Sociology of Organizations
ISBN: 9780029129302 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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,...
In this newly revised edition of a benchmark reference, twenty-five articles explore a variety of classical and current perspectives on the sociology ...
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124,20 zł |
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization
ISBN: 9780385517256 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Completely Updated and Revised
This revised edition of Peter Senge's bestselling classic, The Fifth Discipline, is based on fifteen years of experience in putting the book's ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization's ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories in the book demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas in The Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published in 1990, have become deeply integrated into people's ways of seeing... Completely Updated and Revised
This revised edition of Peter Senge's bestselling classic, The Fifth Discipline, is based on fifte... |
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128,21 zł |
Building Survivable Systems
ISBN: 9780977019137 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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:... Innovate or Perish
If you want to build a survivable system, this book explains how this goal can be achieved. "Building Survivable Systems" br... |
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149,53 zł |
Optimizing Organization Design
ISBN: 9781118763735 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Optimizing Organization Design offers a comprehensive resource and valued guide for anyone interested in improving organization performance. The book presents an approach to optimizing organization design that is based on over 100 large scale projects and 23 research studies that have been completed by Capelle Associates over the past 25 years. In addition, the book includes insightful comments from executives on their success in using this approach. Capelle's research and client experience reveal that optimizing organization design leads to better financial performance, customer... Optimizing Organization Design offers a comprehensive resource and valued guide for anyone interested in improving organization performance.... |
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174,67 zł |
Organizational Models: Organizations 07.07
ISBN: 9781841122410 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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... Fast track route to mastering organizational models
Covers the key areas of organizational models, from bureaucracies and infocracies to chaordic a... |
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60,01 zł |
Virtual Teamwork: Mastering the Art and Practice of Online Learning and Corporate Collaboration
ISBN: 9780470449943 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "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... "This book, by Robert Ubell and his excellent team of collaborators, adds an important dimension to effective teaching and learning in online environm...
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294,57 zł |
Organizational Socialization: Joining and Leaving Organizations
ISBN: 9780745646350 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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... The experiences of joining and leaving organizations permeate most people's lives in the 21st century. This book provides a framework for increasing o...
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92,77 zł |
The Anti-Fragility Edge: Antifragility in Practice
ISBN: 9780996943307 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In today's business world, business organizations experience unprecedented levels of disruption and can only expect the unexpected While they must perform in a VUCA world (one characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity), their ability to OODA (observe, orient, decide, and act) is no longer enough to survive and thrive amidst disorder While agility is quintessential for adapting in this new reality, antifragility is quintessential for evolving in this new reality Conclusively, business organizations must embrace this new reality and emerge stronger In "The...
In today's business world, business organizations experience unprecedented levels of disruption and can only expect the unexpected While they must pe...
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66,14 zł |
Shift Points: One Hundred Ideas to Shift Your Organization Into Top Gear
ISBN: 9781599324487 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,24 zł |
Making It All Work: A Pocket Guide to Sustain Improvement and Anchor Change
ISBN: 9780415881029 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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... This book explains how to organize and manage modifications during the solution realization phase of problem solving so improvements become the new... |
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700,25 zł |
Managing Networks of Creativity
ISBN: 9780415887649 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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 aim of this book is to improve our understanding of creativity and the management of creativity, as discussed in the fields of management, economi...
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752,12 zł |
Organizational Socialization: Joining and Leaving Organizations
ISBN: 9780745646343 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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... The experiences of joining and leaving organizations permeate most people's lives in the 21st century. This book provides a framework for increasing o...
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273,00 zł |
Turning Team Performance Inside Out: Team Types and Temperament for High-Impact Results
ISBN: 9780891063919 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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...
Use the insights of type and temperament to improve team performance In Turning Team Performance Inside Out, Susan Nash persuasively demonstrates that...
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198,65 zł |
Corporate Social Responsibility, Governance and Corporate Reputation
ISBN: 9789814335171 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This unique volume expounds on the nature of white-collar crime and examines its relationship with corporate social responsibility, governance and corporate reputation. Based on empirical study and extensive literature review, this book presents different approaches for repairing damaged corporate reputations and also explains how internal governance and investigations can be conducted. Stages in corporate social responsibility are discussed and knowledge management is underscored as an imperative tool to combat white-collar crime and build corporate reputation.
This unique volume expounds on the nature of white-collar crime and examines its relationship with corporate social responsibility, governance and cor...
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337,16 zł |
Organizational Routines: How They Are Created, Maintained, and Changed
ISBN: 9780198759485 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Over the past 15 years, organizational routines have been increasingly investigated from a process perspective to challenge the idea that routines are stable entities that are mindlessly enacted.
A process perspective explores how routines are performed by specific people in specific settings. It shows how action, improvisation, and novelty are part of routine performances. It also departs from a view of routines as "black boxes" that transform inputs into organizational outputs and places attention on the actual actions and patterns that comprise routines. Routines are both effortful... Over the past 15 years, organizational routines have been increasingly investigated from a process perspective to challenge the idea that routines are...
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571,41 zł |
Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small or Medium-Sized Enterprises: Main Criteria and Tools for Managers
ISBN: 9780857292421 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small- or Medium-sized Enterprises outlines different approaches to the analysis of the organisation of small- or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Owing to the increased competition in the worldwide market, several SMEs operating in the same industrial sectors have agreed collaborative market strategies, both for raw material procurement and for final product delivery. The resulting networks, however, have a tendency to suffer from a lack of organization, which minimizes their impact on the product and labour markets, and causes... Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small- or Medium-sized Enterprises outlines different approaches to the analysis of th... |
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384,63 zł |
Strategic Organizational Learning: Using System Dynamics for Innovation and Sustained Performance
ISBN: 9783662486412 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book discusses the successes and challenges of leveraging organizational learning in effective strategy development and execution. The authors introduce a framework that helps organizations develop core capabilities to enable them to shift direction rapidly and proactively shape future environments. They also offer a wide selection of cases to illustrate this framework. While some cases highlight fundamental strategic change over time, others are snapshots of mechanisms gradually put in place to jointly optimize learning and performance. There is no one best or right way to leverage... This book discusses the successes and challenges of leveraging organizational learning in effective strategy development and execution. The authors... |
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249,99 zł |
Switch: How to change things when change is hard
ISBN: 9781847940322 / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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.
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...
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61,06 zł |
Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track-And Keeping It There
ISBN: 9781608321223 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) No matter what kind of organization you work for, whether it's your own small business or a global Fortune 100 company, your number-one goal is success. Predictable Success takes you step-by-step through a startlingly simple, intuitive, and universal process that shows you how to bring sustained, lasting, predictable success to your organization. Find out where your organization is today and take the uncertainty out of tomorrow as you make the journey towards Predictable Success.
No matter what kind of organization you work for, whether it's your own small business or a global Fortune 100 company, your number-one goal is succes...
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107,43 zł |
The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups
ISBN: 9780865716971 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A Transition Town group involved in preparations for peak oil and climate change; an intentional community, founded with the highest ideals; a nonprofit dedicated to social change millions of such voluntary groups exist around the world. These collaborative organizations have the unique potential to harness their members' ideals, passions, skills, and knowledge if they can succeed in getting along together. The Empowerment Manual is a comprehensive manual for groups seeking to organize with shared power and bottom-up leadership to foster vision, trust, accountability, and... A Transition Town group involved in preparations for peak oil and climate change; an intentional community, founded with the highest ideals; a nonp... |
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127,24 zł |