Management: Leadership & Motivation

A competency is a combination of knowledge, skills and attitude that one needs in order to function adequately in any given professional situation ...

This book provides a step-by-step guide to achieve best practice communication within schools. Communication is a critical component in building st...

Leading Consciously addresses the issues of motivation, decision-making, communication, time management, effective learning, work psychology, organ...

This book challenges the practice or organizational change programmes. It uses two case studies in depth to illustrate that consulting companies ca...

This book demonstrates how a professional learning community can increase teacher growth and student achievement. The authors provide detailed exam...

In today’s educational climate, advocacy is a critical part of any teacher or leader’s job. Advocacy From A to Z unpacks the difficult task of unde...

The Newtonian mindset has dominated the entire human world for more than three centuries. It has provided the necessary knowledge, theories and con...

Traditionally, organizations and researchers have focused on learning that occurs through formal training and development programs. However, the re...

Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach introduces the most recent theoretical and empirical insights on positive organizational p...

Facing the amplitude and the acceleration of changes, management must also change, and it must become alert, adaptable, and agile. The children of ...

In Project Risk Governance, Dieter Fink breaks new ground in two ways. Firstly, he places project risk management in the context of today’s organis...

Patterns of Strategy shows how the strategic fit between organisations drives strategic direction. It is essential reading for those who wish to un...

Facing the amplitude and the acceleration of changes, management must also change, and it must become alert, adaptable, and agile. The children of ...

This affordable text covers the management of both human resource systems and employees in local government settings. It focuses on the significant...

It’s no secret: marketing punches below its weight in the Boardroom. CEOs and other board members perceive that marketers lack commercial credibili...

In an uncertain and complex world leaders should not merely respond to the speed of change but attempt to anticipate it. Sometimes it is unexpected...

Bringing together the best practices of many of the most highly respected organizational thinkers shaping the future landscape of business, Leading...

Patterns of Strategy shows how the strategic fit between organisations drives strategic direction. It is essential reading for those who wish to un...

Global corporations and the senior executives who oversee them have been subject to great criticism in recent times: not only do such corporations ...

Traditionally, organizations and researchers have focused on learning that occurs through formal training and development programs. However, the re...

How can marketers navigate the growing array of marketing specialties, multiplying media options and data sources, and increasing content saturatio...

College Student Leadership Development introduces the idea that we all play a part in producing leadership and that learning how to participate in ...

In her new book, award-winning principal and leadership expert Cathie West provides education leaders at all levels with the tools and guidance the...

Freud said that "love and work" are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the "good lif...

The Psychology of Effective Management combines basic psychological principles with practical recommendations for building positive and productive ...

Most economic theory is based on the assumption that economies grow in a linear fashion. Recessions, depressions and (financial) crises are explain...

An increasing number of women are claiming the careers and the success which are rightfully theirs. This book, first published in 1988, demonstrate...

Freud said that "love and work" are the central therapeutic goals of psychoanalysis; the twin pillars for a sound mind and for living the "good lif...

College Student Leadership Development introduces the idea that we all play a part in producing leadership and that learning how to participate in ...

Organizational or corporate ‘culture’ is the most overused and least understood word in business, if not society. While the topic has been an objec...

Leadership is not just about reading data points and asserting corresponding action points; it is about designing an organizational structure and c...

The Psychology of Effective Management combines basic psychological principles with practical recommendations for building positive and productive ...

In the ten years since this Gower Handbook was first published, Programme Management has been transformed to become the vehicle of choice for reali...

What is our role in creating healthy organizations and a healthy world? Creative Social Change fosters a unique dialogue on the interconnections be...

In the third edition of this bestselling book, instructional leadership expert Sally Zepeda shares eleven more field-tested, informal classroom obs...

A leader’s role in the management of change is a critical issue for successful outcomes of strategic initiatives. Globalization and economic instab...

Social media has exploded onto American culture — including our schools — giving educators a unique opportunity to shape this phenomenon into a pow...

This book is a philosophical exploration of the relationship between leadership and organization. Each chapter in the book sheds light on this rela...

Social finance and social investment are not challenging concepts to grasp. They use commercial-style investment tools to create a social as well a...

Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul, and Jimmy Casas are widely acclaimed experts on teaching and leading and are pioneers in the education twitterverse, a...

Gareth Morgan’s monumental book, Images of Organization, revolutionized the field of organization theory. In honor of Morgan’s classic text, this e...

Don’t jump from problem to solution without first investigating root causes. This book helps you more accurately focus on school improvement issues...

In good times and bad, in the different situations of renewal, crisis, and chronic resource constraints, the strategic leadership of public service...

This book presents the gospel as a sensemaking tool to critically examine five areas of personal leadership effectiveness, namely desire, identity,...

Over the past decade, research and theory on heroism and heroic leadership has greatly expanded, providing new insights on heroic behavior. The Han...

Confronting Corruption in Business focuses on the contextual issues that trigger corruption to give the reader a more thorough understanding of des...