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Organizational Behaviour Angela Martin

Organizational Behaviour By Angela Martin

Organizational Behaviour by Angela Martin


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This text is designed to provide a clear, straightforward, critical introduction to organizational behaviour, challenging and questioning what constitutes the subject and how it is influenced. It shows how workplaces are sites of inequalities divided by class, levels of education, race and gender.

Organizational Behaviour Summary

Organizational Behaviour: A Critical Introduction by Angela Martin

This text is designed to provide a clear, straightforward, critical introduction to organizational behaviour, challenging and questioning what constitutes the subject and how it is influenced. Organizational behaviour is seen here as being mainly about the ways in which individuals' dispositions are expressed in organizations, and the effects of this expression. It discusses rest and play within organizational settings, as well as work. Whilst organizational psychology usually informs the content of textbooks in organizational behaviour, this book draws mainly on the sociology of work to focus on issues such as power, control, subordination, manipulation, resistance, theft, sexuality, dirty and deviant work, culture and emotion, as well as bureaucracy and unemployment. The book is particularly written for those who wish their students to know that there are few certainties about how to manage, and many uncertain tensions, irrationalities and dilemmas amongst the mundane realities of working life. It shows how workplaces are sites of inequalities divided by class, levels of education, race and gender.

Organizational Behaviour Reviews

"It is very readable and has a nice critical edge to it, articulating clearly a number of issues that are often dealt with only indirectly. Good range of material"., Pippa Carter, University of Hull

About Angela Martin


Fiona Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of St. Andrews

Table of 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

Additional information

GOR007060034
9780198782575
0198782578
Organizational Behaviour: A Critical Introduction by Angela Martin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
1999-08-05
198
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