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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149443203321

Autore

Glowinkowski Steve

Titolo

"It's behaviour, stupid!" : what really drives the performance of your organisation / / Steve Glowinkowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Penryn, [England] : , : Ecademy Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-78452-060-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

658.4092

Soggetti

Performance - Management

Employees - Rating of

Leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Biography -- Index -- Chapter 1: What do we mean by performance? -- Chapter 2: People and the Climate in which they operate: The People Dimension -- Chapter 3: The Leadership Dynamic -- Chapter 4: The behaviours and competencies that drive leaders and their organisations' performance -- Chapter 5: Why we do what we do: how the concept of Predispositions helps our understanding -- Chapter 6: How Predisposition and Motivation influence actual behaviour -- Chapter 7: Changing behaviour and making performance happen: a collection of case studies -- Chapter 8: Weaving behaviour and Climate into the fabric of organisational life -- Chapter 9: Summing it all up -- Appendix -- Appendix 1: Definitions of components of the integrated framework -- Appendix 2: Summary of correlations within the Climate-Dimension Matrix -- Appendix 3: Summary definitions of a sample of behaviours from the generic framework -- Appendix 4: An exercise to help distinguish behaviours from skills and other personal attributes -- Appendix 5: References.

Sommario/riassunto

A leader's behaviour and the quality of their leadership delivery drives the performance of the group or business for which they are accountable. This is irrespective of the size or scope of the leadership



challenge. As such this book should be read by anyone with a responsibility for improving organisational performance.