William A. Kahn

Holding Fast

The Struggle to Create Resilient Caregiving Organizations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Holding Fast the stresses faced by caregiving organizations are identified and appropriate strategies for tackling these to create a resilient, effective organization are discussed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781583919378
• ISBN-10: 1583919376
• Artikelnr.: 23245605

Autorenporträt

William A. Kahn is Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Organizational Behaviour at Boston University's School of Management.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Nature of Caregiving Organisations.Caregiving Organisations
Defined. The Stress of Caregiving Work. Resilience Under Stress. System
Breakdowns. Part 2: Disturbances in Caregiving Organisations. Caregivers
and Casualties. Authority at Work. Divided They Fall. Teams, Real and
Imaginary. Politics. Running in Place. Part 3: Leading Caregiving
Organisations. The Leadership Task. Negotiating Dependency. Leadership and
Change. Final Reflections.