Description
In Managing Organizations Stewart Clegg, Cynthia Hardy and Walter Nord explore the major issues and debates in management and organization. The textbook addresses key topics such as leadership, decision-making and innovation in organizations alongside such themes as diversity, globalization and ecology. Students and teachers of management will find this a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on the core issues for contemporary managers and organizations.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Stewart R Clegg, Cynthia Hardy and Walter R Nord
Creative Deconstruction - Richard Whipp
Strategy and Organizations
Leadership in Organizations - Alan Bryman
Decision-Making in Organizations - Susan J Miller, David J Hickson and David C Wilson
Cognitions in Organizations - Anne E Tenbrunsel et al
Diverse Identities in Organizations - Stella M Nkomo and Taylor Cox Jr
Putting Group Information Technology in Its Place - Arthur D Shulman
Communication and Good Work Group Performance
Metaphors of Communication and Organization - Linda L Putnam, Nelson Phillips and Pamela Chapman
Organizations, Technology and Structuring - Karlene H Roberts and Martha Grabowski
Organizing for Innovation - Deborah Dougherty
Organizational Learning - Karl E Weick and Frances Westley
Affirming an Oxymoron
Organizations and the Biosphere - Carolyn P Egri and Lawrence T Pinfield
Ecologies and Environments
Evolution and Revolution - Barbara Parker
From International Business to Globalization
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