Presenting a follower-centered perspective on leadership, this work focuses on followers as the direct determinant of leadership effects because it is generally through follower reactions and behaviours that leadership attempts succeed or fail. Therefore, leadership theory needs to be articulated with a theory of how followers create meaning from leadership acts and how this meaning helps followers self-regulate in specific contexts. In this book, an attempt is made to develop such a theory, maintaining that the central construct in this process is the self-identity of followers. In...

This volume brings together the reflecting of a diverse collection of organizational scholars on the implications of a dynamic market place within their own area(s) of expertise. The focus of the book is to understand the people within the dynamic organization and the potential impact of organizational agility for their models of human behaviour and interaction. The book is designed to be of interest to researchers and students of management, psychology and organizational behaviour.

Deftly blending social and business history with economic analysis, Employing Bureaucracy shows how the American workplace shifted from a market-oriented system to a bureaucratic one over the course of the 20th century. Jacoby explains how an unstable, haphazard employment relationship evolved into one that was more enduring, equitable, and career-oriented. This revised edition presents a new analysis of recent efforts to re-establish a market orientation in the workplace.
This book is a definitive history of the human resource management profession in the United States, showing...

This revised edition of Employing Bureaucracy is an attempt to understand how industrial labour was transformed and to identify the historical process by which good jobs were created. It is, therefore, an account of the bureacratization of employment.

Written for those interested in the topic of "shared knowledge" in organizations, this edited volume brings together a variety of themes and perspectives that emerge when multidisciplinary scholars examine this important subject. The papers were presented at a conference designed to bring together behavioral scientists who were interested in the creation, conversation, distribution, and protection of knowledge in organizations.
The editors bring together a distinguished group of social psychologists who have made important contributions to social cognition and group processes. They cast...

Written for those interested in the topic of shared knowledge in organizations, this edited volume brings together a variety of themes and perspectives that emerge when multidisciplinary scholars examine this important subject. The papers were presented at a conference designed to bring together behavioural scientists who were interested in the creation, conversation, distribution and protection of knowledge in organizations.

Organization and Management in the Embrace of Government is an original exploration of how governments affect the ways people organize themselves, manage those organizations, and respond to the organizations thus created. It is a grounded theory of how governments that are weak, erratic, or hostile undermine complex organization, trust, meritocracy, commitment, and other implicit expectations about how organizations operate. Scholars, students, and all those interested in a better understanding of how governments affect our cultural expectations of one another, our organizations, and the...

This new authored book summarizes research findings from a new domain of study called "organizational perception management"(OPM). Organizational perception deals with tactics designed to affect preceptions of an organizations image, identy or reputation