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£32.99
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Organizational Behaviour and Work:
A Critical Introduction
Second Edition
Fiona Wilson
328 pages
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6 b/w drawings and tables
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246x189mm
978-0-19-926141-3
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Paperback
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15 January 2004
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This item is currently reprinting. Orders for reprinted items are supplied and charged as soon as the item becomes available.
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- 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.
This book provides a critical approach to the study of work and organizational behaviour, questioning what organizational behaviour is and how it has been researched and discussed. Written as an introductory textbook, the book aims to stimulate readers towards further questions and their own research.
The book is unique in that it deals directly with the weakneses of theories on topics such as motivation, leadership and teambuilding whilst also covering topical subjects such as theft, fun, sex, romance, bullying, harassment, resistance, exploitation, unequal power relations and sabotage. This book gives a
realist's perspective of what consititutes organizational behaviour, providing a critique of the latest research from the gurus of management whilst also describing the realities of work and behaviour found in organizations.
This second edition includes new chapters on scene setting, motivation, teams and teamworking, culture, leadership, change and organizational learning. Established sections such as unemployment, organizational misbehaviour and sexuality have been updated and expanded. The text has retained its unique critical stance whilst also encouraging greater student understanding and accessibility. The background to the major theories is explained and each chapter contains a wealth of student learning features including chapter introductions, topical
case studies, examples, stop boxes, group exercises, end of chapter questions, further reading and web links.Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate Business students
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Fiona Wilson, Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Head of Department, University of Glasgow
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"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
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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
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