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Awaken, mobilize, accelerate, and institutionalize change. With a rapidly changing environment, aggressive competition, and ever-increasing customer demands, organizations must understand how to effectively adapt to challenges and find opportunities to successfully implement change. Bridging current theory with practical applications, Organizational Change: An Action-Oriented Toolkit, Third Edition combines conceptual models with concrete examples and useful exercises to dramatically improve the knowledge, skills, and abilities of students in creating effective change. Students will learn to identify needs, communicate a powerful vision, and engage others in the process. This unique toolkit by Tupper Cawsey, Gene Deszca, and Cynthia Ingols will provide readers with practical insights and tools to implement, measure, and monitor sustainable change initiatives to guide organizations to desired outcomes.
Bridging current theory with practical applications, the 'toolkit' combines conceptual models with concrete examples and useful exercises to dramatically improve the knowledge, skills, and abilities of students in creating effective change. The Second Edition: - Takes a pragmatic, action-oriented approach - Emphasizes the measurement of change - Demonstrates principles and applications using real-world examples, exercises and cases. - Offers an integrated organizational change model so students can see the connections between topics and chapters.
Show managers of all stripes how to be key change leaders. In today’s world, organizational resilience, adaptability and agility gain new prominence. Awaken, mobilize, accelerate, and institutionalize change with Organizational Change: An Action-Oriented Toolkit. Bridging theory with practice, this new edition uses models, examples, and exercises to help students engage others in the change process. Authors Gene Deszca, Cynthia Ingols, and Tupper F. Cawsey provide tools for implementing, measuring, and monitoring sustainable change initiatives and helping organizations achieve their objectives. The Fourth Edition includes new critical thinking exercises, cases, checklists, and examples as well as updated coverage of key topics such as social media, power dynamics, decision testing, storytelling, and control systems.
This text is designed to assist students understand, plan, evaluate and implement effective change. It bridges current organizational change theory with practical applications through exercises.
Gareth Morgan believes that examining organizations and management should be interesting, creative, practical, challenging, and directly relevant to the needs of all students of organization and management. In an ingenious and utterly delightful selection of organizational "stories," Morgan presents unique insights drawn from actual corporate (as well as nonprofit, public, and institutional) experience. These carefully chosen examples illustrate both organizational success and failures . . . because we can learn from both! These "stories" offer the depth and breadth of perspective we have come to expect from Morgan′s insightful and often witty framework of organizational analysis. And, the...
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This book equips students with a thorough understanding of the advantages and challenges presented by workplace diversity, suggesting techniques to manage diversity effectively and maximize its benefits. Readers will learn to work with diverse groups to create a productive organization in which everyone feels included. The author offers a comprehensive survey of demographic groups and an analysis of their history, allowing students to develop a deep understanding of the dimensions of diversity. From this foundation, students are taught to manage diversity effectively on the basis of race, sex, LGBTQIA, religion, age, ability, national origin, and intersectionality in organizations and to und...
Pepall's Industrial Organization: Contemporary Theory and Empirical Applications, 5th Edition offers an accessible text in which topics are organized in a manner that motivates and facilitates progression from one chapter to the next. It serves as a complete, but concise, introduction to modern industrial economics. The text uniquely uses the tools of game theory, information economics, contracting issues, and practical examples to examine multiple facets of industrial organization. The fifth edition is more broadly accessible, balancing the tension between making modern industrial analysis accessible while also presenting the formal abstract modeling that gives the analysis its power. The more overtly mathematical content is presented in the Contemporary Industrial Organization text (aimed at the top tier universities) while this Fifth Edition will less mathematical (aimed at a wider range of four-year colleges and state universities.
Cawsey & Deszca'sCASES IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOURfills a noticable gap in educational publishing that has been growing for decades: the need for a solid but flexible collection of cases arranged around major issues in OB. Cawsey/Deszca fills this gap -- and MORE! With nearly 30 cases, this text offers students and instructors a collection unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, range of coverage, and student- and instructor-friendliness.Comprising both Canadian and international cases, CASES IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR relies heavily on Canadian case writers to present a selection at a range of levels, lengths, and topic areas, providing maximum flexibility for the needs of individual Canadian instructors. With a unique table of contents allowing for choosing cases by topic, primary focus, secondary focus, or otherwise, Cawsey/Dess fills the gap and breaks new ground unlike any other text on the market!