Based on research from several fields, it provides useful reading and essential knowledge for scholars and students throughout the social sciences and for everyone who wants to understand their own decisions and those of others.
Offers conceptual and applied coverage of different aspects of the management and operation of services. This book also offers the information on Six-Sigma and RFID, as well as developments in other important industry topics.
Linking theory and practice, this book aims at equipping public managers and those studying public management with the necessary knowledge and skills to manage risk, and effectively deal with crises. It covers events and incidents such as: natural catastrophes; terrorist attacks; corporate failures; and more.
The author of In Search of Excellence has written a hands-on guide to coping with uncertainty and change and delivers it in the energetic style that has made him a star in every business community. "A provocative and worthwhile book, loaded with sound advice".--Across the Board.
This work provides a general inroduction to the field of management science, and gives a balanced view of the most widely used applications. It shows how managers can use scientific ideas to solve business problems.
For all that's been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway. How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they're almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)?
Innovation in information and production technologies is generating both benefits and disruption, rapidly altering how firms and markets perform at a basic level. Digital DNA is an engaging examination of the opportunities, challenges, and ways that countries and the international community can govern developments for broad benefit.
Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his life. And then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector.
There is an emerging consensus that all is not well with today's market-centric economic model. This book presents approaches to measuring the true costs of business and its obligation to society. It offers a hopeful vision for the role of business in shaping an equitable, sustainable future.
This edition shows why most change efforts don't work and explains how to redesign organizations to succeed. It also shows the reader how to take structural laws into account when they restructure their own organizations, so changes they attempt to make do succeed, and they can achieve their goals.
With chapters covering all aspects of management theory and practice commonly taught on undergraduate courses, this edition focuses on real world examples of management in practice with the introduction of vignettes. It also includes skills sheets and a running case study, which will help students put what they have learned into practice.
Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the `Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.
Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the `Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.
This updated and expanded edition of the highly successful text on change management uses current examples with a strategic focus to guide students through the issues and processes associated with managing change.
Designed primarily for students on MBA and executive education courses, this practical text uses a 'pentathlon' framework for discussing key issues. The authors provide pragmatic tools for the effective management of innovation and develop strategies for improving performance in both service and manufacturing companies.
The new edition of Janet Morrison's engaging and comprehensive textbook explores the economic, political, social, legal and cultural environments in which businesses operate. Thoroughly updated, now featuring videos and interactive ebook, it challenges readers to think critically about the challenges and responsibilities of global issues.
One of the most reprinted articles in the history of the Harvard Business Review, "The Core Competence of the Corporation" challenged and redefined traditional concepts of management strategy in an increasingly global and competitive market. Prahalad and Hamel base their 1990 argument on a comparison of case studies.
Managing change in a rapidly shifting economy and an era of increased globalization requires strong leadership-and a practical step-by-step approach. Distilling wisdom from years of coaching organizations, Kotter, a professor at Harvard Business School, identifies eight common mistakes that managers make when implementing change.
Douglas McGregor's 1960 book is a vital study of the conditions that make employment satisfying and meaningful. Traditionally, managers assumed people were lazy and would not work unless strictly controlled. McGregor believed this was a faulty view of human nature.
Highlights the thinking and practical applications that are defining the field of knowledge management. This book includes Peter Drucker's prophetic "The Coming of the New Organization" and Ikujiro Nonaka's "Knowledge-Creating Company".
The definitive guide from the makers of the GMAT examThe GMAT Official Guide 2018 is the definitive guide from the Graduate Management Admission Council, the makers of the GMAT exam.
The topic of change management presents students with many challenges. One of the most difficult is making sense of the plethora of guru and hero-manager literature. This textbook encourages readers to rigorously question popular management theory, presenting a challenging review of existing literature in the change management field.
Knowledge Management in Organizations introduces the reader to the concept of organizational knowledge before examining how, and whether, knowledge can be managed. Adopting a multidisiplinary perspective, the third edition presents a critical perspective of knowledge managament, encompassing issues of strategy, structure, systems and HRM.
Helps to learn how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges with Lessons Learned. This title also offers all of the lessons in their original video format, free bonus videos, and other exclusive features online.
This new edition includes chapters on resource management; business plans; quality management; corporate governance; and international, external and internal relations, taking account of changes in the public sector. Each chapter has review topics and "putting into practice" exercises.
An ideal study companion throughout a business and management degree, this text provides up-to-date coverage of hot topics such as effective reading, essay skills, how to use social media and how to secure employment after university.
Offers critical understandings of key areas of management theory and practice such as accounting, strategic management, marketing, business ethics and environmental management. The text also examines the relations between power and discursive practices in the modern corporation; gender and organizations; and critical methodology.
How can managers avoid the costly traps of collaboration and instead start getting the results they need? This book shows managers how to get collaboration right through 'disciplined collaboration'. It delivers practical advice and tools to help your organization collaborate for real results.
Contains chapters on intuitive cognition, complexity, emotion, team innovation, development and well-being. This textbook includes seminal papers on creativity, perception, style, culture and sustainable development. It gives an overview of the topics discussed whilst explaining their practical implications.
A realist's guide to management, capturing the complex life of organizations. It delivers the key themes and debates through interactive, instructive (and fun) learning aids and features.
This book explores the relationship between the management of creativity and creative approaches to management. * Challenges the stereotypical opposition between 'creatives' and 'suits'. * Draws on the work of management theorists such as Mintzberg and Porter and creativity theorists such as Amabile and Boden.
What principle-driven companies like Whole Foods, Starbucks, REI, and many others are doing to transform capitalism and how to follow their lead. This book offers a new blueprint for business, showing how some of today's most successful companies create business value while helping to preserve the inherent good of capitalism and society.