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- Managing and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practic
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- 2008-02-01
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- 2
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- 9781412948784
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
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- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Managing and Organizations : an Introduction to Theory and Practice
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- 1.2in
- Item Length
- 9.7in
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications, The Limited
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- 7.3in
- Item Weight
- 58.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 720 Pages
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"While reading it I said to myself, ?it is so much easier for students to get an introduction to the field when they are helped and challenged at the same time.'? It is a pleasure to read the text."?Dr. Mads Hermansen, Copenhagen Business School "The writing style is very clear and accessible ? the text covers some complex ideas at both a detailed and advanced level, but it doesn't confuse or befuddle... It?'s different, engaging, and critical? Well done."?Mairi Watson, De Montfort University The eagerly-awaited Second Edition of this successful, highly-praised textbook continues to provide an original and engaging introduction to organizational behavior. Now completely revised and restructured, Stewart Clegg, Martin Kornberger, and Tyrone Pitsis succeed in relating theory to practice at every step to equip students with a real understanding of how to apply organizational behavior ideas in the real world. Student-friendly case studies, examples and boxed features will stimulate and challenge students, encouraging them to develop critical thinking skills. New to the Second EditionSix new chapters for coverage of all essential topics, including: individuals, teams and groups, human resource management, ethics, and corporate social responsibility. New learning features including boxed sections, case studies, and marginal definitions, to ensure students explore key themes and truly engage with contemporary debates. A new companion website and full instructors manual. Students have free access to hundreds of multiple choice questions, downloadable journal articles, extra case studies and author podcasts. Clegg et al?'s engaging writing style, extensivelearning features, and innovative approach collectively make the new edition of Managing and Organizations an outstanding textbook, and one that students will find an insightful guide to help them navigate through the complex and dynamic field of organizational behavior, management, and organization studies.
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SAGE Publications, The Limited
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1412948789
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9781412948784
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Managing and Organizations : an Introduction to Theory and Practice
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
720 Pages
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Item Length
9.7in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
7.3in
Item Weight
58.1 Oz
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" Managing & Organization: An Introduction to Theory and Practice " is a scholarly, educational text for business leaders looking to gain a comprehensive understanding of this core concept of business...is a must for any classroom teaching the subject, and for college library business collections.", SOrganizations are complicated and dynamic. This book for future and current managers does not simplify organizations but instead provides concepts, maps, examples, knowledge bits and cases which invite and deepen understanding of the complexity of organizations and organizing. The book is up-to-date yet historically grounded. It is easy to read yet richly textured. It maps the territory of organizational studies in clear and useful ways. Its lively format, excellent examples, and topical coverage make it a unique and highly relevant text for becoming a thoughtful practitioner of organizations., This is an exciting book. It covers the most important concepts in good currency. The coverage is based on the best and most relevant research. It connects with practical problems. It is written in language that is clear and accessible. It contains innovative exercises to help the readers expand their knowledge beyond simply reading this book., "Managing & Organization: An Introduction to Theory and Practice" is a scholarly, educational text for business leaders looking to gain a comprehensive understanding of this core concept of business...is a must for any classroom teaching the subject, and for college library business collections.", This textbook does the impossible: it presents the latest, most complex and most unexpected research findings, it integrates critical perspectives that challenge managerial preconceptions, and it does all this with clear language and a focus on making knowledge useful. It is no wonder that business school faculty, students, and executives throughout the globe have chosen this as their preferred text., Organizations are complicated and dynamic. This book for future and current managers does not simplify organizations but instead provides concepts, maps, examples, knowledge bits and cases which invite and deepen understanding of the complexity of organizations and organizing. The book is up-to-date yet historically grounded. It is easy to read yet richly textured. It maps the territory of organizational studies in clear and useful ways. Its lively format, excellent examples, and topical coverage make it a unique and highly relevant text for becoming a thoughtful practitioner of organizations., SThis is an exciting book. It covers the most important concepts in good currency. The coverage is based on the best and most relevant research. It connects with practical problems. It is written in language that is clear and accessible. It contains innovative exercises to help the readers expand their knowledge beyond simply reading this book., SThis textbook does the impossible: it presents the latest, most complex and most unexpected research findings, it integrates critical perspectives that challenge managerial preconceptions, and it does all this with clear language and a focus on making knowledge useful. It is no wonder that business school faculty, students, and executives throughout the globe have chosen this as their preferred text., Most textbooks discuss in vitro organizations: bloodless, lifeless, distorted and inanimated, hence ready for study and dissection. This volume is different. Written as a "realist's guide to management", it pictures organizations as they are in the "real world": alive, paradoxical, emotional, insecure, self-confident, responsible, irresponsible. This book, in other words, contains life, the life of organizations. To read this book is to live that life Miguel Pina e Cunha Universidade Nova de Lisboa Managing and Organizations is a real adventure...it is a novel, innovative and unconventional textbook, which will not only inform but will also entertain...a real "must" in understanding the process of management and organizational behavior Professor Cary L Cooper CBE, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School, and Editor in Chief of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management Clegg, Kornberger and Pitsis take the reader on a fascinating journey into "the new world of management and organization theory". By moving from the individual to the globalization level, students are introduced to the complexities of managing and organizing. Critical and practical, scholarly and aesthetically enjoyable…. What more could be expected of a learning and teaching resource? Richard Weiskopf Department of Organization and Learning, School of Management, Innsbruck University This is an exciting book. It covers the most important concepts in good currency . The coverage is based on the best and most relevant research. It connects with practical problems. It is written in language that is clear and accessible. It contains innovative exercises to help the readers expand their knowledge beyond simply reading this book Chris Argyrs James B. Conant Professor Emeritus, Harvard University and Monitor Group This is truly the most exhaustive textbook on organization and management that ever existed. It conveys complex messages avoiding complicated style; it moves gracefully between the summaries of theories and examples from practice, between models to imitate and errors to be avoided, between micro and macro lenses applied to organizational phenomena. While obviously meant as a travel guide - a thorough and detailed manual for the beginners, it offers many unexpected insights and pearls of wisdom even for the most seasoned travelers interested in knowledge of and about management Barbara Czarniawska M.A., E.D, Professor of Management Studies, Göteborg University This textbook does the impossible: it presents the latest, most complex and most unexpected research findings, it integrates critical perspectives that challenge managerial preconceptions, and it does all this with clear language and a focus on making knowledge useful. It is no wonder that business school faculty, students, and executives throughout the globe have chosen this as their preferred text Joanne Martin Merrill Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University This book is both scholarly and fun. It may even give textbooks a good name! I thoroughly recommend it to all students and lecturers who want something more enjoyable, insightful and enduringly satisfying than Mcmanagement takeaways or force-fed ivory tower correctness Dr Richard J. Badham Professor of Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney, 'Most textbooks discuss in vitro organizations: bloodless, lifeless, distorted and inanimated, hence ready for study and dissection. This volume is different. Written as a "realist's guide to management", it pictures organizations as they are in the "real world": alive, paradoxical, emotional, insecure, self-confident, responsible, irresponsible. This book, in other words, contains life, the life of organizations. To read this book is to live that life' - Miguel Pina e Cunha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa 'Managing and Organizations is a real adventure...it is a novel, innovative and unconventional textbook, which will not only inform but will also entertain...a real "must" in understanding the process of management and organizational behavior' - Professor Cary L Cooper, CBE, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School, and Editor in Chief of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management 'Clegg, Kornberger and Pitsis take the reader on a fascinating journey into "the new world of management and organization theory". By moving from the individual to the globalization level, students are introduced to the complexities of managing and organizing. Critical and practical, scholarly and aesthetically enjoyable.... What more could be expected of a learning and teaching resource?' - Richard Weiskopf, Department of Organization and Learning, School of Management, Innsbruck University 'This is an exciting book. It covers the most important concepts in good currency . The coverage is based on the best and most relevant research. It connects with practical problems. It is written in language that is clear and accessible. It contains innovative exercises to help the readers expand their knowledge beyond simply reading this book' - Chris Argyrs, James B. Conant Professor Emeritus, Harvard University and Monitor Group 'This is truly the most exhaustive textbook on organization and management that ever existed. It conveys complex messages avoiding complicated sty≤ it moves gracefully between the summaries of theories and examples from practice, between models to imitate and errors to be avoided, between micro and macro lenses applied to organizational phenomena. While obviously meant as a travel guide - a thorough and detailed manual for the beginners, it offers many unexpected insights and pearls of wisdom even for the most seasoned travelers interested in knowledge of and about management' - Barbara Czarniawska, M.A., E.D, Professor of Management Studies, G teborg University 'This textbook does the impossible: it presents the latest, most complex and most unexpected research findings, it integrates critical perspectives that challenge managerial preconceptions, and it does all this with clear language and a focus on making knowledge useful. It is no wonder that business school faculty, students, and executives throughout the globe have chosen this as their preferred text' - Joanne Martin, Merrill Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University 'This book is both scholarly and fun. It may even give textbooks a good name! I thoroughly recommend it to all students and lecturers who want something more enjoyable, insightful and enduringly satisfying than Mcmanagement takeaways or force-fed ivory tower correctness' - Dr Richard J. Badham, Professor of Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney, 'Most textbooks discuss in vitro organizations: bloodless, lifeless, distorted and inanimated, hence ready for study and dissection. This volume is different. Written as a "realist's guide to management", it pictures organizations as they are in the "real world": alive, paradoxical, emotional, insecure, self-confident, responsible, irresponsible. This book, in other words, contains life, the life of organizations. To read this book is to live that life' - Miguel Pina e Cunha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa'Managing and Organizations is a real adventure...it is a novel, innovative and unconventional textbook, which will not only inform but will also entertain...a real "must" in understanding the process of management and organizational behavior' - Professor Cary L Cooper, CBE, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School, and Editor in Chief of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management'Clegg, Kornberger and Pitsis take the reader on a fascinating journey into "the new world of management and organization theory". By moving from the individual to the globalization level, students are introduced to the complexities of managing and organizing.Critical and practical, scholarly and aesthetically enjoyable…. What more could be expected of a learning and teachingresource?' - Richard Weiskopf, Department of Organization and Learning, School of Management, Innsbruck University'This is an exciting book. It covers the most important concepts in good currency . The coverage is based on the best and most relevant research. It connects with practical problems. It is written in language that is clear and accessible. It contains innovative exercises to help the readers expand their knowledge beyond simply reading this book' - Chris Argyrs, James B. Conant Professor Emeritus, Harvard University and Monitor Group'This is truly the most exhaustive textbook on organization and management that ever existed. It conveys complex messages avoiding complicated style; it moves gracefully between the summaries of theories and examples from practice, between models to imitate and errors to be avoided, between micro and macro lenses applied to organizational phenomena. While obviously meant as a travel guide - a thorough and detailed manual for the beginners, it offers many unexpected insights and pearls of wisdom even for the most seasoned travelers interested in knowledge of and about management' - Barbara Czarniawska, M.A., E.D, Professor of Management Studies, Göteborg University'This textbook does the impossible: it presents the latest, most complex and most unexpected research findings, it integrates critical perspectives that challenge managerial preconceptions, and it does all this with clear language and a focus on making knowledge useful. It is no wonder that business school faculty, students, and executives throughout the globe have chosen this as their preferred text' - Joanne Martin, Merrill Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University'This book is both scholarly and fun. It may even give textbooks a good name! I thoroughly recommend it to all students and lecturers who want something more enjoyable, insightful and enduringly satisfying than Mcmanagement takeaways or force-fed ivory tower correctness' - Dr Richard J. Badham,, SManaging and Organizations is a real adventure...it is a novel, innovative and unconventional textbook, which will not only inform but will also entertain...a real must " in understanding the process of management and organizational behavior., Managing and Organizations is a real adventure...it is a novel, innovative and unconventional textbook, which will not only inform but will also entertain...a real 'must' in understanding the process of management and organizational behavior., Enhanced with a companion website and teacher's manual, 'Managing & Organization: An Introduction to Theory and Practice' is a must for any classroom teaching the subject, and for college library business collections.
Table of Content
PART ONE: MANAGING PEOPLE IN ORGANIZATIONS Managing Individuals Managing Teams and Groups Managing Leading, Coaching and Motivating Managing Human Resources Managing Cultures PART TWO: MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES Managing Power, Politics and Decision-Making Managing Communications Managing Knowledge and Learning Managing Innovation and Change Managing Sustainably Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility PART THREE: MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES Managing One Best Way? Managing Bureaucracy and McDonaldization Managing Organizational Design Managing Globalization
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Human Resources & Personnel Management, Organizational Behavior, Management, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Dewey Decimal
658
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Education, Business & Economics
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