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The fourth edition of Understanding Organizational Behaviour is a comprehensive textbook tailored to meet the needs of postgraduate management students. It has been extensively revised to include new topics, examples, and case studies. The book explores the core concepts and theories of organizational behaviour (OB) through managerial applications. It provides in-depth coverage of the issues and challenges faced by Indian companies in relation to different ...
Organisations in the current global era are confronted with many challenges, which are becoming increasingly complex. In this new economic and social environment, there is an ever-increasing realization that leaders and leadership in an organization enable the organization to meet the challenges. This calls for special initiatives and interventions in leadership development, making it an area of prime focus in Human and Organization Development relevant to the ...
Training of Education Managers examines the various aspect of training. Written for educational managers and particularly, those who train education managers, the book would be equally useful to all those involved in training managers. The book focuses on improving management through training and deals with planning and organizing training, as well as the various methods of training. In recent times, many of these methods have become popular as assessment and ...
Leadership has become very important in the competitive world of today. It is different from management, mainly in its future-orientation and creative approach. Different theories have been suggested to understand leadership. This volume reviews some new theories with practical implications in organisations. The role of crucibles in developing leaders has been explored. Transformational functions of leaders are examined with an emphasis on empowerment through ...
The authors research of many years on changing primary teachers classroom behavior and demonstrating the impact of their changed behaviour on the positive mental health of their pupils is contained in this book. The experiment used the behaviour modification theory by training teachers to give feedback to each other by observing students classroom behaviour every third second. This test was conducted on Bengali speaking children of Kolkata and Tamil speaking ...
Making education relevant to students is the need of the hour. This is best done by knowledge sharing and stimulating experiments. In Asia, education plays an instrumental role in rural development. This book showcases Udai Pareek's experience in shaping special educational programs that have created awareness and led to action in villages.
There is an increasing realization of the importance of culture in organisations. There is always a debate whether organizations can be culture-neutral. Organisations need to leverage the culture in which they work to be effective, removing dysfunctional aspects of culture. Organisations also need to develop appropriate ethos, which is reflected in the values practiced by them. The book discusses in detail the concepts of organizational culture, climate and other ...