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Engineering Management eBook Series

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  • The Company Democracy Model

    Creating Innovative Democratic Work Cultures for Effective Organizational Knowledge-Based Management and Leadership

    by Evangelos Markopoulos, Hannu Vanharanta ...
    Series series Engineering Management
    Company democracy is often misunderstood in the business context as democracy is usually related to politics. In this book, the authors present a different dimension. They focus first on democracy from an organizational culture perspective and then offer employees opportunities to understand and apply democracy from the company floor level.The Company Democracy Model (CDM) is an industry-wide, ... Read more

    R1 590,43

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  • Riding the Waves of Culture

    Understanding Diversity in Global Business

    by Charles Hampden-Turner, Fons Trompenaars ...
    For over 25 years, Riding the Waves of Culture has set the standard for leading effectively in an international business context. Helping leaders to be highly attuned to cultural differences, and to leverage such differences for maximum competitive advantage.Retaining its in-depth exploration of underlying cultural frameworks that have made it a business classic, Riding the Waves of Culture, ... Read more

    R519,79

  • Design, When Everybody Designs

    An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation

    by Ezio Manzini ...
    Translated by Rachel Coad ...
    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    The role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability.In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these projects generate unprecedented solutions; sometimes they converge on ... Read more

    R381,56

  • Big Mind

    How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This “bigger mind”—human and machine capabilities working together—has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results? ... Read more

    R427,44

  • Service-Dominant Logic

    Premises, Perspectives, Possibilities

    by Robert F. Lusch, Stephen L. Vargo ...
    In 2004, Robert F. Lusch and Stephen L. Vargo published their groundbreaking article on the evolution of marketing theory and practice toward 'service-dominant (S-D) logic', describing the shift from a product-centred view of markets to a service-led model. Now, in this keenly anticipated book, the authors present a thorough primer on the principles and applications of S-D logic. They describe a ... Read more

    R731,16

  • Re-Creating the Corporation

    A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century

    by Russell L. Ackoff ...
    Over the last three decades the average life expectancy of a corporation in North America has dipped well below 20 years. In fact, by 1983 a full third of the 1970 Fortune 500 companies had been acquired, merged, or broken apart. In this landmark book, one of the business world's foremost pioneers, Russell L. Ackoff, delivers this indispensable guide for those hoping to beat these odds--and to ... Read more

    R886,75

  • Administration and Management Theory and Techniques

    A Guide for Practising Managers

    by Ina R. Barrett ...
    Dr. Barrett has integrated these variables well while writing a valuable text that offers strategies and examples to address managerial and administrative issues relevant to any setting. This is a timeless work, which will be valuable to students pursuing any aspect of management or administration, in any setting or environment, while challenging the student and/or manager to develop new thoughts ... Read more

    R57,95

  • Organizations

    A Systems Approach

    by Stefan Kühl ...
    From businesses, public administrations, universities and schools, to hospitals, prisons, political parties, or the military, peoples’ lives are inextricably bound up with organizations from cradle to grave. Yet we receive little training in how - as members, customers, voters, or patients - to deal with them. In Organizations Stefan Kühl asks and answers many questions. What are these entities ... Read more

    R1 487,80

  • Participative Transformation

    Learning and Development in Practising Change

    by Roger Klev, Morten Levin ...
    In Participative Transformation, Roger Klev and Morten Levin insist that participative learning and developmental processes are essential in organizational change. They focus on introducing the kind of learning and development that shapes a self-sustaining developmental process that is an integral part of the daily activities of an organisation. This process is essentially one of collective ... Read more

    R1 487,80

  • Administration Unraveled

    by George H. McCleskey ...
    The Unified General Theory of Administration melds the universal aspects of administration with related knowledge from the allied fields of sociology and psychology into a system of administrative action. It is the natural, rational and unavoidable instrumentality with which economic objectives and functions, in infinite combinations and variety, are implemented through organized human endeavor. ... Read more

    R76,26 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rainmaker Effect

    Contradictions of the Learning Organization

    by Stefan Kühl ...
    Series Book 2 - Challenges of New Organizational Forms
    The belief that rainmakers bring rain is a superstition, but they are able to create cohesion among the people who believe in their powers. Stefan Kühl describes how the rainmaker effect works in the model of the learning organization. Many of the modern management principles that are billed as formulas for success – e.g., clear objectives, employee identification, participation, and continuous ... Read more

    R146,04

  • Digital Organizing

    Revisiting Themes in Organization Studies

    by Ursula Plesner, Emil Husted ...
    This important new textbook offers a lively and topical discussion of how digital technologies impact various aspects of organizations, such as structure, knowledge, collaboration, communication, identity, legitimacy and power. Taking a critical and nuanced approach, this engaging textbook introduces readers to central themes in organization studies and reflects on how changes brought about by ... Read more

    R1 100,19