This book informs, fascinates, and, 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; and, 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 related to each chapter, summaries of which are given on the website and at the end of each chapter; Links to Relevant Websites: Direct links to related websites for each chapter are provided as appropriate; Flashcard Glossary: The full glossary for Managing and Organizations is online in flashcard format. You can use these flashcards to test your knowledge and revise the key concepts in the text; Interactive Multiple Choice Questions: A sample of selective multiple choice questions are available for students to test and challenge themselves. Interaction Portal: Direct access to the authors to offer your own pictures that you believe represent key concepts, to communicate your glowing praise, or suggestions for improvements, and general Q&A. In the News: From time-to-time, as topical events occur that are of interest to the global readers of Managing and Organizations, one or other of the authors will explain why, in their view, the concerned citizen needs to listen to social science ideas from organizations. Praise for the second edition: 'The book is a true pleasure to read! It is an excellent 'travel guide to the world of management', not only because of its wealth of detailed information and insight, but also because it makes you want to travel! Don't leave home without it! And if you don't go, read it at home!'- Kristian Kreiner, Copenhagen Business School and Director, Center for Management Studies of the Building Process, Realdania Research. '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". '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' - Richard Weiskopf, Department of Organization and Learning, School of Management, Innsbruck University. '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, Goteborg 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 enduringly satisfying than Mcmanagement takeaways or force-fed ivory tower correctness' - Dr Richard J. Badham, Professor of Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney. 'Organizations are complicated and dynamic. This book for future and current managers does not simplify organizations but instead provides concepts, maps, examples, knowledge bits and cases which invite and deepen understanding of the complexity of organizations and organizing. The book is up-to-date yet historically grounded. It is easy to read yet richly textured. It maps the territory of organizational studies in clear and useful ways. Its lively format, excellent examples, and topical coverage make it a unique and highly relevant text for becoming a thoughtful practitioner of organizations' - Jane Dutton, Robert L Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Business Administration and Psychology, University of Michigan. 'In an age where there is saturation of textbooks on managing and organizing, particularly due to their limited impact on management practice, this book provides a truly refreshing perspective. It navigates readers through the art of travel, to learn to manage the unmanageable. It does so by focusing on the powerful connections that need to be made as a number of levels of analysis (macro, meso, micro) and in doing so, it embraces the complexity of managing in its full glory. The focus on practices particularly in section 2 provides a critical bridge between what for many years we have encouraged students to take as a given, as opposed to encourage them to discover. For its truly unique pedagogical approach that cares to engage learners in exploration, this textbook marks an important departure in our efforts to make managing and organizing rigorous, relevant and actionable' - Elena Antonacopoulou, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, University of Liverpool Management School. 'This book is a delight to engage with. It is creative, involving, wise, practical and funny. It makes the learning process a successful and entertaining treasure hunt but is firmly based in rigorous theory and research. It is exactly the kind of inspiring and innovative text which students yearn for but all too rarely find' - Professor Michael West, Executive Dean, Aston Business School. 'A textbook on managing thinking and practice that takes the reader into 'real life', within and outside organizations. It is conceived as a travel guide that allows to connect and make connections between what is already known and what may be discovered and enjoyed during the voyage. It is friendly and challenging, simple and complex at the same time.And, most important, it is faithful: it delivers what is promised in the first lines of its introduction' - Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento, Italy. '"Managing and Organizations" succeeds at being practical and honest in its treatment of working in and with organizations. It challenges students to build their competencies and insights step-by-step while deepening their awareness of opportunities for genuine achievement while working through workplace conflicts and politics' - Denise M. Rousseau, H.J.Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy Director, Project on Evidence-based Organizational Practices Carnegie Mellon University. 'While reading it I sai...
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說實話,初讀此書時,我一度有些不知所措,它似乎完全避開瞭教科書式的清晰框架,更像是一係列高度提煉的、帶著強烈個人色彩的哲學思辨的集閤。文字的密度非常高,我常常需要放慢速度,甚至需要藉助一些外部的經濟學和社會學基礎知識纔能勉強跟上作者的論證綫索。我原以為會讀到一些關於“最佳實踐”的指導手冊,但這本書提供的卻是對“實踐”本身的質疑和顛覆。它挑戰瞭我們對“理性人”假設的迷信,轉而深入探討瞭情緒、非理性選擇以及偶然性在組織決策中的決定性作用。最讓我印象深刻的是其中關於“控製悖論”的章節,作者以一種近乎文學化的筆觸,描繪瞭當組織試圖建立最嚴密的控製係統時,往往也為其內部的失控和意外埋下瞭伏筆。這種洞察力,不是通過數據統計能輕易得齣的,它需要長期的、近距離的觀察和深刻的內省。對於習慣於尋找確定性解決方案的讀者來說,這本書可能帶來一陣“認知上的不適”,因為它不斷地在告訴你:你所尋找的那個穩定的、可預測的“管理”模型,很可能從一開始就是個幻象。但正是這種挑戰,讓人在讀完之後,看待日常管理問題時,視角會變得更為開放和謙遜。
评分這本書的結構和語言風格,簡直就像是邀請你進入一個充滿迷宮的後現代建築群,你永遠不知道下一個轉角會齣現一個關於企業倫理的沉重討論,還是一個關於技術異化的輕快片段。它的跨學科性達到瞭令人驚嘆的程度,信手拈來,就能將福柯的權力分析與西濛的有限理性模型並置討論。這種跳躍性,雖然對閱讀體驗提齣瞭要求,卻極大地拓寬瞭我們對“組織”這個概念的理解邊界。它不再是一個封閉的係統,而是一個開放的、與社會文化、技術變革乃至個體生命經驗持續交織的動態場域。我特彆喜歡其中對“創新”過程的描述,它完全摒棄瞭綫性流程圖的描繪,而是將其描繪成一場充滿瞭妥協、誤解和意外“發明”的泥濘跋涉。對於那些身處快速變化行業、對現有管理模式感到束手無策的領導者來說,這本書提供瞭一種“退後一步”的視角,讓你不再專注於修補舊有的漏洞,而是去理解這些漏洞是如何從係統深處産生的。它不像市麵上那些教你“如何做”的書,它更像是教你“如何思考”的書,而這種思考的深度和廣度,是耗費時間卻絕對值得的投資。
评分這本書的敘事節奏真是令人捉摸不透,有時候像是在平緩的河流上漂流,娓娓道來一些看似瑣碎的日常觀察,但轉過一個彎,又突然被捲入一場關於權力運作和組織結構復雜性的漩渦。我尤其欣賞作者對於“管理”這個概念的解構,它遠不止於我們通常理解的KPI考核或流程優化。書中呈現的案例往往充滿瞭灰色地帶,展現瞭在現實的組織生態中,非正式網絡、文化衝突乃至個體心理如何幽微地塑造瞭最終的決策和績效。比如,關於某個跨國公司在亞洲分部的文化適應性討論,作者並沒有給齣標準答案,而是像一個經驗豐富的田野調查者,細緻地描繪瞭不同層級、不同背景的員工如何用他們自己的方式去“管理”和“被管理”。這種對復雜性的坦誠描繪,讓我這個長期在企業裏摸爬滾打的人,産生瞭一種強烈的共鳴感,仿佛作者偷窺瞭我們辦公室裏那些心照不宣的潛規則。閱讀過程中,我時常需要停下來,反復咀嚼那些關於“意義構建”和“符號權力”的論述,它們像是為我過去那些模糊的睏惑提供瞭一套新的、更加精密的分析工具。這種深度和廣度,使得這本書不僅僅是一本理論讀物,更像是一本組織社會學的現場報告,對於任何想超越錶麵、探究組織深層邏輯的專業人士來說,都是一份不可多得的財富。
评分坦白講,這本書的閱讀門檻不低,它不是那種能讓你在通勤路上輕鬆讀完的“快餐”讀物。它的敘事綫索非常鬆散,作者似乎更側重於捕捉那些轉瞬即逝的、關於人類在集體工作環境中行為模式的“切片”,而非構建一個宏大的、連貫的理論框架。然而,正是這種鬆散感,賦予瞭它一種近乎散文詩般的魅力。我發現自己常常在閱讀某一個關於“信任如何被建構和瓦解”的案例時,會不由自主地聯想到自己過去工作中遇到的情境,那種被精準捕捉到的微妙人性,讓人感到既被理解又有些許不安。作者對語言的運用達到瞭爐火純青的地步,他能用極其精確、甚至略帶學術腔調的詞匯,去描繪那些在辦公室裏被我們用模糊的“感覺”來概括的情緒和互動。這種對微妙性的捕捉,使得這本書在嚴肅性之餘,也帶有一種獨特的文學趣味。它不是一本“工具書”,而更像是一麵鏡子,映照齣組織生活背後的復雜肌理,讓人在閤上書本後,對日常的會議、報告和人際往來,都會産生新的、更具審視性的看法。
评分這本書最引人注目的特點,在於它對於“效率”和“目的性”的近乎激進的批判。在充斥著“敏捷”、“快速迭代”口號的商業環境中,作者像一個冷靜的觀察者,毫不留情地揭示瞭這些看似進步的理念背後,可能隱藏著的對人性的擠壓和對長期價值的犧牲。我特彆留意瞭其中關於“目標漂移”的探討,即組織在追求既定目標的過程中,目標本身是如何被環境和既得利益者重塑和異化的。作者並沒有簡單地將此歸咎於個人失職,而是將其視為組織結構本身的內在張力。閱讀過程中,我常常會産生一種強烈的衝動,想要立刻將書中的某些段落摘錄下來,貼在我的工作電腦旁,以時刻提醒自己:我們所做的一切,是否真的在服務於我們聲稱要服務的那個“組織目標”,還是僅僅在服務於維持這個管理係統本身的運轉?這本書的價值在於,它提供瞭一種必要的、反思性的立場,它強迫讀者走齣日常運營的慣性思維,去質問那些被視為“理所當然”的管理假設。對於渴望從根本上理解組織動力學的思考者而言,這是一次深刻的智力冒險。
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