Work Organisations: Critical introduction

✍ Scribed by Paul B. Thompson, David McHugh

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 481
• Edition: 3rd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 learning in organizations are discussed, and new chapters on change and teamwork have been added.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
Part I......Page 20
Studying Organisations: An Introduction......Page 22
The Emergence of Large-Scale Organisations......Page 39
Taylor,Weber and the Bureaucratisation of the Workplace......Page 48
Managing the Human Factor......Page 61
Organisations and Environments......Page 73
Capital, Labour and the State in a Globalising Era......Page 89
Management......Page 106
Control: Concepts and Strategies......Page 120
Power, Conflict and Resistance......Page 136
Gender, Sexuality and Organisations......Page 151
New Economy, New Organisations?......Page 168
Continuity and Change at Work......Page 186
Corporations and Culture: Reinventing Organisation Man?......Page 210
Part II......Page 230
Understanding Organisational Behaviour: Issues and Agendas......Page 232
Masks for Tasks: Perception, Attitudes and Personality......Page 241
Learning, Change and Innovation......Page 259
Open to Persuasion: Communication and Leadership......Page 279
Putting the Pressure On: Stress,Work and Emotion......Page 296
Motivation: The Drive for Satisfaction......Page 313
From Groups to Teams......Page 335
Identity Work......Page 353
Part III Theorising Organisations......Page 374
Resources for Orthodoxy......Page 376
Critical Alternatives......Page 382
Critical Social Psychologies......Page 400
Theory, Knowledge and Practice......Page 407
References......Page 415
Name Index......Page 465
Subject Index......Page 475