Organizing & Organizations

Stephen Fineman is Professor of Organizational Behaviour, School of Management, University of BathCONTRIBUTORS′ AFFILIATIONS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA:Gillian Bendelow University of WarwickKaren P Harlos University of Otago, DunedinAvraham N Kluger The Hebrew University of JerusalemBerry Mayall University of LondonAnat Rafaeli Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, HaifaVarda Wasserman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Yiannis Gabriel is Professor of Organizational Theory at Bath University. Yiannis has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.  Yiannis is well known for his work into organizational storytelling and narratives, leadership, management learning and the culture and politics of contemporary consumption. He has used stories as a way of studying numerous social and organizational phenomena including leader-follower relations, group dynamics and fantasies, nostalgia, insults and apologies. He has also carried out extensive research on the psychoanalysis of organizations.  Yiannis is founder and coordinator of the Organizational Storytelling Seminar series, now in its fourteenth year (See http://www.organizational-storytelling.org.uk/), the author of nine books and numerous articles. He is elected to the board of EGOS and is currently Senior Editor of Organization Studies. His enduring fascination as a researcher lies in what he describes as the unmanageable qualities of life in and out of organizations.

• IntroductionEntering and LeavingLifelong LearningMotives and MotivatingRules Are RulesBuildings and OrganizingLeadingPolitics and DealsInfluence and PowerUs and ThemBeing Different?MoralsGreeningMachines and RoutinesInnovation and ChangeFeelingsSexSerious JokingVirtualityCareer ShiftsProducing and ConsumingWorking and LivingLearning and Organizing in Uncertain Times

`An excellent introductory text .... it provides a concise and well-written coverage of the main concepts in organizational behaviour. The combination of case studies and discussion of theoretical issues is well structured and provides the reader with a good framework for further reading′ - Leadership and Organization Development