The Condition of Postmodernity or Organizational Behavior and Management

The Condition of Postmodernity

Author: David Harvey

In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.

Library Journal

Harvey presents an illuminating and powerful critique of postmodernism, arguing that it represents the cultural manifestation of late capitalism and specifically that it emerges from a transformation of time and space to accommodate a shift from a political economy based on Fordism to one based on flexible accumulation. Harvey moves with ease and authority over a wide range of cultural forms from architecture and urban planning to painting and literature. He is well versed in currents of postmodernist theory but avoids the pitfalls of jargon and obscurity. The book is both penetrating and accessible, an important contribution to the postmodernist debate. See also Postmodern Genres , reviewed below.--Ed.-- T.L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.

Table of Contents:

The argument.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: The Passage from Modernity to Postmodernity in Contemporary Culture: .
1. Introduction.
2. Modernity and Modernism.
3. Postmodernism.
4. Postmodernism in the City: Architecture and Urban Design.
5. Modernization.
6. POSTmodernISM or postMODERNism?.
Part II: The Political-Economic Transformation of late Twentieth-Century Capitalism: .
7. Introduction.
8. Fordism.
9. From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation.
10. Theorizing the Transition.
11. Flexible Accumulation - Solid Transformation or Temporary Fix?.
Part III: The Experience of Space and Time: .
12. Introduction.
13. Individual Spaces and Times in Social Life.
14. Time and Space as Sources of Social Power.
15. The Time and Space of the Enlightenment Project.
16. Time-space Compression and the Rise of Modernism as a Cultural Force.
17. Time-Space Compression and the Postmodern Condition.
18. Time and Space in the Postmodern Cinema.
Part IV: The Condition of Postmodernity:.
19. Postmodernity as a Historical Condition.
20. Economics with Mirrors.
21. Postmodernism as the Mirror of Mirrors.
22. Fordist Modernism versus Flexible Postmodernism, or the Interpenetration of Opposed Tendencies in Capitalism as a Whole.
23. The Transformative and Speculative Logic of Capital.
24. The Work of Art in an Age of Electronic Reproduction and Image Banks.
25. Responses to Time-Space Compression.
26. The Crisis of Historical Materialism.
27. Cracks in the Mirrors, Fusions at the Edges.
References.
Index.

Book review: Recipe Keeper or 101 Things To Do With Ramen Noodles

Organizational Behavior and Management

Author: John M Ivancevich

The author team (Ivancevich/Konopaske/Matteson) has examined, listened, and responded to reviewers’, instructors’, and students’ suggestions on how to continue to make Organizational Behavior and Management, 8e a more user-friendly and application rich introductory OB textbook.

To accomplish this, OBM 8e achieves the difficult goal of preserving its key strengths (i.e., thorough, current, good balance of research and practice) while streamlining its content by removing over 100 pages of readings that are now available on the Web. This reduction in page length makes the book more affordable, teachable, and efficient for students.

"Preserving scholarship while streamlining" captures the spirit of what I/K/M used as the guiding principle while writing OBM 8e.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. I	The Field of Organizational Behavior	1
Ch. 1	Introduction to Organizational Behavior	3
Ch. 2	Organizational Culture	65
Pt. II	Understanding and Managing Individual Behavior	105
Ch. 3	Individual Differences and Work Behavior	107
Ch. 4	Motivation	145
Ch. 5	Evaluation, Feedback, and Reward of Individual Behavior	185
Ch. 6	Job Design	229
Ch. 7	Organizational Stress: An Individual View	265
Pt. III	Group Behavior and Interpersonal Influence	309
Ch. 8	Group Behavior and Work Teams	311
Ch. 9	Intergroup Conflict and Negotiations	349
Ch. 10	Organizational Power and Politics	387
Pt. IV	Organizational Processes	421
Ch. 11	Leadership: An Overview	423
Ch. 12	Leadership: Developing Applications	456
Ch. 13	Communication	491
Ch. 14	Decision Making	529
Pt. V	Organizational Design, Change, and Innovation	567
Ch. 15	Organizational Structure and Design	569
Ch. 16	Managing Organizational Change and Innovation	625
	Glossary	671
	Name Index	683
	Company Index	686
	Subject Index	689