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This book shows how aesthetic understanding of organizations can extend our knowledge and sharpen our insights into many processes that shape organizational action.
Organizational life is pervaded by aesthetics, yet conventional organizational analysis has been...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1999-01-08
Format(s) : PDF
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Written by some of the leading international scholars in the field, this book presents the current state-of-the-art in knowledge management.
The book offers a strong response to the need for a body of scientific knowledge on the understanding, managing and measuring...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1998-12-04
Format(s) : PDF
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Refreshing and accessible, this new text guides student and practitioner alike through the maze of approaches to the way in which people interact in organizational life. By building their text around six topics central to those who manage in organizations: people;...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1998-11-06
Format(s) : PDF
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Team-working, partnership, quality circles, works councils, industrial democracy, empowerment - are they distinct and innovative arrangements or is it a case of new wine in old bottles? In the post war period we have seen numerous forms of organizational participation...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 1998-07-30
Format(s) : PDF
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The representation of organizations and working life in the popular media signifies, but also helps shape, contemporary practice and institutions. Organization-Representation unravels the complex social relationship between organization and its representation, offering...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1998-02-10
Format(s) : PDF
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This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault's contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization.
The volume provides a valuable summary of Foucault's contribution to organization theory, which also challenges...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1997-12-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Using original data, Managers in the Making presents a thorough analysis of the processes by which managers are made in Britain and Japan. It provides a detailed comparative study of the careers, training, developmental experience and job demands of managers in eight...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1997-05-27
Format(s) : PDF
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Challenging the common belief that conflict in groups and organizations should be prevented or resolved to maintain or enhance performance, Using Conflict in Organizations offers an alternative perspective by presenting the increasing knowledge on how conflict can...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1997-05-09
Format(s) : PDF
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`A truly bizarre and sometimes filthy historical canter through abatoirs, satyriasis and Noel Edmonds' House Party, among other things, towards a theory of organisation' - The Times
'The author pursues a vigorous polemic on organisational development' - Financial...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1997-02-13
Format(s) : PDF
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This stimulating case-study volume addresses key issues in organizational behaviour organizational change and human resource management in a range of European organizations. Its consistent emphasis is organizational change in a shifting, `internationalizing' world and...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1996-06-18
Format(s) : PDF
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Told through the fresh, sharp eyes of new organizational recruits, these sometimes comic, often traumatic, but always vivid and revealing accounts of organizations have much to say to learners and old hands alike. Grouped in sections on `images', `winning and losing'...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1996-05-24
Format(s) : PDF
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Large, diversified firms face unique challenges as they compete worldwide, and corporate restructuring is one way multinationals strive for competitive advantage. Weighing the pros and cons of a variety of approaches to restructuring, Downscoping offers executives a...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1994-09-01
Format(s) : PDF
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In this lively and wide-ranging essay, Göran Ahrne sketches an organizational theory of society. Combining the insights of organization theory with the traditional concerns of social theory, he makes an innovative and creative contribution to both fields.
Using a broad...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1994-07-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Over the past decade, many companies have adopted new strategies for manufacturing, which have taken their competitiveness on to new planes. A whole array of initiatives, such as FMS, JIT, TQM, CIM, and MRP II, have been introduced. This book deals with the far-reaching...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1994-02-28
Format(s) : PDF
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This work examines the causes of airplane accidents and what private and public policies are needed to improve aviation safety. It begins by examining the safety record of the United States commuter airline industry in the post-deregulation era characterized by...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1992-05-28
Format(s) : PDF
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Why does the number of organizations of any given kind vary over time? Utilizing a diverse group of organizations including national labor unions, newspapers and newspaper publishers, brewing firms, life insurance companies, and banks, this book seeks to deepen and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1992-01-02
Format(s) : PDF
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This illuminating and incisive textbook traces the development of work psychology and organizational behaviour from the early twentieth century to the present day. Far from being a conventional history of ideas, it is a demonstration of how each emerging school of...
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution : 1991-04-12
Format(s) : PDF
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Over the past decade, Japanese corporations have made a series of large, news-generating gifts to a variety of United States universities, museums, and research institutions. Many of these gifts have differed in both nature and magnitude from the contributions made by...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1990-12-27
Format(s) : PDF
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Local nonprofit organizations are often small, loosely structured, and democratically governed, and therefore do not fit conveniently into traditional theories of organizational behavior that are rooted in administrative science and bureaucratic structure. Treating...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1988-05-26
Format(s) : PDF
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Driven by declining profits and government regulation, a new form of class-wide business leadership has emerged: a transcorporate network that is giving a new coherence and power to business in both America and Britain. This book delineates the "inner circle" of top...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1986-03-13
Format(s) : PDF
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