This comprehensive study provides a perceptive portrait of workplace employment relations in Britain and France using comparable data from two large-scale surveys: the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) and the French Enquête Relations Professionnelles et Négociations...

What are organizations? What is their point? How should one design successful organizations? Although these questions have been treated by many authors in many different ways, this book offers a new perspective. In a nutshell, the book combines cybernetics, social systems theory and...

Introducing Organizations as Social Systems Conducting Experiments -- Introducing Organizations as Social Systems Conducting Experiments -- The experimental and social arche of organizations -- The Experimental Arche: Ashby’s Cybernetics -- The Experimental Arche Continued: Von Foerster on...

‘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...

Interessenkonflikte um Macht und Geld, kulturelle Unterschiede, persönliche Hoffnungen und Ängste der Führungskräfte und Mitarbeiter rufen besonders bei Veränderungsprozessen und Fusionen „emotionale Viren“ in Unternehmen hervor, die eine „mentale Verschmutzung“ nach sich ziehen....

Einleitung -- Mein Auftritt -- Meine Wirkung -- Meine Resonanz -- Meine Präsenz -- Der Herz-Kompass -- Die Fitmacher – „Quick Wins“ für Führungskräfte -- Digitalisierung – Einfluss auf Menschlichkeit 5.0 -- Die Performer-Methode – Eine kleine Einführung -- Fazit.