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The Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Know
This story is about me, and some fellow employees in The Company. When I graduated from school and started working for The Company, I never thought it would be so hard-not only learning my job, but also making sense of the everyday events happening all around me. As I soon discovered, learning the ropes at any organization takes time.
Organizational Behavior
A well-written, balanced introduction to organizational behavior in today's workplace! This leading text offers a streamlined, skill-building approach that arms readers with practical knowledge and hands-on experience with OB. An OB Skill Building Workbook provides numerous case studies for critical thinking, experiential exercises, and self-assessment inventories. Plus, each copy of the book includes the Fast Company Handbook of the Business Revolution, a collection of articles on the cutting edge of OB.
Programmers and Managers
Norbert Wiener, perhaps better than anyone else, understood the intimate and delicate relationship between control and communication: that messages intended as commands do not necessarily differ from those intended simply as facts. Wiener noted the paradox when the modem computer was hardly more than a laboratory curiosity. Thirty years later, the same paradox is at the heart of a severe identity crisis which con fronts computer programmers. Are they primarily members of "management" acting as foremen, whose task it is to ensure that orders emanating from executive suites are faithfully trans lated into comprehensible messages? Or are they perhaps sim ply engineers preoccupied with the techn...
Personnel Literature
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Mechanics of the Middle Class
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
Critical Study Of Work
These essays challenge the celebration of globalization and new technologies while trying to make sense of fluid work relations and uncertain employment. The authors highlight themes like race, technology and geography while constructing a critical study of work and the workplace.
New Directions in Criminological Theory
New Directions in Criminological Theory focuses on new approaches to theory construction, with particular emphasis on reformulations and new applications of existing paradigms. It includes an assessment of labeling theory, demonstrating how the approach could become part of a more comprehensive explanation of crime. A case is made for studying crime in terms of the social context in which crimes are conceived, interpreted, and negotiated. The debate between crime-general and crime-specific approaches is further amplified. A rethinking of Hirschi's control theory is presented. The volume includes theoretical discussions of spouse abuse, of punishment, and of power-control models. Additional c...
Poker Faces
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