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The field of Personnel Psychology is broadly concerned with the study of individual differences and their consequences for the organization. As human resource costs continue, for most organizations, to be the single largest operating cost (50-80% of annual expenditure),...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-10-31
Format(s) : PDF
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In this engaging and handy book, Gatrell and Swan provide both an insightful introduction and much-needed resource to the understanding of gender and diversity in management.
Gender and Diversity in Management accessibly overviews the core issues of gender, race,...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2008-08-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Reason, and the need to Be Rational, are essential dimensions of society and the organizations we live and work in. Yet the 'rationalization' of working and administrative processes, or the 'rationality' studied in social sciences, is all too often, used, understood,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-07-24
Format(s) : PDF
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Motivation in Public Management: The Call of Public Service joins a long-standing debate about what drives the behavior of government employees and others who are engaged in the public's business. For many centuries, public service was considered a noble calling and,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-05-15
Format(s) : PDF
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The SAGE Course Companion on Organization Theory is an accessible introduction to a challenging subject area. This book helps readers to extend their understanding of theories and make the connection between them and organizational practice. It will enhance their...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2008-02-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Work-based learning is Joe Raelin’s unique way of incorporating a number of action strategies—such as action learning, action science, and communities of practice—into a comprehensive framework to help people learn collectively with others. In this thoroughly updated...
Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2008-02-13
Format(s) : PDF
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Bruce Kogut's writing has sketched a theory of human motivation that sees managers as social, often altruistic, sometimes as selfish, who care about their colleagues and their status among them. For the first time this book collects together key pieces that show how...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-01-03
Format(s) : PDF
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Twenty-first century capitalism has been marked by an increasing international economic independence, and considerable differences between dominant economic systems of coordination and control. In this context, national competition and coordination within industries has...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-11-22
Format(s) : PDF
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Management-science or management-art? This text addresses this question through a philosophy of an art-related management practice, contributing a paradigmatic thesis of management practiced as an art-form. It goes beyond the extension of aesthetic understanding to...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-10-23
Format(s) : PDF
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In many discussions of globalization and growth, attention focuses on Asia, notably China, South Korea, and India.In contrast, 'Can Latin American Firms Compete?' looks at business developments in another key emerging market region, Latin America. It examines the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-10-04
Format(s) : ePub
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In many discussions of globalization and growth, attention focuses on Asia, notably China, South Korea, and India.In contrast, 'Can Latin American Firms Compete?' looks at business developments in another key emerging market region, Latin America. It examines the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-10-04
Format(s) : PDF
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Knowledge is built from personal experience and coloured by our needs and values. It follows that all knowledge is personal and incomplete. We all suffer from ‘blind spots’. But when leaders have them, it matters. To guide people on a journey of continuous learning,...
Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2007-06-29
Format(s) : PDF
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Positive Organizational Behaviour is emerging as a truly contemporary movement within the classic discipline of organizational behaviour. The best work of leading scholars is gathered together in one edited collection. Chapters study the states, traits and processes...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 2007-04-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Our market system has evolved in line with capitalist philosophy, and at its heart is profit. But while profit can be a powerful motive, it is not always used responsibly and, in the worst cases, this can have damaging effects at a wider level. The calls for a corporate...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2007-04-04
Format(s) : PDF
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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 cultures, customers, competitors and regulations creates complexity; on...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2007-04-04
Collection :
IMD Executive Development Series
Format(s) : PDF
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This book deals with the end-game for a business. No business entity lasts forever and anyone faced with the task of liquidating a business at the end of its run needs to know that a liquidation doesn't present an insurmountable problem. In fact, substantial value is...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2007-02-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Nils Brunsson is one of the leading European organization theorists who has written and researched decision-making in organizations. He has often questioned the rationality of decision-making, and argued that it is as important to understand other consequences of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2007-01-18
Format(s) : PDF
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Firms are at the very heart of modern day life. They come in a seemingly infinite variety - from transnationals to small firm, from corporations to branch plants, to subsidiaries and joint ventures, from subcontractors to franchisees, from sole proprietorships to...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-12-21
Format(s) : PDF
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Over the past two decades, the topic of trust moved from bit player to center stage in organizational theory and research. Whereas previously it often had been treated as a mediating variable in empirical studies - a variable of secondary interest, at best - trust...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-11-30
Format(s) : PDF
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Collaboration is often viewed as a one-time or project-oriented activity. An increasing challenge is to help organizations incorporate collaborative values and practices in their everyday ways of working. In Creating a Culture of Collaboration, an international group of...
Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2006-09-18
Collection :
J-B International Association of Facilitators
Format(s) : PDF
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