Routledge in association with the Open University,
2001.
1 online resource (vi, 218 pages) :
illustrations
Understanding business behaviour
Published as one of a series of four readers for the OU course Understanding business behaviour (B200) - a core course in the OU's BA in Business studies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Organizational aspects of business / David Needle -- The communications and financial revolution and the rise of the multinational corporation / Paul Kennedy -- Work in traditional and modern societies / Craig R. Littler -- Work / C. Wright Mills -- The emergence of new work forms / Graeme Salaman -- Classic theories of bureaucracy / Graeme Salaman -- Work organization, managerial strategies and control / David Dunkerley -- Studying organisations: an introduction / Paul Thompson, David McHugh -- Struggle and resistance / Graeme Salaman -- Re-inventing organisation man? / Paul Thompson, David McHugh -- Organizational structuring and restructuring / Christopher Mabey, Graeme Salaman, John Storey -- Beyond organizational structure: the end of classical forms / Christopher Mabey, Graeme Salaman, John Storey -- Hands, hearts and minds: changing work and workers at the end of the century / Chris Warhurst, Paul Thompson -- Failure / Richard Sennett.
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Organisational theory is vitally relevant to today's student of business. Understanding Business Organisations introduces the student to classic debates and new perspectives on organisations through a wide ranging but approachable selection of readings.This text:* considers why organisations matter to employees and customers * discusses theories of the organisation as a mode of empowerment and of control.Examining these theories in the light of current programmes of organisational change gives the book a case study element that will be invaluable for teaching and learn.