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An exploration of the themes, methods and procedures of organizational recruitment. Written for industrial and organizational psychologists, the author aims to increase the probability of correct staffing decisions, thus optimizing work adjustment and organizational productivity.

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This new work offers a substantive political theory approach to organizational theory. It differs significantly from most organizational perspectives in that it applies political theory to four prevalent organizational models found in administration today.

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Written to meet the needs of busy undergraduate students, this book covers all of the key OB topics in an accessible and engaging style. Ideal as a course companion, pre-course reading, or for revision.

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This compact overview of change management today includes both classical critical frameworks and contemporary developments, as well as a focus on employability.

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He introduces new practices, such as Altra Teams, E-prime language, and Natural Work Goals and explores the mental sets and perceptions that workers have, things that affect the amount of energy, enthusiasm, and vigor they can devote to doing their work.

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An indispensable reference for designing and conducting organizational needs assessments, this book advocates a system-oriented approach to help meet the complex challenges confronting organizations today.

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Targeted at managers and consultants who must diagnose organizational problems, this work is an accessible analysis of organizational cultures, social network, and cause mapping. With emphasis on the smaller business, it provides methods of detecting dysfunctions - demonstrated by actual cases.

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Shows that there was nothing inevitable about the surge in corporate size and power by century's end. This book concludes that the driving force of our history is not technology, politics, or culture, but large, bureaucratic organizations. It features various vignettes and offers insights presaging a different historical genre.

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Bar-Haim analyses the shapes and dimensions that employee participation programmes take, using a variety of conceptual frames from the social and management sciences; suggests practical guidelines to operationalize them; then adds a number of scenarios for what these plans could look like.

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In this book, the authors integrate the three dominant approaches to organizational development - learning, performance, and change - to create a dynamic lens through which to analyze any HRD program or initiative.

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Describes how leaders and managers implement change and gain commitment to their initiatives from inside and outside their organizations through the use of principled leadership and business diplomacy.

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Ratingless Performance Management provides employers with the fundamentals for implementing an innovative performance management process to effectively address new employee expectations as companies transition from Baby Boomer and Gen X generation preferences to Gen Y and Gen Z expectations of accelerated skill development, workplace flexibility and empowerment to achieve sustainable productivity!

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This work explores alternative organisational designs for the delivery of human services - designs that emphasise collaborative governance and partnerships among public and private agencies, local control and responsibility for results, and the use of innovative technologies.

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Emerged from the Lewinian tradition of research into organizational behavior, motivation, and change, here is a conceptual but practical way for HR professionals and others in today's organizations to understand better, more quickly and reliably, what the underlying human problems in their organizations are.

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One critical change in how people work, argues Larry Hirschhorn, is that they are expected to bring more of themselves psychologically to the job. To facilitate this change, it is necessary to create a new culture of authorityone in which superiors acknowledge their dependence on subordinates, subordinates can challenge superiors, and both are able to show their vulnerability.

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This text aims to provide the basis for understanding how space, location and topography affect world-system organization and process. The book examines case studies of the restructuring of space and transport in core, semiperipheral, and peripheral economines.

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This easy-to-read book tells how the Rolling Stones started out 60 years ago as a venture to confess the blues, unprepared for planetary success. It shows how they managed, adapted, innovated and grew, and how they succeeded in dealing with the interpersonal dynamics inherent in any form of human organization.

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Managers and management scholars alike need operational models and concepts for dealing with core competencies within strategic management.

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Good and Schultz demonstrate how the careful identification and management of technologies provide significant advantages that for many managers and firms far outweigh the disadvantages imposed through the invention of these technologies.