Reading Organization Theory: A Critical Approach to the Study of Organizational Behaviour and Structure, Third Edition

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Developing a Critical Approach to Organizational Study Alice in Organization Land Organizational Study and the Neglect of Class, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity Why Study Organizations? Getting Interested Outlining a Critical Approach Chapter 2: Understanding Bureaucracies: The Age of the Organizational Giants The Dark Side of Bureaucracy  Living in a Bureaucratic Wonderland What is Bureaucracy? The Birth of Bureaucracy in Classical Organization Theory The Bureaucratic Image: The Organization as Machine Debating the Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of Modern Organization Theory Standing in the Shadows: Bureaucracies and Minority Groups Chapter 3: Calling the Shots: How Theories of Organization Relate to Managers Speedy Taylor and Management Theorizing The Visible Hand: Big Business and the Managerial Revolution Reading Between the Lines: Management Theory and Class Struggle The Periodization of Theory and the Illusion of Progress: The Case of Scientific Management Management in Practice: What Managers Really Do Chapter 4: Creating the Psychic Prison Work and Identity: An Interview With Sharon Webb Psychic Phenomena and Organizational Behaviour Images of the Psychic Prison Summary Chapter 5: Sex and Organizational Analysis Sex, Power and Abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison  Sex and Organizational Life Sex and Academia Sex and Organizational Research Issues in Sex and Organizational Research Women's Advancement and the Struggle for Equity Chapter 6: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Race, Ethnicity and Organization Theory October 29th, 2003 Former boxer seeks apology, compensation from Halifax police for discrimination The Politicalization of Race and Ethnic Relations Race and Ethnic Relations in Organizational Theory The Ethnicity Paradigm What Does the Future Hold? Chapter 7: Knowledge and Power in Theories of Organization The Organizational World and the Managerial Paradigm From Paradigm to Discourse: Understanding the Managerialist Dominance of OT and OB Inside the Managerialist View of Reality What is to be Done? The Challenge and Limitation of Radical Theories of Organization Integrated Case: The Westray Mine Explosion One Miner's Tale A Snapshot of Mining in Pictou County Politics and Big Guns Rules of the Game Training at Westray The Union Drive A Day in the Life Disaster and After The Search for Truth Epilogue The Westray Mine Explosion: Teaching Note Appendix 1: Key Players Appendix 2: Resource List Appendix 3: Industry note  Westray: A Critical Approach For Your Eyes Only A Career Decision The Nature of Employment The Dancers FYEO Expansion? Glossary of Terms Bibliography  Index    

About the Author :
Albert J. Mills is Director of the PhD (Management) program and Professor of Management at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada. His twelve books include (with T. Simmons) Reading Organization Theory: A Critical Approach, third edition (Broadview Press, 2004) and Sex, Strategy and the Stratosphere: The Gendering of Airline Cultures (Palgrave, 2006). Tony Simmons is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Global and Social Analysis at Athabasca University. Jean C. Helms Mills is Associate Professor of Management at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University. She has researched and written extensively on gender and the culture of organizations and is the author and editor of five books.

Review :
First published in 1994, Reading Organization Theory has established itself as a pre-eminent text in its field.