Business & economics / Organizational Behavior

The Smart Swarm: How to Work Efficiently, Communicate Effectively, and Make Better Decisions Using the Secrets of Flocks, Schools, and Colonies

by Peter Miller

What ants, bees, fish, and smart swarms can teach about communication, organization, and decision-making.

The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually...

Power: Why Some People Have It-and Others Don't

by Jeffrey Pfeffer

In this crowning achievement, one of the greatest minds in management theory reveals how to succeed and wield power in the real world.

Over decades of consulting with corporations and teaching MBA students the...

The Real Truth about Success : What the Top 1% Do Differently, Why They Won't Tell You, and How You Can Do It Anyway!: What the Top 1% Do Differently,

by Garrison Wynn

Life and business aren’t fair,which is good. If they were, you couldn’tseize the unfair advantage.Think about it. Is your CEO the smartestperson in the company? Is the head of yourdepartment more driven...

Corps Business

by David H. Freedman

Fast. Motivated. Hard-hitting.

That's what every business wants to be. And that's why the U.S. Marines excel in every mission American throws at them, no matter how tough the odds. In Corps Business, journalist...

Leadership and Organization

by Robert Tannenbaum, Irving Weschler & Fred Massarik

This book represents a selected collection of the writings, from 1950 to 1960, of members of the Human Relations Research Group (HRRG), from UCLA. The writings are followed by independent comments and appraisal...

Social Psychology of the Work Organization

by Arnold Tannenbaum

This book discusses social psychological research in organizations and illustrates the implications of this research for organizational theory and practice. The book focuses on the relationship of man to the...

Organizational Choice

by E. L. Trist, G. W. Higgin & H. Murray

This book develops and applies a new approach to the study of the working group and indeed of productive enterprises more generally. Unlike similar studies, in this volume the human is related back to the technological,...

Company Strategy and Organizational Design

by Roger Mansfield

Getting strategies and structures right for changing market conditions and successfully matching strategies and structures with each other, are crucial. This volume reviews and develops the extensive literature...

The sociology of the workplace: an interdisciplinary approach.

by Malcolm Warner

This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach. The study of the workplace is approached from the standpoint of industrial sociology, industrial relations, industrial anthropology and other related disciplines....

Management, organisation and employment strategy : new directions in theory and practice

by Tony Watson

The book brings together in a single volume material and issues normally treated separately, such as management studies, organisation theory, personnel management, industrial relations and motivation theory....

Organisation and administration for business.

by Geoffrey Whitehead

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to business organisation and administration. Written in a straightforward, readable style this textbook covers all the major aspects of the subject. Starting with...

Managing organizational change

by Fred Fallik

The United States Internal Revenue Service introduced a multi-million dollar program to automate its operations in the early 1980s. This book describes a multidisciplinary study of the experiences of several...

The international yearbook of organization studies.

by David Dunkerley & Graeme Salaman

The diverse topics in this volume bring together developments in the field of organization studies. Although the approaches are by no means undifferentiated the articles share a commitment to a revitalized organizational...

Leadership and organizations

by Alan Bryman

In this textbook Alan Bryman provides a detailed and critical examination of the literature on leadership in organizations, giving special recognition to the needs of students of organizational behaviour and...

A sociology of organisations.

by J. E. T. Eldridge & A. D. Crombie

An understanding of the nature and forms of organisation, particularly with reference to industrial societies, is a key area in sociological analysis. This book discusses and explains what concepts to employ...

The study of organizations

by David Dunkerley

In this introduction for undergraduate students, the author surveys the development of the study of organizations from an historical point of view. He studies organizations within the framework of the main schools...

The Foreman

by David Dunkerley

The foreman is usually regarded as a filter in a chain of command in industrial organizations. In this book, however, the author suggests that this view is not adequate, and he proposes instead a model of analysis...

Organization, class and control

by Stewart Clegg & David Dunkerley

In this volume the authors develop a systematic and chronologically based critique of the major concepts, figures and schools in organization. Themes discussed include:

• the development of scientific management...

Critical issues in organizations

by Stewart Clegg & David Dunkerley

This collection highlights a number of directions in which organization theory could develop. It also argues the need for an historical analysis of the sociology of organizations. Other issues discussed are...

Doing research in organizations

by Alan Bryman

This textbook provides first-hand, inside accounts of the process of doing research in organizations. It is intended both for students of research methods in sociology and social psychology, and for students...