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AI and the Project Manager - How the Rise of Artificial Intelligence Will Change Your World (Paperback): Peter Taylor AI and the Project Manager - How the Rise of Artificial Intelligence Will Change Your World (Paperback)
Peter Taylor
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* The first real AI in project management book on the market published by a respected press * Provides behind-the-scenes insights on what technology providers are planning for project managers * Explores how AI will reinvent project, programme, and portfolio management, allowing project managers to get back to focusing on people

Organizational Stress - A Review and Critique of Theory, Research, and Applications (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Christina... Organizational Stress - A Review and Critique of Theory, Research, and Applications (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Christina G. L. Nerstad, Ingvild M. Seljeseth, Astrid M.Richardsen, Cary L. Cooper, Philip J. Dewe, …
R1,093 Discovery Miles 10 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What price do organizations and nations pay for a poor fit between employees and their work environments? Negative stress imposes a high cost on individual health and well-being as well as organizational health and productivity. This comprehensive textbook examines the definitions of job-related stress and the methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress, along with strategies that may be used by individuals and organizations to confront negative stress and its associated problems. From sources of stress to organizational interventions, and from job-related burnout to coping with stress, Organizational Stress gives the reader - whether researcher, student, or practitioner - a basis for tailoring work environments which contribute to the health and well-being of individuals, organizations, and even the societies in which they live. This new edition has been updated to reflect the most relevant research in the field of organisational stress, including a completely new chapter on stress and the brain. It also focusses on the future of work in our rapidly changing world - dealing with contemporary contexts such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of the gig economy. Christina G.L. Nerstad is a Professor at BI Norwegian Business School Ingvild M. Seljeseth is an Associate Professor Kristiana University College Astrid M. Richardsen is Professor Emerita at BI Norwegian Business School Cary L Cooper is a Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School Philip J. Dewe is Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck, University of London Michael P. O'Driscoll is Emeritus Professor at University of Waikato

Climate Positive Business - How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero (Paperback): David Jaber Climate Positive Business - How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero (Paperback)
David Jaber
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* Helps business to set out a clear plan to deliver a carbon reduction plan. * Provide lessons-learned and real-life case studies. * Presents the issues around developing a business climate action plan in an entertaining and engaging way.

Experiments in Economics - Playing fair with money (Hardcover): Ananish Chaudhuri Experiments in Economics - Playing fair with money (Hardcover)
Ananish Chaudhuri
R5,243 Discovery Miles 52 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Are humans fair by nature? Why do we often willingly trust strangers or cooperate with them even if those actions leave us vulnerable to exploitation? Does this natural inclination towards fairness or trust have implications in the market-place? Traditional economic theory would perhaps think not, perceiving human interaction as self-interested at heart. There is increasing evidence however that social norms and norm-driven behaviour such as a preference for fairness, generosity or trust have serious implications for economics. This book provides an easily accessible overview of economic experiments, specifically those that explore the role of fairness, generosity, trust and reciprocity in economic transactions.

Ananish Chaudhuri approaches a variety of economic issues and problems including:

  • Pricing by firms
  • Writing labour contracts between parties
  • Marking voluntary contributions to charity,
  • Addressing issues of environmental pollution,
  • Providing micro-credit to small entrepreneurs,
  • Resolving problems of coordination failure in organizations.

The book discusses how norm-driven behaviour can often lead to significantly different outcomes than those predicted by economic theories and these findings should in turn cause us to re-think how we approach economic analysis and policy.

Assuming no prior knowledge of economics and containing a variety of examples, this reader friendly volume will be perfect reading for people from a wide range of backgrounds including students and policy-makers. The book should appeal to economics undergraduates studying experimental economics, microeconomics or game theory as well as students in social psychology, organizational behaviour, management and other business related disciplines.

Organization Development - Ideas and Issues (Paperback): Robert Golembiewski Organization Development - Ideas and Issues (Paperback)
Robert Golembiewski
R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Organization Development provides a forum for the ideas and experiences of a researcher and consultant concerned with change in organizations. It shows how choice and change can be guided in a world now characterized by what the author terms "permanent temporariness." The book is at heart an approach to increasing the amount of responsible freedom at work. In this respect, the volume responds to an avalanche of social criticism that has been directed at bureaucracy, "organizational America," and the "organizational ethic." The field at organization development is informed by such criticisms but transcends it via technology and values that drive change and choice alike.

Golembiewski is in turn provocative and descriptive. He gives the reader a hands-on view of the history and character of this field, aiming at both students and experts, especially those concerned with ongoing self-renewal among organizations and business professions. The volume offers chapters on scope, methods, professionalization, and certification resting on a code of ethics and peer review. The field covered by this volume has become in the last thirty-five years a worldwide phenomenon. Organization development appears in some form in virtually all organized life: business, government and education, health, public and private sector alike.

This work draws special attention to its cross-cultural features. It can be used in practice or apprenticeship, in workshops or in theory constructions. Golembiewski is the premier theorist in the political science of organizational analysis. This core volume will be of interest to scholars and students of the field that has come to be known as organizational development. This book will appeal to a large and growing set of audiences: professionals and students at in-training workshops and conferences, as well as those taking academic courses.

Organizing Logics, Nonprofit Management and Change - Rethinking Power, Persuasion and Authority (Paperback): Carole Bain,... Organizing Logics, Nonprofit Management and Change - Rethinking Power, Persuasion and Authority (Paperback)
Carole Bain, Tracey Coule
R1,222 Discovery Miles 12 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Nonprofit organizations are conventionally positioned as generators of social and cultural forms of capital for the common good. As such they occupy a different space to other types of organizations such as corporate firms that exist primarily to generate economic capital for private owners/shareholders. Recent years, however, have seen professionalization promoted widely by funders, policy-makers and nonprofit practitioners across the globe. At the same time, there has been an increasing cross-over of employees from private and public bodies into nonprofits. But do such shifts open up space for the wholesale importation of managerialism into and commercialization of the nonprofit sphere? Are nonprofits at risk of being reconstituted as primarily economic entities, serving the interests of a leadership elite? How are such changes in an organization's trajectory brought about? What are the consequences for trustees, staff, members and the nature of managerial work? The authors engage with critical questions such as these through a unique insider account of one professional institute experiencing unprecedented changes that challenge its very reason for being. Drawing on a three-year ethnography, they narrate organizational inhabitants' struggles in their search for purpose and analyze the myriad of changes within different aspects of organizing including structure, strategizing, pay and reward, governance and leadership. The book will enable readers to reframe and rethink organizational change as a process involving power, persuasion and authority, and will be of value to researchers, students, academics and practitioners interested in managerial work and organizational change in non-profit organizations.

Human Centered Organizational Culture - Global Dimensions (Paperback): Maria Teresa Lepeley, Oswaldo Morales, Peter Essens,... Human Centered Organizational Culture - Global Dimensions (Paperback)
Maria Teresa Lepeley, Oswaldo Morales, Peter Essens, Nicholas Beutell, Nicolas Majluf
R1,206 Discovery Miles 12 060 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is part of the Human Centered Book Trilogy, the 2021 volumes of the Routledge Human Centered Management HCM Series. HCM books are pioneering transformation from the traditional humans-as-a-resource approach of the industrial past, to the humans at the center management and organizational paradigm of the 21st century. HCM is built on talent and wellbeing of people in the workplace driving work engagement, quality standards, high performance and productivity for long-term organizational sustainability in the global VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment. This book was carefully crafted by recognized international human centered scholars from four continents. Although all organizations seek to have an optimal culture, unstoppable disruptions in the VUCA environment easily derail even the best efforts. Conventional assumptions of culture as a unifying organizational force are hardly defendable today. HCM maintains that culture is not only about cohesiveness and consensus but effective management of conflict and disagreements continuously testing the capacity of people to work together. This book is about organizational transformation positioning people at the center. Complementary chapters integrate as antidotes to overcome disruptions in the VUCA environment and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting people and organizations worldwide. This and its two complementary titles Soft Skills for Human Centered Management and Global Sustainability and Sensible Leadership: Human Centered, Insightful and Prudent are timely readings for leaders, managers, researchers, academics, practitioners, students and the general public responsible for organizations across industries and sectors worldwide pursuing quality standards and organizational transformation to attain sustainability.

Fostering Employee Buy-in Through Effective Leadership Communication (Paperback): Tim P. Mcmahon Fostering Employee Buy-in Through Effective Leadership Communication (Paperback)
Tim P. Mcmahon
R1,138 Discovery Miles 11 380 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Based on a case study of leadership communication in a time of organizational change, this book gives new leaders insights into the tools and skills needed to become effective, motivating communicators in their leadership careers. Taking a holistic approach to communication and leadership, the book argues that employees buy in to change when they collectively feel engaged in meaningful work that will enrich the lives of customers, employees, and investors. Based on ethnographic research, it approaches the topic through an absorbing fiction-like retelling of an organization's successful navigation of change against the backdrop of the 2007 mortgage crisis. In doing so, it establishes a framework for leaders to understand the principles behind how and why buy-in is generated in organizations. This unique approach allows readers to visualize leadership communication principles in practice. Fostering Employee Buy-in is ideal as a supplementary text in introductory leadership communication, management, and business courses or as a text for new leaders interested in inspiring organizational change.

Handbook of Intuition Research as Practice (Hardcover): Marta Sinclair Handbook of Intuition Research as Practice (Hardcover)
Marta Sinclair
R4,833 Discovery Miles 48 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How can intuition research inform practice? As the use of intuition in business has become more widely accepted, companies struggle to understand how to use this additional resource efficiently, while corporate trainers and university educators lack tools to develop it as a skill. This truly international Handbook provides relevant answers with: chapters by academics and practitioners, written in a concise, digestible format to make it accessible to non-academic readers empirical studies from multiple industry/service sectors that demonstrate an integrated use of intuition and analysis in decision making studies from industry and education that demonstrate how to develop intuition, including a ground-breaking research in problem solving non-Western perspectives illustrated on case studies from Japan and China use of language protocols/methods to bring intuition into our awareness new research into group/collective intuition (based on language analysis and quantum physics) research related to sensing and sense making. Due to its focus on bridging theory and practice, the Handbook is of value not only to academics and organizational researchers but also to industry professionals, corporate trainers and university educators who search for answers on how to incorporate intuition into a common skill set. Accessible in style, it will also appeal to educated business readers. Contributors include: A. Antonietti, B.T. Bakken, A. Bas, D. Bscak, R.T. Bradley, H. Cairns-Lee, B. Colombo, V. Doerfler, M. Egorov, A.N. Gani, S. Germagnoli, J. Gibb, L.M. Gillin, M. Goller, M. Grant, A. Groessler, T. Haerem, C. Harteis, S. Henwood, P. Iannello, L. Isenman, K. Isomura, A. Kobayashi, G. Lufityanto, N. Meziani, F. Nilsson, A.-C. Nordvall, A. Pircher Verdorfer, J. Pretz, A. Price, M. Sinclair, G. Soosalu, B. Steffen, S. Streukens, S. Teerikangas, M. Turunen, L. Valikangas, A.C.R. van Riel, M. Wang, X. Wang, K. White, J. Woiceshyn, K. Zulkosky

Organizational Project Management - Theory and Implementation (Hardcover): Ralf Muller, Nathalie Drouin, Shankar Sankaran Organizational Project Management - Theory and Implementation (Hardcover)
Ralf Muller, Nathalie Drouin, Shankar Sankaran
R2,742 R2,464 Discovery Miles 24 640 Save R278 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This concise text introduces an integrated view of all project management-related activities in an organization, called Organizational Project Management (OPM). Practical cases from several organizations, as well as popular theories such as the Resource-Based Theory and Institutional Theory provide for an insightful yet realistic understanding of OPM as an integrative tool for organizations to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. The reader will learn how separate organizational functions, such as project, program and portfolio management and governance integrate in a cohesive manner. The authors describe how different approaches to competing in the marketplace link to strategies, and the ways of selecting the 'best' business opportunities for organizations and integrating them into existing workflows and structures. They develop and describe a model that shows how OPM works within organizations. The book is a valuable resource for top managers, reflective practitioners, academics, and postgraduate students in organization theory.

Collaborative Spaces at Work - Innovation, Creativity and Relations (Paperback): Fabrizio Montanari, Elisa Mattarelli, Anna... Collaborative Spaces at Work - Innovation, Creativity and Relations (Paperback)
Fabrizio Montanari, Elisa Mattarelli, Anna Chiara Scapolan
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Collaborative spaces are more than physical locations of work and production. They present strong identities centered on collaboration, exchange, sense of community, and co-creation, which are expected to create a physical and social atmosphere that facilitates positive social interaction, knowledge sharing, and information exchange. This book explores the complex experiences and social dynamics that emerge within and between collaborative spaces and how they impact, sometimes unexpectedly, on creativity and innovation. Collaborative Spaces at Work is timely and relevant: it will address the gap in critical understandings of the role and outcomes of collaborative spaces. Advancing the debate beyond regional development rhetoric, the book will investigate, through various empirical studies, if and how collaborative spaces do actually support innovation and the generation of new ideas, products, and processes. The book is intended as a primary reference in creativity and innovation, workspaces, knowledge and creative workers, and urban studies. Given its short chapters and strong empirical orientation, it will also appeal to policy makers interested in urban regeneration, sustaining innovation, and social and economic development, and to managers of both collaborative spaces and companies who want to foster creativity within larger organizations. It can also serve as a textbook in master's degrees and PhD courses on innovation and creativity, public management, urban studies, management of work, and labor relations.

The Murder in Merger - A Systems Psychodynamic Exploration of a Corporate Merger (Paperback): Jinette De Gooijer The Murder in Merger - A Systems Psychodynamic Exploration of a Corporate Merger (Paperback)
Jinette De Gooijer
R1,353 Discovery Miles 13 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The relatedness of individuals to their work organizations has changed radically in the past couple of decades, the result of a changing global environment in which uncertainty and technological advances have become paradoxical partners. Information and communication technologies appear to promise more certainty in the control of business operations, organizational knowledge and employee performance. Yet, despite this, people s experience of working life is of greater uncertainty and a feeling of having less control over their futures. This book contends that a corporate merger, on the scale of a global order is a catastrophic change and depends on killing off parts of the former organizations for its success. The act of annihilating parts of the former organizations is experienced as disengaged and murderous by organizational members. This thesis is based on case study research conducted on the topic of emotional connectedness in a network organization over a three year period. Fieldwork began at the time when the participating firm had just formed from a global merger of two large global enterprises. While this book brings forward dysfunctional aspects of the case study firm, it also offers something of practical significance to those who work in or with organizations, whether in the capacity of management or as a consultant. It offers a perspective that being alert to staff members felt experiences and their emotional connectedness, as a normal part of business, provides leading data on the health of the enterprise. Managers who are more wholly informed about organizational realities can work more realistically on resolving problems, assessing risks, or making strategic business decisions."

Systems Psychodynamics - Innovative Approaches to Change, Whole Systems and Complexity (Hardcover): David Lawlor, Mannie Sher Systems Psychodynamics - Innovative Approaches to Change, Whole Systems and Complexity (Hardcover)
David Lawlor, Mannie Sher
R3,918 Discovery Miles 39 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Draws on internationally recognized Tavistock system * Builds on principles set out in related 'Introduction' * Contains contributions from leading thinkers and practitioners in a range of related disciplines

The Sociomaterial Construction of Users - 3D Printing and the Digitalization of the Prosthetics Industry (Hardcover): David... The Sociomaterial Construction of Users - 3D Printing and the Digitalization of the Prosthetics Industry (Hardcover)
David Seibt
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the intricate connections that link the current digitalization of manufacturing to our daily lives and identities as members of highly technologized societies. Based on extensive research on the prosthetics industry in Germany, the USA, Canada, and Haiti, the author demonstrates the socio-material construction of users, examining the ways in which the introduction of 3D printing changes how artificial limbs are designed, manufactured, distributed and used. Addressing questions surrounding the capacity of flexible production to afford greater diversity of user roles, and the likelihood of 3D printing allowing for open-source hardware and the democratization of production, the author presents a theory of digitalization that sheds light on the dynamics of industrial transformation and the future of use. An empirically grounded and conceptually informed study, The Socio-Material Construction of Users will appeal to researchers in the fields of sociology, science and technology studies and organization studies, as well as readers interested in 3D printing and the digitalization of society.

Emotions in Command - Biology, Bureaucracy, and Cultural Evolution (Paperback): Frank K. Salter Emotions in Command - Biology, Bureaucracy, and Cultural Evolution (Paperback)
Frank K. Salter
R1,566 Discovery Miles 15 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is part of a quest for a general theory of organizations valid in all cultures. Central to Frank Salter's investigation is the question of social power: why people obey their superiors. His approach is to locate the nature of organizational power in the behavioral details of hierarchical interactions in the institutional settings in which they occur.

Salter begins by noting the extensive research that points to hierarchy as being a necessary component of organization and proceeds to an analysis rendered in universals of primary emotions and behaviors of dominance and affiliation. The first five chapters are theoretical, the last seven empirical. He reviews the social science literature showing the place of ethological methods and concepts, then aspects of the evolution and physiology of dominance and affiliation. Salter then introduces the emotional underpinnings of dominance and affiliation, and applies these concepts in a summary of the literature on interpersonal signaling. He describes the methods used, drawing parallels with classical ethology, anthropology, and sociology.

The empirical section begins with a short chapter examining the simple commands given in a military parade. Chapter 7 analyses nightclub doormen's use of dominance in dealing with troublesome patrons. Chapter 8 describes the giving and receiving of commands in artistic rehearsals, and finds generally soft, appeased commands. Chapters 9 and 10 analyze courts and meetings respectively, finding both blunt and softened commands. Chapter 11 reports preliminary observations of command in general government bureaucracy, a setting which combines many organizational techniques in a highly articulated infrastructure. The concluding chapter summarizes the data and adopts a comparative method in searching for relationships between structural variables of institutional dominance and behavioral variables of command aggression, subordinate submission and resistance, and task characteristics.

Provocative and well written, Emotions in Command will appeal to students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, and social and organizational-industrial psychology.

Meaningful Partnership at Work - How The Workplace Covenant Ensures Mutual Accountability and Success between Leaders and Teams... Meaningful Partnership at Work - How The Workplace Covenant Ensures Mutual Accountability and Success between Leaders and Teams (Paperback)
Seth Silver, Timothy Franz
R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Why are some work partnerships exceptional while most are not? How can we establish and sustain an enhanced level of cohesion, connection, and collaboration in the most important work relationship, the one between a manager and team? What could remedy the high levels of isolation and anxiety so many feel at work these days? Silver and Franz explore the concept of 'meaningful partnership' in the workplace. They present meaningful partnership as a mindset where both leaders and their teams are fully committed to ensuring the support and success of the other. Then, they describe a model called ERTAP, which stands for Empathy, Respect, Trust, Alignment, and Partnership, which is the foundation for meaningful partnership. Finally, they detail a practical yet transformative relationship-building process referred to as the Workplace Covenant. This enables leaders and teams to create mutual commitments with obligatory weight that help them to feel accountable for the success of the relationship and each other. The book includes real client stories that illustrate the dimensions of partnership and the Workplace Covenant process. Silver and Franz also outline other work relationships that can benefit from meaningful partnership, pitfalls to avoid, relevant research, and insights derived from years of consulting experience. This book is a must-read for leaders interested in a better working relationship with their team; for teams who have critical work partnerships with other teams; for individuals who work closely with other individuals and need an exceptional 1:1 partnership; and finally for third-party experts in HR or continuous improvement who are seeking a new powerful way to help clients feel supported and be more successful.

The 13 Key Performance Indicators for Highly Effective Teams (Paperback): Allam Ahmed, George Siantonas, Nicholas Siantonas The 13 Key Performance Indicators for Highly Effective Teams (Paperback)
Allam Ahmed, George Siantonas, Nicholas Siantonas
R1,028 Discovery Miles 10 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An organisation's most important asset is its people. And critical to an organisation's success is the extent to which its people interact effectively - both with each other as team members and with the wider organisation. This is why managing teams has become a key area for a growing number of organisations around the world. While many organisations are world-class at managing their materials and machinery, they fall short in managing the human side of their activities.This book outlines the challenges faced by both team leaders and team members in 21st-century workplaces. It proposes 13 key performance or "team health" indicators for highly effective teams based on research data collected from a large range of industry sectors, team sizes and organisations in the UK. It contributes to the understanding of the nature and functioning of team cohesiveness by describing teamwork as a multi-component variable and identifying the factors that impact on teams and the implications of teamwork for organisations.The book sets out to aid organisations by introducing a Team Performance Diagnostic (TPD) tool. The TPD enables organisations to gain an accurate and detailed insight into the real-time performance of their teams, helps team managers to understand the underlying 'people' issues within the team and how to reach higher levels of team performance quickly. The TPD has been widely used in major multinationals and the UK public sector to pinpoint hard-to-find opportunities to achieve rapid improvements.The research suggests that the use of TPD contributes to more free-flowing feedback both within the team and in the organisation as a whole, and that successful teams are indicative of a healthy organisational culture.This book is an essential guide for senior managers and policy-makers dealing with team effectiveness, and will be highly useful for students of business and management.

Playfulness in Coaching - Exploring Our Untapped Potential Through Playfulness, Creativity and Imagination (Hardcover):... Playfulness in Coaching - Exploring Our Untapped Potential Through Playfulness, Creativity and Imagination (Hardcover)
Stephanie Wheeler, Teresa Leyman
R3,790 Discovery Miles 37 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Whilst the topic is gathering significant interest, this is the first book to present a guide to coaching and playfulness. It has the ‘why didn’t I think of this’ factor: once said, it seems obvious but, until then, few people had thought of it. Written by two coaching practitioners, the book provides a practical and cohesive manual for coaches to incorporate playfulness into their praxes. Fully researched, and evidence provided to support the practice throughout.

Organizational Networks and Networking Competence - Contemporary Challenges in Management and Employment (Paperback): Marzena... Organizational Networks and Networking Competence - Contemporary Challenges in Management and Employment (Paperback)
Marzena Fryczynska
R1,216 Discovery Miles 12 160 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Networks and networking are essential concepts that transform organizational, economic, and social practices. Human capital is both a source of competitive advantage and a value that allows individual employees to develop their careers and find satisfaction in their employment. The book addresses the vital issue of changes occurring in management and employment, with the growing career individualization, focus on future professional challenges, importance of knowledge workers, and possibilities of functioning in social and organizational networks. Workers' networking competence is the main theme of this book. Much attention is put on differentiating it from other types of competence and other network objects, and identifying its behavioral manifestations, as the frequency of such behaviors can be used as a measure of an individual's networking competence level. Employment-related variables and characteristics that affect networking competence are analyzed in depth, as is the impact of networking competence on career success and employability - thus laying a foundation for transformation in network organization management, employee relations, and individual career development. It will be of interest to researchers and students alike, as it clearly demonstrates a way to solve research problems in management science and provides new instruments for further research on networks and networking; and to organization managers and employees, as it offers insights into management and employment-related trends as well as guidelines for managing network organizations and building one's career within social and organizational networks.

Ethics and Hidden Greed - Your Defense Against Unethical Strategies and Violations of Trust (Paperback): Rob Docters, Hans... Ethics and Hidden Greed - Your Defense Against Unethical Strategies and Violations of Trust (Paperback)
Rob Docters, Hans Gieskes
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Trust. Loyalty. Friendship. These were once the building blocks of good business relationships. Today, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to know whom to trust. How do we protect ourselves and our business interests from the unethical behaviours of others? Why doesn’t intuition serve as the best guide for detecting unethical strategies? Concern about falling victim to the tactics of unethical strategies is widespread. The authors connect time-honoured ethical principles to real-world cases and offer the building blocks and counter-strategies you need to fight greed: Knowing the five strategies of greed, and learning how to recognize them. Learning how trust really works, and being able to develop the skill of trusting with discernment. Applying, and being able to communicate, concrete, ethical rules. Ethics and Hidden Greed will reassure readers that while unethical strategies may have increased in sophistication and grown harder to detect in recent years, there are still only five categories of these behaviours. The authors will demonstrate how to recognize the patterns employed by greedy players and provide tactics for combatting all of them.

How Groups Encourage Misbehavior (Paperback): Kevin Murphy How Groups Encourage Misbehavior (Paperback)
Kevin Murphy
R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

How Groups Encourage Misbehavior explores the psychological and social processes by which groups develop a tolerance for and even encourage misbehavior. Drawing from decades of research on social, cognitive and organizational psychology, as well as a deep well of historical research, this book shows how commitment to groups, organizations and movements can turn moral individuals into amoral agents. Pulling together what have been traditionally distinct areas of study, How Groups Encourage Misbehavior provides a detailed and unified account of how good organizations go bad and how groups of all types can push otherwise honest and upright individuals to behave in ways that violate laws and social norms. This text describes how social norms, rationalization, the characteristics of formal and informal groups, attachment to groups and organizations, and the structure of organizational life can all contribute to misbehavior. Each chapter includes one or more sidebar discussions of relevant and interesting examples to illustrate the ways groups and organizations encourage and support misbehavior. The final two chapters discuss how many of these same attributes and processes can be used to encourage positive behaviors and foster recovery from dysfunctional and corrupt cultures and modes of behavior. A valuable text for a broad range of psychology courses, How Groups Encourage Misbehavior will especially appeal to practitioners, scholars, and students interested in ethics in organizations and the intersection between social psychology and organizational behavior.

The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism (Paperback): Mike Dent, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Jean-Louis Denis,... The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism (Paperback)
Mike Dent, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Jean-Louis Denis, Ellen Kuhlmann
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism is a state-of-the-art reference work which maps out the current developments and debates around the sociology of the professions, and how they relate to management and organizations. Supported by an international contributor team specializing in the disciplines of organizational studies and sociology, the collection provides extensive coverage of this field of research. It brings together the core concepts and issues, and has chapters on all the key aspects of professions in both the public and private sectors, including issues of governance and regulation. The volume closes with a set of international case studies which provide valuable practical insights into the subject. This Companion will be an indispensable reference source for students, scholars and educators within the social sciences, especially within management, organizational studies and sociology. It will also be highly relevant for those working and studying in the area of professional education.

Organizational Culture and Social Equity - An Experiential Guide (Hardcover): Angela Kline, Stephanie Dolamore Organizational Culture and Social Equity - An Experiential Guide (Hardcover)
Angela Kline, Stephanie Dolamore
R3,895 Discovery Miles 38 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Social equity, or the lack of social equity, is practiced in all of our organizations. By focusing on advancing social equity in organizational culture, public and nonprofit organizations can create more inclusive operations, correct historical injustices, and fulfill their mission to serve the community. Social equity is often explored as a grand theory, but it is critical for organizations to identify and practice strategies to apply theory into action. Organizational Culture and Social Equity: An Experiential Guide is the first book of its kind to provide the public service-minded reader with an opportunity to practice social equity. The chapters are designed to be both theoretical and practical, helping the reader develop knowledge to analyze social equity efforts in their own organization as well as the tools to act. The contributing chapter authors in this book explore social equity through various dimensions of organizational culture: physical characteristics and general environment; policies, procedures, and structures; socialization; leadership behavior; rewards and recognition; discourse; and learning and performance. Each contributor provides a thorough overview of their respective culture category along with important theories and concepts, definitions, and strategies for practice. The chapter authors then examine social equity in each area of organizational culture through a learning activity, discussion questions, and a 'Call to Action.' Each chapter further reinforces concepts with a vignette featuring a public administrator who has faced a situation related to that chapter. Organizational Culture and Social Equity is a timely and essential read for all those who wish to study or practice public administration through an equity lens.

Organizational Behavior 4 - From Theory to Practice (Paperback, 4 Revised Edition): John B. Miner Organizational Behavior 4 - From Theory to Practice (Paperback, 4 Revised Edition)
John B. Miner
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This unique work bridges the gap between theory and practice in organizational behavior. It provides a practical guide to real-life applications of the 35 most significant theories in the field. The author describes each theory, and then analyzes its usefulness and importance to the successful practice of management. His analysis covers key managerial topics such as goal setting, training and development, assessment, job enrichment, influence processes, decision-making, group processes, organizational development, organizational structuring, and effective organizational operation.

Identity and the Modern Organization (Hardcover): Caroline A. Bartel, Steven Blader, Amy Wrzesniewski Identity and the Modern Organization (Hardcover)
Caroline A. Bartel, Steven Blader, Amy Wrzesniewski
R3,928 Discovery Miles 39 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Identity and the Modern Organization presents a lively exchange of ideas among psychology and management scholars on the realities of modern organizational life and their effect on the identities that organizations and their members cultivate. This book bridges the domains of psychology and management to facilitate a multi-disciplinary, multi-level integration of theory and research on identity processes.

The volume highlights answers to important questions raised by shifting organizational forms and arrangements, such as:

  • How are identity processes affected by, and how do they affect, the motivations of individuals and organizations?
  • How do identity and identification shape the social processes that unfold between individuals and groups?
  • How do strong versus weak contexts affect identity processes as the boundaries of organizations and social categories within them become more permeable?

An effective tool for understanding a wide variety of organizational phenomena, this book is intended for scholars and students in the fields of management, organizational theory, organizational behavior, social psychology, and industrial/organizational psychology.

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