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The current orthodoxy is that 'knowledge' is the most powerful resource for organisational success. So how can managers develop the appropriate knowledge base to make their organisations grow? The answer lies in action research. Action research is increasingly perceived and used as a powerful methodology to promote professional awareness and development. However, there are very few texts that demonstrate how this can be utilised to promote management and organisational improvement or that emphasise the reflective nature of improving professionalism. Action Research in Organisations fills this gap. Aimed at both practising managers and university students alike, key features of this title include:* the location of management and organisational theory within a framework * examination of the principles and practice of action research* real-world examples and case studies of people attempting to improve their own situations through action research. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This work on the history of management theory and thought begins with a review of the early writers on the subject (including Pollard and Hinings); goes on to cover the period of Barnard of the Bell Telephone Company, New Jersey, among others; and finishes with an analysis of change...read more

Product Description: This book is a bridge between the technical literature of administrative theory and philosophical discourse. It is needed because an adequate axiology (value theory) of administration is ignored by the former and lacking in the latter...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This volume covers such topics as theoretical articles, mapping learning processes in organizations, techniques to compare cognitive maps, negotiation as problem solving and computer-aided text analysis.

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Product Description: Organizational aesthetics, both as a body of theory and a method of inquiry, is a rapidly expanding area of the organizational sciences. The Aesthetics of Organization accessibly draws key contributions delineating the emerging parameters of the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A cultural history of the 1960s revolution cites the period's impact on such major corporations as Shell Oil, General Foods, and Procter & Gamble, and profiles the individuals who sought to apply democratic ideals to business revolutions. Tour.

Product Description: The professional memoirs (and insights) from a revered organization consultant. In this remarkable memoir, Richard Beckhard shares a lifetime of wisdom from his forty-five year career as one of the country's foremost organization consultants...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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