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Encyclopedia of Creativity
This encyclopaedia provides specific information and guidance for everyone who is searching for greater understanding and inspiration. Subjects include theories of creativity, techniques for enhancing creativity, individuals who have made contributions to creativity.
Dilemmas of Leadership
Leadership, as a way of focusing and motivating a group or organization to achieve its aims, is a much discussed but often misunderstood concept. This comprehensive textbook introduces the subject for Masters level students. Building on the success of the first edition, this text utilises an easy to follow, map-based approach to take the reader on a journey through the various fundamental dilemmas apparent within leadership studies, dilemmas such as: Is a leader born or made? How are tensions between ethical dilemmas and economic self-interest resolved? How does a leader's desire for control balance with the need to empower members of the organization? Student-friendly features new to this edition include a wealth of leadership cases, videos and web-based content regularly updated, so that the book can be studied in the context of the most pressing contemporary leadership issues.
Cross-Cultural Innovation
Cross-cultural means not only the differences between ethnic, racial or national groups. It is more. Cross-cultural confrontations arise by the differences of genders, educational levels, differences in thinking of diverse companies departments (e.g. production versus research & development, marketing versus finance), the mix of musicians or styles of painting. However, there is a lot of danger in cross-cultural collaboration: Diversity means different views, opinions, values and objectives easily generating misunderstandings and quarrels possibly ending up with serious conflicts. The conflicts may trigger new approaches and breakthroughs or lead to a state of frozen relations and stagnation...
The Scale and Scope of Economics
Economics in real time, the new paradigm of growth processes and development from the earliest beginnings. A descriptive analysis.
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Innovation in Organizations
Two factors have focused the attention of policy-makers, researchers and senior managers upon the importance of innovation. First, the increasingly competitive global organizational environment requires that new and improved products, processes and procedures are constantly developed. Secondly, there is widespread recognition that we must use our limited resources in the most efficient and effective way possible.; This special issue focuses on innovation in organizations, in recognition of the primary strategic value of innovation in a rapidly-changing European and global market-place. Psychological perspectives on innovation are particularly important, since innovation ultimately is about h...
Monkeys with Typewriters
A guide to social media for organizations
Discussing and Deciding
Abstract: This book presents insights and research on discussions and discussion groups. The roles of discussion group leaders and members and discussion group procedures are considered. The book is based on four assumptions: 1) every discussion group has a task and can be viewed as a task group ; 2) every discussion group can be viewed as a team ; 3) the discussion team is focused on its task by its leader ; and, 4) any discussion team (members and leader) can improve its work by study and application of sound group discussion methods. Topics include: the basic components of discussion groups, the interactions which takes place in discussion groups, and special techniques applicable to situations in discussion groups.
