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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  The Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Know: Studies in Organizational Behavior
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Hello, My Name Is This story is about me, and some fellow employees in The Company. When I graduated from school and started working for The Company, I never thought it would be so hard––not only learning my job, but also making sense of the everyday events happening all around me. As I soon discovered, learning the ropes at any organization takes time. Organizations have their own myths, rituals, cultures, and most importantly, their own people. You have to be able to decipher the unwritten rules. I hope my story will provide you with a new way of looking at organizations, and help you analyze, interpret, and understand the everyday realities of organizational life. This Seventh Edition of The Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Knowis updated and revised to give you a feel for what it’s like to currently work for The Company. The new edition includes several new boxes and a new tale, and a significantly rewritten prologue. Also, a new and expanded Instructor’s Manual on the website features discussion starter questions related to issues addressed in each of the tales. Extensive notes on these issues are also provided for instructors. Whether you are a new-comer or an old-timer in the business world, I hope my story will help you on your journey as you learn the ropes. “The interpretive/cultural approach of The Ropesprovides a distinct competitive advantage. Students learn about the living world of organizational behavior through simple concepts, definitions, and short cases. The Ropesprovides a more meaningful alternative because of its rich real-life stories.” ––Dale Fitzgibbons, “As a person with ten years of corporate experience and many years of academia, I have found past editions full of delightfully real characterizations. As I told my students then, ‘I wish I had read this book before I started my corporate career.’ I liked the book because it was real.” ––Peter B. Venuto, Synopsis:A series of short, interwoven stories about the operations at a single, mythical company as seen through the eyes of an employee reveal the psychological processes and social mores at work. This engaging, instructive approach goes beyond the usual technical/rational analysis of books on organizational behavior. Synopsis:Now in it's seventh edition, this OB reader continues to both instruct and entertain the current generation of students and professionals about workplace realities. This book consists of a series of short, interwoven stories about the operations at a single, mythical company seen through the eyes of an employee. It reveals the psychological processes and social mores at work in a company, and it is uniquely valuable for helping to bridge the gap between theory and practice. It immerses readers in the "real-world" workplace as no other text does, and provides just enough theory to make sense of it. The new edition will continue with the same premise and will contain updated stories and chapters. Synopsis:Now in its Sixth Edition, this OB reader continues to both instruct and entertain the current generation of students and professionals about workplace realities. Going beyond the usual technical/rational analysis of books on organizational behavior, each chapter is a fictionalized account of actual workplace happenings, and involves a continuing cast of characters whom readers come to know. Each account makes a point of its own, or illustrates theoretical material covered in the introductions to parts and sections. For instance, why would a plant manager call a continuing series of 6:30am meetings about coordination of efforts, and then cancel them after a short while? (He effectively used negative reinforcement to reward the coordination that resulted from imposing the inconvenient meetings - aside from whatever the participants may have discussed.) The realness of this text continues to draw a kind of fan mail from both students and others. As one Vice President of Sales for a nationally known corporation put it: After 18 years in business life I only wish I had read it much earlier. Your book should be required reading for anyone embarking into any kind of organizational life . . . Table of ContentsPROLOGUE. Box 1: Celebrating Your Layoff. PART 1: ENTER THE MEN’S HUT. Corporate Culture and Socialization. Box 2: Of Culture and Matreshka Dolls. SECTION 1: DE GUSTIBUS NON DISPUTANDUM EST. Socialization and Perception. 1 Hi, Call Me _____. 2 The Power of Positive Thinking. 3 Cleanliness Is Next To . . .? 4 Look of a Winner. Box 3: Almost Too Good to Be True? 5 Just in Case. 6 The Sincerest Form of Flattery. 7 Hi, Sweetie . . . . SECTION 2: BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. Socialization and Attribution. Box 4: Bad Apples at Abu Ghraib? 8 Cat in the Hat. 9 Rocky. 10 My Brother’s Keeper. 11 You Can’t Be Too Careful. 12 Scarlet Letter. PART 2: WHAT CAN’T BE CURED MUST BE OBSCURED. The Myth and Mystery of Motivation and Decision Making. Box 5: Mr. Li’s Gong: Motivating with Shame. SECTION 3: DOIN’ WHAT COMES NATCHERLY 71 Motivation and Reinforcement Theory. 13 Fair Day’s Work. 14 Player Piano. 15 Am I Invisible? 16 Back to the Drawing Board. Box 6: Saga of the IBM PC—Part I. 17 Rite of Passage. Box 7: Finishing School at Salomon Brothers. 18 Sunrise Service. 19 Who Could Have Known? 20 Made to Measure. Box 8: Measurement of Results and the Results of Measuring. 21 Spend It, Burn It . . . . SECTION 4: TO BE OR NOT TO BE. Managerial Decision Making and Motivation. 22 Excess Inventory. 23 Like It Is. 24 Hold That Line. 25 The Rating Game. Box 9: Innovation in Appraisals. 26 Watchdogs. 27 Top Secret. Box 10: Safe Driving Tips. 28 As I Recall. 29 Figures Don’t Lie . . . ? 30 Giving Your Best. Box 11: Fixing the Facts. PART 3: WHATSOEVER YE SOWETH, THAT SHALL YE ALSO REAP. The Romance of Leadership and the Forms of Communication. SECTION 5 SKATE FAST OVER THIN ICE. The Myth of Leadership, Perception, and Attribution. Box 12: Creating the Illusion of Control. 31 The Men’s Hut. 32 Better the Devil You Know . . . . 33 Success Story. Box 13: A Model Corporate Career. 34 Stitch in Time. 35 By Your Works Shall Ye Be Known. 36 The Million Dollar Misunderstanding. 37 The Pearl. Box 14: The Saga of the IBM PC—Part II. 38 Most Valuable Player. SECTION 6: ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS. Communication as Myth, Symbol, and Ritual. Box 15: No Threat Here to the Theory of the System. 39 Coffee Break. 40 Society of Equals. 41 Praise/Criticism. 42 Bite of the Apple. 43 Beyond the Call of Duty. 44 Spacemen. 45 Extra Effort. 46 Incredible. PART 4: MY OBJECT ALL SUBLIME, I SHALL ACHIEVE IN TIME. Power, Stratification, and Managerial Mobility. SECTION 7: THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT, NOR THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG. Mobility and the Power of Lower Organizational Participants. 47 Your Job? My Reputation! 48 Ted’s Boy. 49 Rightsizing. Box 16: Convenants and Carnage. 50 Friday Go to Meetin’. Box 17: More “Exercise” for the Faithful. 51 Ghosting for Gain. 52 Don’t Ask. 53 Point of No Return. 54 To Everything There Is a Season. 55 Haste Makes Waste. SECTION 8: THERE, BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD, GO I. Power, Status, and Cooling Out the Mark. 56 All for the Best in This Best of All Possible Worlds. Box 18: Cool Green. 57 Small Is Beautiful. 58 More Bang for the Buck. 59 Individual Contributor. Box 19: Drug Bust. 60 The Threefold Way. CONCLUSION. EPILOGUE. ENDNOTES. SELECTED READINGS. INDEX. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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