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Implementation of Changes in Chinese Organizations

  • 1st Edition
  • March 30, 2009
  • Ruth Alas
  • English
  • eBook
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There are no commonly accepted theories of change that have been developed for China or countries in transition. This book is an attempt to bridge that gap and provide a model which takes into account the specifics of organizational changes in Chinese organizations. It looks at various aspects of change implementation in Chinese organizations, including the types, the process, the readiness to change, and ethical issues.

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities

  • 4th Edition
  • November 26, 2007
  • Donald DePamphilis
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 5 5 9 0 - 4
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities, Fourth Edition, is a real-world teaching tool for finance courses on mergers, acquisitions, and other restructuring activities. The author, Dr. Donald DePamphilis, shares his academic knowledge and personal experiences with over 30 such deals. The book covers 99 case studies that span every industry, country, and region worldwide demonstrate how deals are done rather than just the theory behind them, including cross-border transactions. The book is ideal for MBA and advanced undergraduate and graduate finance students taking courses in mergers & acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and corporate strategy.

R&D and Licensing

  • 1st Edition
  • January 31, 2007
  • Kieran Comerford
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 1 5 5 - 4
This book explains the principles of research and development (R&D) management in an environment which is open to external sources of technology. Organisations no longer undertake all of their R&D in-house. Increasingly, companies innovate by using a combination of R&D and externally sourced technologies. R&D and Licensing shows how to integrate these into the product and process development programme, and provides extensive guidance on intellectual property, licensing and royalty negotiations. The book demonstrates how companies increase their value through the acquisition of intellectual assets.

Corporate Literacy

  • 1st Edition
  • January 31, 2007
  • Anne Kauhanen-Simanainen
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 1 5 6 - 1
This book introduces a new facet for information and knowledge management: Corporate Literacy refers to the comprehensive literacy that companies and communities need in the networked, fast changing and complex environment. The views relating to organisations and information are changing along with the changes in the operating and information environment. The concept of literacy is also expanding. It cannot anymore be observed only from an individual point of view but the attention has to be transferred to communal skills. Based of these shared skills the organisation is able to build its own information architecture and to offer its information resources for use. This book will tell the reader how Corporate Literacy is created and what kind of a strategy can be used to develop it. The book includes information architecture of a literate organisation and new roles of information professionals.

Leadership Scaffolding

  • 1st Edition
  • January 31, 2006
  • Judith Elliott
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 1 5 0 - 9
Leadership Scaffolding discusses the practicalities for middle managers of leadership - providing readers with the framework or scaffolding to being an effective manager. It’s not theory - it’s all about what the seriously good managers actually ‘do’. When we start our careers, we learn in compartments: this course on delegation, that workshop on motivation. Of course hit and run training courses help us, as does a good role model or two, but the best managers are the ones who construct a framework of actions around the main focus of getting the job done that means it gets done more efficiently, with less stress and is ultimately more rewarding for all concerned.The good news is that although there are some common, threads this framework, or scaffolding, has different shapes - depending on your unique business or management style. This book provides readers with that framework or scaffolding.

Practical Leadership

  • 1st Edition
  • January 31, 2006
  • Gordon MacKay
  • English
  • eBook
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This management book is published in association with the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM). Drawing upon both contemporary experience and that of well known leaders, this book offers practical advice and guidance to inspire, encourage, and inform anyone facing, for the first time, the real day to day challenges of leadership. Over recent decades technology and education have led to great challenges for traditional styles of leadership. Nevertheless, the author demonstrates real prescience in ancient tales of leadership, its initiation and development and their practical value for leaders today. The book opens with the author’s account of his own initiation into leadership; of being propelled totally unexpectedly and quite unprepared into the practice and challenges of leadership. The book contains reflections on and fundamental insights into the nature and practice of leadership. Illustrated with many rich examples, metaphors, allegories and illustrations, the author exposes consistent patterns marking the practice of great leaders.

Being the Best You Can Be

  • 1st Edition
  • January 31, 2006
  • Ian Hunt
  • English
  • eBook
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This management book is published in association with the Institute of Management and Leadership (ILM). Everyone is so busy rushing around doing their own thing – working, parenting, fire-fighting, trying to manage themselves and others, and in many cases just surviving. Being the Best You Can Be examines how individuals can develop themselves, control different aspects of their life, become more organised, welcome change and tackle challenges face on. Chapters discuss organisation skills, how to maintain a positive attitude, managing stress and building a successful team.

Growing People

  • 1st Edition
  • January 31, 2006
  • Bob Thomson
  • English
  • eBook
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Growing People offers managers and human resources professionals both a strategic approach and a practical guide to developing people. It explores how a manager can build the capability of individuals, teams and organisations by providing people with challenging experiences and helping them to learn from these experiences. It shows how to create conversations that make a real difference and how to establish effective relationships. It also sets out a practical approach to identifying and nurturing talent and managing succession issues.

Research in Organizational Behavior

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 26
  • June 7, 2005
  • Barry Staw + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 2 5 1 7 - 4
This twenty-sixth volume of Research in Organizational Behavior presents a set of well-crafted and thoughtful essays on a series of research topics. They range from efforts to redirect the study of leadership, to analyses of interpersonal relationships, to considerations of cross-cultural issues in organizing work, to discussions of institutional and environmental forces on organizational outcomes. Each of these essays includes a thorough review of the relevant literature, and more importantly, pushes that literature forward with new conceptual analysis and theory. In short, these essays continue the spirit of "rigorous eclecticism" that has exemplified the annual publication of ROB. As a collection, this year's set of essays provides a healthy advance for the field of organizational behavior. They are examples of serious scholarship that extend and challenge our current thinking about organizations and the behavior of its participants. Many of these chapters will take their place among the best presented by the Research in Organizational Behavior series. • Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership• When and How Team Leaders Matter• Normal Act of Irrational Trust: Motivated Attributions and the Trust Development Process• Gender Stereotypes and Negotiation Performance: An Examination of Theory and Research• Third-Party Reactions to Employee (Mis)treatment: A Justice Perspective• Subgroup Dynamics in Internationally Distributed Teams: Ethnocentrism or Cross-National Learning?• Protestant Relational Ideology: The Cognitive Underpinnings and Organizational Implications of an American Anomaly• Isomorphism In Reverse: Institutional Theory as an Explanation For Recent Increases in Intraindustry Heterogeneity and Managerial Discretion• The Red Queen: History-Dependent Competition Among Organizations

Research in Organizational Behavior

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 25
  • December 12, 2003
  • Roderick M Kramer + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
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This volume celebrates the first quarter century of publishing Research in Organizational Behavior. From its inception, Research in Organizational Behavior has striven to provide important theoretical integrations of major literatures in the organizational sciences, as well as timely examination and provocative analyses of pressing organizational issues and problems. In keeping with this tradition, the current volume offers an eclectic mix of scholarly articles that address a variety of important questions in organizational theory and do so from a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives and theoretical orientations. A number of the chapters also directly engage contemporary events and dilemmas of considerable importance.