Provides conceptual and operational descriptions of the major approaches to the field of organizational and systems change (O/SC). The book describes a variety of strategies and principles involved in O/SC and emerging areas of interest.
Creating Accountability in Your Life, Your Organization, and Your World
What if you could transform your relationship with yourself, your family and friends, your colleagues and clients, and your larger community through the power of commitment? What if ten simple choices enabled you to enhance your leadership skills, improve your organizational culture, and make a local, national, or even global impact? In I Am ......
Case Studies in Survival, Sustainability and Success
Brings together highly regarded specialists to stimulate new ideas for innovation, community action and social enterprise, and to offer advice for deploying new skills across a range of fields and contexts.
The thesis behind this book is that American industry cannot compete in the marketplace because their organizational structure and management style has become pathologically narcissistic. The theory is illustrated with real-life examples such as the DeLorean automobile business failure.
Applying Pattern Recognition to the Analysis of Organizational Behavior
Talks about the field of neural networks, in which powerful computing capabilities offer insights into longstanding, complex I/O questions such as employee selection and behavioral prediction. Neural networks mimic the way the human brain works, using interconnected nodes and feedback loops to learn to recognize patterns in vast amounts of data.
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.
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.
How to Apply the Wisdom of the Body to Develop Healthy Organizations
Attempts to reclaim and reconcile organizational dynamics with living systems. This book shows readers how to transform organizations into living systems that serve and protect human interests. It provides an approach to the process of bringing people together in organizations to better the world we live in.
