Refining Familiar Constructs

Alternative Views in OB, HR, and I/O

Daniel J. Svyantek, Elizabeth McChrystal, Daniel J. Svyantek, Elizabeth McChrystal

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9781593116194
  9781593116200
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607525899
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

This volume is based around 14 chapters and two critical analyses which provide new perspectives on important organizational constructs. The first half of the book provides chapters by advanced graduate students who are making their first contributions to understanding organizational behavior. The second half of the book provides chapters illustrating new views of organizational constructs but from the perspectives of more established researchers in the field. All chapters share a common theme of attempting to provide new ways of viewing organizations and organizational behavior. Each chapter is based on the premise that, when presented with problems that seem impossible to solve, often the best results are achieved by finding new perspectives on the basic constructs being studied. These new perspectives provide insights which illuminate the problems for the theory of organizations as well as improving the ability of organizational members to solve practical organizational problems.

Table of contents

• Refining Familiar Contructs
• Research in Organizational Science
• Refining Familiar Constructs
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• I : THE BEST FROM IO-OB:AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW VOICES IN THE FIELD
• II : NEW PERSPECTIVES ON FAMILIAR CONSTRUCTS