Organizational Management

Organizations are increasingly facing continuous and highly complex changes that require more proactive strategies, policies and management practices. Conscious of this reality, this book provides information and debate on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications of organizational management in the field of industry, commerce and services.

Organizations are increasingly facing continuousand highly complex changes that require more proactive strategies, policies andmanagement practices. Conscious of this reality, this book provides informationand debate on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies andapplications of organizational management in the field of industry, commerceand services. Organizational Management communicatesthe latest developments and thinking on the organizational management subjectworld-wide, and seeks cultural and geographic diversity in studies and uses oforganizational management that have a special impact on organizationalcommunications, change processes and work practices. With an emphasis on theway organizations define and develop their management policies and practices inorder to acquire more competitive advantages in the global market, this book iscrucial to any practitioner or researcher of current organizational management.

1. What we know about Organizational Commitment: An overview of the literature of the last decades; Santiago Gutiérrez Broncano, Pedro Jiménez Estévez and Mercedes Rubio Andrés2. Purpose, Change and Top Management in the Mid-1920s: Revisiting Selected Papers Presented at the Meetings of the Taylor Society; Aykut Berber3. Managing Careers: Anchored, Plateaued or Drifting?; João Fontes da Costa and Teresa Carla Oliveira4. Other organizational perspectives on the contribution of human resources management to the organizational performance; João Leite Ribeiro and Delfina Gomes5. Viewing training & development by SMEs' Eyes: a Portuguese employers' input; Ana Paula Ferreira and Fernanda Velinças6. Recruitment and Selection in the Expatriation Process: Comparing perceptions between organizations and individuals; Inês Resende and Emília Fernandes7. From a cooperative to a hybrid organization. Internationalization, financing and crisis; Juan José Durán Herrera and Nuria Bajo Davó8. Power and Micro-politics in the Strategic Formation of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises; David Starr-Glass9. Deigning Down or Learning Up? Lack of Voice and Dialogue in Change Management of Public Hospitals; Teresa Carla Oliveira and Vitor Raposo10. About expatriation process in SMEs: a Portuguese look of HRM role; Cláudia Carvalho and Carolina Feliciana Machado