Organisations can be bewildering. So can management. This accessible online book tries to sort out some of the simple aspects of both while preserving some of the best academic thinking. It might help- and it might make readers chuckle occasionally.
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What do Organisations look like?
Understanding Organisations
Description
Content
- Characteristics of work organisations
- Introduction
- Formal and informal organisations
- Private and public sectors
- Primary activities
- Task organisations
- Organisational Structure
- Introduction
- Structures
- Organisational culture
- Introduction
- What is corporate culture?
- Determinants of corporate culture
- Schools of Thought
- Deal and Kennedy
- Work hard/play hard
- Bettering
- Process
- Handy