The Future of Leadership is Not Singular. It is Shared.The image of the heroic, solitary founder commanding from the top of a strict hierarchy is rapidly changing. In today's volatile, interconnected, and technologically driven world, modern enterprises can no longer align with rigid models built for stability. Leadership is no longer a fixed trait or a positional title; it is a dynamic, multidirectional process distributed across a network of collective intelligen...

Talent Success: From Employee Recruitment to Engagement is a comprehensive and practical guide to mastering the full lifecycle of human resource management in today's dynamic workplace.Drawing on more than three decades of professional and academic experience, Dr. Anthony Oparaugo presents a strategic and evidence-based approach to attracting, selecting, onboarding, and engaging top talent. This book goes beyond theory to provide actionable insights that help organ...

Full of expert guidance on leadership and management, this unique book is geared specifically to the needs of social work administrators, educators and practitioners in both academic and agency settings. The contents are fully comprehensive and encompass both theoretical approaches to management and leadership plus a wide variety of practical strategies that can be directly applied to practice.Topics blend the art and science of leadership and management and incorporate all compete...

'The Effective Change Manager' is designed for change management practitioners, employers, authors, academics and anyone with an interest in the evolving professional discipline of change management. The first edition, 'The Change Management Body of Knowledge (CMBoK(c))', drew on the experience of more than six hundred change management professionals in thirty countries. This second edition has grown that base to over 900 contributors and reviewers.'The Effective Change Manager' de...

This textbook in Organizational Behavior is appropriate for undergraduate as well as MBA students of management and psychology. Very readable, this textbook, authored by accomplished Management professors, will focus on the latest research in OB.

Organization Development (OD) is key to ensuring that organizations and their people can adapt to and engage in ongoing change in today's fast-paced and competitive world. How can those responsible for managing change determine the most appropriate course of action for their organization's needs and maximize capability?Written by two of the leading experts in the field, Organization Development is an essential guide to the theories, practi...

Dr. Sherrie A. Johnson is an expert in organizational leadership and communication and on how authentic leader behavior affects employee job performance. She is an authority on leading and communicating in a global environment and has competency in leadership. Dr. Johnson conducted research on authentic leadership and the effect it has on employee job performance in the workplace. She details the findings in this book.

Strength-based Lean Six Sigma is a new way of approaching process improvement that combines the best practices of two established methodologies to generate a new approach in order to help you develop and deliver increased high performance in any organization. It is the first book to use approaches in business improvement as well as organizational change for optimum organizational performance and improved agility.Combining the energy and motivation released through ...

In addition to their formal structure and the rules and standard operating procedures used to support and operate the structure, organizations also rely heavily on their organizational culture as an important tool in controlling and coordinating the activities of their members (e.g., executive, managers and employees), formulating communications among those members, and providing incentives and reasons for them to act in ways that the leaders of the organization considers to be necessary i...

Written from a practitioner viewpoint with case studies and examples from a wide variety of industries, this is a practical text for Learning & Development and Human Resource practitioners, providing an in-depth treatment of all the aspects of people development within today’s organizations. Readers will want more than just the theory – they want to know how to apply it as an internal consultant and what the potential pitfalls can be. Most importantly, they want practical strategies for in...

CREATE A POWERFUL COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE FOR YOUR BUSINESS WITH HIGH-PERFORMING GLOBAL LEADERS“Finally, a book that can guide leaders who are facing a shortage of global talent. Not only is this book an inspiring read, but it also provides practical and sustainable best practices that can help global leaders select and develop top talent.”—STEVE BENNETT, Chairman of the Board, Symantec, and former President and CEO, Intuit“Provides ac...

Transform educational systems by zeroing in on what matters.As schools grapple with an array of social, economic, and political challenges, education leaders must hone their focus on important tasks and learn how to navigate bureaucratic constraints, policies, and parental concerns while fostering change. This essential guide proposes that school leaders become "brave and focused," not by abandoning structures or making changes recklessly, but by understan...