Principles of Organizational Behaviour
Robin Fincham(Author)
Oxford University Press
3rd Edition
Published on 1. November 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
600 pages
978-0-19-877577-5 (ISBN)
Description
Principles of Organizational Behaviour has a wide application to the undergraduate market, postgraduate courses such as the MBA, and professional degrees. It is written jointly from psychological and sociological perspectives, and covers the range of disciplines across occupational psychology, group dynamics, and work and organizations. It has been established over the past ten years, filling a market gap for a critical and genuinely multi-disciplinary text. In contrast to many traditional textbooks, it covers problematic areas of conflict and debate, and through a clear writing style complex ideas are communicated in an interesting and accessible way. Without simply overturning established ideas, alternatives are outlined, making the book both useful and comprehensive, academic and practical. This new edition progresses through clearly structured levels of analysis: individual, group, organization, and society.
It is substantially revised, updated and newly formatted, and includes additional material on job analysis and competencies, individual differences and their assessment, subjectivity and the labour process, employee involvement, managerial work, organizational design, change management, and the gendering of work. It also contains new features, in the shape of case examples, study questions and learning objectives.
It is substantially revised, updated and newly formatted, and includes additional material on job analysis and competencies, individual differences and their assessment, subjectivity and the labour process, employee involvement, managerial work, organizational design, change management, and the gendering of work. It also contains new features, in the shape of case examples, study questions and learning objectives.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
25 figures
ISBN-13
978-0-19-877577-5 (9780198775775)
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Previous edition
Robin Fincham
Individual, Work and Organization
Book
03/1995
Oxford University Press
€49.52
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Content
Introduction; SECTION ONE: THE INDIVIDUAL AND WORK; 1. Learning; 2. Stress; 3. Individual differences; 4. Assessing individual differences; 5. Motivation and job satisfaction; SECTION TWO: GROUPS AND WORK; 6. Social interaction; 7. Group and intergroup behaviour; 8. Leadership; SECTION THREE: PATTERNS OF WORK; 9. Work - the classical approach; 10. Conflict and consent in work; 11. Alternative work design; SECTION FOUR: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS; 12. Structure and control in organizations; 13. Structure and performance in organizations; SECTION FIVE: ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES; 14. Managerial processes and change; 15. Organizational culture; 16. Power and organizations; SECTION SIX: DIVISIONS OF LABOUR; 17. Markets and occupations; 18. Gender and employment; 19. Technology in the workplace; 20. New systems of work organization