Researching the World of Work
ISBN: 9780801432903 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, the first on industrial relations research methods, comes at a time when the field of industrial relations is in flux and research strategy has become more complex and varied. Research that once focused on the relationship between labor and management now involves a wider range of issues. This change has raised a number of key questions about how research should be done.The contributors represent four countries and a range of fields, including economics, sociology, psychology, law, history, and industrial relations. They identify distinctive research strategies and suggest...
This book, the first on industrial relations research methods, comes at a time when the field of industrial relations is in flux and research strategy...
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561,28 zł |
Researching the World of Work: State-Formation After the Cultural Turn
ISBN: 9780801485497 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, the first on industrial relations research methods, comes at a time when the field of industrial relations is in flux and research strategy has become more complex and varied. Research that once focused on the relationship between labor and management now involves a wider range of issues. This change has raised a number of key questions about how research should be done.The contributors represent four countries and a range of fields, including economics, sociology, psychology, law, history, and industrial relations. They identify distinctive research strategies and suggest...
This book, the first on industrial relations research methods, comes at a time when the field of industrial relations is in flux and research strategy...
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181,89 zł |
Reframing Organizational Culture
ISBN: 9780803936515 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a study of the interaction between investigation and the subject of inquiry. This title includes a variety of frames as tools that help readers to examine any empirical piece on organizational culture on its own merits - as good research - while at the same time, permit viewing it from other perspectives as well.
Offers a study of the interaction between investigation and the subject of inquiry. This title includes a variety of frames as tools that help readers...
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961,44 zł |
Women in Management: Trends, Issues, and Challenges in Managerial Diversity
ISBN: 9780803945920 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book traces the experiences of women managers using a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analysis. Top scholars and researchers begin by examining historical and global perspectives, continue with individual and organizational issues such as ethnicity, health, and personal and family lifestyles, and conclude by exploring future trends in the issues of job discrimination and the restructuring of organizations from a feminist perspective. Each section concludes with a commentary from a leading authority.
This book traces the experiences of women managers using a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analysis. Top scholars and researchers begin by examining h...
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566,48 zł |
All Teams Are Not Created Equal: How Employee Empowerment Really Works
ISBN: 9780803946521 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors of this book provide a comprehensive diagnosis of the increasing number of problems afflicting the performance of business and other institutions. These problems are defined as people problems' - springing from the behaviour of those who manage as much as those who do the work. The traditional solutions - coercion, percentage staff reductions across the board, sharing of information, the quick fix' - are examined and found wanting.
Ketchum and Trist look beyond people problems' to the organization of work, and concentrate on the mismatch between the characteristics of people... The authors of this book provide a comprehensive diagnosis of the increasing number of problems afflicting the performance of business and other insti...
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665,22 zł |
Rational Choice Theory and Organizational Theory: A Critique
ISBN: 9780803951365 / Angielski / Miękka / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rational Choice Theory and Organizational Theory is written in response to the neo-classical economic rational choice theories and organizational economic theories which have emerged in the past decade and gained center stage in current organizational analysis.
Rational Choice Theory and Organizational Theory is written in response to the neo-classical economic rational choice theories and organizational econ...
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420,96 zł |
Organizational Justice & Human Resource Management
ISBN: 9780803956872 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are some acts but not others perceived to be fair? How do people who experience unfairness respond toward others held accountable for the unfairness? This book reviews the theoretical organizational justice literature and explores how the research on justice applies to various topics in organizational behaviour including personnel selection systems, performance appraisal and the role of fairness in resolving workplace conflict.
Organizational Justice and Human Resource Management considers justice in organizations within a new framework - Fairness Theory - which integrates previous... Why are some acts but not others perceived to be fair? How do people who experience unfairness respond toward others held accountable for the unfairne...
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566,48 zł |
Foucault, Management and Organization Theory: From Panopticon to Technologies of Self
ISBN: 9780803975477 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault's contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization.
The volume provides a valuable summary of Foucault's contribution to organization theory, which also challenges the conventions of traditional organizational analysis. By applying Foucauldian concepts such as discipline, surveillance and power//knowledge, the authors shed new light on the genesis of the modern organization and raise fresh questions about organization theory. The bureaucratic career is, for example, analyzed as a... This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault's contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organi...
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322,16 zł |
Pandemonium: Towards a Retro-Organization Theory
ISBN: 9780803977778 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work challenges the assumptions and values of contemporary linear organization theory. Disclaiming the voices of positivist science, the author presents a metaphor for the rejection of linearity, the reassertion of organizational creativity, and the return of humans into organization theory.
This work challenges the assumptions and values of contemporary linear organization theory. Disclaiming the voices of positivist science, the author p...
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311,77 zł |
Experiencing Organizations
ISBN: 9780803978713 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Ingenious and original. Young people's vivid first-hand accounts of the daily dramas of business life, economically and intelligently balanced with sympathetic commentary, thought-provoking questions and scholarly reference' - Nigel Nicholson, London Business School
'Ingenious and original. Young people's vivid first-hand accounts of the daily dramas of business life, economically and intelligently balanced with s...
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296,17 zł |
Postmodernism and Organizations
ISBN: 9780803988804 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essential reading for all those concerned with contemporary theorizing of organization, this important and thought-provoking volume explores the implications of postmodernist//poststructuralist thinking for organizations and organizational analysis.
The book introduces the concepts underpinning a postmodern organizational analysis, contrasting modern and postmodern forms of explanation and addressing the distinctions between postmodernity and postmodernism. Succeeding chapters then examine and assess the interplay of major postmodernist themes - such as deconstruction, desire, difference,... Essential reading for all those concerned with contemporary theorizing of organization, this important and thought-provoking volume explores the impli...
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311,77 zł |
Formal Organizations: A Comparative Approach
ISBN: 9780804748902 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Upon its publication in 1962, this book became one of the founding texts of organizational sociology. Bringing together diverse approaches, it presented a new focus of interest: the formal organization. Blau and Scott raised the level of analysis from attention solely on individual participants and work groups to a broader understanding of organizations as collective actors. In the book, the authors reviewed multiple types of studies--including case studies, experimental research, and surveys--and integrated them to define new central themes. They used their own empirical studies of two...
Upon its publication in 1962, this book became one of the founding texts of organizational sociology. Bringing together diverse approaches, it present...
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155,86 zł |
The Secret of Success: The Double Helix of Formal and Informal Structures in an R&d Laboratory
ISBN: 9780804755702 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Secret of Success is a fascinating exploration of the enigma of technological innovation. It provides a new paradigm for academic scholars and a manifesto for managers on how to release the latent talent of research teams for optimal effect. Based on an investigation conducted in the R&D laboratory of a Fortune 500 company, the book synthesizes interviews with sophisticated quantitative techniques to provide insights into how knowledge travels and how it is used in technical organizations to aid innovation. The author offers a new perspective on the factors that need to be taken...
The Secret of Success is a fascinating exploration of the enigma of technological innovation. It provides a new paradigm for academic scholars ...
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301,42 zł |
Organizations and Environments
ISBN: 9780804758291 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Organizations and Environments was originally issued in 1979, it increased interest in evolutionary explanations of organizational change. Since then, scholars and practitioners have widely cited the book for its innovative answer to this question: Under what conditions do organizations change? Aldrich achieves theoretical integration across 13 chapters by using an evolutionary model that captures the essential features of relations between organizations and their environments. This model explains organizational change by focusing on the processes of variation, selection,...
When Organizations and Environments was originally issued in 1979, it increased interest in evolutionary explanations of organizational change....
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166,30 zł |
Personality and Organizations
ISBN: 9780805837582 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this work, scholars cover issues such as teams, leadership, organizational climate and culture, organizational citizenship behaviour, work motivation, stress, and job satisfaction, and tells us what they know about these topics from a personality perspective. There are chapters on interactional psychology and work, personality and interests, some persistent measurement problems in personality assessment, and the relationship between personality and job performance. There are several overview chapters in the text - one provides a general survey of the landscape of personality theory and...
In this work, scholars cover issues such as teams, leadership, organizational climate and culture, organizational citizenship behaviour, work motivati...
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701,59 zł |
Personality and the Fate of Organizations
ISBN: 9780805841428 / Angielski / Twarda / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Personality and performance are intricately linked, and personality has proven to have a direct influence on an individual's leadership ability and style, team performance, and overall organizational effectiveness. In this book, author Robert Hogan
Personality and performance are intricately linked, and personality has proven to have a direct influence on an individual's leadership ability and st...
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Personality and the Fate of Organizations
ISBN: 9780805841435 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Personality and performance are intricately linked, and personality has proven to have a direct influence on an individual's leadership ability and style, team performance, and overall organizational effectiveness. In Personality and the Fate of Organizations, author Robert Hogan offers a systematic account of the nature of personality, showing how to use personality to understand organizations and to understand, evaluate, select, deselect, and train people. This book brings insights from a leading industrial organizational psychologist who asserts that personality is real, and...
Personality and performance are intricately linked, and personality has proven to have a direct influence on an individual's leadership ability and st...
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207,83 zł |
Organizational Behavior: A Management Challenge
ISBN: 9780805845419 / Angielski / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This reader in organizational behaviour describes contemporary advances in the field from the perspectives of its teachers and most active researchers - all leaders in the field who report on the state of science. The book should be suitable for courses in both undergraduate and graduate level organizational behaviour as either a supplemental or core textbook.
This reader in organizational behaviour describes contemporary advances in the field from the perspectives of its teachers and most active researchers...
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400,11 zł |
Communication as Organizing: Empirical and Theoretical Explorations in the Dynamic of Text and Conversation
ISBN: 9780805858129 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Communication as Organizing "unites multiple reflections on the role of language under a single rubric: the organizing role of communication. Stemming from Jim Taylor's earlier work, the volume editors present a communicational answer to the q
"Communication as Organizing "unites multiple reflections on the role of language under a single rubric: the organizing role of communication. Stemmin...
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701,59 zł |
Emotion and Performance: A Special Issue of Human Performance
ISBN: 9780805895469 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this special issue, five papers address the study of emotions from a variety of viewpoints. Two are theoretical essays that deal respectively with emotion and creativity and the relationships between individual and team performance. Three are empirical studies that canvas the emotion-performance nexus across levels of analysis: within-person, between-person, and in groups. Between them, the five papers present a strong case for the nexus of emotions and performance, but more importantly provide a platform for potentially fruitful future research in this burgeoning area.
In this special issue, five papers address the study of emotions from a variety of viewpoints. Two are theoretical essays that deal respectively with ...
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166,25 zł |