Presents an alternative model of smart powerThe Editors and contributors address the managerial imperative of improving organizational performance within a satisfying workplace environmentPresents managerial skills within new social context
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Language
Place of publication
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung
VIII, 184 p. 1 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
ISBN-13
978-3-319-88732-6 (9783319887326)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-69209-8
Schweitzer Classification
Varda Muhlbauer Ph. D is a senior lecturer in Organizational Behavior at Netanya Academic College. She has worked extensively over many years in teaching, researching, and consulting managerial skills and group work. Her research in the last years has focused on topics such as power-related concepts and gender, the impact of contextual socio-political factors on the practice of management, work-family conflict, and overwork. Among her co-edited books is Working families: Parents in the labor market in Israel (2010, Peles).
Dr Harry is an international business person who has held top management positions in two international banks and two national airlines as well as senior Advisory roles in the oil sector and within government ministries.
Wes has a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business, University of Strathclyde. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Dr Harry is a Visiting Professor at the University of Chester and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at Cass Business School, City University of London.
In the past 3 years Dr Harry has edited books on Smart Management, Managing Sustainably, and contributed chapters on management in East Asia and the macro elements impacting on people management in the Arab region.
Introduction.- The power of change and the need to change power: Changing perception of power in the organizational setting.- The Dynamic of ICT and Smart Power: Implications for Managerial Practice.- Economic growth, management and smart power.- New Ways of Working: From Smart to Shared Power.- Positive Psychological Capital: From strengths to power.- Mapping Smart Power onto the Cardinal Virtues and Cross-Cultural Leadership Dimensions.-Daily creativity at work as a source of well-being and performance - provided it is not managed.- Narcissistic Leadership in Organizations: A Two Edged Sword.-Conclusion: End notes and future actions.
