Learn MANAGEMENT YOUR Way with MGMT! Extensively updated to reflect the latest research in the field, MGMT makes concepts and theories accessible and relevant with timely, interesting examples of their applications at real businesses. Now available with MindTap, the digital learning solution designed to help you think and act like a manager. MGMT's easy-reference, textbook presents course content through visually engaging chapters as well as Chapter Review Cards that consolidate the best revi...

Als er één ding belangrijk is in een mensenhoofd, dan is het wel het willen. Het ware wezen van de mens is zijn wil, zei Schopenhauer. Je bent wat je wilt. In Drijfveren leggen de auteurs uit dat er tussen wat mensen willen en wat ze doen vaak een groot verschil zit. Dat verschil ontstaat door aanpassing en dat doen mensen meestal heel knap, maar soms ook erg onhandig. Aanpassing is comfortabel omdat de sociale druk wegvalt, maar tegelijkertijd oncomfortabel omdat de eigen wil wordt onderdr...

Operations Management provides a framework for addressing operational process and supply chain issues, in an easy-to-understand format. Using a systemized approach, the text focuses on real-life practices and issues of current interest. It also lets you experience the role of a manager through hands-on problems, cases and exercises.

The 14th Edition shows how businesses can respond when faced with the unexpected, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Ukraine–Russia war, and inflation, so you’re ...

Maximize employee performance with this updated edition of the classic bestseller. In Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, renowned thought leader and internationally recognized workplace expert Aubrey Daniels takes a look at today's rapidly changing work environment, providing a timely update to his seminal book on performance management. As one of the foremost speakers and writers in the human performance field, for nearly 40 years D...

A crucial read.' Marshall Goldsmith'A must-read.' Marcus BuckinghamChange and innovation are the cornerstones of dynamic and modern business. Or so we are told. Whether it’s a merger or re-org; a new process, policy, or IT “solution”; or reconfiguring the office layout, change has become the ultimate easy button for leaders, who pursue it with abandon and thereby unleash an endless torrent of disruption on employees.

The result is life in the blender: a perpetual state of upheaval, unce...

This is an exciting and innovative core textbook that focuses on the micro-level analysis of TM as a dynamic capability. Now in its second edition and fully updated throughout, it systematically addresses the major tools and techniques needed for businesses to successfully conduct TM activities. Arguing that there is no single best way to manage technology in a company and there is no mechanistic route to success, this accessible handbook provides a wealth of resources designed to increase th...

Improve your company's ability to avoid or manage crises Managing the Unexpected, Third Edition is a thoroughly revised text that offers an updated look at the groundbreaking ideas explored in the first and second editions.

This definitive, bestselling text in the field of change management provides comprehensive guidance of everything needed to successfully navigate times of change. Making Sense of Change Management provides a thorough and accessible overview for students and practitioners alike. Without relying on assumed knowledge, it comprehensively covers the theories and models of change management and connects them to workable approaches and techniques that organizations of all types and sizes can use to ...

‘Dit soort situaties haal je niet uit boeken. Waar doe je goed aan, en welke stappen moet je daarvoor ondernemen?’ (Edwin van der Sar, over ingrijpen na grensoverschrijdend gedrag bij Ajax, in Het Parool in 2022).

‘Een zware morele afweging voor het bestuur’

(Universiteit Maastricht, over het betalen van losgeld na de cyberhack, in universiteitsblad Observant in 2020)

Besluiten van bestuurders en commissarissen worden niet altijd begrepen, vaak bekritiseerd en soms zelfs amoreel genoe...