Organizational Learning Capability

Organizational Learning Capability
Author: Arthur K. Yeung
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1999
Genre: Management
ISBN: 0195102045

Drawing the reader's attention with ample real-business examples, the authors discuss corporations as entities that must adapt, generate ideas and act upon new information. The writing team - Arthur K. Yeung, David O. Ulrich, Stephen W. Nason and Mary Ann Von Glinow - delve into learning styles, basing their work on research and material gleaned from a widespread survey of corporations and organizations. They stack up the building blocks necessary for organizational learning, the corporate ability to generate and implement ideas. Although based on scholarly research, the book is concisely written in an easily accessible, conversational tone, and comes to life with corporate case studies. getAbstract recommends this book to managers, executives and owners whose organizations might need to learn a thing or two.

The Public Innovator's Playbook

The Public Innovator's Playbook
Author: William D. Eggers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2009
Genre: Public administration
ISBN: 9780979061110

"Describes, using real-world examples, how a public sector organization can go from a culture of 'innovation by accident' to one in which a sustained organizational commitment to innovation is baked into the organization's DNA." - page 5.

The Study of Organizational Climate in Sime Darby

The Study of Organizational Climate in Sime Darby
Author: Zinatul Abdullah
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2016-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3668138486

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, , course: Master of Business Administration, language: English, abstract: Sime Darby is one of the biggest multinational companies in Malaysia. It has large number of plantations around Malaysia. Not to mention, it has also ventured into other businesses that brought profit to the business. The pressures are increasingly heavy so that it might cause negative effects on the employees and organization. In addition, the fact that bribery and corruption cases have happened before, causes the pressure to retain the image and name of Sime Darby. Organizational climate is known as the weather for the employees that changes accordingly to the emotions, moods, feelings and environments as well as surrounding of the places. One employee can affect the moods, feelings and environment of those above. The purpose of this study is to find the level of awareness on these variables: administration and operation climate, work motivation climate and ethics at the workplace climate. Also, it is used to find the relationship between the independent variables with dependent variable. The independent variables used are administration and operation climate, work motivation climate and ethics at the workplace climate. The dependent variable is organizational climate. The results showed that there is a relationship between each independent variable with the dependent variable. The correlations fall within +1 and -1 for all variables towards dependent variable. Several recommendations have been given to the readers to understand the effects of positive and negative organizational climate to the organization.

Determinants of Innovative Behaviour

Determinants of Innovative Behaviour
Author: Cees van Beers
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2008-09-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230285732

A rich overview of current research on determinants of innovative behaviour. It is a unique work as it illuminates these from different perspectives such as, economics, management and psychology. Using several methods of analysis, it shows what specific determinants are predominant in explaining firm performance on innovation.

The Private Sector in Public Office

The Private Sector in Public Office
Author: Yue Hou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019-09-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108498159

Examines how the private sector in China manages to grow without secure property rights.