Organizing & Organizations: An Introduction - Rilegato

Gabriel, Yiannis; Fineman, Stephen; Sims, David

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0761962794 ISBN 13: 9780761962793

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Ltd, 2000

Riassunto

In Praise of the First Edition

`Excellent thesaurus entries.... The book will undoubtedly appeal to students who know little or nothing of life in organizations and who have no need to get to grips with the differences between the theoretical perspectives' - Management Learning

This long awaited Second Edition of Organizing & Organizations builds on the success of the First Edition, this ground-breaking text conveys the `lived experience' of being and working in organizations, while at the same time introducing students to key concepts, research and literature in organizational analysis. The Second Edition includes additional chapters which take account of

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L'autore

Yiannis Gabriel is Professor of Organizational Theory at Bath University. Yiannis has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Yiannis is well known for his work into organizational storytelling and narratives, leadership, management learning and the culture and politics of contemporary consumption. He has used stories as a way of studying numerous social and organizational phenomena including leader-follower relations, group dynamics and fantasies, nostalgia, insults and apologies. He has also carried out extensive research on the psychoanalysis of organizations.

 

Yiannis is founder and coordinator of the Organizational Storytelling Seminar series, now in its fourteenth year (See http://www.organizational-storytelling.org.uk/), the author of nine books and numerous articles. He is elected to the board of EGOS and is currently Senior Editor of Organization Studies. His enduring fascination as a researcher lies in what he describes as the unmanageable qualities of life in and out of organizations.

Contenuti

Introduction
Organization and Organizing
Entering and Leaving
Rules Are Rules
Dealing and Double-Dealing
Morals
Greening
It's Not My Problem
Learning the Ropes
Machines and Mechanizing
Leading and Following
Judging Others
Feelings
Sex
Serious Joking
Us and Them
Managing Differences and Diversity
Career-ing
Producing and Consuming
Working and Living
Learning and Organizing in Uncertain Times
Notes
Thesaurus

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0761962794
• ISBN 13: 9780761962793
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 388