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Author : Gunnar Westerlund,Sven-Erik Sjöstrand
Publisher : London ; New York : Harper & Row
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035558449
Author : Yiannis Gabriel
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191555824
Each chapter of this book takes as its starting point a myth, a legend, a story or a fable, and explores its contemporary relevance for a world of globalization, organizations and, consumerism. Each contributor is inspired by a relatively short but rich text which is then used as a springboard for an analysis of contemporary social and organizational realities. The idea behind this book is that by looking at contemporary society through the prism of pre-modern narratives, certain features emerge in sharp relief, while others are found to be entrenched in societies across the ages. The texts that have inspired the authors of this collection differ - some are myths, some are stories, one is a children's tale. The origins of these texts differ, from the scriptural to the folkloric, from high art to oral tradition. What all the texts have in common is a distinct and compelling plot, a cast of recognizable characters with an ability to touch us and speak to us through the ages, and, above all, a powerful symbolic aura, one that makes them identifiable landmarks in storytelling tradition. The driving force behind this project was each author's love for their narratives. It is not an exaggeration to say that the book is a true labour of love. The chapters are introduced by the editor and are arranged in four parts, each with its own introduction. The chapters in each part spring from stories that share a narrative character, and are labelled as Knowledge Narratives, Heroic Narratives, Tragic Narratives, and Reflecive Narratives. The book offers a set of probing, original and critical inquiries into the nature of human experience knowledge and truth, the nature of leadership, power and heroic achievement, postmodernity and its discontents, and emotion, identity and the nature of human relations in organizations. Different chapters deal, among other things, with the nature of leadership in the face of terrorism, friendship, women's position in organizations, the struggle for identity, the curse of insatiable consumption and the ways the hero and heroine are constructed in our times.
Author : Mary Uhl-Bien,Ronald F. Piccolo,John R. Schermerhorn, Jr.
Publisher : Wiley Global Education
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119503842
Organizational Behavior is a multidimensional product to allow for student development in knowledge, analysis, synthesis and personal development with pedagogical features designed to bring Organizational Behavior to life. This product reframes the content of organizational behavior to reflect the inherent interdependence of factors that explain human behavior. Traditional OB topics are introduced as part of an integrated framework for answering practically-relevant questions about why people behave as they do and how to effectively self manage and influence others.
Author : Perez-Uribe, Rafael,Ocampo-Guzman, David,Salcedo-Perez, Carlos,Carvajal-Contreras, Andrés
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798369307212
Organizational Management Sustainability in VUCA Contexts is an insightful and comprehensive book that delves into the complex interplay between sustainability and the challenging landscapes of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA). With a focus on bridging the gap between present and future generations, this book navigates the intricate web of economic success, social development, environmental health, and societal stability. Drawing upon a blend of theoretical foundations and practical examples, this book aims to unravel the phenomenon of sustainability in VUCA contexts by analyzing both exemplary and detrimental management practices across public and private sectors. Through a series of meticulously crafted chapters, the authors assess, treat, communicate, monitor, review, and discuss the methods, best practices, and requisite conditions for fostering sustainable organizations. Targeting a diverse audience of academics, policy makers, and entrepreneurs, this book serves as an invaluable resource for academic institutions, students specializing in business disciplines, and organizations in both public and private spheres. Moreover, anyone with a vested interest in contemporary business issues, prospective strategies, organizational sustainability, and economies in VUCA situations will find this book an indispensable guide.
Author : Tennin, Kyla Latrice
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781668483947
The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted businesses and markets across the globe, causing millions of people to lose their jobs as many sectors struggled financially. In addition to addressing global social, environmental, and economic issues, businesses help economies exist, survive, and thrive. Understanding the ideation and processes of organizational development to improve company negative circumstances is crucial. Measuring the Effectiveness of Organizational Development Strategies During Unprecedented Times examines organizational development through the lenses of research and innovative practices contained within the fields of leadership and organizational development/change/design. Covering topics such as change management, learning and development systems, and emerging economies, this book is ideal for business leaders, entrepreneurs, human resource personnel, consultants, economists, government officials, policymakers, librarians, researchers, and more.
Author : Stewart Clegg,James R. Bailey
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 2009 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412915151
Describing the field, spanning individual, organisation, societal and cultural perspectives in a cross-disciplinary manner, this is the premier reference tool for students, lecturers, academics and practitioners to gather knowledge about a range of important topics from the perspective of organisation studies.
Author : Edward R. Maguire
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791455122
A new theory accounts for the characteristics of individual police departments.
Author : Kreft, Jan,Kuczamer-K?opotowska, Sylwia,Kalinowska-?ele?nik, Anna
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781522591023
The development of communication technology and the proliferation of centers that collect, interpret, and transmit information does not mean that communities have become a more transparent and enlightened environment. If anything, the pioneering research of modern communication signifies the ambiguity of individual and collective existence. Myth in Modern Media Management and Marketing is an essential reference source that discusses the analysis of the role of myth and mythical thinking in the operation of media organizations and their functioning on the media market. Featuring research on topics such as social media, brand management, and advertising, this book is ideally designed for social media analysts, media specialists, public relations managers, media managers, marketers, advertisers, students, researchers, and professionals involved with media and new media management.
Author : Gilbert W. Fairholm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313021480
Leadership is not something one does alone. It is an expression of collective, community action--unified action of leaders and followers who trust enough to jointly achieve mutual goals. The task of creating a culture conducive to interactive trust is perhaps the preeminent leadership task. This practical guide identifies the key elements leaders need to manipulate to create such a trust culture in any work environment. By learning to shape culture to meet changing needs--by learning to be continually responsive to the organization's vision as well as to the needs of a changing follower core--the leader can create the situation necessary for any successful organization, one where followers can trust others and feel free to work together to gain mutually desired goals.
Author : M. Harmes,H. Huijser,P. Danaher,Mahbub Ul Haq
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137476982
This collection brings together international scholars to interrogate a range of educational practices, procedures and policies, around the organizing principle that 'myths' often require critical scrutiny. Engaging with key themes in contemporary global education, the contributors challenge and address educational myths and their consequences.
Author : Majken Schultz,Steve Maguire,Ann Langley,Haridimos Tsoukas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191626890
Constructing Identity in and around Organizations is the second volume in Perspectives on Process Organization Studies, a series which explores an emerging approach to the study of organizations that focuses on (understanding) activities, interactions, and change as essential properties of organizations rather than structures and state - an approach which prioritizes activity over product, change over persistence, novelty over continuity, and expression over determination. The constructing of identities - those processes through which actors in and around organizations claim, accept, negotiate, affirm, stabilize, maintain, reproduce, challenge, disrupt, destabilize, repair or otherwise relate to their sense of selves and others - has become a critically important topic in the study of organizations. This volume attempts to amplify - and possibly refract - contemporary debates amongst identity scholars that question established notions of identity as "essence", "entity," or "thing". It calls for alternative approaches to understanding identity and its significance in contexts in and around organizations by conceptualizing it as "process" - that is, being continually under construction. Based in diverse theoretical and philosophical traditions and contexts, contributions by leading scholars to this volume offer new perspectives on how individual and organizational identities evolve and come to be constructed through ongoing activities and interactions.
Author : David M. Boje,Bernard Burnes,John Hassard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415556453
Organizations change. They grow, they adapt, they evolve. The effects of organizational change are important, varied and complex and analyzing and understanding them is vital for students, academics and researchers in all business schools. The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change offers a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field. The volume brings together the very best contributors not only from the field of organizational change, but also from adjacent fields, such as strategy and leadership. These contributors offer fresh and challenging insights to the mainstream themes of this discipline. Surveying the state of the discipline and introducing new, cutting-edge themes, this book is a valuable reference source for students and academics in this area.
Author : Sierk Ybema,Dvora Yanow,Harry Wels,Frans H Kamsteeg
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446248188
Just as newspapers do not, typically, engage with the ordinary experiences of people′s daily lives, so organizational studies has also tended largely to ignore the humdrum, everyday experiences of people working in organizations. However, ethnographic approaches provide in-depth and up-close understandings of how the ′everyday-ness′ of work is organized and how, in turn, work itself organizes people and the societies they inhabit. Organizational Ethnography brings contributions from leading scholars in organizational studies that serve to unpack an ethnographic perspective on organizations and organizational research. The authors explore the particular problems faced by organizational ethnographers, including: - questions of gaining access to research sites within organizations; - the many styles of writing organizational ethnography; - the role of friendship relations in the field; - problems of distance and closeness; - the doing of at-home ethnography; - ethical issues; - standards for evaluating ethnographic work. This book is a vital resource for organizational scholars and students doing or writing ethnography in the fields of business and management, public administration, education, health care, social work, or any related field in which organizations play a role.
Author : Mark Easterby-Smith,Luis Araujo,John Burgoyne
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761959165
`A valuable resource for academics and practitioners in management and corporate strategy, as well as those involved in mangement training and development' - European Foundation for Management Development'The editors' overall assessment is that there has been insufficient dialogue between the two camps of action research and theorizing.... As a contribution to mapping this divided house, the text is an apt illustration of these problems. The editor's overview is of interest...' - Stephen Gibb, University of Strathclyde, MCB University PressThe debates surrounding concepts of `organizational learning' and the `learning organization' receive a welcome synthezis in this book. Inte
Author : Catherine Cassell,Gillian Symon
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446224182
Essential Guide to Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research is an excellent resource for students and researchers in the areas of organization studies, management research and organizational psychology, bringing together in one volume the range of methods available for undertaking qualitative data collection and analysis. The volume includes 30 chapters, each focusing on a specific technique. The chapters cover traditional research methods, analysis techniques, and interventions as well as the latest developments in the field. Each chapter reviews how the method has been used in organizational research, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using the method, and presents a case study example of the method in use. A list of further reading is supplied for those requiring additional information about a given method. The comprehensive and accessible nature of this collection will make it an essential and lasting handbook for researchers and students studying organizations.