Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Organizational Development

Institutional theory has become one of the dominant organizational approaches in recent decades. Its roots can be traced to Europe, and an important intellectual objective of this book is to examine North American theory strands and reconnect them with European research traditions. In addition, this book focuses on how organizations and individuals handle heterogeneous and challenging social conditions which are subsequently reflected in various forms of change.

We all know that change is hard. Its unsettling, its time-consuming, and all too often we give up at the first sign of a setback. But why do we insist on seeing the obstacles rather than the goal? This is the question that bestselling authors Chip and Dan Heath tackle in their compelling and insightful new book.

Working Whole Systems offers a radical way of thinking about organisations as living systems. It provides practical methods for engaging with complex social and organisational issues that are applicable to any group wanting a new way to work. The book draws directly on the authors' experience in health agencies, housing, transport, local government, police and voluntary agencies. This second edition contains new research on the criminal justice system, services for children and young people and services for people with mental health problems. Leaders, managers and human resources...

In this newly revised edition of a benchmark reference, twenty-five articles explore a variety of classical and current perspectives on the sociology of organizations. Individual entries cover the individual in the organization, organization structure, organizations and their environments, public institutions, private industry, women in organizations, centralization versus decentralization, bureaucracy, human service organizations, factories, education organizations, and labor unions. Sociology of Organizations includes noteworthy writing from significant theorists ranging from Max Weber,...

This book looks at the experience of 13 European firms and institutions, drawn from the manufacturing services and health sectors. It shows how organization has been the key to their productivity growth and that while Europe has much to learn from Japan and the USA, it has considerable expertise on which the production sector can grow.

Innovate or Perish

If you want to build a survivable system, this book explains how this goal can be achieved.

"Building Survivable Systems" brings together principles and applications on strategies for building complex survivable product, process, and business systems. The author demonstrates the successful application of the principles and strategies using examples from the industry, government, and academia. Learn:

The differences between: Systems, System Categories and Survivable Systems

What constitutes a survivable system, and its measure of merit

The approaches for:...

The proliferation of giant multi-organizational agencies in the last decade has fostered a rethinking of inter-organizational interactions. By synthesizing emerging planning theories with the most recent research in the field, How Organizations Act Together offers a unique and comprehensive perspective on how modern organizations interact. From missions to the moon to management and modern public policy, Alexander unravels the complexities of interorganizational coordination, providing students and scholars with the tools for understanding.

Fast track route to mastering organizational models

Covers the key areas of organizational models, from bureaucracies and infocracies to chaordic alliances and worker democracies

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including ASEA Brown Boveri, Bowstreet, Inc., Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, Softopia Japan, The Thread, and VR Techno Japan, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Lynda M. Applegate, Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Goshal, Dee Hock, James Clawson, Geert Hofstede, Robert Hormats, Henry Mintzberg, Gareth Morgan, Denise...

"This book, by Robert Ubell and his excellent team of collaborators, adds an important dimension to effective teaching and learning in online environments. It addresses how interaction and collaboration online can be effectively harnessed in virtual teams. It is an important contribution to the larger field of Internet-based education."
--Frank Mayadas, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

How to create and manage highly successful teams online

With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and...

The experiences of joining and leaving organizations permeate most people's lives in the 21st century. This book provides a framework for increasing our understanding of those experiences using a mixture of specific examples, scholarly findings, and theoretical concepts and models.

Each chapter begins with a realistic scenario that illustrates its concepts and theories. Then the chapters explore the entire socialization process from anticipatory socialization, in which individuals choose occupations and organizations to join, to voluntarily or involuntarily exit from those same...

This book explains how to organize and manage modifications during the solution realization phase of problem solving so improvements become the new way of life. The nine steps detailed in the books chapters, although applied to solution implementation, can be used on their own to manage many types of system modification. These transition activities are framed in a three stage model first proposed by Kurt Lewin the father of change theory. It packages a strategy for sustaining improvements that is easy to understand and apply - unfreeze, change, and refreeze.

Fundamental...

The aim of this book is to improve our understanding of creativity and the management of creativity, as discussed in the fields of management, economics, sociology, regional studies, and political science.

The experiences of joining and leaving organizations permeate most people's lives in the 21st century. This book provides a framework for increasing our understanding of those experiences using a mixture of specific examples, scholarly findings, and theoretical concepts and models.

Each chapter begins with a realistic scenario that illustrates its concepts and theories. Then the chapters explore the entire socialization process from anticipatory socialization, in which individuals choose occupations and organizations to join, to voluntarily or involuntarily exit from those same...

Use the insights of type and temperament to improve team performance In Turning Team Performance Inside Out, Susan Nash persuasively demonstrates that the key to improving team performance is to begin at the beginning - go inside the team to analyze the type and temperament of each individual team member and of the team as a whole. She looks into the complexities of human behavior to help managers, team leaders, and team members understand their team's patterns of behavior, create and interpret a team profile, and design performance improvement strategies - customized to the team - that...