Organizational Development

Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here From agency theory to power and politics, this indispensable guide to the key concepts of organization theory is your compass as you navigate through the often complex and abstract theories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946633972Author Edwin BossoFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint ForbesbooksPublisher ForbesbooksDimensions(mm) 221mm * 155mm * 25mm

This practical book explores collaborative inquiry as an approach to research and change in organizations where internal members and external researchers work together as partners to address organizational issues and create knowledge about changing...

Change in organizations can arise spontaneously, or it can begin in response to a planned process of change. Even planned change is not as predictable as one might like it to be; it is often partial or incomplete, or the results of change may not be what...

Organizations are often forced to change and adapt as a result of internal or external circumstances - whether the impetus is vision and ambition, a competing organization, societal pressure, or financial pressure. In this book, the authors posit that...

This book challenges the practice or organizational change programmes. It uses two case studies in depth to illustrate that consulting companies can often get it wrong. Senior managers often do not know enough about managing change. The text is arranged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143129929Author John G. MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.

A New Comprehensive Framework for Building Agile Practices into Any Organization Regardless of Its Culture. In the disruptive volatility and complexity of today's business world, yesterday's problem-solving is no longer adequate. Organizations must have...

Certain consultants argue leaders can quickly, easily, and considerably alter their organization cultures to improve performance. Conversely, field researchers have described situations where leaders could do little to alter the existing organization...

Purpose-Driven Innovation takes readers inside the UN Lab for Organizational Change and Knowledge (UNLOCK) to discover a new theory of change management, developed to help managers navigate accelerating, global, societal challenges such as the Covid-19...

At a time when the limits on human progress are ever-decreasing and the consequences of human actions have never been so critical to predict and manage, the responsible nature of innovations has acquired a whole new importance.Firms now need to find the...

The future will bring only more megatrends and disruptions. With the guidance of this book, which centers around the authors' years-of-research-backed high-performance organizations (HPO) framework and includes the unique self-assessment tool Futurize!...

Organizational Development gives readers an understanding of organizational structures and presents a new and easy-to-understand framework which describes the three dimensions of organizational interventions. Interventions in organization often fail...

Effectiveness is the underlying theme for this introduction to disruptive innovation. The book tells the manager, or student, what they need to know in transforming the thinking in an organization to an innovative mindset in the twenty-first century. ...

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...

Effect better outcomes with a robust coaching program The CCL Handbook of Coaching in Organizations deals with the practical, ethical, and political challenges of coaching within an organization. From coaching superiors to coaching business teams, this...

How can HR practitioners with little or no experience of analytics feel confident in their ability to find, analyse and use workforce data to make better business decisions? This book has the answers. An understanding of people analytics is a crucial...

In recent years, more and more organisations have realised that diversity and inclusion in the workplace is both crucial and enormously beneficial. But how do you stop this realisation from remaining empty words and flashy statements, and turn awareness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615718514Author David P HannaFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Hanaoka PublishingPublisher Hanaoka PublishingWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Institute a culture of learning to boost organizational performance and agility What makes organizations successful? Today, most successful companies are learning organizations. Building an Innovative Learning Organization shows you how to join their...

A dangerous journey into the violent world of creative conflict. Safety not guaranteed. Creative conflict is the world’s most powerful ideation technique. It’s an essential requirement for breakthrough-thinking and the secret behind every invention and...

Organizational or corporate 'culture' is the most overused and least understood word in business, if not society. While the topic has been an object of keen academic interest for nearly half a century, theorists and practitioners still struggle with the...

This book is part of the Human Centered Book Trilogy, the 2021 volumes of the Routledge Human Centered Management HCM Series. HCM books are pioneering transformation from the traditional humans-as-a-resource approach of the industrial past, to the humans...

Of all the skill sets that support the shift from a traditional management role to a more collaborative approach, none is more relevant than that of the role of the facilitator. The beliefs, behaviors, and practices of facilitation are precisely what all...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789152765814Author Marcus MaestriFormat PaperbackPage Count 698Imprint Marcus MaestriPublisher Marcus MaestriWeight(grams) 1007gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Most contemporary organizations use management teams to manage and coordinate their businesses at all levels of the organizational hierarchy. Management teams typically set overall goals, strategies, and priorities, making vital organizational decisions...

Achieve unprecedented business value by fostering true employee engagement Many organizations fail to realize and harness the power of their most valuable asset-their employees. Though they can be developed into a true competitive advantage, engagement...

Workforce diversity is good business. Workforce diversity, as a business strategy, can drive success and literally transform our organizations. It can also offer our companies a distinct business advantage over other companies, allowing us to: *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523000395Author Erika AndersenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

In this thought-provoking book, Udo Pesch examines how values articulated by society are incorporated into institutions and technologies in order to overcome what many consider to be a lack of democratic control over their progress.Providing insights...

With the volatile nature of today’s workplaces, analysis tools are more valuable than ever: this book provides those tools, to capture human expertise before it leaves the organization.

With the volatile nature of today’s workplaces, analysis tools are more valuable than ever: this book provides those tools, to capture human expertise before it leaves the organization.

This handbook gathers contributors from different disciplines of the social sciences, such as organization and management studies, sociology, anthropology and political science, to constructively discuss the kinds of transformations we need to see in...

Virtually everyone accepts that workplaces are complex but there is little insight into how we might engage with complexity more skilfully. If complexity isn’t something that managers can control and leaders cannot harness, then what does a complexity...

Virtually everyone accepts that workplaces are complex but there is little insight into how we might engage with complexity more skilfully. If complexity isn’t something that managers can control and leaders cannot harness, then what does a complexity...

Human Resource Management at Work is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of HRM, covering everything HR students need to excel in their academic studies. This leading textbook is divided into four key parts. The first part of the book covers...

This compact core textbook gives students an overview of how organisations experience change and shows how to develop a critical lens of how change is managed at the organisational, individual and group level of analysis. The authors cover all the topics...

This compact core textbook gives students an overview of how organisations experience change and shows how to develop a critical lens of how change is managed at the organisational, individual and group level of analysis. The authors cover all the topics...

What will be the right place for humans in the new economy of AI, avatars, automation, and 3D virtual worlds? Our job will be to bring wisdom to our workplace and the marketplace, working with intelligent machines, and this book is the roadmap.Though it...