• Contains a unique critical focus.
• Presents an interesting engagement with gender and culture.
• New chapters on scene setting, motivation, culture, teams, organizational learning, leadership and change.
• Range of student learning features including topical case studies.

New to this edition

• All existing chapters expanded and updated.
• New pedagogical features including case studies, web links and annotated further reading.
• Deals with difficult issues such as fear and loathing, denial, bullying and gossip.

Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate Business students

Fiona Wilson, Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Head of Department, University of Glasgow

"I used this book for my first year undergraduate Business Studies degree and it has been one of the best that I have I found that of all the books I had, this was the one that I actually enjoyed reading and it was the most useful for my exam by providing relevant quotes and the further reading tips are fantastic." - An Amazon reviewer, February 2006

"Would definitely recommend!!!"ments (introducing classic ideas, critique, and application to organizational practices) that you don't find in many textbooks in the area.'" - Carol Linehan, Lecturer in Management, Department of Management and Marketing, University College Cork

Introduction
1: Scene Setting
2: Rationality: From Founding Fathers to Eugenics. Is it all about Fitting Workers to Jobs?
3: Rationality and Bureaucracy
4: What Work Means
5: The View from Below
6: Sexuality, Sex Typing, Managing Emotions and Feeling in Control
7: When Organizational Behaviour is Not So "Good"
8: The View from Above: What Managers Do
9: Motivation
10: Power, Control and Resistance
11: Culture
12: Teams and Teamworking
13: Organizational Learning
14: Leadership
15: Health, Well-Being and Stress
16: Being Unemployed, Being a Volunteer and Being "On the Fiddle"
17: All Change?
18: Alternative Organizations