177 Books found for subject: Organizational Behavior

We have taken ourselves out of the Stone Age – but we cannot take the Stone Age out of ourselves. Time and time again managers and leaders have tried to eliminate hierarchies, internal politics, and interorganisational rivalry – but to no avail. Why? Evolutionary psychology would say that they are working against human nature – emotional and behavioral ‘hardwiring’ that is the legacy of our … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Nigel Nicholson | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Psychologist, author and Harvard professor Gardner (Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons) has put together a thought-provoking, visionary attempt to delineate the kinds of mental abilities (“minds”) that will be critical to success in a 21st century landscape of accelerating change and information overload. Gardner’s five minds-disciplined, synthesizing, creating, respectful and ethical-are not personality types, but ways of thinking available to anyone who invests the time and … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Howard E. Gardner | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

How do you develop the people who will one day lead your company? High Flyers challenges conventional wisdom about how to groom executives for the top positions in the firm by presenting a strategic framework that senior managers can use to identify and develop future executives. McCall demonstrates that the best executives aren’t necessarily managers who possess a previously identified, generic list of traits or … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Morgan W. McCall, Jr. | Subjects: Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Charles Handy’s revolutionary 1989 bestseller The Age of Unreason catapulted him into the ranks of the top management consultants. Now, in this new edition of his acclaimed study Understanding Organizations, he solidifies his reputation as a seminal business thinker, offering a brilliantly insightful, wide-ranging look at business organizations.

Long a bestseller in the United Kingdom, this classic text offers an illuminating discussion of key concepts of … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Charles Handy | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

According to Yale management psychologists David Caruso and Peter Salovey, we should discard antiquated notions such as that decisions should be made with pure logic and cold rationality. Instead, in The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: How to Develop And Use The Four Emotional Skills of Leadership, the authors argue that emotion and thinking are so intertwined that it is unproductive to consider them separately. This concept … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: David Caruso, Peter Salovey | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Generations at Work is intended to help you bridge the gap or, more accurately, gaps between people of different ages who work at your company. What’s so vexing about the workplace is that four different groups are vying for roles and recognition. There are the veterans, boomers, Xers, and the nexters. The people in each cohort, the book argues, have more in common than just … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Bob Filipczak, Claire Raines, Ron Zemke | Subjects: Demographics, Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

The idea that competition and reward are effective motivators forms the bedrock of our educational, economic, and managerial systems. Kohn, though, has strongly attacked the belief that competition is healthy and has documented its negative effects in No Contest: The Case against Competition (1986). Now he challenges the widely held assumption that incentives lead to improved quality and increased output in the workplace and in … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Alfie Kohn | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Politics is an inevitable, legitimate, and potentially beneficial aspect of corporate and organizational life. Hard work and good ideas are not enough to ensure success-your ability to win allies and head off resistance is what really matters in today’s corporate environment. If you don’t garner support for your ideas, you could become an organizational casualty.

Get Them on Your Side outlines how to:

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Content: Book | Author: Samuel B. Bacharach | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

A classic in management research, first published in 1981, identifying team roles, outlining characteristics of successful and unsuccessful teams, and offering advice on team leadership, dealing with similar personalities within teams, ideal team size, and teams in public affairs. Includes a self-perception inventory and a glossary. – Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Content: Book | Authors: Antony Jay, R. Meredith Belbin | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

In this companion volume to Beyond Change Management, the authors provide you with specific how-to guidance for putting their breakthrough change theory into practice, offering detailed tools, techniques, and step-by-step processes. The book provides the most comprehensive guidance available today for building transformational change strategy and designing and implementing successful transformation. The authors give you an extensive thinking discipline that helps you tailor the most … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Dean Anderson, Linda Ackerman Anderson | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Offers sound advice for executives and managers taking over new positions and for organizations undergoing leadership changes. Provides practical guidance on all phases of the leadership transition process–from initial planning, through the executive search process, to the major areas that the new leader must address over time to be successful.

Content: Book | Author: Thomas North Gilmore | Source: Jossey-Bass Management Series | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

An attention-grabbing audit by two Harvard Business School professors of the role that culture (broadly defined as the shared attitudes, behavioral patterns, and values that cohesive human groups pass on from one generation to the next) can play in the capacity of major corporations to succeed or fail in the marketplace. The accessible study compiled by Kotter and Heskett is noteworthy on several counts. For … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: James L. Heskett, John P. Kotter | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

There is a philosophy of doing business that goes beyond the transfer of goods and services. It calls for a transfer of values known as of small decencies.

This book shows the way.

Steve Harrison, longtime management and corporate culture innovator, knows one simple truth: The long term success of any company, small or large, local or global, depends largely on its culture. Change a company’s internal … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Steve Harrison | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

As a 20-year veteran of change in corporate America, Peter Garber draws on his extensive experience as a human resource professional and international consultant to help managers and leaders anticipate and plan for the inevitable waves of change in their organizations.

10 Natural Forces for Business Success offers a wealth of new discoveries about how to build operational and personnel systems around the 10 natural forces … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Peter Garber | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Bakan, an internationally recognized legal scholar and professor of law at the University of British Columbia, takes a powerful stab at the most influential institution of our time, the corporation. As a legal entity, a corporation has as its edict one and only one goal, to create profits for its shareholders, without legal or moral obligation to the welfare of workers, the environment, or the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Joel Bakan | Subject: Organizational Behavior

This action-oriented book presents the revolutionary J Curve model, which tracks people’s performance, thoughts, and emotions at each of the five stages of the change process, from resistance through positive acceptance-key knowledge you need to lead your team and speed implementation. Used by leading companies such as IBM, Chevron, Toyota-Lexus, and 3M, the J Curve gives you proven tactics and tools for quickly getting employees … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Jerald M. Jellison | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

In this book, Dr. Beitler begins by providing a systematic approach for diagnosing organizational problems. Then he offers his step-by-step approach for designing and implementing organizational change interventions. Everything is written in a practical, easy-to-follow style, with an abundance of checklists and practice tools. Every manager and change consultant will gain valuable insights and practice tools from this book. In an increasingly competitive world these … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Michael Beitler | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

In this third edition of his classic book, Edgar Schein shows how to transform the abstract concept of culture into a practical tool that managers and students can use to understand the dynamics of organizations and change. Organizational pioneer Schein updates his influential understanding of culture–what it is, how it is created, how it evolves, and how it can be changed. Focusing on today’s business … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Edgar H. Schein | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

A refreshingly sensitive and sensible guide to motivating employees, this new volume by Stack and Burlingham (The Great Game of Business) is a standout in its crowded genre. Stack is the president and CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation, an employee-owned supplier of renovated engines to auto companies and a celebrated business success story. In 1983, when it looked like SRC’s parent company, International Harvester, might … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Bo Burlingham, Jack Stack | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

“One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,” Harry G. Frankfurt writes, in what must surely be the most eyebrow-raising opener in modern philosophical prose. “Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.” This compact little book, as pungent as the phenomenon it explores, attempts to articulate … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Harry G. Frankfurt | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Organizational Behavior