Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
Top Business Psychology Models
50 Transforming Ideas for Leaders, Consultants and Coaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Top Business Psychology Models is a quick, accessible overview to the fundamental theories and frameworks that will help you understand human behaviour, emotions and cognition at work. Each model is presented in a short and crisply written summary, which could be easily converted into materials for...
Managing to Collaborate
The Theory and Practice of Collaborative Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Collaboration between organizations on different continents can raise issues of economic development, health, the environment, risk sharing, supply chain efficiency and human resource management. It is an activity that can touch upon almost every aspect of business and social life. In this notable...
Hiding Politics in Plain Sight
Cause Marketing, Corporate Influence, and Breast Cancer Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
As late as the 1980s, breast cancer was a stigmatized disease, so much so that local reporters avoided using the word "breast" in their stories and early breast cancer organizations steered clear of it in their names. But activists with business backgrounds began to partner with corporations...
by Gopal K. Kanji
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Business Excellence and Total Quality Management (TQM) models provide a means of measuring the satisfaction of customers, employees and shareholders simultaneously. A number of such models currently exist, but, the author argues, none of these address all dimensions of TQM.
This book introduces the...
by Richard L. Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Corporations have continued to grow and extend their operations into the global economy to the point that the modern corporation has become larger and more influential than many sovereign countries. In this global expansion, corporations have extended their operations with little restraint—almost...
Process Theory
The Principles of Operations Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
The motivation for this book came out of a shared belief that what passed as 'theory' in operations management (OM) was all too often inadequate. In one respect, OM scholars were bending over backwards to make theories from other fields fit our research problems. In another, questionable assumptions...
by Spencer Coffman
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This is the ultimate guide to learning how to relax and unwind so that you may change your life for the better and learn to be truly happy!
In this great book you will learn:
How to accept your situation.
How to change your mindset to become more positive.
The benefits...
Neuroeconomic and Behavioral Aspects of Decision Making
Proceedings of the 2016 Computational Methods in Experimental Economics (CMEE) Conference
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This proceedings volume presents the latest scientific research and trends in experimental economics, with particular focus on neuroeconomics. Derived from the 2016 Computational Methods in Experimental Economics (CMEE) conference held in Szczecin, Poland, this book features research and analysis...
Creative Labour
Working in the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2009
Creative Labour provides an insight into the unique employment issues affecting workers in film, television, theatre, arts, music, radio and new media.
In the UK alone, more than 1 million people work in the creative industries, generating billions of pounds in exports each year. These workers...
Supply Chains, Markets and Power
Managing Buyer and Supplier Power Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2001
Supply Chains, Markets and Power takes resource-based thinking forward by stressing the need for a dynamic and entrepreneurial conception of resource acquisition and management. This book will be essential reading for all those with a professional or academic interest in supply chain management.
The Character of Harms
Operational Challenges in Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
How should we deal with societal ills such as crime, poverty, pollution, terrorism, and corruption? The Character of Harms argues that control or mitigation of 'bad' things involves distinctive patterns of thought and action which turn out to be broadly applicable across a range of human endeavors,...
Organizations Alike and Unlike (RLE: Organizations)
International and Inter-Institutional Studies in the Sociology of Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This volume contrasts the life and problems of organizations in many parts of the world and highlights the differences between those societies as reflected in their different institutional sectors such as manufacturing, commerce, social services and government administration. In so doing, the book...
by Andrew Crane, Dirk Matten, Jeremy Moon
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
It is widely accepted that corporations have economic, legal, and even social roles. Yet the political role of corporations has yet to be fully appreciated. Corporations and Citizenship serves as a corrective by employing the concept of citizenship in order to make sense of the political dimensions...
by Richard Steers, Luciara Nardon, Carlos Sanchez-Runde
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This first Australasian edition of the popular text Management across Cultures explores the latest approaches to cross-cultural management, presenting strategies and tactics for managing international assignments and global teams. With a clear emphasis on learning and development, the text encourages...