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Learn MANAGEMENT YOUR Way with MGMT! Extensively updated to reflect
the latest research in the field, MGMT makes concepts and theories
accessible and relevant with timely, interesting examples of their
applications at real businesses. Now available with MindTap, the
digital learning solution designed to help you think and act like a
manager. MGMT's easy-reference, textbook presents course content
through visually engaging chapters as well as Chapter Review Cards
that consolidate the best review material into a ready-made study
tool. With the textbook or on its own, MindTap for MGMT allows you
to learn on your terms. Read or listen to textbook and study with
the aid of instructor notifications, flashcards and practice
quizzes. Track your scores and stay motivated toward your goals.
Whether you have more work to do or are ahead of the curve, you'll
know where you need to focus your efforts.
Almost every person works at some point in their lives. The
Research Handbook on Work and Well-Being examines the association
of particular work experiences with employee and organizational
health and performance. Ronald J. Burke and Kathryn M. Page bring
together an impressive collection of contributions where well-being
is considered an umbrella term for happiness, satisfaction, flow,
engagement, commitment and organizational identification, among
other concepts. Chapters describe successful organizational efforts
to achieve high levels of employee well-being and creating
psychologically healthy workplaces. They cover topics such as
transformational leadership, organizational support, training and
development and supportive work-family policies and programs.
Acknowledging that work experiences and conditions can also
contribute to dissatisfaction, insecurity, illness, injuries and
even death, they also examine negative work experiences and
conditions such as abusive supervision, occupational stress, little
control and insecurity. Practical and engaging, this Handbook will
appeal to academics and students interested in work and health.
Containing the latest research evidence, it will also offer
valuable insights to human resource managers, organizational
wellness managers and occupational health practitioners.
Contributors include: B.L. Ahrens, H.C. Atkinson, D.W. Ballard,
T.M. Brobst, R.J. Burke S. Clarke, J.P. Dahms, A. Day, J.K. Dimoff,
K.J. Emich, P. Fairlie, M.J. Grawitch, S. Gregersen, J.
Halbesleben, N. Hartling, F. Hull, E.K. Kelloway, D. Klotz, C.
Korunka, B. Kubicek, M. Lafleche, T. LaMontagne, L.M. Lavaysse, W.
Lewchuk, H. Lingard, J. Leilanie Del Prado Lu, A. Milner, K. Moore,
V.J. Morganson, A. Nienhaus, K. Page, A. Pervez, N. Reavley, A.M.
Richardsen, T.Taris, C. Thomson, M. Turner, S. Vincent-Hoper, J.
Weston, T.A. Wright, C.M. Youssef-Morgan
This book documents the progress that managerial and professional
women have made in advancing their careers, and the challenges and
opportunities that remain. In the context of increasing numbers of
women entering the workplace and indeed pursuing professional and
managerial careers, it examines why so few women occupy the top
positions in corporations. The editors maintain that whilst the
benefits of employing women in executive roles is now being
recognised, and efforts are being made to ensure career
advancement, female employees do still face a struggle against male
bias and the proverbial 'glass ceiling'. In order to build upon the
progress that has been made, the book advocates more successful
role models for women, an increased commitment from corporations to
look at the opportunities for leadership that women present, and
extended research into the strengths and failings of organisations
in this regard. A broad range of issues are explored, including
ongoing challenges of work-family integration, perceptions of
gender, leadership and career development, the ethics of office
romances, and women at mid-life. Best practices for supporting
women's career advancement are then illustrated using the efforts
of award wining companies as case studies. The cutting-edge
contributions to this book provide an outstanding review of the
literature. As such, it will be invaluable to both academics and
practitioners with an interest in business, management and human
resources.
This volume in the Research in Organizational Sciences series is
entitled Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth and Boundary Conditions
in Organizational Studies. Received wisdom is knowledge imparted to
people by others and is based on authority and tenacity as sources
of human knowledge. Authority refers to the acceptance of knowledge
as truth because of the position and credibility of the knowledge
source. Tenacity refers to the continued presentation of a
particular bit of information by a source until this bit of
information is accepted as true by receivers. The problem for
organisational studies, however, is that this received wisdom often
becomes unquestioned assumptions which guide interpretation of the
world and decisions made about the world. Received wisdom,
therefore, may lead to organisational practices which provide
little or no benefit to the organisation and, potentially, negative
organisational effects, because this received wisdom is no longer
valid. The 14 papers in this volume all, in some way, strive to
question received wisdom and present alternatives which expand our
understanding of organisational behaviour in some way. The chapters
in this volume each strive to present new ways of understanding
organisational constructs, and in so doing reveal how received
wisdom has often led to confirmation bias in organisational
science. The knowledge that some perceived truths are actually the
products of received wisdom and do not stand up to close scrutiny
shakes up things within research areas previously thought settled
allowing new perspectives on organisational science to emerge.
Business development in the contemporary world takes place in an
economically, politically, and socially complex environment. Today,
it is necessary to recognize the tremendous cultural diversity of
the world and it is essential to consider the specific cultural
values in managerial strategy and business practice worldwide.
Organizational Culture and Behavioral Shifts in the Green Economy
provides emerging research on the relationships between
organizations in the context of culture and diversity within a
sustainable economy. This book provides important insights into
topics such as circular economy, green advertising, and sustainable
development. Additionally, it addresses the significance of
concepts such as culture, organizational culture, individual
culture, and the style of leadership, which have been the concern
of many management professionals and scholars. This publication is
a vital resource for business managers, professionals,
practitioners, students, and researchers seeking current research
on the impact of organizational culture and behavioral shifts on
sustaining a green economy.
For busy professionals and lifelong learners seeking practical
strategies for reaching new heights, Master Mentors distills 30
essential learnings from Seth Godin, Susan Cain, Trent Shelton,
General Stanley McChrystal, and other top business minds and
thought leaders of our time. Mining the best and brightest
revelations from FranklinCovey's global podcast, On Leadership with
Scott Miller, Scott personally introduces you to 30 Master Mentors,
featuring the single most transformative insight from each of them.
Depending on where you are in your journey, Master Mentors will:
Challenge your current mindset and beliefs, leading to what could
be the most important career and thought- process shifts of your
life! Restore you to the mindset and beliefs you find effective but
aren't currently living in alignment with. Validate that you are on
the right path with your current mindset and beliefs and empower
you on your way forward. Whether you are challenged, affirmed,
informed, or inspired-Master Mentors guarantees you will experience
a transformative shift in your personal mindset, life skillset, and
career toolset.
Global Women Leaders transports the reader into the fascinating
lives of trailblazers in four very different countries. All were
change-makers in their professions, and all of them confronted the
challenges women everywhere will recognize as their own. How they
succeeded, despite roadblocks, is both inspiring and instructive.
Each gives us sound advice on a range of familiar hurdles from
those associated with work and family to lack of confidence and
sexism. If you want to know how to achieve authentic leadership,
this is the book for you.' - Melanne Verveer, Georgetown
University, US Global Women Leaders showcases narratives of women
in business, nonprofit organizations and the public sector who have
achieved leadership positions despite cultural obstacles and gender
bias. Featuring leaders from India, Japan, Jordan and the United
Kingdom, the book examines how these women have overcome challenges
and served as role models in their professions. Regina Wentzel
Wolfe and Patricia H. Werhane present stories of these women
leaders within their unique cultural contexts. Standout features
include models of feminist leadership behaviors and interrogations
of the dominant paradigm of male leadership. Challenges for women
in the workplace, systems thinking and various female leadership
styles are also explored. The successes of the leaders featured in
this book will be of interest to those in public, private and
nonprofit sector organizations as well as academics and students
teaching and studying feminist leadership, MBA students and
entrepreneurs.
In order to strive for a competitive advantage in their industry,
organisations have begun achieving innovation through
knowledge-driven learning models to ensure that organisational
activities are efficient and effectie. Learning Models for
Innovation in Organizations: Examining Roles of Knowledge Transfer
and Human Resources Management provides relevant theoretical
frameworks and empirical research findings to enhance knowledge
management and learning competencies for organisational activities.
This book offers assistance and guidance to managers and
professionals of innovation firms, learning organisations, and
other work communities through tools, techniques, and strategic
suggestions for improvement.
The ""new"" in new economy means a more stable and longer growth,
with more jobs, lower inflation and interest rates, explosion of
free markets world wide, the unparalleled access to knowledge
through the Internet and new type of organisation which affects
organisational change. Organisational change is the adoption of an
organisational environment for the sake of survival. Namely, the
old principles no longer work in the age of Globalisation.
Businesses have reached the old model's limits with respect to
complexity and speed. At the same time, the challenge which new
economy brings to small businesses managers is the use of new
business approach and the strong will for organisational changes
and adaptation to global market demands. There are several types of
organisational changes that can occur- strategic changes,
organisational cultural changes; involve organisational structural
change, a redesign of work tasks and technological changes. In line
with these changes, there is strong expectation of employee to
permanent improve their knowledge and become an integral part of
successful business formula in order to respond to the challenges
brought by the global economy. It means a request for learning
organisation which is characterised as an organisation creating,
gaining and transferring the knowledge, and thus constantly
modifying the organisational behaviour. Reader will refine their
theoretical understanding of globalisation by studying its concrete
manifestations in three domains: organisational culture, behaviour,
and gender.
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