Organizing & Organizations

ISBN-13: 9781848600867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 512 str.

Stephen Fineman

Opis

'An excellent introductory text ... it provides a concise and well-written coverage of the main concepts in organizational behaviour ' - Leadership and Organization Development

Recenzje

`An excellent introductory text .... it provides a concise and well-written coverage of the main concepts in organizational behaviour. The combination of case studies and discussion of theoretical issues is well structured and provides the reader with a good framework for further reading' - Leadership and Organization Development

Spis treści

Introduction
Entering and Leaving
Lifelong Learning
Motives and Motivating
Rules Are Rules
Buildings and Organizing
Leading
Politics and Deals
Influence and Power
Us and Them
Being Different?
Morals
Greening
Machines and Routines
Innovation and Change
Feelings
Sex
Serious Joking
Virtuality
Career Shifts
Producing and Consuming
Working and Living
Learning and Organizing in Uncertain Times

O autorze

Fineman, Stephen
Stephen Fineman is Professor of Organizational Behaviour, School of Management, University of Bath</p><p>CONTRIBUTORS' AFFILIATIONS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA:</p><p></p><p>Gillian Bendelow <i>University of Warwick</p><p></i>Karen P Harlos <i>University of Otago, Dunedin</p><p></i>Avraham N Kluger <i>The Hebrew University of Jerusalem</p><p></i>Berry Mayall <i>University of London</p><p></i>Anat Rafaeli<i> Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Haifa</p><p></i>Varda Wasserman <i>The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Gabriel, Yiannis<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a name="OLE_LINK1"><strong>Yiannis Gabriel</strong> is Professor of Organizational Theory at Bath University. Yiannis has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. </a></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Yiannis is well known for his work into organizational storytelling and narratives, leadership, management learning and the culture and politics of contemporary consumption. He has used stories as a way of studying numerous social and organizational phenomena including leader-follower relations, group dynamics and fantasies, nostalgia, insults and apologies. He has also carried out extensive research on the psychoanalysis of organizations. </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Yiannis is founder and coordinator of the Organizational Storytelling Seminar series, now in its fourteenth year (See <a href="http://www.organizational-storytelling.org.uk/">http://www.organizational-storytelling.org.uk/</a>), the author of nine books and numerous articles. He is elected to the board of EGOS and is currently Senior Editor of Organization Studies. His enduring fascination as a researcher lies in what he describes as the unmanageable qualities of life in and out of organizations.</p>