Regional transformation has emerged as a major topic of research during the past few decades, much of it seeking to understand how a region changes into a zone of conflict or cooperation and how and why some regions remain in perpetual conflict. Although the leading theoretical paradigms of international relations have something to say about regional order, a comprehensive treatment of this sub…
Introducing a new leadership field of the same name, Positive Leadership presents a concise, accessible and practical guide to strategies that can help leaders reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and positively deviant performance. Positive Leadership is based on analyses of organizations that have achieved levels of success that are except…
Reputation management is the most important theme in corporate and organizational communication today. Leading corporate communicators and educators John Doorley and Helio Fred Garcia argue that most CEOs don't actually pay much heed to reputation and this is to their peril. Heads of government and non-profit agencies don't do much better managing the reputation asset, as recent scandals demons…
Globally accepted and written by one of the most foremost authors in the field, this is a necessary read for all managers, human resource workers, and anyone needing to understand and improve their people skills
For courses in Organization Development, Organizational Behavior and Organizational Change. An Experiential Approach to Organization Development provides both a conceptual and experiential approach to the study of Organizational Development with a focus on developing interpersonal skills. It gives students a comprehensive, realistic, innovative, and practical introduction to the field, which ma…
Essential resources for training and HR?professionalsPracticing Organization DevelopmentA Guide for Leading ChangeWilliam J. RothwellJacqueline M. StavrosRoland L. SullivanArielle SullivanEditorsThird editionPracticing Organization Development, Third EditionBuilding on its reputation as the most practical, comprehensive, useful, and clearly written handbook on organization development (OD), thi…
The 2012 ICOI Conference has been established on a global basis. We have received 216 submissions and it’s including Antigua, Australia, Brasil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Indonesia, India, Iran, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa and UAE. Each submission was peer-reviewed by at least two anon…
Chronologically arranged to demonstrate the evolution of ideas, this book explores major issues in public and government organization theory using classical philosophy. Containing over 2000 bibliographic citations, the book covers the influence Plato's ideas and Jesus' teachings on public administration theory, presents Machiavelli as the creator of the modern concept of public administration, …