Introduces the student to classic debates and new perspectives on organisations and their role in the modern business world.

Graeme Salaman is Professor of Organisation Studies at The Open University, where he is Director of the Business Studies program. he has written more than fifty books and articles in the areas of organisational analysis, the sociology of work and strategic human resource management.

Introduction 1 Organizational aspects of business 2 The communications and financial revolution and the rise of the multinational corporation 3 Work in traditional and modern societies 4 Work SECTION 2: UNDERSTANDING ORGANISATIONS 5 The emergence of new work forms 6 Classic theories of bureaucracy 7 Work organizations, managerial strategies and control 8 Studying organisations: an introduction 9 Struggle and resistance SECTION 3: CHANGING ORGANISATIONS 10 Re-inventing organisation man? 11 Organizational structuring and restructuring 12 Beyond organizational structure: the end of classical forms? 13 Hands, hearts and minds: changing work and workers at the end of the century 14 Failure