Organizational behavior and work: a critical introduction

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; Oxford University Press; 2010Edition: 3rd edDescription: xviii, 390p. ; ill; Includes reference and indexISBN:
  • 978-0-19-953488-3
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • C 302.35 W69
Summary: This book is structured so that the scene is first set, introducing the context in which work is done, the views of workers and managers on work, and rationality and its place in how work is organized. Next, we look at the classi management topics: structure (including bureaucracy), motivation, leader-Ship, perception, personality, learning, teams, culture, and change. These topics are discussed in such way that the main ideas are articulated, but they are also critiqued. Finally, we consider the more critice approaches, issues of power, control resistance, alternative forms of organization, the place of emotion and stress in work and organization.
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This book is structured so that the scene is first set, introducing the context in which work is done, the views of workers and managers on work, and rationality and its place in how work is organized. Next, we look at the classi management topics: structure (including bureaucracy), motivation, leader-Ship, perception, personality, learning, teams, culture, and change. These topics are discussed in such way that the main ideas are articulated, but they are also critiqued. Finally, we consider the more critice approaches, issues of power, control resistance, alternative forms of organization, the place of emotion and stress in work and organization.

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