Organizational Innovation and Change

Author: Nigel King
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This book critically introduces the psychology of innovation and change at work. It is a broad and complex topic that spans many traditional fields of psychology. Insights from occupational psychology in organizational innovation and change practices offer significant inspiration for today's managers. Understanding the application of psychological principles, theories, and techniques in these areas can help managers improve their organizational strategies and responsiveness to change. This series is a comprehensive and systematic introduction to organizational development and innovation, primarily aimed at corporate white-collar professionals and management training. It compiles the outstanding achievements of new theories and practices in organizational management that have become popular in Western and Eastern enterprises since the 1990s. The content covers all important areas of organizational management from a psychological perspective, explaining that organizational management and development are based on strategy; have well-designed structures centered on performance; and should seek rapid operation and development in change and innovation. Staff selection, performance evaluation, and team management are the core components of organizational management. The series is characterized by novel perspectives, a compact structure, moderate length, rich case studies, and strong illustrative power. For many years, it has been selected by many famous Western and Eastern companies as their internal training materials, especially for the new generation of Chinese professional managers and managers at all levels in enterprises. It provides intellectual support for learning and popularizing the basic concepts and methods of organizational management, achieving effective organizational management, and upgrading corporate competitiveness. This series is the preferred reading for middle and senior managers, corporate white-collar professionals, teachers and students of management majors, and self-study learners in society to understand and learn organizational management knowledge and conduct organizational training.