Work & Organizational Behaviour

PART I: WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Capitalism and Organizational Behaviour
The Social Nature of Work
Studying Work and Organizations
PART II: INDIVIDUALS AND WORK
Personality and Identity
Perception and Emotion
Learning and Innovation
Motivation at Work
Gender, Race, Disability and Class
PART III: GROUPS AND SOCIAL INTERACTION
Groups and Teams
PART IV: ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE, PROCESSES AND PERFORMANCE
Organizational Design
Technology in Work Organizations
Organizational Culture
Leadership and Change
Communications
Decision Making and Ethics
Power, Politics and Conflict
Human Resource Management

JOHN BRATTON is Professor of Sociology at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada. He was the first Director of the Workplace Learning Research Unit at the University of Calgary. In the UK he has served on the faculties of Leeds Business School, the University of Bradford and the Open University. PETER H SAWCHUK is Associate Professor in the Sociology and Equity studies department at the University of Toronto, Canada, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Education& Work. CAROLYN FORSHAW currently works as a communications consultant. She has lectured in professional writing at Thompson Rivers University and has had more than twenty-five years experience in the field in the UK and Canada. MILITZA CALLINAN is a Chartered Psychologist and lectures in organizational behaviour and human resource management at Leeds University Business School, UK, where she is also Programme Director for the MSc Management course. MARTIN CORBETT is a Chartered Psychologist and is Associate Professor of Industrial relations and Organisational Behaviour at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK.

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