Organizational Management: Approaches and Solutions

ISBN-13: 9780749468361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 296 str.

Peter Stokes; Neil Moore; Simon Smith

Opis

Fusing together theory and the application of organizational management, this book provides useful and practical guidelines for planning, leading, and engaging a workforce and its resources to achieve organizational goals. The editors and chapter contributors take a detailed look at leadership, character in modern organizations, critical approaches to managing people and organizations, the role of trust and corporate social responsibility, team work and management, inter-and intra-generational trends, art-based methods for organizational change, and overcoming resistance to change. Supplemented by activities, recommended reading, online resources, and case studies from a range of industrial sectors, including construction, publishing, aerospace, and emergency services, "Organizational Management" is relevant to students entering any organizational environment, be it federal, private, or non-profit.

Recenzje

"Covering organizational behaviour, leadership, employee engagement, change and much more besides this is an excellent primer, providing concise yet informative theory that is built upon by the authors' own real-world business experiences." Darren Ingram, NetGalley reviewer

Spis treści

• • Chapter - 01: Management and organization: The 21st-century global and international context;
  • Chapter - 02: Historical and contemporary contexts: The representation and character of 'modern' organizations;
  • Chapter - 03: Using critical management approaches in managing people and organizations;
  • Chapter - 04: Leadership and management: The challenge of performance;
  • Chapter - 05: Employee engagement through effective communications;
  • Chapter - 06: Leadership and trust - how to build a trustworthy company: The importance of communication;
  • Chapter - 07: Effective team-working in contemporary organizations;
  • Chapter - 08: Managing internet user behaviour within organizations: Inter- and intra-generational trends;
  • Chapter - 09: Arts pedagogy in management development;
  • Chapter - 10: Viewing leadership from a systemic perspective;
  • Chapter - 11: Leading and managing people through change and resistance to change

O autorze

Peter Stokes is Professor of Business Management and Organisation at Chester Business School. He has applied his work through national and international knowledge transfer and consultancy projects across a range of business and industrial sectors. He has been visiting lecturer and academic adviser in businesses, universities and business schools in a range of contexts including France, Holland, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Senegal (West Africa), Vietnam, Morocco, Hong Kong, China, India, Dubai, and Japan. Neil Moore is Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Coordinator at Chester Business School. Simon M Smith is Senior Lecturer in International Business at the University of Winchester. Caroline Rowland is Professor of Leadership and Management and Associate Dean of Chester Business School. Peter Scott is Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Management at Liverpool John Moores University.