The inherently interdisciplinary nature of the field made it very difficult to define specific categories into which to place papers in the Table of Contents for the conference proceedings. Most papers could have been logically categorized into several themes, based on the particular technological approaches they used, the type of system, the methods used in the research, and the teaching domai…
Managing a manufacturing company in the global economy is more complex than ever before. In order to be competitive today, the company not only needs to excel in production, but also in marketing, engineering, and every aspect of customer service. Long gone are the days when a manufacturing company could coast along on its manufacturing excellence or its monopoly.
This book presents accounts of nine such experiences. We witness people at extraordinary moments. We examine how they guided their crew, company, or country through the climactic events that followed. Each account is about an individual who faced a turning point — and how that person led when it counted most.
Essentials of Organizational Behavior provides a brief overview of the core concepts and theories within the field of OB. Our current text users rave about this approach because it gives them flexibility to include other kinds of learning experiences and content in their OB courses. As a result, this text is currently used in a wide variety of courses and programs—ranging from community colle…
Whether you lead a global corporation, develop software, advise clients, practice medicine, build homes, or work in one of today's state-of-the-art factories that require sophisticated computer skills to manage complex production challenges, you are a knowledge worker
Some organizations have renamed their Human Resources units “People” or “Human Capital” departments to emphasize the importance of their paramount resource. They know that without good people management, nothing else matters.
It is a curious fact that the current surge of interest in business ethics has largely bypassed the theory and the practice of human resource management (HRM).While business as a whole is presenting itself more and more in terms of social responsibility, and employees are routinely accepted as crucial stake- holders in most business organizations, HRM practice continues to affirm its significa…
Companies are facing increasing market dynamics in many markets. Rapidly changing consumer behaviour, frequent governmental and legal changes as well as aggressive behaviour by competitors pose an increasing challenge for companies. For internationally operating companies, this is compounded by the heterogeneity of the country markets in which they operate. This heterogeneity must be reflected …
As the world becomes ever more dangerous and our problems more complex and dire, we long for truly distinguished leaders, men and women who deserve our respect and loyalty. Instead, we have suffered far too much bad leadership in recent years. The business media have exposed one scandal after another—criminally greedy CEOs, boards that do little more than rubber-stamp executive whims, compani…