Description: Smart partnering is new way of doing business-one that unlocks the secrets to gaining an unfair advantage in the marketplace. The benefits of smart, strategic partnerships include, but are not limited...
Author: Davidson, Jeff Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Jeff Davidson approaches organizing as an exercise in control, efficiency, and peace of mind. Jeff can tell it like it is, because he is like he tells it." -Warren Farrell, Ph.D., author of Why Men A...
Author: Davidson, Jeff Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Do you put off until tomorrow what you should do today? Until next week? Until next month? Forever? Don't worry. Help is here.In this quick and practical guide, time management expert Jeff Davidson of...
Author: Thatchenkery, Tojo / Metzker, Carol Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Appreciative Intelligence provides a new answer to what enables successful people to dream up their extraordinary and innovative ideas; why employees, partners, colleagues, investors, and other stakeh...
Author: Fletcher, Winston Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As more than 90% of spending on the Internet comes from brick and mortar companies it is these operations that will form the client base for e-learning. This book shows those companies how to get e-le...
Author: Kornberger, Martin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Brands are a fait accompli: they represent a mountain range of evidence in search of a theory. They are much exploited, but little explored. In this book, Martin Kornberger sets out to rectify the rat...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It is now widely recognised that countries around the world are becoming increasingly interconnected, and that both public and private organizations are of necessity becoming increasingly global. As p...
Author: Schoemer, Karl G Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Organizations today face a stark choice: change or fail. Transformation has become the only constant of the business landscape, and those companies that cannot adapt are doomed. But Karl Schoemer's Ne...
Author: Block, Peter Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This inspiring work explores various ways communities can emerge from the fragmentation that plagues modern society. Block examines a way of thinking that creates an opening for authentic communities ...
Author: Dephillips, Susan A. Publisher: Platinum Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Corporate Confidential is an honest look at the unspoken truths surrounding success and failure in corporate America. Fifty senior-level executives disclose the candid realities of reaching the execut...
Author: Middleton, John Publisher: Capstone Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fast track route to mastering culture and culture change. Covers the key areas of culture, from how culture evolves and why different companies have different cultures to cultural diagnosis and imple...
Author: French, Simon / Maule, John / Papamichail, Nadia Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Behavioural studies have shown that while humans may be the best decision makers on the planet, we are not quite as good as we think we are. We are regularly subject to biases, inconsistencies and irr...
Author: N/A Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This handbook focuses on the complex processes and problems of organizational change and relates current knowledge of individual and group psychology to the understanding of the dynamics of change. Â...
Author: Burtonshaw-Gunn, Simon / Salameh, Malik Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book focuses on organizational development for increased business performance. The text and models cover process management, leading to change management and organizational development. Burtonsha...
Author: Burtonshaw-Gunn, Simon / Salameh, Malik Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book focuses on organizational development for increased business performance. The text and models cover process management, leading to change management and organizational development. Burtonsha...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As the world's population continues to grow, there is an ever increasing need for huge investment in basic infrastructure: water and sewage, energy production and distribution, transportation and tele...
Description: The fully revised and updated version of this successful Handbook is welcomed by management scholars world-wide. By bringing together the latest approaches from the leading experts in organizational l...
Description: The fully revised and updated version of this successful Handbook is welcomed by management scholars world-wide. By bringing together the latest approaches from the leading experts in organizational l...
Description: There is a strong movement today in management to encourage management practices based on research evidence. In the first volume of this handbook, I asked experts in 39 areas of management to identify...
Author: Schein, Edgar Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Corporate culture and organizational development guru Schein analyzes the dynamics of helping relationships, explains why help is often not helpful, and shows what any would-be-helper must do to insur...
Author: Pearn, Michael Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "How can we maintain competitive advantage in a rapidly changing environment and at the same time create and sustain organisations in which people thrive both materially and psychologically? While o...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The ëinstitutionalàapproach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of social life ñ such as marriage and bureaucracy ñ act as mechanisms of social control. Such approa...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Science Reference Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Intercultural Rhetoric and Professional Communication: Technological Advances and Organizational Behavior explores the theory and practice of rhetoric and professional communication in intercultural c...
Author: Kilduff,Martin / Krackhardt,David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book brings a social networks perspective to bear on topics of leadership, decision-making, turnover, organizational crises, organizational culture, and other major organizational behavior topics...
Author: Strang, David Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In business, as in other aspects of life, we learn and grow from the examples set by others. Imitation can lead to innovation. But in order to grow innovatively, how do businesses decide what firms to...
Author: Smith, Peter J. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Learning in Organizations" focuses on the issues of diversity in the context of organizational learning. It examines those diversities present in organizations among learners and the diverse learning...
Author: Olve, Nils-Goran Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: """The attraction of balanced scorecards is to help translate strategy into the stories, business logic and tasks that grab people's imaginations and so result in purposeful action. Yet, too often, ...
Author: Weick, Karl E. Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Making Sense of the Organization elaborates on the influential idea that organizations are interpretation systems that scan, interpret, and learn. These selected essays represent a new approach ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 eth...
Description: In the midst of the most severe recession for 80 years there is little need to argue that organizations are beset by dilemmas and paradoxes. Confidence in prevailing business models and in the underly...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: More than ever, today's managers are beset by successive, fashionable, prescriptions concerning the structure, dynamics, processes and direction of the modern corporation.Unlike their earlier counterp...
Author: Steger, Ulrich / Amann, Wolfgang / Maznevski, Martha Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book delivers new IMD insights on an emerging challenge - how to deal with overwhelming complexity. Global organizations face a complex decision-making environment. On one side, diversity of cult...
Author: Hassard, John / McCann, Leo / Morris, Jonathan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years, widespread organisational change in large corporations has almost invariably led to work intensification and increased stress for managers. Managing in the Modern Corporation explains...
Author: Johnson, J. David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The information context of the modern organization is rapidly evolving in the face of intense global competition. Information technologies, including databases, new telecommunications systems, and sof...
Author: Pidd, Michael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Measuring the performance of public agencies and programmes is essential to ensure that citizens enjoy quality services and that governments can be sure that taxpayers receive value for money. As such...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fairs, festivals and competitive events play a crucial role in the creative industries; yet their significance has been largely overlooked. This book explores the role of such events through a series ...
Author: Ebrahim, Alnoor Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The organizational dynamics of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly complex as they have evolved from small local groups into sophisticated multinational organizations with g...
Author: Parcell, Geoff / Collison, Chris Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: We have all smiled at the apocryphal tale of the consultant who borrows your watch to tell you the time, and then walks off with your watch! Deep down, we all know that there is an element of truth in...
Description: We have all smiled at the apocryphal tale of the consultant who borrows your watch to tell you the time, and then walks off with your watch! Deep down, we all know that there is an element of truth in...
Author: Hock, Dee Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The worldwide success of VISA International, Dee Hock asserts, is due to its chaordic structure: it is owned by 22,000 member banks, which both compete with each other for 750 million customers and mu...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ethnomethodology has an elusive relationship with organisation studies. The ethnomethodological work of Harold Garfinkel, and the allied conversation analytic work of Harvey Sacks, is often cited and ...
Author: Denton, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Based upon indepth case studies of companies such as Coca-Cola and 3M this book is an original and comprehensive analysis of learning organisations. Includes interviews with over seventy managers and ...
Author: Denton, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Based upon in-depth research, including over seventy interviews with managers and employees, this is an original and comprehensive analysis of learning organizations. It uses detailed case studies of ...
Author: McLean, Gary Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bridging the gap between heavy theory and heavy practice, "Organization Development provides an emphasis on performance and results in addition to an overview of tools, techniques, and processes. Cove...
Author: Burton, Richard M. / Obel, B¯rge / DeSanctis, Gerardine Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In today's volatile business environment, it is more important than ever that managers, whether of a global multinational or a small team, should understand the fundamentals of organizational design. ...
Description: Organization development is the systematic method of taking an objective look at how an organization is operating, gathering information, and then deciding on the most appropriate action to help that ...
