This eagerly awaited introductory textbook provides a fresh approach to the study of Organizational Behaviour and management. Seeking to make the subject matter more relevant and accessible, it treats Organizational Behaviour as a field of activity that has many parallels with what is experienced in everyday life. Students will find it easier to learn about organizations by appreciating how work relations and management activities are not so distant from their own everyday lives. Uniquely, this book presents two distinct and highly contrasting perspectives on Organizational Behaviour. Key elements of what is conventionally studied in the field are introduced and treated as a foil for introducing a critical, less orthodox perspective. Written with the introductory Organizational Behaviour student in mind, this exciting new text has a four-colour design and uses classic pedagogical features such as case studies, think points, discussion questions, learning objectives and linked chapter summaries in order to engage students and provide a stimulating learning and teaching environment.
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"This is an excellent text that scratches beneath surfaces left untouched by many other similar books. It offers students a largely unrivalled means of understanding and critiquing organisational behaviour by foregrounding key concepts such as identity, power, inequality and knowledge. Whilst the primary market for this book is likely to be undergraduate students on business, management and OB programmes it will also be a valuable supplementary text on a range of leadership and management courses in fields such as education, medicine and social work. It should also be of interest to teachers and students of A level Business Studies, particularly for those higher attaining students wishing to add a critical edge to their work in this area." -- Dave Hall - Senior Lecturer in Business Education, School of Education, University of Manchester
"This text is novel and breathes new life into the study of organizational behaviour by providing a very engaging critical lens to topics and issues such as motivation, teams, knowledge, leadership, culture, ethics and globalization. While the breadth of topics is daunting, Knights, Willmott and colleagues have developed a masterfully integrated text that will serve undergraduate and graduate students well."
-- Professor Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta School of Business and National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT)
"The main strengths are the lively and interesting way the chapters are written, and the way in which the critical approaches are introduced to the students."
-- Valerie Caven, Nottingham Trent University
"The strengths of the book are first and foremost that it makes the critical perspective available via some excellent contributors." -- Terry McNulty, University of Liverpool
"There are many good things about this text. It is explicit in its engagement with mainstream and critical material. It avoids the temptation to include every topic under the sun at the expense of depth or excessive length. Having an edited collection works well in that it produces variety in style and approach." -- Patricia Findlay, University of Edinburgh
"This textbook offers a refreshing change from traditional OB books that only offer students a managerial point of view. Taking on all the usual suspects - individual differences, motivation, leadership, organization structure and design, culture, power and politics, and so on - David Knights and Hugh Willmott and their colleagues present received wisdom alongside insightful resistance to and critique of the same. Full of detailed examples that invite students to engage in critical reflection on their own assumptions about how organizations operate as well as on the field of organizational behavior and its proponents, this book will change the way you teach organizational behavior for the better. Reasoned, insightful and even handed are just some of the accolades I give the authors of this fine contribution to the field of organization studies." -- Mary Jo Hatch, Professor Emerita, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia
"This text is novel and breathes new life into the study of organizational behaviour by providing a very engaging critical lens to topics and issues such as motivation, teams, knowledge, leadership, culture, ethics and globalization. While the breadth of topics is daunting, Knights, Willmott and colleagues have developed a masterfully integrated text that will serve undergraduate and graduate students well."
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