Organizational Behavior and Virtual Work

Name: Organizational Behavior and Virtual Work
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781774635896
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Concepts and Analytical Approaches

By Arvind K. Birdie and Madhu Jain

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With the rise of globalisation and technological advances, Organizational Behavior and Virtual Work explores the evolution of organisational structures and employment relationships shaped by virtual work. The book delves into leadership, trust, self-efficacy, and their impact on contemporary work environments. Combining theory with real-world application, it offers practical insights and recommendations for managing virtual teams and adapting to new organisational dynamics.
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Ideal for business executives, managers, scholars, and HR professionals interested in organisational behaviour, leadership in virtual environments, and adapting to technological changes in the workplace.

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With the globalisation of work and technological advancements in recent years, and with an emphasis on service quality today, organisations have changed. Virtual work has emerged as the new employment relationship and has been embraced by employees and employers in many industries. This book explores the dynamics of changing organisation structures, theories of leadership and trust, and how dimensions of self-efficacy work in this new work relationship.

Organizational Behavior and Virtual Work: Concepts and Analytical Approaches shows the enormous impact of technology and globalisation on employment relationships and also predicts how they will contribute to the changing dimensions of organisations in the future. With a unique blend of theory and application in the real world of virtual workers, the book presents the most recent research and developments in the relatively new and still emerging area of virtual work. It takes an in-depth critical look into the key factors affecting the virtual work environment with practical inputs of suggestions and recommendations.

With the objective of presenting information about this new work scenario, this book attempts to unfold important human behaviour processes in organisations. The volume presents a rare combination of the necessary concepts of human behaviour in organisations along with the results of research in the field and also makes practical recommendations on virtual work programmes.

Key features include a unique blend of research with organisational behaviour concepts and practical recommendations for workers, managers, and business executives.

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Dr Arvind K. Birdie received the Prof. Mrs. Manju Thakur Memorial Award 2016 for Innovative Contributions in Research and Book Publication for this work. Reviews praise the book as timely and insightful, highlighting its focus on leadership, trust, and work-life balance within virtual settings. It is considered an excellent resource for those seeking to understand and innovate in performance-oriented organisations leveraging human resources and IT.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781774635896

Publisher: Apple Academic Press Inc.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 March 2021

Country: Canada

Imprint: Apple Academic Press Inc.

Illustration: 3 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 296

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About the Author

Arvind K. Birdie, PhD, is an associate professor and acting principal at IIMT School of Management (Oxford Brooks University), Gurgaon, India. Dr. Birdie has been consistently recognized for her teaching abilities. As an avid reader, her strength lies in teaching various interdisciplinary subjects with equal ease. Besides academic teaching and training, she has organized management development programs for corporate and academicians. She is a regular presenter at various international and national conferences and has published several papers in refereed journals. Her areas of interest include leadership, work-life balance, virtual work, and positive psychology. She is taking post-graduate and graduate courses of management for over 12 years.

Madhu Jain, PhD, is presently associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. She is also director of the Department of Life Long Learning, also at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. She has been teaching and guiding postgraduate, graduate, and PhD students for over two decades and has supervised several research projects at the advanced level as well. Dr. Jain has published nearly 40 papers in scholarly national and international journals and also published four books in the area of psychology. Dr. Jain is associated with many national and international associations. As a student, she was a Gold Medalist and Merit Holder at the graduate and postgraduate level.