Author: W. Richard Scott
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: interests, ideas, organizations, institutions
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2007-10-19
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1412950902
ISBN-13: 9781412950909

A bestseller since its First Edition, Institutions and Organizations remains the key source for a comprehensive overview of the institutionalist approach to organization theory. W. Richard Scott presents a historical overview of the theoretical literature, an integrative analysis of current institutional approaches, and a review of empirical research related to institutions and organizations. He offers an extensive review and critique of institutional analysis in sociology, political science, and economics as it relates to recent theory and research on organizations.

Author: Thomas A. Stewart
Publisher: Broadway Busine
Keywords: organizations, wealth, new, capital, intellectual
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-12-29
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0385483813
ISBN-13: 9780385483810

Knowledge has become the most important factor in economic life. It is the chief ingredient of what we buy and sell, the raw material with which we work. Intellectual capital--not natural resources, machinery, or even financial capital--has become the one indispensable asset of corporations.Intellectual Capital is a groundbreaking book, visionary in scope and practical in applications, that offers powerful new ways of looking at what companies do and how to lead them. It is the first book to show how to turn the untapped, unmapped knowledge of an organization into its greatest competitive weap

Author: Linda Holbeche
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinema
Keywords: organizations, lean, people, motivating
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-12-30
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0750633751
ISBN-13: 9780750633758

Shortlisted for the prestigious Management Consultancies Association (MCA) best management book of the year, 1997. Motivating People in Lean Organizations is the essential guide for managers who need to motivate employees and promote new forms of career development. In organizations that have been delayered, career progression is often stunted. The best talent may jump ship at a time when they’re most needed, leaving less capable employees to fill the space.This book focuses on: implementation of motivational strategies, appropriate internal communications, new career development structu

Author: Malcolm Martin
Publisher: Chartered Inst of Pers/Develop
Keywords: organizations, amp, people, practice, personnel
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0852929412
ISBN-13: 9780852929414

This is the leading textbook for students taking the CIPD Certificate in Personnel Practice, and has been fully revised and rewritten to take account of the new academic standards that will be taught from September 2002. The CIPD’s Certificate in Personnel Practice is the ideal course for all newcomers to the profession.

Author: Gill R. (Robinson) Hickma
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: era, new, perspectives, organizations, leading
Number of Pages: 696
Published: 2009-12-09
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 1412939089
ISBN-13: 9781412939089

This text includes 50 short chapters from the most prominent international scholars of leadership who provide students with invaluable overviews, insights, and perspectives on leadership in today’s organizations. The book has a central organizing framework outlining the components of leadership (which is presented in the Introduction). It incorporates a new section on shared responsibility for leadership, new chapters on the external environment and on dysfunctional or unethical leadership behavior, a new section on inclusion, together with coverage of all the classic leadership theories, wi

Author: Richard A. Goodman
Publisher: Lexington Books
Keywords: conundrums, emerging, organizations, modern
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1999-03-11
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 0739100017
ISBN-13: 9780739100011

The contributors to this book review the postindustrial subculture, emphasizing cross-disciplinary and cross-contextual inquiry, a central idiom of postindustrial organizational life. The essays consider alternative methods of understanding media that add variety to "meanings" within and without organizations. This multi-method approach in the search for meaning and the limits of word and symbols to express meaning generates a personally interpretive basis to science.

Author: Harvey F. Hoffman
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: manager, project, eyes, organizations
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 2002-10-11
List price: $81.00
ISBN-10: 0130339717
ISBN-13: 9780130339713

This book examines the project manager’s role in an organization, and explains how to get a job done on time, within budget, and without compromising quality targets. A comprehensive, well-organized, and easy-to-read guide, this book assists the user in their preparations for the Project+ certification examination offered by CompTIA and the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) offered by the Project Management Institute. This book covers many of the topics required by the CompTIA Project+ examination, including the organization’s expectations; organization structures a