Work, Postmodernism and Organization provides a wide-ranging and very accessible introduction to postmodern theory and its relevance for the cultural world of the work organization. The book provides a critical review of the debates that have shaped organization theory over the past decade, making clear the meaning and significance of postmodern ideas for contemporary organization theory and practice. Work, Postmodernism and Organization will provide valuable material to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of organization theory, organizational behaviour, industrial sociology, and more general business & management and sociology courses. Author//Editor Description: Philip Hancock and Melissa Tyler are Lecturers in Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University. Contributors' Description: n//a Contents: see attached (disk of book still to come at time of transmittal) MARKETING INFORMATION Subject Areas and Academic Level: Organization Theory and Organization Behaviour, Industrial Sociology, business and management, sociology Advanced undergraduate (years 2 and 3) and postgrads Competing books (title//author//publisher): Most introductory textbooks include a single chapter or section on themes such as postmodernism, culture, emotion and sexuality, e.g.: Hatch, Organization Theory, OUP £23.99, 1997, 416pp) Noon and Blyton, The Realities of Work, Macmillan, £16.

99, 1997 256pp) Sims et al, Organizing and Organizations 2nd Edition, Sage, £15.99, 2000, 336pp) Selling points//key strengths: · postmodernism is now sufficiently mainstream in management and org. studies and is important because it operates on the interface between org. studies and culture studies, an important growth area · provides a critical review of scholarly debates that have shaped org. theory over the past dacade.