Introducing organizational behaviour and management / edited by David Knights and Hugh Willmott

Includes index.

1. Introduction -- Part 1. The human dimension -- 2. Motivation and the self -- 3. Individual differences, personality and self -- 4. Groups and teams at work -- 5. Managing people: contexts of HRM, diversity and social inequality -- 6. Knowledge and learning: consuming management? -- Part 2. The organizational dimension -- 7. Organization, structure and design -- 8. Management and leadership -- 9. Politics and decision-making in organizations -- 10. Culture -- 11. Change and innovation: new organizational forms -- 12. Technology -- Part 3. Emergent issues -- 13. Globalization and organizations -- 14. Bureaucracy and post-bureaucracy -- 15 .Ethics at work.

This eagerly awaited introductory textbook provides a fresh approach to the study of Organizational Behavior and management. Seeking to make the subject matter more relevant and accessible, it treats Organizational Behavior as a field of activity that has many parallels with what is experienced in everyday life. Students will find it easier to learn about organizations by appreciating how work relations and management activities are not so distant from their own everyday lives. Uniquely, this book presents two distinct and highly contrasting perspectives on Organizational Behavior. Key elements of what is conventionally studied in the field are introduced and treated as a foil for introducing a critical, less orthodox perspective. Written with the introductory Organizational Behavior student in mind, this exciting new text has a four-color design and uses classic pedagogical features such as case studies, think points, discussion questions, learning objectives and linked chapter summaries in order to engage students and provide a stimulating learning, and teaching, environment.