Bøger af Paul Iles

The focus if this book has two dimensions: theoretical and empirical. The theoretical dimension is concerned with the fitness of an organisation to satisfactorily address processes of transformational change. Such fitness, it will be argued, can be expressed in terms of the coherence (degree of integration) and pathology (condition of ill health) of the organisation being explored.

Written by leading academics, this book provides a comprehensive and critical evaluation of the theory and practice of HRD. This edition has been fully revised throughout and features contemporary case studies, chapter introductions and additional coverage of key debates in the field. It is essential reading for any student of HRD.

Written in a highly accessible style by a small distinguished team, this is a wide--ranging account of the whole subject of management development, underpinned by the most extensive data set ever made available.

The Changing Organization provides a multidisciplinary approach for studying the management of change under conditions of complexity. Single-discipline approaches frequently miss essential elements that reduce the possibility of coherence within a multi-agency organizational setting. Combining a systems and cybernetic 'living system' perspective, Guo, Yolles, Fink, and Iles offer a new agency paradigm designed to model, diagnose and analyse complex, real-world situations. Its capacity to anticipate patterns of behaviour provides useful means by which the origin of crises can be understood, and resolutions reflected upon. Scholars and graduate students in fields as diverse as management, politics, anthropology and psychology will find numerous applications for this book when considering socio-political and organizational change, and it offers an invaluable guide for consultants who may wish to apply advanced techniques of contextual analysis to real-world situations.