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.
By:
Paul R. Lawrence (Harvard Business School Boston MA),
Nitin Nohria (Harvard Business School,
Boston,
MA)
Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 231mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 481g
ISBN: 9780787963859
ISBN 10: 0787963852
Series: J-B Warren Bennis Series
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 09 September 2002
Audience:
General/trade
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
ELT Advanced
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Editor's Note, Warren Bennis. Foreword, Edward O. Wilson. The Authors. Preface. PART ONE: BRIDGING GAPS; SETTING THE STAGE FOR UNDERSTANDING HUMAN NATURE. 1. Toward a Unified Understanding of Human Nature. 2. How the Modern Human Mind Evolved. 3. Innate Drives and Skills. PART TWO: THE FOUR DRIVES BEHIND HUMAN CHOICES. 4. The Drive to Acquire (D1). 5. The Drive to Bond (D2). 6. The Drive to Learn (D3). 7. The Drive to Defend (D4). PART THREE: THE DRIVES IN ACTION; HOW HUMAN NATURE WORKS IN CONTEXT. 8. Culture, Skills, Emotions: Other Pieces of the Puzzle. 9. Origins of the Social Contract. 10. Why So Much Diversity? PART FOUR: HUMAN NATURE AND SOCIETY. 11. Human Nature in Organizational Life. 12. The Road Forward. Afterword: Future Research Proposals. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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)
