Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
Leadership
Understanding the Dynamics of Power and Influence in Organizations, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Today a growing number of business schools, law schools, and continuing education programs in executive development and management training offer leadership classes. Despite the curricular recognition of this area, there is a shortage of strong college-level texts. Leadership, second edition—a completely...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Written by experts in the field with a wealth of academic and practical experience, Studying Human Resource Management is essential reading for all those studying the CIPD Level 5 Intermediate qualification in HRM. With its discussion of studying HRM, managing and co-ordinating the HR function and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Leadership is vital to creativity and successful innovation in groups and organizations; leadership is however seldom studied in the academic literature as a creativity driver. One reason for the lack of attention paid to leadership’s effect on creativity may be the common belief that creativity...
Social Recruitment in HRM
A Theoretical Approach and Empirical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book was born from the desire to analyze the role of social recruitment in human resources management. The first chapter analyzes theoretical background of social media communication and focuses on the trend to make use of these instruments in SMEs and public and non-profit sectors.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Interpartner Dynamics in Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances. In particular, the books in the series will cover new views of interdisciplinary...
Bedtime Stories for Managers
Farewell to Lofty Leadership. . . Welcome Engaging Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you! But you won't find talking rabbits or princesses here. (There is a cow, but it doesn't jump.) Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two of the best posts from his widely read blog...
by Peter Drucker
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Concept of the Corporation was the first study ever of the constitution, structure, and internal dynamics of a major business enterprise. Basing his work on a two-year analysis of the company done during the closing years of World War II, Drucker looks at the General Motors managerial organization...
Creativity and Innovation in Business and Beyond
Social Science Perspectives and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In many modern economies, creativity, the essential prerequisite for innovation, tends to be assumed or neglected while the catchphrase "innovation" dominates the field of business as the key to national performance and competitiveness. Creativity and Innovation in Business and Beyond illustrates...
Pragmatic Strategy
Eastern Wisdom, Global Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Pragmatism is enjoying a renaissance in management studies and the social sciences. Once written off as amoral, relativist and opposed to the ideals of Truth, Reason and Progress, it is now regaining influence in public policy, international relations and business strategy. But what can pragmatism...
The CCL Handbook of Coaching
A Guide for the Leader Coach
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Coaching is vital to developing talent in organizations, and it is an essential capability of effective leaders. The CCL Handbook of Coaching is based on a philosophy of leadership development that the Center for Creative Leadership has honed over thirty years with rigorous research and with long,...
China's Centralized Industrial Order
Industrial Reform and the Rise of Centrally Controlled Big Business
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book is about the political economy of China’s industrial reform and the rise of a group of Chinese big businesses under the Communist Party and the central state’s control. It examines the origins, evolution and institutional configuration of this centralized system in governing the ‘commanding...
by Jon Holt
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Revised and expanded with 5 new chapters, the second edition of 'A Pragmatic Guide to Business Process Modelling' shows how effective and accurate modelling can deliver a more complete understanding of a business and its future requirements. Most organisations traditionally rely upon over-simplified...
by Mary Crossan, Gerard Seijts, Jeffrey Gandz
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book focuses on the element of leadership that has largely been neglected in the literature: character. Often thought to be a subjective construct, the book demonstrates the concrete behaviors associated with different character dimensions in order to illustrate how these behaviors can be developed,...
by S. DeCanio
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The book aims to show that the deterministic vision embodied in conventional economic modelling is neither consistent with nor supported by the state of the art in mathematics, logic, and physical science. DeCanio recognizes that economic agents are intrinsically free and somewhat unpredictable, which is essential for economic and social theory.