Author:
Publisher: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Keywords: success, organising
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0852929730
ISBN-13: 9780852929735

Author: Tony J. Watso
Publisher: Financal Times Management
Keywords: work, managing, organising
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 027370480X
ISBN-13: 9780273704805

The book takes as its starting point the everyday practices of people at all levels in organisations as they manage their work. It encourages the reader to use and judge organisation and management theories by their relevance to real life’ practices and dilemmas, ranging the day-to-day to major strategic change. The book also offers insights into aspects of organisational life that are often marginalised, such as the politics and ethics of managerial action; the ambiguous, uncertain and contested nature of organisational processes; and the significance of angst, emotion, humour and misch

Author: David Billis
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: agencies, voluntary, public, organising
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1992-12-12
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0415074398
ISBN-13: 9780415074391

One of the legacies of the Thatcher years to the social services has been the restructuring of both public and voluntary organizations through legislation, privatization and changes in funding. These changes have forced voluntary organizations to take on more and more responsibility originally belonging to the public sector so that now the voluntary sector is a significant part of health and social care in Britain. As a result, academic, students and policy makers must understand the similarities and differences between the two sectors. "Organizing Public and Voluntary Agencies" presents essay

Author: Anna Dubois
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: firm, boundaries, across, activities, industrial, organising
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 1998-03-10
List price: $198.00
ISBN-10: 0415147077
ISBN-13: 9780415147071

Author: Bridget M. Hutter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: regulation, risk, organising, risks, anticipating
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-09-20
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0521193095
ISBN-13: 9780521193092

Anticipating risks has become an obsession of the early twenty-first century. Private and public sector organizations increasingly devote resources to risk prevention and contingency planning to manage risk events should they occur. This book shows how we can organize our social, organizational and regulatory policy systems to cope better with the array of local and transnational risks we regularly encounter. Contributors from a range of disciplines - including finance, history, law, management, political science, social psychology, sociology and disaster studies - consider threats, vulnerabil

Author: Mike Bresne
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: matrix, management, organisation, project, construction, organising
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1990-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415030331
ISBN-13: 9780415030335

Much has been written on complex project organizations and especially matrix systems of management yet, these have tended to focus on one-off highly specialized projects. Such observations led Michael Bresnen to look for a less specific example, which might practically test these theories and would also provide material for a full comparative examination. The obvious choice was the construction industry. Construction creates distinctive organizational problems. External working relationships have an impact upon the decision-making of units invovled with individual building projects and can inh

Author: David Fairer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: circle, coleridge, poetry, organising
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-08-17
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0199296162
ISBN-13: 9780199296163

In this revisionary study of the poetry of Coleridge, Wordsworth and their friends during the ’revolutionary decade’ David Fairer questions the accepted literary history of the period and the critical vocabulary we use to discuss it. The book examines why, at a time of radical upheaval when continuities of all kinds (personal, political, social, and cultural) were being challenged, this group of poets explored themes of inheritance, retrospect, revisiting, and recovery. Organising Poetry charts their struggles to find meaning not through vision and symbol but from connection and di