2010, ISBN: 9788131506813

PHI Learning. First edition. Softcover. New. Designed to provide health professionals with an integrated theoretical and empirical approach to strategic management through the incorpora… More...

PHI Learning. First edition. Softcover. New. Designed to provide health professionals with an integrated theoretical and empirical approach to strategic management through the incorporation of managerial, behavioural and organizational skills into a consensus model. These concepts are important in health service management from a strategic perspective. This book endeavours to provoke and stimulate professionals to examine the behavioural, professional, environmental and structural factors under-pinning health care management and, thereby, to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to strategic management in health service organizations. The book should be of immense benefit to the students of business management, health care management as well as for those practising in this field. The text covers 13 major management areas: _\_ Strategic management _\_ The middle manager _\_ Managerial effectiveness _\_ Policy and structure _\_ Professional health service organizations _\_ Inter-professional relationships in health care _\_ Change management _\_ Leadership in health service delivery _\_ Motivation and the environment _\_ Strategic involvement _\_ Organizational commitment _\_ Organizational culture and values _\_ Strategic consensus. CONTENTS: Foreword. Preview. Preface. 1. Strategic Management Principles. 2. The Middle Manager in Health Service Provision. 3. Managerial Effectiveness. 4. Organisational Policy & Structure. 5. Professional Health Service Organisations. 6. Inter-Professional Relations. 7. Change Management in Health Service Provision. 8. Leadership for the Future. 9. Motivation for Health Professional Managers. 10. Involvement in Strategy Development in the Health Service. 11. Organisational & Professional Commitment & Its Influence on Health Service Management. 12. Organisational Culture & Its Effect on Health Service Management. 13. Strategic Consensus of Health Service Strategy. 14. An Integrative Approach to Strategic Management in the Health Services: The Consensus Model. Bibliography. Index. Printed Pages: 256., PHI Learning, PHI Learning, 2010. 5th or later edition. Softcover. New. This book is designed to help readers develop and practice the key interpersonal skills necessary for success in today_\™s organizations. Mastery of the concepts and skills contained in this book will help readers. Enhance self-awareness of interpersonal strengths and skills to improve themselves Effectively manage themselves and their relationships Become effective team process facilitators and team builders Improve communication and problem-solving skills Lead and motivate others through coaching, counseling, mentoring, and delegating Apply emotional intelligence to enhance relationships and careers Productively resolve conflicts through ethical decision-making and negotiation Enhance interpersonal influence through politicking, persuasion, and valuing diversity New to the Fifth Edition : Two new chapters : Chapter 4: Applying Emotional Intelligence, and Chapter 7: Communicating Across Cultures Updated research, examples, conceptual material and references Modified exercises in several chapters based on reviewers_\™ recommendations CONTENTS: Preface. Part I: Self-Awareness_\” Chapter 1 Skills: An Introduction. Chapter 2 Self-Awareness: A Point of Departure. Chapter 3 Self-Management: Clarifying Values, Setting Goals, and Planning. Chapter 4 Applying Emotional Intelligence. Part II: Communicating_\” Chapter 5 Sending Interpersonal Messages. Chapter 6 Listening and Reading Nonverbal Messages. Chapter 7 Providing Feedback. Chapter 8 Communicating Across Cultures. Part III: Motivating_\” Chapter 9 Goal Setting. Chapter 10 Coaching, Counseling, and Mentoring. Chapter 11 Empowering People Through Delegation. Part IV: Leading_\” Chapter 12 Politicking. Chapter 13 Persuading. Chapter 14 Applying Leadership Style. Chapter 15 Managing Change. Part V: Teaming_\” Chapter 16 Working with Teams. Chapter 17 Valuing Diversity. Part VI: Problem Solving_\” Chapter 18 Ethical Decision Making. Chapter 19 Creative Problem Solving. Chapter 20 Resolving Conflicts. Chapter 21 Negotiating. Part VII: Integrating Exercises_\” Appendix: Exercise Guidelines and Materials. Index. Printed Pages: 428., PHI Learning, 2010, Wadsworth/Cengage Learning India, 2008. First edition. Softcover. New. * This edition adds discussions of the applicability of organizational theories to the nonprofit sector environment, which enriches the book`s perspective that government and nonprofit organizations have important similarities without ignoring their differences. These comparisons are shown through examples of the environmental, political, social, and economic situational and contextual variables involved in running nonprofits and government organizations. * Chapter 1 examines the applicability on organizational theory to both nonprofits and government organizations. * Chapter 2 is all new, describing the continuum of organizations from private to nonprofit to government and the blurred environment in which organizations overlap "publicness" and "privateness." * The text features an enhanced focus on ethics and technology`s impact on government and nonprofit organizations. * Covers, in depth, fundamental and evolving organizational theories applicable to both nonprofit and governmental organizations. * Explains similarities and differences between the application of theory to management of government, nonprofit, and private organizations. Students increasingly shift careers between government and the nonprofit sector, so understanding similarities and differences between the two is vital for today`s managers. * Addresses the relationship of organizational theories to contemporary topics such as participative management, quality management, strategic planning, performance measurement, organizational reinvention and reengineering, contracting out, organizational ethics, workforce diversity, and the impact and use of new technologies throughout government and nonprofit organizations. * Includes review questions at the end of each chapter. These help students make connections across materials presented in each chapter. * Weaves ethical considerations into each aspect of organization theory, underscoring the inseparable nature of ethical, cultural, and organizational values for the government and nonprofit organizations we create and inhabit.1. Varieties of Organization Research and Theory. 2. Blurring Sectors: Public and Private. 3. The Pivotal Controversies. 4. Structure. 5. Communication. 6. Accountability and Transparency. 7. Decision Making. 8. Motivation and Organizational Culture. 9. Leadership. 10. Change and Stability. Printed Pages: 432., Wadsworth/Cengage Learning India, 2008<

2009, ISBN: 9788131506813

Cengage Learning India, 2009. First edition. Softcover. New. Strategic Management Accounting: Theory and Practice provides a broad social science framework to understand the subject of … More...

Cengage Learning India, 2009. First edition. Softcover. New. Strategic Management Accounting: Theory and Practice provides a broad social science framework to understand the subject of management accounting in organizational contexts. The framework would help the student understand the relationships between management accounting, organizations, and society. It is argued that such an understanding would help the student in pursuing meaningful research to generate knowledge useful to improve the practice of accounting. The book also provides the latest techniques of strategic management accounting incorporating results of several years of research. They represent the state of the market technology of strategic management accounting. A large number of exhibits have been incorporated to enrich understanding of these techniques. Each of these techniques is presented in a comprehensive manner to enhance understanding of relevant technical details and ends with a discussion on the related contemporary issues. First of its kind by an Indian author, the book is written for post-graduate and research students in the area of accounting, finance, and Control. It is also useful to those who are working in the Industry. Tables of Contents:- Accounting Research, Theory Construction, and Knowledge Generation 2. Positive Accounting Theory 3. Agency Theory Implications for Management Accounting 4. Critical Theory For Understanding and Changing Management Accounting Systems 5. Contingency Theory For Designing Management Accounting and Control Systems 6. The Practice of Management Accounting 7. Strategic Management Accounting 8. Activity Based Costing: A Tool for Activity Based Management 9. Target Costing: An Approach for Strategic Management Accounting 10. Life Cycle Costing: A Tool for Strategic Management Accounting 11.Quality Cost Management Printed Pages: 400., Cengage Learning India, 2009, Wadsworth/Cengage Learning India, 2008. First edition. Softcover. New. * This edition adds discussions of the applicability of organizational theories to the nonprofit sector environment, which enriches the book`s perspective that government and nonprofit organizations have important similarities without ignoring their differences. These comparisons are shown through examples of the environmental, political, social, and economic situational and contextual variables involved in running nonprofits and government organizations. * Chapter 1 examines the applicability on organizational theory to both nonprofits and government organizations. * Chapter 2 is all new, describing the continuum of organizations from private to nonprofit to government and the blurred environment in which organizations overlap "publicness" and "privateness." * The text features an enhanced focus on ethics and technology`s impact on government and nonprofit organizations. * Covers, in depth, fundamental and evolving organizational theories applicable to both nonprofit and governmental organizations. * Explains similarities and differences between the application of theory to management of government, nonprofit, and private organizations. Students increasingly shift careers between government and the nonprofit sector, so understanding similarities and differences between the two is vital for today`s managers. * Addresses the relationship of organizational theories to contemporary topics such as participative management, quality management, strategic planning, performance measurement, organizational reinvention and reengineering, contracting out, organizational ethics, workforce diversity, and the impact and use of new technologies throughout government and nonprofit organizations. * Includes review questions at the end of each chapter. These help students make connections across materials presented in each chapter. * Weaves ethical considerations into each aspect of organization theory, underscoring the inseparable nature of ethical, cultural, and organizational values for the government and nonprofit organizations we create and inhabit.1. Varieties of Organization Research and Theory. 2. Blurring Sectors: Public and Private. 3. The Pivotal Controversies. 4. Structure. 5. Communication. 6. Accountability and Transparency. 7. Decision Making. 8. Motivation and Organizational Culture. 9. Leadership. 10. Change and Stability. Printed Pages: 432., Wadsworth/Cengage Learning India, 2008<

2008, ISBN: 9788131506813

Wadsworth/Cengage Learning India, 2008. First edition. Softcover. New. * This edition adds discussions of the applicability of organizational theories to the nonprofit sector environmen… More...

Wadsworth/Cengage Learning India, 2008. First edition. Softcover. New. * This edition adds discussions of the applicability of organizational theories to the nonprofit sector environment, which enriches the book`s perspective that government and nonprofit organizations have important similarities without ignoring their differences. These comparisons are shown through examples of the environmental, political, social, and economic situational and contextual variables involved in running nonprofits and government organizations. * Chapter 1 examines the applicability on organizational theory to both nonprofits and government organizations. * Chapter 2 is all new, describing the continuum of organizations from private to nonprofit to government and the blurred environment in which organizations overlap "publicness" and "privateness." * The text features an enhanced focus on ethics and technology`s impact on government and nonprofit organizations. * Covers, in depth, fundamental and evolving organizational theories applicable to both nonprofit and governmental organizations. * Explains similarities and differences between the application of theory to management of government, nonprofit, and private organizations. Students increasingly shift careers between government and the nonprofit sector, so understanding similarities and differences between the two is vital for today`s managers. * Addresses the relationship of organizational theories to contemporary topics such as participative management, quality management, strategic planning, performance measurement, organizational reinvention and reengineering, contracting out, organizational ethics, workforce diversity, and the impact and use of new technologies throughout government and nonprofit organizations. * Includes review questions at the end of each chapter. These help students make connections across materials presented in each chapter. * Weaves ethical considerations into each aspect of organization theory, underscoring the inseparable nature of ethical, cultural, and organizational values for the government and nonprofit organizations we create and inhabit.1. Varieties of Organization Research and Theory. 2. Blurring Sectors: Public and Private. 3. The Pivotal Controversies. 4. Structure. 5. Communication. 6. Accountability and Transparency. 7. Decision Making. 8. Motivation and Organizational Culture. 9. Leadership. 10. Change and Stability. Printed Pages: 432., Wadsworth/Cengage Learning India, 2008<

2008, ISBN: 9788131506813

Wadsworth/Cengage Learning India, 2008. First edition. Softcover. New. * This edition adds discussions of the applicability of organizational theories to the nonprofit sector environmen… More...

Wadsworth/Cengage Learning India, 2008. First edition. Softcover. New. * This edition adds discussions of the applicability of organizational theories to the nonprofit sector environment, which enriches the book`s perspective that government and nonprofit organizations have important similarities without ignoring their differences. These comparisons are shown through examples of the environmental, political, social, and economic situational and contextual variables involved in running nonprofits and government organizations. * Chapter 1 examines the applicability on organizational theory to both nonprofits and government organizations. * Chapter 2 is all new, describing the continuum of organizations from private to nonprofit to government and the blurred environment in which organizations overlap "publicness" and "privateness." * The text features an enhanced focus on ethics and technology`s impact on government and nonprofit organizations. * Covers, in depth, fundamental and evolving organizational theories applicable to both nonprofit and governmental organizations. * Explains similarities and differences between the application of theory to management of government, nonprofit, and private organizations. Students increasingly shift careers between government and the nonprofit sector, so understanding similarities and differences between the two is vital for today`s managers. * Addresses the relationship of organizational theories to contemporary topics such as participative management, quality management, strategic planning, performance measurement, organizational reinvention and reengineering, contracting out, organizational ethics, workforce diversity, and the impact and use of new technologies throughout government and nonprofit organizations. * Includes review questions at the end of each chapter. These help students make connections across materials presented in each chapter. * Weaves ethical considerations into each aspect of organization theory, underscoring the inseparable nature of ethical, cultural, and organizational values for the government and nonprofit organizations we create and inhabit.1. Varieties of Organization Research and Theory. 2. Blurring Sectors: Public and Private. 3. The Pivotal Controversies. 4. Structure. 5. Communication. 6. Accountability and Transparency. 7. Decision Making. 8. Motivation and Organizational Culture. 9. Leadership. 10. Change and Stability. Printed Pages: 432., Wadsworth/Cengage Learning India, 2008<