A story of driving transformation when your people push back and your leaders look away
Zebra Apps is hemorrhaging employees, and Marie, Head of Development HR, must work her leadership magic to tackle the retention crisis. As she launches her structured culture program to stem the bleeding, she faces fierce challenges: unpredictable behavior, hidden agendas, corporate rebellion, management shortcomings, and financial ......
How to spot and back winning ideas to accelerate your career and createa better future
Do you know your future customer? Understanding trends can make a huge difference to your business and your customers. It can also help you level up in your career: the ability to prompt conversations about the future and help organisations adapt to change will be among the most desirable leadership skills over the next decade. Trend ......
Covering the fundamentals of organizational behaviour, as well critically reflecting on the institutions and practices of business life, the seventh edition of Managing and Organizations has been updated to include: * A new chapter on Managing Diversity and Inclusion written by Martyna Sliwa, Professor of Business Ethics and Organisation Studies at Durham University Business School. * A new chapter on Managing Motivation-what drives individuals and teams to excel. * New and revamped case studies and examples from well-known organizations such as Nike, Tiffany, Nokia, Walmart and OpenAI. * An increased focus on sustainability and ethics, demonstrating how organizations can thrive whilst protecting people and planet. This textbook is essential reading for anyone studying organizational behaviour at undergraduate or postgraduate level. Stewart Clegg is Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia and Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Tyrone S. Pitsis is Professor of Strategic Projects at the University of York, UK Matt Mount is Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Adelaide, UK.
Mary Freer has a new, research-backed take on the power of compassion. Not fluffy. Not nice-to-have. Not kindness, even. No. This is compassion as a revolutionary act. A swath through bullying, blaming and exclusionary workplaces. A full stop to the many destructive practices that drive down the quality of work performance.
Create the environment for revolutionary collaborative performance in your organisation
Are your people not doing what you want them to do? Is your organisation not delivering the outcomes you need? Start a revolution - create and lead a high-performing collaborative environment. It takes a radical shift in mindset to cultivate the deep, effective collaboration required to meet the challenges of today's complex and fast ......
Why Our Current Approach to Worker Burnout is Failing, and How to Fix It
Rethinking Employee Resilience is a playbook for reducing burnout and fostering worker resilience in organizations of all kinds. Conventional wisdom holds that employee burnout is an individual issue, related to personal problems of mental health and misalignment. In this book, clinical psychologist Dr. Dan Pelton argues that employee burnout ......
Managing Change in Organizations, second edition, explores a broad range of perspectives on change management, encouraging critical reflection and making sense of a complex field of theories. Its unique approach, based around three key perspectives of change, will help you to understand: * How change is accomplished - the tool perspective * What change means for those involved - the process perspective * Why change is initiated (and whether it is necessary) - the critical perspective Updated throughout to include new examples, case studies and exercises, this essential text offers you the chance to learn pragmatic tools for managing change, as well as gain an in-depth understanding of different theories and their values. Stefan Sveningsson is Professor of Business Administration at the School of Economics and Management, Lund University. Nadja Soergarde is Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at the School of Economics and Management, Lund University.
'Indispensable and subversive' - Simon Caulkin, The Observer 'A highly entertaining polemic.... This slim volume more than lives up to its title' - Stefan Stern, Financial Times Conceived by Chris Grey and written to get you thinking, the 'Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series offers informal, conversational and critical overviews of popular areas of study. Updated throughout with examples from the biggest global news events, including the Trump presidency, cost-cutting at Boeing, working conditions at Sports Direct and the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, the fifth edition explores contemporary developments in organizations. This book is ideal for students of organizational studies, management professionals and anyone curious about the workings of organizations. Chris Grey is Emeritus Professor of Organization Studies at the School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Why Every Corporate Leader Needs This Book to Master AI GovernanceAI is reshaping industries faster than most leadership teams can adapt. Companies with strong digital and AI capabilities are outperforming peers by two to six times in Total Shareholder Return. The gap is widening as leaders compound their advantages, making it increasingly ......
