Organizational Studies

The objective of Occupy Management: Inspirations and Ideas for Self-Organization and Self-Management is to make it evident to the student why and how he or she can manage without becoming part of corporate power structures. Aimed at postgraduate students studying organizational and management theory..

Occupy Management! is not a simple repetition of essential knowledge of organizational and management theory but a re-direction of such knowledge towards self-management and self-organization...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to business organisation and administration. Written in a straightforward, readable style this textbook covers all the major aspects of the subject. Starting with the organisational background it goes on to cover the functions of the important departme..

Organisational Behaviour is an introduction to understanding behaviour of people in organisations and discusses this behaviour for working in and managing an organisation...

Based upon indepth case studies of companies such as Coca-Cola and 3M this book is an original and comprehensive analysis of learning organisations. Includes interviews with over seventy managers and eployees...

_x005F_x000D_ This book brings together a range of authors that collectively develop a broader understanding of Lefebvre's relevance to organizational studies, including areas of management concern such as strategy and diversity studies, and ultimately draw on Lefebvre’s work to rethink, reimagine a..

This new edition of Organisations and the Business Environment provides a completely revised, extended and updated edition of the original successful text. It provides contemporary and comprehensive coverage of the subject matter which is highly relevant to business and management students at underg..

Taking as its starting point the nature of marketing tasks, this book draws on organizational theories and makes its own contribution to generate insights and understanding about some of the concerns that need to be deal with if marketing success is to be achieved. The book surveys developments in t..

This new and updated third edition of Organization Design looks at how to (re)design an organizational system in order to increase productivity, performance and value. This edition has an enhanced international focus, and new materials, aided by a range of pedagogical features and downloadable resou..

This book is written primarily for junior management and discusses some key issues including: _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ the increasing role of technology in business and management_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ individual and group dynamics_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005..

This book contributes new insights into the organization of free/open source (F/OS) software communities by examining the links between learning, division of labour and commercialization...

This volume makes available in one place the large body of research that has been developed over the years on role motivation theory. Author Jack Miner has always been concerned with unconscious factors in human experience, and this work is designed to give proper emphasis to their role in organizat..