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The Oxford Handbook of Project Management
ISBN: 9780199563142 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Handbook presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40 scholars to chart the development of the subject over the last 50 years or more as an area of increasing practical and academic interest. It suggests we could be entering an emerging 'third wave' of analysis and interpretation following its early technical and operational beginnings and the subsequent shift to a focus on projects and their management....
This Handbook presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more str...
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Managing Modernity: Beyond Bureaucracy?
ISBN: 9780199563647 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bureaucracy has long been a cornerstone of advanced industrial societies, and a defining feature of modernity. At the same time, many commentators from all quarters argue that it is on the wane in this post-this or that world; or that if it isn't, it should be dismantled to free up organizations, enterprise, and innovation.
But do we live in a more or less bureaucratic world? Do contemporary forms and means of communication undermine or modify bureaucracy, or does technology create new "iron cages" and forms of control? If bureaucratic models of organization are abandoned, do we run risks... Bureaucracy has long been a cornerstone of advanced industrial societies, and a defining feature of modernity. At the same time, many commentators fro...
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Organization Theory: A Practice-Based Approach
ISBN: 9780199569304 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moving away from the more traditional linear narrative approach of other textbooks, Organization Theory: A Practice Based Approach addresses the subject in an exciting new way that is appealing to today's students. The authors identify the key questions, problems, and issues that practitioners face and then discuss relevant theories. In addition to traditional topics, they cover issues that are not always included in other texts--boundary spanning, leadership, quality management, strategic change, and developmental psychology/organizational learning--putting organizational theory...
Moving away from the more traditional linear narrative approach of other textbooks, Organization Theory: A Practice Based Approach addresses ...
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Normal Organizational Wrongdoing: A Critical Analysis of Theories of Misconduct in and by Organizations
ISBN: 9780199573592 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Instances of wrongdoing in and by organizations have featured heavily in news headlines in recent years. Why do organizational participants--employees, managers, senior officials--engage in illegal, unethical, and socially irresponsible behavior?
The dominant view of wrongdoing as an abnormal phenomenon assumes that the perpetrator is a rational, proactive actor, working in isolation. However, Palmer develops an alternative approach in this book, examining wrongdoing as a normal occurrence, produced by boundedly rational actors whose behaviour is shaped by the immediate social context... Instances of wrongdoing in and by organizations have featured heavily in news headlines in recent years. Why do organizational participants--employees...
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Organizational Change: Perspectives on Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780199573783 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by scholars who also work as consultants, Organizational Change: Perspectives on Theory and Practice combines rigorous theoretical exploration with practical insights from the field. Authors Piers Myers, Sally Hulks, and Liz Wiggins offer a truly fresh and authentic approach, providing a broad and in-depth look at organizational change that integrates multiple perspectives. Tacking the key issues--including why change happens, what changes, and how change is achieved--this unique volume encompasses the emotional and psychological dimensions of change that are often neglected...
Written by scholars who also work as consultants, Organizational Change: Perspectives on Theory and Practice combines rigorous theoretical ex...
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Contingent Capital: Short-Term Investors and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in France and Germany
ISBN: 9780199578085 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. makers in recent years. The advent of major financial scandals in the early 2000s (Enron, WorldCom, Ahold, Parmalat) was followed by turmoil in the financial markets at the end of the decade. The increased power of finance was a common factor singled out in the development of these events--especially shareholder value oriented institutional investors--across advanced capitalist economies. Will the pressures of financial market globalization force companies to converge on a shareholder-based model of corporate governance? In Contingent Capital, Michel Goyer highlights the importance of the...
makers in recent years. The advent of major financial scandals in the early 2000s (Enron, WorldCom, Ahold, Parmalat) was followed by turmoil in the fi...
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Organizations: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199584536 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Organizations are everywhere. We meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But we rarely give much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future. How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do they contribute to and detract from the meaningfulness of our lives, and how might we improve them so they better serve our needs and desires? This Very Short Introduction addresses all of these questions and many more. Mary Jo...
Organizations are everywhere. We meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Reputation
ISBN: 9780199596706 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it mean to have a "good" or "bad" reputation? How does it create or destroy value, or shape chances to pursue particular opportunities? Where do reputations come from? How do we measure them? How do we build and manage them?
Over the last twenty years the answers to these questions have become increasingly important--and increasingly problematic--for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the creation, management, and role of reputation in corporate life. This Handbook intends to bring definitional clarity to these issues, giving an account of extant research and... What does it mean to have a "good" or "bad" reputation? How does it create or destroy value, or shape chances to pursue particular opportunities? Wher...
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How Matter Matters: Objects, Artifacts, and Materiality in Organization Studies
ISBN: 9780199671533 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although human lives towards the second half of the twentieth century became increasingly mediated by objects and artifacts and have depended heavily on the functioning of technical systems, materiality in a broad sense became relatively marginalized as a topic of research interest. This volume contributes to redressing the balance by drawing together the work of scholars involved in exploring the sociomaterial dimensions of organizational life. It will look at the way material objects and artifacts are conceived in organizations, and how they function in interaction with human agents....
Although human lives towards the second half of the twentieth century became increasingly mediated by objects and artifacts and have depended heavily ...
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Styles of Organizing: The Will to Form
ISBN: 9780199671625 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, leading organization theorist Gibson Burrell presents a provocative and challenging approach to the study of organizations, aiming to move beyond the two-dimensionality of much organizational thinking and present more complex 3-D models, which allow for the 'intractions' of apparently disparate perspectives. The book aims to illuminate organization theory by discussing its interrelationship with key features of economics, architecture, aesthetics, design of the built environment, and associated artwork. He argues that by their shared 'definitions', these areas of social science...
In this book, leading organization theorist Gibson Burrell presents a provocative and challenging approach to the study of organizations, aiming to mo...
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The Family Council Handbook: How to Create, Run, and Maintain a Successful Family Business Council
ISBN: 9780230112193 / Angielski / Twarda / 371 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Family Council oversees a family on everything from educating the family for their future responsibilities as owners, to settling disputes within the family. With this in mind, this practical manual will guide business families on how to manage how their family governs itself and relates to their business.
A Family Council oversees a family on everything from educating the family for their future responsibilities as owners, to settling disputes within th...
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Organizational Stress Management: A Strategic Approach
ISBN: 9780230203921 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Including practical advice on how to conduct a stress audit and how to target stress 'hot spots' within an organization, Organizational Stress Management provides a fresh strategic model for the manager concerned with the negative effects stress can have both on company performance and the quality of life of individuals at work.
Including practical advice on how to conduct a stress audit and how to target stress 'hot spots' within an organization, Organizational Stress Managem...
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Creative Labour: Working in the Creative Industries
ISBN: 9780230222007 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Creative labour has become a growing area of the market, and of management study. Alan McKinlayand Chris Smith have compiledthe first book to look at the creative industries from a labour process perspective. The text concludes with an authoritative investigation into managing new media workers."
Creative labour has become a growing area of the market, and of management study. Alan McKinlayand Chris Smith have compiledthe first book to look at ...
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Behavioural and Experimental Economics
ISBN: 9780230238688 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.
Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within...
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Women's Work, Men's Cultures: Overcoming Resistance and Changing Organizational Cultures
ISBN: 9780230283701 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corporate diversity programs often fail because of resistance in workplace culture. The author sets out an approach to real change by analysing the role of organisational cultures in marginalising women workers. Based on academic research, case studies and interviews, the author presents a new model for changing organisational culture
Corporate diversity programs often fail because of resistance in workplace culture. The author sets out an approach to real change by analysing the ro...
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Doing the Right Thing: The Importance of Wellbeing in the Workplace
ISBN: 9780230298446 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A common metaphor for modern life is 'keep the plates spinning', but it is becoming increasingly hard to balance professional and private lives, and this takes its toll. The authors examine the working relationship between the organisation and employee, and establish new ways that managers can broker a better deal for all concerned.
A common metaphor for modern life is 'keep the plates spinning', but it is becoming increasingly hard to balance professional and private lives, and t...
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The High Engagement Work Culture: Balancing Me and We
ISBN: 9780230304499 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 2008 crisis set off a systemic panic which almost engulfed the world's financial system. Through a lens of sustainability this book examines how organisations can explore a new business culture today. Drawing from real-life examples and new ideas Bowles and Cooper discuss how organisations can move from 'me' to 'we'.
The 2008 crisis set off a systemic panic which almost engulfed the world's financial system. Through a lens of sustainability this book examines how o...
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Coherence in the Midst of Complexity: Advances in Social Complexity Theory
ISBN: 9780230338500 / Angielski / Twarda / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A discussion on the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence to take root. The authors focus on the experience of coherence and how such experiential lessons differ from the establishment and maintenance of categories and labels.
A discussion on the social complexity approach, where dialogue and stories allow for the degrees of freedom needed for the opportunities of emergence ...
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Reading Management and Organization in Film
ISBN: 9780230520929 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Management, Organisations and Film provides a critical historical analysis of representations of management and organization in film. Using a diverse range of classic and contemporary films from the 1920s to present day to explore common scenic conventions, such as the open-plan office or the elevator encounter, and characters, such as the drone-worker, corporate executive and career girl, the book argues that these representations provide important insights into enduring concerns about the role of organisations.
Management, Organisations and Film provides a critical historical analysis of representations of management and organization in film. Using a diverse ...
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The Management of Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780230524798 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The practices and values of management are increasingly shaping the management of life outside of work. Here, experts reflect critically on the implications this has for our everyday experiences of self and society. The book helps students to reflect critically on the relationship between management and changes in the organization of work.
The practices and values of management are increasingly shaping the management of life outside of work. Here, experts reflect critically on the implic...
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