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Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices
Paul R. Lawrence
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Description for Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices
Paperback. Reveals the way people behave in the workplace. This book aims to bridge the gap between the findings from evolutionary biology and insights about humanity derived from the social sciences. Series: Warren Bennis signature. Num Pages: 352 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMAL; KJW; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 554.
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 'human nature. ' --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.
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Warren Bennis signature
Condition
New
Weight
555 g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787963859
SKU
V9780787963859
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About Paul R. Lawrence
Paul Lawrence (Boston, MA) is Wallace Brett Donham Professor Emeritus of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School. He has written more than twenty books and numerous articles on human behavior in organizations. Nitin Nohria (Boston, MA) is Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He serves on the advisory boards of several major corporations and lectures to corporate audiences around the globe. He is the author of The Arc of Ambition and The Differentiated Network (Jossey-Bass: 0-7879-0331-0).
Reviews for Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices
...an interesting book which explores and integrates findings from several disciplines and which contributes further to the field of evolutionary psychology in a readable manner... (The Occupational Psychologist, April 2002)