This book is well loved by students and lecturers for its accessible, conversational tone and insightful real-life examples introducing the study of organizations and organizational behavior. Stephen Fineman, Yiannis Gabriel and David Sims, eminent academics in the field, cover a wealth of key concepts, research and literature leaving students informed and engaged. The Fourth Edition builds on the strengths of previous editions, to provide you with a textbook that continues to stand out from the rest.
Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives W Richard Scott, Gerald F. Davis ... Boyle, with the simple idea that the atmosphere may be conceived as a 'sea of air'; Darwin, with the idea that one can conceive of atolls as upward and ...
This volume shifts the analytic attention of research on race as a people-based theoretical or empirical category to organizations.
Organization theory is much more relevant for the understanding of social processes than previously assumed. This book provides a new understanding of many social phenomena and opens up new fields for organizational analysis.
Recipient of the '2013 Top Edited Book Award', by the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association (USA) This timely collection addresses central issues in organizational communication theory on the nature ...
This is a story of reinvention.
The results of this new world of easy collaboration can be both good (young people defying an oppressive government with a guerrilla ice-cream eating protest) and bad (girls sharing advice for staying dangerously skinny) but it s here and ...
From small spaces and apartment solutions to how to tackle a big, messy home with a 15-week total home organization challenge, this book covers it all.
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This book analyses the mediatization of contemporary organizations and how individual organizations, industry or markets are scrutinized.
" Their founders have fundamentally questioned every aspect of management and have come up with entirely new organizational methods. This book describes in practical detail how organizations large and small can operate in this new paradigm.