Organizational Membership: Personal Development in the Workplace

by Howell S. Baum and Professor Institute for Urban Studies Howell S Baum

This book tells why people want to feel like members of work organizations, and why doing so is difficult. Using case examples, it presents a psychoanalytic perspective on organizational entry and the process of entry negotiations for workers which sometimes lasts years. Interview material shows how workers try to use organizations to develop and how entire careers reflect satisfaction or disappointment with initial organizational experiences. Baum...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791403858
• ISBN13: 9780791403853
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.