Amsterdam University Press (5)
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The ABC of Work Motivation
How to Energize Any Organization
2024 || Paperback || Anja van den Broeck e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
What are the innate and universal ingredients to stimulate employee well-being and performance? This book will help you learn more about these, based on the latest research in motivational science.
Motivation is the key to our lives. Whether at work, at home, at school or on the sports field, we constantly need to find ways to motivate ourselves and those we support. What if, instead of motivational tricks, we could rely on a positive, universal, and surprisingly simple point of view: that of...
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Have I Got Dirt For You
Using Office Gossip to Your Advantage
2022 || Paperback || Dominique J. Darmon || Amsterdam University Press
Even though office gossip is generally frowned upon, many studies show that gossip in organizations is not only inevitable, but can even be a positive communication tool. However, by gossiping in the wrong way, employees can easily lose the trust of their colleagues and be perceived negatively very quickly.
Research shows that people who claim to never gossip tend to be considered as socially inept, but those that are constantly gabbing at the coffee machine are quickly seen as untrustworthy....
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Managing Authentic Relationships
facing New Challenges in a Changing Context
2019 || Paperback || Jean Paul Wijers e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
This book focuses on building and managing a strong network and reciprocal relationships for the entire organization by implementing a professional relationship management approach at strategic, tactical and operational level.
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The ABC of Life
Success Has 3 Letters
2023 || Paperback || Marcus B. Muller || Amsterdam University Press
Nowadays it seems there is a manual for everything. What if there was a manual for how to interact with people so that we could all function optimally and succeed in life?
This book comes closest to being the definitive manual for life. It is based on over 50 years of groundbreaking scientific research on self-determination theory which has produced a structural approach to social interaction—the ‘ABC of life’—as a concrete and actionable approach to success. For if you do not unders...
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The Platform Company
The Art of Resilient Strategy: A Guide for Leaders Inspired by Nature's Competition
2023 || Paperback || Jan-Jacob Koomen || Amsterdam University Press
'The Platform Company' will help you tackle your organization's key strategic challenges with out-of-the box concepts based on solid principles from game theory and ecology. Building blocks are introduced in an easy-to-read story of an executive on safari and translated into practical steps and methods. The book addresses the key challenges confronting any organization, such as branding, sales channels, innovation, supply chain, strategy formation, leadership, and purpose.