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The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling - reducing our global footprint to sustainable levels is the defining issue of our times and it is one that can only be addressed with the active participation of the private sector. However, persuading…
Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the OT literature. Discussions on how computers and management information systems are changing organization design.
What are practice theories? Where do they come from? What do they say? Do they offer something new to the study of work and organization? Practice theories are a set of conceptual tools and methodologies for investigating, analysing, and representing everyday practice. They dev…
This comprehensive text brings together in one volume the range of methods available for undertaking qualitative data collection and analysis. This book contains 27 chapters, each focusing on a specific technique. The first part of the volume looks at contemporary uses of qualit…
Charts Imperial Chemical Industries' response to the changing social, political and economic environment of the past twenty years. It examines the evolution of organization structure and culture, technology, and union-management relations within this corporate giant.
This book shows how the Appreciative Inquiry process helps organizational development and human resource professionals tap into inspiring “high point” accounts of personal or collective capacity. This new edition puts the focus on how AI really works and adds guidelines on how t…
Recommends the use of Japanese methods of management in order to simplify the assembly-line process, increase productivity, and improve quality control in manufacturing plants. Japanese productivity and quality standards have fired the imagination of American managers, but unti…
Corporations are undergoing massive restructuring efforts to cope with a changing competitive environment. Fundamental to these efforts is the redesign and change of business processes. While many organizations have gained considerable experience in business process change, basi…
With an introduction to organisation theory, this text covers modernist organisational theory, neomodernist organisational theory, postmodern organisational theory, reflective organisational theory, and reflexive organisation theory.
