Work organisations : a critical introduction / Paul Thompson and David McHugh.
Material type:
TextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2002.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xviii, 461 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780333949917
- 306.36 THO 21
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 306.36 THO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100683888 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Previous ed.: Basingstoke: Macmillan Business, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of tables and figures (p. xi)
- Acknowledgements (p. xii)
- Introduction (p. xiii)
- Part I
- 1 Studying organisations: an introduction (p. 3)
- 2 The emergence of large-scale organisations (p. 20)
- 3 Taylor, Weber and the bureaucratisation of the workplace (p. 29)
- 4 Managing the human factor (p. 42)
- 5 Organisations and environments (p. 54)
- 6 Capital, labour and the state in a globalising era (p. 70)
- 7 Management (p. 87)
- 8 Control: concepts and strategies (p. 101)
- 9 Power, conflict and resistance (p. 117)
- 10 Gender, sexuality and organisations (p. 132)
- 11 New Economy, new organisations? (p. 149)
- 12 Continuity and change at work (p. 167)
- 13 Corporations and culture: reinventing organisation man? (p. 191)
- Part II
- 14 Understanding organisational behaviour: issues and agendas (p. 213)
- 15 Masks for tasks: perception, attitudes and personality (p. 222)
- 16 Learning, change and innovation (p. 240)
- 17 Open to persuasion: communication and leadership (p. 260)
- 18 Putting the pressure on: stress, work and emotion (p. 277)
- 19 Motivation: the drive for satisfaction (p. 294)
- 20 From groups to teams (p. 316)
- 21 Identity work (p. 334)
- Part III Theorising organisations (p. 355)
- Introduction: the story so far (p. 355)
- 22 Resources for orthodoxy (p. 357)
- 23 Critical alternatives (p. 363)
- 24 Critical social psychologies (p. 381)
- 25 Theory, knowledge and practice (p. 388)
- References (p. 396)
- Name index (p. 446)
- Subject index (p. 456)