Elgar Introduction to Organizational Improvisation Theory
Elgar Introduction to Organizational Improvisation Theory

Author: Abrantes, António C.M.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-06-10

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1800370237

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Much has been researched and written about the emergence of improvisation processes within organizational contexts. Although still scarce, research on organizational improvisation has evolved from a jazz and theater metaphor to empirical and conceptual organizational frameworks, creating a consolidated organizational theoretical body. This Elgar Introduction discusses major theoretical advances in organizational improvisation, which the authors view as the process of improvisation that occurs within an organizational context, whether at the individual, team, or organizational level. Grounded in rigorous academic work to date, this book speaks both to scholars interested in developing research on organizational improvisation and to managers who face rapid change with crucial consequences.

Elgar Introduction to Organizational Stress Theories
Elgar Introduction to Organizational Stress Theories

Author: O’Brien, Kimberley E.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-07-19

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 178990983X

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How and why does job stress manifest as negative emotions, disordered thoughts, deleterious behaviors, and physical illness? How can positive outcomes like growth and mastery be encouraged instead? Job stress theories provide insights that guide practical decision making on how to mitigate the negative effects and promote the positive outcomes for organizations and individuals. This book provides a review of empirical research on nearly 100 frameworks and hypotheses regarding job stress, as well as suggestions for the integration and refinement of both popular and overlooked theories.

Elgar Introduction to Designing Organizations
Elgar Introduction to Designing Organizations

Author: Cunha, Miguel P.e.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-09-20

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1803922192

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Presenting the emergence of new organizational designs in a novel way, this insightful book blends theory and practice to examine major trends and directions, the key ideas that underpin organizational design and how these ideas might be applied.

Ironies of Organizational Change
Ironies of Organizational Change

Author: Richard J. Badham

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-05-09

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1786437724

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This unique book provides a novel and challenging framework for understanding and influencing organizational change. It reimagines managing and leading change as the mindful mobilisation of maps, masks and mirrors.

The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations
The Routledge Companion to Improvisation in Organizations

Author: Miguel Pina e Cunha

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-09-20

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 1000933792

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This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of improvisation as a pervasive organizational process, essential in ever-changing business environments. Exploring theories of organizational action as well as contemporary challenges, it highlights improvisation’s rich potential in theory building and practice. The value and relevance of improvisational capabilities and processes in organizations are more apparent than ever: the global pandemic has forced organizations to reinvent themselves and to adapt to dramatic change on a massive scale. This surge in improvised activity starkly illustrates how the capability to improvise is key to organizational resilience: organizations that are able to improvise effectively are better prepared to bounce back and even thrive. From the latest thinking on improvisation in organizations to future avenues for research, this volume demonstrates the rich potential for both theory building and practice and provides a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students in organizational strategy, entrepreneurship, product development, information systems, disaster management, and HRM.

Elgar Introduction to Theories of Organizational Resilience
Elgar Introduction to Theories of Organizational Resilience

Author: Luca Giustiniano

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 178643704X

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With organizational environments becoming more unstable, uncertain and equivocal, the concept of resilience has become increasingly significant for management studies. Resilience connotes organizational, team and individual capacities to absorb external shocks and to learn from them, while simultaneously preparing for and responding to external jolts. This book pinpoints the essential aspects of managerial and organizational resilience and offers insights that stimulate critical thinking. As the concept of resilience is essentially made up of contrasting forces, the volume presents some innovative synthetic interpretation that allows a deeper comprehension of the phenomenon and provides managers and policy-makers with a solid basis for taking their decisions.

Organizational Compassion
Organizational Compassion

Author: Ace Volkmann Simpson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2025-02-12

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1040014399

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Organizational compassion provides a multitude of benefits at individual, team and organizational levels. These encompass heightened positive affect, trust, engagement, loyalty, performance, resilience, and recovery. This important book provides an accessible yet scholarly overview of key academic findings and theories on organizational compassion. It equips readers with tools for reflection, awakening and practical application of compassion within the workplace across dyadic, team and organizational contexts. Historically, compassion work has been largely unacknowledged in official organizational discourse. Yet, wherever there are human beings, there will be suffering; where there is human suffering, one can often find human responses infused with kindness and compassion. This observation holds true across industries, professions, and communities. The book explores the complexities of organizational compassion, analyzing the factors that enhance organizational compassion capabilities, as well as those that make compassion falter and fail. The primary aim of this book is to foster the cultivation of organizational compassion by providing a provocative, stimulating and engaging foray into the academic study of organizational compassion for readers, ranging from undergraduate to postgraduate and executive students, as well as reflective practitioners. In a world marked by suffering and challenges, a research-based understanding and fostering of compassion at work, offers a path towards a better future.

Elgar Introduction to Organizational Paradox Theory
Elgar Introduction to Organizational Paradox Theory

Author: Berti, Marco

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-07-31

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1839101148

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This insightful Elgar Introduction comprises the first effort to provide a succinct overview of the field of organizational paradox theory, exploring contradictions and tensions in organizational settings. By conceptually mapping the field, it offers guidance through the literature on paradox, making space for new interpretations and applications of the concept.

Elgar Introduction to Organizational Discourse Analysis
Elgar Introduction to Organizational Discourse Analysis

Author: Marco Berti

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2017-01-27

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1784717053

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Our knowledge and understanding of organizations is both enabled and constrained by invisible relationship of power that are embedded in the ways in which we act and speak. The notion of discourse has been used by many authors to describe and study these phenomena, and this volume offers a succinct but comprehensive introduction to the vast field of critical organizational discourse analysis. Targeted at graduate and doctoral students, and at non-specialist academic who need to familiarize with the academic debate on the subject, the book harnesses the power of metaphors to describe the many faces of discourse.