The management of meaning in organizations
Slawomir Magala

The Author Slawek Magala is Professor in Organization Theory and HRM at Erasmus University in the Netherlands. Slawek is more than a philosopher. He is a living expert in cross-cultural competence speaking seven languages. Magala is also interested ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Ken Parry

How managers have learnt to lead: Exploring the development of leadership practice
Steve Kempster

The author Steve Kempster is Head of the Business School at the University of Cumbria.  Prior to that he had a long and illustrious career at Lancaster University after commencing life as a surveyor. He is a successful and accomplished ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Ken Parry

A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Leadership
Brad Jackson and Ken Parry

A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Leadership is written in the tradition of the highly popular series begun by Christopher Grey's A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Michael Muchiri

Concept mapping for planning and evaluation
Mary Kane and W Michael K Trochim

The term concept mapping is typically associated with techniques used to identify relationships between concepts and ideas. Students in particular are encouraged to adopt this approach as a useful way to learn (and hopefully understand) their large ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Glen Murphy

What is this thing called leadership? Prominent Australians tell their stories
Neil C Cranston and Lisa Catherine Ehrlich

This book tells the leadership stories of ten prominent Australians -  Tim Costello - CEO of World Vision Australia, Baptist Minister and practising lawyer Christine Nixon - the first female Commissioner of Police in Australia Michael ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Ken Parry

Leadership for the disillusioned: Moving beyond myths and heroes to leading that liberates
Amanda Sinclair

What a great read! Amanda Sinclair, Foundation Professor of Management Diversity and Change at Melbourne Business School, is a well known Australian author, and this book is the latest in her excellent stable of management books. The first ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Ken Parry

People, processes, projects: Harnessing complex socio-technical systems
Errol Lawson (Ed)

Errol Lawson is an adjunct Associate Professor with the Systems Engineering & Evaluation Centre (SEEC) at the University of South Australia. He comes from an illustrious career consulting in systems methodologies, principally with the defence ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Ken Parry

SoulWork: Finding the Work You Love, Loving the Work You Have
Deborah P Bloch, Lee J Richmond

Reviewed by Paul Waight

Managing the Unexpected: Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty (2nd edn)
Karl E Weick and Kathleen M Sutcliffe

High reliability organizations (HROs) research is a prominent body of sociological work originating in the United States concerned with how organization for high performance can be achieved in challenging circumstances where the potential ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by David M Clarke

The Realities of Work
Mike Noon and Paul Blyton

Contemporary workplaces are peopled by high performing, highly committed individuals, bound together into a common cause by a corporate mission enshrined within a strong organisational culture. Workplaces themselves have been 'transformed' by new ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Peter Standen

Toolkit for Organisational Change
Thomas F Cawsey and Gene Deszca

Cawsley and Deszca's Toolkit for Organizational Change provides a fairly 'student friendly' introduction to the processes and techniques of organisational change. The book is structured to support a 12-week, one semester course, and contains eleven ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Marilyn Wells

Ethics in the Workplace: Tools and Tactics for Organizational Transformation
Craig E Johnson

This book takes a practitioner focus to acquainting readers with the nuts and bolts of implementing ethics in the workplace.  This is something of a departure from some of the more academic offerings on this topic that have been produced over ... Full Text of book review- Only $4.50 »

Reviewed by Gian Luca Casali