Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Managing Leadership

    A Very Brief Introduction

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In the discussion on leadership, the spotlight has so far been primarily on people. We get little interactional tips and tricks that can be used for more effective leadership, but their effectiveness is limited. This book shows how the development of leadership opportunities can be influenced by the design of organizational structures. "Good organization" can, in fact, reduce the need for ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Designing Organizations

    A Very Brief Introduction

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    When (re-)designing organizations, one must first be clear about what is meant by the structures of an organization and what can be done in order to change them. In this book, we present communication channels, programs and personnel as central structures. We also unfold the aspects that come to the forefront when one focuses on either the formal, the informal or the display side of an ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Designing Organizations

    A Very Brief Introduction

    Series Book 5 - Management Compact
    When (re-)designing organizations, one must first be clear about what is meant by the structures of an organization and what can be done in order to change them. In this book, we present communication channels, programs and personnel as central structures. We also unfold the aspects that come to the forefront when one focuses on either the formal, the informal or the display side of an ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Developing Strategies

    A Very Brief Introduction

    by Stefan Kühl ...
    Series Book 1 - Management Compact
    Hardly any other management concept is as overused as strategy, yet at the same time hardly any other concept is as vaguely defined. As a means of escaping the conceptual jumble, this monograph suggests a systems-theoretical definition which makes it possible to sort out the various threads of the strategy discussion. Strategies are “search programs” used for finding the means to achieve ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Developing Mission Statements

    A Very Brief Introduction

    by Stefan Kühl ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Companies are no longer the only organizations thatdevelop mission statements; administrations, hospitals,universities, schools and associations are following. After a phase of euphoria in which true miracles wereexpected, mission statements have come underincreasing critique for their moralizing overtones. Byapplying new approaches from organizational research,this book shows how thedevelopment ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Influencing Organizational Culture

    A Very Brief Introduction

    by Stefan Kühl ...
    Series Book 7 - Management Compact
    In the management discourse few words are thrown about more carelessly than ‘organizational culture’. While the term is usually defined too broadly—including such phenomena as assumptions, values, traditions, articles of faith, myths and artifacts—this book applies a far more narrow concept. Organizational culture, or the informal structure of an organization, is a term used to describe the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

    $72.99 USD

  • When the Monkeys Run the Zoo

    The Pitfalls of Flat Hierarchies

    by Stefan Kühl ...
    Series Book 1 - Challenges of New Organizational Forms
    Every change takes its toll. Stefan Kühl critically examines the blind enthusiasm that continues to celebrate the leveling of hierarchies and the decentralization of organizations. Relying on studies performed in European and U.S. companies, Kühl describes why these management concepts can carry organizations to the edge of extinction. Organizations are facing the challenge of coming to grips with ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 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

    $8.99 USD

  • Lateral Leading

    A Very Brief Introduction to Power, Understanding and Trust

    by Stefan Kühl ...
    Series Book 3 - Management Compact
    In organizations, there are always situations that can’t be fixed with top-down directives. Often the only thing left to do is to craft cooperative relationships through understanding, power, or trust. The concept of lateral leadership – leading to the side – brings together ideas about how we can create processes of understanding, construct arenas of power, and build trusting (or mistrusting) ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Beyond No

    Harnessing the Power of Resistance for Positive Organizational Growth

    by Erik Nagel ...
    Start viewing resistance as something beneficial instead of an inconvenience that must be eliminatedBeyond No: Harnessing the Power of Resistance for Organizational Growth is a thought-provoking exploration of the concept of resistance—something that is bound to arise within every organization in response to new projects, policies, or initiatives. Rather than seeing resistance as an inconvenience ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Managing Projects

    A Very Brief Introduction

    by Stefan Kühl ...
    Series Book 4 - Management Compact
    The linear, goal-oriented approach to projects that is so popular in management literature is only appropriate if you are dealing with well-defined problems. For projects that address poorly defined problems, however, the principles of classic project management don’t work; project managers attempt in vain to maintain a linear approach, even if targets, people affected and framework conditions ... Read more

    $4.99 USD