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Great Writers on Organizations presents succinctly each of the contributions made by 80 of the most prominent management thinkers to the understanding of organizational behaviour and managerial thinking. Among those included are early theorists such as Henri Fayol, Frederick W. Taylor and Max Weber, classical writers such as Alfred D. Chandler, Peter Drucker and Frederick Herzberg, through to modern thinkers such as Oliver Williamson, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Charles Handy. New writers included in the Third Omnibus Edition are: Lex Donaldson, Stewart Clegg, Richard Whitley, Michel Foucault and Kathleen Eisenhardt. The volume is an indispensable resource for academics, students and managers on what the great writers have to say about the key managerial tasks of how to organize and motivate.
While competitive natural selection is widely assumed to be evolution’s prime mover, Weiss shows how life generally works on the basis of cooperation. He reveals that focus on competition and cooperation is largely an artifact of compression of time—a distortion that dissolves when life is viewed from developmental and evolutionary time scales.
A unique take on how to survive and thrive in the process your PhD, this is a book that stands out from the crowd of traditional PhD guides. Compiled by a leading UK researcher, and written in a highly personal one-to-one manner, How to Get Your PhD showcases the thoughts of diverse and distinguished minds hailing from the UK, EU, and beyond, spanning both academia and industry. With over 150 bitesize nuggets of actionable advice, it offers more detailed contributions covering topics such as career planning, professional development, diversity and inclusion in science, and the nature of risk in research. How to Get Your PhD: A Handbook for the Journey is as readable for people considering a PhD as it is for those in the middle of one: aiming to clarify the highs and lows that come when training in the profession of research, while providing tips & tricks for the journey. This concise yet complete guide allows students to "dip in" and read just what they need, rather than adding to the mountain of reading material they already have.
This title, from Gordon Rugg and Marian Petre, discusses the unwritten rules of the academic world, the things people forget to tell you about doing a doctorate.
Organizations must adapt to changing and often challenging environments. This third Canadian edition helps students understand and design organizations for today’s complex environment. The concepts and models offered in this text are integrated with changing events in the real world, presenting the most recent thinking and providing an up-to-date view of organizations. Detailed Canadian examples and cases capture the richness of the Canadian experience, while international examples accurately represent Canada’s role in the world.
How to get a PhD is THE classic book on studying for a PhD. It provides a practical, down to earth and realistic approach to studying for a PhD and offers support and reassurance for both students and supervisors.
Long a best-seller, this eagerly awaited Sixth Edition offers an illuminating overview of the field of organization studies through the views of leading writers whose ideas are presently the subject of much interest and debate. Authors Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson do a masterful job of capturing the essence of each writer's contribution to the field-providing coverage of all the classic and cutting edge theories in management today. New to the Sixth Edition: Discusses the work of new writers and brings the work of previous writers up-to-date: Takes into account the changing organizational issues and new work making an impact in the field.Incorporates new material on leading experts: Th...
“A fresh update to a true classic. This is one of the most reassuring and useful books you will ever read about doing your PhD, no matter your topic - or where you are enrolled.” Professor Inger Mewburn, Director of Researcher Development, Office of the Dean of Higher Degree by Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia “How to get a PhD is both honest and thorough and thus immensely helpful, for supervisors as much as for students.” Professor Paul Allain, Dean of the Graduate and Researcher College, University of Kent, UK “The 7th edition! ‘How to get a PhD’ is proving its status as a must read for PhDs and supervisors.” Dr Hans Sonneveld, Founder and ...
The IEBM Handbook of Organizational Behavior is a unique, ground-breaking reference guide to organizational behavior thinking and practice. It brings together original essays from the world�s leading OB experts and presents them in an accessible, single volume publication.Drawing from material provided in the highly acclaimed six volume International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, The IEBM Handbook of Organizational Behavior presents exclusive in-depth, global coverage of a wide range of OB topics and approaches.
Understanding organizational behaviour means knowing how and why businesses and other organizations operate in the way they do. Organization behaviour has become a well established multidisciplinary field, drawing on concepts from sociology and psychology, as well as from economics, industrial and labour relations, political science, production engineering and social anthropology. It applies academic disciplines to the practical realm of business in order to reveal the underlying structures and human dynamics that influence the day to day reality of management throughout the world. This handbook offers a comprehensive reference guide to organizational behaviour thinking and practice and brings together a collection of original essays, integrating the respective elements of organizational behaviour into a unified field of study.