Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Companions to Management

While control theory research spans many decades, theoretical limitations have kept it from generating consistent and interpretable empirical findings and from reaching consensus concerning the nature of key relationships. This book sheds light on the long-neglected phenomenon of organizational control and provides important directions for future research.

This must-read edited volume is the first to bring together world-leading researchers to explore the foundations, definitions, research directions, and applications of mindfulness in an organizational context. It will become the standard reference for researchers and professionals wanting to understand, research and enhance mindfulness in organizations.

Drawing on recent theoretical contributions, this Cambridge Companion presents an up-to-date, critical review of talent management within a global context.

This must-read edited volume is the first to bring together world-leading researchers to explore the foundations, definitions, research directions, and applications of mindfulness in an organizational context. It will become the standard reference for researchers and professionals wanting to understand, research and enhance mindfulness in organizations.

Drawing on recent theoretical contributions, this Cambridge Companion presents an up-to-date, critical review of talent management within a global context.

Capitalizing on significant developments in social science over the past twenty years, this book explores both the positive and negative aspects of power, identifying opportunities and threats. It shows how managers and employees can manage power in order to make it a constructive force in organizations.

Downsizing is one of the most frequently used business strategies for reducing costs, returning firms to profit or for restructuring businesses following takeovers, mergers and acquisitions. This book provides a comprehensive overview of downsizing that examines both the strategic and human implications of this process.

Managing employment relations has become an issue of huge strategic importance as businesses struggle to respond to the pace of change in management systems and working practices. Employment Relationships: New Models of White-Collar Work traces developments in employment arrangements drawn from a number of business contexts.

It is only relatively recently that management scholars have turned their attention to the powerful role that social status plays in organizations. This book brings together this important work, showing how a better understanding of status can be used to address problems in a number of different organizational settings.

Pioneers in the field of presenteeism explain how employees who come to work sick can harm wellbeing, disrupt team dynamism, damage productivity, and cost organizations more than absenteeism. Ideal for scholars and graduate students researching human resource management, organization studies, organizational health, and organizational psychology.

While control theory research spans many decades, theoretical limitations have kept it from generating consistent and interpretable empirical findings and from reaching consensus concerning the nature of key relationships. This book sheds light on the long-neglected phenomenon of organizational control and provides important directions for future research.

The globalized nature of modern organizations presents new and intimidating challenges for effective relationship building. This book brings together research findings on organizational trust-building across cultures. Established trust scholars from around the world consider the development and maintenance of trust in a wide variety of organizational settings.

Corporate responsibility has secured the attention of business leaders, governments and NGOs to an unprecedented extent. This book addresses the implications for business of corporate responsibility in the context of globalisation and the social and environmental problems we face today.

Corporate responsibility has secured the attention of business leaders, governments and NGOs to an unprecedented extent. This book addresses the implications for business of corporate responsibility in the context of globalisation and the social and environmental problems we face today.

Capitalizing on significant developments in social science over the past twenty years, this book explores both the positive and negative aspects of power, identifying opportunities and threats. It shows how managers and employees can manage power in order to make it a constructive force in organizations.

Organizational scholars have long been aware that diversity leads to dysfunctional individual, group, and organizational outcomes. What is not well understood is precisely when and why such negative outcomes occur. In Diversity at Work, leading scholars in psychology, sociology, and management present innovative theoretical ways of thinking about organizational diversity.

Managing employment relations has become an issue of huge strategic importance as businesses struggle to respond to the pace of change in management systems and working practices. Employment Relationships: New Models of White-Collar Work traces developments in employment arrangements drawn from a number of business contexts.

Organizational scholars have long been aware that diversity leads to dysfunctional individual, group, and organizational outcomes. What is not well understood is precisely when and why such negative outcomes occur. In Diversity at Work, leading scholars in psychology, sociology, and management present innovative theoretical ways of thinking about organizational diversity.