Organizational Behaviour and Work or The Commercialization of American Culture

Organizational Behaviour and Work: A Critical Introduction

Author: Fiona Wilson

This book provides a critical approach to the study of work and organizational behavior, questioning what organizational behavior is and how it has been researched and discussed. Written as an introductory textbook, the book aims to stimulate readers towards further questions and their own research.

This book is unique in that it deals directly with the weaknesses of theories of topics such as motivation, leadership and teambuilding while also covering topical subjects such as theft, fun, sex, romance, bullying, harassment, resistance, exploitation, unequal power relations and sabotage. This book gives a realist's perspective of what constitutes organizational behavior, providing a critique of the latest research from the gurus of management whilst also describing the realities of work and behavior found in organizations.

This new, second edition of Fiona Wilson's successful critical textbook is fully updated and expanded to include new chapters on scene setting, motivation, teams and teamworking, culture, leadership, change and organizational learning. Established sections such as unemployment, organizational misbehavior and sexuality have been updated and expanded.
The text has retained its unique critical stance while also encouraging greater student understanding and accessibility. The background to the major theories is explained and each chapter contains a wealth of student learning features including, chapter introductions, topical case studies, examples, stop boxes, group exercises, end of chapter questions, further reading and web links.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
1	Scene Setting	7
2	Rationality: From Founding Fathers to Eugenics. Is it all about Fitting Worders to Jobs?	25
3	Rationality and Bureaucracy	49
4	What Work Means	65
5	The View from Below	73
6	Sexuality, Sex Typing, Managing Emotions, and Feeling in Control	91
7	When Organizational Behaviour is not so 'Good'	105
8	The View from Above: What Managers Do	127
9	Motivation	145
10	Power, Control, and Resistance	163
11	Culture	179
12	Teams and Teamworking	205
13	Organizational Learning	223
14	Leadership	237
15	Health, Well-Being, and Stress	253
16	Being Unemployed, Being a Volunteer, and Being 'on the Fiddle'	265
17	All Change?	277
18	Alternative Organizations	297
	Index	309

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The Commercialization of American Culture: New Advertising, Control and Democracy

Author: Matthew P McAllister

Divided into eight elaborate and well-defined chapters that leave out almost nothing that's relevant, Mathew P. McAllister-who is associated with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute-takes a graphic look at the advertising and consumer scene in America. . . . A bible, quran, bhagwatgita rolled into one for all concerned about a habitable universe." --Suresh Kohli in The Hindustan Times "This critical analysis should toss around American thinking on the subject of advertising as much as Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders (1957) did. Matthew P. McAllister has written a classic, showing advertising's invasion of everything--classrooms, doctors' offices, sports arenas, concert halls, museums. . . . Systematically researched, organized, and documented, this book should be required reading for advertising and media students and for the general public."

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The media, which are essential to the well-being of a democracy, are doing a poor job in serving a participatory citizenship, and are likely to do an even worse job in the future, says McAllister (communication studies, Va. Polytechnic Inst. and State U.). A large reason, he argues, is the current direction of advertising--the fuel that powers the engine of media--in an era of one- newspaper towns, cable monopolies, and homogeneous mall theater chains. He explores advertising tactics such as place-based media, cross-promotion, and product placement in movies, and shows that these phenomena are related, sparked by the same trends and often designed to accomplish the same goals. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)