Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Organizational Development

The uplifting message of Reinventing Organizations has resonated with readers all over the world, and they have turned it, one conversation at a time, into a word-of-mouth phenomenon. The book has helped shift the conversation from what's broken with management today to what's possible. It is inspiring thousands of organizations--corporations and nonprofits, schools and hospitals--to adopt radically more powerful, soulful, and purposeful practices.

The book resonates widely, but not everyone has time to devote to a dense 360-page management book. This illustrated version...

The most successful organisations are those with the most diverse and engaged workforces. Studies show an 80% improvement in business performance among those with high diversity levels. When people feel included and able to reach their full potential, they are more engaged, more productive and often more creative.

Inclusive Leadership will help you drive culture change using organisational development principles. It takes you through the key components of leading change throughout the employee lifecycle, your supply chain, and through product development....

This book sheds light on Japanese MCSs and the differences between that of the US, illustrated with examples from Mitsubishi Electric, Kao and more. This book aids not only researchers in management accounting, but also provides more...

ACCOUNTABILITY IS THE CATALYST THAT IGNITES: Accelerated Change, Robust Employee Engagement, Intensified Ownership, Relentless Perseverance, Impeccable Alignment, and propels individuals, teams and organizations to desired results.

Accountability crumbles silos, boosts teamwork and collaboration, strengthens camaraderie, creativity, resiliency, agility, trust, and communication

Achieve with Accountability presents a recipe for awakening the whatever it takes attitude to achieve what matters most to individuals, teams and organizations. Discover...

Some organizations are able to survive and thrive through times of uncertainty while others stumble and fall at the first sign of trouble. What differentiates resilient organizations from those that are not? Do we need to wait until a crisis strikes to see how resilient an organization is, or can we diagnose resilience in advance of a crisis? Resilient Organizations draws on primary research to reveal the answers to these questions and provide practical ideas and actions to make your own organization more resilient.

Organizational resilience is not just about...

Professional Practice in Learning and Development guides learning and development professionals and students in designing and delivering effective people development in the modern organization. It is a core text for those studying for learning and development qualifications such as the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Intermediate level, and a useful handbook for those in learning and development roles looking to develop their understanding of the latest developments facing the profession. With a particular focus on digital, blended and social learning it will...

In order to create truly sustainable universities, we require new methods of visualising and interpreting them holistically as institutions built on complex relationships and systems, rather than as individual departments and people operating independently. This book uses a systemic structural constellations approach to demonstrate how we can build more sustainable higher education institutions, both in terms of teaching and research and at an operational level.

Drawing examples from current research and teaching, Systemic Structural Constellations and Sustainability in...

Attracting, hiring, developing and retaining the right people is crucial to an organization's success. The stakes have never been higher: a 2015 study by CAP suggests that the average cost of employee attrition is 20% of a mid-level employee's annual salary and up to 213% of a high-level executive's salary. In a business environment changing so rapidly that jobs which will be essential in 2020 don't even exist yet, Exceptional Talent examines how changes in technology, communication, and employee preferences are impacting the talent journey. It gives practical advice for how...

Take advantage of your organization's brainpower with Kata-driven continuous improvement

-This is the first book I have read that provides a clear picture of what it takes to develop and mobilize creative capability across an organization, to achieve challenging goals.- Jeffrey K. Liker, author of The Toyota Way (from the Foreword)

Nobody drives continuous improvement in real, tangible ways like Toyota, where everyone at every level works toward common, customer-related goals. At Toyota, continuous improvement is habitual.

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The changes that are upon us will alter the face of every industry, business and government but, even more importantly, the way you and society live.

Drawing on Olivier Van Duüren’s extensive global experience at the cutting edge of one of the world’s most successful companies, The Dualarity provides a comprehensive overview of what is happening around you and the implications. It shows you how to energise your future and transform with sparkle as an individual and as a business. It could mean the difference between spreading your wings and...

Engaged employees are more productive, motivated and resilient, yet gaining financial support to develop engagement is harder than ever as budgets are being squeezed and everyone is being asked to do more with less. 50 Top Tools for Employee Engagement shows that you don't need expensive interventions or additional resource to achieve employee engagement. It contains practical tools which can be used to make an immediate difference to engagement, whether you're working with individuals, teams or the organization as a whole.

Each tool in 50 Top Tools for Employee...

On Freedom: Organizational Science Examined Philosophically

Scientific Freedom, Intellectual Freedom, Moral Freedom, Political Freedom, Spiriitual Freedom

A few words about the organization of this book. It follows what can be described as a narrative, in that it moves in stages, each of which combines more than one objective. This is evident, for example, in the first chapter on Scientific Freedom, which endeavors to situate "organization" within a philosophical tradition, the introduction of concepts that have moved organization to science, and the struggle of this science...

There is a growing interest in the knowledge economy, and the new types of job and ways of working associated with it. This book analyses how a particular group creative knowledge workers carry out their jobs and learn within it. Using empirical research from advertising and software development in Europe, Singapore and Japan, it develops a new conceptual framework to analyse the complexities of creative knowledge work.

Focussing uniquely on the human element of working in the knowledge economy, it explores the real world of how people work in this emerging phenomenon and...

Drawing on personal narrative accounts and lessons from the complexity sciences, this book examines conventional leadership development methodologies, identifying what is useful and what is not. It offers an alternative perspective and framework for business schools, consultancies and corporate training functions to adopt in their development of leaders.

Rethinking Leadership Development will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers of leadership development, leadership studies, human resource management and organizational development. It will also...

Drawing on personal narrative accounts and lessons from the complexity sciences, this book examines conventional leadership development methodologies, identifying what is useful and what is not. It offers an alternative perspective and framework for business schools, consultancies and corporate training functions to adopt in their development of leaders.

Rethinking Leadership Development will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers of leadership development, leadership studies, human resource management and organizational development. It will also...

Build a championship sales team that prepares, practices, and plays in sync--and closes every deal

Gone are the days of meeting a client for lunch, chatting about your product, and closing the sale over dessert. Buyers today look very differently from those of the past. They make networked purchasing decisions by committee, with diverse roles, interests and backgrounds. With access to more information and a greater ability to share it, they demand value, access and alignment from their counterparties.

Sales is now a team sport, and to win you have to build and...