Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior

Author: Don Hellriegel

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780324069563

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Organizational Behavior is designed to help students, professionals, and managers develop the competencies and skills that are needed to effectively contribute to an organization. This proven text's strengths lie in its classic research, coverage of contemporary and emerging OB topics, and excellent case selection. Throughout the text, seven core competencies-Managing Self, Managing Diversity, Managing Ethics, Managing Across Cultures, Managing Teams, Managing Communications, and Managing Change-are emphasized and illustrated for the student.

Political Theory Today
Political Theory Today

Author: David Held

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780804718868

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What is the proper subject matter of political theory? What kind of a theory is political theory? Uncertainty about the most appropriate way of answering these questions provides the key rationales for this volume: to provide a comprehensive overview of the central questions and debates in contemporary political thought and to offer guidelines for the reformation of political theory made necessary by the philosophical and substantive problems it faces today. The twelve essays in this book examine some of the classic traditional questions of political theory: the nature of obligation, equality, liberty, the public, the private, democracy, and justice. They also examine questions that relate these notions to a broader framework encompassing the many recent changes in the nation-state, forms of sovereignty, domestic and international law, violence and warfare, and domestic and international political economy. The contributors are leading scholars in political theory from the United States, Europe, and Africa: Samara Amin, Charles Beitz, Antonio Cassese, John Dunn, Jon Elster, David Held, Agnes Heller, Steven Lukes, Iain McLean, Claus Offe, Susan Moller Okin, Onora O'Neill and Ulrich K

Relaciones entre el clima organizacional y la satisfacción laboral
Relaciones entre el clima organizacional y la satisfacción laboral

Author: Margarita Chiang Vega

Publisher: Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Published: 2010-11-02

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 8484684822

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El estudio del clima organizacional aporta conocimientos fundamentales para la comprensión de las relaciones laborales y para la calidad y eficiencia de la acción organizativa. En estos dominios, la influencia de variables actitudinales, tales como la satisfacción laboral y, de ciertas variables personales, como la autoeficacia, pueden tener una acción preponderante sobre la interacción social que se desarrolla entre los distintos actores que componen las organizaciones y por ello, sobre los resultados obtenidos en el trabajo. La aportación más relevante y convergente en estas investigaciones señala que es más probable obtener mejores resultados laborales en: alto desempeño, compromiso o cooperación, cuando las personas se sienten parte de un grupo de trabajo con un clima organizacional satisfactorio, cuando perciben que tienen las competencias adecuadas para desarrollar su trabajo y cuando son recompensadas y reconocidas como agentes significativos de los resultados organizacionales. No sorprende entonces que, la relación de las variables organizacionales y personales esté representando una influencia relevante sobre la dinámica de la vida organizacional. En este libro se desgranan cincuenta años de seguimiento científico sobre esta curiosa relación que se establece entre el clima organizacional y la satisfacción laboral que, aunque de un modo intuitivo pueda parecer obvia, adquiere matices diferentes, pertinentes todos ellos a la singularidad de los diferentes contextos organizativos.

Understanding Computers and Cognition
Understanding Computers and Cognition

Author: Terry Winograd

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780201112979

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Understanding Computers and Cognition presents an important and controversial new approach to understanding what computers do and how their functioning is related to human language, thought, and action. While it is a book about computers, Understanding Computers and Cognition goes beyond the specific issues of what computers can or can't do. It is a broad-ranging discussion exploring the background of understanding in which the discourse about computers and technology takes place. Understanding Computers and Cognition is written for a wide audience, not just those professionals involved in computer design or artificial intelligence. It represents an important contribution to the ongoing discussion about what it means to be a machine, and what it means to be human. Book jacket.

The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

Author: Richard Sennett

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-02-07

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0393078523

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A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of Working In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a bartender turned advertising executive, and many others to call into question the terms of our new economy. In his 1972 classic, The Hidden Injuries of Class (written with Jonathan Cobb), Sennett interviewed a man he called Enrico, a hardworking janitor whose life was structured by a union pay schedule and given meaning by his sacrifices for the future. In this new book-a #1 bestseller in Germany-Sennett explores the contemporary scene characterized by Enrico's son, Rico, whose life is more materially successful, yet whose work lacks long-term commitments or loyalties. Distinguished by Sennett's "combination of broad historical and literary learning and a reporter's willingness to walk into a store or factory [and] strike up a conversation" (New York Times Book Review), this book "challenges the reader to decide whether the flexibility of modern capitalism . . . is merely a fresh form of oppression" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Praise for The Corrosion of Character: "A benchmark for our time."—Daniel Bell "[A]n incredibly insightful book."—William Julius Wilson "[A] remarkable synthesis of acute empirical observation and serious moral reflection."—Richard Rorty "[Sennett] offers abundant fresh insights . . . illuminated by his concern with people's struggle to give meaning to their lives."—[Memphis] Commercial Appeal