This third edition, designed in a user friendly format, substantially revises and extends old favorites including whole chapters on gender and international management issues for the first time. Current debates on surveillance, managing diversity, knowledge work, high performance work systems, and l
Work Organisations: A Critical Introduction
โ Scribed by Paul Thompson, David McHugh (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 473
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Studying organisations: an introduction....Pages 3-22
The emergence of large-scale organisations....Pages 23-58
Organisations and environments....Pages 59-102
Management and control....Pages 103-131
Power....Pages 132-154
Organisational design: beyond bureaucracy?....Pages 155-197
Re-inventing organization man?....Pages 198-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Issues in organizational behavior....Pages 223-259
Regulating organizational behaviour?....Pages 260-296
Mobilising commitment....Pages 297-326
Identity work....Pages 327-358
Front Matter....Pages 359-359
Theorising organisations....Pages 361-397
Back Matter....Pages 398-459
โฆ Subjects
Sociology of Work; Business and Management, general; Organization; Industries
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