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Recent titles in the library (Management, 20 November 2008)

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

old books

The board book : an insider’s guide for directors and trustees / William G. Bowen.

The effective executive / Peter F. Drucker.

The manager’s desk reference / Cynthia Berryman-Fink and Charles B. Fink.

Working with difficult people / William Lundin, Kathleen Lundin, and Michael S. Dobson.

Managing conflict with direct reports / Barbara Popejoy and Brenda J. McManigle.

Managing crises : expert solutions to everyday challenges.

The secret language of leadership : how leaders inspire action through narrative / Stephen Denning.

Trade up! : five steps for redesigning your leadership and life from the inside out / Rayona Sharpnack.

How to become a better negotiator / Richard A. Luecke, James G. Patterson.

Corporate reputation : 12 steps to safeguarding and recovering reputation / Leslie Gaines-Ross.

Generation blend : managing across the technology age gap / Rob Salkowitz.

How to form a team : five keys to high performance / Kim Kanaga and Michael E. Kossler.

Team workout : a trainer’s sourcebook of 50 team-building games and activities / Glenn Parker, Richard Kropp.

How to succeed in business using LinkedIn : making connections and capturing opportunities on the Web’s #1 business networking site / Eric Butow and Kathleen Taylor.

The accidental entrepreneur : 50 things I wish someone had told me about starting a business / Susan Urquhart-Brown.

High performance with high integrity / Ben W. Heineman, Jr.

In the land of difficult people : 24 timeless tales reveal how to tame beasts at work / Terrence L. Gargiulo and Gini Graham Scott illustrations by Ron Dias.

Surviving the workplace : a guide to emotional well-being / Ashley Weinberg and Cary Cooper.

Managing conflict with your boss / Davida Sharpe and Elinor Johnson.

Harvard business review on talent management.

The rookie manager : a guide to surviving your first year in management / Joseph T. Straub.

A manager’s guide to coaching : simple and effective ways to get the best out of your employees / Brian Emerson & Ann Loehr.

Managing your mouth : an owner’s manual for your most important business asset / Robert L. Genua.

From difficult to disturbed : understanding and managing dysfunctional employees / Laurence Miller.

Goal setting : how to create an action plan and achieve your goals / Susan B. Wilson and Michael S. Dobson.

Enjoy! : 101 ways to add fun to your work every day / Gini Graham Scott.

The EQ interview : finding employees with high emotional intelligence / Adele B. Lynn.

Leadership : a critical text / Simon Western.

Please send any new title suggestions in this area to Cristina Ghiculescu at c.ghiculescu@library.uq.edu.au

Recent titles in the library (Management, 5 November 2008)

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

tired of reading

Against the machine : being human in the age of the electronic mob / Lee Siegel.

Economic approaches to organizations / Sytse Douma, Hein Schreuder.

Growing the virtual workplace : the integrative value proposition for telework / Alain Verbeke … [et al.].

How to manage in a flat world : get connected to your team : wherever they are / Susan Bloch and Phillip Whiteley.

Managerial accounting / Ray H. Garrison, Eric W. Noreen, Peter C. Brewer.

Setting up shop : the complete step-by-step guide to starting, buying and running a successful retail business in Australia / John Stanley.

Trends in business and economic ethics [electronic resource] / by Michaela Haase, Christopher Cowton.

Where do all the paperclips go– and 127 other business and career conundrums / by Steve Coomber & Marc Woods.

Why women mean business : understanding the emergence of our next economic revolution / Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland.

Emotional intelligence : theoretical and cultural perspectives / Robert J. Emmerling, Vinod K. Shanwal and Manas K. Mandal, editors.

Beyond good company : next generation corporate citizenship / Bradley K. Googins, Philip H. Mirvis, and Steven A. Rochlin.

Entrepreneurship in emerging regions around the world : theory, evidence and implications / edited by Phillip H. Phan, Sankaran Venkataraman and S. Ramakrishna Velamuri.

Fuzzy logic for business, finance, and management / George Bojadziev, Maria Bojadziev.

Good governance for nonprofits : developing principles and policies for an effective board / Fredric L. Laughlin, Robert C. Andringa.

The influence of culture in the world of business / Michael B. Hinner (ed.).

Making sense of project realities : theory, practice and the pursuit of performance / Charles Smith.

The necessary revolution : how individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world / Peter Senge … [et al.].

Power points! : how to design and deliver presentations that sizzle and sell / Harry Mills.

A theory of organizing / Barbara Czarniawska.

Leadership for business success / by Rodney Overton.

Manual of employment interviewing / by Frances S. Drake

Diversity management / by Carolyn Dickie & Zhanna Soldan.

Journal of global business and technology [electronic resource]

Journal of organizational culture, communication and conflict [electronic resource]

Journal of international business research [electronic resource]

Journal of enterprising communities [electronic resource] : people and places in the global economy.

Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies [electronic resource].

International journal of entrepreneurship [electronic resource].

Recent titles in the library (Management, 14 October 2008)

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

reading

The CEO within : why inside outsiders are the key to succession / Joseph L. Bower.

Discussing performance [videorecording] / written, produced and directed by Cathy Beitz, Tracy Riddiford.

Financial intelligence for HR professionals : what you really need to know about the numbers / Karen Berman, Joe Knight with John Case.

Leadership in public organizations : an introduction / Montgomery Van Wart with Paul Suino.

Managing executive health : personal and corporate strategies for sustained success / James Campbell Quick … [et al.].

Meta-organizations / Goran Ahrne and Nils Brunsson.

What do leaders really do? : getting under the skin of what makes a great leader tick / Jeff Grout and Liz Fisher.

The business of climate change : corporate responses to Kyoto. / edited by Kathryn Begg, Frans van der Woerd, and David Levy.

The global competition for talent [electronic resource] : mobility of the highly skilled.

Organizational behaviour : understanding and managing life at work / Gary Johns, Alan M. Saks.

Addressing bullying in the workplace [videorecording].

Changing face of management in South East Asia [electronic resource] / edited by Chris Rowley and Saaidah Abdul-Rahman.

The dynamics of organizational collapse [electronic resource] : the case of Barings Bank / Helga Drummond.

Fundamentals of international organizational behavior / Simon L. Dolan and Tony Lingham.

Guidebook for supporting decision making under uncertainties : today’s managers, tomorrow’s business / Ettore Piccirillo, Massimo G. Noro.

Organization theory and the public sector [electronic resource] : instrument, culture and myth / Tom Christensen … [et al.].

Outsourcing and human resource management [electronic resource] : an international survey / edited by Ruth Taplin.

The rise of the anti-corporate movement : corporations and the people who hate them / Evan Osborne.

The study of public management in Europe and the US [electronic resource] : a competitive analysis of national distinctiveness / edited by Walter Kickert.

Understanding organization as process [electronic resource] : theory for a tangled world / Tor Hernes.

Change excellence [videorecording]

Implementing change [videorecording]

Changing people [videorecording]

The better the team, the safer the world : golden rules of group interaction in high risk environments : evidence based suggestions for improving performance / [ed.: J. Bryan Sexton] [consulting ed.: Gudela Grote … et al.].

Please send any new title suggestions in this area to Cristina Ghiculescu at c.ghiculescu@library.uq.edu.au

Recent titles in the library (Management, 25 September 2008)

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Reading

Communicating across cultures / Don W. Prince and Michael H. Hoppe.

Competing in emerging markets : cases and readings / edited by Hemant Merchant.

Corporate social responsibility : the good, the bad and the ugly / Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee.

Customer friendly : the organizational architecture of service / James T. Ziegenfuss.

Measuring organizational performance : metrics for entrepreneurship and strategic management research / Robert B. Carton, Charles W. Hofer.

Ramparts of resistance : why workers lost their power and how to get it back / Sheila Cohen.

Work : survive its stress, enjoy its success / Francis Macnab.

Not fair, no choice : the impact of WorkChoices on twenty South Australian workers and their households / Jude Elton, Barbara Pocock.

The organisational decomposition of the innovation process : what does it mean for the global distribution of innovation activities? / Hubert Schmitz and Simone Strambach.

101 secrets to building a winning business / Andrew Griffiths.

Employee engagement : the ‘people-first’ approach to building a business / David Croston.

Career distinction : stand out by building your brand / William Arruda, Kirsten Dixson.

Giving feedback to subordinates / Raoul J. Buron and Dana McDonald-Mann.

Groundswell : winning in a world transformed by social technologies / Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff.

A history of corporate governance around the world : family business groups to professional managers / edited by Randall K. Morck.

The point of the deal : how to negotiate when yes is not enough / Danny Ertel, Mark Gordon.

International trade and labor standards : a proposal for linkage / Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy.

Corporate sustainability as a challenge for comprehensive management [electronic resource] / Klaus J. Zink (editor).

Asian business groups : context, governance and performance / Michael Carney.

The new gold standard [electronic resource] : 5 leadership principles for creating a legendary customer experience courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company / Joseph A. Michelli.

Designing organizations [electronic resource] : 21st century approaches / edited by Richard M. Burton … [et al.].

The power of unreasonable people : how social entrepreneurs create markets that change the world / John Elkington, Pamela Hartigan.

Please send any new title suggestions in this area to Cristina Ghiculescu at c.ghiculescu@library.uq.edu.au

Recent titles in the library (Management, 4 September 2008)

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

book store

Climate change : what’s your business strategy? / Andrew J. Hoffman, John G. Woody.

Corporate culture [videorecording].

The daily art of management : a hands-on guide to effective leadership and communication / Peg Thoms and James F. Fairbank.

The entrepreneur’s guide to hiring and building the team / Ken Tanner.

The essential guide to business etiquette / Lillian Hunt Chaney and Jeanette St. Clair Martin.

How to run a company : lessons from top leaders of the CEO Academy / Dennis C. Carey and Marie-Caroline von Weichs.

Leadership and organization in the aviation industry / Marc-Philippe Lumpé.

Managing performance to maximize results.

Quick meeting openers for busy managers : more than 50 icebreakers, energizers, and other creative activities that get results / Brian Cole Miller.

Workchoices [videorecording] : industrial relations reform for Australia.

Working longer : new strategies for managing, training, and retaining older employees / William J. Rothwell … [et al.].

World sustainable development outlook 2007 : knowledge management and sustainable development in the 21st century / edited by Allam Ahmed.

Harvard business review on green business strategy.

40 CEO success stories : top CEOs share their strategies and secrets for success / [Joanne Neely, editor].

Sixteen Australian managers ten years on : rhetoric and realities / Glenice J. Wood.

Driving change and developing organisations / Elizabeth R Skringar & Tony Stevens.

Coping, health, and organizations / edited by Philip Dewe, Michael Leiter, Tom Cox.

Crucibles of leadership : how to learn from experience to become a great leader / Robert J. Thomas.

Essentials of corporate governance / Sanjay Anand.

Leadership and management in China : philosophies, theories, and practices / edited by Chao-chuan Chen and Yueh-ting Lee.

Remaking management : between global and local / edited by Chris Smith, Brendan McSweeney, Robert Fitzgerald.

The handbook of cross-cultural management research / edited by Peter B. Smith, Mark F. Peterson, David C. Thomas.

Through the labyrinth : the truth about how women become leaders / Alice H. Eagly, Linda L. Carli.

Public speaking & presentations for dummies / by Malcolm Kushner and Rob Yeung.

Please send any new title suggestions in this area to Cristina Ghiculescu at c.ghiculescu@library.uq.edu.au

Recent titles in the library (Management, 21 August 2008)

Thursday, August 21st, 2008
business book

The collaborative enterprise : managing speed and complexity in knowledge-based businesses / Charles Heckscher.

Conflict at work [videorecording] : how to manage conflict at work.

Conveying information [videorecording] / Ash.Quarry Productions

Decision making in business / [edited by] Jack Maroun, Robert Masters.

Ego check : why executive hubris is wrecking companies and careers and how to avoid the trap / Mathew Hayward.

Integrating ethics with strategy : selected papers of Alan E. Singer / Alan E. Singer.

Listening and understanding [videorecording] / Ash.Quarry Productions.

Overcoming negative behaviors [videorecording] / Ash.Quarry Productions.

Staying ahead of the competition : how firms really manage their competitive intelligence and knowledge evidence from a decade of rapid change / Chris Hall, Babette Bensoussan.

Taking back the boardroom : thriving as a 21st-century director / Phillip H. Phan.

More practise now [electronic resource] : how to prepare for recruitment and selection tests / [items developed by Frank Palmer edited by Liz Steele].

US labor in trouble and transition : the failure of reform from above, the promise of revival from below / Kim Moody.

The Blackwell guide to business ethics / edited by Norman E. Bowie.

Becoming a mentor leader in a professional community [electronic resource] / Karynne L.M. Kleine … [et al.].

The working landscape : founding, preservation, and the politics of place / Peter F. Cannavo.

The industrial revolution in world history / Peter N. Stearns.

Trust within organizations of the new economy [electronic resource] : a cross-industrial study / Marco Tulio Zanini.

Cornerstones of strategic management / by Laurie Dickie & Carolyn Dickie.

The voice of authority : 10 communication strategies every leader needs to know / Dianna Booher.

Global economy contested : power and conflict across the international division of labour / edited by Marcus Taylor.

Career choice in management and entrepreneurship : a research companion / edited by Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Ayala Malach-Pines.

The definitive job book : rules from the recruitment insiders / Anne Watson.

Resumes for computer careers / the editors of McGraw-Hill.

Australian master human resources guide / CCH Australia, Macquarie Graduate School of Management [and] Baker & McKenzie.

Giving notice : why the best and the brightest leave the workplace and how you can help them stay / Freada Kapor Klein, Martha Mendoza, Kimberly Allers .

100 minds that made the market / Kenneth L. Fisher.

Please send any new title suggestions in this area to Cristina Ghiculescu at c.ghiculescu@library.uq.edu.au

Recent titles in the library (Management, 8 August 2008)

Friday, August 8th, 2008
best business books

The contested commons : conversations between economists and anthropologists / edited by Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray.

Global corporate power / edited by Christopher May.

Leadership in the new millennium / Rodney Overton.

The matrix organization reloaded : adventures in team and project management / Marvin R. Gottlieb.

The six secrets of change : what the best leaders do to help their organizations survive and thrive / Michael Fullan.

Multinational enterprises and emerging challenges of the 21st century / edited by John H. Dunning, Tsai-Mei Lin.

International development studies : theories and methods in research and practice / Andrew Sumner and Michael Tribe.

The MBA companion / Paul Dainty and Moreen Anderson.

How to rule the world : the coming battle over the global economy / Mark Engler.

Performance management systems : a global perspective / edited by Arup Varma, Pawan S. Budhwar and Angelo DeNisi.

The working landscape : founding, preservation, and the politics of place / Peter F. Cannava.

Trust within organizations of the new economy [electronic resource] : a cross-industrial study / Marco Tulio Zanini.

Cornerstones of strategic management / by Laurie Dickie & Carolyn Dickie.

The voice of authority : 10 communication strategies every leader needs to know / Dianna Booher.

The executive’s guide to corporate events & business entertaining : how to choose and use corporate functions to increase brand awareness, develop new business, nurture customer loyalty and drive growth / Judy Allen.

Career choice in management and entrepreneurship : a research companion / edited by Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Ayala Malach-Pines.

The definitive job book : rules from the recruitment insiders / Anne Watson.

Resumes for computer careers / the editors of McGraw-Hill.

Australian master human resources guide / CCH Australia, Macquarie Graduate School of Management [and] Baker & McKenzie.

Giving notice : why the best and the brightest leave the workplace and how you can help them stay / Freada Kapor Klein, Martha Mendoza, Kimberly Allers .

100 minds that made the market / Kenneth L. Fisher.

Please send any new title suggestions in this area to Cristina Ghiculescu at c.ghiculescu@library.uq.edu.au

Recent titles in the library (Business Organisation and Communication, 30 July 2008)

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

business book stack

Decision-making style inventory / Richard H. Johnson, William C. Coscarelli assisted by JaDean Johnson.

Emotional labor : putting the service in public service / Mary E. Guy, Meredith A. Newman, Sharon H. Mastracci.

Managing performance improvement / Michael D. Tovey, Mary-Anne L. Uren.

International journal of managing projects in business [electronic resource].

The new development management : critiquing the dual modernization / edited by Sadhvi Dar & Bill Cooke.

International business : competing in the global marketplace / Charles W.L. Hill.

Managing life, learning and work in the 21st Century [electronic resource] : issues informing the development of an Australian Blueprint for Career Development / by Mary McMahon, Wendy Patton, Peter Tatham

Organizing cross-functional new product development projects [electronic resource] : the phase-specific effects of organizational antecedents/ by Tobias Huth.

Diversity at work / edited by Arthur P. Brief.

Experiencing recruitment and selection / Jon Billsberry.

Critical representations of work and organization in popular culture / Carl Rhodes and Robert Westwood.

Global corporate power / edited by Christopher May.

Leadership in the new millennium / Rodney Overton.

The matrix organization reloaded : adventures in team and project management / Marvin R. Gottlieb.

The six secrets of change : what the best leaders do to help their organizations survive and thrive / Michael Fullan.

Multinational enterprises and emerging challenges of the 21st century / edited by John H. Dunning, Tsai-Mei Lin.

International development studies : theories and methods in research and practice / Andrew Sumner and Michael Tribe.

The MBA companion / Paul Dainty and Moreen Anderson.

How to rule the world : the coming battle over the global economy / Mark Engler.

Performance management systems : a global perspective / edited by Arup Varma, Pawan S. Budhwar and Angelo DeNisi.

Please send any new title suggestions in this area to Cristina Ghiculescu at c.ghiculescu@library.uq.edu.au

Recent titles in the library (Business Organisation and Communication, 25 June 2008)

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Directory of bodies [electronic resource] : mandates, membership, officers.

Measuring globalisation [electronic resource] : activities of multinationals. Volume I, Manufacturing = Mesurer la mondialisation : activités des multinationales. Volume I, Secteur manufacturier.

Measuring globalisation [electronic resource] : activities of multinationals. Volume II, Services, 2000-2004 = Mesurer la mondialisation : activités des multinationales. Volume II, Services, 2000-2004

Communication and management at work / Thomas Klikauer.

Facets of corporate identity, communication and reputation / edited by T.C. Melewar.

People management skills for technical professionals / Charlene Tribelhorn.

Conflict coaching : conflict management strategies and skills for the individual / Tricia S. Jones, Ross Brinkert.

Clearings in the forest : on the study of leadership / Nathan Harter.

Entrepreneurship, geography, and American economic growth / Zoltan J. Acs, Catherine Armington.

Entrepreneurial learning : conceptual frameworks and applications / edited by Richard T. Harrison and Claire M. Leitch.

International handbook of research on indigenous entrepreneurship / edited by Léo-Paul Dana and Robert B. Anderson.

The bridge at the edge of the world : capitalism, the environment, and crossing from crisis to sustainability / James Gustave Speth.

Negotiate your way to success [electronic resource] : 24 steps to building agreement / Steven P. Cohen.

Negotiating globally [electronic resource] : how to negotiate deals, resolve disputes, and make decisions across cultural boundaries / Jeanne M. Brett.

Leading the way : evaluating and assessing leadership programs : evaluation of existing leadership programs and assessment of the relationship between these and the attraction of women to leadership positions in rural industries / Jo Eady.

Models of enterprise-level project performance [computer file] : comparative studies of organizational form, control mode and feedback mechanisms in the construction and IT services industries / Li Liu.

Bioblogs : resumes for the 21st century / Michael Holley Smith.

Gender in management [electronic resource]

Stress buster [videorecording]

Please send any new title suggestions in this area to Cristina Ghiculescu at c.ghiculescu@library.uq.edu.au

Recent titles in the library (Business Organisation and Communication, 12 June 2008)

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Understanding knowledge as a commons : from theory to practice / edited by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom.

Developing management skills : a comprehensive guide for leaders / James Carlopio Graham Andrewartha.

Managing for stakeholders : survival, reputation, and success / R. Edward Freeman, Jeffrey S. Harrison, Andrew C. Wicks.

The essential new manager’s kit / Florence Stone.

Lessons on leadership and business / Adrian Geering.

Human security & business / Benjamin K. Leisinger, Marc Probst.

Integrating quantitative and qualitative research [electronic resource] : lessons from the field / edited by Michael Bamberger.

The illusions of entrepreneurship : the costly myths that entrepreneurs, investors, and policy makers live by / Scott A. Shane.

Moral markets : the critical role of values in the economy / edited by Paul J. Zak with a foreword by Michael C. Jensen.

Corporate control and enterprise reform in China [electronic resource] : an econometric analysis of block share trades / Christian Büchelhofer.

A contingency-based view of chief executive officers’ early warning behavior [electronic resource] : an empirical analysis of German medium-sized companies / Andreas Kirschamp with a foreword by Prof. Dr. Utz Schaffer.

Executive wisdom [electronic resource] : coaching and the emergence of virtuous leaders / Richard R. Kilburg.

Corporate social responsibility as an international strategy [electronic resources] / Christina Keinert.

Competence of top management teams and success of new technology-based firms [electronic resource] : a theoretical and empirical analysis concerning competencies of entrepreneurial teams and the development of their ventures / Jan Brinckmann with a foreword by Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Gemundun.

Please send any new title suggestions in this area to Cristina Ghiculescu at c.ghiculescu@library.uq.edu.au