"This book evaluates operational strategies and interpersonal skill development for the successful management of modern organizations, highlighting various governance and interaction techniques that assist in mediating organizational controversies"--

A high level of employee commitment holds particular value for organizations owing to its impact on organizational effectiveness and employee well-being. This Handbook provides an up-to-date review of theory and research pertaining to employee commitment in the workplace, outlining its value for...

New ways of managing conflict are increasingly important features of organisational work and employment. Leading scholars in the field examine a range of innovative alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practices, drawing on international research and scholarship and covering both case studies of...

Organisations are rife with paradoxes, evident in persistent and interwoven tensions for example between stability and change, flexibility and control, diversity and inclusion, long term and short term, social and financial, learning and performing. This handbook investigates paradoxes across...

"Time, timing, and temporality are inherently important to organizational process studies, yet time remains an under-theorized construct that has struggled to move much beyond chronological conceptions of "clock" time. Missing from this linear view are ongoing debates about objectivity versus...

Over the last two decades, Routine Dynamics has emerged as an international research community that shares a particular approach to organizational phenomena. At the heart of this approach is an interest in examining the emergence, reproduction, replication and change of routines as recognizable...

This study examines how emotion cannot simply be separated from thinking, judgement, decision making and other so-called rational organizational processes. It shows how feeling and emotion lie at the heart of organizational functioning

This multidisciplinary overview tackles ethics from the viewpoints of critical social theory, practice and implications. Among the issues addressed are equal opportunities environmental responsibility and corporate governance

A collection of real-life stories is brought together in this book about work and organisations in an industrialised society. Many of the stories come from new recruits and university students on work placement