Search results for “[Subject: organizational-development]”

• Author(s): Fred Massarik • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralThe first volume of a new series presenting contributions from a wide range of perspectives and cultural orientations on innovative interventions and org...

• Author(s): Manuel London • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: GeneralHuman resource strategies for organization development include team-building methods to improve communication and reduce interpersonal conflict among uni...

• Author(s): Alan Kiepper • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationOrganizational development, as an alternative to Reagan administration methods of revamping federal agencies, has been success...

• Author(s): Allen Jedlicka • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Structural AdjustmentA continuing problem in the development of third world countries is the lack of sufficiently trained people who can both organize and carr...

• Author(s): John B. Cunningham • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: ResearchAction Research and Organizational Development describes a process of change that encourages research and consulting skills. In this process, resea...

• Author(s): Ronald E. Fry • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: StatisticsPositive organizational change does not have to be planned or managed top down in a linear, urgent manner. Rather, it can be unleashed or discovered b...

• Author(s): Samuel McClelland • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Structural AdjustmentAn indispensable reference for designing and conducting organizational needs assessments, this book advocates a system-oriented approac...

• Author(s): Amir Levy • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Structural AdjustmentOrganizational Transformation is the first book to analyze how organizations make it through difficult periods. Based on case studies drawn fro...

• Author(s): Adolf Haasen • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Management - GeneralThis breakthrough analysis of several advanced, exceptionally productive, and motivating organizational cultures is based on interviews with ...

• Author(s): C. Brooklyn Derr • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: LeadershipLeadership development is critical to organizational competitive advantage. The key to successful leadership development programs lies in understan...

• Author(s): Jana Matthews • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: LeadershipThis book presents the expertise of authorities on leadership and entrepreneurship. They examine the entrepreneur from a personal, organizational, and...

• Author(s): Ron Elsdon • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementThis book explores the perspectives of experienced practitioners, sharing ideas about building and sustaining organizatio...

• Author(s): Mary E. Guy • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Structural AdjustmentAlthough much has been written about how organizations renew themselves, little attention has been given to why they go into decline. Mary Gu...

• Author(s): Patrick E. Connor • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Management - GeneralDespite enormous changes in the economy and the labor force since the previous edition of this classic text was published in 1994, one t...

• Author(s): Raymond T. Butkus • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementWhy does management encounter people problems whenever organizations attempt to change? Green and Butkus say this ...

• Author(s): William J. Rothwell • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: TrainingLeadership and Management Development programs have helped companies of every size become high-performing organizations. This practical guide sets...

• Author(s): Manuel London • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementA collection of original articles by leading practitioners and researchers, this volume examines methods for human res...

• Author(s): Michael A. Diamond • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: NegotiatingThis book offers a contemporary psychodynamic view of organizational life. Michael Diamond stresses the unconscious dimensions of hierarchic and...

• Author(s): Tom W. Goad • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Organizational BehaviorToday's workplace demands skills for a knowledgeable, productive use of information. Success, both personal and organizational, comes from ...

• Author(s): Torsten Kuhlmann • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: LeadershipThe widening gap between the requirements of multinational organizations and the strategic and managerial abilities of their leaders, many of whose...

• Author(s): Nicholas C. Georgantzas • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Strategic PlanningScenario-driven planning is a new management technology for strategy design that employs computed or strategic scenarios to improve ...

• Author(s): Jerry Lembcke • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Economics - TheoryThis thought-provoking study argues for a restoration of the classical Marxist position linking the development process, class formation, and ...

• Author(s): Darryl Roberts • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Organizational BehaviorAn organization's work culture and its business success are tightly linked, say the authors of this unique study, yet to understand and ...

• Author(s): John Tomer • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Economics - MicroeconomicsTomer integrates economic analysis with behavioral and humanistic perspectives into a discussion of a new economic concept: organizationa...

• Author(s): Michael Duane • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementDr. Duane argues that there is no universal approach to human resource (HR) planning and that each organization must d...

• Author(s): Seth Allcorn • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Substance Abuse & Addictions - GeneralCodependency is an important psychological aspect of the workplace that adversely affects both those who experience cod...

• Author(s): Renata Fox • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Business Communication - GeneralThis work supplies a concrete definition of Corporate Public Discourse, an idea that has always lacked true character. It explores ...

• Author(s): Bob Travica • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralThe organizational world today has been characterized in various terms - turmoil, chaos, the age of paradox and unreaso...

• Author(s): Lloyd C. Williams • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Management - GeneralNot only in corporations but also within governments and not-for-profit institutions, organizational violence is on the rise. Drawing on...

• Author(s): Geert Bouckaert • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationLegislative initiative, in response to public demands for more accountability, require public agencies at all levels of gov...

• Author(s): Unknown • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: NegotiatingIn this study, Matejko proposes the organization as a social phenomenon. The discrepancy between organizational demands and organization capacity leads to ...

• Author(s): Kathy Nielsen • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Management - GeneralWaller and Nielsen focus on teaching the techniques for better thinking that the authors have used themselves for creativity, strategic plan...

• Author(s): Harry Hutson • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Conflict Resolution & MediationHow are leaders facing a crisis supposed to handle and overcome an unknowable set of issues? This book demonstrates how effect...

• Author(s): Michael Pettus • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Management - GeneralWe live in a chaotic world. Some of the chaos results from poor decision-making (e.g., Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom). Yet other aspects...

• Author(s): David Jaffee • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentAdvanced undergraduates, graduate students, and social scientists interested in a wide-ranging but concise review of contempora...

• Author(s): Lloyd Williams • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementFrom the Back CoverWith compliance now its main goal, human resource management has become a hodgepodge of unconnecte...