Overview
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.
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Author: Jim Barry (East London Business School, University of East London) ,
John Chandler (East London Business School, University of East London) ,
Heather Clark (East London Business School, University of East London) ,
Roger Johnston (East London Business School, University of East London)
Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
Imprint: Cengage Learning EMEA
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 18.80cm
, Height: 24.30cm
, Length: 1.50cm
Weight: 0.520kg
ISBN: 9781861521934
ISBN 10: 1861521936
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 02 December 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
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
Author Information
David Needle is Lecturer in International Business in the Department of Management, King's College London. He joined the Department Management as a Teaching Fellow in 2008. He was an undergraduate at the University of Liverpool and completed an MSc in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics. He began his academic career teaching English to mining apprentices and training shop stewards. He has worked in the UK university sector for over 30 years. He joined Kings from the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary, where he spent four years. For several years he was a Head of Department in the Business School at the University of East London, in which capacity he managed and taught postgraduate courses in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Portugal and Germany. During his time with UEL he was seconded to for a period to Ford Motor Company. He teaches courses in international business, comparative management and the evolution of modern business. His consultancy work focuses on human relations issues and change management. Heather Clark is in the Business School's Organization Studies Research Group at the University of East London. 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. Roger Johnston is in the Business School's Organization Studies Research Group at the University of East London.
