Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Organizational Behavior

This revised and updated edition of Rahim's classic work on managing conflict in organizations presents new evidence that suggests, contrary to generally accepted views, that organizational conflict need not be minimized or avoided in all cases. Some conflicts are functional and others are dysfunctional. Substantive or task-related conflict is functional for nonroutine tasks, but affective conflicts are dysfunctional irrespective of the task conditions. Classifying conflicts as intrapersonal, interpersonal, intragroup, or intergroup, Rahim explains how to diagnose conflict, how to...

Today's workplace demands skills for a knowledgeable, productive use of information. Success, both personal and organizational, comes from finding what is essential and optimizing its effectiveness. Goad teaches readers how to swim in a potentially overwhelming sea of data. Information literacy--the ability to recognize the need for information, to locate, access, select, and apply it--was once an academic matter. Nowadays, this critical array of skills concerns anyone working in a knowledge-based environment.

This easy-to-read, lucid guide attends to basic skills, thinking and...

Change is relentless, disruptive, and unavoidable. To manage organizations today, executives need new ways to look at the world, their companies, their jobs and, most importantly, the people who report to them. Sims sees these as the prime requisites for success in management today: an ability to feel comfortable with ambiguity, with constant and increasingly demanding change, with a new, unique commitment to teams and teamwork, and with a willingness to stay customer-oriented. Marshalling his evidence from academic research and practical experience, Sims shows how researchers are...

As head of The Truth Squad, an independent consulting practice which he founded, Mike Latimer has studied the myriad of ways in which corporate politics is practiced in the workplace. Utilizing remarkable comparisons to the animal kingdom and revolutionary concepts such as "facts evasion" and "excessive wait loss", he brings the topic further out into the open...