For undergraduate/graduate Principles of Management and Management Skills courses. Help students develop ten essential management skills. With an emphasis on self assessments, Developing Management Skills gets students involved in the learning experience, helping them connect the theories to their [...]
The "Third Edition" of this key resource provides a means of understanding and changing organizational culture in order to make organizations more effective. It provides validated instruments for diagnosing organizational culture and management competency; a theoretical framework (competing values) [...]
For undergraduate/graduate Principles of Management and Management Skills courses. Help students develop ten essential management skills. With an emphasis on self assessments, Developing Management Skills gets students involved in the learning experience, helping them connect the theories to their [...]
Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness masterpiece follows Clarissa Dalloway through the course of a day as she prepares to host a party in the evening. The beautiful June day brings back memories from her happy schoolgirl years. She wonders about her choice of husband--was she wrong to have marri[...]
"Positive Organizational Scholarship" is a book that helps establish a new field of study in the organizational sciences. It examines a variety of positive dynamics in organizations that give rise to extraordinary outcomes, often described by words, such as excellence, thriving, flourishing, abundan[...]
The most contaminated nuclear plant in the country, Rocky Flats was an environmental disaster and the site of rampant worker unrest. Although it was estimated that it would take 70 years and $36 billion to clean up and close the facility, something stunning happened. Now on its way to becoming a wil[...]
Beyond Success
"Positive Leadership "shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and what Kim Cameron calls "positively deviant performance"--performance far above the norm. Citing a wide range of research in organizational beha[...]
This thoroughly updated book serves as the key source for understanding the Competing Values Framework, one of the most widely used and highly cited frameworks in the world. The authors, who have been at the foundation of developing, applying and studying this framework for over three decades, expla[...]
Creating value in a firm is an enormously complex endeavor. Yet, despite its complexity, value creation is the objective of every enterprise, every worker, and every leader. The Competing Values Framework can help leaders understand more deeply and act more effectively. In the first book to comprehe[...]
* Hva er organisasjonskultur?* Hvordan kan du beskrive kulturen i din organisasjon?* Hvor godt er kulturen tilpasset strategien og de nye utfordringer og krav organisasjonen står overfor?* Hvilken miks av verdier er viktig i din organisasjon?* Hvilken lederkompetanse trengs?Forfatterne ønsker med [...]