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  • Getting to Diversity

    What Works and What Doesn’t

    by Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev ...
    “This book has the potential to change CEO mindsets, human resource practices, manager behavior, and employee well-being—if only enough people grab it and heed its powerful messages.” —Rosabeth Moss Kanter, author of Think Outside the Building“Dobbin and Kalev have spent their careers studying why diversity initiatives fail and what it takes to fix them. Their data-driven book doesn’t just ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Inventing Equal Opportunity

    by Frank Dobbin ...
    Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The New Economic Sociology

    A Reader

    Edited by Frank Dobbin ...
    Economic sociology is a rapidly expanding field, applying sociology's core insight--that individuals behave according to scripts that are tied to social roles--to economic behavior. It places homo economicus (that tried-and-true fictive actor who is completely rational, acts only out of self-interest, and has perfect information) in context. In this way, it places a construct into a framework that ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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    Getting to Diversity

    What Works and What Doesn't

    by Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev ...
    Narrated by Linda Jones ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 37 min

    Every year America becomes more diverse, but change in the makeup of the management ranks has stalled. The problem has become an urgent matter of national debate. How do we fix it? Arguing that it's time to focus on changing systems rather than individuals, two of the world's leading experts on workplace diversity show us a better way in the first comprehensive, data-driven analysis of what ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    DEI Deconstructed

    Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right

    by Lily Zheng ...
    Narrated by Andrew Joseph Perez ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 49 min

    The definitive comprehensive and foundational text for critically analyzing and applying actionable DEI techniques and strategies, written by one of LinkedIn's most popular experts on DEI.The definitive comprehensive and foundational text for critically analyzing and applying actionable DEI techniques and strategies, written by one of LinkedIn's most popular experts on DEI.The importance of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Cultivating Communities of Practice

    A Guide to Managing Knowledge

    by Etienne Wenger, William Snyder, Richard A. McDermott ...
    Today's economy is fueled by knowledge. Every leader knows this to be true, yet few have systematic methods for converting organizational knowledge into economic value. This book argues that communities of practice--groups of individuals formed around common interests and expertise--provide the ideal vehicle for driving knowledge-management strategies and building lasting competitive advantage. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

    by Douglass C. North ...
    Series series Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
    Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to structure that ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Five Good Ideas

    Practical Strategies for Non-Profit Success

    Edited by Alan Broadbent, Ratna Omidvar ...
    Non-profits are big business. According to a recent Johns Hopkins report, third-sector institutions in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Japan, the U.S. and Canada have been growing at an average rate that is twice the growth rate of their GDPs. Canada is home to the second largest non-profit workforce in the world, employing 2 million paid staff and contributing $112 billion to our economy each year. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

    Edited by Walter W. Powell, Paul J. DiMaggio ...
    Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Strategic Organizational Communication

    In a Global Economy

    by Charles Conrad, Marshall Scott Poole ...
    Surveying a wide variety of disciplines, this fully-revised 7th edition offers a sophisticated and engaging treatment of the rapidly expanding field of organizational communicationPlaces organizations and organizational communication within a broader social, economic, and cultural contextApplies a global perspective throughout, including thoughtful consideration of non-Western forms of leadership, ... Read more

    $96.00 USD

  • Strategic Fund Development

    Building Profitable Relationships That Last

    by Simone P. Joyaux ...
    The completely revised and expanded edition of a fundraising classicStrategic Fund Development became an instant classic the day the first edition was released. Now in this expanded third edition, it has been revised cover-to-cover with relevant new information and useful new tools and resources.The book addresses the needs for fundraisers of every level of expertise. Experienced development ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Economic Lives

    How Culture Shapes the Economy

    by Viviana A. Zelizer ...
    Revealing the human side of economic lifeOver the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world's leading ... Read more

    $25.19 USD