Palgrave Macmillan Uk: 6973 books
Changing Employee Behavior
A Practical Guide for Managers
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
An important part of every manager's job is changing people's behavior: to improve someone's performance, get them to better manage relationships with colleagues, or to stop them doing something. Yet, despite the fact that changing people's behavior is such an important skill for managers, too many...
Public Relations in China
Building and Defending your Brand in the PRC
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In this pithy yet compact book, David Wolf, provides business owners and PR practitioners with a roadmap to corporate credibility in China. Laced with thoughtful advice and braced with illustrative cases, Public Relations in China strips out the jargon and offers something rare: a practical handbook for building and defending a brand in China.
Well-being
Productivity and Happiness at Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
High levels of well-being at work is good for the employee and the organization. It means lower sickness-absence levels, better retention and more satisfied customers. People with higher levels of well-being live longer, have happier lives and are easier to work with. This book shows how to improve well-being in your organization.
Engaged
The Neuroscience Behind Creating Productive People in Successful Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Neuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of human psychology and behaviour. By showing how to apply this new understanding to how you recruit, manage, and develop your people, Brann is enabling you to deliver a step change in organizational performance and individual achievement.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Management and organization research has rediscovered individual agency, innovation and entrepreneurship. As such, there is a risk of overlooking the power of self-reinforcing processes in and among organizations. This volume redirects attention to these processes, including: escalating commitment, organizational imprinting and path dependence.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Humanistic Marketing is a response to the currently growing mega-trend call for rethinking marketing. The book organizes current thinking around the problems of marketing theory and practice as well as solutions and ways forward, providing a diverse exploration of the position of marketing in the face of challenges for societal transformation.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
In Humanistic Perspectives on International Business and Management, the authors provide space to global perspectives on how we can rethink and reposition international business and management practice to be a part of the solution to our global problems. These contributions provide impetus for further research, practice and pedagogy development.
Tourist Activities in Multimodal Texts
An Analysis of Croatian and Scottish Tourism Websites
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
The book is devoted to the analysis of promotional material of tourist activities on tourism websites, including walking, dining, and visiting natural and cultural heritage sights, as instances of multimodal texts through a case study of Croatian and Scottish tourism websites.
Asian Brand Strategy (Revised and Updated)
Building and Sustaining Strong Global Brands in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This second edition of the bestselling Asian Brand Strategy takes a look at how Asian brands continue to gain share-of-voice and share-of-market. Featuring a user-friendly strategic model, new research, and case studies, this book provides a framework for understanding Asian branding strategies and Asian brands.
Energy Union
Europe's New Liberal Mercantilism?
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book contributes to an ongoing debate about the EU as a global actor, the organization’s ability to speak with one voice in energy affairs, and the external dimension of the regulatory state. Investigating whether the Energy Union amounts to a fundamental shift towards Europe's new 'Liberal...
Coach and Couch 2nd edition
The Psychology of Making Better Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Professor Manfred Kets de Vries and his colleagues have helped thousands of executives to increase their effectiveness in dealing with colleagues and clients, and to refocus their own professional and personal aspirations. This book is a volume of essays on leadership development topics written by...
The Elephant in the Boardroom
The causes of leadership derailment
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This book from the acclaimed management writer Adrian Furnham, explores the dark side of leadership and how and why leaders can have a negative impact upon their companies and organisations. It asks why too often people do not speak out but instead ignore the problems they are causing.
You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger
Executive Coaching Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Kets de Vries profiles a range of toxic executives the narcissist, psychopath, cold fish, obsessive-compulsive, and many more, offering coaches examples of interventions that have worked and those that haven't, to help coaches deal with difficult people and become more effective.
Innovation in the Public Sector
Linking Capacity and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defined as a necessary condition for establishing meaningful interactions between the government and society what are the relevant issues that may explain successful processes and forms of public innovation?