This is a streamlined version of de Wit and Meyer's successful text, Strategy: Process, Content, Context. It contains a range of articles with text contextualising the debates around key issues, allowing a wide range of views to be explored within each debate.
The Organisation of Employment (Management, Work & Organisations)
by Jill Rubery, Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies Manchester Business School Damian Grimshaw, and Arjan Keizer
The Organisation of Employmentexplores the diversity in the organisation of employment among advanced industrial societies. It focuses on the implications of distinctive employment systems for international competitiveness, organisational performance and social divisions and considers the impact of globalisation on the sustainability of such diversity. Ideal for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students of international business and human resource management, The Organisation of Employ...
Virtual Coaching to Improve Group Relationships
Process consultation, invented by Edgar Schein, is both a skill and an organization development change effort. As a skill, process consultation means the ability to observe and provide feedback about small group dynamics to a work group about how well group members interact and how to improve that interaction. Just as facilitators devote their time to (in one word) asking, process consultants devote their time to (in one word) watching—at an expert level. As a change effort, process consultation...
Social Change in the Modern Workplace (Fielding Monograph, #1)
by Ed Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Catherine Brooker, and Carol Brown
Internationally bestselling author Dan Ariely brings his unique perspective to bear on a maelstrom of life's problems - from how to deal with a Christmas card list that's fast becoming unmanageable to whether or not you should have children. Ariely changed the way we view ourselves, how we think and how we act, with his book Predictably Irrational. In his immensely popular Wall Street Journal advice column, where readers "Ask Ariely" for his help with various dilemmas, he provides a logical vie...
Many senior managers are faced with the decision as to whether or not they should 'go' for empowerment. Their major concern is the likely effect of empowerment on mangers, supervisors, and the organisation as a whole. Empowerment has the capacity to bring about major changes in the roles of every key player, and ultimately leads to the emergence of a new organisation. This book examines the implications for empowerment at every level, including such issues as training, career paths, company comm...
The Virtual Organization and Information Technology (Prentice Hall business technology)
by Jon Harrington
Providing an overview of organizational theory, this book presents a detailed practical explanation of the impact of information technology on organizations. The text aims to show the true characteristics of the relationship between a company/corporation and its computer technology, and amalgamates a sociological theoretic study of firms with a practical managerial approach to understanding information technology.
Everybody's Business (Financial Times (DK))
by Adrian Hodges and David Grayson
Issues which until now have been 'soft' for business such as environment diversity and human rights - are now hard; hard to ignore hard to manage and very hard to control if they go wrong. This practical handbook and resource empowers managers to meet changing expectations from customers employees communities and investors.
People and their relationships define the contemporary workplace. Organisations exist because of people's needs, desires, functions and dealings with one another; therefore, organisational structure and strategy must be relationally responsive. Taking current thinking about organisational behaviour and contextualising this with compelling management themes including, ethics, communication, negotiation, and decision making, this textbook provides deep insight into significant organisational behav...
Enhancing the Modern Organization through Information Technology Professionals
As IT professionals are depended upon to stay up-to-date on ever changing technology processes, they are essential in the functionality of an organisation. Enhancing the Modern Organization through Information Technology Professionals: Research, Studies, and Techniques presents research from the perspective of the information technology professional and illustrates the profession's influence on enhancing the modern organisation. This comprehensive collection will play a vital role with practiti...
Rage Giving (Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration)
by Jennifer A. Taylor and Katrina Miller-Stevens
After the 2016 election upheaval and polarized public discourse in the United States and the rise of radical-right and populist parties across the globe, a new phenomenon in online charitable giving has emerged – donating motivated by rage. This Element defines this phenomenon, discusses its meaning amidst the current body of research and knowledge on emotions and charitable giving, the implications of viral fundraising and increased social media use by both donors and nonprofit organizations, t...
This text focuses on recent debates about the contribution which complex organizations have made to the transition from "traditional" to "modern" society, locating these debates in the historical context provided by recurring themes concerning the relationship between the individual and society. Building on this thematic and historical basis, the author moves on to examine contemporary theoretical schools of thought and the research programmes which they have initiated. He also looks at the issu...
Financial Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Financial Decision Making under Uncertainty presents the increasing application of the approach to financial decision making under uncertain to a myriad of practical problems. This book provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of financial theory. Organized into five parts encompassing 13 chapters, this book begins with an overview of formulating a problem as a linear program. This text then discusses the highlights of the theoretical and empirical analysis and then uses the sa...
Drive profitability, productivity, and accountability To create extraordinary lives, we must learn to “unplug” from the constant barrage of disruptions and “plug in” to the tools, strategies, and mindsets that allow us to harness our attention to reach our highest potential—and this book shows you how. Attention Pays spotlights on the power of attention and absolute focus. Personally: WHO we pay attention to. Professionally: WHAT we pay attention to. And Globally: HOW we pay attention in the wor...