Organization

Organization
Author: John Child
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2015-02-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119951836

The definitive organization management text for executives and aspiring business leaders Organization: Contemporary Principles and Practices, Second Edition is the completely updated and revised landmark guide to "macro" organization theory and design, fully grounded in current international practice. International management expert John Child explores the conditions facilitating the development of new organizational forms and provides up-to-date coverage of the key developments driving new organization structure and practice. This revised Second Edition includes a new introductory section on Organization Theory as well as a complete Instructor Manual updated with new material on the basic principles of organizational design. With detailed case studies and examples from throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and North America, Organization provides a truly international overview for advanced students and business executives who want to be at the forefront of the evolution in Organization Theory. 21st Century organizations will be faced with entirely new challenges and opportunities than those faced by previous generations, and emerging business leaders must understand the new "macro" realities in order to succeed. Organization will help readers: Understand the "macro" organization, which is distinct from organizational behaviour Explore the way organizations fit into the international business environment and global economy Analyze the way organizational structure and design affect management performance Apply advanced organization theory and principles to day to day management activities Written by one of the foremost scholars, the fully updated Second Edition of this successful text provides executives and advanced business students with a wide-ranging and trustworthy guide to organizations as the conditions for their survival in our global business environment change.

Practice Theory, Work, and Organization

Practice Theory, Work, and Organization
Author: Davide Nicolini
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199231605

The volume provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to this emerging area of study.

Organization Change

Organization Change
Author: W. Warner Burke
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1506378765

Change is a constant in today's organizations. Leaders, managers, and employees at all levels must understand both how to implement planned changed and effectively handle unexpected change. The Fifth Edition of the Organization Change: Theory and Practice provides an eye-opening exploration into the nature of change by presenting the latest evidence-based research to discuss a range of theories, models, and perspectives on organization change. Bestselling author, W. Warner Burke, skillfully connects theory to practice with modern cases of effective and ineffective organization change, recent examples of transformational leadership and planned and revolutionary change, and best practices to successfully influence change. This fully-updated new edition also includes a new chapter on healthcare and government organizations, offering practical applications for non-profit organizations.

Organization Practice

Organization Practice
Author: Mary Katherine O'Connor
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2009-01-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0470495537

Human service organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their programs work. Organization Practice, Second Edition helps students and professionals in human services and nonprofit management understand complex behaviors in organizations. This new edition provides a new, practical model for understanding cultural identities within organizations. Also, it is significantly revised to include numerous real-world cases, critical thinking questions, empirical support, and engaging exercises. Social workers, as well as public health and nonprofit administrators will benefit from the insights in this book.

Organization Development and Society

Organization Development and Society
Author: Baruch Shimoni
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2019-03-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351264826

Organization Development and Society: Theory and Practice of Organization Development Consulting offers a new approach for the practice of organization development (OD). The new approach, a habitus oriented OD (HOOD), sees consultees' thinking and behavior a result of habitus, a cognitive structure developed historically in endless interactions between human behavior and social structures. HOOD has two goals: The first goal is to redefine the objectives of individually oriented OD. The focus on habitus and social structure allows individually oriented OD scholars and practitioners to keep their subjective approach, which searches for consultees' inner world. However, this subjectivity searches not only for consultees' psychological but their social dispositions. It views the individual level, the habitus, as a site of social dispositions that from within the individual consultees generate thoughts and behaviors in a way that closely corresponds with the organization's social structure; with power relations and social positions and with accepted metaphors and common language. The HOOD links the concept of habitus to the field of OD and in so doing provides an alternative way to incorporate the individual and the social in OD. HOOD's second goal is to re/position OD between organizations and society and thus to produce a consulting practice that is both pragmatic and human. It is pragmatic since incorporation of habitus enables the consultant to liberate consultees' perspectives and behavior from the organization's social and structural hoops and to use these perspectives in processes of change and development. Considering the habitus as central to consulting projects is human since it enables consultants (and consultees) to identify the responsibility for organizational problems (and other phenomena) not only at the level of the individual but also at the level of the organization and the environment outside the organization.

Organization Theory

Organization Theory
Author: Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2011-03-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199569304

This new text takes a unique practice-based approach, identifying questions, problems and issues that are perceived as pertinent by practitioners, and using these as the starting point to identify the relevant theories.

Company Organization (RLE: Organizations)

Company Organization (RLE: Organizations)
Author: M . Barnes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135930287

This summary of theory and practice is inspired by the belief that cut and dried solutions to management problems are inappropriate and that every set of circumstances requires a unique synthesis of experience and relevant theories. In this book the authors have reviewed the main texts and theories of organization and have added the lessons learned from an unrivalled volume of practical experience, garnered from some 900 consultants working in more than twenty countries.

Analytical Skills for Community Organization Practice

Analytical Skills for Community Organization Practice
Author: Donna Hardina
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2002-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780231505116

This guide promotes the use of analytical skills in community organization practice, including information gathering and processing, legislative research, needs assessment, participatory action research, political analysis, population forecasting and social indicator analysis, power analysis, program development and planning, resource development, budgeting, and grant writing,. These analytical methods, often used in practice but seldom systematically discussed, assist the practitioner in identifying community problems, planning interventions, and conducting evaluations. The text explicates a problem-solving model that identifies concepts and theories underlying practice, methods for problem identification and assessment, and techniques for goal setting, implementation, and evaluation. It features extensive listings of Web sites for community organization practice and is dedicated to the idea that the community organizer, to be truly effective, must be prepared to be an active learner.

Organization

Organization
Author: John Child
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2005-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781405116572

This exciting sequel to John Child's classic text, Organization, provides a current, comprehensive guide to organizational management in today's world, with additional teaching website supports. Written in an approachable style, and featuring new international examples, this is a major contemporary guide to the role of organizations and people in business success. A revealing account of new internal organizational forms and the evolution of organization to meet new demands Makes state-of-the-art principles and practice available to students and practitioners Covers a broad range of topics, from integration, control, reward policies, outsourcing, flexibility and strategic alliances, to trust, learning, and corporate governance Draws upon recent research and good business journalism Features new international examples Each chapter contains summaries of key points, lists of practical guidelines, questions for discussion, and suggestions for further reading Fully supported by web-based Instructor Manual with teacher notes and powerpoint slides; visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/child