In Nonprofit Hero, Valerie Jones provides a guide to asking authentically and successfully for causes. Readers will learn how they can best thank, steward, research, cultivate, and acquire what they need in order to excel.
Jeannie L. Johnson takes a sympathetic but critical look at the Marine Corps's long experience with counterinsurgency warfare. Which counterinsurgency lessons have been learned and retained for next time and which have been abandoned to history is a story of battlefield trial and error--but also a story of cultural collisions explored in this ......
The Transformation Efforts in NCJM, An Indian Industrial Cooperative
This book explores employee involvement in the transformation of an ailing business as it was taken over by workers and became a sustainable worker cooperative. The focus is on the struggles within the cooperative that create contradictions and mismatches in the expectations around employee involvement in the transformation as the business ......
This book provides consulting psychologists, managers, and human resources personnel with easy-to-use, evidence-based strategies for providing effective feedback to improve communication and performance in the workplace.
A study of two space shuttle accidents that offers insight into organizational learning - and what makes such learning difficult in public organizations. It suggests factors overlooked by both accident commissions and proposes applicable hypotheses about learning in public organizations.
Practical Guidance on Work Performance and Technology
A helpful resource for industrial - organizational psychologists and others working to make teams more effective through technology. Leaders in science and industry explore the state-of-the-art in technology and teamwork. They provide the reader with a review of the most prevalent tools and how to apply them in a number of industries.
This text introduces organizational psychology from a cross cultural perspective. It provides a foundational overview of the current major theories in organizational psychology, and illuminates the impact of cultural differences on organizational dynamics.
Human capital and organizational capital are increasingly important as a source of value in many firms. But even as this is happening, organizational forms and employment relationships appear to be changing in ways that reduce loyalty and commitment and encourage mobility on the part of employees.
