This open access book examines the economic, social, and psychological consequences of manufacturing plant closure at the individual level. Using an original data set of over 1,200 workers from Switzerland who lost their manufacturing jobs after the financial crisis of 2008, the author analyzes...

A collection of short, bite-sized nuggets of insight into the psychological ups and downs of the leadership journey from one of the world’s top thinkers on leadership. Leadership often means living on the edge, living a life less ordinary, leaving the straight and narrow to take a more...

This book is the second edition of Well-being: Productivity and Happiness at Work that shows how to improve well-being in organizations. As with its predecessor, this new edition is remarkably timely. It explores the latest findings in the research on wellbeing and offers practical guidelines to...

Using an experimental approach, Maximilian Eberl evaluates the role of implicit learning (CBM/AAT) for the modification of organizational routines. Taking a vertical perspective on the (collective) entities in organizations shows an increasing role of impulsive processes the lower the level...

In this book, the functions and dynamics of enterprises are explained with the use of anthropological methods. The chapters are based on anthropological research that has continued mainly as an inter-university research project, which is named Keiei Jinruigaku, of the National Museum of...

‘In this work, Crystal Davis pulls together some of the keenest minds in the field of Servant Leadership. While many have a vague idea of what it looks like to be in service in the workplace and beyond, this book puts meat on the bones with focus, scholarship and heart. Davis’ contribution...

Dieses essential zeigt, wie Sie mit Sprache Umbrüche meistern und neue Ideen entwickeln. Denken ist ein kreativer Umgang mit Bedeutungen. Die Verfahren für Ideenspielräume: definieren, abstrahieren, metaphorisieren, negieren, rahmen („framing“) sowie argumentieren, erzählen, beschreiben....

Die Digitalisierung prägt zunehmend unsere Arbeitswelt. Neue Technologien und der demographische Wandel haben die Arbeitswelt radikal verändert und neue Anforderungen geschaffen. Rund um die vier Schwerpunktthemen: Trends, Arbeitsraum, Menschen und Kompetenzen schildern renommierte Experten...

Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit den vielschichtigen und vieldimensionalen Wirkungen, die Trauma in der Arbeitswelt haben kann und hat und greift damit erstmals ein Thema auf, das so in der Öffentlichkeit noch nicht diskutiert worden ist. Dabei betrachten die Autorinnen und Autoren aus...

Scott Donaldson, Stanley Siegel and Gary Donaldson interview many of the world's most influential chief technology officers in CTOs at Work, offering a brand-new companion volume to the highly acclaimed elite At Work books including Coders at Work, CIOS at Work and Venture Capitalists at Work....