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CHAPTER 1 – THE NATURE OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

Management strategy

• www.fastcompany.com ( short articles including analyses of the strategies of various organizations)

 

Psychology

• www.socialpsychology.org (social psychology)
• www.socialpsychology.org/io.htm ( industrial psychology)

 

Sociology

• www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/sociowork.html (sociology of work)

 

Race, ethnicity, equality and human rights

• www.ethnos.co.uk (consulting company)
• www.coe.int/t/E/human_rights/ecri/ (Council of Europe)
• www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_31/b3743084.htm (article on racism)
• www.isreview.org (International Socialist Review)

 

Chapter case study – sources of information

• www.workopolis.com ( Canada labour shortage)
• www.canada.gc.ca/main_e.html

 

CHAPTER 2 – WORK IN ORGANIZATIONS

Work patterns in advanced capitalist societies and post-industrial economies

• theworkfoundation.com/products/publications/azpublications/isnewworkgoodwork.aspx (Is New Work Good Work? Article by Andy Westwood, the Work Foundation)
• www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/WorkingHoursAndTimeOff (work–life balance)
• www.oecd.org (Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation)

 

Women in advanced capitalist societies

• www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/SearchRes.asp?term=women+work&x=5&y=10 (UK)
• www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/women_work_commission/ (Women and Work Commission – UK)
• http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/s02310.htm (Europe)
• www.un.org/womenwatch (worldwide)
• www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/actrav/genact/gender/gendtu/ (International Labour Organization – gender promotion)
• www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/gems/eeo/stat/main.htm (e.quality@work: An Information Base on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men)
• www.xpdnc.com/links/women.html (list of links)

 

Trade unions

• www.tuc.org.uk ( UK)
• www.icftu.org (International Federation of Trade Unions)
• www.cosatu.org.za ( South Africa)
• www.ilo.org (International Labour Organization)
• www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TU.htm (Encyclopaedia of British History – trade union movement)
• www.unionhistory.info (The union makes us strong: TUC history online)
• http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org/Links.html

 

Employee relations

• www.berr.gov.uk/employment/research-evaluation/wers-2004/index.html (2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey)
• www.eiro.eurofound.ie (European Industrial Relations Observatory)
• www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nscl.asp?ID=6625 (employment relations in the UK)

 

Employment trends and statistics

• www.statistics.gov.uk ( Britain)
• www.iegd.org ( Spain and Europe)
• www.eiro.eurofound.ie ( Europe)
• http://europa.eu/pol/socio/index_en.htm ( Europe)
• www.bls.gov ( USA)
• www.hreonline.com/HRE/index.jsp ( USA)
• www.statcan.ca/start.html ( Canada)
• www.hrmguide.net/canada/ ( Canada)
• www.statssa.gov.za ( South Africa)
• www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/labor.html (worldwide)

 

Chapter case study – sources of information

• www.berr.gov.uk (Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Forum. Formerly Department of Trade and Industry)
• www.tca.org.uk (Telework Association)
• www.employersandwork-lifebalance.org.uk (Work Foundation)
• www.berr.gov.uk/files/file42645.pdf (Main findings of The Third Work-Life Balance Employer Survey)

 

 

CHAPTER 3 – STUDYING WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS

Marx

• www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html
• www.marxists.org
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx

 

Durkheim

• www.emile-durkheim.com/
• www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/durkheim/durk.htm
• www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/xdur.htm

 

Weber

• www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/y64l09.html (bureaucracy)
• www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/y64l10.html (capitalism)
• www.marxists.org/reference/archive/weber/index.htm
• www.sociosite.net/topics/weber.php

 

Taylorism and Fordism

• www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Fordism
• www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Taylorism
• www.nosweat.org.uk
• www.onepine.info/ptaylor.htm

 

Radical history

• www.holtlaborlibrary.org/Links.html

 

Organizational learning

• www.bond.org.uk/pubs/ol.htm

 

Chapter case study – sources of information

• www.apa.org/ethics
• www.asanet.org (USA-based site; search for ethics)
• www.dhhs.gov (USA-based site; search for workplace ethics)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Industrial_Union (Swedish Industrial Union)