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Book SynopsisThis book introduces new approaches that deploy concepts from Marx's critique of political economy to renew the study of labour, value and social antagonisms in the broad area of management and organisation studies. Exploring established and emergent strands of Marxian theorising inside and outside management and organisation studies, it delves into, beyond and behind the hidden abode' of production to examine a range of issues including: the relationship between the workplace and the market; the relationship between conflicts at work and wider social and political movements; the role of class, gender and race in capitalist society; and the interconnection of work and labour with the environmental crisis. The book will be of interest for academics, postgraduate students and researchers interested in radical perspectives on work, organisation and economic life. Representing both a critical introduction to existing theories and a theoretical contribution to the developme

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Book SynopsisNon-profit Organizations and Co-production:The Logics Shaping Professional and Citizen Collaboration develops a novel framework for analyzing the practices of co-production between citizens and professionals in the non-profit sector. Analysing organizations in three contexts (Sheffield, England; Lyon, France; and Montreal, Quebec, Canada), the book examines the international differences between non-profits, evidenced by the way that they variously blend or assimilate the logics of the market, state and community, and how this shapes the motivations for and approaches to co-production at the micro level in each context. This book presents a major step forward in comparative non-profit studies and the co-production of public services. This book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and graduate/ postgraduate students in public administration and management, particularly within Public & Nonprofit Management and Organization Studies. The book speaks directly to

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the roles played by creative and conventional metaphor in expressing positive and negative evaluation within a particular workplace, drawing on interviews with 31 current and former employees of the British Civil Service.Metaphor is often used to express evaluation but relatively few studies have investigated the ways in which metaphor is used to evaluate personal emotionally charged experiences. The volume explores how metaphor serves a predominantly evaluative function, with creatively used metaphors often more likely than conventional metaphors to perform an evaluative function, particularly when the evaluation is negative or ambiguous. The findings provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between evaluation, creativity, and metaphor. Examples, including military metaphors and family metaphors, show how creativity often comes through subverting the norms of use of a particular metaphor category, or altering the valence from its conventional useTable of ContentsAcknowledgements, 1. Chapter 1 “I’m sort of running on this soapy conveyor belt with people throwing wet sponges at me and I’ve got this sodding great elastic band attached to my back”, Why look at creative metaphor, evaluation, and emotion in conversations about work?, The role played by metaphor in the sharing of emotional experiences, Are creative or conventional metaphors more likely to be used for evaluation?, Is (creative) metaphor more likely to be used for positive or negative evaluation?, Previous studies of the role played by metaphor in the workplace, and the approach taken in this study, A final (but important) comment on the nature of ‘creative metaphor’, The context of the study, Research questions, 2. Chapter 2 “I’m surprised anybody can hear anything going on for the crashing of all of these elephants in the room”: Methodology and taxonomy of creative metaphor types, Introduction, Participants and interview procedure, Procedure used for the identification of metaphor, Procedure used for the identification of creative uses of metaphor and taxonomy of creative uses of metaphor, Procedure used for the identification of positive and negative evaluation, Conclusion, 3. Chapter 3 “She did the traditional sort of chuck it all up in the air, so get all the deckchairs and throw them up in the air, cause chaos for a year and a half and then leave”: To what extent are creative metaphors used to perform evaluation and how do creative and conventional metaphors relate to one another?, Introduction, To what extent is metaphor used to express evaluation in conversations about work? Is the use of metaphor more likely to be associated with positive or negative evaluation? And do creative and conventional metaphor differ in terms of the extent to which they express (positive or negative) evaluation?, Which metaphors were used to perform what kinds of evaluation, and how were they employed?, Conclusion, 4. Chapter 4 Conclusion: "As people rotate round, some will spin off the merry-go-round and shoot off back to the private sector”, Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEmbracing listening as a useful tool for strengthening organization-publics and organization-employee relationships, this book offers theoretical and practical insights for listening across myriad strategic communication contexts. Chapters authored by a diverse global collective of communication scholars and professionals present original research and case examples of listening for strategic communication in corporate, government, and nonprofit environments. They explore topics such as utilizing artificial intelligence and social media; activism, social justice, and ethics; and fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within and outside organizations. Each chapter concludes with recommendations for strategic communication practice. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in public relations and strategic communication, organizational communication, and listening.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the primary symptoms present in a dysfunctional culture that could have devastating outcomes for any organization. The book outlines each of the seven sins in each chapter.Each of the first seven chapters (Chapters 17) starts with a famous quote related to each of the sins and then immediately recounts stories ripped from the headlines describing well-known corporate failures but with a personal touch from former employees who experienced those stories from inside the company. (The sources for these stories are all cited in their Bibliographies).The seven sins of organizational culture are linked with seven different corporate scandals that serve as a lesson learned as well as seven stories of organizations that have been successful with each respective organizational attribute as follows: Flawed Mission and Misaligned Values uses WorldCom as the lesson learned and Patagonia as the success case Flawed Incentives uses Wells Fargo asTable of ContentsPreface. About the Author. Introduction. Chapter 1 Flawed Mission and Misaligned Values. Chapter 2 Flawed Incentives. Chapter 3 Lack of Accountability. Chapter 4 Ineffective Talent Management. Chapter 5 Lack of Transparency. Chapter 6 Ineffective Risk Management. Chapter 7 Ineffective Leadership. Chapter 8 Assessment of Culture. Chapter 9 Culture Transformation. Afterword. Appendix I Healthy Culture Attributes. Appendix II Culture Red Flags. Appendix III OECD ER M Maturity. Appendix IV Culture Assessment Survey. Appendix V Culture Wellness Report Card. Appendix VI Culture Assessment Attributes. Appendix VII Common Categories of Root Causes. Index.

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Book SynopsisMuch more than a book about flexible working, Beyond Hybrid Working is an engaging and practical management book to help organisations rethink all aspects of traditional work in the emerging post-pandemic landscape and reap the benefits from working smarter. Many organisations that had rapidly improvised and implemented Hybrid Working now want to take a more strategic approach.Smart Working' is being adopted across sectors, from technology companies, through the financial services sector to the public sector. Andy Lake has supported implementations in businesses and public sector organisations for nearly 30 years, including advising the UK Cabinet Office. He sets out a strategic, comprehensive and integrated approach to Smart Working in the context of new possibilities for working on a more distributed basis, and the impact of new AI-based technologies coming over the horizon. He also explores the possibilities for greater flexibility for workers with hands-on and siTrade Review“Beyond Hybrid Working provides an essential and compelling narrative for anyone delivering change in the workplace and improving the efficiency of their organisation. Crammed with practical advice, Andy’s first book Smart Flexibility was my playbook for developing TW3, the Governments’ own initial Smarter Working initiative: a game changer for modernising the Civil Service.”Richard Graham, formerly Head of Workplace Transformation, UK Cabinet Office­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­“A much needed, clearly argued, practical approach to smart working, updated to encompass post-Covid challenges and opportunities. To negotiate our way to a more holistic approach to smart working, we need people who are able to communicate a joined-up vision of the future of work. Andy Lake not only does that, but provides a step-by-step guide to how to achieve it."Mandy Garner, Managing Editor, wmpeople.co.uk“There’s something in here for everyone, whether they’re new to smarter working or have been doing it for a while. Andy’s insight into modern day working practices forms a strong foundation for transformational organisational change.”Su Jordan, Strategic Manager, Transformation, Durham County Council“Andy truly is a founding father of Smart Working in Europe. As researcher, author, lecturer, consultant and change agent he has observed, studied and analyzed the power of Smart Working. Steadfast about the principles and culture of flexibility, he has gathered a wealth of know-how articulated in a most comprehensive and actionable best practice book that is THE go-to for aspiring and seasoned practitioners, leaders and professionals. The writing is very accessible – reading Beyond Hybrid Working is like listening to a good friend around a fireplace with a glass of wine. I am grateful for his relentless awareness-raising, education and networking on all things flexible.”Philip Vanhoutte, author of The Smarter Working Manifesto and Co-Founder of the European Smart Work Network“One of the leading thinkers and writers on the present and future of work, Andy’s work is once again thoughtful, thorough and innovative. A must read.”Neil Usher, Author of The Elemental Workplace, Elemental Change and Unf*cking Work“Insightful, relevant, and superbly written. The must-have book on workplace for 2023.”Paige Hodsman, Workplace Concept Development Specialist, Saint-Gobain Ecophon“We used Andy’s practical guidance and frameworks as the basis for rolling out Smart Working in the UK operation of a global engineering company, the trailblazer for the subsequent global transformation. This helped us to think much more widely about a range of considerations that must be addressed when fundamentally changing the where, how and when of people’s daily work. By focusing on the cultural as well as the practical elements, this easy-to-read and often humorous account of the modern workplace provided a great foundation for the transformation.”Ben Hutchinson, Director, JCurv“Andy Lake delivers a comprehensive guide to ways of working during a time of profound change, and one that is both enjoyable, and practical. As many organizations grapple with evolving attitudes to work, new workspace options, and multiplying technical possibilities, an understanding of the topics Andy presents here is fundamental to navigating though that fog with any degree of certainty.”David Dunbar, Head of Digital Workspace, UK Department for Work and PensionsPraise for Andy Lake’s Smart Flexibility: Moving Smart and Flexible Working from Theory to Practice (Routledge, 2013)“… the book is a thought-provoking read and one that I feel should be essential reading for any managers wishing to take flexible working seriously within their organization.”Sandi Mann, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 34 No. 6, pp. 588-589“… a must-read for anyone interested in or embarking on workplace change. A combination of academic rigour, practical experience and case studies, it reflects Lake’s long-standing position as researcher and consultant in the field of smarter working. An adviser to government on the issue, his comprehensive book is based on over twenty years of experience in the field and has become an industry ‘bible’.”Heather Greig-Smith, Flexible Boss magazine, September 7, 2015“I like the author’s use of humour to get the point across … and the book’s gentle meadow-stream flow from one chapter to the next. I liked the arguments that he presented, and I appreciated the effort put into excellent research with real-world examples.”Quality World, April 2013Table of Contents1. What is Smart Working? 2. Changing work in a changing world 3. Developing a strategic approach 4. Business case, metrics and evaluation 5. Who, where, when and why? 6. The Smart Working workplace 7. Working across the Extended Smart Workplace 8. Working in the Virtual Workplace 9. Embedding a Smart Working culture 10. Leading the Anywhere, Anytime Team 11. Smart, flexible and productive 12. Smarter homeworking 13. Smart Working, wellbeing and inclusion 14. Smarter government, public services and public policy 15. Smart Working and sustainability 16. Beyond Hybrid: Smart Working now and in the future

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Book SynopsisSilence always has something to say it's never neutral and speaks volumes if people are willing to hear. Our response to silence is often to dismiss or end it, to block it out with noise. Instead, silence needs to be taken seriously. This book explores the importance of understanding silence and shows how we can move from merely listening to truly hearing those around us.The interplay of voice and silence in organisational life is not straightforward. We can feel pressured to speak and compelled to keep our silence. Knowing how to read silence, to make sense of its generative and degenerative capacity, is a rarely developed skill among managers and leaders at all levels who have been brought up to see silence as evidence of compliance or a weakness to be addressed. But it is a critical skill for managers and employees alike. Written by two experts in organisational development, this book explores different types of silence and their implications for organisational practice,Table of ContentsPart I. Seven shades of workplace silence 1. An introduction to the seven shades of silence 2. The seven shades of silence in action Part II. Creating and sustaining climates of silence and voice 3. On silence 4. The meaning of silence 5. Silence as ritual 6. Self-silencing 7. Silence at work 8. Silence is a password 9. Lessons for corporate life (on sustaining climates of silence and voice) 10. Silence descends Part III. Thirty-five voices… and beyond 11. Thirty-five voices 12. Some notes on method and practical application Part IV. Dialogue retethered 13. Putting dialogue to work

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Book SynopsisOrganisations today are being challenged to make sense of changes in environments that, now more than ever, are described as VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous). They are also being driven to understand how the future will evolve and what impact it will have not only on the organisations themselves but also on industries and societies. In recent decades a field has emerged to support organisations in addressing these challenges: strategic foresight.This book is a comprehensive introduction to strategic foresight. It presents a history of the field and explains the main principles in thinking about the future. The book describes how organisations can apply strategic foresight and explains how it relates to other fields such as strategy, innovation, and leadership, highlighting the relevance of strategic foresight not only for organisations but also for individuals, particularly managers and leaders. Grounded in the theoretical foundations of strategic foresight,Table of ContentsPart I: Background to strategic foresight 1. Historical development of strategic foresight (by Theresa Schropp) 2. Thinking about the future Part II: Applications of strategic foresight 3. Conceptualising strategic foresight 4. Weak signals and trends 5. Trend Receiver (by Rupert Hofmann) 6. The Delphi method: How experts see the future (by Heiko von der Gracht) 7. Scenario planning 8. Futures literacy laboratories (by Stefan Bergheim) 9. Business wargaming 10. Design thinking 11. Transformation and open strategy 12. Strategic foresight and its antecedents Part III: Strategic foresight in practice 13. Strategic foresight: An emerging field 14. Working with strategic foresight: Seven principles 15. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Employability Market Orientation (EMO) model, which is more extensive than traditional approaches in the field of personal marketing, along with a questionnaire for its measurement, makes the employee anti-fragile behaving as a micro-entrepreneur (workpreneur). It achieves high levels of employability and marketability and low job insecurity. This attitude has consequences for employers such as low employee loyalty and commitment. Thus, HR specialists will be able to develop adequate solutions and methods reducing the effects of retention. The EMO questionnaire contained in the book will allow them to diagnose such attitudes.This book guides readers through the world of the rules of the contemporary labor market with the end of life-long employment, encouraging to have a proactive attitude by both the employee and the employer. Its originality lies in the fact that it focuses on employees who can be adopted, not being victims of flexible human resource management. It is wTable of Contents1. INTRODUCTION 2. EMPLOYEE AND THE WAY OF PERFORMING THE PERSONNEL FUNCTION 3. FLEXIBLE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: CHOICE OR NECESSITY? 4. NEW EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS: THE TRANSACTIONAL, INSTEAD OF RELATIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT 5. EXPECTATIONS TOWARDS THE EMPLOYEE: ADAPTATION, FLEXIBILITY AND MOBILITY 6. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL AS AN AREA WHERE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE EMPLOYER ARE FORMED 7. EMPLOYABILITY, MARKETABILITY AND EMPLOYABILITY COMPETENCES IN THE CHANGING LABOUR MARKET 8. EMPLOYABILITY MARKET ORIENTATION AS THE EMPLOYEE’S RESPONSE TO THE RULES OF THE CHANGING LABOUR MARKET 9. SELECTED DETERMINANTS OF EMPLOYABILITY MARKET ORIENTATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CRITERIA OF ADAPTATION TO THE CHANGING LABOUR MARKET: RESEARCH REPORT 10. MANAGING EMPLOYEES WITH EMPLOYABILITY MARKET ORIENTATION: A CHALLENGE FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 11. WHAT ABOUT THE EMPLOYEE? A SLIGHTLY SUBJECTIVE CONCLUSION 12. GLOSSARY OF DIAGNOSED VARIABLES 13. STATISTICAL ANNEX

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Book SynopsisWhy Study Supervision?This book presents two compelling reasons to study supervision and supervisory leadership: Influential Position: Supervisors exert considerable influence on organizational settings. Supervisors have been schooled, developed, and trained for their responsibilities. They can function more effectively than if they learn through informal, sometimes haphazard means. It thus pays to learn about supervision because supervisors can influence how efficiently and effectively their organization functions. Career Path: Many career paths lead to supervision. Supervisors are everywhere. Supervisors are teachers, doctors, accountants, lawyers, plumbers, and electricians. If you aspire to advance within your occupation, you may find that one career path leads to supervision. Preparing for supervisory responsibilities can prepare you for advancement. You may thus have a personal stake yoTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction and Knowledge Base Chapter 2: Fundamental Principles of Supervisory Leadership Chapter 3: Positive Influential Leadership Chapter 4: Competency-Based Approach to Supervisory Leadership Chapter 5: Essential Competencies for Positive and Influential Leadership Chapter 6: Developing Positive and Influential Supervisor Leaders Chapter 7: Evaluating and Managing Positive and Influential Supervisor Leaders Chapter 8: Supervisory Leadership Framework

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Book SynopsisWe live in uncertain times propelled by complex systems, climate change and the use of technology which possess various threats. At times of crisis, leadership that permits quick reactions to the changing organisational environment becomes necessary. However, there has been limited studies that provide a road map of leading during a crisis. What is required of leaders during a crisis? How can you develop the required leadership expertise during such turbulent periods? What are the challenges leaders will have to combat? Through this book, these questions are answered.It is no exaggeration therefore to claim that this book opens a new chapter as it seeks to advance discussions about how to lead during crisis. Drawing on empirical and conceptual evidence from the perspective of renowned authors in leadership research, it offers a robust and engaging overview of the field of leadership and leadership development in turbulent and dynamic environments. The chapters in the book supTrade Review“A powerful perspective on the role of effective leadership in these challenging and changing times. This brings together a number of insightful contemporary perspectives on the impact of disasters, leading in a time of crisis and the value of leadership in surviving a serious crisis. Providing valuable lessons for leaders in these days when the next crisis could be just around the corner.” Neil Shaw, Dean/Chief Executive, Greater Manchester Business School, University of Bolton“Leadership During a Crisis' makes a major contribution to the study of leadership and crisis. Informed by diverse case studies and theoretical insights, the book will be a crucial source for students, academics and practitioners for many years to come. The editor should be congratulated for bringing together such fine scholars to deliver this very important text.” Professor John Connolly, Head of Department of Social Sciences, Glasgow School of Business for Society, Glasgow Caledonian University“This book provides a much needed and comprehensive analysis of leadership and leadership development during crisis and upheaval. As such, the work within it ranges across important areas such as learning, optimism, ethics, authenticity, influence and the ever-present concerns of individual agency and collective action. It provides an important, timely and insightful contribution to the field.”Professor Joanne Murphy, Professor of Inclusive Leadership, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham“This refreshingly original and important book traces the role of leadership in engaging productively with the political, social and ecological crises of our times. Enriched by a diversity of authors' voices and contexts, it will be useful to scholars and students of leadership, through providing critical analysis and hope in an era of change.” Professor Emma Bell, Professor of Organisation and Leadership, Open University Business School, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction to Leadership During a Crisis: A Focus on Leadership Development Chapter 2 Entrepreneurial Leading and Learning in a Crisis Chapter 3 Leaders appointed in Times of Crisis and Leader and Leadership Development Chapter 4 A Model of Pragmatic Optimism for more Effective Crisis Leadership Chapter 5 Crisis and Servant Leadership: A Conceptualisation of Leadarchy as a Paradigm for Turbulent Times Chapter 6 Ethical Leadership during a Period of Crisis: Lessons from Vietnam Chapter 7 The Making of Zelensky’s Leadership: The Man or the Crisis? Chapter 8 Leadership Behaviours under Crises: The Application of a Process-Oriented View during the Covid-19 Pandemic Chapter 9 Risking it All: Authentic Leadership in Crisis Chapter 10 Uncovering mechanisms of leadership as influence process Chapter 11 Entrepreneurial Leadership: An Approach for Crisis

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Book SynopsisVolunteers play a critical role serving communities and delivering public services. Volunteers serve across many areasin schools, human service organizations, emergency services, and more. By providing services to those in need, volunteers expand the capacity of organizations and can devote extra time to the populations they serve. While research on volunteering has shifted from a focus on recruitment and motivation to management and retention, the focus is largely on universal, one-size-fits all prescriptions. Volunteer management only recently moved to a contingency perspective focused on organizational needs. However, volunteer management should adapt to meet the needs of organizations and volunteers.Taking a strategic approach, this book provides an overview of volunteer management from planning and recruitment to engagement and evaluation, considering both organizational and volunteer needs and capacity. We develop a strategic volunteer management approach for volunteeri

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Strategic Analysis is a concise and practical guide for organisational strategic analysis, strategy development, decision-making, and implementation.The book takes the reader step by step through the background of strategic management and the process of developing a new strategy. It considers how to assess the strategic capabilities and context of the organisation, how to identify and choose between the various strategic options, and how to successfully implement the change in strategy. Mini-case studies and reflective questions provide stimuli for class discussion, whilst chapter objectives and summaries structure and reinforce learning. The final chapter sets out a complete worked example to illustrate the process as a whole.Refreshing and concise, this text provides valuable and practical reading for postgraduate, MBA and executive education students of strategic management, as well as practising managers in organisations of all sizes. Online Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Strategic management and why it is important 3. The process of developing and implementing a new strategy 4. Assessing strategic capabilities 5. Assessing the strategic context 6. Assessing and acting on the strategic position 7. Identifying strategic options 8. Choosing between the strategic options 9. Successfully implementing a strategy 10. Worked case study example

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Book SynopsisThis informative and practical book helps leaders develop adaptive leadership mindsets and skills to address the myriad intersecting challenges shaping today's workplace. Through the Flux 5 framework, organizational culture and systems experts Sharon Ravitch and Liza Herzog help leaders, teams, and organizations create the organizational conditions to drive and enact adaptive change.At a time of unprecedented workplace flux, leader roles are constantly being redefined, requiring more finely attuned leader mindsets, frames for leadership, and skillsets for moving the dial on individual and organizational sense-making for cultural and institutional excellence. Based on five mindsets Inquiry Mindset, Humanizing Mindset, Systems Mindset, Entrepreneurial Mindset, and Equity Mindset the Flux 5 framework teaches leaders to drive adaptive change as a tool of professional and organizational development. Using embedded leader learning activations and organizational practices, Trade Review"Leadership Mindsets for Adaptive Change by Dr. Sharon Ravitch and Dr. Liza Herzog is a must-read for anyone seeking to strengthen their leadership skills. In today's ever-changing environment, effective leadership is more crucial than ever, especially in the era of hybrid work. The authors provide a human-centered and systematic approach to evaluating your leadership style, giving readers practical steps to become effective leaders. This book focuses on conviction, inspiration, humanization, purpose, and equity, providing a transformative experience for readers to better understand themselves and uncover nuances underneath the iceberg. If you're looking to make a lasting impact and change, this book is the ideal starting point."Alan Chen, Ed.D., Assistant Dean, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, China Table of ContentsSeries ForewordRonald E. RiggioForeword: What’s Past is PrologueRaghu KrishnamoorthyIntroduction1. Inquiry Mindset 2. Humanizing Mindset3. Systems Mindset4. Entrepreneurial Mindset5. Equity MindsetReferences

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Book SynopsisLeadership has never been more important â and divisive â than it is today. The idea and discourse of the leader remains a critical factor in organizational and societal performance, but there is evident tension between the persistent focus on the critical importance of individual leaders and the increasing emphasis on collective leadership. The Routledge Companion to Leadership provides a survey of the contentious and dynamic discipline of leadership.This collection covers key themes in the field, including advances in leadership theory, leadership in a range of contexts and geographies, leadership failure, leadership process, and leadership development. Topics range from micro studies to wider political analyses of leadership, taking in unusual but important aspects such as portrayals of leadership in architecture, media, and science fiction. Contributions from 61 internationally renowned authors from 16 countries make available the full range of perspectives, approaTrade Review"Today, there is no shortage of encyclopedias and handbooks on leadership. Yet this excellent collection of chapters, co-edited by a team of accomplished leadership scholars from various fields, marks a most welcome and important addition to the international literature. While too often editors leave the crucial task of developing meaningful distinctions between, for example, conceptualizing, practicing and evaluating leadership, to their readers, this companion does a marvelous job ofbringing clarity, structure and perspective to a burgeoning field that has become notorious for its elusiveness. A truly indispensable resource."Ludger Helms, University of Innsbruck, Austria"This comprehensive book of leadership essays is an important addition to our understanding of this crucial element of social, economic and political organization in every society. Sophisticated in its framing, wide-ranging in its focus, this a book that will be useful for every student of leadership, regardless of their field."Stanley Renshon, City University of New York, USA"Covering a wide range of topics and written by experts in the field, this collection will be a valuable resource to all students of leadership looking for the most up-to-date and challenging thinking concerning this ubiquitous yet illusive phenomenon."Donna Ladkin, Plymouth University, UK"A ‘Companion’ is defined as someone with whom one spends a lot of time and with whom one travels. I anticipate that leadership educators and researchers throughout the world will relish the opportunity to travel intellectually in the company of the most interesting and provocative contemporary leadership thinkers who are gathered together in this intriguing volume."Brad Jackson, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandTable of ContentsIntroduction John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 'T Hart, Dave Ulrich Part I: Conceptualising Leadership Introduction John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 'T Hart, Dave Ulrich 1. What is Leadership: Person, result, position, or process, or all or none of these? Keith Grint, Owain Smolovik Jones and Clare Holt 2. Recognizing and Realizing the Market Value of Leadership Dave Ulrich & Justin Allen 3. Beyond the Hero-Leader: Leadership by Collectives Viviane Sergi, Jean-Louis-Denis and Ann Langley 4. Understanding Leadership in the Face of Crisis and Uncertainty David E. Rast, III and Michael A. Hogg Part II: Studying Leadership Introduction John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 'T Hart, Dave Ulrich 5. Studying Leadership: Taking meaning, relationality and ideology seriously Mats Alvesson 6. Instead of angels: Leaders, leadership and longue durée Peter Gronn 7. Critical Perspectives on Leadership Studies Scott Taylor and Jackie Ford 8. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Leadership Irma Rybnikova 9. Leadership and Power Brigid Carroll and Josh Firth 10. Followership in Context Mary Uhl-Bien and Melissa Carsten 11. Leadership Succession in Politics and Business Fredrik Bynander and Paul ‘t Hart 12. Leadership in Interaction Magnus Larsson Part III: Practising Leadership Introduction John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 'T Hart, Dave Ulrich 13. Politics in Leadership Jean Hartley 14. Great Expectations and Great Limitations: Walking the Tightrope of Political Leadership in the 21st Century Matthew Laing and James Walter 15. Co-leadership: Contexts, Configurations and Conditions Emilie Gibeau, Wendy Reid and Ann Langley 16. Leadership on the Board: The Role of the Company Secretary Andrew Kakabadse, Nadeem Khan and Nada Kakabadse 17. Practising Religious Leadership Jack Barentsen 18. Practising clinical leadership John Storey and Richard Holti Part IV: Contextualising Leadership Introduction John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 'T Hart, Dave Ulrich 19. How does Institution Matter? Leadership Behaviour in Eastern and Western Europe Werner Auer-Rizzi and Gerhard Reber 20. Consequences of Context: Political leadership and followership Barbara Kellerman 21. Spirituality, Religion and Notions of Leadership Sverre Spoelstra 22. Leadership, Masculinity and Ethics in Financial Services David Knights 23. Global Leadership in Perspective Allan Bird, Mark E. Mendenhall, Joyce S. Osland, Gary Oddou and Sebastian Reiche 24. Political Leadership in the 21st Century: Neo-Liberalism and the Rise of the CEO Politician Peter Bloom and Carl Rhodes Part V: Evaluating Leadership Introduction John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 'T Hart, Dave Ulrich 25. The Anatomy of Destructive Leadership Ronald J. Burke 26. Evaluating the Performance of Ethical Leadership Alan Lawton 27. Leadership and Organizational Performance: State of the Art and a Research Agenda Eva Knies, Christian Jacobsen and Lars Tummers 28. Leaders as spiritual heroes: the paradoxes of unlimited leader agency Dennis Tourish Part VI: Imagining Leadership Introduction John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 'T Hart, Dave Ulrich 29. Portrayals of Leadership in Science Fiction Kimberly Yost 30. Media portrayals: from leadership cults to celebrity politicians Maja Simunjak and John Street 31. Projecting Authority: Representations Leadership in Architecture Michael Minkenberg Part VII: Nurturing Leadership Introduction John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 'T Hart, Dave Ulrich 32. Can leadership be taught? Ann L. Cunliffe and Julie Wilson 33. Diverse approaches to leadership development Jonathan Gosling and Ian Sutherland 34. Identity construction and deconstruction in leadership development programmes Helen Delaney 35. Discourse and Leader Identity Peter Sun Conclusions 36. Looking to the future of leadership John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 'T Hart, Dave Ulrich

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Book SynopsisIn healthcare, quality management refers to the administration of systems design, policies, and processes that minimize, if not eliminate, harm while optimizing patient care and outcomes. Whether you are a hospital with 1,000 beds or 25, the fact remain that every hospital must navigate and manage the many complexities associated with a quality management system. Why is quality management important in healthcare? There are numerous reasons why it is important to improve quality of healthcare, including enhancing the accountability of health practitioners and managers, resource efficiency, identifying, and minimizing medical errors while maximizing the use of effective care and improving outcomes, and aligning care to what users and patients want in addition to what they need. Hospital Quality: Implementing, Managing, and Sustaining an Effective Quality Management System demonstrates a practical approach to managing and improving quality. Whether you agree with tTrade Review"The moral responsibility to provide high quality care in an increasingly complex healthcare industry challenges the best healthcare organizations. Fierce competition for resources and the multidisciplinary nature of healthcare can leave organizations less focused and structured than needed to achieve their quality goals. The Hospital Quality Book is a fantastic resource for providing a practical and straightforward path to attain quality objectives. Douglas C. Johnson captures his decades of learning during his practice as a system, process, and quality professional. It is truly scalable to each organization’s current capabilities and can be used to stand up an entirely new program or as a reference to assist established programs in accelerating performance."Troy Greer, FACHE, MBA, MSHACEO, Boone Health, Columbia, MOTable of ContentsChapter 1: An Introduction to Quality Chapter 2: Quality Regulation and Benchmarking Chapter 3: Managing Quality Chapter 4: Quality Measurement and Analytics Chapter 5: Quality Improvement Chapter 6: Quality Training Chapter 7: Project Management Chapter 8: Accreditation Chapter 9: Sustaining Quality Chapter 10: The Quality Plan Chapter 11: External Reporting Chapter 12: Patient Safety Organization, Quality Incidents, and Mortality Reviews Chapter 13: Managing Hospital Acquired Conditions (HAC) and Harms Chapter 14: Managing the Quality Team Chapter 15: Summary – Bringing it all Together Appendix:

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Book SynopsisHow organisations listen, learn, and adapt to their environment drives success and long-term sustainability. This book focuses on internal stakeholders and how employers can use the voice of their people to improve decision-making, innovation, and performance. It is about why listening to employees matters and how to do it well.Leading the Listening Organisation reveals not just the practices and processes that underpin effective listening but also the leadership characteristics and mindsets necessary to create resilient organisations that feel fair to work in, where people want to speak up, and where new ideas can flourish. It is based on extensive international research with leaders across over 500 organisations before, during, and after the pandemic. The authors bring decades of international experience and expertise in communicating with employees across public, private, and third sector organisations. Rich in practical tools, processes, and working frameworks and Trade Review"In this new book, the authors rightly highlight how difficult, yet valuable, it is to genuinely listen to employees. As labour markets tighten, flexible working becomes the norm and Zoomers gain prominence in the workplace, organisations that invest in effective internal communication will gain a competitive advantage.”Steve Shepperson-Smith, President, Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) for 2023“When I was a child, my mum used to say ‘you have two ears and one mouth for a reason’; how right she was. Continual listening needs to be part of every organisation’s DNA. Only by listening can we prioritise where energy is needed to improve employees’ experiences, and, as a result, maximise our potential both as individuals and as an organisation.”Alison Ramsay, Director of Employee Experience, BAE Systems“Leading the Listening Organisation: Creating Organisations that Flourish connects the many disparate threads of successful change, communication and engagement and is a must-read for anyone responsible for the employees’ contribution. Having had the privilege of working with Howard Krais, Mike Pounsford and Kevin Ruck I was expecting this book to be well-referenced and anchored in academic theory. But what it does so well is connect the many foundation stones necessary to create organisations that flourish. It truly is the advent of the listening age and for anyone responsible for any aspect of communications this is a great time to be in the profession.”James Harkness, Partner, HarknessKennett“In an era of polarisation of societal opinion and values, effective listening is more important than ever in organisations. This book explains how organisations can listen and engage with their employees, building trust and navigating change. Howard, Kevin and Mike share a lifetime of organisational experience on how to create a fair and inclusive workplace where employees feel heard and valued in the ‘listening age’.”Adrian Cropley OAM, Founding Director, Centre for Strategic Communication Excellence“Active listening to employees is critical for organisations seeking to create a positive workplace culture and meet their goals. This means not only hearing employee feedback but also engaging with them to address their concerns. A listening culture can enhance employee engagement, trust, and collaboration. This insightful book offers practical strategies for anyone interested in enhancing their organisation's communication and performance.”Jennifer Sproul, Chief Executive, Institute of Internal Communication“As the noise around our working lives increases, this is a very timely investigation into how better listening and authentic conversations will deliver lasting engagement in our organisations.”Marc Wright, Founder, simply-communicate“With the changes that have taken place over recent decades, employees engage and commit where they recognise alignment in purpose between themselves and their organisation. Gone are the days of tell, replaced by an increased requirement to listen. This book is a great guide for leaders and HR professionals at all levels to understand what listening truly means”.Simon Smith, Chief People Officer, Aston Martin“This book is essential reading for those looking to unleash the power of listening to turbo-charge their organisations. Better listening forges deeper understanding, connection and empathy. In short, it proves those who listen harder learn – and achieve – more.”Katie Macaulay, Managing Director, AB; host of The Internal Comms Podcast“Who doesn’t like to be listened to?! Listening is perhaps one of the most under-valued skills in the workplace and yet, as this book demonstrates, one that makes a huge difference to wellbeing, engagement and performance. Drawing on lots of great research and evidence, this thorough and practical book provides essential reading for anyone who wants to help organisations, and the people within them, listen better.”Hilary Scarlett, International speaker, consultant and author on change management and neuroscience at Scarlett & Grey“Internal communication is a two-way process; practitioners need to hear what staff are thinking and explain it. This book looks at the sources and methods which are increasingly common practice offering the clear advice you would expect from highly experienced practitioners Krais and Pounsford. Ruck’s distillation of the most up to date academic research means this accessible read will be invaluable to students and professionals alike.”Liam FitzPatrick, Author and communications best practice advisor“This volume presents an intelligent analysis of a phenomenon that continues to be as critical as it is yet to be fully grasped: what happens when corporations have to listen – and listen meaningfully? The authors offer a most valuable perspective from the sphere of managerial practice which will contribute to a more systematic understanding of this complex area in an age when fundamental questions have to be both asked and heard.”Bogdan Costea, Professor of Management and Society, Lancaster University“Active listening is hard, but aided by examples from the authors’ own research this insightful book explores how leaders who do it effectively deepen connections and make for more meaningful and productive organisations. This book is an important addition to anyone’s shelf and helps address the post-pandemic expectations of communication having greater genuine dialogue.”Russell Grossman, Head of UK Government Internal Communication ProfessionTable of Contents1. The advent of the listening age 2. Why listening matters 3. The barriers to effective listening 4. How to listen 5. Digital listening 6. Employee resource groups and activism 7. The role of leadership 8. Developing an employee listening climate 9. Leadership listening: A new approach for an era of uncertainty

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Book SynopsisThe Strategy Activation Canvas is the new standard for accelerating strategies beginning where classical strategies end: with its activation. While many management and business canvases focus on developing a strategy, the Strategy Activation Canvas helps leaders and decision-makers to bring strategies to life.This book demonstrates for the first time how entire organizations can be activated: how people can not only perceive and implement a new strategy, but how entire organizations can be heavily involved in its making, how strategies are made visible and experienced, and how people can play an active and sustaining role throughout bringing a strategy to life. With their decades of experience in large scale organizations, Thiessen and Wreschniok pair their knowledge with case studies from Allianz, Baloise, E.ON, Hamburg Commercial Bank, Microsoft, NORD/LB, Swisscom or Swiss Re, organizations led by leaders who have significantly accelerated the sTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. Business transformation as a social movement 2. Social dynamics that prevent strategy implementation 3. This book is for… 4. Pictures and figures in this Strategy Activation Canvas Part II: The Strategy Activation Canvas 5. At a glance 6. Field of impact: Defining the context 7. Field of Impact: Accelerating strategy and transformation processes 8. The activation lie: When activation is not an activation Part III: The fields of impact of the Strategy Activation Canvas 9. A guide for practice 10. Defining the focus: The strategic core 11. Form a coalition for results: The movement 12. Putting complexity into context: The narrative and the Big Picture 13. Accelerate strategy and transformation processes Part IV: Strategy activation in major corporations – Thought leaders of a new generation 14. Baloise Group: Emotions, people and networks – not processes and hierarchies 15. Microsoft: Help shaping a new era – activating Microsoft’s strategic core worldwide 16 Swisscom: Playful, interactive and fun: “Come and join” at Swisscom 17. Swiss Re: Agile transformation as a movement – when HR activates agility Part V: Outlook 18. The role of leadership in strategy activation 19. And it goes on 20. Digital tools and platforms for strategy activation 21. Author biographies 22. Studies and academic literature cited

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Book SynopsisManagement and organizational history has grown into an established field of research with competing and contrasting approaches and methods that are relevant for management and organization studies.This short-form book provides readers with expert insights on intellectual interventions in management and organization history. The authors illuminate the central ideas, works, and theorists involved in forming the link between history, management, and organization studies, particularly focusing on the debates addressing the need for a ''historic turn'' in management and organizational studies.With coverage of nascent schools of thought in management historiography, such as ANTi-History, revisionist history, counter-history, rhetorical history, the Copenhagen School, microhistory, critical realist histories, alongside existing modernist and post-modernist approaches, as well as postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist critiques, the book is essential readiTrade Review'Reflecting deeply on recent historical approaches to management and organization studies, the authors have provided a uniquely reflexive account of the different histories, conceptions of histories and authors involved in recent scholarship that has sought to bring history back into focus in a largely ahistorical and instrumental field. The book will be a significant guide for those researchers seeking to disentangle the different approaches to histories involved in recent research, alerting them to the grounds and assumptions underlying various contributions.' – Stewart Clegg, Distinguished Professor of Management and Organization Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia'There are no scholars better placed to explore the development of management and organization history studies than Albert Mills and Milorad Novicevic. They have made enormous contributions to the debates that have nourished this fascinating field of study over the years. In this book they chart an exciting and ambitious course for its future.' – Todd Bridgman and Stephen Cummings, authors of A New History of Management'This well-written and thought-provoking publication addresses its central topics as no book before and is a must read for those interested on management and organizations.' – Rafael Alcadipani, EAESP-FGV, Brazil'History needs to be taken seriously in management and organization research, and Mills and Novicevic do just that. The books offers a thought-provoking critical analysis of the reasons and consequences of the ahistorical orientation in management and organization research. By so doing, this book adds to the recent historical turn and helps us to go deeper and further than what we typically think organization or management history is all about.' – Eero Vaara, Professor of Organization and Management at Aalto University, Finland'This book provides deep insights on positivist and postmodernist historiography and demonstrates the role of historians in the authorship of history production in management and organization.' – Gagan Deep Sharma, University School of Management Studies, IndiaTable of Contents1. History and Authorship 2. A Starting Point: The Historic Turn 3. Not a History: The Call for an Historic Turn in Management and Organization Studies 4. Paradigms and Prospects in Management and Organizational History 5. Revisiting the Historic Turn

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Book SynopsisDigital Business Strategy responds to the need for clarification of the increasing, but fragmented, knowledge of digital business strategy. It systematically presents topical knowledge by reviewing previous research and developing frameworks for the content of digital business strategy and its relationships with relevant factors. In addition, the book analyses issues encountered by individual companies when implementing digital business strategies.The volume identifies key categories of digital business strategy, in particular, strategy scope and direction, competitive advantage, and resource and capability reliance. It then explores relationships with antecedents such as digital experience, relationships with obstacles and enablers of strategy implementation, and relationships with operational and financial outcomes. The author demonstrates that strategy content and relationships differ among manufacturing companies, retailers, digital content providers, and digital platforms and also presents ways to cope with issues of implementation.In summary, the book provides readers who wish to know more about the growing field of digital business strategy with up-to-date and systematic knowledge. It will be of great value to students at an advanced level, researchers, and reflective practitioners in the fields of technology management and strategic management in particular.

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Book SynopsisVirtually everyone accepts that workplaces are complex but there is little insight into how we might engage with complexity more skilfully. If complexity isn't something that managers can control and leaders cannot harness, then what does a complexity perspective offer?This fourth book in the complexity series describes how taking complexity seriously can inform approaches to understanding organisations. It focuses on the ways that managers and researchers can engage with their own histories to better understand their working lives, how they may be participating in maintaining the very processes they are trying to change and how research methods can shed light on politics of working together. The chapter authors work in a wide variety of sectors and draw on their experience to produce vibrant writing which will resonate with managers and leaders who want to explore how they might understand their working lives differently, and to students who are using first-person reflexive

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Book SynopsisThis Routledge Handbook takes a truly global and multidisciplinary approach to exploring all facets of employee communication.Beginning from two key disciplinary approaches â organizational communication and public relations â scholars capture and define employee communication from both perspectives, addressing commonalities and bridging disciplinary differences. This volume places importance on the everyday communicative behaviors by internal members such as leaders, managers, inter/generational cohorts, employees, and those working on behalf of organizations, such as social media influencers, and on expansive conceptualizations of employee such as chatbots, environment, and global supply chain members involved in organizing. With a focus on employees in situ, the authors respond to these key questions: in what ways is employee communication relevant today? What does employee communication entail? How, why and to what extent do employee communication influence or is influenc

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Book SynopsisThe United States is facing a worsening epidemic of physician burnout with unprecedented numbers of them leaving the workforce and practice of clinical medicine across all career stages. The prevalence of physician burnout has accelerated through COVID-19, resulting in an anticipated serious national shortage of physicians within the current decade amidst an increased proportion of aging and unhealthy population. The critical shortage of physicians coupled with an unhealthy physician workforce results in longer wait times for access, continued increased healthcare costs, decreased quality of care, and worsening patient experience. Despite increasing media coverage, published data, and identification of system-based factors that erode physician wellbeing, no standardized systematic solution has been implemented across hospitals, health systems, or a variety of employment models or practice settings for any or all doctors regardless of whether they are primary care, medi

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Book SynopsisEvery day we hear of serious errors of judgement that result in organisational disaster. Why do seemingly successful businesses, NGOs, or even political parties fall prey to irrevocable governance breakdowns or, worse still, criminal malpractice? By prompting readers to think deeply about strategic decision-making, human behaviour, and cognitive biases, this book offers a disciplined, objective, and thoughtful approach to making better decisions.Every strategic problem is fundamentally a journey into the unknown, which involves a unique combination of duration, scale, external and internal dynamics, and personal motivations. Rarely is a strategic decision solved by saying, If a situation is A, then the solution is B.' The book explores how to develop a strong foundation for problem resolving rather than simplistic problem-solving by strengthening competence so that decisions are made wisely. The case of Carillion plc, the second-largest construction group in the United KingTrade Review"In this illuminating book, Professor White explores why leaders make poor decisions and provides an extensive toolkit to navigate through the messy realities of making strategic choices. The Carillion case illustrates what can go horribly wrong when executives fail to think through the consequences of their actions.”Professor Gianvito Lanzolla, Professor of Strategy and Digital Transformation, Bayes Business School, City, University of London“Strategic decision-making is vexing, pulling leaders in opposing directions amid growing complexity, change, and uncertainty. Jeremy White’s Make Better Strategic Decisions: How to Develop Robust Decision-making to Avoid Organisational Disasters is a must-read, offering deep insights and actionable practices to help leaders navigate strategic challenges.”Marianne W. Lewis, Author of Both/And Thinking: Embracing Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems; Dean and Professor of Management, University of Cincinnati"Jeremy White's book wonderfully does what it says on the tin: it gives a guide to strategic decision-making for leaders in the real world, facing complexity and difficulty and human frailty. It's based in experience and reality. And it's invaluable for the leaders of the future." Lord Chris Smith, former Secretary of State for Culture Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Core Questions 2. Strategic Thinking 3. Carillion plc 4. Behavioural Management 5. Risk 6. Strategy as Paradox 7. Moral and Ethical Issues 8. Corporate Governance 9. Strategic Toolkit 10. Strategic Toolkit: Additional Perspectives

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Book SynopsisThis book offers perspectives, insights, techniques, and approaches for efficient and contemporary management practices in an organization. It provides a comprehensive insight into the traditional and contemporary approaches of organizational behavior and their impact on organizational performance in the global era. Ranging from planning to staffing, and controlling to strategic decision-making, the case studies in the book incorporate relevant modern management models and correlate practices of management from organizational perspectives to allow any organization's direction and environment to be evaluated with suggested recommendations. This textbook consists of two broad parts. The first deals with management trends and functions ranging from the traditional era to the contemporary world. The second part explores the behavioral trends of organizations across domains to analyze the measures taken for improved productivity and sustainability.Drawing theories from psychology,Trade Review"A truly comprehensive textbook on management and organization behavior. I was very pleased to see separate sections on history of management and how the management gurus perceive the future of governance."Jagdish N. Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, USA"The second edition of Principles and Practices of Management and Organizational Behavior by Singh and Khatri offers extensive case-based learning and best practice guidance on every large-scale activity a modern-day manager and leader may engage in. Ranging from planning to staffing and controlling, to strategic decision-making, the case studies in the book incorporate Porter’s five forces and other modern management models to allow any organization’s competitive environment to be assessed and analyzed. The book then formulates a set of best practices for organizational sustenance using modern management techniques. The book also explains the key concepts and practices of effective leadership styles at all levels and goes on to distinguish these using the Hersey–Blanchard model. Under organizational behavior, this book lays emphasis on the electronic form of organization, its evolution and subsequent maturation and incorporation of action research models in the development of such organizations. Through multiple case studies and examples, developmental interventions and resistances to change within organizations are dealt with. Case studies with respect to organizational sustenance and ethical organizational culture, in alignment with changing business conditions and market scenarios, are presented to help the practitioners, researchers and management students at graduate, postgraduate and doctorate levels understand and adopt strategies, concepts, principles and practices. The authors have also included a discussion on organizational power and polity to enable the reader to understand their significance, exercise control and institute relevant organizational ethics for behaving politically and helping to co-create a healthy organizational culture as a stakeholder."Saurabh Sinha, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research, and Internationalization, Professor of Microelectronics, University of Johannesburg"A good pick! Not only for students and faculty, but also for new managers in organizations. The content is focused on connecting the basic theories of management, the principles, the concept and the structure, insights into the ever evolving organization culture and incorporating the modern day best practices and formulation of organizational behavioral strategies. Each chapter includes real life case studies that make the read even more interesting, relatable and easy to understand. The strength of the book lies in adherence to the tagline: The Complex Concepts Simplified Through Case Scenarios."Amlan Chakrabarti, Professor & Director,, A.K. Choudhury School of Information Technology, University of Calcutta and Head, IT & Tech. Innovation Cell, Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal."Chandrani Singh and Aditi Khatri’s book, Principles and Practices of Management and Organizational Behaviour (2nd ed.), is a complete package of management concepts, practices and organizational behaviour including management tips from gurus of yesteryear as well as modern times. Emphasizing functions and approach, it critically evaluates real-life business scenarios using strategic management and covers the behavioural aspects of an organization from people’s perspectives. I am sure it will be of immense use to the students, academic fraternity and budding professionals."Surbhi Dahiya (née Bhalla), IAMCR Faculty Ambassador, Professor, Department of English Journalism, Indian Institute of Mass Communication"This book offers a unique amalgamation of two significant academic concepts, that is, ‘Principles and Practices of Management’ and ‘Organizational Behavior.’Institutes offering niche programs often struggle with incorporation of these two as separate courses owing to their specialized focus on specific domains. This title addresses this problem and gives optimum as well as effective understanding of basic concepts related to principles and practices of management and organizational behavior in a single text."Nilesh P. Gokhale, Associate Professor, Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune, Mentor, Brand Communication Practice, Marketing SocietyTable of Contents1. Introduction to Management 2. Evolution of Management Thought 3. Planning 4. Organization 5. Staffing, Training and Development 6. Directing and Controlling 7. Decision-Making 8. Strategic Management 9. Organizational Behaviour 10. Understanding and Managing Individual Behaviour 11. Group and Group Dynamics 12. Team and Teamwork 13. Leadership 14. Motivation 15. Conflict Management 16. Organizational Development and Culture 17. Change Management 18. Stress Management 19. Power and Politics

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Book SynopsisEmerging technologies are having a profound impact upon individuals and organisations. The âalways onâ attitude that digital technologies encourage brings an equal mix of benefits and challenges. The ready availability of digital technology has transformed the way we live, learn, play and interact â but how a business can turn the tools into an economic and organisational advantage is not always clear.This new edition of Strategic Digital Transformation enables students and business leaders to take a strategic and sustainable approach to realising the value of digital technologies. It offers results-driven solutions that successfully transform organisations into data-driven, people-focused businesses capable of sustainably competing at a global level. These solutions are significantly shaped by the need for organisational digital maturity, high levels of digital and cultural interoperability and the purposeful application of AI. With four key areas of focus, the material moves through understanding digital business to planning, implementing and assessing digital transformation. The current challenges facing all small organisations, including limited resources, financial pressures and the lack of dedicated IT departments, are explored. The authors consider the ways in which innovation can increase competitive advantage, how innovative business models can create new opportunities and how a data-driven perspective can release embedded value within the organisation. Contemporary international case studies and examples throughout each chapter bridge theory with practical application and systematically document the patterns of activities that enable success. All chapters have been completely revised and updated to reflect advances in technology and to highlight the social and economic consequences of digital transformation.This textbook is a vital resource for postgraduate and undergraduate students of digital business, innovation and transformation. By showing how to initiate digital transformation across an organisation, it will prepare business owners, directors and management of small- and medium-sized businesses to take strategic advantage of new and emerging technologies to stay ahead of their competition.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on work and positive psychology, this insightful book addresses contemporary workplace challenges and analyses evidence-based interventions in the employee wellbeing domain.Recent years have seen significant developments in the area of employee wellbeing, with many organisations becoming more interested in wellbeing at work. This book begins by contextualising employee wellbeing pre and post the onset of the pandemic and demonstrates how employers are seeking advice and proactively implementing wellbeing policies and practices. It goes on to consider such issues as employee voice, employee growth mindset, burnout, quiet quitting, sleep hygiene, workplace isolation and psychological safety. Each chapter is supported by thought-provoking questions and activities that encourage readers to reflect on their learning and apply their understanding of the material in practice, as well as suggestions for further reading to offer resources for continued study. The book closes b

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Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, cultural management and policy in Europe have undergone transformative changes. This insightful book offers a comprehensive journey through that evolution, blending historical insights with an analysis of current trends to illuminate the future of the field.The book also highlights the pivotal role of cultural networks in shaping and advancing culture, creativity, and heritage, bridging academic inquiry with real-world practice. Through a focused case study on The European Network on Cultural Management and Policy, ENCATC, it provides a unique perspective on how networks shape policy and management strategies across Europe.A must-read for scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and students, this book delivers key insights into the ever-changing landscape of arts and cultural management.

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of this influential and bestselling book is concerned with how people come together to achieve a productive purpose. Survival and success in business and social terms have always depended upon our ability to form and sustain social organisations. People have a deep need to be creative and to belong. By creating positive organisations we can fulfil these needs and build a worthwhile society. One of the failures of organisations is precisely the lack of efficient and effective social organisation, which is what this whole book is about. Poor social organisation, including poor leadership, are major drivers of poor productivity and lead people to give up or retreat into a minimalist approach of just doing what is needed to get by and survive.The authors provide a language for developing, discussing, thinking and working with propositions about organisations and management. They do not tell you what decision to make but rather present tools to help you consider, aTrade ReviewReviews of the previous edition:'Like most leaders, I have initiated many changes in organizations - some were successful and others were disasters! While the changes may have been ultimately achieved, it was more trial and error, with loss of time, human capital and leadership trust. This book revolutionized my approach to leadership and cultural change. It is a "how-to", providing the requisite roadmap with many practical tools for the leadership tool belt to help transform efficiently any organization. Having worked across several mining and metals industries and in countries from the United States, to Wales and Russia, these tools transcend all cultures providing common, practical people-based concepts that will stay with you for a lifetime. This material is not "rocket science" - it is a refreshing reinforcement of the common sense behaviors all leaders must have to be successful, but may have lost in their search for the "quick fixes" or "silver bullets.' Wayne R. Hale, Senior Vice President, Upstream SUAL-Holding, Moscow, Russia'I have been eagerly awaiting "Systems Leadership (McDonald. Et. Al)". The theoretical understandings and tools developed by the authors have long been central to my work. "Systems Leadership" however exceeds my expectations. It greatly extends my understanding.While I will use system leaderships as a seminal text as a school leader, I realise anyone fair dinkum about leadership or organisational effectiveness, no matter the size or context of their organisation, will also benefit. I needed this book. I will use it, because I know the material works.' Don Anderson, Tagai State College, Australia'This work is based on a multitude of practical experiences where the sustainable benefits from implementing the methodology have been very significant . … Experienced Leaders will recognise much of this material as a good fit with their intuitive understanding of how they have achieved success in the past . The value of this work is the ability to standardise this insight and to develop a new generation of leaders with confidence in a positive outcome both for them and the organisation.' Oscar Groeneveld, Chief Executive , Rio Tinto Aluminium 'This book is a must read for those who want to attain sustainable competitive advantage as the world moves away from industrial relations systems to human relations models. It helps build the prerequisites for an organisation to link its human systems to the business model (and vice versa). CEO’s, executives, boards, policy advisors and academics should read it if sustainable productivity improvement is on their agenda. After all, multi factor productivity is ultimately driven by labour productivity. Social process deserves the same degree of rigour that we traditionally apply to science, engineering etc. if we are to achieve the most challenging and rewarding work through proper and ethical concepts of leadership.' David Murray, retired CEO of Commonwealth Bank and Chairman, Future Fund'Systems Leadership is some of the most important work ever written with respect to understanding and improving organisations and their culture, irrespective of size or type. For those of us in the business of running companies, advising to executive teams or boards, Macdonald provides the ability to predict with absolute certainty the effect of management initiatives, well meaning or otherwise, on the organisations culture and employee relations. It provides a framework for the design of your organisation and people systems. Virgin Blue Airlines, voted Worlds Best low cost airline in 2004 and 2005, continue to use Systems Leadership theories to guide the rapid growth of our business and maintain our unique guest service experience. I cannot recommend the practical importance of this work more highly to those serious about sustaining an effective executive career.' Bruce Highfield, General Manager People and founding executive team member, Virgin Blue Airlines Ltd'Systems Leadership provides a unique perspective on the social building blocks that need to be put in place for businesses to be positioned to deliver success. It doesn’t promise miracles, it provides a framework for leaders to create an environment in which people are encouraged to fully utilise their capabilities to deliver a successful organization. MacDonald et al have refreshingly acknowledged there are no shortcuts or silver bullets to delivering performance. Leaders must understand the world in which they exist and provide appropriate context for the teams they lead....don’t read this book if you don’t have the courage and perseverance to lead change. Our business is people and we will ultimately be measured as leaders by the results people deliver.' Mark Cutifani, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer - CVRD-IncoTable of ContentsPreface to 2nd Edition Acknowledgements Part 1: Systems Leadership: Why the Title? Introduction to Part 1 Chapter 1 What Use is Theory? Chapter 2: What is Work? Chapter 3: Social, Technical, Commercial Domains of Work Chapter 4: Social Process and Authority Chapter 5: Types of Social Organisation Part 2: THE SIX PRINCIPLES OF BEHAVIOUR: CORE CONCEPTS OF SYSTEMS LEADERSHIPIntroduction to Part 2 Chapter 6: The Six Principles of Behaviour Part 3: UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONSIntroduction to Part 3 Chapter 7: Meritocracy Chapter 8: Human CapabilityChapter 9: Levels of Work Complexity Chapter 10 Organisational Structure and AuthorityChapter 11 Associations, Boards and Employment HierarchiesPart 4 The Work of Leadership Introduction to Part 4 Chapter 12 The Work of Leadership: Creating a CultureChapter 13 Leadership, Policy and SystemsChapter 14 Task Formulation and AssignmentChapter 15 Teams and TeamworkPart 5 MAKING CHANGE HAPPENIntroduction to Part 5 Chapter 16 The Process of Successful Change: How is it Achieved?Chapter 17 How to Design Systems Chapter 18 Systems and Symbols Audit – Organisational Health Check Chapter 19 Creating High Performance TeamsChapter 20 So What? What difference has this Made? County Court of Victoria Torex Gold EQ Mental Health Leadership in CombatChapter 21: Discipline or Dogma Chapter 22 Who is There to Guard the Guards? Essentials of a Positive Organisation Chapter 23 SLT and Other ApproachesCONCLUSION Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAging and Work in the 21st Century, 2nd edition, reviews, summarizes, and integrates existing literature from various disciplines with regard to aging and work, but with a focus on recent advances in the field. Chapter authors, all leading experts within their respective areas, provide recommendations for future research, practice, and/or public policy. Fully revised and updated, the second edition takes up many of the same critical topics addressed in the first edition, and incorporates twelve new authors across the volume and three brand new chapters on recruitment and retention, legal issues, and global issues in work and aging.The intended audience is advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers in the disciplines of industrial and organizational psychology; developmental psychology; gerontology; sociology; economics; and social work. Older worker advocate organizations, such as AARP, will also take interest in this edited book.Trade Review"This book brings together a comprehensive perspective on aging and work in the 21st century. Leading scholars provide the reader with current insights of the many individual, organizational and public policy related aspects of an aging workforce. The book will be a great resource for all who have practical or scholarly interest in demographic change and the workplace."—Kène Henkens, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI); University Medical Center Groningen; University of Amsterdam"A forceful and comprehensive book examining the advances and coming challenges facing older individuals, organizations, and societies around the world. A must-read for students, practitioners, and policy makers concerned with workforce aging and the experience of aging related to work."—Ruth Kanfer, Georgia Institute of Technology"This Second Edition is an excellent resource on major issues of adult and older adult employment. Each chapter captures the evolution in thinking regarding major topics in aging and work and includes implications for practice and future directions for research."—Harvey L. Sterns, The University of AkronTable of ContentsSeries Foreword Preface Contributors 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Recruiting and Retaining Older Employees: Planning, Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Programs 3. Diversity Issues for an Aging Workforce: A Lifespan Intersectionality Approach 4. An Expanded View of Age Bias in the Workplace 5. Legal Issues and the Aging Workforce 6. Employee Age and Performance in Organizations 7. Age(ing) and Work Attitudes 8. Employee Development and Training Issues Related to the Aging Workplace 9. Career Embeddedness and Career Crafting Among Older Workers 10. Aging and occupational Health 11. Age and Technology for Work 12. Age and Work-Family Issues 13. Retirement from Three Perspectives: Individuals, Organizations, and Society 14. Global Issues in Work, Aging, and Retirement

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Book SynopsisImagine: You are a hospital Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, medical or nursing director, patient safety specialist, quality improvement professional, or a doctor or nurse on the front lines of patient care. Every day youâre aware that patients and families should be more engaged in their care so they would fare better both in the hospital and after discharge; their care could be safer and more seamlessly coordinated; patients should be ready for discharge sooner and readmitted less often; your bottom line stronger; your staff more fulfilled. You enter into new payment models such as bundling with an uneasy awareness that your organization is at risk because you donât know what the care you deliver actually costs. Like most healthcare leaders, you are also still searching for a way to deliver care that will help you to achieve the Triple Aim: care that leads to improved clinical outcomes, better patient and family care experiences, and reduceTrade Review"The spiraling costs of healthcare and diminishing value for organizations, patients, and families requires a new, transformative approach to healthcare delivery. The Patient Centered Value System is the answer to lowering costs, improving clinical outcomes, and increasing the patient and family care experience. The PCVS has resulted in tangible improvements on all levels at the Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute at Saint Francis Hospital." -Steve F. Schutzer, M.D., Medical Director, Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute, President, Connecticut Joint Replacement Surgeons, LLC"The Patient Centered Value System: Transforming Care through Co-Design offers a highly readable and practical approach for dramatically improving patient outcomes and experiences. As health care consumers, we would definitely want our providers to be following the Patient Centered Value System principles, delivering high-quality, empathetic, and lower-cost patient care." -Robert S. Kaplan, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School"This book captures perfectly the challenge that faces quality improvers everywhere: that lasting change can only be achieved through a change in mindset which places patients and families at the centre of the improvement agenda. The Patient Centered Value System is one of the few approaches which does just this. This system works. What it also does is transform the working lives of the staff applying it, reconnecting them powerfully with their core mission to care. It has been a privilege to use this approach with teams from around the United Kingdom, and a joy to see the changes they make when they see care through patients’ eyes." -Bev Fitzsimons, Head of Improvement, Point of Care Foundation, U.K."DiGioia and Shapiro have achieved the goal of every author: to make understandable that which is complex, and to make implementable complex principles. When the subject is patient (and family)-centered care, those goals are both formidable and critical to the nation’s health." -John R. Ball, M.D., J.D, Executive Vice President, Emeritus, American College of Physicians"This book will teach you how to see. Whether you are a hospital CEO, as I have been, or a care giver at the front lines of care, as I have been, this book will open your eyes to the journey of a patient and family throughout care. The care systems of the future will be designed with and for our patients and their families. This book is the best guide to give you the tools and methods to co-design care with them." -Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement"...the Patient Centered Value System is based on the natural curiosity and good intentions of clinicians and is designed to capture what’s really going on in the hospitals. Transformative? We’ll see. But it’s the best I’ve seen in a long time."-Paul F. Levy is former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston (2002-2011)."The spiraling costs of healthcare and diminishing value for organizations, patients, and families requires a new, transformative approach to healthcare delivery. The Patient Centered Value System is the answer to lowering costs, improving clinical outcomes, and increasing the patient and family care experience. The PCVS has resulted in tangible improvements on all levels at the Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute at Saint Francis Hospital." -Steve F. Schutzer, M.D., Medical Director, Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute, President, Connecticut Joint Replacement Surgeons, LLC"The Patient Centered Value System: Transforming Care through Co-Design offers a highly readable and practical approach for dramatically improving patient outcomes and experiences. As health care consumers, we would definitely want our providers to be following the Patient Centered Value System principles, delivering high-quality, empathetic, and lower-cost patient care." -Robert S. Kaplan, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School"This book captures perfectly the challenge that faces quality improvers everywhere: that lasting change can only be achieved through a change in mindset which places patients and families at the centre of the improvement agenda. The Patient Centered Value System is one of the few approaches which does just this. This system works. What it also does is transform the working lives of the staff applying it, reconnecting them powerfully with their core mission to care. It has been a privilege to use this approach with teams from around the United Kingdom, and a joy to see the changes they make when they see care through patients’ eyes." -Bev Fitzsimons, Head of Improvement, Point of Care Foundation, U.K."DiGioia and Shapiro have achieved the goal of every author: to make understandable that which is complex, and to make implementable complex principles. When the subject is patient (and family)-centered care, those goals are both formidable and critical to the nation’s health." -John R. Ball, M.D., J.D, Executive Vice President, Emeritus, American College of Physicians"This book will teach you how to see. Whether you are a hospital CEO, as I have been, or a care giver at the front lines of care, as I have been, this book will open your eyes to the journey of a patient and family throughout care. The care systems of the future will be designed with and for our patients and their families. This book is the best guide to give you the tools and methods to co-design care with them." -Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare ImprovementTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Patient Centered Value System: Toward a New Age in Healthcare; Part 1: The Patient Centered Value System in Action: A Story; Chapter 1: How to introduce the Patient Centered Value System in any organization; Chapter 2: Choose your champions: Establish the care experience guiding council; Chapter 3: Shadow patients and families to co-design the care experience; Chapter 4: Develop your care experience working group; Chapter 5: Create a shared vision by writing the story of the ideal care experience; Chapter 6: Close the gaps between the current state and the ideal; Part 2: The Patient Centered Value System in Fact and in Practice; Chapter 7: The Patient Centered Value System: Fact, not fiction; Chapter 8: The true cost methodology of the Patient Centered Value System: A User’s Manual; Chapter 9: The Science behind the Patient Centered Value System: Built on the shoulders of giants.; Chapter 10: Patient Centered Value System + Lean or other process improvement approaches = Rapid Improvement; Chapter 11: The Patient Centered Value System in Practice; Chapter 12: Conclusion; Appendix 1: Glossary; Appendix 2: The Appendix explains what’s needed to assure success of the PCVS, why projects sometimes fail, how to get back on track, and the 65+ care experiences within UPMC that have been improved by use of the PCVS.

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Book SynopsisCrisis Management Strategy, first published in 1993, is an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of crisis management in modern enterprises. Simon Booth examines the conventional approaches followed by many firms in the face of change and crisis. He warns of the dangers of theories which oversimplify the causes of crisis and their possible solutions, and which overlook the individual nature of each firm and its environment. Instead, a dynamic new vision of crisis management is offered, which takes into account different kinds of crisis demanding diverse solutions. The key role of leadership is also evaluated in relation to both internally and externally generated crises. Drawing on case studies of leading firms facing crisis solutions in a variety of environments, this truly international volume will provide valuable insight into the experience of crisis, risk and uncertainty. This title will be of interest to students of business. Table of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Management paradigms and perspectives; 1. The growth of uncertainty 2. Planning for change 3. Perspectives on strategy: the crisis of diagnosis; Part Two: Crisis management theory and risk assessment; 4. Developments in crisis management theory 5. Risk assessment and management; Part Three: The practice of crisis management; 6. Multinationals and crisis decision making 7. Managing external crises 8. Internal crisis management; Part Four: Control and recover strategy; 9. Control systems for managing critical incidents 10. Recovery strategies 11. Conclusions; References; Index

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Book SynopsisThis book consists of edited versions of the papers delivered at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Lawâs 11th International Colloquium, held at Swansea Law School in September 2015. Featuring a team of contributors at the top of their profession, both in practice and academia, these papers have been carefully co-ordinated so as to ensure to give the reader a first class insight into the issues surrounding international sale and carriage contracts. The book is set out in three parts: Part I offers a detailed and critical analysis on emerging issues and unresolved questions in international sales and the carriage contracts affected to facilitate such sales. Part II critically and thoroughly analyses the legal issues that often arise in the context of security over goods, letters of credit and similar documents. Part III is dedicated to a critical and up-to-date discussion on matters cTrade Review'Mr Rainey’s analysis...is masterly. ...it would be difficult to find a clearer picture of a notoriously complex part of the Rotterdam Rules than the one painted by Professor Sturley. ...these pages will provide guidance and perspective both to practising and academic lawyers bent on an orderly analysis of this complex area of business.' Charles Debattista, Journal of International Maritime Law Table of ContentsPart 1: Contemporary Issues in International Sale Contracts 1. What Is A Reasonable Contract of Carriage for CIF/CIP purposes? – Section 32(2) of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 [Ruth Hosking] 2. Slow Steaming Clauses and International Sale Contracts: A Successful Marriage? [Dr Theodora Nikaki] 3. Laytime and Demurrage in CIF and FOB Contracts [Professor Simon Baughen] Part 2: Carriage and Sales 4. "Who’s Doing What and for Whom?" Recent Developments on Delegated Contractual Performance [Simon Rainey QC] 5. Consignees’ Rights under the Rotterdam Rules [Professor Michael F. Sturley] 6. Consignees' Rights in European Legal Systems [Frank Stevens] 7. Discrepant Declarations about Containerised Goods "… in the middle of a chain reaction" [Professor Olivier Cachard] 8. Letter of Indemnity against Delivery without Bill of Lading [Professor Richard Williams] 9. The Rising Tide of Paperless Trade: Analyzing the Legal Implications [Dr Miriam A. Goldby]Part 3: Payment and Security Part 3: Payment and Security 10. Economic Sanctions and Letters of Credit in International Transactions [Damian Honey and Michael Buffham] 11. Islamic Letters of Credit – Square Peg in a Round Hole [Professor Jason Chuah] 12. Do I Want My Documents back? A Documentary Credit Dilemma [Stuart Shepherd] 13. Lending on Waybills and Other Documents- Banker’s Dream or Financier’s Nightmare [Professor Andrew Tettenborn] Part 4: Contemporary issues in Cargo Insurance Part 4: Contemporary issues in Cargo Insurance 14. Cargo Insurance and open Covers [Peter MacDonald Eggers QC] 15. The ICC Transit Clause- Developments and Faultlines [Sara Cockrill QC] 16. Insuring Cargoes in the New Era- Impact of the Insurance Act 2015 on Standard cargo Clauses/Wordings [Professor B. Soyer]

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Book SynopsisWith business schools becoming increasingly market-driven, questionable trends have emerged, such as the conflation of academic and corporate management, and the notion that academics and students are market players, who respond rationally to market signals. Using individual studies from leading scholars in a variety of disciplines and countries, this book identifies the global pressures behind these trends. It focuses on the debates surrounded the commercialization of business schools, and the rise of different methods of measuring their success. In their unique approach, the authors and editors discuss the impact of the confrontation between the timeless values embodied by Minerva, the Roman goddess of Wisdom, and the hard realities of competition and corporatization in modern society. This book will be compelling reading for students and academics in critical management studies, organizational studies, public management and higher education, as well as forTrade Review'A trenchant and timely analysis exposing growing tensions between academic ideals and the pressures of corporatism; and how these result in paradoxical and unintended practices. It is essential reading for everyone concerned about the future of business schools and higher education.' - Rajani Naidoo, Director, International Centre for Higher Education Management, University of Bath, UK'This book on business schools makes an important contribution to the increasing number of studies of universities. The focus of this book is on the emergence and significance of business schools in the contemporary university. The editors have assembled a set of essays which are critical, thoughtful and which pose significant challenges to the nature of university business schools. A must read for anyone interested in the phenomenon of the business school; especially for scholars who work in and around university business schools.' - Irvine Lapsley, Professor of Accounting Emeritus, University of Edinburgh Business School, UKTable of Contents1. Exploring and Experiencing the Corporate Business School Tony Huzzard, Mats Benner and Dan Kärreman 2. Business Schools in Their University Setting: a historical perspective Mats Benner 3. A Mania for Assessment: How an audit culture undermines the purpose of universities Dennis Tourish, Russell Craig and Joel Amernic 4. The University/Bureaucracy Complex: Accreditation, globalization and the corporatized business school Alexander Paulsson 5. How to Become Less Excellent Nick Butler and Sverre Spoelstra 6. (Un)Conditional Surrender? Why Do Professionals Willingly Comply with Managerialism? Mats Alvesson and Andre Spicer 7. Uncreative Destruction: Competition and positional games in higher education Mats Alvesson and Dan Kärreman 8. Being Branded by the Business School Tony Huzzard and Allanah Johnston 9. From Consumer to Brand: Exploring the commodification of the student in a university advertising campaign Consuelo Vasquez, Sophie Del Fa, Viviane Sergi and Benoit Cordelier 10. The Rise and Fall of a Management Education Programme: The tension between academic and vocational education in business schools Jens Rennstam and Peter Svensson 11. Against Idle Complicity: Challenging the employability agenda in teaching and daily academic life Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and Peter Watt 12. Being Edited: Academic journals and knowledge corporations Martin Parker 13. Mixing Oil and Water: On the co-production of professional and disciplinary goals in the modern business school Alan Irwin 14. Minerva Meets the Market: From managerialism to critical reflexivity Mats Benner and Tony Huzzard

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Book SynopsisEvaluating organization development (OD) and change is critical for any executive team, project manager, or consultant who wants to see the change effort sustain and successfully evolve. Evaluation can be the key to enacting real change that makes sense to the team, your customers, and your stakeholders while seeing your strategic plan make crucial differences. The process of evaluation is often missing from change initiatives, and many previous books have glossed over the topic, but Evaluating Organization Development: How to Ensure and Sustain the Successful Transformation makes planning, implementing, and then assessing your change efforts simple. With handy how-to lessons, pull-out tools that are ready to use, and case studies that guide the implementation of each step, your team will be able to show the impact and justify the resources for each project. In addition, your team benefits from this step-by-step guide because they too will now understand Table of ContentsChapter 1: Why Evaluate Organizational Change Efforts? Chapter 2: How Is Organizational Change Evaluation Different from Training Evaluation? Chapter 3: Aligning Evaluation to Organizational Strategy. Chapter 4: Planning the Evaluation of Change Management and OD Interventions. Chapter 5: Identifying and Examining Key Stakeholders/Decision-Makers. Chapter 6: Determining Evaluators and Evaluation Criteria. Chapter 7: Scanning Inside and Outside the Organization for Information. Chapter 8: Determining, Collecting and Analyzing Evaluation Data Collection Methods. Chapter 9: Reporting the Results of the Evaluation to Stakeholders/Decision-Makers. Chapter 10: Future Trends in Organizational Change Evaluation

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Book SynopsisIn a global climate of increasing complexity and uncertainty, there have been calls for a more responsible form of leadership in business and society. The relationship between kindness and leadership is therefore a topic of fundamental importance for our well-being as individuals, for the success of our organisations, and for the future of our global community. Kindness in Leadership is one of the first books to explore both the concept and practice of kindness in leadership and consider them in different societal and organisational settings. Its uniqueness lies in combining an innovative mix of personal views from leaders with explorations of organisational philosophies and practices. It opens with a definition of kindness and its contours and underpinnings. It then explores the importance of kindness within different organisations, parts of the world, economic strata, age groups and genders, drawing on research on organisational compassion and neuroscience. In order Trade Review"There is too little attention given to the importance of kindness in leadership. Maybe this book can help to shift the paradigm of leadership so that kindness takes a bigger place in the list of characteristics sought in selecting and promoting leaders in all kinds of organisations in society." Professor Ariane Berthoin Antal, research director, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany "Having heard from several of my superiors in my career about ‘being too soft and compassionate’ as an improvement area, I was delighted to read about the virtues of ‘kindness in leadership.’ This book by some eminent thought leaders, reassured me that kindness in leaders is their strength and it has a direct bearing on the success of any pursuit."Deepak Chopra, Group CEO, Anand Group, India"What a beautiful, thought provoking exploration of this poorly explored yet absolutely critical dimension of leadership. It will show you of the power of kindness and how it can transform your leadership."Professor Jay A. Conger, Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership Studies, Claremont McKenna College, USA"In today’s complex, rapidly changing high tech. world, kindness in leadership is more important than ever. The collective wisdom of the authors, all experts in the field of leadership and business, brings together important insights and practices. A kinder world is a more productive world where individuals and corporations can thrive." Katherine Corich, Founder and Chair, Sysdoc Group"This book makes a compelling case for kindness and fairness contributing to business success. Kindness certainly contributes to business success, but it is not an easy option and needs wholehearted involvement from the top."John Elliott MBE DL, Executive Chairman, Ebac Ltd, UK"Kindness is at the very heart of our philosophy but it demands that everyone lives and breathes it every day. The human, financial and societal outcomes are tangible and will endure through future generations." Richard Everard OBE DL, Chairman, Everards Brewery Ltd, UK"It might not be high on the corporate agenda – but this terrific book shows the central role that kindness can play in making our corporations and society a better place."Professor Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School, UK"This could be the book which changes global perception and appreciation of kindness in leadership, bringing it to the fore in the considered development of our organisations and societies. The authors’ panoramic exploration of the many manifestations and impacts of kindness highlights the immense value of this inexhaustible, infinitely sharable, inner resource. The book is a true gift to the literature on Leadership and a convincing exposition of how we would all benefit from making kindness more visible in the world." Professor Suzi Jarvis, Founding Director, UCD Innovation Academy, University College Dublin, Ireland "Kindness is not an optional. In a world that is getting more complex and digital every day, kindness is an indispensable component of successful leadership."Nadin Meloth, International Co-President, European Women’s Development International Network (EWMD) and Business Coach "Hard, compelling justification for kind leadership. A powerful addition to our understanding of why organisational cultures based on trust and engagement deliver superior results."Major General David Mulhall, DSC, AM, CSC, Commander Joint Logistics, Australian Defence Force, Department of Defence, Australia "Real insights into win-win global leadership and collaboration, Kindness in Leadership is a nice reminder to all of us, in whatever role we play in society, kindness can make a remarkable impact on everything we do. Indeed, a common virtue and practice that transcends through cultures of Developed and Emerging markets."Beng Neoh, Managing Director, North Asia, AMP Capital, China "Kindness in Leadership" provides the ‘ying’ to governance frameworks' ‘yang’ that so often is discussed in isolation resulting in a bureaucratic tick-box exercise. The contributors provide a fresh, and at times revelatory, new approach to leadership and influencing culture in professional and high performance environments; exploring good old-fashioned courtesy, respect and fairness. The perfect antidote to compliance that could prove an essential accompaniment to the revised Corporate Governance Code."Annamarie Phelps CBE, Vice Chair, British Olympic Association, UK"This thought-provoking and ambitious book makes a strong case for integrating kindness into the complicated role of leadership, a topic that is not discussed enough. Fairness and kindness have contributed significantly to my law firm's financial success, stability, and remarkable retention of top professionals and staff employees." Arthur J. Shartsis J.D., Founding Partner, Shartsis Friese LLP, San Francisco, USA"Everyone agrees that kindness is an important virtue; yet conceptually, especially in leadership work, it can be elusive. Kindness in Leadership elucidates the various facets of kindness as an important set of values in our leadership practices in a clear, insightful and practical manner. Values-based leadership is needed now more than ever before in this current climate of rapid and disruptive changes. This book gives us the stimulus to think much harder about it and hopefully practise it conscientiously." Wong Siew Hoong, Director-General of Education, Ministry of Education, Singapore "The book rightfully and convincingly argues that kindness should be the DNA of a successful organization for it enhances purpose and values of its people. I am inspired to further ingrain it in my organization which places compassion at its core."Dr Mohd Azhari Yakub, CEO and Cardiac Surgeon, National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia "This is a book that is most needed in this time of divisiveness in politics, international relations and society at large. I found a number of useful suggestions for conversations and individual contemplation. Kindness is contagious…pass it on!"Sven Atterhed, Co-Founder, The ForeSight Group, Sweden Table of ContentsList of contributors Foreword: by Colin Mayer Introduction and Acknowledgements: by Gay Haskins Chapter One: Kindness and its many Manifestations by Gay Haskins and Mike Thomas Chapter Two: Kindness in Leadership at Work by Gay Haskins and Mike Thomas Chapter Three: Kindness in Leadership in the Private and Public Sectors by Clare Murray and Alison Gill Chapter Four: Kindness in Leadership: a Global Perspective by Lalit Johri Chapter Five: Kindness: Perspectives from Women Leaders by Gay HaskinsChapter Six: Kindness and the Owner Managed Independent Business by Yolanda Gibb, Allan Gibb and Dinah Bennett Chapter Seven: Kindness in Sports Performance and Leadership by Alison Gill Chapter Eight: Fairness and Equity: Should Kindness have a Place in the Boardroom? by Mike ThomasChapter Nine: Kindness in Leadership: An Opportunity for Business Schools? by Gay Haskins Chapter Ten: Conclusions: Bringing Kindness to the Fore by Gay Haskins with Dinah Bennett, Allan Gibb, Yolanda Gibb, Alison Gill, Lalit Johri, Clare Murray and Mike ThomasEpilogue: A Company Founded on Kindness by Kathleen HensonIndex

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What do business school graduates learn, and how helpful is it for managing in the everyday, messy reality of organisations? What does it mean to apply ''best practice'', or to take up ''evidence-based management'' and what kind of thinking does this imply? In Rethinking Management, Chris Mowles argues that many management courses still largely assume a linear and predictable world, when experience tells us that the opposite is the case. He questions some of the more orthodox conceptual assumptions that underpin much management education and instead, encourages leaders and managers to take their everyday experience of working with others seriously. People in organisations co-operate and compete to get things done, and constrain and enable each other in relationships of power. Because of this there are always unintended consequences of our actions - uncertainty is inherent in the everyday. Chris Mowles draws on the complexity sciences, the sciences of uncertainty rather than certainty,

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Book SynopsisThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has established itself as one of the most powerful private forces in global politics, shaping the trajectories of international policy-making. Driven by fierce confidence and immense expectations about its ability to change the world through its normative and material power, the foundation advances an agenda of social and economic change through technological innovation. And it does so while forming part of a movement that refocuses efforts towards private influence on, and delivery of, societal progress.The Gates Foundation's Rise to Power is an urgent exploration of one of the world's most influential but also notoriously sealed organizations. As the first book to take us inside the walls of the foundation, it tells a story of dramatic organizational change, of diverging interests and influences, and of choices with consequences beyond the expected. Based on extensive fieldwork inside and around the foundation, the book explores Trade Review"This is by far the best and most balanced account of the Gates Foundation and its role in the world. A must-read for anyone with an interest in politics, economics, non-profit studies and international relations." — Michael Edwards, Editor of Transformation"Fejerskov's impressive study is the first to fully capture the complex ideas, hybrid identities and diverse practices of the Gates Foundation. Clearly written and carefully researched, this highly original account deserves to be read by everyone with an interest in finding out more about this important and controversial new player in global development." — David Lewis, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK"Offering powerful new insights into organizational life and the life of organizations, this original book artfully illuminates the internal and external forces that explain why "organizations rarely stand still". With it, Fejerskov makes a significant contribution to sociological theory." — Rachel Schurman, Professor, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA"Fejerskov provides critical insights into the internal complexities and changes of the Gates Foundation. He is an essential commentator on philanthrocapitalism, the changing international development landscape, and the sociology of institutions." — Emma Mawdsley, Reader, University of Cambridge, UK"The first book to provide ethnographic examination of the inner workings of the Gates Foundation, this is a provocative, important and clear-eyed study of philanthropic power today." — Linsey Mcgoey, Reader, University of Essex, UK and author of No such thing as a free giftTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Organizational Change and New Actors in Global Politics 3. Rising Powers, American Capitalism and Private Foundations 4. Enter Seattle 5. The Power of Ideas 6. The Global South as a Laboratory of Experimentation 7. From Seattle to the Fields of India 8. Chameleon Politics 9. Conclusion: The Gates Foundation’s Rise to Power

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Book SynopsisProfessions have long provided a dependable body of expertise that organisations have relied upon to fulfil goals. Issues around equality and diversity alongside challenges to expert knowledge in the neo-liberal era have created profound challenges for this type of worker, even while creating opportunities for newer varieties of expert labour to establish themselves as professionals.This shortform book provides a critical synthesis of the current state of the field from an international perspective. It highlights the key opportunities and challenges for the professions and professionalism within both the public and private sectors as a field of research, practice and policy. The first half of the book deals with the comparative history, theories and inequalities of the professions. This provides a basis for our understanding of how the professions have had to adapt and how governance, management and leadership have come to shape the emerging and evolving models of professions and professionalism. The book draws on case studies and through its analysis illustrates the organisational and sociological dimensions of the field.This book will be of interest to scholars, academics and students in the fields of business, management and sociology, especially those conducting research and studies around the professions and professionalism.Trade Review"The book presents an overview of the field of professions and professionalism which is succinct yet remarkably comprehensive. As such, it offers a much-needed entry-point for researchers and students which should demystify the field and also, I hope, provoke further research in an era when knowledge and expertise face unprecedented challenges" Damian E Hodgson, University of Sheffield, UKTable of Contents1. Professions and professionalism: contemporary challenges 2. Origins and theories of professions 3. Professional inequalities 4. Governing and governance 5. Professions, management and leadership 6. The new professionalism: conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe Millennial workforce has different goals and objectives than previous generations and possesses a unique perspective that is unlike any other employee group. Nevertheless, instead of incorporating a management style that is conducive to getting the best out of Millennials, business leaders incorrectly attempt to manage this subset of the workforce the same way they manage employees from previous generations. This must change!  Archaic methods of management do not deliver success with a new breed of employee. Instead, the outdated model leaves Millennials uninspired and lacking the desire to produce results. To get the best out of Millennials, it is imperative for leaders to modify their current management style. With over 55 million Millennials working in the United States, the largest demographic in the workplace, it is critical that they are managed effectively if companies are going to succeed. Managing Millennials: The Ultimate Handbook for ProductivityTable of ContentsContentsForeword ................................................................................................xiAcknowledgments ................................................................................ xvAuthor .................................................................................................xviiIntroduction .........................................................................................xixSection i Millennials in the Workplacechapter 1 The Millennial Challenge .................................................. 5Millennials Are Different from Every Other Generationin the Workplace ...........................................................................6Leaders Struggle to Successfully Manage Millennials ............8Businesses Are Placing Emphasis on the WrongActivities to Motivate Millennials ..............................................9Bringing It All Together ............................................................10Endnotes ......................................................................................11chapter 2 Generational Diversity ..................................................... 13Millennials—Born 1980 to 1999 ...............................................14Generation X—Born 1965 to 1979............................................16Baby Boomers—Born 1946 to 1964 .........................................18Ideologies and Preferences ....................................................... 20Bringing It All Together ............................................................22Endnote ........................................................................................22chapter 3 The 12 Types of Millennials in the Workplace .............. 23The Self-Centered Celebrity ......................................................24The Steady Deliverer ...................................................................25The Know-It-All ..........................................................................26The High Performer .................................................................. 28The Social Media Queen ............................................................29The Technology Wiz .................................................................. 30The Victim ...................................................................................31The Grinder .................................................................................32The I’m Too Good for That ........................................................33The Reliable Buddy .................................................................... 34The Apathetic Underachiever ...................................................35The Frustrated Producer ............................................................36Bringing It All Together ............................................................37Section ii everything Has changedchapter 4 It’s NOT about the Money!!! ............................................ 43The Three Drivers of Engagement ............................................45Time ............................................................................................. 46Experience ...................................................................................47Consistent Direction ................................................................. 48Bringing It All Together ............................................................49Endnotes ......................................................................................49chapter 5 Transforming Operations to Meet the Needs of Today ..... 51Traditional Management versus Agile Leadership ................52Empower Employees to Use Their Unique Talents ...........53Analyze Problems from Various Perspectives .................. 54Encourage Members to Display an IntellectualCuriosity ..................................................................................55Fixed Mindset versus Growth Mindset ...................................55Encourage Freedom to Explore............................................57Endorses a Learning Culture ...............................................57Promote a Collective Approach toward Success ...............58Business Silos versus a Collaborative Culture ........................59Build Trust and Allow People to See Issues fromVarious Perspectives ..............................................................61Foster Positive Energy and Eliminate Complacency ........62Streamline Interdepartmental Projects andCross-Functional Responsibilities .......................................62Maintaining Status Quo versus Embracing Change .............63Proactive Leadership ............................................................ 64Execute on Your Vision, Don’t Just Talk about It ............. 64Be Unrelenting in Your Focus ..............................................65Bringing It All Together ............................................................65Endnotes ..................................................................................... 66chapter 6 Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and Millennials ............................... 67Technology and Innovation ..................................................... 68Teamwork and Collaboration ...................................................69Communication Mediums and Sharing Information ...........71Productivity over Tradition and Formalities ..........................72The Value of Time .......................................................................73Appearance and Attire ...............................................................74Commitment to the Company .................................................74Intangibles ...................................................................................75Bringing It All Together ............................................................76Endnotes ......................................................................................76Section iii Beyond the Horizonchapter 7 SSSSHHHHHH ... Little Known Secrets ........................ 81Secrets about You (The Boss) ....................................................82They Want You to Fire the A$$hole ....................................82Employee Benefits Have Changed and You Needto Adapt ...................................................................................83Your Words Mean Nothing without Action ..................... 84Secrets about Them (Millennials) .............................................85They Have a FOMO on Information ...................................85They Need to Be Part of the Big Picture and Not JustFulfill a Role ........................................................................... 86They Don’t Have Engaging Experiences,So They Lose Interest in the Company ...............................87Secrets about the Business .........................................................87Engaging the Entire Workforce Is the Only Way toHave Enduring Business Results ........................................ 88Building Sustainability Is More Important thanShort-Term Profits..................................................................89Incorporating Technological Advances Is Critical .......... 90Bringing It All Together ............................................................91Endnote ........................................................................................91chapter 8 Adapt or Die ..................................................................... 93Technology and Innovation ......................................................95Changing Communication Mediums .................................... 96Smartphones, Social Media, and Sharing Information ........97Working in a Remote Environment .........................................98Priorities in the Workplace ...................................................... 99Intangibles ................................................................................ 100Bringing It All Together ..........................................................101Endnotes ....................................................................................102chapter 9 We Are Managers Not Magicians ................................. 103Bringing It All Together ..........................................................105Section iV Making changes, taking Actionchapter 10 Motivating Millennials .................................................. 1095 Tips for Communicating Feedback to Millennials ...........11110 Ways to Compensate Millennials That Don’t InvolveMoney .........................................................................................1125 Keys to Effectively Recognizing MillennialContributions ............................................................................11510 Ways to Increase Millennial Loyalty andCommitment to Your Organization ......................................1165 Reasons Millennials Quit and What You Can Do toStop Them ..................................................................................1195 Tips for Motivating Melancholy Millennials ...................121Endnotes ................................................................................... 122chapter 11 Combining Generations and Producing Results ......... 123Five Reasons Other Generations Drive MillennialsCrazy ......................................................................................... 124Five Reasons Millennials Think Differently thanPrevious Generations . . . and How You Can LeverageThis for Good ........................................................................... 126Five Tips on How to Balance CommunicationPreferences Amongst Generations ........................................ 128Teamwork and Collaboration: Five Tips on How toBlend Generational Preferences ..............................................130Combining Millennials and Baby Boomers: FiveDifferences That You Will Inevitably Encounter . . . andHow to Manage Them ..............................................................132Millennials Managing Baby Boomers: Five Keys toSuccess ........................................................................................136chapter 12 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly .................................. 1395 Millennial Myths ..................................................................14010 Mistakes Leaders Make Managing Millennials . . . andWhat You Can Do to Avoid Them .........................................1425 Ways to Get Your Frontline Millennial Employees toCare about Your Customers ....................................................1445 Ways to Spot a Millennial Who Is Checked out . . . andHow to Get Them Back ............................................................1455 Reasons Millennials Love Sharing Information ...............1485 Ways to Leverage Technology to Get the Best out ofMillennials .................................................................................149Endnotes ....................................................................................151Conclusion .......................................................................................... 153Index .................................................................................................... 155

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Book SynopsisWe know a lot about change leadership. We understand how to design change programmes, and we know how to prescribe best practice change methods. Yet, despite all this knowledge, it is reported that up to 70% of change leadership projects fail to realize many of their objectives. The fault lines are cited as occurring at the micro level of social interaction. What we don't adequately explain and demonstrate within the change leadership literature is how change leaders may consciously generate in themselves and in others resourceful mindsets, emotions, attitudes, and behaviours to enable positive change leadership dynamics. Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Change Leaders: The Butterfly Effect fills this gap by connecting the practices of personal development with those of corporate change leadership.This book has the vision of advancing NLP as a serious technology in the change leader's tool box. The book introduces to Trade ReviewI genuinely believe that if Human Resource/Organizational Development professionals are to make a meaningful contribution to their business, it is essential that they are considered to be experts on human behaviour, and are equipped with a quiver full of ideas that could support the continued successful development of their business. In this book, David has presented a fantastic distillation of his ability to accessibly communicate his expertise in researching and disseminating novel and meticulously researched themes for the professional practitioner’s tool-kit. Leatham Green LLM; MBA; ACEL; BA. and Founder of The Mindful HR CentreEye-opening, enlightening, and forward thinking. David’s book ambitiously combines the topics of change leadership and Neuro-Linguistic Programming to produce a paradigm shifting piece of work. He lucidly describes an innovative and practical approach that will help create conscious, reflective, and productive leaders. In an ever-changing world, David’s ideas and strategies will, I believe, become the essential difference that makes the difference.Steven Burns, NLP Trainer, Director & Founder of The Scottish Centre of NLPNeuro-Linguistic Programming for Change Leaders: The Butterfly Effect is an essential book for managers involved in leading change. David’s approach to broadening our understanding of the role of human behaviour and its dynamic relationship regards managing complex change is both practical and welcomed. In this book David provides an in-depth understanding of the ‘softer side’ of change leadership and a set of user friendly NLP tools to strengthen the skills set of the modern change leader." Jens Starke Product Manager and functional Chief Designer (MES) at Volkswagen AGTable of ContentsList of Tables; List of Figures; Foreword; Introduction to the Book; Book Structure; Section 1: The Theory and Operational Context of NLP; Chapter 1: Conscious Leadership; Chapter 2: NLP as a field of Applied Sociology; Chapter 3: New Management Practices: Paradigm Change; Chapter 4: ‘The Map is Not the Territory’: Reframing change leadership; Chapter 5: It starts with Oneself: The Butterfly Effect; Chapter 6: NLP and the Law of Requisite Variety; Chapter 7: The NLP Paradigm; Section 2: Applied NLP; Chapter 8: Building the Case for Change; Chapter 9 Building Psychological Safety; Chapter 10: Un-packing the Mindset Mix; Chapter 11: Meta-programmes; Chapter 12: Framing of Experience; Chapter 13: Caretaking and Guiding; Chapter 14: A model of Rapport Building; Chapter 15: Communication Models; Chapter 16: NLP and OD: Two not-so-distant Relatives. It’s Time for Collaboration

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Book SynopsisHenley Business School's Coaching Book of the Year 2019!In The Art of Dialogue in Coaching, Reinhard Stelter invites readers to engage in transformative and fruitful dialogues in everyday working life, and provides the theory and tools for them to be able to do so.Presented in three parts, the book provides a complete overview of the importance of dialogue and how it can be utilised. Part I, Theoretical basis, examines third-generation coaching as a collaborative dialogue form, the societal context of the coaching process and the concept of identity in modern society. Part II, Basic themes of fruitful dialogue, examines meaning-making, value and the narrative perspective, and their significance in creating a new dialogue culture. Finally, Part III, Reflections on dialogue practice, explores the art of being a supporting dialogue guide, drawing on a number of theoretical perspectives and focusing on developing relational competencies. Stelter empTrade Review"Reinhard Stelter has lead the way in thinking about coaching as a humanistic developmental methodology. This book crystallises his latest thinking and will be invaluable to coaches, consultants and everyone who has an interest in developmental approaches to coaching. A must read." - Professor Anthony M. Grant, Director, Coaching Psychology Unit, University of Sydney, Australia"As the world becomes more complex and the pace of our lives accelerates, deep personal reflection and social connection become ever more essential. Reinhard’s enlightening book lays out a path to connect both elements in a rich, shared dialogue. Those who embrace this approach will begin a profoundly transformational journey." - David B. Peterson, PhD; Director, Center of Expertise, Executive Coaching & Leadership Development, Google, Inc."This is a lovely, readable, and important book. Professor Stelter’s command of the thought of thinkers such as Buber, Gendlin, and Kierkegaard is exemplary as is his synthesis of philosophical and psychological theory with the field of coaching practice. He is mindful of the chaotic social and cultural context in which we live and brings to it a deeply humanistic and insightful perspective on how meaningful dialogue can help those who are coached. Dialogue, he argues, can help people find grounding within themselves even as they deal with the flux and demands that surround them. This book will be appreciated by anyone who wants to better understand the art and practice of conversation." - Steen Halling, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Seattle University, USA; author of Intimacy, Transcendence, and Psychology"This book is a compelling argument for the type of coaching that needs to respond to the disturbing dynamics of the industrialised world. Although I hope that some strands of coaching or some individual coaches are already working with this level of challenge, Reinhard Stelter’s proposition crystallises their intentions into a coherent approach. This deeply thoughtful and passionate book is essential for coaching education and important for all professionals who wish coaching to be a tangible contribution to the state of the world." - Professor Tatiana Bachkirova, Director of the International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Studies, Oxford Brookes University, UK"Overall, Stelter’s book is a useful tool for sports coaches who want to improve their dialogue skills by engaging in more meaningful dialogues with athletes and fellow coaches." - Anne Tjønndal, Nord University, Norway."Reinhard Stelter has lead the way in thinking about coaching as a humanistic developmental methodology. This book crystallises his latest thinking and will be invaluable to coaches, consultants and everyone who has an interest in developmental approaches to coaching. A must read." - Professor Anthony M. Grant, Director, Coaching Psychology Unit, University of Sydney, Australia"As the world becomes more complex and the pace of our lives accelerates, deep personal reflection and social connection become ever more essential. Reinhard’s enlightening book lays out a path to connect both elements in a rich, shared dialogue. Those who embrace this approach will begin a profoundly transformational journey." - David B. Peterson, PhD; Director, Center of Expertise, Executive Coaching & Leadership Development, Google, Inc."This is a lovely, readable, and important book. Professor Stelter’s command of the thought of thinkers such as Buber, Gendlin, and Kierkegaard is exemplary as is his synthesis of philosophical and psychological theory with the field of coaching practice. He is mindful of the chaotic social and cultural context in which we live and brings to it a deeply humanistic and insightful perspective on how meaningful dialogue can help those who are coached. Dialogue, he argues, can help people find grounding within themselves even as they deal with the flux and demands that surround them. This book will be appreciated by anyone who wants to better understand the art and practice of conversation." - Steen Halling, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Seattle University, USA; author of Intimacy, Transcendence, and Psychology"This book is a compelling argument for the type of coaching that needs to respond to the disturbing dynamics of the industrialised world. Although I hope that some strands of coaching or some individual coaches are already working with this level of challenge, Reinhard Stelter’s proposition crystallises their intentions into a coherent approach. This deeply thoughtful and passionate book is essential for coaching education and important for all professionals who wish coaching to be a tangible contribution to the state of the world." - Professor Tatiana Bachkirova, Director of the International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Studies, Oxford Brookes University, UKTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart One: Theoretical BasisChapter 1 Third-generation coaching as sustainable, fruitful dialogue: Key navigation pointsChapter 2 The societal context: the emergence of the achievement-subject and the burnout society Chapter 3 Searching for one’s own self – identity as one of the key challenges of our time Part Two: Basic Themes of Fruitful DialoguesChapter 4 Meaning-making in dialogueChapter 5 Values – a basis for action Chapter 6 The narrative perspective: transformation through sharing Part Three: Reflections on dialogue practiceChapter 7 Enhancing attention Chapter 8 The narrative-co-creative practiceChapter 9 The foundation of dialogue and the dialogue guide’s virtues Chapter 10 Dialogue practices Concluding reflectionsReferences Index of namesIndex

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Book SynopsisPsychosynthesis Leadership Coaching responds to the call of coaches who want to be able to work with the whole person, with the inner as well as the outer worlds, and not just at rational and behavioural levels but at emotional and spiritual levels as well. Psychosynthesis is unique amongst psychologies in the emphasis it places on self and will at the centre of human psychological functioning. This holistic and integrative psychology provides the foundations for working with leaders in ways that respond to today's emergent crises.Psychosynthesis coaching is an increasingly popular approach that is finding its way into the mainstream as a response to the needs of coaching to engage at depth with emotional content and in the transpersonal realm of meaning, purpose and values. This book introduces psychosynthesis coaching to a wider audience and provides a comprehensive guide to this approach for both coaches and leaders. This Trade ReviewThis is a tour de force and makes a huge contribution to coaching and psychosynthesis. Aubyn unpacks the depth that is possible for coaches who want to work within a psychospiritual context that enables their clients to bring purpose and meaning to their lives and to their leadership. His words are highly accessible as he helps us explore the alchemy of coaching the ‘Being’ and suffering of soul as clients find themselves and free their will to enable change. A must read for all coaches looking to make a real difference.’Roger H Evans, author of the Creative Manager and 5DL Five Dimensions of Leadership, Co-founder and Director of Coaching, The Institute of Psychosynthesis, London‘What a delight. We have long-needed a book devoted to evolutionary psychosynthesis and holistic coaching. This rich book pays attention to what APECS calls CPPD, our personal and professional development, encouraging us to look at not only the complexities of the outer organisational world, but the complexities of our inner world such as our conflicting needs and motivations, creating synergy, and to put identity, purpose, meaning and values centre stage.’Eve Turner, Chair, APECS; Co-founder, Climate Coaching Alliance; and Founder/Lead, Global Supervisors’ Network.‘Aubyn Howard delivers to new and more experienced coaches, organizational leaders, human resources and organizational development professionals the precious legacy of Psychosynthesis: an approach that has always been characterized by the tension to combine different active techniques and very solid methods of guidance to effective action with a deep, systemic and integrated vision of the human being that also takes into account his emotional and spiritual dimension, higher values, creativity and free will. A vision which, as the author states, we are in great need in this increasingly complex, uncertain and stressful world. Thank you Aubyn!’Petra Guggisberg Nocelli, psychotherapist ASP, Psychosynthesist SIPT, Trainer and Author of The Way of Psychosynthesis‘Aubyn Howard has masterfully blended the powerful models of psychosynthesis psychology with contemporary coaching practice in an accessible and readable way. This book will be of value equally to those working in organisational coaching and those working in the field of psychotherapy and personal growth.’ Keith Silvester, President of the European Federation for Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy ‘This seminal publication encourages joined up thinking on relevant theory and practice. It is an essential read for those in or interested in the Leadership Coaching profession, for Human Resource Managers and for leaders or those aspiring to become leaders.’Ger Melia, Executive Coach and Career Adviser‘A lucid and enlivening introduction to Psychosynthesis; its history, its nature and its potential. Aubyn Howard illustrates theoretically and demonstrates practically how Psychosynthesis offers a unique scale of development essential for today's leaders. This book is a gift to coaches and leaders alike.’Ant Mitchell, founder of Mitchell Coaching; Director of APECS Full version - for inside, front material?‘This is a tour de force and makes a huge contribution to coaching and psychosynthesis. Aubyn unpacks the depth that is possible for coaches who want to work within a psychospiritual context that enables their clients to bring purpose and meaning to their lives and to their leadership. His words are highly accessible as he helps us explore the alchemy of coaching the ‘Being’ and suffering of soul as clients find themselves and free their will to enable change. A must read for all coaches looking to make a real difference.’Roger H Evans, author of the Creative Manager and 5DL Five Dimensions of Leadership, Co-founder and Director of Coaching, The Institute of Psychosynthesis, London‘What a delight. We have long-needed a book devoted to evolutionary psychosynthesis and holistic coaching. This rich book pays attention to what APECS calls CPPD, our personal and professional development, encouraging us to look at not only the complexities of the outer organisational world, but the complexities of our inner world such as our conflicting needs and motivations, creating synergy, and to put identity, purpose, meaning and values centre stage. Mixing psychosynthesis history with theory and practice, while also referring to other approaches, the reader benefits from both a grounding in the subject and ideas to implement. Howard successfully argues the need for a psycho-spiritual perspective for the “emerging and growing crisis of leadership” and takes us on a journey to integrate our whole selves to work with the whole self of the other. Working at the level of ‘being’ we increase our capacity and that of leaders to deal with complexity.’Eve Turner, Chair, APECS; Co-founder, Climate Coaching Alliance; and Founder/Lead, Global Supervisors’ Network.Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching has great value for the development of the young discipline of coaching, of which Roberto Assagioli, the founder of Psychosynthesis, especially with his book The Act of Will, was an enlightened pioneer. ‘Aubyn Howard delivers to new and more experienced coaches, organizational leaders, human resources and organizational development professionals the precious legacy of Psychosynthesis: an approach that has always been characterized by the tension to combine different active techniques and very solid methods of guidance to effective action with a deep, systemic and integrated vision of the human being that also takes into account his emotional and spiritual dimension, higher values, creativity and free will. A vision which, as the author states, we are in great need in this "increasingly complex, uncertain and stressful world". Thank you Aubyn!’Petra Guggisberg Nocelli, psychotherapist ASP, Psychosynthesist SIPT, Trainer and Author of The Way of Psychosynthesis‘Aubyn Howard has masterfully blended the powerful models of psychosynthesis psychology with contemporary coaching practice in an accessible and readable way. This book will be of value equally to those working in organisational coaching and those working in the field of psychotherapy and personal growth.’ Keith Silvester, President of the European Federation for Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy‘In addition to making a worthy and much needed contribution to leadership, executive and organisational coaching, Aubyn clarifies where leadership coaching sits in the context of coaching, psychosynthesis and leadership. He acknowledges healthy diversity in the profession and clearly distinguishes it from therapy and life coaching. This seminal publication encourages joined up thinking on relevant theory and practice. It is an essential read for those in or interested in the Leadership Coaching profession, for Human Resource Managers and for leaders or those aspiring to become leaders.’Ger Melia‘A lucid and enlivening introduction to Psychosynthesis; its history, its nature and its potential. Howard illustrates theoretically and demonstrates practically how Psychosynthesis offers a unique scale of development essential for today's leaders. This book is a gift to coaches and leaders alike.’Ant Mitchell, founder of Mitchell Coaching; Director of APECSTable of ContentsIntroduction and overview. 1. Context is all. 2. Origins, elders and developments. 3. Personal and professional. Part 1: 4. The leadership challenge and the call to coaching. 5. Coaching psychology. 6. Psychosynthesis as a coaching psychology. 7. Personal and professional. Part 2: 8. The full model of psychosynthesis coaching. 9. Boundaries, ambiguities and contexts. 10. Personal and professional. Part 3: 11. Leadership development. 12. Organisational systems and the systemic perspective. 13. The developmental perspective. 14. The somatic perspective. 15. Coaching leaders in change, in crisis and towards synthesis. 16. Coaching the Will. 17. Psychosynthesis techniques. 18. Insights from neuropsychology and the implications for psychosynthesis coaches. 19. A new synthesis and the future of psychosynthesis coaching. Afterword. References and bibliography. About the author. Index.

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Book SynopsisAimed at senior HRM and L&D specialists responsible for improving their organisation's managerial talent, Improving Managerial Talent covers the core findings of the author's and other published research. It provides a highly participative overview of personality and ability psychometrics, involving the opportunity for self-application. It reveals hard evidence of the extent to which such tests can add value to the prediction of managerial success and their link to requisite competencies. It shows how qualified testers, HR and line managers can each make a unique contribution to the selection process. The book goes on to show how management style is a product of personality and habit and how the acquisition and use of a complementary style can improve persuasiveness and the cultivation of interpersonal skill both for the manager and for those whom the manager might need to coach. It regards job-challenge as the primary engine of managerial growth, both for development in key Table of ContentsIntroduction; PART I: RECOGNISING AND SELECTING MANAGERIAL TALENT; Section 1. What contributes to overall managerial performance?; A suggested model; Section 2. What type of evidence will be considered?; Mental abilities, personality traits and personal competencies of average and high performing managers; Section 3. Mental abilities and personality traits; An overview of general mental ability and the Big Five personality traits and how these are distributed across the general population; Section 4. General mental ability; Do managers need to be intelligent?; Section 5. Extraversion; Do managers need to be extraverted?; Section 6. Agreeableness; Do managers need to be agreeable?; Section 7. Extraversion and Agreeableness in combination: Possible risks; Section 8. Conscientiousness; Do managers need to be conscientious?; Section 9. Agreeableness and Conscientiousness in combination: Possible risks; Section 10. Neuroticism (aka Emotional variability) or Stability?; Do managers need to be stable?; Section 11. Extraversion and Emotional variability in combination: Possible risks; Section 12. Openness; Do managers need to be open-minded?; Section 13. Summarising the mental ability and personality of managers; Including differences amongst the key business functions; Section 14. Harnessing personality and IQ test scores to guide selection; A worked example; Section 15. Recognising potentially dysfunctional personalities; A need for caution; Section 16. Leadership and personality: A review of research; Section 17. Is personality stable or ‘plastic’?; Accept it or change it?; Section 18. Moving on to personal competencies; Sixteen competencies into four common competency clusters; Section 19. Competency clusters and overall managerial performance; Some impressive connections; Section 20 . Drawing the threads together; Intelligence, personality, competencies and overall performance. Do we need to measure the first two if we have competency ratings?; Section 21. Performance in Key result areas; The missing link between competency and overall performance. The assessment domain most familiar to line managers; PART II: BEHAVIOURS AND STYLES; Section 22. Management behaviours; The interactive behavioural habits of average and high performing managers; Section 23. Behavioural styles; Telling or asking?; PART III: DEVELOPING MANAGERIAL TALENT; Section 24. Developing managerial talent; An overview; Section 25. Coaching around competencies; A performance coaching process based on a practice-demonstration-reflection learning design model; Section 26. Coaching for interpersonal competencies: Briefing; With a worked example; Section 27. Coaching for interpersonal competencies: Reviewing; With a worked example; Section 28. Developing line manager coaching skills; An outline approach and difficulties addressed; Section 29. Using contrasting ask/tell styles to develop interpersonal competency; Telling and asking styles; Section 30. Quick coaching; With a worked example; Section 31. High intensity training in influencing and persuasion; Based on the practice-demonstration-reflection learning design model; Section 32. The ‘win-win’ perspective; A strategic approach to influencing and persuasion; PART IV: IMPROVING MANAGERIAL TALENT: Reflections and Summary; Section 33. Is management right for you?; Useful to know when seeking to recognise, select and develop managerial talent in others; Section 34. How to recognise potential, select and help develop effective managers; A final summary and conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix; Index

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Book SynopsisLeaders work hard to develop strong leadership capabilities in today's modern organizations, for the benefit of their teams and for their own careers. But, sometimes conventional leadership theory fails to explain why our efforts fail to make an impact, and arguably are becoming less and less successful. Why would this be?The answer lies in our evolutionary history. Leadership is integral to our success and evolution as a species, as larger better functioning groups out-survived fragmented groups that did not benefit from strong leadership. Leader-follower relationships are, therefore, deeply ingrained in our brains, our instincts and our behaviour. But, our modern world, with its technology, connectedness and complexity, has evolved much faster than our brains and our leader-follower behaviour has not caught up.Evolve charts the fascinating development of our evolutionary history to provide a profound understanding of human behaviour around leadership. It alsoTable of ContentsDedication, Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction , Part one - Theory , Part two - Application , Part three – Traps and Pitfall, Part Four – The Ultimate Case Study , Takeaways and Leadership Development Actions , Part One Theory, Chapter 1 Klaus calls Bullshit, Chapter 2 Our flawed and magnificent brain, Chapter 3 Evolution, Chapter 4 Leadership and Pre-cogs , Takeaway, Chapter 5 Leadership and Intra-cogs, Chapter 6 Leadership and Post-cogs, Chapter 7 A Primate, a Gossip and a Dreamer walk into a bar, Chapter 8 The Pre-Cog Within (and the intra-cog, and the post-cog), End of Part One , Part Two From Theory to Action, Chapter 9 Primeval Shadow hijacks Heartfelt Voice, Chapter 10 Tribal Shadow undermines Command Voice, Chapter 11 Shadow Gossip incapacitates Prosocial Voice, Chapter 12 Daemon invalidates Futurizing Voice, Chapter 13 Bringing it all together, End of Part Two, Part Three Traps and Pitfalls, Chapter 14 Differential Dysfunction, Chapter 15 Differential Dark Side, End of Part Three, Part Four The Ultimate Case Studies, Chapter 16 The Leadership Study of Religion, Post-script, The Leadership Theory of Everything, The Third Cognitive Revolution, The Creation Voice, our Calling, Index

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