Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books

Emotion is often used by organisations to manipulate and repress workers. However, this repression can have adverse psychological and social consequences for them. This book articulates the pathways through which this repression occurs, and offers emotion regulation as a tool for workers to emancipate themselves from this repression and social control.

Examine the evolving roles and experiences of women and men in the global workplace. In the Fifth Edition of Women and Men in Management, author Gary N. Powell provides a comprehensive survey and review of the literature on gender and organizations. This new edition is more intersectional than...

Public services touch the majority of people in advanced and developing economies on a daily basis: children require schooling, the elderly need personal care and assistance, rubbish needs collecting, water must be safe to drink and the streets need policing. In short, there is practically no area...

Ciascuno di noi si pone continuamente obiettivi più o meno ambiziosi, al fine di migliorare le proprie condizioni personali e/o professionali. Per raggiungere mete sempre più elevate risulta necessario sviluppare il proprio bagaglio di competenze, ampliando il range di possibilità e potenzialità...

Organizations thrive to increase revenues and profits by expanding their businesses into the global markets and capitalizing on the opportunities that globalization offers. In this e-book, the author presents an overview of the management training concepts that are necessary for global managers to...

This collection highlights a number of directions in which organization theory could develop. It also argues the need for an historical analysis of the sociology of organizations. Other issues discussed are the ideological stance of contemporary organization theory and the limiting framework that tends to ignore the wider social context in which organizations exist.

Understanding Organisation Development is essential reading for students studying Organisation Development (OD) as part of a wider HR degree or professional qualification, is the core textbook for the CIPD level 5 Unit 5UOD, and is ideal for professionals looking for a solid theoretical grounding...

This 2-volume set within The SAGE Reference Series on Leadership tackles issues relevant to leadership in the realm of religion. It explores such themes as the contexts in which religious leaders move, leadership in communities of faith, leadership as taught in theological education and training,...

Corporatee Social Performance: Paradoxes Pitfalls and Pathways to the Better World is authored by a range of international experts with a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives and provides a collection of ideas, examples and solutions on CSP implementation and problems that occur in this area...

The book brings together in a single volume material and issues normally treated separately, such as management studies, organisation theory, personnel management, industrial relations and motivation theory. Traditional topics such as the Hawthorne Experiments, Weber’s ideal type of bureaucracy...

Changing Our Thought Process: The Road to Meaningful Police Community Trust Building was written to address the systemic trust issues that persist between the police and some of the communities they serve. As a result of these issues constantly reoccurring, there is little evidence that existing...

Leading from the Heart: Sufi Principles at Work merges management with spirituality. The author has given Sufi sagacity, a theme of spirituality, a new dimension by blending it with leadership in all realms of life. The book is an attempt to sensitise the hearts and fill the souls of managers and...

Much is known about how the atomic bomb helped the United States achieve final victory in World War II. However, little is known about a weapon that was, perhaps, even more powerful—a memo. Classified as “Restricted” by the U.S. War Department, “The Memo” contained a management doctrine...

Your investment in the culture and environment where your teams spend more waking hours than they do at home with with families is your most valuable contribution as a servant leader. ------ Certainly you could choose to believe that your existing culture is a healthy one. Maybe it is....