Organisational theory is vitally relevant to today's student of business. Understanding Business Organisations introduces the student to classic debates and new perspectives on organisations through a wide ranging but approachable selection of readings. This text: * considers why organisations matter to employees and customers * discusses theories of the organisation as a mode of empowerment and of control. Examining these theories in the light of current programmes of organisational change gives the book a case study element that will be invaluable for teaching and...
Organisational theory is vitally relevant to today's student of business. Understanding Business Organisations introduces the student to clas...
Despite sweeping changes in organisational theory and practice, most productive activity still takes place within organisations. This volume makes it clear that despite waves of change, organisational theory remains vially relevant to todays student of business. This book introduces the student to classic debates and new perspectives on organisations through a wide ranging but approachable selection of readings. It: considers why organisations matter to employees and customers discusses theories of the organisation as a mode of empowerment and of control Examining these theories...
Despite sweeping changes in organisational theory and practice, most productive activity still takes place within organisations. This volume makes it ...
Decision Making for Business gathers crucial contributions to our understanding of decision making and assembles them to form a coherent and sustained analysis of the key factors that influence the process. The selected articles are stimulating, provocative and analytical, resulting in a critical, comprehensive and innovative analysis of decision making.
Decision Making for Business gathers crucial contributions to our understanding of decision making and assembles them to form a coherent and sustai...
Decision making is critical to organizational performance and central to any understanding of organizations. The decisions made by an organization to determine (or justify) actions taken, and reveal how organizations think. Students of business need to understand how decisions are made and what factors impinge on the processes and outputs of decision making.
Decision Making for Business gathers crucial contributions to our understanding of decision making and assembles them to form a coherent and sustained analysis of the key factors that influence the process. The selected articles...
Decision making is critical to organizational performance and central to any understanding of organizations. The decisions made by an organization to ...
Examines the significance of human resources management for effective organizational and competitive strategy and considers such issues as the development of appropriate organizational structures and cultures.
Examines the significance of human resources management for effective organizational and competitive strategy and considers such issues as the develop...
Innovation is increasingly identified as the critical factor in ensuring economic competitiveness. Departments of state and quasi-governmental organizations in many countries including, Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, have issued reports and calls to action; but implementation will continue to be problematic unless the points made in this book are taken into account.
Drawing on 350 in-depth interviews with senior managers, this book presents an original theory about the characteristics of managers in -good...
Innovation is increasingly identified as the critical factor in ensuring economic competitiveness. Departments of state and quasi-governmental ...
Innovation is increasingly identified as the critical factor in ensuring economic competitiveness. Departments of state and quasi-governmental organizations in many countries including, Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, have issued reports and calls to action; but implementation will continue to be problematic unless the points made in this book are taken into account.
Drawing on 350 in-depth interviews with senior managers, this book presents an original theory about the characteristics of managers in -good...
Innovation is increasingly identified as the critical factor in ensuring economic competitiveness. Departments of state and quasi-governmental ...
The Second Edition of this highly successful course reader provides a comprehensive, contemporary, and critical review of the key issues in strategic human resource management. The book draws upon the work of some of the most influential and insightful writers on the subject of the strategic management of people in organizations. Through a series of carefully edited articles, students can explore current thinking on topics as diverse as performance, pay, process reengineering, structure, ethics, culture, change and leadership. This volume moves beyond strategic human resource management...
The Second Edition of this highly successful course reader provides a comprehensive, contemporary, and critical review of the key issues in strateg...
The Second Edition of this highly successful course reader provides a comprehensive, contemporary, and critical review of the key issues in strategic human resource management. The book draws upon the work of some of the most influential and insightful writers on the subject of the strategic management of people in organizations. Through a series of carefully edited articles, students can explore current thinking on topics as diverse as performance, pay, process reengineering, structure, ethics, culture, change and leadership.
This volume moves beyond strategic human resource management...
The Second Edition of this highly successful course reader provides a comprehensive, contemporary, and critical review of the key issues in strategic ...
