Organizational Behavior [antikvár]

Preface With this revised edition, we have sought to refine and update a framework that may serve as a set of premises for managing behavior in organizations. Like its predecessor, we hope this volume will provide a basis for informed judgment by current and prospective managers in organizations. Again, we start from a fundamentally "micro" level of analysis and therefore have leaned upon psychology as the underlying discipline from which to borrow concepts and methods for studying individual and group behavior in organizations. However, we have been much more concerned with a balanced and mature treatment of organizational behavior as a discipline in its own right. And, since organizational behavior has its roots in a variety of disci-pHnes, we have not labored under any misguided motive of disciplinary purity or consistency. This edition reflects a number of changes, inspired in many instances by feedback from users of the first edition. In other cases, we have worked from our own interpretation of the trends gathering momentum in the continuing evolution of organizational behavior as an area of inquiry. We now offer three chapters, compared to a single chapter in the previous version, concerned with the organization itself as a behaving entity subject to analysis. A chapter discusses the internal structure of organizations, and another chapter treats the issue of the organization as affected by its external environment. A concluding chapter addresses the problem of organizational change and development, and in so doing attempts to pull together some of the more fundamental object lessons treated separately in preceding chapters. In the first edition. Chapter I offered little more than the usual ritualistic opening remarks. In this version. Chapter 1 is more substantive in character. Some readers will doubtless also judge it to be