Managing and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice - Softcover

Clegg, Stewart R; Kornberger, Martin; Pitsis, Tyrone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412948789 ISBN 13: 9781412948784

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Informs, Fascinates, Inspires Readers to Explore Further...

Now live - the Second Edition's all new companion website for extra resources for instructors and their students

`This is an exciting book. It covers the most important concepts in good currency. The coverage is based on the best and most relevant research. It connects with practical problems. It is written in language that is clear and accessible. It contains innovative exercises to help the readers expand their knowledge beyond simply reading this book' - Chris Argyris, James B. Conant Professor Emeritus, Harvard University and Monitor Group

Preview the Second Edition's opening chapters and guide to its teaching and learning features designed to stimulate student engagement with the content here

The eagerly-awaited Second Edition of this successful, highly-praised textbook continues to provide an original and engaging introduction to organizational behaviour.

Watch Stewart Clegg's video on how the Second Edition will inform, fascinate and inspire readers to explore further

New to the Second Edition:

- Six new chapters for coverage of all essential topics, including: individuals, teams and groups, human resource management, ethics and corporate social responsibility.

- New learning features including boxed sections, case studies, and marginal definitions, to ensure students explore key themes and truly engage with contemporary debates.

The Second Edition relates theory to practice at every step to equip students with a real understanding of how to apply organizational behaviour ideas in the real world. Student-friendly case studies, examples and boxed features will stimulate and challenge students, encouraging them to develop critical thinking skills.

The engaging writing style, extensive learning features, and innovative approach collectively make the Second Edition of Managing and Organizations an outstanding textbook, and one that students will find an insightful guide to help them navigate through the complex and dynamic field of organizational behaviour, management and organization studies.

The All-New Companion Website is now live!

Resources for instructors:

A password-protected Instructors Manual is provided on the website with teaching notes, including:

- A Tutors Guide indicating how the subject might best be taught with insights into debriefing the exercise and case studies found within the textbook.

- Assessment Resources: A wide range of multiple choice, short- and long-answer assessment questions with test generation capabilities. This section also includes model answers for long- and short-answer questions.

- Teaching Resources: An array of extra case studies, and in-class exercises with methods and debriefing sheets, to aid in the quality of the learning experience for students.

- PowerPoint Slides: PowerPoint slides for each chapter for use in class are also provided in the Instructor s Manual on the website. The slides can be edited by instructors to suit teaching styles and needs.

- Teacher Interaction Portal: A portal direct to the authors for textbook related feedback, continuous improvement, recommendations, case contributions, and general Q&A.

Resources for students:

- Online Readings: Full access is provided to selected journal articles relate

About this title

Review

Most textbooks discuss in vitro organizations: bloodless, lifeless, distorted and inanimated, hence ready for study and dissection. This volume is different. Written as a "realist's guide to management", it pictures organizations as they are in the "real world": alive, paradoxical, emotional, insecure, self-confident, responsible, irresponsible. This book, in other words, contains life, the life of organizations. To read this book is to live that life
Miguel Pina e Cunha
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Managing and Organizations is a real adventure...it is a novel, innovative and unconventional textbook, which will not only inform but will also entertain...a real "must" in understanding the process of management and organizational behavior
Professor Cary L Cooper
CBE, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School, and Editor in Chief of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management

Clegg, Kornberger and Pitsis take the reader on a fascinating journey into "the new world of management and organization theory". By moving from the individual to the globalization level, students are introduced to the complexities of managing and organizing.

Critical and practical, scholarly and aesthetically enjoyable.... What more could be expected of a learning and teaching

resource?
Richard Weiskopf
Department of Organization and Learning, School of Management, Innsbruck University

This is an exciting book. It covers the most important concepts in good currency . The coverage is based on the best and most relevant research. It connects with practical problems. It is written in language that is clear and accessible. It contains innovative exercises to help the readers expand their knowledge beyond simply reading this book
Chris Argyrs
James B. Conant Professor Emeritus, Harvard University and Monitor Group

This is truly the most exhaustive textbook on organization and management that ever existed. It conveys complex messages avoiding complicated style; it moves gracefully between the summaries of theories and examples from practice, between models to imitate and errors to be avoided, between micro and macro lenses applied to organizational phenomena. While obviously meant as a travel guide - a thorough and detailed manual for the beginners, it offers many unexpected insights and pearls of wisdom even for the most seasoned travelers interested in knowledge of and about management
Barbara Czarniawska
M.A., E.D, Professor of Management Studies, Göteborg University

This textbook does the impossible: it presents the latest, most complex and most unexpected research findings, it integrates critical perspectives that challenge managerial preconceptions, and it does all this with clear language and a focus on making knowledge useful. It is no wonder that business school faculty, students, and executives throughout the globe have chosen this as their preferred text
Joanne Martin
Merrill Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

This book is both scholarly and fun. It may even give textbooks a good name! I thoroughly recommend it to all students and lecturers who want something more enjoyable, insightful and endu --Martin Merrill

Managing and Organizations is a real adventure...it is a novel, innovative and unconventional textbook, which will not only inform but will also entertain...a real "must; in understanding the process of management and organizational behavior --Professor Cary L Cooper, CBE, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School, and Editor in Chief of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management

This textbook does the impossible: it presents the latest, most complex and most unexpected research findings, it integrates critical perspectives that challenge managerial preconceptions, and it does all this with clear language and a focus on making knowledge useful. It is no wonder that business school faculty, students, and executives throughout the globe have chosen this as their preferred text --Joanne Martin, Merrill Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

About the Author

Martin Kornberger received his PhD form the University of Vienna in 2002. Currently he works as full time Visiting Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. Trained as philosopher, he researches and teaches about practices of organizing, strategizing, accounting, and marketing, and explores how they shape, and are shaped by, the economy and society at large.

 

Stewart Clegg is a prolific publisher of several hundred articles in leading academic journals in strategy, social science, management and organization theory; is also the author and editor of about fifty books, as well as a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the recipient of significant awards from the American Academy of Management for his contributions to management theory and practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1412948789
• ISBN 13: 9781412948784
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 720