Download or read book Organisation Development and Transformation in South Africa written by Marius Meyer and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2004 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fresh Perspectives Human Resource Mangement UJ Custom Publication written by and published by Pearson South Africa. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organizational Behavior written by Stephen P. Robbins and published by Pearson South Africa. This book was released on 2009 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robbins/Judge provide the research you want in the language your students understand; accompanied with the best selling self-assessment software, SAL. Some topics include management functions; the social sciences; helping employees balance work and other responsibilities; improving people skills; improving customer service; motivational concepts; communication; power and politics; conflict and negotiation; culture; and stress management. Globally accepted and written by one of the most foremost authors in the field, this is a necessary read for all managers, human resource workers, and anyone needing to understand and improve their people skills.
Download or read book Creating Opportunities for Change and Organization Development in Southern Africa written by Dalitso Samson Sulamoyo and published by IAP. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the position that successful OD applications in cross-cultural settings are predicated on the ability of OD experts to localize them for purposes of suiting local conditions and context. Cultural frameworks have been utilized by global OD experts to understand the general cultural settings of environments in which they are working and applying OD techniques. However, the complexities of culture within organizations, communities and countries may not always be understood within these cultural frameworks and models. Assumptions of culture based or reliant on models alone can impede the successful applications of OD. The author discusses the role of cultural translations of OD techniques within a southern African context. It examines the approach of western consultants in a southern African environment as well as the approach of local southern African consultants as they interact with western developed OD applications in their own local environments. The book uses three methods for conveying the opportunities and experience of OD in southern Africa: research, practitioner point of view, and storytelling. The author recognizes the works of renowned African scholars in the field of management as well OD practitioners carrying out innovative and pioneering work in southern Africa. Their work may not have had much exposure in the West; however, their contributions to the field of management should be recognized. OD is discussed in this book as an opportunity for change and development for southern African countries that are in democratic transitions, post conflict environments and on a path of development. The future of OD is explored within the context of economical, global and political emerging issues. The time is right for change and development in southern Africa with OD as the driving force.
Download or read book Organisational Change Development and Transformation written by Dianne Waddell and published by Cengage AU. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change Management is a crucial process for gaining the competitive advantage that is the goal of many organisations. Leaders and change agents are often faced with conflicting challenges of motivating and understanding increasingly diverse workforces, accounting to stakeholders and planning for the future in a chaotic environment. Organisation Change: Development and Transformation, 7e takes both an organisational development and transformational approach to change, to reflect the environment of change faced by organisations today. With the field of organisational change continuing to evolve, especially in an international context, future directions of change management are also discussed. To emphasise the relationship between theory to practice, this text provides 10 local and international case studies, practitioner vignettes and a suite of online cases supported by a case matrix.
Download or read book The Learning School written by Sue Davidoff and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the challenge of developing effective schools in this daunting yet exciting period of transformation in South Africa, this book aims to provide some insights and guidelines on how to proceed with school development. The values at the heart of this book are those central to a democratic South Africa and include the exercise of basic human rights by all individuals, a fair distribution of resources, participative decision making, access to necessary information on the part of people affected, and accountability on the part of those in authority. This is a handbook for principals, teachers, and other persons or groups interested in the holistic development of schools--particularly within the context of a developing South Africa.
Download or read book Organisational Change Development written by Rica Viljoen and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organisational Change & Development (OCD) is designed to capture leading-edge thinking about OCD in organisations as it merges with traditional African wisdom. It manifests in issues that differ from organisational effectiveness efforts to a highly individualised craft of catalyst practitioner. In an attempt to provide a solid conceptualisation of the field of study, a framework of inclusivity that can be followed, case studies and OCD methodologies, this book strives to combine some of the practices into reality.The book concludes with a chapter that studies international trends in organisational change and development. The assumptions of the evolving field of consulting psychology are incorporated. The multi-cultural nature of the new world of work and the increasingly diverse settings of organisations of the future ask for higher levels of complexity handling ability, systems thinking ability and the ability to be authentic.Content includes: Organisational change and development in the new world of work Organisational change and development methodologies Change models and approaches Human reactions to change Alternative organisational change and development interventions and modalities Value circles as a way of creating inclusivity in emerging economies Measuring the effectiveness of organisational change and development Building strategic architecture Creating radical organisational transformation through translation of strategy Organisational change and development in the next decade
Download or read book Fundamentals of Organisation Development and Change Management written by Nico Martins and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business as usual' is not a sustainable strategy in the 21st-century workplace. Organisations have to adapt in order to thrive in the contexts of a transforming South Africa and increasing exposure to the global economy. South African and African organisations need interventions based on international knowledge and best practices but supplemented with African research and application.
Download or read book Organisational Change written by Dianne Waddell and published by Cengage AU. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change Management is a crucial process for gaining the competitive advantage that is the goal of many organisations. Leaders and change agents are often faced with conflicting challenges of motivating and understanding increasingly diverse workforces, accounting to stakeholders and planning for the future in a chaotic environment. Comprising 12 chapters in 6 parts, the text opens with an explanation of the environment of change faced by organisations today. It then deals with managing organisational development, which is a planned process of change which is often subject to the incursions of organisational transformation, a more dramatic and unpredictable type of change. With the field of organisational change continuing to evolve, especially in an international context, future directions of change management are also discussed. Finally, to emphasise the relationship between theory to practice, Organisational Change: Development and Transformation 6e provides 10 local and international case studies and a suite of online cases supported by a case matrix. Case studies, exercises and support material present the challenges of change management in a real-life manner - examining issues from a variety of viewpoints.
Download or read book Organisation Development written by and published by Van Schaik Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Organization Development written by Therese F. Yaeger and published by IAP. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to address one of the most rapidly growing and important areas in the field of organization development. Despite its importance, relatively little is known about international and global organization development. This book is designed to summarize and apply the existing knowledge in international and global organization development in such a fashion as to provide insight, knowledge, and application in a way that is most helpful to the organization development professional who is interested in, or working in, the field. The book incorporates models of cultural differences, which are identified and expanded in terms of the implications for the practice of organization development. (1) It explores cultural values in terms of differences in resistance to change, the nature of leadership roles, organizational structure and the application of such organization development techniques as team building, survey feedback, job redesign, and large group methods. (2) It explore successes in both developed and developing countries. (3) It provides a list of competencies both for basic knowledge and skills and their extension to international work. It explores the match between organization development interventions and national cultural values. (4) It explores the role of economic development and legal and political structures for global organization development practitioners. It deals with the issue of culture specific versus universal organization development techniques. (5) It incorporates stories from pioneers in the field as well as more recent members of the organization development community. (6) It uses illustrations from award-winning international projects. (7) It draws on a substantial amount of work undertaken by the authors including over one hundred interviews with leading organization development professionals, surveys of organization development professionals, articles and books on international/global organization development and the authors’ own international research including an award winning international case.
Download or read book Managing Organisational Behaviour written by William Fox and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing organisational behaviour not only critically examines organisational behaviour in contemporary South African institutions (including the Public Service) but relates that behaviour to relevant chaos and quantum complexity theories.
Download or read book Change Leadership in Developing Countries written by Franca Ovadje and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine in 2014! In Change Leadership for Developing Countries, Franca Ovadje offers readers a comprehensive and integrative model for the design, implementation and evaluation of organizational change. This unique book embodies an African perspective, discussing the specific needs and issues associated with leading change within the institutional, economic, social, and cultural contexts of developing economies. Based on extensive research, as well as the first-hand experiences of managers who have led change initiatives in Africa, this book envisions a change leadership model based on conscious decision-making, rather than taking a prescriptive approach. With examples and case studies drawn from African organizations, this book is a vital tool for students and managers who are based in, or interact with, emerging economies.
Download or read book Why Hospitals Fail written by Prasad Godbole and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the current wider political, social and economic context of hospitals in the public and private sector globally and identifies the push and pull tension between the demands of the quality regulator and the requirements of health care commissioning processes. This book draws on the evidence of what works to improve the quality of hospital services in the development of medical and clinical leadership models. The book seeks to develop a specific paradigm shift in understanding the development of medical leaders by promoting a culture of engagement through participation and one that is defined by the experiences of medical leaders. The editors examine new and emergent models of leadership and their contribution to explain effective and sustainable change and suggest that theoretical models of leadership are often unable to explain many of the practice led challenges presented in hospitals. It will be useful reading for specialists seeking to develop their own learning as a leader and who identify their learning needs.
Download or read book Organizational development project of the Independent Development Trust IDT written by Daniel Reger and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,30, International School of Management, Campus Munich, language: English, abstract: The independent development trust (IDT) is a company, which supports the government in the implementation management of integrated social infrastructure and social development programmes in South Africa (IDT 2018). To ensure the full execution of their mandate, they are seeking for a re-organization of all internal processes. The scope of the transformation process will include the current service delivery model and strategy, the organizational structure and the human resource strategy. For the successful fulfilment it is essential to analyse the status quo and to define the aims of this project. To improve a company sustainable through a change process it is important to consider the three key success points structure, process and culture before beginning with the change process.
Download or read book Medical Leadership written by Jill Aylott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s health care systems need doctors and consultants to act as leaders, within the multi-disciplinary team, in addition to carrying out their clinical role. This book identifies the key elements of successful leadership through 'medically led' service development and systems transformation and shows how this benefits patient care, particularly when patients become partners in the process. The authors provide a conceptual framework of medical leadership and a set of scientific methods and tools that make a significant contribution to advancing quality and transforming services in healthcare. On top of this, they present analytical tools which medical professionals can use to support their own improvement or system transformation strategy, including ways of measuring improvement and the returns on investment of medical leadership. Woven throughout the book are real-life case studies from medical leaders across the world, providing students with valuable practical insights. Chapter summaries and reflections are provided to support learning. Medical Leadership will be essential reading for students on medical and clinical leadership courses internationally as well as for all practising doctors, consultants and General Practitioners.
Download or read book Theorising the Practice of Community Development written by Peter Westoby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on 25 years of community development practice, six of which have been lived in South Africa, Peter Westoby’s ground-breaking monograph moves away from dominant normative accounts of community development to provide an appreciative and critical analysis of concrete examples of community development theory and practice. By examining community development stories as experienced on the ground, Westoby is able to show how the poor are organising themselves using various forms of community development as well as demonstrating how the state and non-state actors are attempting to organise, engage or accompany the poor through community development. The book also breaks new ground in theorising the practice of community development, drawing inductively from the stories analysed. The diversity of South African contexts and the proliferation of different kinds of community practice, make this a hugely difficult task. Despite this, Westoby argues it is one worth undertaking given the seriousness of the challenges facing the poor and progressive social change agents within South Africa. In this undertaking, Westoby draws upon a unique analytical framework to help illuminate current community development policy and programme challenges, along with practice dilemmas and wisdom.
