Driven how human nature shapes our choices

A touchstone for understanding how we behave on the job "This is a stimulating and provocative book in bringing together important ideas from different fields, and, thereby, giving us a whole new slant on 2human nature.2"--Edgar H. Schein, Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus and...

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Main Author: Lawrence, Paul R.
Other Authors: Nohria, Nitin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco Jossey-Bass 2002
Edition:1st ed
Series:Warren Bennis signature series
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:A touchstone for understanding how we behave on the job "This is a stimulating and provocative book in bringing together important ideas from different fields, and, thereby, giving us a whole new slant on 2human nature.2"--Edgar H. Schein, Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus and Senior Lecturer, MIT In this astonishing, provocative, and solidly researched book, two Harvard Business School professors synthesize 200 years of thought along with the latest research drawn from the biological and social sciences to propose a new theory, a unified synthesis of human nature. Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria have studied the way people behave in that most fascinating arena of human behavior-the workplace-and from their work they produce a book that examines the four separate and distinct emotive drives that guide human behavior and influence the choices people make: the drives to acquire, bond, learn, and defend. They ultimately show that, just as advances in information technology have spurred the New Economy in the last quarter of the twentieth century, current advances in biology will be the key to understanding humans and organizations in the new millennium
Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Physical Description:xxiv, 315 pages illustrations
ISBN:9780787957858
0787957852