Business & economics / Organizational Behavior

The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance

by Gerald J. Langley, Ronald Moen & Kevin M. Nolan

This new edition of this bestselling guide offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings. The authors explore...

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan & Charles Burck

The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job

Larry Bossidy is one of the world’s most acclaimed CEOs, a man...

The Handbook for Working with Difficult Groups: How They Are Difficult, Why They Are Difficult and What You Can Do About It

by Sandy Schuman

Praise for The Handbook for Working with Difficult Groups

"Beginning with a conceptual framework useful to understand effective group functioning, The Handbook for Working with Difficult Groups continues with...

The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable

by Patrick M. Lencioni

In this stunning follow-up to his best-selling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni offers up another leadership fable that's every bit as compelling and illuminating as its predecessor. This...

Organizational Culture and Leadership

by Edgar H. Schein

Regarded as one of the most influential management books of all time, this fourth edition of Leadership and Organizational Culture transforms the abstract concept of culture into a tool that can be used to better...

Keeping People Safe: The Human Dynamics of Injury Prevention

by Ph. D., Josh Williams

This book provides safety leaders with information they can use to reduce workplace injuries by addressing the five integral components of workplace safety: Systems/Conditions, Leadership, Behaviors, People-Factors,...

Organizational Culture and Leadership

by Edgar H. Schein

In this third edition of his classic book, Edgar Schein shows how to transform the abstract concept of culture into a practical tool that managers and students can use to understand the dynamics of organizations...

Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR

by Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge

Organization Development is about using planned interventions to help create high performing cultures. The book explains both the theory and application and includes guidance on dealing with; change, organizational...

Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance - A Business Novel

by Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland & Jeff Cox

Millions of readers remember The Goal, the landmark business novel that sets forth by way of story the essential principles of Eliyahu Goldratt's innovative methods of production. Now, from the AGI-Goldratt...

The Bass Handbook of Leadership: Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications

by Bernard M. Bass & Ruth Bass

For thirty-three years and through three editions, Bass & Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership has been the indispensable bible for every serious student of leadership. Since the third edition came out in 1990,...

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...

Critical Leadership: The Dynamics of the Leader-Follower Relationship in Public Sector Organizations

by Paul Evans, John Hassard & Paula Hyde

Critical approaches to leadership studies have sought to challenge the normative position of leadership as residing solely within the formal leader and have gone as far as to undermine the traditionally held...

Theory U: Learning from the Future as It Emerges

by C. Otto Scharmer

Shows how leaders can access the deepest source of inspiration and vision • Includes dozens of tested exercises, practices, and real-world examples We live in a time of massive institutional failure, one that...

Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies

by C. Otto Scharmer & Katrin Kaeufer

Our Time Is Now We have entered an age of disruption. Financial collapse, climate change, resource depletion, and a growing gap between rich and poor are but a few of the signs. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer...

Cases in Organisational Behaviour

by Roy McLennan

This is a comprehensive, systematic casebook which demonstrates the contribution of research to the formulation and resolution of organisational problems actually faced by managers. The cases are presented in...

Leading and Implementing Business Change Management: Making Change Stick in the Contemporary Organization

by David J. Jones & Ronald J. Recardo

Being change capable is the "new normal" for today's growth-minded organizations. The "do more with less" strategies of the past are no longer effective in preparing organizations to meet the increasing challenges...

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,...