By Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton
Whether you are looking for a few good tips to keep a good thing going or need to recapture the very essence of a productive workplace, this book will help. It provides valuable lessons nestled among the pages of a clever and compelling story.
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This Guide from the Royal Society for Public Health in partnership with the National Social Marketing Centre, seeks to promote use of the best methods of promoting health. It uses the latest understanding of how support can be given to people to make healthy choices as individuals within the social and environmental contexts in which they live.
By David Boyle and Michael Harris
Co-production as a new way of thinking about public services has the potential to deliver a major shift in the way we provide health, education, policing and other services, in ways that make them much more effective, more efficient, and so more sustainable.
This report from the Young Foundation and the IDeA highlights that promoting and influencing happiness is no longer just an aspiration. As the recession forces difficult public spending choices, services focused on wellbeing are delivering widespread economic and social benefits, especially to children.
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Recent local government reorganizations involving the creation of unitary authorities has provided a wealth of learning about managing people in situations of radical change. This report summarises the key learning points.
By Graeme Salaman and David Asch.
This book helps managers to make sense of the competing advice on how to change organisations in order to improve their effectiveness. It also helps managers to understand how their organisations’ performance could be improved.
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By John Storey and Graeme Salaman.
A major reason for the failure to anticipate and warn is that observers of organizations usually tend to view organizations in terms similar to those employed by the people who run them: as rational, sensible and objective. Whereas, in fact, they are usually confused and confusing, paradoxical and contradictory entities. Paradox is at the heart of how organizations work (or don’t work) yet the phenomenon has been strangely unstudied.
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I have seen the problem, and it’s me. We all use subtle psychological processes to conceal our true motivations and intentions, even from ourselves. This practice leads to an endless cycle of self-justification. This book shows readers how to tap into and act on our innate sense of what’s truly right versus what we deceive ourselves into believing is right.
By Stephen Little, Paul Quintas and Tim Ray
Knowledge management is crucial to organizational learning, innovation and success within organizations. The Second Edition of the successful knowledge management reader provides a core source of key theoretical thinkers in the field and presents the most up-to-date leading-edge articles that explore emerging trends. A comprehensive introduction places these readings in context and draws together key strands across the field.
This survey by the Audit Commission reveals the impact of the recession on demand for benefits and how councils are responding.
Caseloads increased by 7.1 per cent in all types of council and all regions between April 2008 and April 2009. The increases ranged from 0.2 to 28 per cent.
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