Introducing organizational behaviour and management ebook
This popular textbook offers an inspiring and focused introduction to the study of organizational behaviour and management. The second edition builds on the fresh and innovative approach to the study of management and organization introduced in the first edition. To make the subject matter more relevant and accessible, it treats organizational behaviour as a field of activity that has many parallels with everyday life, particularly in relation to participating in organizations and institutions. Uniquely, this textbook presents two distinct and highly contrasting perspectives on organizational behaviour, discussing the alternative critical perspectives alongside the more traditional approaches, to encourage critical thinking and debate. Each chapter has been fully updated by specialist authors who are committed to thinking differently about the field of organizational behaviour. They effectively identify and explore the key concepts that underpin this diverse subject in their respective chapters, utilising a range of international and everyday examples. The second edition benefits from a new four-colour design and uses a variety of pedagogical features to engage students and provide a stimulating learning – and teaching – environment. This text is ideal for use on introductory undergraduate and post graduate courses in Organizational Behaviour and Management. This textbook is autopackaged with Course Mate. Course Mate brings course concepts to life with interactive learning, study, and exam preparation tools that support the printed textbook and the textbook-specific website. Course Mate includes an integrated e Book and interactive teaching and learning tools including quizzes, flashcards, videos, and more and an Engagement Tracker, a first-of-its-kind tool that monitors student engagement in the course. Features Under the guiding hands of David Knights and Hugh Willmott.
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pdf Introducing Organizational Behaviour and Management Authors David Knights + 2 David Knights Tú Nguyễn Hugh Willmott URLViews Abstract: Rationale Established textbooks typically set out to provide a comprehensive tour through a seemingly exhaustive body of knowledge. These texts introduce the field through the provision of detailed summaries of this knowledge in a way that students generally find remote or removed from their everyday experiences. Textbooks in management, work and organisation have typically sought to introduce students to the field by describing a whole series of functions that people in organisations perform and processes and procedures that are adopted. In practice, Organizational Behaviour textbooks have tended to be highly conservative as they are dominated by US definitions of the subject matter. Approaches and contributions that might be critical of management and/or the social and economic order of which they are a part are ignored. There is no analytical or conceptual thread running through these texts : each topic is treated in an atomised, seemingly self-contained way. The texts are also highly cognitive in design, encouraging their readers to act as sponges absorbing their contents. Studying becomes a process of memorising material primarily for purposes of regurgitation in examinations. How it connects to students' experience or has relevance for them beyond the instrumental task of sitting examinations is unclear. The concept of the book This book retains the established topics of first year OB texts but addresses them in a distinctive way. [ See Appendix 3 for evaluation of competitor texts] by • Centralising students' experience. A basic assumption of the text is that students already know a good deal about work organizations and that the value of a textbook resides in drawing out and illuminating this knowledge. We use examples that are of.