LibGuides: E-Books: Management

Overview

General Management
Entrepreneurship
Financial Management
Governance

General Management

28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World : The Management Gurus and Mavericks Who Changed the Way We Think About Business 28 Business Thinkers Who Changed the World is a guide to the people who have fundamentally reshaped their industries and the way we do business today. Some of these game changers are great intellectuals while others are'gut instinct'types; some are motivated by desire to change the world, while others are driven by money and power.
Achieving Excellence in Management : Identifying and Learning From Bad Practices This book adopts a fresh approach identifying reasons for bad management which are backed up by case studies from real life business situations. The sound management principles so developed can subsequently be applied to a broad range of settings for personal careers in traditional firms or in entrepreneurial or global ventures.
Adaptive Action : Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization Rooted in the study of chaos and complexity, Adaptive Action introduces a simple, common sense process that will guide you and your organization into reflective action. This elegant method prompts readers to engage with three deceptively simple questions: What? So what? Now what? The first leads to careful observation. The second invites you to thoughtfully consider options and implications. The third ignites effective action. Together, these questions and the tools that support them produce a dynamic and creative dance with uncertainty.
AMA Business Boot Camp : Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career The American Management Association, the preeminent provider of business education worldwide, trains the majority of the Fortune 500 companies in competitive business skills. Now, for the first time, AMA has assembled the most critical, “must-have” skills for managers and leaders in one handy volume
Control Methodology
Emerging Trends and Issues in Management Consulting : Consulting As a Janus-faced Reality The volume contains 11 chapters that continue the RMC series' commitment to enhancing our understanding of and insight into management consulting and the consulting process from a crosscultural, global perspective.
Entrepreneurial Management To motivate people and achieve growth, leaders are required to navigate both internal and external conflicts. Consequently, the role of entrepreneurial leadership and management becomes important for students as well as entrepreneurs.
Evolve or Die : Seven Steps to Rethink the Way You Do Business Bring positive change and attain the highest levels of success Robin Crow has years of experience working in the trenches as an entrepreneur and business owner. Now he has put all that work at your disposal with his unique Seven Step Challenge.
Fit to Bust : How Great Companies Fail With a particular focus on business detail, management and decision making, Fit to Bust takes us inside the mind of the CEO to teach us how to spot a disaster and look critically at the companies you work for, invest in or buy from. With case studies and interviews, learn why the recession happened and how to avoid the mistakes that led to it.
Getting Things Done This book explores the possibility of a progressive and transformative management which, while grounded in the analytic tradition and values of CMS, also confronts practical demands of meeting social needs.
Managing (by Henry Mintzberg) This landmark book draws on Mintzberg's observations of twenty-nine managers, in business, government, health care, and the social sector, working in settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra. What he saw—the pressures, the action, the nuances, the blending—compelled him to describe managing as a practice, not a science or a profession, learned primarily through experience and rooted in context.But context cannot be seen in the usual way.
Managing Creative People : Lessons in Leadership for the Ideas Economy
Managing in Changing Times : A Guide for the Perplexed Manager This book brings together distinguished writers from diverse fields and their specialised perspectives on new ideas and the challenges they pose to the hegemony of neo-classical scientific management. It explores various possibilities for the future development of the understanding of management and organisation in the context of new economic conditions taking shape in both the East and the West.
Organizing and Managing in the Era of Globalization This book discusses the issues and challenges of organizing and managing in the context of a globalized world. It provides insights and perspectives on the realities of organization in a world where governance structures, organizational processes, management practices and employment relations are in a vortex of transformation. It analyzes the political, economic, sociological, cultural, institutional and legal factors that shape these realities.
Organizing Around Intelligence: The New Paradigm (2nd Edition) Organizing Around Intelligence (2nd Edition) introduces a new mindset in leading, managing and structuring human organizations in the 21st Century. This paradigm shift is vital as humankind enters the intelligence era (the core of the knowledge economy).
Smart Growth : Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth
The Changing Paradigm of Consulting : Adjusting to the Fast-paced World Held in Vienna, Austria, the conference brought together academicians, consultants and organizational practitioners to examine the changes taking place within the consulting field.
The Effective Manager : Management Skills for High Performance This book will help you develop your management skills. It is designed to assist you in understanding the characteristics of a high-performance manager, to help you assess where your strengths and development areas lie as a manager and to create a plan of action for realising your management potential.
The Enemy of Engagement : Put an End to Workplace Frustration--and Get the Most From Your Employees Packed with the latest research findings from the prestigious Hay Group, The Enemy of Engagement uncovers the hidden impediments to performance—excessive procedures, lack of resources, overly narrow roles, and more—and outlines best-practice solutions for eliminating them.
Theory of Control in Organizations

Entrepreneurship

Focused Issue on Understanding Growth : Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Diversification This third volume of 'Research in Competence-Based Management'(RCBM) is on 'Understanding Growth: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Diversification' addresses key processes essential to successful organization competence building, leveraging, and maintenance.
Collective Entrepreneurship in a Globalizing Economy
Corporate Entrepreneurship With an established body of literature on innovation and corporate entrepreneurship, this volume of 'Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth' turns to some of the leading and most promising scholars in the field to map out where we have been and provide some direction on where scholarship on this topic should proceed in the future.
Developmental Aspects of Entrepreneurship This compilation of 11 papers imparts a wealth of perspectives on this subject, gaining from the theoretical and experiential insights of academics, management gurus, consultants, administrators and behavioural scientists.
Developmental Entrepreneurship : Adversity, Risk, and Isolation This 5th volume provides a timely survey of the most critical aspects of developmental entrepreneurship currently being discussed in the fields of entrepreneurship, sociology, and economics. Written by the top luminaries in the field, the fifteen articles presented here represent a combination of empirical research, theoretical insight and practical suggestions
Entrepreneurial Management
Entrepreneurship The papers explore the importance of entrepreneurship, the process by which entrepreneurship occurs, and the way both meaning and process vary with context and opportunity structures.These papers address long-standing controversies in the study of entrepreneurship, and they also identify new, innovative questions and approaches.
Entrepreneurship and Family Business Papers consider the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes: the emergence and growth of family businesses, and founding conditions unique to family firms; maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit of the founding generation;
Entrepreneurship and Global Competitiveness in Regional Economies : Determinants and Policy Implications This volume, comprised of authors from the U.S., Canada, Africa, and Europe, centers on the development, transformation, and role of geographic /regional economies-- specifically in the globalized, post-2009 era. The authors address topics that every region must consider in responding to idea age, globally competitive, regionally driven economies.
Entrepreneurship in Farming The purpose of this guide is to provide a better understanding of the concept and practice of entrepreneurship. This guide has been prepared for people who want to start a farm business for the first time and for farmers that want to make changes to their farming systems by introducing high value enterprises directed to the market.
Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm This collection provides a unique, comprehensive perspective on the wide variety of conceptual and managerial issues that arise as a result of entrepreneurial action in firms operating in the global economy. It is a must read for scholars and managers alike, who face the need for continuous change in dynamic international business environments.
Feminine Capital : Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs Dispelling myths and misperceptions that can undermine women-owned ventures, this book takes a fresh look at how female entrepreneurs can leverage their skills, knowledge, and values. Case studies of women entrepreneurs bring key concepts and lessons to life, while learning aids, diagnostic tools, and checklists help readers to construct innovative business models, refine start-up plans, and hone growth strategies.
Grow to Greatness : Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses This book focuses on the key questions an entrepreneur must answer in order to grow a business. Based on extensive research of more than fifty successful growth companies, Grow to Greatness discusses the top ten growth challenges and how to overcome them.
How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur : Spot the Opportunity, Take a Risk and Build a Brilliant Business How to be a Successful Entrepreneur explains how to improve the odds and make your own luck. It will help you to steer clear of potentially catastrophic risks and errors while spotting and exploiting good opportunities.
International Entrepreneurship
Invisible Capital : How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity In his book, Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity, Rabb puts forth concrete and effective ways entrepreneurs and their advocates can build and grow sustainable enterprises amid these unseen forces created by society's uneven playing field.
Starting a Successful Business : Choose a Business, Plan Your Business, Manage Operations This seventh edition of Starting a Successful Business is the definitive guide to setting up a business that will thrive. Covering all the information needed to turn an exciting new business idea into stable and profitable businesses, it takes the reader through each important step of the start-up process in a clear, accessible way.
The Economy of You : Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur and Recession-Proof Your Life The biggest trend in business is the microbusiness! Handcrafted jewelry, artisanal eats, life coaching, app development, you name it—entrepreneurial side ventures are everywhere. Weary of pink-slip anxiety and the endless money squeeze, millions of people are taking the leap. They're adding to their incomes and creating safety nets in case the ax falls at work. In the process, they're unlocking their creativity and finding a sense of fulfillment they never dreamed possible. Financial columnist Kimberly Palmer illuminates the everyday faces behind this growing movement, starting with her own journey
The Emergence of Entrepreneurial Economics This book contributes to the emergence of the entrepreneurial economics field, or school of thought, in which the study of patterns in the complex, seemingly chaotic and unpredictable process of entrepreneurship and its role in the economy stands central
Tao Of Innovation, The: Nine Questions Every Innovator Must Answer he Tao of Innovation is the first book to blend Eastern philosophy with tried-and-true innovation strategies. It presents a holistic, intuitive and practical approach to developing game-changing innovation.
Thinking Beyond the Obvious : A Simple Concept That Drives Business Success Business consultant Robert Mano has given many business owners hope. Formally a president of a multi-million dollar company but more importantly a small business owner, he has revitalized businesses with an easily understood concept. Successful businesses use it; most do not realize they are doing it. Once you read, “Thinking Beyond the Obvious,” you will immediately grasp the simplicity of the concept and quickly recognize the driving factors of a successful business like never before. You will have an epiphany
Work and Society : Places, Spaces and Identities The original theoretical and empirical studies in this new edited volume, Work and Society: Places, Spaces and Identities, present a reimagining of what work is, how it is undertaken, and the impact of work on people who engage in it.
Working for Yourself : Running a Business, Starting a Company or Being Self-employed

Financial Management

Benchmarking the Finance Function
Benchmarking the Finance Function 2012 This research report examines the results of the third annual benchmarking survye of the staffing practices and other areas within the finance function.
Dealing with Financial Risk
Effective Financial Management Effective Financial Management starts with advice on raising money for a business, continues through maintaining investor relationships, includes useful information on accounting, reporting and communicating effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, gives vital tips on budgeting, forecasting and managing business costs and cash flow, and tells you how to successfully assess projects and buy assets.
Effective Financial Management : The Cornerstone for Success This book is all about the second set of eyes, which are the lenses of STRATEGIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, that help organizations plot their way through an environment filled with opportunities and dangers.
Finance : Capital Markets, Financial Management, and Investment Management Created by the experienced author team of Frank Fabozzi and Pamela Peterson Drake, Finance examines the essential elements of this discipline and makes them accessible to a wide array of readers-from seasoned veterans looking for a review to newcomers needing to get their footing in finance.
General Principles of Financial Planning
Guide to Financial Management
How to Understand Business Finance How to Understand Business Finance is part of the bestselling Creating Success series published in association with the Sunday Times, which has been translated into 25 languages with over 500, 000 copies sold.
Mastering Financial Management : Demystify Finance and Transform Your Financial Skills of Management
Planning and Financing
Practical Financial Management : A Guide to Budgets, Balance Sheets and Business Finance Practical Financial Management is intended to help those who find business finance confusing. Now in its eighth edition, it continues to provide advice on proper financial planning and control, and reinforces essential points through the use of questions within each section.
The Investor's Guide to Understanding Accounts : 10 Crunch Questions to Ask Before Investing in a Company
The Theory and Practice of Investment Management : Asset Allocation, Valuation, Portfolio Construction, and Strategies An updated guide to the theory and practice of investment management Many books focus on the theory of investment management and leave the details of the implementation of the theory up to you. This book illustrates how theory is applied in practice while stressing the importance of the portfolio construction process.

Governance

Blind Spots, Biases and Other Pathologies in the Boardroom In this book we argue that as a first step it is important to recognize these group dynamics and the problems they cause. Some of them can be minimized through, for example, properly designed decision processes. Others are more complicated. But all of them need to be recognized and understood so that we can properly shape our expectations of the degree and quality of oversight corporate boards of directors can provide, and so that we can turn our energy toward the many group level factors that could improve board performance going forward.
Corporate Governance and Anti-bribery : Critical Board and Company Issues
Corporate Management, Governance, and Ethics Best Practices
Corporate Social Responsibility, Governance And Corporate Reputation This unique volume expounds on the nature of white-collar crime and examines its relationship with corporate social responsibility, governance and corporate reputation. Based on empirical study and extensive literature review, this book presents different approaches for repairing damaged corporate reputations and also explains how internal governance and investigations can be conducted. Stages in corporate social responsibility are discussed and knowledge management is underscored as an imperative tool to combat white-collar crime and build corporate reputation.
Ethics, Business and Society : Managing Responsibly This compilation analyses the differences between the concepts of'social responsibility'and'business ethics', which are often erroneously interpreted to be the same. It explains that social responsibility is a characteristic but just one of the many aspects of the much wider concept of business ethics.
Handbook On Emerging Issues In Corporate Governance The book highlights emerging topics in key areas of corporate governance with special emphasis on traditionally unexplored issues. It also aims to stimulate thinking and debate on vital aspects of practice and approaches to corporate governance.
Institutional Investors' Power to Change Corporate Behavior : International Perspectives The aim of the book series is to explore public concerns and practical issues deeply and rethink theoretical debates and institutional policies critically in the broad area of corporate responsibility, corporate governance and sustainability around the world. It examines the social, economic and environmental impacts of corporations, and the real effects of corporate governance, CSR and business sustainability on societies in different regions.
International Corporate Governance Volume 14 of'Advances in Financial Economics'presents recent research on corporate governance from a number of countries across the world, including the United States, Spain, Malaysia, Israel and others.
Managing Corporate Legitimacy : A Toolkit This book develops tools for assessing corporate citizenship, looking at the role of the corporation as a private actor in global governance at conceptual and empirical levels. It uses a toolkit to develop approaches to corporate citizenship in practice, and includes an empirical assessment of five Swiss multinationals.
Mechanisms, Roles and Consequences of Governance: Emerging Issues This volume addresses emerging issues in public and non-profit governance research. Established concepts and theoretical issues are presented by established scholars in the governance, management and administration fields.
Risk Management and Corporate Governance in 21st Century Digital Economy
The Effective Board : Building Individual and Board Success The Effective Board is a best practice guide for improving your personal effectiveness and that of the board on which you serve - whether it's for a FTSE company, a small business, a public sector body or a board of trustees.
The Governance of Risk The relationship between governance and risk is particularly important in the global environment in which we operate and needs to be more fully discussed and theorised. This book is designed to address important aspects of this topic and set it within the context of the global business and societal environment.
Towards Sustainability : Major Challenges for Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Regulation
Understanding Risk : Recent Contributions From the Journal of Risk and Governance

Overview

Group Dynamics
Human Resources Management
Leadership
Management Education
Management Theory
Marketing
Operations Management
Organizational Behavior
Organizational Change
Public Management
Strategic Management

Group Dynamics

Called to Care : A Training Manual for Small Group Leaders
Death by Jury : Group Dynamics and Capital Sentencing Connell focuses on the role that deliberation has on the juror's perception of group functioning, measured here by the construct of group climate. Her results suggest individual juror characteristics do not have a direct effect on sentencing outcomes; rather, the level of group climate acts as a mediating variable between individual characteristics and outcomes.
Extraordinary Groups : How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results 'Why are some teams described in such exceptional terms, while most are not? Bellman and Ryan argue that an extraordinary group emerges when a group experience satisfies two or more core needs that members intuitively bring to any group they join. Based on extensive research, the book presents the Group Needs Model to help anyone nurture extraordinary experiences in their groups and achieve outstanding results.
Group Dynamics: The Nature of Groups As Well As Dynamics of Informal Groups and Dysfunctions ‘Group Dynamics'is a very complex topic. There are various definitions for groups, namely scientific ones and non-scientific ones. This assignment specializes in the scientific definitions. A lot of scientists concern themselves with the formation, the types, and the complexity of groups. However, the views of the scientists differ according to this topic. This assignment investigates the nature of groups as well as the specific form of informal groups. Informal groups have nearly the same nature as formal groups. The differences are demonstrated in the second part of the book.
Group Problem Solving This comprehensive textbook--the first of its kind in decades--presents important theories and experimental research about group problem solving. The book focuses on tasks that have demonstrably correct solutions within mathematical, logical, scientific, or verbal systems, including algebra problems, analogies, vocabulary, and logical reasoning problems.
Group Work : A Humanistic and Skills Building Approach The Second Edition of Group Work: A Humanistic and Skills Building Approach identifies the humanistic values and democratic norms that guide the group practitioner's interventions. The book presents seven stage themes of group development, 29 techniques for group work practice, and more than 60 new illustrations from contemporary group work.
Groups That Work : Structure and Process
Modernist Group Dynamics : The Politics and Poetics of Friendship For decades, the study of literary and philosophical modernism concerned solitary figures like the flâneur, the exile, and the lonely genius, but recently the group formations that fostered modernist movements have emerged into view. The essays in Modernist Group Dynamics: The Poetics and Politics of Friendship pursue this new direction in modernist scholarship, exploring the ways artists and intellectuals worked in concert and in conflict.
Negotiation in Groups In this fourteenth volume of the'Research on Managing Groups and Teams'series, nine chapters examine the particular challenges, opportunities, and dynamics that confront groups engaged in negotiation. The volume will be of particular interest to readers and scholars from management, psychology, sociology, communications, law, political science, and public policy.
Peer Groups : Expanding Our Study of Small Group Communication Drawing on a combination of traditional and new theories, Dr. SunWolf uses an inviting writing style, shares the words and provocative thinking of real world group members, and draws on research from social psychology, communication, and group dynamics. This innovative book offers suggestions for critical thinking and new behaviors in students 'own peer groups and will inspire further exploration of small group dynamics.
Resistance, Rebellion and Refusal in Groups : The 3 Rs Richard M. Billow expands and develops his ideas, first presented in Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion. He constructs a theoretically sophisticated, yet experience-near approach to contemporary group therapy. Building on Bion's striking theoretical realignment, replacing the polarity unconscious-conscious with infinite-finite, Billow revises traditional concepts and terms to offer a new model of relational group psychotherapy.
Small Groups As Complex Systems : Formation, Coordination, Development, and Adaptation What are groups? How do they behave? Arrow, McGrath, and Berdahl answer these questions by developing a general theory of small groups as complex systems. Basing their theory on concepts distilled from general systems theory, dynamical systems theory, and complexity and chaos theory, they explore groups as adaptive, dynamic systems that are driven by interactions among group members as well as between the group and its embedding contexts.
The Group in Society The Group in Society meets the challenges of teaching courses on small groups by revealing the full complexity of small groups and their place in society. It shows students the value of learning how to carefully study a group's history and context, rather than merely learning a fixed set of group participation skills. This text brings together disparate theories and research (from communication, social psychology, organizational and managerial studies, and sociology) in a way that helps students make sense of a complex body of scholarship on groups
The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of business groups around the world. It examines the adaptive and competitive capabilities of business groups, and their evolutionary dynamics. 16 individual country chapters deal with business groups from Asia to Africa, the Middle East to Latin America, while overarching chapters consider the historical and theoretical context of business groups. With contributions from leading experts, The Oxford Handbook of business groups provides a comprehensive, empirically and theoretically rich guide for scholars and policy-makers.
The Visible and Invisible Group Present-day group psychotherapy derives mainly from psychoanalytic theory and Bion's early experiences with wartime groups, and has been developed from the work of clinicians who practice group psychotherapy as a form of treatment. Group dynamics theory and practice, on the other hand, have arisen largely from the work of social scientists like Kurt Lewin, have been researched in the field and in the laboratory, and have been applied to groups as arenas for leadership training and behavioral change. The Visible and Invisible Group synthesizes these psychoanalytic and group approaches to group life and offers practical guidelines to the group psychotherapist
Theories of Small Groups : Interdisciplinary Perspectives Theories of Small Groups: Interdisciplinary Perspectives brings together the threads that unify the field of group research. The book is designed to define and describe theoretical perspectives on groups and to highlight select research findings within those perspectives.
Tongued with Fire : Groups in Experience A volume of collected papers by one of the most prominent thinkers on psychoanalytic processes in organisations. The papers in this collection span two-and-a-half decades and address some of the most difficult, complex, and paradoxical aspects of the human condition.

Human Resources Management

101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees : A Manager's Guide to Addressing Performance, Conduct, and Discipline Challenges 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees offers realistic sample dialogues managers can use to facilitate clear, direct interactions with their employees, helping them sidestep potential awkwardness and meet issues head-on. This practical, solution-oriented book walks readers through some of the most common—as well as the most serious—employee problems they are likely to encounter
A Manager's Guide to Human Behavior This updated and revised edition of A Manager's Guide to Human Behavior will prepare managers to better understand, motivate, and focus the energies of individual employees and the collective energy of their work teams. Building on the content in the fourth edition, this updated course reexamines key theories and focuses on their practical application to typical management situations.
Career Development Basics This new book will empower training and development leaders with the necessary tools and understanding to become catalysts for bringing a career development focus to their organizations by implementing three success factors: making career development part of the strategic planning process and extending it across organizational boundaries, sustain the career development focus, regardless of budget, economic, and short-term profit goals, and rewarding managers and leaders who help others reach their goals.
Conducting Workplace Investigations
Creating a Positive Team Climate : 20 Practical Ideas
Effective Human Resource Management : A Global Analysis Effective Human Resource Management is the Center for Effective Organizations'(CEO) sixth report of a fifteen-year study of HR management in today's organizations. The only long-term analysis of its kind, this book compares the findings from CEO's earlier studies to new data collected in 2010.
Effective People Management : Improve Performance Delegate More Effectively Handle Poor Performance and Manage Conflict It has never been more important to get the right staff for an organization and keep them motivated. With the right talent a company can beat the competition and grow their market share. Effective People Management gives the reader a robust understanding of all the key activities involved in managing staff and maintaining high performance, including chapters on leadership, motivating people, team building, delegating, selection interviewing, reward, managing change and handling people problems.
Foundations of Human Resource Development The first edition was the winner of the Book of the Year Award from the prestigious Academy of Human Resource Development
Generations, Inc. : From Boomers to Linksters--Managing the Friction Between Generations at Work Written by two generational experts—who happen to be father and daughter—Generations, Inc. offers the perspectives of people of different eras, eliciting practical insights on wrestling with generational issues in the workplace
Global Trends in Human Resource Management : A Twenty-Year Analysis Global Trends in Human Resource Management, the seventh report from CEO, provides the newest findings about what makes HR successful and how it can add value to organizations today
Got a Minute? : The 9 Lessons Every HR Professional Must Learn to Be Successful Designed to help HR and line managers deal with challenging employees in the workplace, this study enlists a novel approach by tying together several real-life—and often entertaining—examples of employee behavior within a broad range of circumstances.
Jobs, Training, and Worker Well-Being This volume contains twelve cutting edge papers contributing new research to important issues concerning worker welfare. The research deals with earnings inequality, discrimination, the effects of migration, and economic policy.
Managing ‘Human Resources’ by Exploiting and Exploring People’s Potentials Organizations are under constant pressure to be ambidextrous. They must be able to exploit existing processes, routines and systems at the same time as they must engage in exploration through playfulness, relaxed control and experimentation. We know little about the human costs and challenges of ambidexterity. In this volume we explore the impact of ambidextrous organizations on individuals'working lives. The authors analyze how employees are required to follow routines at the same time as they are expected to break these routines. They also explore how the individual dilemmas of ambidexterity play out in the lives of precarious work, online communities, management consultants, workers in the automotive industry, and consumers of pop-management books in the US.
Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management Volume 32 of Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (RPHRM) contains seven papers on important issues in the field of human resources management, thus continuing the tradition of the series to develop a more informed understanding of the field.
Rethinking Misbehavior and Resistance in Organizations This volume challenges understandings of organizational misbehavior by looking beyond traditional conceptions of the nexus between misbehavior and resistance in the workplace. Reconsidering misbehavior from a range of different perspectives and disciplinary traditions, including history, employment relations, sociology, management, entrepreneurship, marketing, legal studies and film studies, chapters examine behaviors not only of workers but also of managers, entrepreneurs and consumers.
Social Media in Human Resources Management Social media have radically shifted the way people . Attraction of candidates, internal communication with employees, communication with and among people; creation, design, testing and promotion of new services, new ways of organizing are appearing and changing the landscape at record speeds. This volume in the Advanced Series in Management utilizes empirical and theoretical approaches to shed light on this exciting set of emerging, stimulating new uses of technology that stretch creativity beyond conventional limits.
The Chief HR Officer : Defining the New Role of Human Resource Leaders
The Legal Side of HR Practice The Legal Side of HR Practice leads human resources professionals, managers, supervisors, and students through the legal maze to an understanding of HR law fundamentals. Written in a conversational, easy-to-understand style and filled with workplace examples and step-by-step explanations, this course is designed to provide readers with the tools they need to legally recruit, onboard, manage, discipline, and lead others. Throughout the course, exercises, scenarios, sample problems, and Think About It sections provide readers opportunities for practice, feedback, and application
The Manager's Guide to HR : Hiring, Firing, Performance Evaluations, Documentation, Benefits, and Everything Else You Need to Know Extensively revised, the second edition covers all the key areas and brings readers up to speed on current developments in employment law
The Psychological Contract : Managing and Developing Professional Groups The book seeks to make sense of the organizational experiences of the professional worker by drawing on several areas of research, including the psychological contract, social identity theory, theories of career development and retention. The author uses real-life examples and short case studies to situate psychological theory within organizations.
The Thought of Work ? In a uniquely thought-provoking book, John W. Budd presents ten historical and contemporary views of work from across the social sciences and humanities. By uncovering the diverse ways in which we conceptualize work-such as a way to serve or care for others, a source of freedom, a source of income, a method of psychological fulfillment, or a social relation shaped by class, gender, race, and power-The Thought of Work reveals the wide-ranging nature of work and establishes its fundamental importance for the human experience.
The Trouble with HR : An Insider's Guide to Finding and Keeping the Best People A 2006 study by IOMA found that companies with effective talent management practices retain employees for longer time periods and outperform industry averages by 22 percent. But most HR departments are still using the same old cookie-cutter approach to finding new hires. This book offers a revolutionary new approach to attracting and hanging onto the best and brightest talent, providing real-world strategies
Toward Human Emergence : A Human Resource Philosophy for the Future: Reflections on Accelerating Change, Making Human Choices and Destiny

Leadership

100 More Great Leadership Ideas : From Successful Leaders and Managers Around the World This sequel to the best selling 100 Great Leadership Ideas offers 100 more solutions researched from companies and organisations around the world. Each idea is described in some detail. You are then shown how to apply that idea in your own company or work situation. A simple formula which could potentially lead to rich rewards.
Advances in Global Leadership Volume 6 of'Advances in Global Leadership'includes timely and impactful chapters on various concepts and processes associated with leading across cultures and other boundaries. In these times of accelerating complexity and global inter-connectedness, a deeper understanding of the multiple contextual, organizational, and individual variables and processes associated effective international leadership is ever more important.
Arts Leadership : International Case Studies Arts Leadership is an edited collection of case studies discussing approaches to arts leadership and management. In some examples the cases are templates for innovative leadership in the arts; in others they demonstrate the challenges that are presented by the complexity of arts leadership in an ever-changing environment.
Contemporary Issues in Leadership This classic text takes a popular interdisciplinary approach to the topic of leadership, compiling a reader-friendly collection of journal articles from top scholars in the field.
Do New Leaders Make a Difference?: Executive Succession and Public Policy Under Capitalism and Socialism : Executive Succession and Public Policy Under Capitalism and Socialism Professor Bunce assesses the impact of changes in leadership on priorities in policy within the Soviet bloc and western democratic states during the postwar era, with particular emphasis on the Soviet Union and the United States.
Embodied Leadership : The Somatic Approach to Developing Your Leadership Embodied Leadership deconstructs our thinking about the body using key discoveries in neuroscience to demonstrate the uses and benefits of a somatic approach, particularity in the area of emotional intelligence.There are practical exercises throughout to develop embodied leadership skills and personal development.
Everything You Need to Know About Emotional Intelligence & Leadership This book describes emotional intelligence. It begins with a general summary of the concept of emotional intelligence, then progresses to in-depth reviews of the major theories of emotional intelligence, and provides insight into the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership.
Facilitative Leadership in Social Work Practice
Followership : What Is It and Why Do People Follow? The book offers a collection of chapters written by thought leaders on the topic of followership. Together, they provide answers to two fundamental questions: What is followership, and why do people follow? They elucidate how answers to these questions can inform management theory, practice, and education.
Great Leaders Grow : Becoming a Leader for Life
How the Best Leaders Lead : Proven Secrets to Getting the Most Out of Yourself and Others The ability to select, manage, motivate, and guide employees to achieve results is the true measure of any leader's success. In this fast-moving book, business expert Brian Tracy reveals the strategies used by top executives and business owners everywhere to achieve astounding results in difficult markets against determined competition.
How to Be a Fierce Competitor : What Winning Companies and Great Managers Do in Tough Times In this eminently readable, practical resource for business leaders and managers, Fox explains exactly how the savvy few who rise to the top stay focused and alert, get new market share, hire good recently fired talent, increase investments into customer service, speed innovation, train all customer facing people, make acquisitions, get rid of underperformers, build brand names, pay for measurable performance, and lots more.
Idea Agent : Leadership That Liberates Creativity and Accelerates Innovation Lina Echeverría offers seven proven principles through which new ideas come to fruition, from unleashing passion and drive, and embracing productive conflict, to emphasizing excellence and structure while living values that liberate creativity. As team catalyst, the leader delivers results while nurturing intuition and growing talent.
If You Will Lead : Enduring Wisdom for Twenty-First-Century Leaders
Integral Leadership : The Next Half-step
Leaders Open Doors : A Radically Simple Leadership Approach to Lift People, Profits, and Performance 'I got to open doors for people!'These seven simple words, spoken by author Bill Treasurer's five-year-old son, cut straight to what matters most about leadership: True leaders open doors for people. This radically simple concept is the heart of Leaders Open Doors. This book presents a fresh and unique take on leadership that will benefit experienced leaders and those just starting their leadership journeys.
Leadership Is Half the Story : A Fresh Look at Followership, Leadership, and Collaboration Can you imagine a choreographer only training one dancer to lead while his or her partner sits in the lobby staring at the wall? Yet we do this all the time in organizations. Half the partnership is missing. Leadership is Half the Story introduces the first model to seamlessly integrate leadership, followership, and partnerships.
Leadership in Challenging Situations This volume aims at bridging a gap in contemporary scientific military leadership research regarding leadership in challenging situations. Today's leaders face challenging situations in a complex world, in'old'as well as in 'new' missions worldwide.
Leadership in Science and Technology: A Reference Handbook This 2-volume set within the SAGE Reference Series on Leadership tackles issues relevant to leadership in the realm of science and technology. By focusing on key topics within 100 brief chapters, this unprecedented reference resource offers students more detailed information and depth of discussion than typically found in an encyclopedia entry but not as much jargon, detail or density as in a journal article or a research handbook chapter.
Leadership Learning for the Future
Leadership Lessons From the Military . Leadership Lessons from the Military articulates what lessons from military leadership can be applied to the business context and how to go about it. The book shows how executives can leverage time-tested military practices to create lasting competitive advantage. Business leaders can learn how military leaders tie individual goals with the organizational goals, resulting in a highly motivated and committed workforce, which, in turn, augments organizational efficiency and enhances employee productivity and retention.
New Thinking on Leadership : A Global Perspective The recent actions of bankers, sports bodies, corporate directors and politicians, have all made the concept of moral, transformative, and authentic leadership seem a thing of the past. New Thinking on Leadership brings together the latest thinking from around the world to empower practitioners and academics to turn around what has been called'the leadership crisis'.
Profiling Leadership Discipline : A Short Excursion to Outstanding Leadership Not since the One Minute Manager has there been a speedier, more relevant read for leaders at all levels. This book presents the 20 critical leadership disciplines contemporary leaders must consistently demonstrate to be outstanding and to influence the direction and success of those willing to follow.
Public Leadership This book presents topical research in the study of public leadership, including police organization and leadership; brand leadership in a public sector context; leadership compensation in subsidiaries; exploring the public leadership performance of faith-based healthcare organization; and educational leadership.(Imprint: Nova)
Redesigning Leadership
Re-energizing the Corporation : How Leaders Make Change Happen Re-energizing The Corporation is built on the groundbreaking 3e leadership model which makes sense of the three Es of Envisioning, Engaging and Executing. By understanding and following the model, you will be able to create compelling pictures of the future of your organization; build a following of individuals committed to getting the vision into reality; and maximize team performance to deliver on your dream.
Scrappy General Management : Common Sense Practices to Avoid Calamities, Catastrophes and Lackluster Results This book will provide you with the 12 common sense and repeatable steps that will guide you through running a business that everyone will be proud to be associated with. The intended reader is someone moving up from middle management -- or running their own business. The book is aimed to provide an easy to follow road map that will give some comfort and order amid the chaos of information and expectations.
Soldiers and Statesmen : Reflections on Leadership Which generals were most influential in World War II? Did Winston Churchill really see himself as culturally'half American'? What really caused the break between Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower? In Soldiers and Statesmen, John S. D. Eisenhower answers these questions and more, offering his personal reflections on great leaders of our time.
Standing in the Fire : Leading High-Heat Meetings with Clarity, Calm, and Courage Standing in the Fire shares not just Dressler's experiences but also the insights of 35 iconic facilitators, leaders, conveners, and change agents, all with an eye to helping you stay grounded and focused enough to make the kind of inventive, split-second decisions these pressure-cooker situations demand.
Still Surprised : A Memoir of a Life in Leadership An intimate look at the founding father of the modern leadership movement Warren Bennis is an acclaimed American scholar, successful organizational consultant and author, and an expert in the field of leadership. His much awaited memoir is filled with insights about the successes and failures from his long and storied life and career.
The Elements of Power : Lessons on Leadership and Influence What do a person's knowledge, expressiveness, history, character, and attraction have in common? Or his or her role resources, information, network, and reputation? Each is a key to either personal or organizational power, and together they open the complex combination lock on the door of true leadership and irresistible influence. The Elements of Power combines the latest research on the nature of power all over the world with a handy self-assessment and invaluable insight
The No People : Tribal Tales of Organizational Cliff Dwellers This book focuses on capturing one of the most important elements in successful leadership giving followers a voice and motivating them to use that voice to help the leader be successful. The book is based on taking real stories of effective versus ineffective leaders from around the world, and sharing the lessons learned that facilitate or detract from followers helping leaders to be at their very best.
The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership : Classical Wisdom for Modern Leaders Skills and experience might land you a leadership position, but they don't make you a true leader. Leadership comes from inside—and the greatest leaders first question themselves before they tackle the world around them. To aid in this critical interrogation, The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership explores ideas from Aristotle, Heraclitus, Sophocles, Hesiod, and other great thinkers
Time to Lead : The Ultimate Guide to Employee Engagement A back-to-basics approach to employee engagement, Time to Lead provides common sense leadership practices for busy leaders like you. It is a practical resource on how to address your administrative responsibilities while increasing your presence with employees and customers. Each goal focused exercise and self-assessment tool comes directly from the collective experiences of leaders like you.

Management Education

Becoming a Manager The role of the new manager demands a new mindset, new activities, and new relationships with people throughout the organization. Becoming a Manager guides the first-time manager through these and other challenges.
Effectively Integrating Ethical Dimensions Into Business Education Over the last decade, we have been witnessing a dramatic contrast between the CEO as a superhero and CEO as an antihero. The new challenge in business education is to develop responsible global leaders. Relatively little is known, however, about how management educators can prepare future leaders to cope effectively with the challenge of leading with integrity in a multicultural space. This volume is authored by a spectrum of international experts with a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives. It suggests directions that business educators might take to reorient higher education to transcend merely equipping people and organizations to greedily proceed, with dire effects on the preponderance of people, nations, our planet and the future.
Learning Theory in the Practice of Management Development : Evolution and Applications This text seeks effective ways of merging management theory with workplace practice. It advocates the modular preceptor method whereby participants work together in dyads and triads with a preceptor acting as advisor and instructor.
Management Education for Integrity : Ethically Educating Tomorrow's Business Leaders 'Management Education for Integrity' explains how curricula should be streamlined and rejuvenated to ensure a high level of integrity in management education, providing numerous examples of new tools, teaching methods, integrity sensitization and development exercises and ethical management education assessment approaches.
Management Learning : Integrating Perspectives in Theory and Practice Management Learning introduces the context and history of management learning and offers a critical framework within which the key debates can be understood. The book also provides an incisive discussion of the values and purpose inherent in the practice and theory of management learning, and charts the diverse external factors influencing and directing the processes of learning. The volume concludes with a look forward towards the future reconstruction of the field.
The AMA Guide to Management Development Based on the set of managerial competencies specially developed by the American Management Association for a new core management curriculum, The AMA Guide to Management Development provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how to continually develop managers throughout their entire organization.
The Coaching Connection : A Manager's Guide to Developing Individual Potential in the Context of the Organization Coaching has traditionally focused entirely on the individual...sometimes even at the expense of improving measurable business results for the company. Now, The Coaching Connection shows managers how they can use contextual coaching to simultaneously promote both individual and organizational growth. The book helps readers align what individual contributors do best with what organizations need most, ensuring everyone involved their highest probability for success.

Management Theory

Encyclopedia of Management Theory
Rethinking Strategy This is a new overview of the strategy field, with internationally renowned contributors summarizing the latest directions and developments in strategic management theory in the context of their theoretical roots in economics, organization theory, and systems theory.
Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics In Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics, Robert Phillips provides an extended defense of stakeholder theory as the preeminent theory of organizational ethics today. Addressing the difficult question of what the moral underpinning of stakeholder theory should be.
Studying Management Critically An excellent source for graduate students, especially in the field of human resource development, who are exploring areas for future research of a critical nature'- Adult Education Quarterly Drawing upon a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences, primarily upon critical traditions, such as the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, this text provides a wide ranging analysis of management and its various specialisms.

Marketing

Categories in Markets : Origins and Evolution
Chaotics : The Business of Managing and Marketing in the Age of Turbulence We have entered into an entirely new era, an age of increasingly frequent and intense periods of turbulence in the global economy. Unlike past recessions, today's crises have precipitated a need for businesses to develop a new mindset, one that takes into account intermittent periods of disturbance, allowing them to thrive while under the constant threat of chaos.
Develop Your Marketing Skills Develop Your Marketing Skills is a user-friendly guide appropriate for business people for whom implementation is the key issue. It outlines the key concepts and principles which govern the subject of marketing, such as product management, market research, communications, market coverage, creating a marketing plan and pricing perspectives. It also gives key insights into how theories and tools work in actual business scenarios, shows you how to improve customer satisfaction and highlights contemporary issues, such as sustainability.
Marketing Strategy in Play : Questioning to Create Difference The ideas presented in this book explain marketing thinking and how to cultivate it, and ultimately, the ways in which marketplace differences are created. Instead of offering marketing steps, processes, and models, the focus here is on developing the practitioner's thinking rather than providing some formulaic series of steps, processes, and/or models based upon someone else's thinking.
Secrets of the Marketing Masters : What the Best Marketers Do -- And Why It Works All the old rules of marketing are up for grabs. Markets are fragmenting and globalizing; consumers have greater control over when and what media they use; and digital technologies have changed how people shop, work, and relax. But a small number of senior marketing leaders know how to engage consumers and keep them coming back. This book reveals the secrets to their success.
Sharkonomics : How to Attack Market Leaders Sharks are nature's most revered and feared killing machines. But if you study the behaviour of sharks, you will learn they are also highly strategic and efficient in the way they survive and thrive in nature's competitive environment. Inspired by the shark's evolved (over 420 million years) instincts and strategic moves, this book provides businesses with 10 ways on how to attack the market leaders, and take market share, in your sector.
The Marketer's Handbook : Reassessing Marketing Techniques for Modern Business This book, written by a senior marketer with over thirty years experience of using marketing techniques and concepts, sets out to describe, contextualize and rate them. Its prime emphasis is on understanding their status so that they can be used to direct the use of shareholder funds effectively. Its conclusion is that seasoned professionals must use their judgement about when and how to use them, but they also need to understand them in depth if they are going to make well-rounded, effective investment decisions.
The Marketing Plan : How to Prepare and Implement It With the advent of Web 2.0 business strategies like Search Engine Optimization, Social Networking, Pay-Per-Click, and dozens more, it may seem like you need to start from scratch. But with the brand new and completely updated fourth edition of Bill Luther's classic The Marketing Plan, you'll learn how to navigate this perilous new landscape—while actually generating a working marketing plan for your business
The Phenomenal Product Manager
The Shift : The Transformation of Today's Marketers Into Tomorrow's Growth Leaders
Your Ad Here : The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing

Operations Management

Enterprise Operations Management Handbook
Global Operations Management This book provides an overview of some of the fundamentals of globaloperations functions in an organization. Key issues affecting the global industry are covered, such as operational issues for entrepreneurs in the global context; Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its impact on corporate governance; evaluating country performances with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); the ACU (Asian Currency Market) in an optimized world currency basket; warehousing in modern supply chain management; and others. This book also looks at how globalisation is presenting new challenges in operations and the new regulatory environment.
Going Lean : How the Best Companies Apply Lean Manufacturing Principles to Shatter Uncertainty, Drive Innovation, and Maximize Profits
Handbook of Production Management Methods This unique book provides a guide to the selection of appropriate production and manufacturing methods for postgraduate and professional manufacturing engineers. It starts by helping the reader to identify the required objectives of industrial management for their particular situation. Having identified the objectives an analytical assessment of the available production and management methods is made. The analytical system presents an objective method of production selection.
Healthcare Operations Management
Leading and Managing the Lean Management Process This book develops a new model for lean management. The intent is to demonstrate a model framework consisting of four critical components: leadership, culture, team and tools. The development of the model and these four components will be built from empirical theories reported in the research literature and in successful applications. This framework will offer a path to develop lean leaders with practical, actionable guidelines. The model framework is suited to broad applications offering practical guidelines for manufacturing and service environments alike.
Limited Affordable Low-Volume Manufacturing: : Summary of a Workshop Limited Affordable Low-Volume Manufacturing is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Materials and Manufacturing Board of the National Research Council in August 2013 to discuss affordable, low-volume manufacturing.
Managing Technology in the Operations Function 'Managing Technology in The Operations Function'looks at issues in technology from the operations function rather than from an IT perspective. It explores the use of technology for processing, provision of client services, risk management and business management. The authors analyse the benefits of straight through processing and the practical implications of managing technology products in operations. System risk and opportunities are explored and case studies are examined along with industry trends to assess upcoming developments and their impacts.
Operations Management The SAGE Course Companion on Operations Management is an accessible introduction to the subject that will help readers to extend their understanding of key concepts and enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements. It provides support on how to revise for exams and prepare for and write assessed pieces. Readers are encouraged not only to think like an operations manager but also to think about the subject critically.
Progressive Manufacturing : Managing Uncertainty While Blazing a Trail to Success
Security Operations Management Revised and updated, topics covered in depth include: access control, selling the security budget upgrades to senior management, the evolution of security standards since 9/11, designing buildings to be safer from terrorism, improving relations between the public and private sectors, enhancing security measures during acute emergencies, and, finally, the increased security issues surrounding the threats of terrorism and cybercrime.
Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools : What Tool? When? Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools offers an easy-to-read and comprehensive review of the most important current industrial improvement tools that every manufacturing or industrial executive, operational manager or engineer needs to know, including which tool to use for a particular type of manufacturing situation.
The Quantum Leap : Next Generation: the Manufacturing Strategy for Business

Organizational Behavior

A Manager's Guide to Human Behavior This updated and revised edition of A Manager's Guide to Human Behavior will prepare managers to better understand, motivate, and focus the energies of individual employees and the collective energy of their work teams. Building on the content in the fourth edition, this updated course reexamines key theories and focuses on their practical application to typical management situations.
Getting Even : The Truth About Workplace Revenge--And How to Stop It Tripp and Bies educate employees and managers about the right and wrong ways to deal with workplace conflict, specifically revenge. The authors have amassed dozens of lively stories, insights and counter-intuitive truths to bring to the book. Not only will managers and employees find this information useful and entertaining, but most readers will find applications in their home lives as well as in their work lives.
Handling Difficult People and Situations : Lead People Through Adversity The customers and suppliers you need to work with effectively may be outside your company or in the next office. and you may not always see eye to eye. Even if you have strong interpersonal skills and common goals, conflict can happen. Make sure you know how find common ground, calm emotions and forge a productive path forward.
Management Dynamics in Strategic Alliances Management Dynamics in Strategic Alliances contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 12 chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics relating to the management of strategic alliances.
Organisational Behaviour Organizational Behaviour is the systematic study and careful application of knowledge about how people, as individuals and as groups, act within organizations. The book is written in a clear and straight forward language with detailed tables and diagrams given whenever possible for easier understanding of difficult topics.
Organisational Culture: Concept, Context, And Measurement (In Two Volumes) Organisational Culture: Concept, Context and Measurement (In Two Volumes) aims to encourage an agenda for organisational culture research that gives a renewed emphasis to methodological issues. In pursuit of this aim, consideration is given to both conceptual questions and questions of measurement.
Organizational Processes and Received Wisdom The volume begins with four chapters looking at the construct of leadership. Each of these addresses an important aspect of our understanding of leadership and its practice.
Organizing Around Intelligence: The New Paradigm (2nd Edition) Organizing Around Intelligence (2nd Edition) introduces a new mindset in leading, managing and structuring human organizations in the 21st Century. This paradigm shift is vital as humankind enters the intelligence era (the core of the knowledge economy). Focusing on nurturing highly intelligent human organizations (iCAS), the intelligent organization theory introduced in the book recounts the revelation and significance of intelligence management that concentrates on the human thinking systems and the orgmind
Organizing Relationships : Traditional and Emerging Perspectives on Workplace Relationships
Relational Practices, Participative Organizing This book focuses on the concept and role of relational practices as a way to understand and study processes of organizing.
Rethinking Misbehavior and Resistance in Organizations This volume challenges understandings of organizational misbehavior by looking beyond traditional conceptions of the nexus between misbehavior and resistance in the workplace. Reconsidering misbehavior from a range of different perspectives and disciplinary traditions, including history, employment relations, sociology, management, entrepreneurship, marketing, legal studies and film studies, chapters examine behaviors not only of workers but also of managers, entrepreneurs and consumers.
Seeing Red Cars : Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future Drawing on the latest scientific research, Laura Goodrich shows you how to stop fixating on negatives and rewire your brain to focus on positive outcomes. Unique and practical exercises—including a free online toolkit—and dozens of enlightening real-life stories help you identify what you truly want so that it drives everything you do
Selforganizology: The Science Of Self-organization This invaluable book is the first of its kind on'selforganizology', the science of self-organization. It covers a wide range of topics, such as the theory, principle and methodology of selforganizology, agent-based modelling, intelligence basis, ant colony optimization, fish/particle swarm optimization, cellular automata, spatial diffusion models, evolutionary algorithms, self-adaptation and control systems, self-organizing neural networks, catastrophe theory and methods, and self-organization of biological communities, etc.
Stepping Up : How Taking Responsibility Changes Everything In his bestselling book The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die, John Izzo tackled the secrets to lifelong happiness. Now he gives readers the key to a great career, a great workplace, better relationships, and a better world. Stepping Up argues that almost every problem, from personal difficulties and business challenges to social issues, can be solved if all of us look to ourselves to create change rather than looking to others.
The Truth About Sucking up : How Authentic Self-promotion Benefits You and Your Organization Projects fail, goals are not met, employee morale and motivation disintegrate, and cynicism festers. This book can help you prevent those drastic outcomes by making authentic self-promotion part of your everyday work life.'
What Is Culture? : Generating and Applying Cultural Knowledge This book presents a new theory of culture that attempts to present a unified taxonomy and lexicon of definitions of culture by various social scientists for use in the inter-disciplinary investigation of organizational culture. Both both qualitative and quantitative data is presented and analysed.

Organizational Change

A Cross- Disciplinary Primer on the Meaning of Principles of Innovation In this volume, a novel approach to deeply understanding innovation in contexts that range from the socio-cultural to the technological is presented. The fundamental principles and constructs of innovation are identified and described according to an interdisciplinary lens that gives particular focus to a variety of historical examples of innovation. This exploration leads to the development of a learning model that serves as an alternative to mainstream innovation curricula.
Adapting to Organizational Change Change is a constant in today's workplace, and leaders must learn strategies to deal with change successfully, or otherwise face derailment. To succeed, you must first understand how changes within your organization are affecting you, and then use that understanding to help manage the transition from the old way to the new way of doing things.
Change (transformation) in Government Organizations Change (Transformation) in Government Organizations” discusses recent efforts to bring about change in government organizations. The book brings together contributions by a number of managers, practitioners, academics and consultants in the study of international, federal, state, and local government efforts to respond to increased calls for change (transformation) in public sector organizations.
Innovation And Growth: What Do We Know? This book, written entirely by faculty at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, provides a variety of practical and implementable perspectives on innovation for managers. In addition, the book contains chapters that provide reviews of the academic research on innovation in the faculty members'specific areas of expertise.
Leading Change From the Middle : A Practical Guide to Building Extraordinary Capabilities Leading Change from the Middle takes you on the journeys traveled by Kurt Mayer, an information technology executive in the Department of Defense trying to build a new IT system in record time with limited resources, and Stephen Wang, a mid-level leader in city government trying to build a capability for supporting commercial agriculture.
Millennial Spring : Designing the Future of Organizations
Millennials and the Workplace : Challenges for Architecting the Organizations of Tomorrow The book studies the Millennials and profiles them according to their demographic and psychographic background along with personality factors such as work locus of control, personal values and achievement motivation, and so on. The authors highlight the gap between what the Millennials expect and what they get at the workplace.
Olympus Inc : Intervening for Cultural Change in Organizations In Olympus Inc., Bernie Neville and Tim Dalmau use the ancient Greek Gods to explores the values, practices and beliefs that underpin businesses, schools, corporations and the like, and through this they illuminate the complex forces and currents that are at work in modern organizations.They demonstrate that autocratic Zeus, uber-efficient Apollo, the slippery trickster Hermes in fact, all the gods of the Greek pantheon - are alive and thriving in our workplaces, clubs and institutions.
Organisational Transformation and Scientific Change : The Impact of Institutional Restructuring on Universities and Intellectual Innovation By bringing together the analysis of organisational change in universities with that of how institutional changes are affecting intellectual innovation in different fields, this volume integrates work in the sociology of organisations, science policy, higher education studies, innovation research and the sociology of science. It is therefore of interest to a wide academic and policy development audience in many countries.
Organizational Generativity Appreciative Inquiry has touched and inspired the work of thousands who apply its development principles in a wide range of settings including industry, government, spiritual and not-for-profit organizations.
Organizational Processes and Received Wisdom The volume begins with four chapters looking at the construct of leadership. Each of these addresses an important aspect of our understanding of leadership and its practice. The four chapters on leadership are followed by five chapters dealing with other organizational processes including motivation, organizational change, the role of diversity in organizations and organizational citizenship. The last three chapters deal with the issue of knowledge in large systems. Two chapters address how information may be transmitted across organizations and generations of workers. The final chapter deals with the use of information by organizational decisionmakers.
Storytelling for Sustainability : Deepening the Case for Change Storytelling for Sustainability offers a comprehensive primer on storytelling and a range of insights and practical exercises, including: the failure of the sustainability story, discovering your passionate fact, your convenience story, reverse storyboarding, and ehat's my storyline?
What Is Culture? : Generating and Applying Cultural Knowledge This book presents a new theory of culture that attempts to present a unified taxonomy and lexicon of definitions of culture by various social scientists for use in the inter-disciplinary investigation of organizational culture. Both both qualitative and quantitative data is presented and analysed.

Public Management: See Public Administration in this Subject Guide

Strategic Management

A Focussed Issue on Competence Perspectives on New Industry Dynamics The papers in this volume largely adopt an 'outside-in' approach to theory development that suggests how further understanding of firm-level competences may be enabled through macro-level analyses of the resources and capabilities organizations must develop to participate in new kinds of industry and product-market dynamics.
A World Gone Social : How Companies Must Adapt to Survive The Social Revolution's impact on the business world cannot be over-estimated. Like the meteor that likely precipitated the end of the dinosaurs, Social is the catalyst in an extinction event--and business as we know it has changed forever. A World Gone Social offers an eye-opening look at fundamental and powerful changes the social collaboration era has set in motion:
Business Strategy and Sustainability This volume examines the word that's on everybody's lips in business, in government and in society - sustainability. There are of course many aspects of sustainability which might be considered to reflect Brundtland's three pillars of economic, environmental and social sustainability. Others of course have different definitions which include such things as governance or supply chain management. Nevertheless business has recognised the significance of the concept and is responding by developing strategies to cope, although some would say that this is little more than window dressing. The debate continues however as to just what is meant by the term sustainability as far as business is concerned and how can this be achieved. This book is designed to address this debate and set it within the context of the global business and societal environment.
Corporate Strategy For Dramatic Productivity Surge Corporate Strategy for Dramatic Productivity Surge deals with the very basics of productivity and cost performance — including abridgement of time, increase in speed, enhancement of capabilities, increase in sensitivity and precision, enhancement of efficiency and effectiveness, alteration of size, reduction of costs and increase in revenue, among others.
Dynamic Strategies for Small Businesses This book outlines a cost-effective process for dynamic strategic planning in the domain of the small entrepreneurial firm. The model presented in the book is simple and dynamic. The objective is to allow a focus on the strategic as well as the tactical implementations of the vision of the small business leader, owner, or entrepreneur.
Management Dynamics in Strategic Alliances Management Dynamics in Strategic Alliances contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 12 chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics relating to the management of strategic alliances.
Managerial Cognition and Strategic Management : Rethinking Internationalization Strategies Although the study of strategy or company strategic management has been discussed in literature throughout recent years, there is a need for increased attention in the topic of the strategist's mindful process. This book discusses the need to consider managerial cognition when addressing any strategic management related topic, as well as how strategy is really formed in the inner mind of the strategist.
ReCreating
Social Media in Strategic Management Conventional wisdom is being challenged and virtual workspaces that had never been conceptualized are opening at blistering speed. This volume in the Advanced Series in Management series bridges empirical and theoretical approaches to identifying and demystify this set of emerging, exciting new family of user-gene rated content technologies
Strategic Analysis and Choice : A Structured Approach
Strategic Planning : Fundamentals for Small Business Strategy is about creating a plan to differentiate your business from the competition and to gain a competitive advantage. This book is about the fundamentals of strategic planning for the small business owner and his or her leadership team. Strategic planning is an essential process for every size business.
Strategic Thinking : A Step-by-step Approach to Strategy and Leadership Strategic Thinking: A Step-by-Step Approach to Strategy and Leadership, now in it's third edition, takes you step by step through sound strategic thinking by setting out the questions to ask. In the process of answering these questions and thinking through the important issues that they raise, you will learn how to formulate strategies and write clear and concise strategic plans.
Supply Chain As Strategic Asset : The Key to Reaching Business Goals
The CEO, Strategy, and Shareholder Value : Making the Choices That Maximize Company Performance A new look at delivering effective shareholder value from Peter Kontes, a true leader in the world of strategic management In The CEO, Strategy, and Shareholder Value, Peter Kontes, a true leader in the strategic management field, outlines the key to creating and growing shareholder value. The proper focus, contends Kontes, is in using quantitative measurements as guideposts on the path to success
Winning Strategies for Business The book provides a holistic and contemporary lesson on strategic management by encompassing areas like strategy development, new economic policy, strategies for survival, competitive advantage, growth, mergers, globalization, innovation, and portfolio management.

Related Subjects

See also Business and Public Administration in this Subject Guide