Includes index.

Contents :Part I: The organization and its environment: Organizations and organizational effectiveness -- Organizational stakeholders, management, and ethics -- Managing in a changing global environment -- Part II: Organizational design: Basic challenges of organizational design -- Designing organizational structure: coordination, communication, and control -- Designing organizational structure:specialization and coordination -- Creating and managing organizational culture -- Organizational design and strategy in a changing global environment -- Organizational design, competencies, and technology -- Part III: Organizational change: Types and forms of organizational change -- Organizational transformations: birth, growth, decline, and death -- Decision making, learning, knowledge management, and information technology -- Innovation,intrapreneurship, and creativity -- Managing conflict, power, and politics.