Managing For The Future: Organizational Behavior and Procedures - Hardcover

Ancona, Deborah G.; Kochan, Thomas A.; Van Maanen, John; Scully, Maureen; Westney, D. Eleanor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0538875461 ISBN 13: 9780538875462

Publisher: South-Western College Pub, 1998

Synopsis

Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes 2e is designed for the undergraduate or graduate level course in Organizational Behavior. This text's innovative modular approach allows flexibility in choosing course content. Managing for the Future sets the 'new' organization (a flat, flexible, networked, diverse entity) as the context in which managerial action takes place and the three lenses of strategic design, political, and cultural are used to analyze organizations and plan action.

About this title

About the Author:

Deborah Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. She received bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Columbia University. Prior to joining MIT, she was on the faculty of the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. Professor Ancona's major research interests include group processes, team performance, boundary management, and time and timing in organizations. She has published articles in these areas in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Group and Organization Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: South-Western College Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0538875461
• ISBN 13: 9780538875462
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 764