Organizational Analysis: Essential Readings

Comprehensively encompassing all topics within the area of organizational analysis, this book provides key readings which complement the study of organizations and organizational theory. David Knights and Hugh Willmott's carefully chosen readings are always thought-provoking and occasionally controversial. Classic articles as well as more recent pieces are included. As a whole, this book reflects the significant shifts emerging in organization theory today and will help familiarise the student with the competing paradigms central to the study of organizations. Subjects covered include traditional topics such as leadership, strategy and human resource management, as well as emergent areas such as consumption, diversity, environment and globalization. "Organizational Analysis" will help students learn how to critically analyse original sources and will expand their knowledge of the subject. It is an ideal point of reference for further reading.

ISBN 1408020173   Pages 328 ISBN13 9781408020173 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 646 Publisher Cengage Learning EMEA   Published in London Imprint Cengage Learning EMEA   Height (mm) 247 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 190 Publication date 03 Sep 2010   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 302.35   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		About the Authors
		Acknowledgements
		General Introduction
Chapter 1		Organization Theory		1
		Introduction		1
Reading 1.1		Studying Organizations		4
Reading 1.2		Accounts of Organizations: Organizational "Structures" and the Accounting Process		8
Reading 1.3		Organization Theory as Critical Science?		11
		Discussion Questions		15
		Introduction Reference		15
		Recommended Further Readings		15
Chapter 2		Organizing		17
		Introduction		17
Reading 2.1		Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking		20
Reading 2.2		Knowing in Practice: Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing		26
Reading 2.3		Managers Divided: Organizational Politics and IT Management		33
		Discussion Questions		37
		Recommended Further Readings		37
Chapter 3		Managing		39
		Introduction		39
Reading 3.1		Introducing Critical Theory to Mangement: Management in Critical Perspective		43
Readign 3.2		Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Mangers		47
Reading 3.3		How do Mangers Think? Identity, Morality and Pragmatism in Managerial Theory and Practice		49
Reading 3.4		Rethinking Management and Managerial Work: Capitalism, Control and Subjectivity		53
		Discussion Questions		57
		Introduction References		57
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