Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career by Harvard Business Press $26.95
This title shows how successful career changers turn fantasy into reality. Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we're doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown. But we also hold on, white-knuckled, to the years of time and effort we've invested in...
Work in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Wiley Desktop Editions) by Wiley-Blackwell $19.00
Work in the 21st Century is the highly regarded, most current and engaging text for the industrial and organizational psychology course. Combining leading research, consulting, and teaching expertise, Frank Landy and Jeff Conte provide students with up-to-date examples and cases that link current research and theory to practical issues in the workplace.Modular approach: The text features...
Managing Organizational Change by Mcgraw Hill Higher Education $41.75
Managing Organizational Change, by Palmer/Dunford/Akin, provides managers with an awareness of the issues involved in managing change, moving them beyond "one-best way" approaches and providing them with access to multiple perspectives that they can draw upon in order to enhance their success in producing organizational change. These multiple perspectives provide a theme for the text as well as a...
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action by Harvard Business School Press $35.00
Why are there so many gaps between what firms know they should do and what they actually do? Why do so many companies fail to implement the experience and insight they've worked so hard to acquire? The Knowing-Doing Gap is the first book to confront the challenge of turning knowledge about how to improve performance into actions that produce measurable results. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton,...
Political Savvy: Systematic Approaches to Leadership Behind the Scenes by Evergreen Business Group $28.50
While most people are wary or organization politics, politically savvy leaders know how to manage them. They take initiative, and they forge consensus. Ultimately, they help others maximize their impact, so the organization can continue to thrive in a highly competitive future. Insprirational leadership without a firm grounding in organization politics risks becoming hollow rhetoric. ...
The Joy of Conflict Resolution: Transforming Victims, Villains and Heroes in the Workplace and at Home by New Society Publishers $19.95
The rapid rate of change in the workplace and among families often leads to conflict and confrontation which can undermine productivity and poison relationships. The Joy of Conflict Resolution helps readers understand conflict and why it arises through the lens of the “drama triangle” of victims, villains and heroes. In an accessible, engaging and lighthearted style that uses stories and...
Management of Organizational Behavior: Utilizing Human Resources (7th Edition) by Prentice Hall $73.33
Ideally suited for such management and behavior courses as Organizational Behavior, Leadership, and Organizational Development. Also appropriate for a wide variety of administration courses in disciplines such as nursing, psychology, health sciences, social work, public administration, agriculture, religion, education, and human development. Used by more than a million people throughout the...
Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace With Today's Nontraditional Workforce by Harvard Business School Press $29.95
Far-reaching changes in attitudes and family structures have been redefining the workforce for more than two decades - yet the workplace has remained much the same. During this time, many companies have learned that personalising the customer experience is good for business. In "Mass Career Customization", the authors argue convincingly to extend this popular and profitable concept to the...
Cultural Diversity in Organizations: Theory, Research and Practice by Berrett-Koehler Publishers $24.95
Assembling learnings from teaching, research and consulting related to cultural diversity in organizations, this text provides an aid for teaching, organization development and scholarship. It presents an understanding of cultural diversity and its effects on organizational behaviour.