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Everything your students need to solve problems, manage change and deliver innovation using the Creative Problem Solving framework

This text is the most comprehensive and contemporary overview and description of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) available today. Friendly and highly practical for a broad base of researchers and practitioners, the book provides a framework, language, guidelines, and set of easy-to-use tools for understanding challenges, generating ideas, and transforming promising ideas into action.

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Vision and visuality are two concepts widely discussed and debated in philosophy and social science literature. Some authors even suggest that the entire Western intellectual tradition is strongly shaped by the paradigm of vision; the inspection and analysis of specimens collected from social reality are regarded as the only legitimate source of truth. However, in organizations, a variety of visual practices are employed in for instance science-based innovation in for instance the pharmaceutical industry and in architect work. Such visual practices include the use of various...

Covers the key areas of investment, appraisal, analysis, implementation and evaluation and relates the total approach to long term business and organization viability

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including P&O Cross Channel Ferries, Patagonia Inc, Sanyo and Semco, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Chris Argyris, Peter Senge and Geert Hofstede

Includes a glossary of key...

Covers the key areas of achieving organisational effectiveness, from building core skill sets and mastering the impact of technology and globalization, to aligning culture with direction and developing new organizational models and structures

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Dell, Nissan, Semco and St Luke's, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Charles Handy, Elliott Jaques, Arie de Geus and Ricardo Semler.

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a...

This text assumes little academic knowledge, and some familiarity with work in organizations. It is of real use to decision makers, and to those in management education, both teachers and students.

Covers the key areas of value leadership, from developing critical measurement and compensation practices to evaluating changing environmental, global, and social impacts and establishing sound corporate governance

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Berkshire Hathaway, Odey Asset Management, Halma, and Honda and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Warren Buffet, Richard Brealey, Peter Koestenbaum, William Mahoney, and Roger Raber

Includes a glossary of key...

Covers the key areas of strategic, marketing and financial priorities and demands and the need for corporate social, cultural and operational awareness and responsibility

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including ABB, Nissan and Mattel Inc, and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers, including Gary Hamel, Peter Drucker, Naomi Klein, Sumantra Ghoshal and Chris Bartlett

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Covers the key areas of OB, from understanding individual and group behaviour patterns and attitudes to work to building successful organizations and improving your personal effectiveness in the workplace

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Tesco, Sears, Sundaram-Clayton and The Natural Step, and ideas from the smartest thinkers including Charles Handy, Jack Wood, Edgar Schein and Shoshana Zuboff

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a...

Covers the key areas of culture, from how culture evolves and why different companies have different cultures to cultural diagnosis and implementing successful change

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Amazon.com, EDS, Honda and Nissan, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Edgar Schein, Charles Handy, Geert Hofstede and Gareth Morgan.

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

The American Journal of Sociology says of this book "Mouzelis knows and handles the literature well and accurately brings the reader up to the early sixties. A summarizer, synthesizer, and historian of modern theories, he serves his novice well. The more initiated student of formal organizations will appreciate the critiques of his favorite theorists: Mouzelis cuts clean and bold. Along with order, he does add critical insight to his borrowed materials."

This book is a carefully integrated and very straightforward guide to the labyrinth of theory on organizational phenomena,...