Behavior in Organizations: Understanding and Managing the Human Side of Work |
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This text provides managers with basic information about people and their behavior within the context of a business environment. This new edition reflects recent changes in the field of organizational behavior, and has more of a hands-on orientation than previous editions. By examining factors that contribute to an ever-changing business world, it will teach managers to develop, train, and motivate high-performance employees. This book covers such topics as motivation, feedback, influence, and stress-coping techniques, as well as culture, creativity and innovation, developing work teams, work-related attitudes, and organizational structure, design and technology. For human resources managers, general managers, team-builders, and personnel specialists.
Behavior in Organizations: Understanding and Managing the Human Side of Work
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Cases in Management and Organizational Behavior, Vol. 1 |
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Can be used in a course in management or organizational behavior, or as a reference for the entire business programs and training programs. Softcover.
Cases in Management and Organizational Behavior, Vol. 1
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Future Focused Organization, The: Complete Organizational Alignment for Breakthrough Results |
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A comprehensive guide to refocusing an entire organization on a positive, pro-active vision of the future. The authors present proven techniques for building 'virtual superteams' that are agile enough to compete regardless of how the business environment changes, and they offer an essential guide to hiring and rewards in this new era.
Future Focused Organization, The: Complete Organizational Alignment for Breakthrough Results
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Managing Today! |
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This unique, re-engineered book defines and describes the new 'paradigm' brought on by recent dramatic changes in the field of management. Managing Today! redefines the traditional 'functional' approach employed by previous management books to more accurately reflect recent, fundamental changes in the economy and workplace—changes that have significantly reshaped today's managers' jobs. Robbins' balanced approach presents an effective integration of theory and application displayed within a clear, visual design specifically tailored for today's readers. Coverage includes changing issues in today's workplace (risk, privatization, multiple skills, and continual retraining); culture shock; time-management skills; cycle-time reduction and technology transfer; virtual teams; human behavior; leadership; trust building; change management; and more. For human resources professionals, business managers/team leaders, and anyone interested in Organizational Behavior and Business Management.
Managing Today!
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Personnel Law |
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The Fourth Edition offers a comprehensive treatment of the entire subject of personnel law that reflects the author's personal experience as both a practicing lawyer and personnel director. Written in simple language that bridges the gap between law and human relations management, the new edition explores the legal considerations that occur when an employer-employee relationship is established, and focuses on permissible activities in handling personnel problems, when to seek legal counsel, and how to stay out of court. Offers new case law where the legal principles have been changed by the courts. Covers all the new statutes. Continues to find an economical way for the Epersonnel function to live with its law partner, whose principles are laid down by legislation and interpreted by the courts. An excellent resource for those in the personnel/ human resources field.
Personnel Law
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Riding the Storm: Strategic Planning in Turbulent Markets |
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Riding the Storm introduces the Global Marketing Advantage System, a breakthrough strategic-planning model designed for today's fast-moving, constantly changing global markets. The book -- based on the author's work with 100 organizations in more than 26 countries -- shows executives how to capture real-time data and convert the data into valuable, usable market intelligence, helping them more effectively manage information flows in dynamic markets, ensure alignment between strategic and operational plans, and protect themselves from sudden paradigm shifts.
Riding the Storm: Strategic Planning in Turbulent Markets
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Strategic Management In Action |
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Strategic Management in Action, 3rd Edition is clearly differentiated from other volumes by its conversational writing style, increased use of pedagogy, and emphasis on readers doing strategy. The volume effectively integrates strategy theory and strategy action in an exciting and engaging way. The author examines the foundations of auditing, as well as standards, materiality and risk, management assertions and evidence, client acceptance and audit planning, internal control, revenue and cash receipts transactions, expenditure and cash disbursements transactions, other accounts and transactions, sampling, completing the audit and reporting, ethics and legal liability and assurance and other services. For business professionals involved in strategic planning.
Strategic Management In Action
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The Next Economy: Will You Know Where Your Customers Are? |
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Explores an emerging business trend. Provides strategies companies can use to prepare themselves for success in the years ahead--giving them new and exciting ways to triumph in an ever-changing market. Softcover.
The Next Economy: Will You Know Where Your Customers Are?
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Threshold Competitor: A Management Simulation |
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Key Benefit: Combining learning and fun, Threshold Competitor Team and Threshold Competitor Solo are computer-based models that simulate a small manufacturing company producing two plastic-molded products-Product 1 and Product 2. In Team the user is part of a group managing a separate company, competing with other groups in the same marketplace. Solo is a play-alone version of Team, placing the user in competition with computer-managed companies. Key Topics: Both versions encourage users to: decide their company mission, goals, policies, and strategies; develop planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling skills; and make marketing, financial, and manufacturing decisions. The programs provides valuable feedback, rating and ranking the companies according to sales revenues, net income, return on assets, and accuracy in forecasting sales. Market: For small-business managers and policy makers.
Threshold Competitor: A Management Simulation
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Winning the Influence Game: What Every Business Leader Should Know about Government |
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Play the game to win 'More and more CEOs are discovering that managing one’s business environment is as important as managing operations, finance, and sales. Winning the Influence Game explains how a strategic government relations program can make a major impact on that environment at the federal, state, and local levels.'–Douglas G. Pinkham, President, Public Affairs Council 'A useful, detailed handbook that should find itself on the desktop–or at the bedside–of every business leader. These are the skills that every business leader needs to succeed in the increasingly complex and rapidly changing globalized economy in which they operate–and to gain competitive advantage for their company’s future.'–Ira Jackson, Director, Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government 'Winning the Influence Game provides an excellent overview for the corporate leader of how government can impact the bottom line–both positively and negatively. The clear, concise, and practical manner in which the book is organized and information provided makes it an extremely useful resource to those charged with the responsibility of creating an effective government relations program.'–Margery Kraus, President and CEO, APCO Worldwide
Winning the Influence Game: What Every Business Leader Should Know about Government
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