Understanding business organisations (Routledge in association with the Open University, 2001)
Published as one of a series of four readers for the OU course Understanding business behaviour (B200) - a core course in the OU's BA in Business studies
Includes bibliographical references and index
Organizational aspects of business / David Needle -- The communications and financial revolution and the rise of the multinational corporation / Paul Kennedy -- Work in traditional and modern societies / Craig R. Littler -- Work / C. Wright Mills -- The emergence of new work forms / Graeme Salaman -- Classic theories of bureaucracy / Graeme Salaman -- Work organization, managerial strategies and control / David Dunkerley -- Studying organisations: an introduction / Paul Thompson, David McHugh -- Struggle and resistance / Graeme Salaman -- Re-inventing organisation man? / Paul Thompson, David McHugh -- Organizational structuring and restructuring / Christopher Mabey, Graeme Salaman, John Storey -- Beyond organizational structure: the end of classical forms / Christopher Mabey, Graeme Salaman, John Storey -- Hands, hearts and minds: changing work and workers at the end of the century / Chris Warhurst, Paul Thompson -- Failure / Richard Sennett