how and why large companies have changed their organisational structures and philosophies, focusing...
by J. E. T. Eldridge, A. D. Crombie
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
An understanding of the nature and forms of organisation, particularly with reference to industrial societies, is a key area in sociological analysis. This book discusses and explains what concepts to employ and what analytical procedures to adopt as well as conveying a sense of the theoretical and...
by David Magee
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
When it was announced in late 2000 that Jeff Immelt would be taking the helm of GE, some skeptics were quick to voice their reservations about the future of the company after Jack Welch. Not only were Welch's shoes particularly large ones to fill, but the economy was dallying with recession, China...
by Dennis Jancsary, Thibault Daudigeos, Markus A. Höllerer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The insight that institutions, and the communicative practices that create, sustain, and challenge them, are multimodal accomplishments has garnered increasing attention from scholars in organization and management research over the last decade. Traditional understanding of social knowledge and meaning...
The Empowered Manager
Positive Political Skills at Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Empowerment produces the conditions for high performance. Especially for middle managers and below. Empowered cultures attract and retain talent. They produce high achievement, high accountability and high commitment.
The Empowered Manager uncovers a roadmap to creating a more accountable culture...