Providing a concise summary of what we know about attitudes, this text suggests we could discover much m ore by adopting novel means, both conceptual and methodologi cal, for studying attitudes in and around organizations. '
Organizing Work to Promote Well-Being and Effectiveness
Examining recent innovations in manufacturin g technologies, techniques and philosophies and how these af fect work design, research and practice, Job and Work Design looks at wider trends and describes possible implications f or the whole organization. '
This work contains case studies in organizational communication suitable for the teaching of organizational behaviour, industrial psychology, communication, or organizational sociology.
The basic concepts of justice in the workplace are introduced and discussed in this book. Using a variety of methods including questionnaires, laboratory studies and field experiments, issues such as impression management, performance appraisals, employee theft and compliance, and monetary and nonmonetary rewards are highlighted.
This concise overview demystifies the field of organizational development and is arranged in a convenient question and answer format within subject areas. The sequence of topics guides the reader from general statements, basic concepts and values to more specific questions concerning the organization and the manager. A list of suggested reading and training programmes is offered in the last section of the book.
Creativity in organizations has become an issue of great importance, but how does a company encourage personnel to find creative solutions to budgeting, product development, marketing and training? With engaging contributions from leading academics and professionals, this book explores the key factors that are critical to the development and promotion of creativity in any organization.
This volume provides a thought-provoking and timely alternative to prevailing approaches to stress at work. These invariably present stress as a 'fact of modern life' and assume it is the individual who must take primary responsibility for his or her capacity - or incapacity - to cope. This book, by contrast, sets stress at work in the context of wider debates about emotion, subjectivity and power in organizations, viewing it as an emotional product of the social and political features of work and organizational life. Tim Newton analyzes the historical development of the dominant `stress discourse' in modern psychology and elsewhere. Drawing on a range of perspectives - from labour process theory to the work of Foucault and Elias - he explores other possible ways of understanding stress at work. He offers a cogent critique of the typical stress management interventions in organizations through which employees are supposed to increase their effectiveness and become `stress-fit'. With contributions from two colleagues, he explores various ways of `rewriting' stress at work. Together they emphasize the gendered nature of stress, the collective production and reproduction of stressful work experiences, and the relation of stress to issues of emotion management and control in organizations.
This book presents a theory of the processes of collective decision-making that draws on theoretical influences, ranging from group decision theory to the authors' social representations theory. The authors offer an analysis of group conflict and the construction of consensus to produce a general theory of collective decisions. Going beyond the traditional view that compromise is a negative process where group members merely comply in order to sustain cohesion, the authors argue that the conflict at the root of group decisions can be a positive force leading to changes in opinion and innovation. Their theoretical framework is illustrated by numerous empirical investigations from around the world, these outline the necessary conditions required to generate consensus and thus to construct new social realities. The text should be of interest to social and organizational psychologists, management scholars and anyone working on inter-group relations and conflict issues.
