ABSTRACT
In a complex and interconnected world, work and organisations are rapidly changing. This book addresses key emerging issues by adopting an imaginative and innovative approach. Its comprehensive coverage on work and organisations aim to:
- provide understanding of the external forces and institutions that are changing workplaces and organisations;
- examine how organisations are being managed from within and how this reshapes the way individuals and groups relate to each other, whether they be employers, employees, independent professionals or contingent workers; and
- integrate these two perspectives to show how both internal and external forces are interconnected and influence each other.
By combining theory and case studies, the book illuminates how ideas and concepts can be applied to work and organisations in a variety of contexts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Identifying the Changing Contours of Work
chapter 5|16 pages
Feeling the heat
What future for organisations and work on a climate-changed world?
part II|2 pages
Navigating the changing contours of work: The role of collective actors
chapter 7|17 pages
Strategy and policy
The ‘professionalisation’ of teaching and the work of an Australian teachers’ union
chapter 9|14 pages
Visualising organisations over time and space
The Visual Atlas of Australian Co-operatives
part III|2 pages
Integrating the changing contours of work within organisations
chapter 10|17 pages
Capability that really counts
A three-dimensional approach to capturing board capital
chapter 14|13 pages
Workplace well-being
A critical review and the case of mindfulness-based programs
part IV|2 pages
Reflections on work and organisation
