Managing Organizations

Managing Organizations
Author: Stewart R Clegg
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 287
Release: 1999-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1446205304

In Managing Organizations Stewart Clegg, Cynthia Hardy and Walter Nord explore the major issues and debates in management and organization. The textbook addresses key topics such as leadership, decision-making and innovation in organizations alongside such themes as diversity, globalization and ecology. Students and teachers of management will find this a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on the core issues for contemporary managers and organizations.

Managing Boundaries in Organizations

Managing Boundaries in Organizations
Author: N. Paulsen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2003-05-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230512550

Drawing together an international group of scholars, this book provides fresh and provocative perspectives on boundaries in organizations. The emergence, management and transformation of organizational boundaries is intrinsic to modern organization and poses one of the most persistent and potentially rewarding challenges to researchers and managers alike. The book offers the latest insights into the nature of boundaries, how they may be interpreted and studied, as well as implications for managing. The chapters include theoretical perspectives and cases from Europe, Canada, the USA, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

Charismatic Leadership in Organizations

Charismatic Leadership in Organizations
Author: Jay A. Conger
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 299
Release: 1998-07-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1452236038

Charismatic leaders have proven to be remarkable change agents, able to create or reinvent entire organizations. At the same time, these leaders provide us with lessons about the greatest dangers of leadership. For example, throughout history, certain charismatic leaders have demonstrated a shadow side as master manipulators and purveyors of evil. Charismatic Leadership in Organizations reflects the latest thinking on this seemingly elusive yet remarkable form of leadership. Written by two of the most important scholars on the subject, this volume not only integrates the growing body of research and theory on the subject, but also pushes the frontiers of our knowledge by introducing new theory and insights. It presents readers with a highly comprehensive model of the charismatic leadership process that is documented with extensive empirical research and richly illustrated with case examples of corporate leaders. The book also includes a questionnaire measure of charismatic leadership and suggests an agenda for future research in the field. Written in a highly accessible style, Charismatic Leadership in Organizations will be of interest to professionals, students, and scholars in management, public administration, psychology, political science, sociology, and religion.

Organizational Behavior and Public Management, Revised and Expanded

Organizational Behavior and Public Management, Revised and Expanded
Author: Michael L. Vasu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351555588

Organizational Behavior and Public Management reveals how organizational behavior enables managers to direct resources that advance the programs and policies of public and government. This edition offers a public sector perspective of core topics, such as communication, decision-making, leadership, management ethics, motivation, organizational change, participation and performance appraisal. Contemporary Psychology called this book "skillful and comprehensive...There is a need for a text like this...the device of juxtaposing theory and application is a sound one." The authors discuss such topics as communication, decision making, worker participation and total quality management, organizational change, management systems, information, computers and organization theory in public management.

Team Dynamics Over Time

Team Dynamics Over Time
Author: Eduardo Salas
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2017-08-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1787148955

This volume focuses on the temporal adaptations of teams. An increase in the use of teams has led to more team research throughout the fields of cognitive science, human factors, organizational psychology, and behavioral science. This book serves as a resource to researchers who study teams, managers who lead teams, and those who work in teams.

Handbook of Organizational Consultation, Second Editon

Handbook of Organizational Consultation, Second Editon
Author: Robert Golembiewski
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1088
Release: 2000-06-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780824703219

A handbook on organizational consultation. This second edition includes more than 35 new chapters and an expanded list of international contributors. It analyzes all aspects of organizational consulting - including normative, empirical and political topics - and offers a broad view of consultation diagnoses, problem centres, and interventions.

Committed to Rights: Volume 1

Committed to Rights: Volume 1
Author: Audrey L. Comstock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108904882

International treaties are the primary means for codifying global human rights standards. However, nation-states are able to make their own choices in how to legally commit to human rights treaties. A state commits to a treaty through four commitment acts: signature, ratification, accession, and succession. These acts signify diverging legal paths with distinct contexts and mechanisms for rights change reflecting legalization, negotiation, sovereignty, and domestic constraints. How a state moves through these actions determines how, when, and to what extent it will comply with the human rights treaties it commits to. Using legal, archival, and quantitative analysis this important book shows that disentangling legal paths to commitment reveals distinct and significant compliance outcomes. Legal context matters for human rights and has important implications for the conceptualization of treaty commitment, the consideration of non-binding commitment, and an optimistic outlook for the impact of human rights treaties.