Managing and Organizations

作者:Clegg, Stewart/ Kornberger, Martin/ Pitsis, Tyrone

页数:720

出版时间:2008-2

价格:$ 135.60

isbn号码:9781412948777

具体描述

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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我必须承认，我通常对管理学书籍持保留态度，因为它们常常陷入宏大叙事和空洞口号的泥潭，但《组织与管理》这本书却成功地避开了这些陷阱。它最吸引我的地方在于其批判性的视角。作者毫不留情地揭示了在追求效率和利润最大化的过程中，组织是如何异化个体、压抑创造力的。比如，书中对“目标管理”机制的解构，非常犀利地指出了过度量化KPI可能导致的“管道视野”效应——员工只关注能被计分的部分，而忽略了那些真正对组织长期健康至关重要的非量化价值。这种对管理工具的“去魅”过程，对于我们这些在实际工作中被各种流程和指标裹挟的人来说，无疑是一种清醒剂。更让我印象深刻的是，它将“权力”和“伦理”这两个在传统管理学中常常被边缘化的议题，提升到了核心地位。它探讨了当组织面临道德困境时，自上而下的指令是如何在层级结构中被扭曲或稀释的，并鼓励读者去构建一种更具人文关怀的管理哲学。读完后，我对“管理”二字的理解从一套技术，上升到了一个复杂的社会责任领域，这是一种更沉重但也更有意义的转变。

这本书的阅读体验，与其说是在学习知识，不如说是一次智力上的探险。它的文字风格非常自由，时而像一位哲学家在沉思，时而像一位人类学家在田野考察。我特别喜欢作者在阐述理论时，会穿插引用大量历史上的哲学思辨和经典的文学作品，这使得原本可能显得生硬的管理概念，一下子变得有血有肉，充满了人性的张力。举个例子，作者在讨论“组织惰性”时，竟然引用了古希腊悲剧的某些元素来类比组织的僵化反应，这种跨学科的融会贯通，极大地拓宽了我的思维边界。我感觉这本书不是在教我如何管理一个软件团队或一家工厂，而是在教我如何理解“人是如何在群体中行动”这一永恒的命题。它对不同组织结构形态的分类极其精妙，不再是传统的科层制与扁平化的简单二元对立，而是引入了如“蜂巢式”或“神经元式”等更具动态性的模型，这些模型清晰地描绘了在信息爆炸时代，组织形态必须如何适应环境的快速变化。总而言之，这是一本挑战读者固有认知的著作，它要求你不仅用脑，更要用心去感受组织脉搏的跳动。

这本新近读完的《组织与管理》真是让我大开眼界，它不像以往那些枯燥的教科书，而是以一种近乎讲故事的方式，深入剖析了现代商业世界中那些错综复杂的人际网络和权力结构。作者显然对不同文化背景下的管理实践有着深刻的洞察力，书中关于跨国公司内部沟通障碍的案例分析尤其精彩，那种将理论与现实紧密结合的叙事手法，让人在阅读时仿佛置身于那些高层会议室或一线车间，真切感受到决策背后的压力与挣扎。特别是关于“非正式组织”如何影响正式战略执行的那一章，简直是颠覆了我以往对管理层级的理解，原来很多时候，真正推动或阻碍变革的，反而是那些隐藏在组织图谱之外的“隐形力量”。书中对变革管理中员工抵触心理的分析也极其细腻，它没有提供简单的万能药方，而是引导读者去思考，如何通过理解并尊重员工的个体价值，才能实现真正可持续的组织转型。我发现自己经常需要停下来，对照我目前所在环境中的一些现象进行反思，这本书更像是一个深度诊疗工具，而不是一本简单的操作手册。它强调的不是“如何做”，而是“为什么会这样”，这种底层逻辑的梳理，对于任何希望在组织中走得更远的人来说，都是极其宝贵的财富。

这本书真正让我感到兴奋的是它对未来趋势的洞察力，尤其是在技术驱动下，组织边界正在消融的讨论。作者预见到，传统的“组织”概念本身可能正在经历一场根本性的重构。书中对于“分布式治理”和“去中心化决策”的探讨，已经远远超出了当前企业管理的一般讨论范畴，更像是对未来十年工作形态的精准预测。它将组织视为一个流动的能量场，而非一个固定的容器，这种看待方式彻底解放了我的想象力。书中关于“人才资本”的论述也别具一格，它不谈招聘和保留，而是探讨如何构建一个能够自我修复、自我优化的知识生态系统，让那些最优秀的人才能够在不被冗余层级束缚的情况下自由流动和贡献。这本书的语言是充满未来感的，它不是在描述我们现在管理着什么，而是在叩问我们应该如何为一个我们尚未完全理解的未来做准备。阅读它，需要读者具备一定的抽象思维能力，但一旦你跟上了作者的节奏，你会发现自己对“管理”这个概念的理解，已经被提升到了一个战略和预见的高度，让人对未来既感到敬畏，又充满期待。

坦率地说，我最初是被这本书的装帧和名字吸引的，但真正让我震撼的，是它在方法论上的创新。它似乎完全拒绝了传统的自上而下的结构化写作，而是采用了一种碎片化的、相互参照的论述方式。每一章的引入都像是一个开放性的问题，然后通过一系列相互辩证的小节来层层递进，最终导向一个开放式的结论，而非一个板上钉钉的答案。这要求读者必须保持高度的专注力，因为信息不是线性呈现的，你需要自己在大脑中构建知识的框架。我特别欣赏它在处理“组织文化”部分时的态度。它没有试图去“设计”文化，而是聚焦于“文化是如何在日常的微小互动中被无意识地塑造和维护的”。书中记录的一些关于企业内部仪式、口头禅和非正式奖励机制的田野笔记，极其生动地展示了文化是如何渗透到组织肌理中的。这本书更像是一部社会学田野调查的精炼报告，它展示了管理实践的真实面貌——充满了模糊性、偶然性和非理性因素的交织，远非那些流程图所能概括。对于那些厌倦了纯理论灌输的实践者来说，这本书提供了一个更真实、更具挑战性的参照系。