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Organizational behaviour : a critical introduction / Fiona Wilson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University, 1999Description: 188 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 019878256X
  • 9780198782568
  • 0198782578
  • 9780198782575
Other title:
  • Organisational behaviour
  • Organisational behaviour : A critical introduction
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Organizational behaviour.DDC classification:
  • 302.35 21
LOC classification:
  • HD58.7 .W548 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Part One. The Meaning of Work -- 1. What Work Means -- 2. Rationalization and Rationality 1: From the Founding Fathers to Eugenics -- 3. Rationalization and Rationality 2: Weber, McDonalds, and Bureaucracy -- 4. The View from Below -- 5. The View from Above: Managers What they Do and How their Work is Described -- 6. The View from Outside: Sexuality, Deviance, Normality, Emotionality, Feelings, Misbehaviour -- Part Two. Power, Control and Resistance -- 7. Management Power, Surveillance, Control and Technology -- 8. Organizational Culture and Control -- 9. Organizational Deviance: Theft, Resistance, Struggles, Lying, Sabotage, Romance, and Fun -- Part Three. Changes in Work Organization -- 10. Beyond Bureaucracy: Postbureacracy debate and New Forms of Work Organization -- 11. Unemployment and the Changing Meaning and Time of Work -- 12. Stress -- 13. Alternative Organizational Ownership Forms - Their effect on Organizational Behaviour.
Summary: Drawing mainly from the sociology of work, this textbook examines issues such as what work means to both managers and workers; the history and logic of the rationalisation of work; unemployment; stress; and alternative organizational forms.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part One. The Meaning of Work -- 1. What Work Means -- 2. Rationalization and Rationality 1: From the Founding Fathers to Eugenics -- 3. Rationalization and Rationality 2: Weber, McDonalds, and Bureaucracy -- 4. The View from Below -- 5. The View from Above: Managers What they Do and How their Work is Described -- 6. The View from Outside: Sexuality, Deviance, Normality, Emotionality, Feelings, Misbehaviour -- Part Two. Power, Control and Resistance -- 7. Management Power, Surveillance, Control and Technology -- 8. Organizational Culture and Control -- 9. Organizational Deviance: Theft, Resistance, Struggles, Lying, Sabotage, Romance, and Fun -- Part Three. Changes in Work Organization -- 10. Beyond Bureaucracy: Postbureacracy debate and New Forms of Work Organization -- 11. Unemployment and the Changing Meaning and Time of Work -- 12. Stress -- 13. Alternative Organizational Ownership Forms - Their effect on Organizational Behaviour.

Drawing mainly from the sociology of work, this textbook examines issues such as what work means to both managers and workers; the history and logic of the rationalisation of work; unemployment; stress; and alternative organizational forms.

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