A Sociology of Organisations (RLE: Organizations)
A Sociology of Organisations (RLE: Organizations)

Author: J. Eldridge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 113593469X

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An understanding of the nature and forms of organisation, particularly with reference to industrial societies, is a key area in sociological analysis. This book discusses and explains what concepts to employ and what analytical procedures to adopt as well as conveying a sense of the theoretical and empirical diversity involved in the study of organisations. Among the questions explored are: why do we classify organisations in particular ways and for what purpose? how can on explore the relationships pertaining to an organisation and its environment? what issues are raised by the existence of many varied and often competing organisations in industrial societies?

Organizations Alike and Unlike (RLE: Organizations)
Organizations Alike and Unlike (RLE: Organizations)

Author: Cornelis Lammers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 1135938547

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This volume contrasts the life and problems of organizations in many parts of the world and highlights the differences between those societies as reflected in their different institutional sectors such as manufacturing, commerce, social services and government administration. In so doing, the book contributes to the theoretical foundations of the sociology of organizations by revealing previously unseen relationships between societies and institutions, offering an original synthesis of available research.

Cases in Organisational Behaviour (RLE: Organizations)
Cases in Organisational Behaviour (RLE: Organizations)

Author: Roy McLennan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-29

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 113595982X

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This is a comprehensive, systematic casebook which demonstrates the contribution of research to the formulation and resolution of organisational problems actually faced by managers. The cases are presented in clusters which centre on a particular aspect of organisational behaviour: motivation, groups, technology, leadership, structure, change and development. Each cluster is introduced by comments on the cases and references to the theoretical literature. The introduction reviews the case method and provides suggestions for using it.

Religion and Organization Theory
Religion and Organization Theory

Author: Paul Tracey

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2014-04-02

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 1781906939

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Despite the profound influence that religious organizations exert, religion occupies a curiously marginal place in organization theory. This volume aims to make available in one place existing knowledge on religion and organizations, encouraging more organization theorists to include religion as part of their research activities and agenda.

The International Yearbook of Organization Studies 1981 (RLE: Organizations)
The International Yearbook of Organization Studies 1981 (RLE: Organizations)

Author: David Dunkerley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1135936935

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The diverse topics in this volume bring together developments in the field of organization studies. Although the approaches are by no means undifferentiated the articles share a commitment to a revitalized organizational analysis, an historically based analysis and one which attempts to understand the structure and impact of organizations in terms of the location of these organizations within structure of class and power.

Sociology of Organizations
Sociology of Organizations

Author: Mary Godwyn

Publisher: Pine Forge Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 769

ISBN-13: 1412991951

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A collection of both classic and contemporary studies of organizations that is designed around competing theoretical frameworks, this book examines organizations with attention to structure and objectives interactions among members and among organizations, the relationship between the organization and its environment, and the social significance or social meaning of the organization.

School Organisation (RLE Edu L)
School Organisation (RLE Edu L)

Author: William Tyler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1136463836

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The internal organisation of the school touches on many areas of contemporary debate. Is there such a thing as a ‘good school’? Are large urban comprehensives necessarily impersonal? Are the charges of indiscipline, conflict and declining standards in modern schools based on a failure to understand schools as institutions? At the time this book was first published sociological analysis had neglected to consider schools as organisational entities, preferring to see them as either the sites for negotiated encounters between teachers and pupils or else as agencies of class reproduction. The author redresses this imbalance and by relating the various literatures on the school to the constitutive patterns of its internal organisation he demonstrates the need for a more intensive sociological study of this embattled institution.

The Foreman (RLE: Organizations)
The Foreman (RLE: Organizations)

Author: David Dunkerley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1135932174

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The foreman is usually regarded as a filter in a chain of command in industrial organizations. In this book, however, the author suggests that this view is not adequate, and he proposes instead a model of analysis which employs a systems perspective. The role of the foreman is seen in terms of the interaction of three sub-systems representing the organization, the group and the individual. The book is based on the work of researchers from many disciplines and employs a sociological framework to account for the peculiar strains, conflict and ambiguities associated with the foreman’s role.

Organization, Class and Control (RLE: Organizations)
Organization, Class and Control (RLE: Organizations)

Author: Stewart Clegg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 1135931968

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In this volume the authors develop a systematic and chronologically based critique of the major concepts, figures and schools in organization. Themes discussed include: the development of scientific management and the responses of Gramsci and Lenin to it the meaning of Mayo and the Human Relations School the development of typological systems and contingency models of the organization key concepts of goals, environment and technology.

The Theory of Power and Organization (RLE: Organizations)
The Theory of Power and Organization (RLE: Organizations)

Author: Stewart Clegg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1135931402

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In this book the author develops a theory of power and organization, derived from a critical consideration of a literature extending across sociology, political science, philosophy and organization theory. The book raises and answers some of the issues which are important in the construction of a theoretical apparatus for the analysis of power and at the same time it proposes an alternative concept of organization, centred around the themes of power and control.