Our knowledge and understanding of organizations is both enabled and constrained by an invisible relationship of power that is embedded in the ways in which we act and speak. This book offers a succinct but comprehensive introduction to the vast field of organizational discourse analysis, the approach that studies organization as a linguistic phenomenon, and offers an original approach to investigate the relationship between materiality and discourse.Three original images of discou...

Why do great companies and other organizations fail, sometimes abruptly? Why do admired leaders fall from their organizational pedestals? Why do young and promising managers derail? Why do organizations create and reinforce rules that manifestly damage both them and those that they employ, serve and sustain? Leadership is a much-discussed but ill-defined idea in business and management circles. Analysing and understanding the skills and behaviours exhibited in leadership practice reveal th...

Organizational compassion provides a multitude of benefits at individual, team and organizational levels. These encompass heightened positive affect, trust, engagement, loyalty, performance, resilience, and recovery. This important book provides an accessible yet scholarly overview of key academic findings and theories on organizational compassion. It equips readers with tools for reflection, awakening and practical application of compassion within the workplace across dyadic, team and org...

Paradoxes, contrary propositions that are not contestable separately but that are inconsistent when conjoined, constitute a pervasive feature of contemporary organizational life. When contradictory elements are constituted as equally important in day-to-day work, organizational actors frequently experience acute tensions in engaging with these contradictions. This Element discusses the presence of paradoxes in the life of organizations, introduces the reader to the notion of paradox in the...

O livro Jornada SRE no Brasil tem o objetivo de compartilhar conceitos e experiências, trazendo uma visão ampla e prática dos desafios e das ações tomadas para superá-los no dia a dia da jornada SRE em diferentes cenários e indústrias de atuação dos coautores. A Jornada Colaborativa Era uma vez um professor universitário que sonhava em lançar um livro quando finalizou o mestrado em 2006. O sonho começou a ser concretizado em 2017 com o livro "Jornada DevOps", mas alguns obstáculos travaram...

Radical Municipalism offers a fresh perspective on the democratizing capacity of the politics of the common in the transformation of public services, aiming to foster social change at the local level and beyond.Building on a strong theoretical foundation and featuring 14 original case studies from Europe and the Americas, the chapters explore the challenges and possibilities of implementing common-based strategies. A unique and vital resource, this book is essential for scholars an...