Corporate Strategy and Sustainability is a substantially updated, detailed overview of sustainability issues for business and economics students. Built to teach the evolution of the history of sustainability practices, this edition has expanded coverage of social sustainability issues, non-Western perspectives and sustainable supply chains. Rich in cases, these too have been updated to demonstr…
In their book on leading organization transformation, , the authors described a new approach to transforming an organization. In this companion volume, they provide specific guidance for putting their change theory into practice, offering detailed tools, techniques, and step-by-step processes. Dean Anderson is a leader in the field of organization transformation. Linda Ackerman Anderson sparked…
This book is specifically about the interaction of leadership style, mindset and the change processes be - revolutionizes leaders' approach to transformational change. Shattering the myth that transformation can be managed, this book - parts of the Practicing Organization Development series - offers you new direction of thinking and ways of thinking and behaving that are essential for success…
Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work on leading transformational change, and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration: effectively managing operations while seizing new opportunity. Needed more today than at any time in the past, this immensely relevant bo…
Describes the key qualities managers must have to make their companies stronger in a changing market, and discusses the most common mistakes managers make in trying to change their companies
Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process broke fresh ground in the understanding of strategy at a time when thinking about strategy was still in its early days, and it has not been displaced since.”—David J. Hickson, Emeritus Professor of International Management & Organization, University of Bradford School of Management Originally published in 1978, Organizational Strategy, Struc…
Most organizations consist of multiple business and support units, each populated by highly trained, experienced executives. But often the efforts of individual units are not coordinated, resulting in conflicts, lost opportunities, and diminished performance. The authors argue that the responsibility for this critical alignment lies with corporate headquarters. In this book, the authors appl…
This volume deals with the beginning of a new era in the theory of strategic management. New concepts and techniques are developed and the fundamentals of the content and the process of strategic management are questioned in depth. Using a resource-based perspective, the concept of core competence allows a proactive construction of competence, perceives competence as spanning multiple businesse…
Table of Contents : Chapter 1. The Pay Model Chapter 2. Strategic Perspectives Part 1 Internal Alignment: Determining the Structure Chapter 3. Defining Internal Alignment Chapter 4. Job Analysis Chapter 5. Evaluating Work: Job Evaluation Chapter 6. Person-Based Structures Part 2 External Competitiveness: Determining the Pay Level Chapter 7. Defining Competitiveness Chapter 8…