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What are the costs and consequences of living in a society that has undergone an ‘organizational revolution’? To what extent is social life in the 21
st century dominated by the rational control that is characteristic of bureaucratic organizations large and small?
Organizations and Society addresses these broader human questions with a critical perspective, while at the same time explaining the main concepts and theories in the field. Students of all interests—those who wish to run organizations someday, study them, or simply understand their importance in the contemporary social order—will benefit from the insights and cogent arguments of this text for undergraduate classrooms.
st century dominated by the rational control that is characteristic of bureaucratic organizations large and small?
Organizations and Society addresses these broader human questions with a critical perspective, while at the same time explaining the main concepts and theories in the field. Students of all interests—those who wish to run organizations someday, study them, or simply understand their importance in the contemporary social order—will benefit from the insights and cogent arguments of this text for undergraduate classrooms.
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Table of Content
PART I: Our Society of OrganizationsChapter 1: Introduction: A Society of Formal Organizations
Chapter 2: The Subject Is Organizations. The Issue Is Power
Chapter 3: Organizations and Inequality
PART II: Forging the Society of Organizations
Chapter 4: The Rise of Bureaucracy and the Question of Efficiency
Chapter 5: The Rise of Bureaucracy and the Question of Power
Chapter 6: Are We Beyond Bureaucracy?
Part III: Analyzing Organizations
Chapter 7: The Machine Organization
Chapter 8: The Human Organization
Chapter 9: The Open Organization
Chapter 10: The Limits of Rationality
Chapter 11: Rationality and Rationalization as Variables
Chapter 12: Final Reflections: Living With Organizations
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 352 ● ISBN 9781071802212 ● File size 7.8 MB ● Publisher SAGE Publications ● City Thousand Oaks ● Country US ● Published 2022 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8436515 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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