Organizational Studies

This book presents an integrated view of the three main approaches to organization – classical, human relations and systems – showing what each has of value to contribute and how they complement each other. The three approaches are introduced, followed by critical analysis. The main classical proble..

This is a comprehensive, systematic casebook which demonstrates the contribution of research to the formulation and resolution of organisational problems actually faced by managers. The cases are presented in clusters which centre on a particular aspect of organisational behaviour: motivation, group..

This book provides a deeper understanding of job satisfaction and the circumstances under which people participate in various activities, coloring their subjective relationships to them. It also explores the effects of labor market changes and working conditions on work orientations and work attitud..

This book provides a deeper understanding of job satisfaction and the circumstances under which people participate in various activities, coloring their subjective relationships to them. It also explores the effects of labor market changes and working conditions on work orientations and work attitud..

Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1960 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection...

This summary of theory and practice is inspired by the belief that cut and dried solutions to management problems are inappropriate and that every set of circumstances requires a unique synthesis of experience and relevant theories. In this book the authors have reviewed the main texts and theories ..

This book suggests an alternative way of understanding human relating. Highly relevant not only for therapeutic groups but also those who are managing, leading and working in organizations...

This text is the first to bring complexity-based thinking together with management theory and practice, presenting some of the most influential writing in the field and showing how the subject has developed...

This text is the first to bring complexity-based thinking together with management theory and practice, presenting some of the most influential writing in the field and showing how the subject has developed...

Complexity and Organizational Reality updates, revises and builds upon Ralph Stacey’s classic writings offering an alternative way of thinking about management that is based on the ongoing management experience of uncertainty...

Complexity and Organizational Reality updates, revises and builds upon Ralph Stacey’s classic writings offering an alternative way of thinking about management that is based on the ongoing management experience of uncertainty...

The experienced leaders, consultants and managers contributing to this book provide an alternative way of making sense of experience in a rapidly changing world, using reflective rather than idealized accounts of everyday life in organizations...