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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Fineman is Professor of Organizational Behaviour, School of Management, University of Bath CONTRIBUTORS' AFFILIATIONS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA: Gillian Bendelow University of Warwick Karen P Harlos University of Otago, Dunedin Avraham N Kluger The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Berry Mayall University of London Anat Rafaeli Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Haifa Varda Wasserman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Yiannis Gabriel is Professor of Organizational Theory at Bath University. Yiannis has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Yiannis is well known for his work into organizational storytelling and narratives, leadership, management learning and the culture and politics of contemporary consumption. He has used stories as a way of studying numerous social and organizational phenomena including leader-follower relations, group dynamics and fantasies, nostalgia, insults and apologies. He has also carried out extensive research on the psychoanalysis of organizations. Yiannis is founder and coordinator of the Organizational Storytelling Seminar series, now in its fourteenth year (See http://www.organizational-storytelling.org.uk/ ), the author of nine books and numerous articles. He is elected to the board of EGOS and is currently Senior Editor of Organization Studies. His enduring fascination as a researcher lies in what he describes as the unmanageable qualities of life in and out of organizations. Klappentext `An excellent introductory text .... it provides a concise and well-written coverage of the main concepts in organizational behaviour ' - Leadership and Organization Development Zusammenfassung `An excellent introductory text .... it provides a concise and well-written coverage of the main concepts in organizational behaviour ' - Leadership and Organization Development Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Entering and Leaving Lifelong Learning Motives and Motivating Rules Are Rules Buildings and Organizing Leading Politics and Deals Influence and Power Us and Them Being Different? Morals Greening Machines and Routines Innovation and Change Feelings Sex Serious Joking Virtuality Career Shifts Producing and Consuming Working and Living Learning and Organizing in Uncertain Times ...
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Introduction
Entering and Leaving
Lifelong Learning
Motives and Motivating
Rules Are Rules
Buildings and Organizing
Leading
Politics and Deals
Influence and Power
Us and Them
Being Different?
Morals
Greening
Machines and Routines
Innovation and Change
Feelings
Sex
Serious Joking
Virtuality
Career Shifts
Producing and Consuming
Working and Living
Learning and Organizing in Uncertain Times
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`An excellent introductory text .... it provides a concise and well-written coverage of the main concepts in organizational behaviour. The combination of case studies and discussion of theoretical issues is well structured and provides the reader with a good framework for further reading' - Leadership and Organization Development
