Organization Theory 4th Edition

As consumers, clients, customers or, perhaps most significantly, as employers or employees, everyone depends on formal organizations. This resource book explains how such organizations work and why people within them behave in the way they do. There are five separate but interrelated sections, each with a short introduction to the readings selected: organization structure, the organization in its environment, management and decision-making, people in organizations and organizational change and learning. The text is a companion volume to "Writers on Organizations" by Derek S. Pugh and Derek J. Hickson.

Derek S. Pugh is a Professor of International Management at the Open University Business School. He has also co-written Management Worldwide and Writers on Organizations (also Penguin).