This Book is Different… Schermerhorn Gives You The Essentials of Management and Organizational Behavior In One Concise and Easy to Use Text! There are management books, and there are organizational behavior books—but this is two books in one! Management and Organizational Behavior Essentials combines the essential theories of both management and organizational behavior to show your students how they can be used to achieve success in the new workplace. Build a solid foundation in both management and organizational behavior with: Complete coverage of current theories, while focusing on applications in today’s work setting. An emphasis on the environmental context, workforce diversity, the global economy, quality and competitive advantage, and managerial ethics, to show students how these factors are interrelated. Effective pedagogical tools including chapter opening study questions, Effective Manager boxes, and point-by-point summaries to help your students learn.

This book deals with organizational discourse and its gender subtexts. The two main research questions guiding this book are: first, according to what notions and patterns are males and females (re)produced within organizational texts, and more crucially, according to what gender subtext is organizational discourse (re)framed? Second, how does this gender subtext discourse influence, change and transform organizational discourse and contribute to the development of a new field or space for organizational research that transgresses mainstream disciplinary borders? In pursuing these questions deconstruct!vely this book stresses on the processes and patterns according to which organizational discourse, and thus, of course, organizational scholars (re)produce gender.

The contributions in this book bring together a representative array of conceptual and methodological approaches in the study of communication, gender, and sex roles. They map out the possible range and terrain of the theme communication, gender, and sex roles in interpersonal, organizational, cultural, and applied interaction contexts.

Analyses thirteen international cases of women in family business to discover how they attained leadership or, sometimes, failed to do so. Foreword by Pru Goward. Barrett, University of Wollongong; Moores, Bond University, Australia.

Offers a real-world, pragmatic guide designed to help emergency department managers efficiently which handle the many complex issues that arise in this challenging clinical environment. This title delivers practical solutions to virtually any problem that may arise in running an emergency department or acute care center.