Peter Lawrence

PREFACEThe first édition of Politics at Work was published in 1985. At that time we were in the vanguard of a wave of books on the politics of organizations and it is gratifying to have survived into a second édition.The appeal of the first édition was based partly on the general importance of...

PREFACE'Organizational Behaviour' or 'OB' is not yet a neatly defined academic discipline. In the current literature it has a wide range of definitions and there is a confusing array of related subjects and alternative or overlapping names, including human resource management, organization theory,...