Enhancing Organizational Performance
ISBN: 9780309053976 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Total quality management (TQM), reengineering, the workplace of the twenty-first century--the 1990s have brought a sense of urgency to organizations to change or face stagnation and decline, according to Enhancing Organizational Performance. Organizations are adopting popular management techniques, some scientific, some faddish, often without introducing them properly or adequately measuring the outcome. Total quality management (TQM), reengineering, the workplace of the twenty-first century--the 1990s have brought a sense of urgency to organization... |
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329,86 zł |
Organizing God's Work: Challenges for Churches and Synagogues
ISBN: 9780312215019 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an organizational perspective on the local congregations of Christianity and Judaism Churches and Synagogues. It will meet the need of those who work in congregations, clergy and lay people alike for an accessible, non-judgmental analysis of the day-to-day work challenges they face. It will also fill a gap in the literature of four academic fields: Social policy and administration; non-profit and voluntary-sector management; the sociology of religion; and organizational behaviour.
This book provides an organizational perspective on the local congregations of Christianity and Judaism Churches and Synagogues. It will meet the need...
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384,63 zł |
A Perfect Mess
ISBN: 9780316013994 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An engaging polemic against the neat-police who hold so much sway over our lives." -The Wall Street Journal Enthusiastically embraced by readers everywhere, this groundbreaking book is an antidote to the accepted wisdom that tight schedules, neatness, and consistency are the keys to success. With an astounding array of anecdotes and case studies of the useful role mess can play in business, parenting, cooking, the war on terrorism, hardware stores, and even the meteoric career of Arnold Schwarzenegger, coauthors Abrahamson and Freedman demonstrate that moderately messy systems use...
"An engaging polemic against the neat-police who hold so much sway over our lives." -The Wall Street Journal Enthusiastically embraced by readers ...
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88,89 zł |
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
ISBN: 9780385483827 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. In Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads--when massive change occurs and a company must, virtually overnight, adapt or fall by the wayside.
Grove calls such a moment a Strategic Inflection Point, which can be set off by almost anything: mega-competition, a change in regulations, or a seemingly modest change in technology. When a Strategic Inflection Point... Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. In Only the Para...
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76,81 zł |
Interpreting the Maternal Organization
ISBN: 9780415285742 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the organization as embodied experience. An international range of contributors is assembled to deal explicitly with the 'maternal' aspects of organization.
This challenging book will be of essential interest to all critical management theorists. With its innovative approach, it will also appeal to students, teachers, and all those looking for an approach to management that does justice to the complexity, ambivalence and chaos of the world of organizing. This book examines the organization as embodied experience. An international range of contributors is assembled to deal explicitly with the 'maternal'...
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770,57 zł |
Government Managing Risk: Income Contingent Loans for Social and Economic Progress
ISBN: 9780415287784 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As higher education rates increase throughout the westernized world, while at the same time government budget face increasing constraints, student support is recognized as crucial in many countries. This impressive new book by Bruce Chapman analyses income contingent loans and particularly their use in supporting students. With the author's experience in the design and implementation of the Australian student financial support schemes, this is a knowledgeable, interesting book that will be useful to researchers, students and policy-makers alike.
As higher education rates increase throughout the westernized world, while at the same time government budget face increasing constraints, student sup...
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770,57 zł |
Managers Learning in Action: Management Learning, Research and Education
ISBN: 9780415323055 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rather than offering either a purely practical or theoretical context, this text is written by a team of managers and academics, combining theory and practice to create a holistic, and above all realistic, exploration of learning at work, including real life examples of management challenges. Whether rescuing an ailing organization or managing inter-organization relations, managing change or managing human resources, many of today's crucial management challenges are addressed. Covering a range of sectors, the organizations studied include those in:
Rather than offering either a purely practical or theoretical context, this text is written by a team of managers and academics, combining theory a... |
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950,37 zł |
Managers Learning in Action: Management Learning, Research and Education
ISBN: 9780415323062 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rather than offering either a purely practical or theoretical context, this text is written by a team of managers and academics, combining theory and practice to create a holistic, and above all realistic, exploration of learning at work, including real life examples of management challenges. Whether rescuing an ailing organization or managing inter-organization relations, managing change or managing human resources, many of today's crucial management challenges are addressed. Covering a range of sectors, the organizations studied include those in:
Rather than offering either a purely practical or theoretical context, this text is written by a team of managers and academics, combining theory a... |
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256,81 zł |
Statistical Methods for Organizational Research: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780415334242 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This clearly written textbook clarifies the concepts underpinning descriptive and inferential statistics in organizational research. Acting as much more than a theoretical reference tool, step-by-step it guides readers through the various key stages of successful data analysis. This clearly written textbook clarifies the concepts underpinning descriptive and inferential statistics in organizational research. Acting as much... |
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924,68 zł |
A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organisations: Taking Experience Seriously
ISBN: 9780415351300 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of the Complexity as the Experience of Organizing series, this book applies complex responsiveness theory to real-life leadership experiences. It features contributions from and details the experience of organizational practitioners, leaders, consultants and managers from various organizations through narrative accounts. It addresses questions such as:
Part of the Complexity as the Experience of Organizing series, this book applies complex responsiveness theory to real-life leadership exp... |
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744,88 zł |
A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organisations: Taking Experience Seriously
ISBN: 9780415351317 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The perspective of complex responsive processes draws on analogies from the complexity sciences, bringing in the essential characteristics of human agents, understood to emerge in social processes of communicative interaction and power-relating. The result is a way of thinking about life in organizations that focuses attention on how organizational members cope with unknown as they perpetually create organizational futures together.
Providing a natural successor to the Editors' earlier series (Complexity and Emergence in Organizations) this series Complexity as the Experience of... The perspective of complex responsive processes draws on analogies from the complexity sciences, bringing in the essential characteristics of human ag...
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246,53 zł |
Complexity and the Experience of Leading Organizations
ISBN: 9780415366939 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors to this book are leaders, consultants or managers in organizations who provide narrative accounts of their actual work and daily experience. They explore how the perspective of complex responsive processes assists them to make sense of their experience and so to develop their practice. Offering a different method of making sense of an individual s experience in a rapidly changing world, this book uses reflective accounts of ordinary everyday life in organizations rather than idealized accounts. The editors commentary introduces and contextualizes these... The contributors to this book are leaders, consultants or managers in organizations who provide narrative accounts of their actual work and daily e... |
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236,26 zł |
Making Sense of Organizational Change
ISBN: 9780415369398 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Applying an invaluable sensemaking framework to organizational change and combining the theory and practice of implementing change, this book represents an instructive and informative view on change in business. Its strength lies in two key areas:
Applying an invaluable sensemaking framework to organizational change and combining the theory and practice of implementing change, this book repre... |
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282,49 zł |
The Social Construction of Management
ISBN: 9780415369428 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is management and how do the people who become managers take on a managerial identity?
How does text inform the manager's identity? From cultural studies we understand that the relationship between text and reader is not passive but that each one works upon the other, and that text is active in forming the identity of the reader. This books is the first to analyse how many management textbooks construct their readers. It analyses management textbooks published since the 1950s and shows they construct a world in which chaos is kept at bay only by strong management,... What is management and how do the people who become managers take on a managerial identity? How does text inform the manager's identity? |
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693,51 zł |
Improving Workplace Learning
ISBN: 9780415371193 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across the western world, there is a growing awareness of the importance of workplace learning, seen at the level of national and international policy, as well as in the developing practices of employers, training providers and Trades Unions. Authoritative, accessible, and appealing, it presents key findings on work-based learning, bringing together conclusions and investigating a variety of workplace contexts to show how such learning can be improved. An extensive practical treatment, brought to life with illustrations from both the public and private sectors, this book has a unique... Across the western world, there is a growing awareness of the importance of workplace learning, seen at the level of national and international pol... |
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899,00 zł |
Improving Workplace Learning
ISBN: 9780415371209 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, the first to address issues of reflection in the context of work, is an accessible entry point into the theory and practice of work reflection for students and practitioners. It consists of contributions from a diverse range of international authorities in the areas of management, education, organizational psychology and sociology.
While there has been previous work on reflection in educational settings and reflective practice in the context of the work of individual professionals, none of these deals with the challenges faced by reflection in organizations and in a variety of... This book, the first to address issues of reflection in the context of work, is an accessible entry point into the theory and practice of work reflect...
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267,08 zł |
Producing Management Knowledge: Research as Practice
ISBN: 9780415384391 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing readers with a unique insight into conducting research, this exciting book describes the thought and work processes of researchers as they complete their projects. Engaging and accessible it investigates all the key aspects of this topic and advice on how to conduct interviews, study the everyday life of an organization, and many other standard methods of conducting research. This is not a prescriptive methodology textbook, rather it explores how to approach, think and act in interaction with the empirical field. Comprehensive and accessible, this thought-provoking text... Providing readers with a unique insight into conducting research, this exciting book describes the thought and work processes of researchers as the... |
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292,76 zł |
Production Organizations in Japanese Economic Development
ISBN: 9780415391801 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this important new book, the authors explore how production was organized in the context of the economic development of modern Japan. Production organizations are taken to mean the long-term relationships which economic agents create for production, based on employment contracts or long-term transactions. This includes hierarchical organizations such as factories and corporations, but also flexible arangements such as subcontracting. Modern Japanese economic development is characterized by the co-evolution of these two types of production organizations, while American... In this important new book, the authors explore how production was organized in the context of the economic development of modern Japan. Pr... |
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744,88 zł |
Rethinking Information Systems in Organizations: Integrating Organizational Problem Solving
ISBN: 9780415403047 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Rethinking Information Systems in Organizations John Paul Kawalek challenges the current orthodoxy of information systems and proposes new alternatives. Bold and ambitious, this book tackles the thorny issues of integration of disciplines, cross over of functions, and negotiation of epistemological divides in IS. Historically, the IS discipline has struggled to embrace and integrate technical as well as organizational knowledge, skills and methods. Kawalek argues that there are now a new set of imperatives that will irrecoverably change IS, affecting the way many organizations... In Rethinking Information Systems in Organizations John Paul Kawalek challenges the current orthodoxy of information systems and proposes ... |
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950,37 zł |
Managing Human Resources in Central and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9780415405607 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Against the backdrop of ancient cultures, a communist legacy and eventual institutional atrophy, many of the societies of Central and Eastern Europe have pursued aggressive development trajectories since the early 1990s. This part of Europe is now characterized by a rising economic heterogeneity and a rapidly changing socio-cultural context, underscored by waves of restructuring, privatization, increasing foreign direct investment and an emerging individualism. While there has been a growing interest in the transition economies in the past number of years, the contemporary nature of human... Against the backdrop of ancient cultures, a communist legacy and eventual institutional atrophy, many of the societies of Central and Eastern Europ... |
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796,26 zł |