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Most quality management programs focus on the tools that can be employed to improve quality, but the long-term results of these efforts have been mixed.

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For junior and senior managers alike, Deal and Kennedy offer guidelines for diagnosing the state of one's own corporate culture and for using the power of culture to wield significant influence on how business gets done.

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This work explores how organizations are built to fail, arguing that personnel often serve individual rather than organizational interests; consequently the organization is likely inadvertently pursue self-destructive goals. The book also outlines possible solutions.

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This book focuses on the determinants of time in corporate reorientations.

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For organizational and personal change to happen and be sustainable, there must first be a system of thought balanced against action.

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Olmstead writes from an open systems perspectivea viewpoint of organizations that adapt quickly to turbulent, uncertain business environmentsoffering an integrated, understandable, and highly practical way to analyze, assess, and improve organization performance.

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How do corporations and other organizations transmit their cultures over time This book grounds its analysis in mathematical tools and computer simulation, and offers a comprehensive answer to this question. It is for students of organization theory and behavior, cultural studies, strategic management, sociology, economics, and social simulation.

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"The ultimate plan for a winning culture"--Cover.

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Designing Dynamic Organizations shows business leaders at all levels how to grapple with problems of restructuring. Based on author Jay Galbraith's world-renowned approach, this guide includes examples and worksheets that pilot readers through the essential steps of organizational design.

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Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they collide with powerful, gender-linked images.

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Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (REIGOs) have increased in number and importance since World War II and have assumed critical roles in both the economic and the political realms.

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A proven step-by-step strategy to move organizations away from the unproductive Theory X style of management and into the now recognized and appreciated Theory Y style of high commitment and involvement.

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A proven step-by-step strategy to move organizations away from the unproductive Theory X style of management and into the now recognized and appreciated Theory Y style of high commitment and involvement.

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Focuses on the kind of dilemmas that confront people at work. The author combines philosophy with everyday decision making, to offer an approach to making ethical decisions. Real-life case examples illustrate ethical dilemmas that involve, for example, supervisory practices.

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It is the contention of this book that we must increase our understanding of organizational decision making in general and ethical decision making in particular.

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Shows how managers in any organizational setting can improve their own and their teams' results through a unique, step-by-step approach to setting goals and then--most importantly--by putting them into action.

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this book articulates the difference between influence and power and presents ways to use influence effectively in today's downsizing and restructuring organizations.

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This edited collection examines organizational conflict and how it is handled in seven different countries (and cultures) around the globe: France, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, and Turkey. Experts on each country discuss how various social, cultural, and economic forces affect conflict management;

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A collection of original articles by leading practitioners and researchers, this volume examines methods for human resource forecasting and planning to meet the strategic needs of the organization.

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Following the success of "Queen Bees and Wannabes" and "Odd Girl Out, " about aggression in girls, "In the Company of Women" explains how indirect, or "relational, " aggression can hurt women and hinder them from achieving success and harmony in their adult lives.