Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books

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Making Work Visible

Ethnographically Grounded Case Studies of Work Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011

In the 1970s, Xerox pioneered the involvement of social science researchers in technology design and in developing better ways of working. The Xerox legacy is a hybrid methodology that combines an ethnographic interest in direct observation in settings of interest with an ethnomethodological concern...
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by Mark Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016

Do you ever think, "I'm just not that creative"? You're not alone. But companies increasingly expect their employees to think about problems in new ways and devise unexpected solutions. The good news is that creativity is not a gift, but a skill that can be developed over time. Discover...
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Municipal Benchmarks: Assessing Local Perfomance and Establishing Community Standards

Assessing Local Perfomance and Establishing Community Standards

by David Ammons
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014

Completely updated with new listings and statistics throughout, this comprehensive resource goes beyond the current literature on local government performance measurement and provides benchmarks on more than 40 key topics against which performance can be assessed in all areas of operation. "Ammons...
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The Times They Are A Changin'

The Effect of Institutional Change on Cooperative Behaviour at 26,000ft over Sixty Years

by D. Savage, B. Torgler
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015

This narrative and empirical analysis investigates Hilary's claim that in his day they would not have left a man behind to die. The authors examine over 60 years of Himalayan climbing data and stories in order to test the changes in cooperation in this extreme life and death environment.
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HR TUNES

Touching Chords of Human Resources

by Dr. Jasmeen Pawar
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014

Human Resources appear to be one such term that creates knock on heads of both employees and employers. Often people step into management careers with no clear idea of what they are heading onto. The bad reality even lies in the fact that management graduates itself feel that taking HR as so called...
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by Nicolya Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017

Do you struggle to wake up before the sun rises? Do you roll out of bed and rush through your day? Do you allow things to just happen to you? Are you finding it difficult to find a clear purpose in each day? Life does not have to be this way. You can regain control of your life with simple changes...
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Developing and Leading Emergence Teams

A new approach for identifying and resolving complex business problems

by Peter A.C. Smith, Tom Cockburn
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

Developing and Leading Emergence Teams describes a future business landscape that seems to be complicated, complex and chaotic, in almost equal measures. The variety and diversity of the environments within which large organizations will be seeking to operate, require a similar variety of systems,...
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Hustle and Float

Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work

by Rahaf Harfoush
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019

OUR CULTURE HAS BECOME OBSESSED WITH HUSTLING. As we struggle to keep up in a knowledge economy that never sleeps, we arm ourselves with life hacks, to-do lists, and an inbox-zero mentality, grasping at anything that will help us work faster, push harder, and produce more. There’s...
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by Mats Alvesson, Stanley A. Deetz
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2000

`Alvesson and Deetz rehearse the arguments against neo-positivism and quantitative research very effectively… also make the important distinction between qualitative work in general and critical qualitative work in particular. The arguments here feel fresh and engaged, helped along by numerous illustrations...
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by Nancy Harding
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

**What is management and how do the people who become managers take on a managerial identity? How does text inform the manager's identity?** From cultural studies we understand that the relationship between text and reader is not passive but that each one works upon the other, and that text...
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Corporate Strategy

A Feminist Perspective

by Angelique Du-Toit
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006

This book takes a fresh look at corporate strategy, exploring it from a feminist perspective. Challenging male-dominated theory, Corporate Strategy looks at unquestioned assumptions held about strategy in practice and academia, including whether women approach strategy differently from men, and if...
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by Jean McNiff, Jack Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002

The current orthodoxy is that 'knowledge' is the most powerful resource for organisational success. So how can managers develop the appropriate knowledge base to make their organisations grow? The answer lies in action research. Action research is increasingly perceived and used as a powerful methodology...
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by Peter Stokes
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011

Critical Concepts in Management and Organization Studies provides an accessible introduction to the key themes of critical management studies. An ideal companion for students studying critical management and organizations, it breaks down the complex language, concepts and philosophical underpinnings defining critical management studies.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

Realism has been one of the most powerful new developments in philosophy and the social sciences and is now making an increasing impact in business and management studies. This is the first book-length treatment of critical realism in business and management. It pulls together a wide range...
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