The Org

Author : Ray Fisman,Tim Sullivan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691166513

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The Org by Ray Fisman,Tim Sullivan Pdf

We create organizations because we need to get a job done—something we couldn't do alone—and join them because we’re inspired by their missions (and our paycheck). But once we’re inside, these organizations rarely feel inspirational. So where did it all go wrong? In The Org, Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan explain the tradeoffs that every organization faces, arguing that this everyday dysfunction is actually inherent to the very nature of orgs. The Org diagnoses the root causes of that malfunction, beginning with the economic logic of why organizations exist in the first place, then working its way up through the org’s structure from the lowly cubicle to the CEO’s office. You'll learn: The purpose of meetings and why they will never go away Why even members of al Qaeda are required to submit travel and expense reports What managers are good for How the army and other orgs balance marching in lockstep with fostering innovation Why the hospital administration—not the heart surgeon—is more likely to save your life Why CEOs often spend more than 80 percent of their time in meetings—and why that's exactly where they should be (and why they get paid so much)

Author : Harold M. Hays
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004218659

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The Organization of the Pyramid Texts by Harold M. Hays Pdf

The oldest substantial body of religious texts from ancient Egypt consists of the Pyramid Texts. These are hieroglyphic religious texts inscribed upon the interior walls of the pyramid tombs of kings and queens beginning around 2345 BCE. This book explores the Pyramid Texts.

Author : Andreas werr,Staffan Furusten
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317365129

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The Organization of the Expert Society by Andreas werr,Staffan Furusten Pdf

It is often claimed that we live in an expert society, a society where more and more individuals take expert roles in increasingly narrow fields. In contrast to more traditional experts most of these new experts lack generally accepted mechanisms for the certification and legitimation of their expertise. This book focuses on these new as well as established experts and the efforts undertaken to secure and legitimate their expertise. We view these efforts as organizing attempts and study them on four different levels – the society, the market, the organization and the individual. Based on empirical studies on these four levels of analysis, The Organization of the Expert Society makes the argument that current organizing initiatives in the expert society are based in an objectifying view of expertise that risks concealing and downplaying key aspects of expertise. Well-intended organizing initiatives in the expert society thus run the risk of promoting ignorance rather than securing expertise. Focusing on a current, general and global phenomenon, the rise and organization of an expert society. The Organization of the Expert Society will be key reading for scholars, academics and policy makers in the management fields of Organizational Theory, Management Consulting, Organizations & Society, Critical Management Studies as well as the disciplines of Sociology, Political Science and Social Anthropology.

Author : Jim Whitehurst
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781625275271

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The Open Organization by Jim Whitehurst Pdf

This is a story of reinvention. Jim Whitehurst, celebrated president and CEO of one of the world's most revolutionary software companies, tells first-hand his journey from traditional manager (Delta Air Lines, Boston Consulting Group) and “chief” problem solver to CEO of one of the most open organizational environments he'd ever encountered. This challenging transition, and what Whitehurst learned in the interim, has paved the way for a new way of managing—one this modern leader sees as the only way companies will successfully function in the future. Whitehurst says beyond embracing the technology that has so far disrupted entire industries, companies must now adapt their management and organizational design to better fit the Information Age. His mantra? “Adapt or die.” Indeed, the successful company Whitehurst leads—the open source giant Red Hat—has become the organizational poster child for how to reboot, redesign, and reinvent an organization for a decentralized, digital age. Based on open source principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration, “open management” challenges conventional business ideas about what companies are, how they run, and how they make money. This book provides the blueprint for putting it into practice in your own firm. He covers challenges that have been missing from the conversation to date, among them: how to scale engagement; how to have healthy debates that net progress; and how to attract and keep the “Social Generation” of workers. Through a mix of vibrant stories, candid lessons, and tested processes, Whitehurst shows how Red Hat has blown the traditional operating model to pieces by emerging out of a pure bottom up culture and learning how to execute it at scale. And he explains what other companies are, and need to be doing to bring this open style into all facets of the organization. By showing how to apply open source methods to everything from structure, management, and strategy to a firm's customer and partner relationships, leaders and teams will now have the tools needed to reach a new level of work. And with that new level of work comes unparalleled success. The Open Organization is your new resource for doing business differently. Get ready to make traditional management thinking obsolete.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Psychopharmacology
ISBN : OSU:32435028582807

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Psychopharmacology Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : William H. Whyte
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812209266

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The Organization Man by William H. Whyte Pdf

Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a blissful answer to postwar life with the marketing of new technologies—television, affordable cars, space travel, fast food—and lifestyles, such as carefully planned suburban communities centered around the nuclear family. William H. Whyte found this phenomenon alarming. As an editor for Fortune magazine, Whyte was well placed to observe corporate America; it became clear to him that the American belief in the perfectibility of society was shifting from one of individual initiative to one that could be achieved at the expense of the individual. With its clear analysis of contemporary working and living arrangements, The Organization Man rapidly achieved bestseller status. Since the time of the book's original publication, the American workplace has undergone massive changes. In the 1990s, the rule of large corporations seemed less relevant as small entrepreneurs made fortunes from new technologies, in the process bucking old corporate trends. In fact this "new economy" appeared to have doomed Whyte's original analysis as an artifact from a bygone day. But the recent collapse of so many startup businesses, gigantic mergers of international conglomerates, and the reality of economic globalization make The Organization Man all the more essential as background for understanding today's global market. This edition contains a new foreword by noted journalist and author Joseph Nocera. In an afterword Jenny Bell Whyte describes how The Organization Man was written.

Author : Robert C. Townsend,Warren Bennis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118047361

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Up the Organization by Robert C. Townsend,Warren Bennis Pdf

Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend’s bestseller first among eighty books that “every manager must read.” This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Robert Townsend’s timeless wisdom as well as reflections on his work and life by those who knew and worked with him. This groundbreaking book continues to remind us not to get mired in all those sacred organizational routines that stifle people and strangle both profits and profitability. He shows a way to humanize business and a way to have fun while making it all work better than it ever worked before.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Astronautics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044032026965

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The Organization of the United States National Space Effort by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics Pdf

Author : Arthur Cuming Ringland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Economic assistance, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130093680

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The Organization of Voluntary Foreign Aid by Arthur Cuming Ringland Pdf

Author : Steve Klabnik,Carol Nichols
Publisher : No Starch Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781718500457

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The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018) by Steve Klabnik,Carol Nichols Pdf

The official book on the Rust programming language, written by the Rust development team at the Mozilla Foundation, fully updated for Rust 2018. The Rust Programming Language is the official book on Rust: an open source systems programming language that helps you write faster, more reliable software. Rust offers control over low-level details (such as memory usage) in combination with high-level ergonomics, eliminating the hassle traditionally associated with low-level languages. The authors of The Rust Programming Language, members of the Rust Core Team, share their knowledge and experience to show you how to take full advantage of Rust's features--from installation to creating robust and scalable programs. You'll begin with basics like creating functions, choosing data types, and binding variables and then move on to more advanced concepts, such as: Ownership and borrowing, lifetimes, and traits Using Rust's memory safety guarantees to build fast, safe programs Testing, error handling, and effective refactoring Generics, smart pointers, multithreading, trait objects, and advanced pattern matching Using Cargo, Rust's built-in package manager, to build, test, and document your code and manage dependencies How best to use Rust's advanced compiler with compiler-led programming techniques You'll find plenty of code examples throughout the book, as well as three chapters dedicated to building complete projects to test your learning: a number guessing game, a Rust implementation of a command line tool, and a multithreaded server. New to this edition: An extended section on Rust macros, an expanded chapter on modules, and appendixes on Rust development tools and editions.

Author : Lynn M. Shore,Jacqueline A-M. Coyle-Shapiro,Lois E. Tetrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136493270

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The Employee-Organization Relationship by Lynn M. Shore,Jacqueline A-M. Coyle-Shapiro,Lois E. Tetrick Pdf

"Employee-organization relationship" is an overarching term that describes the relationship between the employee and the organization. It encompasses psychological contracts, perceived organizational support, and the employment relationship. Remarkable progress has been made in the last 30 years in the study of EOR. This volume, by a stellar list of international contributors, offers perspectives on EOR that will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and graduate students in IO psychology, business and human resource management.

Author : David Diez,Christopher Barr,Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1943450048

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OpenIntro Statistics by David Diez,Christopher Barr,Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel Pdf

The OpenIntro project was founded in 2009 to improve the quality and availability of education by producing exceptional books and teaching tools that are free to use and easy to modify. We feature real data whenever possible, and files for the entire textbook are freely available at openintro.org. Visit our website, openintro.org. We provide free videos, statistical software labs, lecture slides, course management tools, and many other helpful resources.

Author : Dr. Shauli Mukherjee, Dr. Prarthita Biswas, Mr. Pranay Pandey & Mr. MAM Sameem
Publisher : Ashok Yakkaldevi
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781458353214

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FUNDAMENTALS OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION, MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION by Dr. Shauli Mukherjee, Dr. Prarthita Biswas, Mr. Pranay Pandey & Mr. MAM Sameem Pdf

Introduction Education is a complex process which involves different components such as pupils, teachers, employees, building, money, equipment, rules and regulations etc. All these components have to be managed properly in order to run the entire process smoothly. Educational Administration deals with all these components of education and integrates the different parts into a comprehensive whole for the smooth functioning of educational process. We all know that for any process to run, we need different components, a proper procedure and a machinery to fulfill its specific end in view. Educational administration is a comprehensive effort to integrate different components of education to achieve the aim and objectives of education. It is a dynamic side of education, which generally deals with the educational practices. Educational administration always deals with an educational organization or institution right from school, college, to university or any other seat of higher learning. It also deals with the different aspects of education such as planning, decision making, implementation of educational policies, evaluation, framing and implementing rules and regulations of the institution, finances, and different problems of pupils, teachers, employees and above all, realization of some specific aims of education.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951D017883111

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Economics Staff Paper Series by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patrick Hoverstadt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470060568

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The Fractal Organization by Patrick Hoverstadt Pdf

The world of management is in crisis - the old remedies no longer work and organizations are failing at an increasing rate. Although many talk of 'joined up thinking', few offer practical guidance on how to achieve this in organizations. The Fractal Organization sets down the practical implications of a well tested systemic approach to building organizations that are capable of surviving and flourishing in these turbulent times. "An excellent read…Many organizations fail at the mercy of their own ignorance. The author has done an excellent job in making ‘the science of effective organization’ accessible to management, providing them with a new knowledge to deal with the uncertainties that the markets place upon them." Stephen J. Brewis, Business Architect, British Telecom "...one of the most interesting, thorough and rigorous guides to management that I have ever read, … introduces new insights in every chapter… carries a credibility which acts as a counterbalance to the sometimes difficult message which he conveys which is that a lot of mainstream management practice is at best ineffective and at worst downright destructive. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in management or systems thinking." Penny Marrington, Course Chair, Systems Group, Open University "In my opinion this book manages to present sound academic theory that is relevant and helpful to the practitioner in the business. I experienced several A-HA moments." Pauline Marsh, Strategy Director, CS&S International, BAE SYSTEMS "The insights of the Viable System Model have been open only to a select few for much too long. Hoverstadt has gone furthest in bringing these ideas to a wider audience…Management books have too often been serious but not practical, or practical but not serious. This book is both brilliantly serious and practical, and often entertaining too." Professor Peter Kawalak, Manchester Business School "Integrates mainstream management ideas with the systems ideas underpinning the VSM, and flows and reads well. As a starting point for developing understanding of the VSM in today's world this book improves greatly on all books that have gone before, I would certainly recommend it to colleagues, clients, and students." Dr. Robin Asby, Course Chair, Communication and Systems, Open University