The ropes to skip & the ropes to know : the inner life of an organization



Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)

1991

The ropes to skip & the ropes to know : the inner life of an organization

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This book introduces different ways of looking at organizations and learn the ropes through an analysis of the myths, folkways, and rituals that constitute everyday organizational life.

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Title
The ropes to skip & the ropes to know : the inner life of an organization
Creators
  • Ritti, R. Richard
Subject
  • Organizational behavior
Publisher
  • J. Wiley, 1991
  • National Library Board Singapore, 1991
Contributors
  • Funkhouser, G. Ray
Digital Description
application/pdf, xii, 275 p.
Table of Contents
  • A personal introduction -- PART ONE. ENTER THE MEN'S HUT (corporate culture and socialization) -- SECTION ONE. D€ GUSTIBUS NON DISPUTANDUM €ST (socialization and perception) -- SECTION TWO. BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS (socialization and attribution) -- PART TWO. WHAT CAN'T BE CURED MUST BE OBSCURED (the myth and mystery of motivation and decision making) -- SECTION THREE. DOIN' WHAT COMES NATCHERLY (motivation and reinforcement theory) -- SECTION FOUR. TO BE OR NOTTO BE (managerial decision making and motivation) -- WHATSOEVER YE SOWETH ,THAT SHALL YE ALSO REAP (the romance of leadership and the forms of communication) -- SECTION FIVE SKATE FAST OVER THIN ICE (the myth of leadership perception and attribution) -- SECTION SIX. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS (communication as myth, symbol and ritual) -- PART FOUR. MY OBJECT ALL SUBLIME, I SHALL ACHIEVE IN TIME (power, stratification, and managerial mobility) -- SECTION SEVEN THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT. NOR THE BATTLE T O THE S T R O N G (mobility and the power of lower organizational participants) -- SECTION EIGHT. THERE ,BUT FOR THE GRACE Of GOD, GO I (power, status, and cooling out the mark)
Edition
  • 3rd ed.
Copyright
  • All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.