Weblinks

A list of useful websites is provided for each chapter of the book. Click on the links below to jump to each chapter.

Part 1: Work and organizational behaviour

• Chapter 1: Capitalism and organizational behaviour
• Chapter 2: The social nature of work
• Chapter 3: Studying work and organizations

Part 2: Individuals and work

• Chapter 4: Personality and identity
• Chapter 5: Perception and emotion
• Chapter 6: Learning and innovation
• Chapter 7: Motivation at work
• Chapter 8: Gender, race, disability and class

Part 3: Groups and social interaction

• Chapter 9: Work groups and teams

Part 4: Organizational change, processes and performance

• Chapter 10: Organizational design
• Chapter 11: Technology in work organizations
• Chapter 12: Organizational culture
• Chapter 13: Leadership and change
• Chapter 14: Communications
• Chapter 15: Decision making and ethics
• Chapter 16: Power, politics and conflict
• Chapter 17: Human resource management

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Chapter 1: Capitalism and Organizational Behaviour

The G20 Communiqué

• www.g20.org/Documents/finalcommunique.pdf

The Mondragón Movement

• www.iisd.org/50comm/commdb/desc/d13.htm (a federation of worker cooperatives based in Spain)

Management strategy

• www.fastcompany.com

Psychology

• www.socialpsychology.org
• www.socialpsychology.org/io.htm

Sociology

• www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/sociology

Race, ethnicity and human rights

• www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_31/b3743084.htm
• www.coe.int/t/E/human_rights/ecri
• www.ethnos.co.uk

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Chapter 2: The social nature of work

Employment trends and statistics

• www.statistics.gov.uk (Britain)
• www.eiro.eurofound.ie (Ireland)
• www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro (European Union)
• http://europa.eu/index_en.htm (European Union)
• www.bls.gov (USA)
• www.hreonline.com (USA)
• www.statcan.ca/start.html (Canada)
• www.hrmguide.net/canada/ (Canada)
• www.statssa.gov.za (South Africa)
• www.ibge.gov.br/english (Brazil)
• www.berr.gov.uk (trends in work organization)

Diversity

• www.iegd.org (European Institute for Managing Diversity)
• www.isreview.org (search for ‘Eleanor Burke Leacock’ for information on issues of gender and sexuality)
• www.un.org/womenwatch (United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality)

Trade unions

• www.tuc.org.uk (Trade Unions Congress)
• www.cosatu.org.za (Congress of South African Trade Unions)
• www.icftu.org (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions)

EU working time directives

• www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn0804029s/tn0804029s.htm (current information)
• www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/comparative_index.htm (information for preceding years)

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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.epistemelinks.com/Main/Philosophers.aspx?PhilCode=Durk

Weber

• www.marxists.org/reference/archive/weber

Taylorism and Fordism

• http://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/frederick-taylor-the-biggest-bastard-ever/
• www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Fordism
• www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Taylorism
• www.nosweat.org.uk

Organizational learning

• www.fieldbook.com

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Chapter 4: Personality and identity

Personality testing instruments

• www.apa.org/science/testing.html
• www.queendom.com/tests.html

Freud

• www.freud.org.uk

General

• www.bps.org.uk (British Psychological Society)
• http://pandc.ca (for books and theorists on personality and consciousness)
• http://sociologyindex.com (for major ideas in the sociological study of socialization)

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Chapter 5: Perception and emotion

Visual Illusions

• www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits (The Exploratorium, a museum of science, art and human perception in San Francisco, has a number of classic visual illusions online)
• www.nelliemuller.com/inattentional_blindness.htm (information on inattentional blindness)
• http://viscog.beckman.illinois.edu/djs_lab/demos.html (a video of an experiment on inattentional blindness)

Learned optimism

• www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu (information on learned optimism and other similar work)

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Chapter 6: Learning and innovation

Theories of learning

• http://ccs.mit.edu/LH (a project on learning histories)
• http://tip.psychology.org (information on Pavlovian conditioning and other theories of learning)

Theories of learning in the organization

• www.ahrd.org (Academy of Human Resource Development)
• www.cipd.co.uk/HRD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development)
• www.elearningnetwork.org (information on best practice and future trends in technology-based learning and development at work)
• www.managementhelp.org/trng_dev/trng_dev.htm (training and development in the workplace)

Life-long learning

• www.lifelonglearning.co.uk
• www.lifelonglearning.co.uk/llp/index.Htm

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Chapter 7: Motivation at work

Motivation theories

• http://www.accel-team.com/motivation/index.html (details on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs)
• http://psychology.about.com/ (for links to information on motivation theories)

Rewards systems in practice

• www.berr.gov.uk (for data on profit-related pay in Britain, search ‘2004 employee relations survey’)
• www.higbee-schaffler.co.nz/Portals/0/Documents/TOGETHERNESS%20IN%20PERFORMANCE.pdf (information on team-based rewards)
• www.inc.com/guides/hr/20678.html (information on the role of stock options in motivating employees)

Management by objectives

• www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/mgmt_mbo_main.html
• www.managepro.com/MBOtoPM.html (the history and evolution of management by objectives)

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Chapter 8: Gender, race, disability and class

Ethno-racial organizations

• www.irr.org.uk/employment (current news on race relations issues in employment)
• mp3.lpi.org.uk/resistancemp3/marxismand-race.mp3 (an historical and international overview of race relations)

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Chapter 9: Work groups and teams

Team Role Theory

• www.belbin.com
• prelive.palgrave.com/business/brattonob2e (provides an activity on team roles)

Self-managed teams

• http://groups.yahoo.com (‘virtual groups’ in action)
• www.managementhelp.org/grp_skll/slf_drct/slf_drct.htm (an online library devoted to self-managed teams)

Work teams in practice

• www.dti.gov.uk/employment/useful-links/index.html (search for ‘2004 employee relations survey’ for a summary of the UK 2004 survey, including a section on work teams)
• www.honda.com
• http://ptcpartners.com/Team/home.html
• www.sony.com

Groupthink

• www.afirstlook.com
• www.abacon.com (search for ‘groupthink’)

Milgram

• www.prisonexp.org (Milgram’s psychological prison experiment)

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Chapter 10: Organizational design

Contingency Theory

• http://www.12manage.com/methods_contingency_theory.html
• http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/theories/contingency_theory.htm

Business process re-engineering

• www.accenture.com (search for ‘business process engineering’)
• www.wbs.ac.uk/faculty/research (information on publications on BPR)

Work teams

• www.shell.com (an example of team-based organizational design)
• www.starbucks.com/aboutus/international.asp (a description of Starbucks’ matrix structure)

Alternative viewpoints

• www.corpwatch.org (a US-based organization that monitors and critiques global capitalism through education and social action)
• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html (information on the size of transnational corporations, calculated by revenue)

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Chapter 11: Technology in work organizations

Relationship between technology and work

• www.informationweek.com

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Chapter 12: Organizational culture

Organizational culture

• www.hcgnet.com/ArticlesAndResearch.asp
• www.new-paradigm.co.uk/describing_culture.htm (a description of organizational culture)
• www.tnellen.com/ted/tc/schein.html (culture and leadership)

Hofstede and Schein

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_culture
• www.geert-hofstede.com
• http://geert-hofstede.international-business-center.com (critiques of Hofstede’s work)

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Chapter 13: Leadership and change

Organizational leadership

• www.ccl.org (Center for Creative Leadership)
• www.inspirelearning.com

Leadership–performance

• www.orgdna.com/google/hbr.cfm

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Chapter 14: Communications

Employee relations

• www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/employment/research%2Devaluation/wers%2D2004 (search for ‘2004 employee relations survey’ for a summary of the Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2004)

International communication practices

• www.deloitte.com/ca/diversity
• www.internationalbusinesscentre.org

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Chapter 15: Decision making and ethics

Asch and Milgram

• www.qeliz.ac.uk/psychology/Asch.htm
• www.stanleymilgram.com/milgram.php

Employee involvement schemes

• www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=8457481 (UK)
• www.acas.org.uk (UK Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service)
• www.berr.gov.uk (Britain)
• http://hrdc-drhc.gc.ca (Canada)
• www.clc-ctc.ca (Canada)
• www.hreonline.com (USA)

Employee involvement in practice

Follow the ‘employee participation’ and/or the ‘communication’ link to explore employee involvement practices in the four companies listed below.

• www.akzonobel.com
• www.ge.com
• www.ibm.com
• www.walmart.com

Corporate Social Responsibility

• www.bitc.org.uk (Business in the Community, UK)
• www.bsr.org (Business for Social Responsibility, US)

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Chapter 16: Power, politics and conflict

Power models in organisational analysis

• www.educationforum.co.uk/sociology_2/power2.htm (interactive website providing additional perspectives on power)

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Chapter 17: Human resource management

Human resource management

• www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/employment/research%2Devaluation/wers%2D2004 (2004 survey, including job responsibilities of HR specialists)
• http://leadertoleader.org (search for ‘Jeffrey Pfeffer’ for an article discussing the links between a ‘high-commitment’ HR strategy and an organization’s financial performance)

Trade unions

• www.tuc.org.uk (Britain)
• http://europa.eu/index_en.htm (search for ‘collective bargaining’ for information on collective bargaining developments in the EU)
• www.ilo.org (comparative information on trade unions)

Cultural diversity

• http://global.broad.msu.edu/ibc
• www.shrm.org/diversity
• www.shrm.org/Research/FutureWorkplaceTrends

Comparative HRM

• http://findarticles.com (search for ‘comparative HRM’)
• www.hreonline.com (USA)
• www.clc-ctc.ca (Canada)
• www.wfpma.com (HRM in Asia-Pacific countries)