Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
The Good, The Bad, & The Stupid
How Social Media is Impacting the Employment Landscape, and how embracing it can lead to your success
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Human Resources and Social Media - what do they have in common?
Unfortunately, more than most people would like. This book looks at real life examples of people that have done great things for their careers and employability using social media (The Good), as well those that make us shake...
My Life and Lens
The Story of a Marine Corps Combat Correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Journalists possess critical responsibilities—one is simply to inform, another is to explain. As a military photojournalist during the Vietnam Era, Bob Bowen has captured visually with his camera and explained eloquently with his written words, the horrors and the honorable service of that period....
Work Matters
Critical Reflections on Contemporary Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Work Matters brings together a strong collection of narratives from the ethnographic field to discover the reality of pressure and change in the modern workplace.
Chapter-by-chapter, experts in the field of work and employment examine empirical accounts and explain the forces shaping today's...
Understanding Human Resource Development
A Research-based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This edited volume contains original chapters by some of the leading researchers and writers in HRD. It provides a definitive work on the design and conduct of research in HRD and identifies and examines the possibilities and limitations of particular methods and techniques. Emerging debates on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Knowledge and Practice in Business and Organisations contributes to scholarly understanding of knowledge and practice, mapping the conceptual terrain, providing a critical review of debates in the field and setting out key theoretical perspectives. Knowledge and practice are explored in a range of...
Research Methods for Studying Groups and Teams
A Guide to Approaches, Tools, and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
This volume provides an overview of the methodological issues and challenges inherent in the study of small groups from the perspective of seasoned researchers in communication, psychology and other fields in the behavioral and social sciences. It summarizes the current state of group methods in a...
by Stewart Clegg
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In this book the author develops a theory of power and organization, derived from a critical consideration of a literature extending across sociology, political science, philosophy and organization theory. The book raises and answers some of the issues which are important in the construction of a...
Conversations about Calling
Advancing Management Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
*Conversations about Calling *explores management perspectives of the calling construct. Using Max Weber’s seminal work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, as a starting point, Myers seeks to enrich management perspectives of calling by integrating the contributions of other disciplines...
by Jenny Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This book presents an understanding of work-family balance for working adults belonging to a number of different family structures (e.g. single and/or childfree adults, LGBT couples, families with female breadwinners). It contends that family structure should serve as a way of thinking about diversity...
Anonymous Agencies, Backstreet Businesses, and Covert Collectives
Rethinking Organizations in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Many of today's organizations "live in public"; they devote extensive resources to branding, catching the public eye, and capitalizing on the age of transparency. But, at the same time, a growing number of companies and other collectives are flying under the radar, concealing their identities...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Most researchers in organization and management studies stick to two or three traditional research methods like surveys and interviews. Sticking with the familiar is seen as a safe bet, and innovation is discouraged by academic incentives and rewards. But research participants are now suffering from...
by Kwok Bun Chan
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada, Chan explores the different defence...
Storytelling and the Future of Organizations
An Antenarrative Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Storytelling is part of social action and interaction that actually shapes the future of organizations. Organization and management studies have overwhelmingly focused to date on rational narrative structures with beginnings, middles, and ends, where narrative has proved to be a handy concept in qualitative...
by Earl Boebert, James M. Blossom
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
In 2010 BP’s Deepwater Horizon catastrophe spiraled into the worst human-made economic and ecological disaster in Gulf Coast history. In the most comprehensive account to date, senior systems engineers Earl Boebert and James Blossom show how corporate and engineering decisions, each one individually innocuous, interacted to create the disaster.