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

• Author(s): Bobby C. Vaught • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementThe authors review the state of the art in employee development, identifying what human resource developme...

• Author(s): Manuel London • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementThis book recognizes that organizations do all they can to increase their chances for survival and growth, e...

• Author(s): William J. Cook • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: InfrastructureThe corporation model of organizations is in terminal decline, says Cook, and is being displaced by what he calls syntagma, a body of ...

• Author(s): R. Wayne Pace • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Structural AdjustmentCritical to the success of any organization is a characteristic called dynamism. Exactly the opposite of anhedonia, or listlessne...

• Author(s): Felix Frei • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Management - GeneralThe vital importance of the improved utilization and development of employee competence as part of a comprehensive strategy to improv...

• Author(s): Manuel London • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementThis collection of original essays, written by experienced human resource professionals, is a major contribu...

• Author(s): Ronald R. Sims • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: NegotiatingAmong the most significant features of Sims and Dennehy's book are a focus beyond valuing and managing cultural diversity, and a demonstra...

• Author(s): Wayne Miles Bundy • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: AutomationBundy shows how the evolution of knowledge can take us to unimaginably higher levels of human achievement, and offers a new model for th...

• Author(s): Roger E. Walters • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Information ManagementRoger E. Walters has written a timely and helpful analysis of the recent boom in application software development, and he add...

• Author(s): Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Management - GeneralRiahi-Belkaoui argues that the multidivisional organizational structure is far superior to the standard, functional form of...

• Author(s): Thad B. Green • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Sales & Selling - ManagementFaced with the ever increasing difficulty of reaching their targets, sales executives need new ways to improve their o...

• Author(s): Ronald R. Sims • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementNot only are performance and human resources management (HRM) bound tightly together, but Sims even goes so...

• Author(s): J. Benjamin Forbes • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementThis book is the first to present research-based data, rather than opinion, on the subject of executive...

• Author(s): Heikki Heiskanen • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: LeadershipThe same fundamental logic underlies language and mathematics, and indeed computerized information processing. Based on the three well-de...

• Author(s): David C. Dougherty • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Management - GeneralShrinking profits, mergers, and new competitive pressures have led many companies to the realization that slimming down is no...

• Author(s): James L. Bess • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Management - GeneralStyles of effective leadership in the much-admired research arm of Japanese organizations are examined for the first time in this ...

• Author(s): Richard C. Maddock • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: LeadershipLeadership is motivation and motivation is leadership, say the authors of this important and unique study. The two elements are insepar...

• Author(s): Zeinab A. Karake • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Structural AdjustmentOrganizational restructuring and corporate downsizing can have a significant impact on the perceived social responsibility and...

• Author(s): Robert D. Hay • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Strategic PlanningAdministrators and directors of non-profit organizations (NPOs) face most of the same challenges and problems that confront their co...

• Author(s): Solomon Hoberman • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: LeadershipIn this unique work, Hoberman and Mailick analyze the effectiveness of different educational approaches in management development for the...

• Author(s): Louise Kelly • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Movements - ExistentialismAt a time of corporate downsizing and bone-crushing international competition, how can executives reconcile their individual ...

• Author(s): J. Muruku Waiguchu • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: International - GeneralThe volume editors and their contributors provide readers with an unusually comprehensive reference and easily accessed gu...

• Author(s): Margaret Brindle • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Management - GeneralOrganizations pour billions of dollars into programs that in the end prove to be nothing but fads--short lived enthusiasms with...

• Author(s): John Tropman • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Organizational BehaviorTropman goes beyond the notion of the learning organization to propose the creating organization, an organization which sees tha...

• Author(s): Joe Kelly • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Management - GeneralExecutive behavior is simply what managers do. But what do they do? To answer this question, Kelly reviews the observational studies o...

• Author(s): Hugh Sherman • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Management - GeneralThe ability to implement change quickly is crucial to an organizations's success--not only in traditionally sedate industries, but ...

• Author(s): Martin Morf • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementA new book, The Work/Life Dichotomy, explores the redesign of mundane jobs; studies the trends in work/life re...

• Author(s): Denis C. E. Ugwuegbu • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Management ScienceFew managers of African organizations are trained in managing people. They may be technically proficient in their jobs, but t...

• Author(s): Michael E. Friesen • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Business Communication - GeneralIdeas are like goods and services--they can be sold--indeed, they must be. Friesen maintains that many executives...

• Author(s): Seth Allcorn • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementDespite our national preoccupation with achievement, little attention seems to be paid to the pursuit of exce...

• Author(s): Martin F. Stankard • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Management - GeneralOrganizations can and must be viewed as systems. This may be the only means of achieving or exceeding the crucial ISO9000 sta...

• Author(s): Vasanthakumar N. Bhat • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Development - Sustainable DevelopmentFrom the Back CoverGreen management, or management using environmentally sensible techniques, is the next...

• Author(s): James E. Gardner • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementEconomic developments, social and political pressures for job maintenance, the characteristics of the lab...

• Author(s): Ellen Ernst Kossek • Publisher: Quorum Books • Publisher Imprint: Quorum Books • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementThe Acceptance of Human Resource Innovation, based on a survey done by the author at the Valiant Insura...