Organizational Behavior category: 1522 books
Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies
Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Innovation involves a set of processes which support the production and transformation of knowledge into new processes, technologies and products, goods and services, and provide an organization with particular strengths and value relative to other firms. In such a view, innovation is a key source of...
Essential Tools for Organisational Performance
Tools, Models and Approaches for Managers and Consultants
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
This book focuses on organizational development for increased business performance. The text and models cover process management, leading to change management and organizational development. Burtonshaw-Gunn and Salameh show that process implementation in any business depends on two key factors. First,...
Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice
Looking Forward at Forty
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
The year 2012 was the 40th anniversary of the publication of Cohen, March, and Olsen's influential article "The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice", which offered a major new perspective on organizational decision making. To celebrate this enduring paradigm, its impact on our understanding...
by Mike Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
A new style of leader is emerging from the world’s most successful organizations. These dynamic men and women are driven by possibilities and absolutely committed to mutual values. Excited, creative, and alert, they are the new change makers.
Imagine: an army of these outstanding leaders...
Organizational Design
A Step-by-Step Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Written specifically for executives and MBA students, the third edition of this successful textbook provides a step-by-step guide to designing an organization, from diagnosis, to design and implementation. It provides comprehensive coverage of the key aspects of organizational design, including goals,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
"Lessons Learned" is a knowledge management approach for organizational learning and improved performance and productivity. However beneficial this approach is, few organizations have been able to implement the processes necessary for organizational success. Utilizing Evidence-Based Lessons Learned for...
Beyond the Minimum
The Blue Book of Principles for Optimizing Organizational Excellence and Achieving High Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
The Blue Book, is an enrichment tool comprising a series of applied organizational excellence principles, designed to evoke critical thinking and encourage high performance at various organizational levels. Conceptualized to assist directors, management, technocrats and consultants in the attainment...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Contradictions permeate and propel organizational life - including tensions between reaching globally while focusing locally; competing while also cooperating; performing reliably while experimenting, taking risks, and learning; or granting autonomy while constraining freedom. These tensions give...
by Daniel Brass, Giuseppe Labianca, Ajay Mehra
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Social network analysis has transformed the study of organizations over the past 30 years. Rather than focus on individuals or teams, network scholars view the organization as a nexus of relationships. As its popularity increases, the scholarship is evolving in many directions including new theory...
Hyper-Productive Knowledge Work Performance
The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2014
By some estimates, knowledge workers outnumber all other workers in North America alone by a four to one margin. Knowledge work and knowledge workers vary with each profession, depending on the industry from software developers to engineers, architects to pharmaceutical researchers, and so forth. They...
Beyond Performance
How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The secret of achieving and sustaining organizational excellence revealed
In an ever-changing world where only a third of excellent organizations stay that way over the long term, and where even fewer are able to implement successful change programs, leaders are in need of big ideas and new...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Institutional theory lies at the heart of organizational theory yet until now, no book has successfully taken stock of this important and wide-ranging theoretical perspective.
With insight and clarity, the editors of this handbook have collected and arranged papers so readers are provided with...
Commitment in Organizations
Accumulated Wisdom and New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Commitment is one of the most researched concepts in organizational behavior. This edited book in the SIOP Organizational Frontiers series, with contributions from many scholars, attempts to summarize current research and suggests new directions for studies on commitment in organizations.
Commitment...
The Blame Game
Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed....