This introductory text explores the theory of social choice. This text is an important starting point for students grappling with the complexities of social choice theory. Rigorous yet accessible, with new chapter exercises, it avoids the use of technical language and provides a…
"Our second book, Retention and Productivity Strategies for Nurse Managers, focused on leadership skills necessary for managers to decrease attrition and increase productivity. This book was directed at the nurse-manager rather than the student. The experience of completing rese…
A guide to leadership. It encourages the reader to be pro-active and learn from experience to develop themselves, their colleagues and their organisation. It introduces the '3 C's' model of leadership. It also focuses on developing leadership and how best to enhance the leadersh…
Positive Psychology at Work brings the fields of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry together for the first time to provide leaders and change agents with a powerful new approach to achieving organizational excellence. Draws together positive psychology and appreciative…
Positive Psychology at Work introduces a powerful new approach to achieving organizational excellence while revealing new perspectives on the challenges of leadership. Keeping technical psychology jargon to a minimum, the author provides organizational leaders and managers of al…
"Recent events suggest liberal capitalism harbours two dangerous seeds of self-destruction; growing inequality and a tendency for markets to spiral out of control. This book advocates the restoration to an earlier state of another sub-system of liberal capitalism, some of the fe…
Here's the information you need to become an effective leader in today's complex health system in order to effectively solve problems and create optimal outcomes for your organization.
Lead effectively in today's complex health systems! -Understand the complex adaptive systems of today's health-care organizations. -Apply a new model of leadership to meet the demand for effective leaders. -Use real-world case studies to learn how to apply theory to practice.…
Making Sense of the Organization elaborates on the influential idea that organizations are interpretation systems that scan, interpret, and learn. These selected essays represent a new approach to the way managers learn and act in response to their environment and the way organi…
