Dignity at Work
ISBN: 9780521771313 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Working with dignity is a fundamental part of achieving a life well-lived, yet the workplace often poses challenging obstacles because of mismanagement or managerial abuse. Defending dignity and realizing self-respect through work are key to workers' well-being. In this book Randy Hodson, a sociologist of work and organizational behavior, applies ethnographic and statistical approaches to this topic, offering both a richly detailed, inside look at real examples of dignity in action, and a broader analysis of the pivotal role of dignity at work.
Working with dignity is a fundamental part of achieving a life well-lived, yet the workplace often poses challenging obstacles because of mismanagemen...
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412,87 zł |
The Quest for Responsibility: Accountability and Citizenship in Complex Organisations
ISBN: 9780521481632 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The modern world is dominated by complex organizations. In this book Mark Bovens analyzes the questions associated with the search for responsiblity within such organizations. In organizations with many people contributing in many different ways, how can we determine who is accountable for organizational behavior? How do we define responsible behavior within organizations? Can different notions of responsibility prevent abuses? His analysis is multidisciplinary, combining law, social science, ethics, and organizational design, and provides a number of suggestions for institutional reform.
The modern world is dominated by complex organizations. In this book Mark Bovens analyzes the questions associated with the search for responsiblity w...
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438,36 zł |
Philosophy and Organization
ISBN: 9780415371179 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring original contributions from some of the most exciting scholars writing at the intersection of philosophy and organization today, this accessible volume provides readers with a complete overview of this complex subject. Ground-breaking and drawing on recent efforts in management and organization studies to take philosophy seriously, it critically engages with the way that philosophy might inform organization and illuminates a range of issues, including idleness, aesthetics, singularity, transparency, power and cruelty. Exploring why philosophy matters to... Featuring original contributions from some of the most exciting scholars writing at the intersection of philosophy and organization today, this acc... |
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866,53 zł |
Valuation of Physician Practices and Clinics
ISBN: 9780834209626 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One Of The Major Trends In Health Care Is The Consolidation Of Physician Practices. To Compete Effectively For Patients And Control Costs, Physicians Are Either Combining Into Larger Groups Or Deciding To Sell Their Practices To Hospitals. The Valuation Of Physician Practices And Clinics Provides Buyers With A Basic How To Approach To The Valuation Of Physician Practices And Outlines How Sellers Can Get The Most For Their Money.
One Of The Major Trends In Health Care Is The Consolidation Of Physician Practices. To Compete Effectively For Patients And Control Costs, Physicians ...
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2027,19 zł |
Philosophy and Organization
ISBN: 9780415371186 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring original contributions from some of the most exciting scholars writing at the intersection of philosophy and organization today, this accessible volume provides readers with a complete overview of this complex subject. Ground-breaking and drawing on recent efforts in management and organization studies to take philosophy seriously, it critically engages with the way that philosophy might inform organization and illuminates a range of issues, including idleness, aesthetics, singularity, transparency, power and cruelty. Exploring why philosophy matters to... Featuring original contributions from some of the most exciting scholars writing at the intersection of philosophy and organization today, this acc... |
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249,71 zł |
Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital
ISBN: 9780199249152 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost everything that happens in a firm flows through informal networks builts by advice, coordination, cooperation, friendship, gossip, knowledge, and trust. In this book, Ron Burt builds upon his celebrated work on network analyses to explain how these informal networks functions and the role of network entrepreneurs who have amassed social capital. Burt shows that social capital is a critical element in business strategy. Who has it, how it works and how to develop it have become key questions as markets, organizations and careers become more and more dependent on informal discretionary...
Almost everything that happens in a firm flows through informal networks builts by advice, coordination, cooperation, friendship, gossip, knowledge, a...
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199,41 zł |
The Dynamics of Organizational Collapse: The Case of Barings Bank
ISBN: 9780415399616 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The collapse of Barings' Bank was a commercial catastrophe that resonated worldwide, showing what kind of secrets can lie behind an apparently successful organization. Following Nick Leeson's arrest and subsequent conviction for fraud, investment banks anxiously reviewed their risk management controls to make sure that it could never happen again. Helga Drummond's exploration is conducted against a backdrop of social and psychological theories of decision error that seeks to go beyond media style accusations of greed and incompetence. She challenges the myth that Barings 'must have...The collapse of Barings' Bank was a commercial catastrophe that resonated worldwide, showing what kind of secrets can lie behind an apparently succ... |
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739,10 zł |
Making Sense of Organizational Change
ISBN: 9780415369381 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Applying an invaluable sensemaking framework to organizational change and combining the theory and practice of implementing change, this book represents an instructive and informative view on change in business. Its strength lies in two key areas:
Applying an invaluable sensemaking framework to organizational change and combining the theory and practice of implementing change, this book repre... |
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892,02 zł |
Sexualities, Work and Organizations
ISBN: 9780415396998 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sexuality is arguably the most under-researched of all diversity areas in work organizations. This book brings together and relates stories of minority sexual identity from six organizations drawn from three different industry sectors: the Emergency Services, the Civil Service and the Banking sector. Here sexual minorities freely recount stories of their own workplace experiences. Three main themes emerge from the data: silence, disclosure and response. Issues of voice and silence are particularly pertinent for those who are not part of the dominant heterosexual discourse;... Sexuality is arguably the most under-researched of all diversity areas in work organizations. This book brings together and relates stories of mino... |
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713,61 zł |
Ergonomics : Major Writings
ISBN: 9780415322577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ergonomics aims to design appliances, technical systems and tasks in such a way as to improve human safety, health, comfort and performance. It developed into a recognized field during the Second World War, when for the first time, technology and the human sciences were systematically applied in a coordinated manner. Physiologists, psychologists, anthropologists, medical doctors, work scientists and engineers, together addressed the problems arising from the operation of complex military equipment.
Because of the 'applied' nature of ergonomics there are many outstanding pieces of work... Ergonomics aims to design appliances, technical systems and tasks in such a way as to improve human safety, health, comfort and performance. It develo...
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Software and Organisations: The Biography of the Enterprise-Wide System or How SAP Conquered the World
ISBN: 9780415403979 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking an empirical approach, this book presents a sociological study of the development, use and evolution of standardized computer systems and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software packages.
Taking an empirical approach, this book presents a sociological study of the development, use and evolution of standardized computer systems and comme...
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713,61 zł |
Organization Development : Ideas and Issues
ISBN: 9781412808644 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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...
Organization Development provides a forum for the ideas and experiences of a researcher and consultant concerned with change in organizations. It show...
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219,12 zł |
Tomorrow's Organization: Crafting Winning Capabilities in a Dynamic World
ISBN: 9780787940041 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Create a more flexible, responsive, and competitive business
A Publication of The Center for Effective Organizations Picking up where the successful Organizing for the Future left off, this work from the Center for Effective Organizations presents a coherent set of principles and hands-on guidance for creating the successful organization of tomorrow. Celebrated contributors such as Jay Conger, David Finegold, and Tora Bikson--not to mention the editors themselves--empower a book that captures the latest thinking and new practices regarding the design of complex... Create a more flexible, responsive, and competitive business
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263,90 zł |
Power and Interdependence in Organizations
ISBN: 9780521703284 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Power is an inescapable feature of human existence. It plays a role in all social contexts and is particularly important in the functioning of organizations and work groups. Organizational researchers have certainly recognised the importance of power but have traditionally focused on its negative aspects. Yet power can also have very positive effects. Power and Interdependence in Organizations capitalizes on significant developments in social science over the past twenty years to show how managers and employees can manage power in order to make it a constructive force in organizations....
Power is an inescapable feature of human existence. It plays a role in all social contexts and is particularly important in the functioning of organiz...
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178,35 zł |
Power and Interdependence in Organizations
ISBN: 9780521878593 / Angielski / Twarda / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Power is an inescapable feature of human existence. It plays a role in all social contexts and is particularly important in the functioning of organizations and work groups. Organizational researchers have certainly recognised the importance of power but have traditionally focused on its negative aspects. Yet power can also have very positive effects. Power and Interdependence in Organizations capitalizes on significant developments in social science over the past twenty years to show how managers and employees can manage power in order to make it a constructive force in organizations....
Power is an inescapable feature of human existence. It plays a role in all social contexts and is particularly important in the functioning of organiz...
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412,87 zł |
Political Behavior in Organizations
ISBN: 9781412954617 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political Behavior in Organizations, the first true textbook on organizational politics, blends research, theory, experience, and skill-building into a comprehensive yet concise guide to the effective use of organizational politics. Summarizing power and influence in organizations, author Andrew J. DuBrin covers the nature and context of political behavior in organizations; the strategies and tactics of positive organizational politics, including developing interpersonal relationships; and the vital topics of negative tactics, blunders, and overcoming dysfunctional...
Political Behavior in Organizations, the first true textbook on organizational politics, blends research, theory, experience, and ski...
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525,01 zł |
Chasing Change: Building Organizational Capacity in a Turbulent Environment
ISBN: 9780470381380 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robust organizational capacity is a company s potential to apply its skills and resources to accomplish goals and exceed stakeholders expectations. This book provides readers with the ability to diagnose both the drivers of change in their organization and the type of change response needed. In addition to the traditional tangible dimension of change, it presents a framework to leverage the cultural and personal dimensions of change to sustain successful change initiatives. As well, it presents an organizational capability self-assessment process to derive the maximum return on change efforts...
Robust organizational capacity is a company s potential to apply its skills and resources to accomplish goals and exceed stakeholders expectations. Th...
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241,45 zł |
Learning, Training, and Development in Organizations
ISBN: 9780805855593 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This scholarly book in SIOP's Organizational Frontier series looks at research on enhancing knowledge acquisition and its application in organizations. It concentrates on training, design and delivery given the changing nature of work and organizations. Now that work is increasingly complex, there is greater emphasis on expertise and cognitive skills. Advances in technology such as computer simulations and web-based training are necessitating a more active role for the learner in the training process. In the broad context of the organization systems, this book promotes learning and... This scholarly book in SIOP's Organizational Frontier series looks at research on enhancing knowledge acquisition and its application in organizati... |
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662,64 zł |
Organizations: Structures, Processes and Outcomes
ISBN: 9780132448406 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this text forms a sociological analysis of organizations, focusing on the impacts that organizations have upon individuals and society. Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this text forms a sociological analysis of organizations, focusing on the impa... |
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443,40 zł |
The Employee Motivation Audit
ISBN: 9780955970702 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An 8-Step audit to help you measure and improve the way you motivate employees and win and retain their commitment. Staff loyalty and commitment are often seen as part of the company culture - as issues which cannot be directly controlled and which can be changed only very slowly. This audit shows that staff loyalty and commitment can be directly tied to company policies and actions, that problems can be anticipated accurately, and that key changes can be made quickly and easily. These changes can quickly and significantly improve staff morale, motivation and retention levels. Use the audit...
An 8-Step audit to help you measure and improve the way you motivate employees and win and retain their commitment. Staff loyalty and commitment are o...
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335,86 zł |