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Told through the fresh, sharp eyes of new organizational recruits, these sometimes comic, often traumatic, but always vivid and revealing accounts of organizations have much to say to learners and old hands alike. Grouped in sections on `images', `winning and losing' and `survival and injuries', the narratives encompass a wide gamut of themes and issue. These include: power and politics in organizations; organizational cultures and change; gender and discrimination; appearances and realities; leaders and followers; and emotion, motivation and stress. The authors also focus on the coldly competitive features of businesses where processes such as restructuring, rationalization and downsizing are increasingly commonplace. Thro
Images and Mirages
Images and Mirages
Organizations seem solid - solid buildings, solid people, solid products, solid money. Many of them are shining too, at least if we judge them from the glamour of their brochures, the opulence of their buildings, the aura of their logos and the sheen of their products.
The mental images of organizations carried by some young people when they go for their job interviews can be highly idealized. Yet, reading through their accounts of their actual work experiences, we are struck by how quickly the appearance of solidity and the appeal can evaporate. New recruits are left surprised at their own gullibility. Was what they imagined the organization to be nothing but a mirage, a carefully presented image? Is the reality really ...
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