Sunday, December 7, 2008

Mind and Heart of the Negotiator or Reframing Organizations

Mind and Heart of the Negotiator

Author: Leigh Thompson

The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator, Third Edition, is for managers, executives, and leaders—anyone who has to negotiate with other people to attain their objectives. The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator provides managers with proven solutions to many tough negotiation challenges.
• Effective preparation
• Claiming resources
• Expanding the pie of resources
• Assessing and developing an effective motivational, emotional, and disputing style
• Building trust and relationships
• Increasing your power and influence
• Improving your creative thinking
• Dealing with multiple parties, coalitions, constituents, and agents
• Navigating the tension between cooperation and competition
• Effective cross-cultural negotiation
• Negotiating via information technology
• Testing your own rationality and judgment
• Reading nonverbal behavior and de ception
• Strategies for dealing with third parties
• Negotiating a job offer



Table of Contents:

Ch. 1Negotiation : the mind and the heart1
Ch. 2Preparation : what to do before negotiation13
Ch. 3Distributive negotiation : slicing the pie40
Ch. 4Win-win negotiation : expanding the pie69
Ch. 5Developing a negotiating style91
Ch. 6Establishing trust and building a relationship123
Ch. 7Power, persuasion, and ethics151
Ch. 8Creativity and problem so lving in negotiations174
Ch. 9Multiple parties, coalitions, and teams206
Ch. 10Cross-cultural negotiations242
Ch. 11Tacit negotiations and social dilemmas273
Ch. 12Negotiating via information technology303
App. 1Are you a rational person? : check yourself320
App. 2Nonverbal communication and lie detection340
App. 3Third-party intervention348
App. 4Negotiating a job offer354

Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

Author: Lee G Bolman

First published in 1984, Lee Bolman and Terrence Deals best-selling book has become a classic in the field. Its four-frame model examines organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples:

  • The Structural Frame: how to organize and structure groups and teams to get results
  • The Human Resource Frame: how to tailor organizations to satisfy human needs, improve human resource management, and build positive interpersonal and group dynamics
  • The Political Frame: how to cope with power and conflict, build coalitions, hone political skills, and deal with internal and external politics
  • The Symbolic Frame: how to shape a culture that gives purpose and meaning to work, stage organizational drama for internal and external audiences, and build team spirit through ritual, ceremony, and story
This new edition is filled with new case examples such as Hurricane Katrina and profiles of great leaders such as Mother Theresa, Thomas Keller, and others. In addition, the book updates the "Organizational Theory's Greatest Hits" text boxes throughout, and increases geographic, cultural and gender diversity in examples and text. It also features an enhanced online teacher's guide with a new test bank, as well as updated PowerPoint slides, teaching ideas and experiential activities, and links to resources.



Table of Contents:

Pt. 1 Making Sense of Organizations

1 Introduction: The Power of Reframing 3

2 Simple Ideas, Complex Organizations 23

Pt. 2 The Structural Frame

3 Getting Organized 45

4 Structure and Restructuring 71

5 Organizing Groups and Teams 33

Pt. 3 The Human Resource Frame

6 People and Organizations 119

7 Improving Human Resource Management 139

8 Interpersonal and Group Dynamics 165

Pt. 4 The Political Frame

9 Power, Conflict, and Coalition 191

10 The Manager as Politician 211

11 Organizations as Political Arenas and Political Agents 229

Pt. 5 The Symbolic Frame

12 Organizational Symbols and Culture 351

13 Culture in Action 279

14 Organization as Theater 293

Pt. 6 Improving Leadership Practice

15 Integrating Frames for Effective Practice 311

16 Reframing in Action: Opportunities and Perils 327

17 Reframing Leadership 341

18 Reframing Change in Organizations: Training, Realigning, Negotiating, an d Grieving 373

19 Reframing Ethics and Spirit 397

20 Bringing It All Together: Change and Leadership in Action 411

21 Epilogue: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership 435

Appendix The Best of Organizational Studies: Scholars' Hits and Popular Best-Sellers 439

References 445

Name Index 483

Subject Index 494

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