Chapter 1: Organization theory: challenges and perspectives Chapter 2: Organization theory: what is it, and why does it matter? Chapter 3: Modernist organization theory: back to the future? Chapter 4: Neo-modernist organization theory: putting people first? Chapter 5: Neo-modernist organization theory: surfing the new wave? Chapter 6: From Classical beginnings to New Wave leadership and management: the evolution of management theory Chapter 7: Postmodernist organization theory: new organizational forms for a new millennium? Chapter 8: Postmodernism as a philosophy: the ultimate challenge to organization theory? Chapter 9: Reflective organization theory: symbols, meanings and interpretations Chapter 10: Reflexive organization theory: critical theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist organization theory Chapter 11: Perspectives and challenges

a highly relevant book... contrasting with more traditional books about organization Henrik B. Sørensen, Aarhus University, Denmark   The writing style is clear and concise, and consistent across chapters. It is particularly well written for students whose first language is not English. Dr Melissa Tyler, Essex Business School, UK   Its excellence is its depth and effort to map out in a sensible yet academically rigorous way an enormous field of work. Succeeds admirably. Dr. Paul McGrath, Smurfit School of Business, University College Dublin, Ireland  Exploring organization theory from its origins right up to present-day debates, the authors encouraging the reader to engage in a critical dialogue between varying perspectives. Using various forms of organizational theory that both underpin and challenge common sense ways of viewing (and managing) organizations, the aim of this new edition is to provide a clearly structured and interesting exploration of the ways in which the variety of theories and perspectives that constitute Organization Theory provide profound challenges for organizations in the twenty-first century. If you need to know what organization theory is and why does it matter? What impact it has on today’s organisations and what challenges it poses, as well as the solutions can it offer, this is the book for you. Thoroughly revised and updated, with new sections on theoretical development in the field, the new edition of Organizational Theory includes a rich set of pedagogical features to support the reader including:  *   Stop and Think boxes to invite personal or group reflection  *   Brief Biographies of seminal thinkers  *   Case Studies on organizations such as Lehmann Brothers, The British Geological Survey and Microsoft  *   Ideas and Perspectives features introduce and summarize key theories  *   Greater coverage of the relationship between organization theory and management.This book is suitable for final year undergraduate, postgraduate students for whom the study of organizational theory,  analysis and design is an integral part of their degree programme. The text should also be of interest to  as students studying courses on management, and orgnizational behaviour.John McAuley is Emeritus Professor of Organization Development and Management at Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University. Joanne Duberley is Professor of Organisational Studies at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. Phil Johnson is Professor of HRM and Organization Studies at at the Management School, Sheffield University

Authors pay sceptical respect to different schools of thought, encouraging the reader to engage in a critical dialogue between varying perspectives.   Frequent and appealing examples show how concepts of organisations theory can be seen in the context of managerial reality.   A rich set of pedagogical features to support the reader include: Stop and Think boxes to invite personal or group reflection Brief biographies of seminal thinkers Case studies on a wide range of organisations Ideas and perspectives to introduce and summarise key theories

Revision of all the chapters including newer references, developing a number of new Case Studies and Ideas and Perspectives. New Chapter One to introduce the text. In this chapter organization theory is placed into the context of other approaches to understand and theorise organization and management. The chapters on modernism and neo-modernism have been consolidated in order to emphasise the ways in which most contemporary thought about management comes from modernist and neo-modernist origins. Most themes have been expanded or new themes have been developed such as emotional labour, neo-colonial theory, and feminist organization theory.