Understanding Identity & Organizations

by Hugh Willmott, Andrea Whittle, Kate Kenny

An understanding of identity is fundamental to a complete understanding of organizational life. While conventional management textbooks nod to in-groups, cohesion and discrimination, this text offers instead a deeper, more nuanced understanding of why people, groups and organizations behave the way they do. With conceptions of identity perhaps less stable than they have ever been, the authors make complex theoretical issues accessible to the reader...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184860680X
• ISBN13: 9781848606807
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.4"