Organizational Behaviour Reassessed: The Impact of Gender

Challenging mainstream accounts of organisational behaviour, which treat gender as an optional extra, this book demonstrates how it can be an essentaial organizing principle.

Table of Contents:
Organizational Behaviour and Gender - Elisabeth M Wilson Personality - Iiris Aaltio-Marjosola and Anne Kovalainen Perception and Stereotyping - Albert J Mills and Elisabeth M Wilson Communication - Sue Newell Motivation - Heather Höpfl Leadership - Beverly Metcalfe and Yochanan Altman Teamworking - Elizabeth Sondhaus and Mary Beth Gallagher Organizational Design - Margaret Dale Organizational Culture - Elisabeth M Wilson Power - Lorraine Green, Wendy Parkin, Jeff Hearn Organizational Change - Judith Foreman

About the Author :
Elisabeth M Wilson is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester. CONTRIBUTORS′ AFFILIATIONS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA: Iiris Aaltio-Marjosola Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Yochanan Altman University of North London Margaret Dale Sheffield Hallam University Judith Foreman Bradford College Lorraine Green University of Huddersfield Jeff Hearn Manchester University Heather Hopfl Newcastle Business School Anne Kovalainen Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki Beverly Metcalfe Staffordshire University Albert J Mills Saint Mary′s University Sue Newell Nottingham Trent University Wendy Parkin University of Huddersfield

Review :
`[C]hallenges mainstream accounts of organizational behaviour and management which treat gender as an optional extra. This book demonstrates that gender can be an essential organizational principle′ -Equal Opportunities Review `Most books on organizational behaviour are still gender-free zones. This book however treats gender as it needs to be treated, as a fundamental organizing principle of organization′ - Professor Paul Iles, of Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University