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Informationen zum Autor Peter Stokes is Professor of Business Management and Organisation at Chester Business School. He has applied his work through national and international knowledge transfer and consultancy projects across a range of business and industrial sectors. He has been visiting lecturer and academic adviser in businesses, universities and business schools in a range of contexts including France, Holland, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Senegal (West Africa), Vietnam, Morocco, Hong Kong, China, India, Dubai, and Japan. Neil Moore is Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Coordinator at Chester Business School. Simon M Smith is Senior Lecturer in International Business at the University of Winchester. Caroline Rowland is Professor of Leadership and Management and Associate Dean of Chester Business School. Peter Scott is Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Management at Liverpool John Moores University. Klappentext Fusing together theory and the application of organizational management, this book provides useful and practical guidelines for planning, leading, and engaging a workforce and its resources to achieve organizational goals. The editors and chapter contributors take a detailed look at leadership, character in modern organizations, critical approaches to managing people and organizations, the role of trust and corporate social responsibility, team work and management, inter-and intra-generational trends, art-based methods for organizational change, and overcoming resistance to change. Supplemented by activities, recommended reading, online resources, and case studies from a range of industrial sectors, including construction, publishing, aerospace, and emergency services, "Organizational Management" is relevant to students entering any organizational environment, be it federal, private, or non-profit.Supplemented by activities, revision questions and recommended reading to deepen learning and engagement, and includes online resources to support each chapter Zusammenfassung Organizational Management is ideal for readers who need to understand modern organizations. This book enables students to understand the key issues of organizational behaviour and how to take a critical approach when planning! leading and engaging a workforce and its resources. The book provides fresh perspectives on known models and critical theories on leadership! teams! performance management! employee engagement and change. The authors also offer the reader innovative approaches to leading-edge issues such as trust! internet use! generational trends! the use of the arts in organizations and leadership from a systemic perspective. Organizational Management draws on examples from the authors' international work across a range of business and industrial sectors! both public and private! and is supplemented by activities! revision questions! recommend reading and online resources to deepen learning. Rapid technological advances! constantly changing global environments and new kinds of workforce cultures mean that organizations are constantly being challenged. This book equips the reader with the ability to navigate this turbulent environment through both established and novel forms of organizational management.Online supporting resources for this book include summaries! diagrams and case study scenarios to help readers easily understand theories and contextualize experiences in the workplace Inhaltsverzeichnis About the editors and authorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction01 Management and organization: The 21st century global and international contextSimon M SmithIntroduction - traditions and normative stancesOrganizational ambidexterity: opening Pandora's paradoxGlobal talent managementConcluding thoughts02 Historical and contemporary contexts: The representation and character of 'modern' organizationsPeter StokesIntroductionModernism - a key shaping force of the contempor...
