Microeconomics or Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Know

Microeconomics: A Contemporary Introduction

Author: William A McEachern

Succeed with the Study Guide for MICROECONOMICS: A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION. This Study Guide includes chapter outlines, definitions of all terms, a bonus section with supplemental material, and a variety of true-false, multiple-choice, and discussion questions with answers.

New interesting book: Introduction to U S Health Policy or Organizational Learning

Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Know: Studies in Organizational Behavior

Author: R Richard Ritti

Now in it's seventh edition, this OB reader continues to both instruct and entertain the current generation of students and professionals about workplace realities.  This book consists of a series of short, interwoven stories about the operations at a single, mythical company seen through the eyes of an employee. It reveals the psychological processes and social mores at work in a company, and it is uniquely valuable for helping to bridge the gap between theory and practice. It immerses readers in the “real-world” workplace as no other text does, and provides just enough theory to make sense of it. The new edition will continue with the same premise and will contain updated stories and chapters. 

Publishers Weekly

College faculty members Ritti (Penn State) and Funkhouser (Rutgers) have combined to produce a decidedly unacademic look at the world of business, featuring lively writing and irreverence. Their thesis is that organizations can be viewed in either of two ways: from a technical/rational viewpoint or a cultural/interpretive one. They concentrate on the latter, based on the notion that any business is a closed culture, a society unto itself. They introduce a cast of individuals who play archetypal roles in a firm they call ``The Company'': Stanley, a Candide-like figure who wises up as he climbs the corporate ladder; a CEO; a male executive who knows what he's doing, and another who doesn't; a woman executive; a black on the way up; a consultant, etc. This is a business milieu that MBA programs don't teach. (January 6)

Table of Contents:

	Prologue	1
Pt. 1	Enter the Men's Hut: Corporate Culture And Socialization	9
Sect. 1	De Gustibus Non Disputandum Est: Socialization And Perception	15
Sect. 2	But Some are More Equal than Others: Socialization And Attribution	43
Pt. 2	What Can't Be Cured Must Be Obscured: The Myth And Mystery Of Motivation And Decision Making	67
Sect. 3	Doin' What Comes Natcherly: Motivation And Reinforcement Theory	73
Sect. 4	To Be or Not To Be ... Managerial Decision Making And Motivation	101
Pt. 3	Whatsoever Ye Soweth, that Shall Ye Also Reap: The Romance Of Leadership And The Forms Of Communication	135
Sect. 5	Skate Fast Over Thin Ice: The Myth Of Leadership, Perception, And Attribution	139
Sect. 6	Actions Speak Louder than Words: Communication As Myth, Symbol, And Ritual	171
Pt. 4	My Object All Sublime, I Shall Achieve in Time: Power, Stratification, And Managerial Mobility	197
Sect. 7	The Race is Not to the Swift, nor the Battle to the Strong: Mobility And The Power Of Lower Organizational Participants	203
Sect. 8	There But for the Grace of God Go I: Power, Status, And Cooling Out The Mark	239
	Conclusion	269
	Epilogue	277
	Endnotes	280
	Selected Readings	283