Synopsis
This work contains exercises, role-playing simulations and cases, the majority of which were developed in and for management training workshops. The cases represent different industries and organizations from around the world, varying in size, product, service and cultures.
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From the Publisher
New cases studies include:
Donny is My Leader, The Plafab Company: The Performance Appraisal, Task Force, Time for Change at a Suburban Health maintenance Organization, The SLO Corporation Case, The Nomura Securities International Company Case,
The Slade Planting Department Case, Dan Dunwoodies Problem
New activities include:
The Learning Model Instrument, Exploring the Meaning of Leadership,
Donny is My Leader, Three Essential Process Tools for Teams, The Big Five Locator
The experiential approach of this book has, of course, been retained. Students practice what they learn through numerous cases, involvement exercises, roleplays, and applications.
Modular design allows significant instructor freedom in course design.
There's an emphasis on bringing the type of training that supervisors, managers, and executives receive in management development programs to the university classroom.
Two new modules are:
-Organization Culture, Symbolism and Effectiveness
-Stress and the Management of Stress
About the Author
A.B. (Rami) Shani, Ph.D., Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Change at California Polytechnic University, USA, a Senior Research Fellow at the FENIX Centre and an Adjunct Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. His most recent work has focused on the theoretical and application of collaborative research in organizations, creating sustainable work systems, creating the learning organization and, action research methodologies in the pursuit of actionable knowledge creation. He is the co-author or book co-editor of Collaborative Research in Organizations: Foundations for Learning (SAGE,2004), Change and Theoretical Development; Learning by Design (Blackwell, 2003); Creating Sustainable work Systems: Emerging Perspectives and Practice (Routledge, 2003); Behavior in Organizations: An Experiential Approach, 8e (McGraw-Hill-Irwin, 2004); and Parallel Learning Structures: Creating Innovations in Bureaucracies (AW, 1990).
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