Rethinking Organisational Behaviour
A Post-Structuralist Framework
2nd Edition
Published on 18. December 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-0-273-68359-9 (ISBN)
Description
Rethinking Organisational Behaviour engages in an original and thought-provoking approach to the subject. It situates organisational behaviour within recent theoretical developments whose sources -- such as semiotics or poststructuralism -- often lie outside the traditional disciplines of organisational behaviour. In clear and accessible language, the authors provide critical analysis of important elements in understanding organisational behaviour rarely addressed in detail in more conventional textbooks, including knowledge and power, rationality, ideology and self, boundary, efficiency and decision-making.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
860 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-273-68359-9 (9780273683599)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Norman Jackson and Pippa Carter are leading figures in the field of organisational behaviour and are Visiting Fellows at the University of Leicester School of Management.
Content
Detailed Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
Why study organisational behaviour?
How is Rethinking Organisational Behaviour different?
Organisational Behaviour versus organisational behaviour
Rigour versus clarity
Rethinking Organisational Behaviour . . .
The Structure ofRethinking Organisational Behaviour
The Second edition
Chapter 2 Semiotics
The science of symbols
Characteristics of symbols
Links between signifier and signified
Meaning and ambiguity
The functions of symbols
Textuality
Limitations of interpretations
Intersubjectivity
Existing applications in organisational behaviour
Further potential
Organisational behaviour and semiotics
Continuous case: A tale from the village pump (semiotics)
Case study: No smoke without fire?
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
Why study organisational behaviour?
How is Rethinking Organisational Behaviour different?
Organisational Behaviour versus organisational behaviour
Rigour versus clarity
Rethinking Organisational Behaviour . . .
The Structure ofRethinking Organisational Behaviour
The Second edition
Chapter 2 Semiotics
The science of symbols
Characteristics of symbols
Links between signifier and signified
Meaning and ambiguity
The functions of symbols
Textuality
Limitations of interpretations
Intersubjectivity
Existing applications in organisational behaviour
Further potential
Organisational behaviour and semiotics
Continuous case: A tale from the village pump (semiotics)
Case study: No smoke without fire?