The motivation to work
by Mausner, Bernard, Snyderman, Barbara Bloch, Herzberg, Frederick
The capacity for technology businesses to grow and change with the times is linked to how these businesses develop and market technological innovations. Despite the importance of technological changes for corporate vitality, there are documented instances of corporations failing…
Just as newspapers do not, typically, engage with the ordinary experiences of people's daily lives, so organizational studies has also tended largely to ignore the humdrum, everyday experiences of people working in organizations. However, ethnographic approaches provide in-depth…
In this volume, we examine how the institutional environment affects entrepreneurial organizations, and vice-versa. This includes not only how the institutional environment constrains both founding processes and the type of organizations founded, but also how institutional dynam…
Positive Organizational Behaviour constitutes the study of positive human strengths and competencies, how it can be facilitated, assessed and managed to improve performace in the workplace . Its roots are firmly within positive psychology but transplanted to the world of work an…
Positive organizational behaviour constitutes the study of positive human strengths and competencies, how it can be facilitated, assessed and managed to improve performance in the workplace. It showcases the cutting edge of this challenging new area within organizational behavio…
A fundamental problem of public sector governance relates to the very way of thinking it reflects; where organization is thought of as a 'thing', a system designed to deliver what its designers choose. This volume questions that way of thinking and takes a perspective in which o…
This book focuses on effective leadership in organizations through both theory and practice. It explains and critiques the major theories and studies that are most relevant and informative and reviews what we know about leadership effectiveness. The combination of theory and pra…