Joseph H. Spear 
Organizations and Society 

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.

Содержание

PART I: Our Society of Organizations

Chapter 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