Organizational Theory & Behaviour

Where do powerful strategies come from? How do some companies develop strategies that enable them to outperform others regardless of the state of t...

Michael Neenan clearly and accessibly introduces the 30 Distinctive Features of cognitive behavioural coaching (CBC), an approach which applies the...

Despite two decades of investment in project management as many as 80 per cent of business change and IT projects continue to rack up cost overruns...

The new edition of Readings and Cases in International Human Resource Management examines the interactions between people, cultures, and human reso...

Safety performance is a complicated issue, particularly in high-hazard environments, where time and other constraints can be amplified, and result ...

The most damning charge frequently levelled at strategic planning is that of irrelevance. Paul Hunters The Seven Inconvenient Truths of Business St...

Whats Your Business? offers a comprehensive pathway through the subject of corporate design clarifying the relationship between corporate design an...

In Multipreneurship: Diversification in Times of Crisis, Nick Harkiolakis argues against the more commonly held view that diversification at the le...

This book offers a general theoretical framework for approaching innovation and entrepreneurship, using practical and up-to-date examples to demons...

Organizational leaders often struggle to establish and sustain a trusting culture in times of constant changes in the corporate fabric and unethica...

The Roles of Organisation Development by Dr Annamaria Garden introduces a radically new and original framework to explain organisation development ...

This title was first published in 2003. Over the past two decades in Australia and other developed nations, public sector management philosophies a...

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we ...

This book is a collection of 16 empirical cases in critical Cross-Cultural Management (CCM). All cases approach culture in CCM beyond national cult...

This title was first published in 2000: Both the world of work and the sphere of family life are greedy, demanding time and energy of participants....

Drawing on data from a Europe wide project, together with existing data on equality and diversity initiatives, this book explores the work of trade...

Globalization, consumerism, legislation and human rights issues impact on workplace demographics, changing the very nature thereof. It is of strate...

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving hea...

Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners interested in promoting economic well-being and sustainable grow...

Written by actual Toyota team members, One Team on All Levels: Stories from Toyota Team Members, Second Edition is not another technical explanatio...

First published in 1998, revised in 2021, this volume develops and tests an information-processing model of organization, within the context of the...

Title first published in 2003. Despite all the hype about e-learning, the real breakthrough in technology, at least as far as HR goes, is in the de...

No one likes change. Too often its viewed as something that must be endured; something to get through as fast as possible so that everything can re...

Setting out best practices and professional guidance for creating LGBT+ inclusive workplaces, this approachable and easy to follow book guides curr...

Despite the Great Recession, slightly different forms of global capitalism are still portrayed as the only game in town by the vast majority of peo...

In Psychodynamic Coaching: Distinctive Features, Claudia Nagel presents a comprehensive overview of the unique features of psychodynamic coaching. ...

Business Psychology and Organizational Behaviour introduces principles and concepts in psychology and organizational behaviour with emphasis on rel...

Projects are constantly beset by problems, often caused by seemingly small mistakes which collectively lead to larger issues. Why do project manage...

The latest research suggests that 33% of people lie deliberately to achieve employment. The costs of mis-hires are significant in terms of manageme...

In this fourth and final volume of the CARE-ing for Integral Development series, Ronnie Lessem integrates all that has come before in terms of: Com...

The concept of digitalization captures the widespread adoption of digital technologies in our lives, in the structure and functioning of organizati...

This is the era of flexibility. Under constant pressure to be adaptable, organizations increasingly adopt employment practices such as zero-hours c...

This book is concerned with the rapid and varied changes in the nature of work and work relationships which have taken place in recent years. While...

Successful innovation is a true challenge and especially when todays companies are intertwined in close inter-organisational relationships and netw...

Organizations increasingly use temporary designs. Many temporary organizations are assembled by mixing and matching building blocks from static, bu...

The nature of contemporary Organisation Development (OD) is often written about by both scholars and practitioners, yet there is little evidence of...

This volume offers empirically based insights and findings on the question of how human service organizations are reacting to the increasing need f...

Indigenous, ethnic and rural peoples throughout the world struggle to effectively deal with the challenges triggered by outside economic and social...

Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by cor...

This edited book addresses two critical issues in international management: building trust and managing boundary spanning activities between intern...

Every day we hear stories about the consequences of human frailties for individuals, their families and friends, and their organizations. Some of t...

Innovation in technology and services was once the result of specialist knowledge developed within a single corporation; now, a single focus on the...

This book focuses on leadership -- what it is, how it works, and how complex, multi-layered and multi-dimensional it is -- and how it will change i...

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of innovation management and its applications in various business contexts, providing an overview and ...