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.
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.