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

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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473938449 ISBN 13: 9781473938441

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

Get access to an interactive eBook* when you buy the paperback (Print paperback version only)

For the last ten years, more and more students have been won over by Managing and Organizations unparalleled coverage, wisdom and insight into the bustling and complex life of organizations. Now in its Fourth Edition, this unique and highly esteemed text goes from strength to strength, offering:

• seamless coverage of the essential topics of organizational behaviour
• a realist's guide to management capturing the complex life of organizations (the paradoxical, emotional, insecure, self-confident, responsible, irresponsible) and delivering the key themes and debates in an accessible way
• interactive, instructive (and fun) learning aids and features, both in the text and on the companion website
• an attractive, easily navigable, full-colour text design

As well as cutting-edge content and features, new to the fourth edition:

• chapter on Organizational Conflict
• a fully revised range of learning aids and features providing interactive and instructive guidance to encourage critical thinking and the application of real-life experience 
• revised case studies at the end of every chapter that examine key organizational issues in-depth from a diverse range of scenarios
• a fully revised companion website with comprehensive resources, including What Would You Do? author videos
• free access to an interactive e-book with paperback purchases which includes links to additional video, audio and print content, for a more dynamic learning experience, allowing students to read and study, how when and where they want

 (*interactivity only available through Vitalsource eBook)

 

 

About this title

Review

Easily the best introductory text on management and organization available. The key issues are clearly articulates in ways that comprehensively introduce difficult concepts without using simplistic, jargonised language. (Dr Christopher Sykes)

Already a classic in the field, Managing and Organizations' success among teachers and students reflects its comprehensiveness and accuracy. A great handbook from which to teach management. (Dr Jose Bento da Silva)

A rare feat, this text manages to be accessible and mature at the same time. Excellent preparation for diving deeper into organizational science and practice. (Professor Guido Möllering)

This book highlights a range of current issues and reviews contemporary events and issues. (Lesley Mearns)

Great textbook. Takes critical approach to traditional topics and texts. Highly recommended (Mr Christian Lystbaek)

About the Author

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1473938449
• ISBN 13: 9781473938441
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 712