1. Introduction
Part I. The human dimension
2. Motivation and the self
3. Individual differences, personality and self
4. Groups and teams at work
5. Managing people: Contexts of HRM, diversity and social inequality
Part II. The organizational dimension
6. Organization, structure and design
7. Management and leadership
8. Politics and decision-making in organizations
9. Culture
10. Technology
Part III. Emergent issues
11. Globalization and organizations
12. Ethics at work
13. Management and sustainability
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David Knights
David Knights is Emeritus Professor, Lancaster University Management School, UK and a Professor at Oxford Brookes Business School, UK. He has held previous professorships at Exeter, Keele, Nottingham and Manchester Universities and visiting chairs at Gothenburg, Stockholm, Melbourne, Macquarie and Sydney Universities. He is a founding and continuing editor of the journal Gender, Work and Organisation. He is also the founder and continuing director of the Financial Services Research Forum that funds academic research and engages in critical debate on this sector with practitioners from corporations, government departments, regulators, consumer interests and voluntary bodies. He is the co-author of Organizational Analysis with H. Willmott (Cengage, 2010), and Gender, Work and Organization with E. Jeanes and P. Yancey-Martin (Blackwell/Wiley, 2010).
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Hugh Willmott
Hugh Wilmott is Professor of Management, Bayes Business School, City University London, UK and also holds the position of Professor of Organization Studies at Cardiff Business School, Wales. He has previously held professorial appointments at Cambridge (Judge Business School) and UMIST (now Manchester Business School), both UK, and visiting appointments at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, University of Sydney, Australia, and Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published widely with over 20 books including Organization Theory and Design, and contributed to a range of management and social science journals. Hugh is a past Associate Editor on The Academy of Management Review and also served an equivalent role on the journal Organization. He has been a board member of numerous other journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies.
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Cutting-edge new chapter on sustainability provides the latest debates and approaches that have been adopted to address the issue in contemporary organizations.
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Updated throughout with new content, research and examples to reflect the rapidly changing world, including the inequality virus (Oxfam/COVID-19), critical leadership studies, ‘fun’ cultures and the gamification of work, the factors that drive globalization and the role of culture.
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A fully updated companion website is available with guidance for tutors including instructor manuals and PowerPoint slides, as well as essay questions, online cases and a variety of question sets.
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Introduces students to the orthodox view of organizational behaviour before guiding them through alternative outlooks.
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An integrative framework with six core concepts of power, identity, knowledge, freedom, inequality and insecurity is used to explore key topics.
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The text looks at the sociological aspects of organizational behaviour and encourages students to think about the academic theory behind the subject.
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A fully updated companion website is available to support instructors’ course, including PowerPoint slides, a test bank and Instructor’s Manual.