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Human Resource Development (HRD) involves the design, delivery and evaluation of learning and/or training interventions within organisations to improve the work performance of individuals and groups. This edited collection will demonstrate the potential of identity theorising for problematizing and reconceptualising HRD activities. Identity will thus be established as a foundation for enhancing HRD policy and practice.

While identity has emerged as a key focus for theoretical debate and for empirical research within management and organisational studies, the potential of identity...

This indispensable handbook details the practical steps that can lead to success in programme management. Accelerating change has demanded that companies and organisations use programme management methods and techniques to effect it. John Bartlett provides the benefit of his deep involvement in managing large-scale change, where his advice and guidance have proved successful for both the private and public sectors of commerce and industry.

The book is compatible with several existing frameworks, not least the UK government's Managing Successful Programmes approach. It is...

This indispensable handbook details the practical steps that can lead to success in programme management. Accelerating change has demanded that companies and organisations use programme management methods and techniques to effect it. John Bartlett provides the benefit of his deep involvement in managing large-scale change, where his advice and guidance have proved successful for both the private and public sectors of commerce and industry.

The book is compatible with several existing frameworks, not least the UK government's Managing Successful Programmes approach. It is...

Are you seeking to be a more inspiring leader, however, sadly you just don't make the time?

This special edition Top Tips for Inspiring Women Leaders celebrates International Women's Day and inspirational women who are making a difference in their lives, organisations and communities The authors have read and researched widely to bring you some of the best leadership practical tips and nuggets of wisdom, including from their clients: CEOs, Public Figures, Senior Executives and successful people in authority from around the world.

These Inspiring Leaders have been in the thick...

To get started on fulfilling your dream, you first need to wake up This is your wake-up call.

Organization Design looks at how to (re)design an organizational system in order to increase productivity, performance and value, and provides the knowledge and methodology to design an adaptive organization capable of handling the kind of continuous organizational change that all businesses face. The book clarifies why and how organizations need to be in a state of readiness to design or redesign, and emphasizes that people as well as business processes must be part of design considerations.

With an enhanced international focus, this third edition includes new...

Organization Design looks at how to (re)design an organizational system in order to increase productivity, performance and value, and provides the knowledge and methodology to design an adaptive organization capable of handling the kind of continuous organizational change that all businesses face. The book clarifies why and how organizations need to be in a state of readiness to design or redesign, and emphasizes that people as well as business processes must be part of design considerations.

With an enhanced international focus, this third edition includes new...

This book serves as a textbook for courses on Asian studies with a focus on ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs and business management in Asia. It provides a comprehensive Asian perspective on the organizational peculiarities and changing business practices of ethnic Chinese businesses and their leaders who continue to form the backbone of Asia's dynamic economies. The book features selected chapters written by reputable scholars on Chinese business, covering diverse and yet closely related topics such as the role of ethnic identity, trust, guanxi, Chineseness, leadership, change...

This book outlines a complex, nuanced, dynamic tool kit of interrelated factors that are key to propelling aspiring women into the C-Suite. These factors, some tangible, some intangible, can be used by business and professional woman as tools that they can actively cultivate as a means of empowering their efforts towards success in both their lives and careers. Each factor, or tool, is documented by research, and described in detail with examples.

A companion to the best-selling book LEAD WITH CONFIDENCE this 64 page workbook will guide you through the initial days, weeks and months of your promotion to a senior role.

Twenty-five in-depth exercises allow you to coach yourself using the same framework that the author uses in his one-to-one coaching programmes.

Use this book to take a deep dive into each of the five principles of the A-CODE. It will give you the tools to take control, focus on key actions, and stand out as a highly competent, credible and confident leader.

• Completing this workbook will give...

LEAN Healthcare Innovation

The American healthcare system is under siege. For a high quality, open access system that emphasizes patient freedom of choice to survive, it must change. This book presents the argument for why a variant of the Toyota Production System, LEAN Healthcare Innovation, may be the answer to save US healthcare. This is a modification of LEAN that provides a better opportunity for success through a focus on system management, cultural transformation, personal development of the staff with a focus on innovation. The evidence to support this approach includes a...