Creating Productive Organizations

A highly motivated, competent work force is vital to an organization's success. Creating Productive Organizations is an interactive manual that challenges and encourages readers to assess and develop a clear vision of their areas of competence and interest in order to enhance productivity. Basic, common sense information about people, jobs, and the workplace is presented using simple descriptions, methods, contemporary examples and illustrations. Readers are skillfully guided through the process of identifying and defining their skills, abilities, beliefs, values, work methods, knowledge, and strengths. Step-by-step guidelines enable readers to evaluate and more closely match their talents, goals, and visions with current and future demands of the constantly changing workplace. Written for supervisors, managers, leaders, mentors, work teams members, academicians, students, and anyone striving to learn more about themselves in order to increase job satisfaction and overall performance. Creating Productive Organizations is an excellent stand-alone resource-however, the facilitator's guide is recommended for industry training or classroom use. Facilitator's Guide The facilitator's guide is a multilevel, experiential teaching tool that provides activities, inventories, questionnaires, surveys and discussion resources for individual and group use. Its content follows the same format as the manual and is designed to supplement and reinforce material presented in each chapter.

Creating Productive Organizations is an interactive manual that challenges and encourages readers to assess and develop a clear vision of their areas of competence and interest in order to enhance productivity. This facilitator's guide offers solutions and addresses the challenges associated with motivating team members.

This book is an accessible entry point into the theory and practice of work reflection for students and practitioners. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, it covers management, education, organizational psychology and sociology, drawing on examples from Europe, the Middle East, North America and Australia. It traces reflection at work from an emphasis on training, through a focus on how organizations learn, to a concern with the necessary learning groups to operate effectively. It emphasizes productivity combined with satisfying lived experience of work life and points the way to a new collective focus on learning at work.

USA. Monograph on appropriate management techniques for increased labour productivity and efficiency in public services, social services, service sectors, and other service-producing institutions - focuses on the methodology of measurement and on perception models for improvement of organizational productivity, taking into consideration human relations, responsibility, organization development, decision making, etc. Illustrations and references.

Your path to sustainable school improvement starts here! School reform scholars Joseph Murphy and Daniela Torre shed light on the components that promote learning-centered leadership at the secondary level. Strengthen your school culture and discover clearly defined processes for engagement among students, teachers, parents and community members. Learn to: • Understand variables that shape leadership practices and student learning • Cultivate school, community, and parent partnerships • Include both rigor and acceleration within a caring culture, particularly for at-risk schools • Create communities of professionalism for teachers Use this comprehensive resource to explore how comprehensive school improvement really works!

This Harvard Business Review digital collection showcases the ideas of Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones, authors of Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? and Why Should Anyone Work Here? In Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?, Goffee and Jones argue that leaders don’t become great by aspiring to a list of universal character traits. Rather, effective leaders are authentic: they deploy individual strengths to engage followers’ hearts, minds, and souls. In Why Should Anyone Work Here?, the authors argue that it used to be that businesses could ask individuals to conform to the organization’s needs but that now today’s leaders are charged with creating the best company on earth to work for: they must transform their organizations to attract the right people, keep them, and inspire them to do their best work.

As social stresses escalate and organizations experience more turbulence and uncertainty, conflict in the workplace is on the rise. This book presents a clear, step-by-step approach for developing and evaluating conflict management systems within any organization.

Dr. Deepak Pralhad Raverkar is presently working as Principal of Sundarrao More Arts, Commerce & Science College, Poladpur Dist Raigad of Maharashtra (India). Dr Ravekar is a renowned academician having extensive teaching experience of 37 years at UG and PG level. He has also worked as Vice Principal and Head, Department of Commerce in Dr. Chintamanrao Deshmukh College, Roha-Raigad.With his commendable contribution in the three important areas of education namely, teaching, research & extension activities, Dr Raverkar has achieved excellence and is being respected for the same. He has also been contributing as a member of Board of Studies in Commerce, University of Mumbai since 2008. He is also working as a Member of Mumbai University's NSS Advisory Committee for the last two years. Presently, he is offering his expertise as a member of Board of Studies in Commerce formed by Mahaveer College, an autonomous institution of Kolhapur-Maharashtra Dr. Deepak Raverkar is a very passionate and prolific writer who authored 21 text and reference books through Sheth Publication of Mumbai and Mumbai University's IDOL department. The thrust area of his writing is HR management and commerce, as it aims to help the student community by explaining various critical concepts through lucid and eloquent language. His passion for academic writing also reflected in the research field as he has penned 25 research papers in the peer reviewed and UGC journals. He has also presented a number of research papers in national and international seminars and conferences. Under his experienced guidance, four students are pursuing their Ph.D presently. He has also worked as External Examiner and Referee of Ph.D Viva for Pune & Nagpur University. He has also worked as Resource Person & also chaired sessions in various national as well as international conferences & seminars. He has also given his contribution by offering his expertise as a Chairman and member on various University committees like LIC, Teacher Selection, CAS. Avishkar Referee Panel, etc. Recently, he has been appointed by University of Mumbai as a Convener of Poladpur Cluster under which 12 colleges have been successfully conducting online University examination during the period of Covid-19 pandemic. He has a very keen interest in industrial relations and HR development. With his multifaceted talent, Prin. Dr Deepak Raverkar is always eager to offer his expertise in the field of Higher Education by working relentlessly and devotedly for the betterment of the student community.