Work organisations: a critical introduction

Introduction - PART ONE - Studying Organisations: an Introduction - The Emergence of Large Scale Organisations - Taylor, Weber and the Bureaucratisation of Production - Managing the Human Factor - Organisations and Environments - Capital, the State and Labour in a Globalising Era - Management - Control: Concepts and Strategies - Power, Conflict and Resistance - Gender, Sexuality and Organisations - New Economy, New Organisations? - Continuity and Change at Work - Corporations and Culture: Reinventing Organisation Man? - PART TWO - Understanding Organisational Behaviour: Issues and Agendas - Masks for Tasks: Perception, Attitudes and Personality - Learning, Change and Innovation - Open to Persuasion: Communication and Leadership - Putting the Pressure on: Stress, Work and Emotion - Motivation: the Drive for Satisfaction - From Groups to Teams - Identity Work - PART THREE: THEORISING ORGANISATIONS - Resources for Orthodoxy - Critical Alternatives - Critical Social Psychologies - Theory, Knowledge and Practice - Bibliography - Name Index - Subject Index.

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This third edition is designed in a user friendly format with 25 chapters instead of the previous 12, making the content more accessible, ""bite sized"" and student friendly, substantially revising and extending chapters. The text includes debates on gender and international management issues, surveillance, managing diversity, knowledge work, high performance work systems, and learning in organizations. New chapters on change and teamwork have been added.