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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786991803321

Autore

Pettinger Richard

Titolo

Organizational behaviour : performance management in practice / / Richard Pettinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-15824-X

0-203-85759-3

1-135-15825-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (608 p.)

Disciplina

658.3

Soggetti

Organizational behavior

Leadership

Industrial management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The organization and its environment -- Change -- Perception -- Attitudes, values and beliefs -- Ethics -- Motivation -- Communication -- Influence, power, and authority -- Realpolitik -- Conflict -- Teams and groups -- Influences on the nature of work : personality, roles, and performance -- Technology -- Culture -- Leadership -- Organization and management development -- Organization structure and design -- Human resource management and employee relations -- The nature of general management -- Strategy -- Operations management -- The nature of workplace behaviour -- Stress and its management -- Managing for the future.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a fresh and comprehensive approach to the essentials that constitute the discipline of organizational behaviour with a strong emphasis on the application of organizational behaviour and performance management in practice. It concentrates on the development of effective patterns of behaviour, values and attitudes, and relates these issues to effective organization performance in times of organizational and environmental change and turbulence. The book is divided into four parts, providing a clear structure for the study of the subject: