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In business, as in other aspects of life, we learn and grow from the examples set by others. Imitation can lead to innovation. But in order to grow innovatively, how do businesses decide what firms to imitate And how do they choose what practices to follow This title takes a look at the benchmarking initiative of a major financial institution.

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Sets forth and applies a different language for theory building based on a nonmonotonic logic and fuzzy set theory. This book builds on cognitive psychology and anthropology to develop an audience-based theory of organizational categories. It applies this framework and the different language of theory building to organizational ecology.

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Practitioners from the science of complexity explore its emerging applications of day-to-day managerial problems in this book. They also look at the field's present and future challenges.

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Develops a design for the effective management of conflict at various levels in an organization.

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The concept of organizational justice refers to perceptions of fairness within organizations.

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Offers a unique new way of viewing and understanding organizations, and how to manage them in today's rapidly evolving and uncertain economy.

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This guide helps managers develop the necessary knowledge and skills to thrive in the new workplace.

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Despite enormous changes in the economy and the labor force since the previous edition of this classic text was published in 1994, one thing has remained constant: change itself.

(Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

Despite enormous changes in the economy and the labor force since the previous edition of this classic text was published in 1994, one thing has remained constant: change itself.

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Allcorn and Diamond argue that the workplace has become ever more threatening to employees, and that they respond by creating psychological defenses that make the workplace ever more dysfunctional.

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Details effective management strategies for dealing with power relationships and examines the problems encountered in getting things done in lateral organizations.

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A critique of massive corporate restructuring and its almost inevitable failure, with a workable multistage procedure to help corporate management rise from the rubble and re-create more workable organizations.

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Using actual case histories that readers can apply directly to their businesses, two experts in organizational behavior, corporate culture, and customer service demonstrate how to dramatically improve a company's overall performance by motivating behind-the-scenes workers. Deal is the bestselling author of Corporate Cultures, which has sold 75,000 copies.

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How they do so, and how they can be more effective inner leaders, is the focus of this book for current and aspiring leaders as well as their academic colleagues.

Fairholm explains that there are four key characteristics that distinguish inner leaders from CEOs.

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Containing a new introduction, this book on corporate power offers a theory of the effects of power and powerlessness within the corporation. The theory is updated by considering attitudes and practices in the corporate power structure of the 1990s.

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A challenging new approach to methodology and theory building in the managerial and organizational sciences.

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This work examines organization theory and behaviour, change, and reform worldwide. It views organization in two ways: as an organization of society into public, private, and nonprofit sectors; and looks at organizing activity, such as creating institutional arrangements to perform tasks.

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A systematic approach to enlisting support from the workforce to help organizations succeed in managing change.

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Maddock and Fulton provide this approach not only to motivate people, but also to train them to lead others.

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Information, knowledge, information worker and information technology are at the epicenter of these changes and surprises. In addition, proposed is a model of the nontraditional organization in which information work evolves around teams that directly serve customers.

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Through vignettes and case studies, this work demonstrates how brutal business practices have become. It shows the importance of psychodynamic mechanisms (especially counter-transference) in understanding and healing dysfunctional business, medical, and educational organizations.

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