Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback

Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback
Author: Henrich R. Greve
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2003-06-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521534918

Revisiting Cyert and March s classic 1963 Behavioral Theory of the Firm , Henrich Greve offers an intriguing analysis of how firms evolve in response to feedback about their own performance. Based on ideas from organizational theory, social psychology, and economics, he explains how managers set goals, evaluate performance, and determine strategic changes. Drawing on a range of recent studies, including the author s own analysis of the Japanese shipbuilding industry, he reports on how theory fits current evidence on organizational change of risk-taking, research and development expenses, innovativeness, investment in assets, and in market strategy. The findings suggest that high-performing organizations quickly reduce their rates of change, but low-performing organizations only slowly increase those rates. Analysis of performance feedback is an important new direction for research and this book provides valuable insights in how organizational learning interacts with other influences on organizational behaviour such as competitive rivalry and institutional influences.

Temporary Organizations

Temporary Organizations
Author: Patrick Kenis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849802157

This important and timely book provides a systematic treatment of temporary organizations an increasingly prevalent organizational form in which organizations work together on a joint task for example, a movie production, a rescue operation, development of a new product for an ex ante limited period of time. Demonstrating that temporary organizations are increasingly common, the book provides insights on how they differ from the classical organization and contributes to our understanding of what makes temporary organizations effective. Contributions by reputed organization scholars focus on the impact that this limited duration has on the way that temporary organizations structure their activities, organize work, use resources and achieve outcomes. Moreover, the tenability of various organizational concepts and theories for temporary contexts is examined and some unique phenomena inherent to temporariness are explored. Researchers interested in organizational design and project management scholars will warmly welcome this book, as will graduate students in organization studies, management studies, public policy studies, leisure studies, public administration and students of project management.

International Community Psychology

International Community Psychology
Author: Stephanie Reich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2007-07-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0387495002

This is the first in-depth guide to global community psychology research and practice, history and development, theories and innovations, presented in one field-defining volume. This book will serve to promote international collaboration, enhance theory utilization and development, identify biases and barriers in the field, accrue critical mass for a discipline that is often marginalized, and to minimize the pervasive US-centric view of the field.

Understanding Behaviors for Effective Leadership

Understanding Behaviors for Effective Leadership
Author: Jon P. Howell
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Comportement organisationnel
ISBN: 9780131484528

"Understanding Behaviors of Effective Leadership emphasizes that leaders' effectiveness is determined by what they do. Leaders demonstrate their competence by setting worthwhile and challenging goals with followers, by showing confidence in followers and supporting their efforts to perform well and to improve themselves, by giving recognition to followers when they do a job well, and by behaving in a fair and ethical manner. When leaders successfully carry out these behaviors and produce favorable results for their groups and organizations, we view these leaders as effective. New to this edition: Chapters on leadership ethics and diversity and leadership development and organizational change, Updated coverage of current leadership issues, leaders' influence tactics, the normative decision making model of participative leadership, transformational leadership and the full range model, leadership in different types of teams, negotiation, organizational justice/fairness, and cross-cultural leadership, New examples of practicing leaders, More cases and examples from non-business organizations, New cases that are longer and more detailed, New self-assessments that focus on feedback and development of aspiring leaders and New end-of-chapter discussion questions.” -- BOOK JACKET.

Emotions and Leadership

Emotions and Leadership
Author: Neal M. Ashkanasy
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019-08-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 183867201X

This volume of Research on Emotion in Organizations contributes to the ongoing research on emotions within organizational leadership through a three-level analysis focusing on: leadership and individual team members; leadership and its effects on the team construct; and, leadership in the overall context of organizations and culture.

Passion for Work

Passion for Work
Author: Robert J. Vallerand
Publisher:
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190648627

This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of passion for work by addressing the origin of the concept and its theoretical issues: how can passion for work be developed, what are the consequences to be expected at the individual and organizational levels, and how can passion for work shed new light on contemporary issues in the workplace.

Organizational Behavior

Organizational Behavior
Author: Don Hellriegel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Beslutningstagning-ledelse
ISBN: 9780324069563

Organizational Behavior is designed to help students, professionals, and managers develop the competencies and skills that are needed to effectively contribute to an organization. This proven text's strengths lie in its classic research, coverage of contemporary and emerging OB topics, and excellent case selection. Throughout the text, seven core competencies-Managing Self, Managing Diversity, Managing Ethics, Managing Across Cultures, Managing Teams, Managing Communications, and Managing Change-are emphasized and illustrated for the student.

Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling with IBM SPSS

Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling with IBM SPSS
Author: Ronald H. Heck
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2013-08-22
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135074240

This book demonstrates how to use multilevel and longitudinal modeling techniques available in the IBM SPSS mixed-effects program (MIXED). Annotated screen shots provide readers with a step-by-step understanding of each technique and navigating the program. Readers learn how to set up, run, and interpret a variety of models. Diagnostic tools, data management issues, and related graphics are introduced throughout. Annotated syntax is also available for those who prefer this approach. Extended examples illustrate the logic of model development to show readers the rationale of the research questions and the steps around which the analyses are structured. The data used in the text and syntax examples are available at www.routledge.com/9780415817110. Highlights of the new edition include: Updated throughout to reflect IBM SPSS Version 21. Further coverage of growth trajectories, coding time-related variables, covariance structures, individual change and longitudinal experimental designs (Ch.5). Extended discussion of other types of research designs for examining change (e.g., regression discontinuity, quasi-experimental) over time (Ch.6). New examples specifying multiple latent constructs and parallel growth processes (Ch. 7). Discussion of alternatives for dealing with missing data and the use of sample weights within multilevel data structures (Ch.1). The book opens with the conceptual and methodological issues associated with multilevel and longitudinal modeling, followed by a discussion of SPSS data management techniques which facilitate working with multilevel, longitudinal, and cross-classified data sets. Chapters 3 and 4 introduce the basics of multilevel modeling: developing a multilevel model, interpreting output, and trouble-shooting common programming and modeling problems. Models for investigating individual and organizational change are presented in chapters 5 and 6, followed by models with multivariate outcomes in chapter 7. Chapter 8 provides an illustration of multilevel models with cross-classified data structures. The book concludes with ways to expand on the various multilevel and longitudinal modeling techniques and issues when conducting multilevel analyses. It's ideal for courses on multilevel and longitudinal modeling, multivariate statistics, and research design taught in education, psychology, business, and sociology.

Organizing Genius

Organizing Genius
Author: Warren G. Bennis
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2007-03-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0465004237

Uncovers the elements of creative collaboration by examining six of the century's most extraordinary groups and distill their successful practices into lessons that virtually any organization can learn and commit to in order to transform its own management into a collaborative and successful group of leaders. Paper. DLC: Organizational effectiveness - Case studies.