People and Organizations

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1. Leadership

   The Operant Model of Effective Supervision

   By Judith L. Komaki

   Series: People and Organizations

   How can managers motivate their employees? After conducting detailed field studies of work groups in settings as diverse as insurance company offices and regatta sailboats, Judith Komaki has identified two key behaviours that seem to distinguish effective from ineffective managers; monitoring...

   Published March 18th 1998 by Routledge
2. A Cognitive Approach to Performance Appraisal

   By Angelo DeNisi

   Series: People and Organizations

   The benefits of performance appraisal in the business world have caused an upsurge of books and programs for use in management, but few of the methods described bother to verify that the underlying psychology on which they are based holds true. Angelo DeNisi has spent 10 years conducting research...

   Published November 13th 1996 by Routledge
3. Role Motivation Theories

   By John B. Miner

   Series: People and Organizations

   Role Motivation Theories is concerned with four types of organisations and what makes them work. The four are not exhaustive of all possible organisational types but they do represent the major forms found in the world today. If we wish to understand organisational functioning in modern society...

   Published October 26th 1994 by Routledge
4. Leadership and Information Processing

   Linking Perceptions and Performance

   By Robert G. Lord, Karen J. Maher

   Series: People and Organizations

   Executive leadership is critically important to understanding the workings and performance of organizations, yet it is a topic that is usually ignored by mainstream leadership research. Leadership and Information Processing provides a much-needed analysis of this crucial element of organizational...

   Published November 17th 1993 by Routledge