Organization and Management
A Critical Text
Published on 2. December 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-86152-193-4 (ISBN)
Description
Organization and Management: A Critical Text goes beyond the descriptive and managerial accounts of organizational behaviour. It offers a more critical and reflective text which contextualises and criticises conventional wisdom and attempts to re-orient the field by offering alternative approaches to the study of organizational behaviour. The authors take account of historical developments and key issues and ideas in their social, political, economic and global context. Areas examined include labour process issues, gender and other identities, flexibility and globalisation. More recent post-structuralist and post-modern approaches are also explored.
Reviews / Votes
Introduction PART 1: UNSETTLING ORTHODOXY 1. Organizational Behaviour and the Individual: Critique of a Consensus (John Chandler) 2. Hidden Capital (Roger Johnston) 3. Postmodernizing Organizational Behaviour: New Organizations or New Organization Theory? (Martin Parker) PART 2: ORGANIZATIONAL LIVES 4. Work, Stress and Gender: Conceptualization and Consequence (Heather Clark, John Chandler and Jim Barry) 5. Sex, Work and Sex at Work: Using Foucault to Understand Organizational Relations (Joanna Brewis) 6. New Technologies and Organizational Behaviour (Rod Allen, Nod Miller and Sally Wyatt) PART 3: THE LIMITATIONS OF MANAGEMENT 7. Culture at the Level of the Firm: Organizational and Corporate Perspectives (David Needle) 8. Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations (Peter Fenwick and Adrian Murton) 9. Labour Markets and Flexibility, Current Debates and the European Dimension (Adrian Murton) 10. Innovation or Optimization: Facing up to the Challenge of the Global Economy (Andy Adcroft and Robert Willis) PART 4: THE POLITICS OF ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT 11. The Social Politics of Business Ethics (Ian Pirie) 12. Responsible Organizational Behaviour?: Business Responses to New Social Movements (Alan Neale) Subject Index Author IndexMore details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86152-193-4 (9781861521934)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Jim Barry is in the Business School's Organization Studies Research Group at the University of East London. John Chandler is in the Business School's Organization Studies Research Group at the University of East London. Heather Clark is in the Business School's Organization Studies Research Group at the University of East London. Roger Johnston is in the Business School's Organization Studies Research Group at the University of East London. David Needle was a Senior Teaching Fellow, Associate Lecturer and Consultant at King's College, University of London, UK. He is a graduate of the University of Liverpool and the London School of Economics and has previously taught at Queen Mary, University of London and University of East London, UK.
Author
East London Business School, University of East London
East London Business School, University of East London
East London Business School, University of East London
East London Business School, University of East London
Lecturer in International Business in the Department of Management, King's College London
Content
Introduction.
PART 1: UNSETTLING ORTHODOXY.
1. Organizational Behaviour and the Individual: Critique of a Consensus (John Chandler).
2. Hidden Capital (Roger Johnston).
3. Postmodernizing Organizational Behaviour: New Organizations or New Organization Theory? (Martin Parker).
PART 2: ORGANIZATIONAL LIVES.
4. Work, Stress and Gender: Conceptualization and Consequence (Heather Clark, John Chandler and Jim Barry).
5. Sex, Work and Sex at Work: Using Foucault to Understand Organizational Relations (Joanna Brewis).
6. New Technologies and Organizational Behaviour (Rod Allen, Nod Miller and Sally Wyatt).
PART 3: THE LIMITATIONS OF MANAGEMENT.
7. Culture at the Level of the Firm: Organizational and Corporate Perspectives (David Needle).
8. Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations (Peter Fenwick and Adrian Murton).
9. Labour Markets and Flexibility, Current Debates and the European Dimension (Adrian Murton).
10. Innovation or Optimization: Facing up to the Challenge of the Global Economy (Andy Adcroft and Robert Willis).
PART 4: THE POLITICS OF ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT.
11. The Social Politics of Business Ethics (Ian Pirie).
12. Responsible Organizational Behaviour?: Business Responses to New Social Movements (Alan Neale).
Subject Index.
Author Index.
PART 1: UNSETTLING ORTHODOXY.
1. Organizational Behaviour and the Individual: Critique of a Consensus (John Chandler).
2. Hidden Capital (Roger Johnston).
3. Postmodernizing Organizational Behaviour: New Organizations or New Organization Theory? (Martin Parker).
PART 2: ORGANIZATIONAL LIVES.
4. Work, Stress and Gender: Conceptualization and Consequence (Heather Clark, John Chandler and Jim Barry).
5. Sex, Work and Sex at Work: Using Foucault to Understand Organizational Relations (Joanna Brewis).
6. New Technologies and Organizational Behaviour (Rod Allen, Nod Miller and Sally Wyatt).
PART 3: THE LIMITATIONS OF MANAGEMENT.
7. Culture at the Level of the Firm: Organizational and Corporate Perspectives (David Needle).
8. Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations (Peter Fenwick and Adrian Murton).
9. Labour Markets and Flexibility, Current Debates and the European Dimension (Adrian Murton).
10. Innovation or Optimization: Facing up to the Challenge of the Global Economy (Andy Adcroft and Robert Willis).
PART 4: THE POLITICS OF ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT.
11. The Social Politics of Business Ethics (Ian Pirie).
12. Responsible Organizational Behaviour?: Business Responses to New Social Movements (Alan Neale).
Subject Index.
Author Index.