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…
"Successful innovation - the key to competitive growth and profit - rests on disciplined management of the innovation process, from idea inception to customer service. This book answers, first, the key questions: why innovate? what to innovate? how to innovate? and who innovates…
With the rate of change in organizations at an all-time high, the need for strong organization design has never been more pressing. Organization Design provides a complete road map for the implementation of organization design, covering all areas including downsizing, outsourcin…
Information technology (IT) has performed an important role in the functioning of organizations during the last decades. IT concerns the automation of the information services in and between organizations. Many authors consider the (automation of) information services as impor…
The Search Conference is not just another management tool, but a participative approach to planned change that engages the collective learning and creativity of large groups, inspiring people to find common ground around new strategies, future directions, and joint actions. The …
The Search Conference is not just another management tool, but a participative approach to planned change that engages the collective learning and creativity of large groups, inspiring people to find common ground around new strategies, future directions, and joint actions. The …
How can businesses transform to achieve competitive advantage in a digital-enabled world? How can managers and leaders create a culture that supports lasting change through these transformations?Building the Agile Business through Digital Transformation is an in-depth guide for …
SHORTLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2017 - Management Futures CategoryUnderstand how to drive business performance with your organizational data and analytics in the second edition of Data-Driven Organization Design.Using data and analytics is a key opportunity for busi…
Mindfulness-based interventions in organizations offer the potential to build individual and organizational resilience, engage employees and address workplace stress. Mindfulness in the Workplace is a practical guide written for practitioners who want to learn how mindfulness ca…
This book covers the early history of organization studies, provides a comprehensive framework for comparing competing theoretical paradigms, and addresses major developments in the most recent decade. Its scholarly yet accessible conceptual framework encourages our diverse scho…
This book covers the early history of organization studies, provides a comprehensive framework for comparing competing theoretical paradigms, and addresses major developments in the most recent decade. Its scholarly yet accessible conceptual framework encourages our diverse scho…
This book covers the early history of organization studies, provides a comprehensive framework for comparing competing theoretical paradigms, and addresses major developments in the most recent decade. Its scholarly yet accessible conceptual framework encourages our diverse scho…
"This book brings together two important issues in organisation and management studies: the concept and related theory of organisational identity and autopoietic organisation theory (as originally developed by Niklas Luhmann)." "The contribution of the book is twofold: it provid…
The subject of this study is the period of independent banking in Cornwall, from the formation of the Miners’ Bank in Truro in 1771 to the absorption of Dingley’s Launceston Bank by the National Provincial in 1922. Undertaken within the perspectives of the `New’ Cornish Studies,…
In today's volatile and ambiguous world, organizations need to have the capacity and flexibility to respond rapidly to changes in their environment, both internally and externally. The key to retaining this competitive advantage is agility, a set of capabilities that help organi…
Retention of newly hired talent in organizations remains a critical concern, especially given the current labor market changes our economy is experiencing. Among the many strategies for increasing new hire retention and engagement, the realistic job preview (RJP) is often under-…