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Sage Handbook of Organizational Behaviour is a fine addition to past works of reference in the field, edited by two prominent scholars who are internationally known. Its approach is both critical and original in many incisive ways, aspiring to a cutting-edge coverage of the core and periphery of OB. Many of the chapter authors stick their necks out and avoid the more obvious, conventional expositions of their topic. It covers a wide range of topics of potential use to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of the subject, as well as academics, researchers and practitioners. It will be of particular interest to those on MBA and DBA courses. It can be strongly recommended as an essential faculty library purchase, as well as a useful tool for individuals interested in having such a guide to the subject at hand' -
Professor Malcolm Warner, Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge`This important
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"This volume is a valuable addition to the organizational behavior literature." -- G. Klinefelter * CHOICE magazine *
Table of Contents
Introduction: Why a Handbook of Macro-Organizational Behaviour? - Stewart Clegg PART ONE: FRAMING THE FIELD: INTRODUCING SOME BIG QUESTIONS What Do OB Tools and Instruments Do? - André Spicer What Does Knowledge Work Do? - Tim Ray Freedom and Constraint under the ′Neo-Liberal′ Regime of Choice - Alan Scott and Richard Weiskopf Managerialism and Its Discontents - Martin Parker Positive Organization Scholarship: What Does It Achieve? - Arran Caza and Kim Cameron PART TWO: MACRO-ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND IMMANENT PROCESSES Learning in Practice - Elena P Antonacopoulou Shaping Organizational Commitment - Robert Roe, Omar Solinger and Woody van Olffen Organizational Power - Raymond Gordon On the (Be)Coming and Going of Organizational Change: Prospect and Retrospect in Sensemaking - Ian Colville Organizational Identity - Andrew Brown Organizational Conflict - Stephen Ackroyd Organizational Careers - Kerr Inkson and Yehuda Baruch Top Management Teams and Team Working - Sarah MacCurtain and Michael West Succession Management: Building Talent Across Organizational Generations - Jay A Conger Leadership - David Collinson PART THREE: MACRO-ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND KEY PRACTICES The Labor Process, Surveillance and the Person in the Sight of the Organization - Graham Sewell Implementing Employment Equity in Gendered Organizations for Gendered Lives - Judith Pringle, Alison M Konrad and Anne-Marie Greene Managing Multiculturally in Organizations in a Diverse Society - Gill Kirton The Organization of Human Resource Strategies: Narratives and Power in Understanding Labour Management in a Context of Fragmentation - Miguel Martinez Lucio Organizational Moral Responsibility - Carl Rhodes and Alison Pullen Organizations and Society: Sustainability Deconstructed - Suzanne Benn Managing Organizational Expressions - Majken Schultz and Mary Jo Hatch Management Fashion and Organizational Behaviour - Rene ten Bos and Stefan Heusinkveld PART FOUR: ORGANIZING ON A MACRO-SCALE Organizational Change Management - David Wilson We Have Always Been Oligarchs: Business Elite in Polyarchy - David Courpasson Organizational Design - Gerard Fairtlough and Rosemary Beckham Projects for Life: Building Narrative Capital for Positive Organizational Change - Arne Carlson and Tyrone Pitsis Corporate Governance - Rob Watson
