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Recently Published: Management Journal

Published on January 11, 2012 in Journal. 0 Comments

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The latest issue of The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management includes:

Sailing: Organizational Change: Forms and Hibrydisms of Post-bureaucratic Organizations by Pierfranco Malizia.
Influencing Skills for Records Managers: An Exploration of the Opportunity to Engage with Business by Rod Dilnutt.
Transformational Leadership, Perceived Organizational Support, and Employee Engagement as Predictors of Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment by Prabhakar Venugopal Gantasala and Ram Padmakumar.
A 21st Century Vision for a Globally Sustainable Organization by Catherine Cook, Diane Deaton, Frank DeCaro and Nicole DeCaro.
The One Hundred Fifty Years of Change in the Music Recording Industry: An Historical and Social Network Analysis by Peter Spang Goodrich, Stan Renard and Nancy Rossiter.
The Systematic Deployment of a Leadership Inventory to an Employee Population by Rick Muller and Margo Karsten.

Organizational Culture, Learning, and Knowledge Management

Published on December 5, 2011 in Book, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Organizational Culture, Learning, and Knowledge Management an edited collection by Jonathan H. Westover is now available from The Organization imprint.

We live in an increasingly hyper-competitive global marketplace, where firms are fighting to stay lean and flexible in an effort to satisfy increasingly diverse and specialized consumer demand around the world. Additionally, with the shifting global economy in recent decades and the emergence of the technology and service-oriented knowledge organizations, how do organizations effectively foster a continuous learning and innovation culture? What can organizational leaders do to promote ongoing organizational learning that will have a measurable impact on increased firm effectiveness and employee productivity? How can organizations more successfully manage organizational knowledge to achieve strategic organizational goals and add value to all organizational stakeholders? These are just some of the pressing questions facing the organizations of today.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive introduction to organizational culture, learning, and knowledge management and explores the wide sweeping impacts for the modern workplace, presenting a wide range of cross-disciplinary research in an organized, clear, and accessible manner. It will be informative to management academics and instructors, while also instructing organizational managers, leaders, and human resource development professionals of all types seeking to understand proven practices and methods to create organizational systems and culture to promote ongoing organizational learning and innovation to drive firm effectiveness in an increasingly competitive global economy.

Jonathan H. Westover is an assistant professor of management at Utah Valley University, specializing in international human resource management and organizational behavior. His ongoing research examines issues of globalization, labor transformation, work-quality characteristics, and the determinants of job satisfaction cross-nationally.

Leading the Creative Mind

Published on November 24, 2011 in Book, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Leading the Creative Mind by Anthony Lake is now available as part of The Organization series.

Bringing together creative people to develop fresh, new, innovative ideas and to propel a business forward is challenging work. It isn’t enough to simply follow policy and procedure, or to gently nudge creative people toward success. It takes strength, courage, and insight into how creative people work, live, and respond.

Creative Leadership expert Anthony Lake unravels the mystery of the creative employee by using simple yet elegant cases in business and the arts to frame this practical guide for Leading the Creative Mind. Born from his executive work with arts organizations, his consulting, and his leadership research, Lake creates a series of exercises designed to strengthen skills for leading creative individuals. The focus is on four key pillars for success:

Reflecting and Engaging Sensitively with Creative People
Designing Effective Creativity Teams
Developing and Addressing Real Challenges
Fixing Ailing Work Groups

This is a guide for keeping inspired, balancing innovation with effective communication, and collaborating from a position of leadership.

Anthony Lake has over two decades of leadership experience in the nonprofit sector, focused specifically on the arts, including as Executive Director of a Tony Award© nominated theater. As a scholar, his recent research on the leadership of creative people and how to teach it has been published in numerous international journals.

Call for Journal Editor

Published on August 30, 2011 in Headline, Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments

The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management seeks an editor, or team of editors, for a one-year term. This is an opportunity to make a significant contribution to what we believe is one of the leading journals in its field, the journal’s associated conference and, more broadly, the knowledge-community which the journal and conference seek to serve.

The roles of the editor are to:

write an introduction for the Journal volume which would be included in the first issue for the year, and possibly on the website, the newsletter and other appropriate places or for the purposes of marketing and promotion.
collate papers addressing a theme of the editor’s choosing into a book, to be launched at the conference at the completion of the editor’s term. The chapters may be drawn from submissions to the journal during this or recent years, and other material as considered appropriate.
actively solicit manuscripts for the Journal from well-known and notable members of the community—these would could be refereed if the author wished, or regarded as ‘invited papers’.
assist the Commissioning Editor with suggestions of supplementary peer reviewers for specific papers (and this will never be burdensome – note that the Commissioning Editor of the Journal finalizes a majority of the peer reviewer requirements based on thematic matching and ‘mutual obligation’ principles in which all author requested to review up to three other papers).
promote the journal throughout their network and other associated networks.
maintain regular communications with the community via periodical blog posts to the community website (which feeds automatically to our email newsletter, Facebook and Twitter).

The editor will be offered a complimentary electronic subscription to the Journal, free copies of the book which they edit, an electronic subscription to the book series as well as complimentary registrations to attend the conferences at the beginning and end of their term.

Qualifications

The Editor of the Journal must possess the following attributes:

They will have successfully obtained higher degree, and have academic teaching and scholarly research experience in an area related to the subject matter of the Journal.
They will have published in this or other comparable scholarly journals.

Applicants are asked to send:

a cover letter outlining their interest and relevant experience, and the ways in which you would propose to enhance the profile of the journal
a curriculum vitae
a special theme outline: a title with paragraph explanation.

Please send applications and supporting documentation to journals@ontheorganization.com

The deadline for applications is 26 September 2011.

Recently Published: Management Journal

Published on August 4, 2011 in Journal. 0 Comments

management

The latest issue of The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management includes: