Managing Organizations Text Reading and Cases

1. About this book, 2. Behaviour and Organizations, 3. Organizations, Management and You, 4. Attributes of Individuals, 5. Theories of Motivation, 6. Concepts of Learning and Behaviour, 7. The Quality of Working Life, 8. Group Behaviour, 9. Inter-Group Behaviour, 10. Decision-Making, 11. Power and Leadership in Organizations, 12. Organizational Structure, 13. Organizational Culture, 14. Change in Organizations, 15. Alternative Forms of Organization, 16. Classifying Organizational Environments, 17. Understanding Organizational Systems, 18. Environments and Managerial Action, 19. European Business Environment, 20. The National Cultural Environment, 21. Managing the International Organization, 22. The New Worker, 23. The New Manager, 24. The New Organization.

Providing comprehensive coverage, the new edition of this leading text has been fully updated and revised. This innovative book covers the full spectrum of orgnizational behaviour topics. The seven self-contained sections span the range of individual, group and organizational factors, as well as examining changing complex and global environments. The cases and readings are written by internationally known contributors, each relates to and illustrates the main theories presented within the chapters.