Ethics and Organization provides a rich and valuable overview of an increasingly important issue for management and organizations in contemporary society. Debates about equal opportunities, environmental responsibility, consumer redress and corporate governance have given ethics a prominent place in the study of organizations in their social and natural environments. Within the organization, new management styles that seek to energize employees by manipulating their beliefs have highlighted the moral-ethical principles at issue in contemporary management. At the same time debates around postmodernism and relativism have moved ethics to a new centrality in contemporary social theory. Ethics and Organization addresses the questions that these and other developments raise for the study of management and organizations, from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book will be of value to advanced level students and academics engaged in analyzing the moral, political and ethical dimensions of organization theory and organizational practice.
Refreshing and accessible, this new text guides student and practitioner alike through the maze of approaches to the way in which people interact in organizational life. By building their text around six topics central to those who manage in organizations: people; gender; flexibility; groups; learning; and creativity; the authors of this text ......
Donaldson reconceptualises the organisation as a portfolio with a number of different causes of performa nce, which vary over time. Without a performance crisis it i s likely that needed organisational changes will not be fort hcoming. '
This text is the first in a series sponsored by the "Administrative Science Quarterly" designed to focus and stimulate thinking on those areas of administrative science which have most profoundly shaped the development of orgnaizational theory and behaviour. In this volume, the editor has selected and introduced the compendium of ASQ articles on ......
Power and Influence in Organizations is a re search-based exploration of emerging trends and new perspect ives. Each contributor provides insight into their research, an overview of trends, and thoughts about the direction of future research. '
Power and Influence in Organizations is a re search-based exploration of emerging trends and new perspect ives. Each contributor provides insight into their research, an overview of trends, and thoughts about the direction of future research. '
Organized in the form of a provocative discu ssion between key organizational scholars, this text focuses on three different views of identity, functionalist, interp retive and postmodern. '
Managing Radical Organizational Change exami nes how companies in central Europe made the unprecedented m ove from a centrally planned system to a market economy. '
