Organizational Behaviour and Work

A critical introduction
5. Revised Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-877713-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

As the most critical yet accessible introduction to organizational behaviour and work, this book will help you understand the complexities of organizational life and evaluate modern business practices.

Classic organizational behaviour topics such as team-working, motivation, and change are complemented by core critical approaches such as power and control, organizational misbehaviour, and health and well-being through a clear three-part structure. Students are encouraged to look beyond a descriptive approach and truly engage with the content. Examples and 'Stop and Think' boxes placed throughout chapters, as well as end-of-chapter case studies with accompanying questions, provide the opportunity for this engagement and show how each chapter's theoretical coverage applies in real-life business situations. Suggestions of films and novels which relate to the chapter topic provide further opportunities to see organizational behaviour in context and demonstrate just how prevalent its principles are in everyday life.

The accessible style assumes no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, and the full range of themes and topics explored provides a rich picture of the realities of organizational behaviour and work.

This book is accompanied by a selection of online resources, including:

For students:

Glossary
Web links

Critical thinking exercises

For lecturers:

PowerPoint slides
Questions for research and discussion
Additional case studies

Group exercises

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Fiona M.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Approaching management critically

- 1: Setting the scene

- 2: Employees' views of work

- 3: Managerial views of work

- 4: The rationality of management

- 5: Sexuality, sex typing, and gender

- Classic organizational behaviour and the critique

- 6: Motivation

- 7: Leadership

- 8: Perception

- 9: Personality

- 10: Organizational learning

- 11: Culture

- 12: Teams and teamworking

- 13: Structure

- 14: All change?

- The core of critical approaches

- 15: Managerial power and control

- 16: Organizational misbehaviour

- 17: Voluntary, not-for-profit, and alternative organizations

- 18: Health, well-being, emotion, and stress

Über Autor(innen)

Fiona Wilson is Professor of Organizational Behaviour in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. Before moving to Glasgow, she worked at the University of St Andrews: first as a Lecturer, then as a Senior Lecturer. Previously, Fiona had been employed as a researcher at Manchester Business School and University of Bradford Management Centre. Fiona completed a PhD at Manchester Business School in 1986. She is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, an Academic Fellow of the CIPD, and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.