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Author: Ralph D. Stacey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415351300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book applies complex responsiveness theory to real-life leadership experiences and features reflective contributions from a number of leaders consultants and managers.
Author: Douglas Griffin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-02
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1134266189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book applies complex responsiveness theory to real-life leadership experiences and features reflective contributions from a number of leaders consultants and managers.
Author: Richard J. Sampson
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2020-10-23
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 178892357X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited volume brings together both established and emerging researcher voices from around the world to illustrate how complexity perspectives might contribute to new ways of researching and understanding the psychology of language learners and teachers in situated educational contexts. Chapter authors discuss their own perspectives on researching within a complexity paradigm, exemplified by concrete and original examples from their research histories. Moreover, chapters explore research approaches to a variety of learner and teacher psychological foci of interest in SLA. Examples include: anxiety, classroom group dynamics and group-level motivation, cognition and metacognition, emotions and emotion regulation strategies, learner reticence and silence, motivation, self-concept and willingness to communicate.
Author: Eve Mitleton-Kelly
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780080502335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn January 1995 the first Complexity Seminar was held at the London School of Economics, in the UK. This was quite a momentous occasion as it proved to be the turning point for the series of seminars, which had started in December 1992. That seminar and those that followed it, had a profound effect on the research interests of Eve Mitleton-Kelly, the initiator and organiser of the series and editor of this volume, and thus laid the foundation for what became the LSE Complexity Research Programme, which proceeded to win several research awards for collaborative projects with companies.
Author: Erçetin, ?efika ?ule
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2016-04-21
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 1522501495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept of “chaos”, and chaos theory, though it is a field of study specifically in the field of mathematics with applications in physics, engineering, economics, management, and education, has also recently taken root in the social sciences. As a method of analyzing the way in which the digital age has connected society more than ever, chaos and complexity theory serves as a tactic to tie world events and cope with the information overload that is associated with heightened social connectivity. The Handbook of Research on Chaos and Complexity Theory in the Social Sciences explores the theories of chaos and complexity as applied to a variety of disciplines including political science, organizational and management science, economics, and education. Presenting diverse research-based perspectives on mathematical patterns in the world system, this publication is an essential reference source for scholars, researchers, mathematicians, social theorists, and graduate-level students in a variety of disciplines.
Author: Elizabeth McMillan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-18
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1134379862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAvailable in paperback for the first time, this book describes and considers ideas and insights from complexity science, and examines their use in organizations, especially in bringing about major organizational change.
Author: Kiran Chauhan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-11-29
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1040223133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVirtually everyone accepts that workplaces are complex, but there is little insight into how we might engage with complexity more skilfully. If complexity isn’t something that managers can control and leaders cannot harness, then what does a complexity perspective offer? This fourth book in the complexity series describes how taking complexity seriously can inform approaches to understanding organisations. It focuses on the ways that managers and researchers can engage with their own histories to better understand their working lives, how they may be participating in maintaining the very processes they are trying to change and how research methods can shed light on politics of working together. The chapter authors work in a wide variety of sectors and draw on their experience to produce vibrant writing which will resonate with managers and leaders who want to explore how they might understand their working lives differently, and to students who are using first-person reflexive research methodologies. Drawn from contemporary research in a wide variety of organisations, this book makes a valuable contribution to manager-researchers wanting to think differently about their intractable and enduring everyday dilemmas.
Author: Ralph Stacey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-05-07
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1134210523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fundamental problem of public sector governance relates to the very way of thinking it reflects; where organization is thought of as a ‘thing’, a system designed to deliver what its designers choose. This volume questions that way of thinking and takes a perspective in which organizations are complex responsive processes of relating between people. Bringing together the work of participants on the Doctor of Management program at Hertfordshire University, this book focuses on the move to marketization and managerialism, paying particular attention to human relationships and group dynamics. The contributors provide narrative accounts of their work addressing questions of management, pressures, accountability, responsiveness and traditional systems perspectives. In considering such questions in terms of their daily experience, they explore how the perspective of complex responsive processes assists them in making sense of experience and developing practice. Including an editors’ commentary which introduces and contextualizes these experiences as well as drawing out key themes for further research, this book will be of value to academics, students and practitioners looking for reflective accounts of real life experiences rather than further prescriptions of what organizational life ought to be.
Author: Patricia Shaw
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780415249140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the essential uncertainty of participating in evolving events as they happen, this book considers the creative possibilities of such participation from a complexity perspective.
Author: Stig O. Johannessen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-03-03
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 1000590836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten with pace and clarity, this book is a comprehensive and compact overview and introduction to the research landscape of complexity in organizations. In addition to conveying a gripping history of how complexity has influenced organizational ideas, theories, and practices throughout the 20th century and into our present age, the book sheds light on how ground-breaking ideas in chaos and complexity research have emerged and challenged the very foundations of science into a changed vision of nature, society, and human organizations. As well as being an exciting investigation into complexity research in organizations, the book shows how, in the past, researchers who were immersed in the power politics of their day grappled with the theme of complexity in their quest to understand the dynamics of organization in nature and society. By welding fundamental theoretical themes and practical implications into the political and social contexts in which they emerged, this overview provides both depth and breadth to the history, as well as the future, of studies of complexity in organized activity. The book is a lucid and essential study of a topic that will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of business and management, especially those with an interest in the ways that complexity affects and transforms organizations.
