Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
More Perfect by Design
The Science of Designing More Perfect Business Processes
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Excellence doesn't just happen. It needs to be designed, and even the best designs can be improved upon.
That's something that Angelo Baratta, who spent more than thirty years leading more than a hundred projects for more than fifty organizations, discovered the hard way. While most of these...
The Diversity Code
Unlock the Secrets to Making Differences Work in the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
The best organizations have struck a balance between reconciling differences and valuing them to promote genuine, cross-cultural teams. Based on years of experience as a diversity expert and attorney, author Michelle T. Johnson uses a healthy mix of humor and blunt honesty to show professionals and...
by Suren Basov
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This book investigates the ways in which social norms and bounded rationality shape different contracts in the real world. It brings into focus existing research into optimal contracts, draws important lessons from that research, and outlines prospects for future investigation.
Bounded rationality...
John Maynard Keynes and the Economy of Trust
The Relevance of the Keynesian Social Thought in a Global Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Why does trust collapse in times of crisis? And when, instead, does it become a driver of growth, generating value? Through a sociological interpretation of the thought of John Maynard Keynes, Padua introduces the innovative concepts of Economy of Trust and Nominal Economy within the context of the 2008 financial crisis.
Sexual Orientation at Work
Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Sexual Orientation at Work: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives brings together contemporary international research on sexual orientation and draws out its implications for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and heterosexual employees and managers. It provides new empirical and theoretical insights...
by Max Boisot
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
In this book the author lays the foundations for a new political economy of information. The information space, or I-Space is the conceptual framework in which organizations, institutions and cultures are being transformed by new information and communication technologies. In the penultimate chapter,...
by A. Afritopic
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
People around the world have different perceptions of work and have different levels of motivation and commitment to perform work-related tasks. In order to achieve organizations' set goals, managers have the task of motivating employees to give their best performance. Motivation has been a topic...
The Little Book of Tidying
Declutter your home and your life
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
In this age of mass consumerism, we are "stuffocating"; becoming slaves to our possessions. By freeing ourselves from physical and mental clutter, and better managing our schedules, we can focus on what is truly important and discover more time, space and joy.
Grounded in solid science...
The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe
Institutions and Outcomes in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Since the 1980s, the process of European economic integration, within a wider context of globalization, has accelerated employment change and placed a new premium on ‘flexible’ forms of work organization. The institutions of employment relations, specifically those concerning collective bargaining...
Natural Disasters and Individual Behaviour in Developing Countries
Risk, Trust and the Demand for Microinsurance
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This study investigates the complex link between natural disasters, individual behaviour – in the form of an individual’s risk-taking propensity and level of trust – and the demand for microinsurance. Developing countries are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of natural hazards and climate...
Motivational Theories
Applied to Real World Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2016
ATTENTION COLLEGE STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on motivational theories in organizations, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point.
Academia has produced many motivational theories. Most are well thought, and subsequent research...
Global Leadership Perspectives
Insights and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
A critical, global counterpoint to more western-centric texts that will appeal to critical leadership scholars, those teaching leadership from a critical perspective and those teaching leadership with an international focus.
Split into two parts; its first part presents the local...
Wally's Workplace Wisdom
A fly's-eye view of ways to boost employee morale and stimulate productivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
While the business at No. 19 Imperial Drive had some early success, the company never reached its full potential. At the rate it was going, it probably never would. The company was taking steps backward, with no viable plan to reverse this trend. And then it happened – THE event. The story begins...
Networked Consumers
Dynamics of Interactive Consumers in Structured Environments
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Personal consumption accounts for two thirds of GDP, yet recent economic events have emphasised our limited ability to translate consumption patterns into policy. Steven Silver analyses this understudied area, exploring the network memberships that emerge from our everyday lives, and the consumption patterns these create.