Managing Organizational Change (RLE: Organizations)
Managing Organizational Change (RLE: Organizations)

Author: Fred Fallik

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1135937141

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The United States Internal Revenue Service introduced a multi-million dollar program to automate its operations in the early 1980s. This book describes a multidisciplinary study of the experiences of several thousand users in this program, based primarily on questionnaires, observation and interviews. The case study gives valuable guidance to managers and their consultants involved in planning introduction of new office technology, as well as providing more academic insights into aspects of human behaviour under changing working conditions.

Organizational Choice (RLE: Organizations)
Organizational Choice (RLE: Organizations)

Author: E. Trist

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1135965145

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This book develops and applies a new approach to the study of the working group and indeed of productive enterprises more generally. Unlike similar studies, in this volume the human is related back to the technological, and it is the socio-technical system as a whole that is the object of study. The work reported in this book shows how alternative modes of work organization can exist for the same technology, giving the possibility of organizational choice.

Management Organization and Employment Strategy (RLE: Organizations)
Management Organization and Employment Strategy (RLE: Organizations)

Author: Tony Watson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1135947228

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The book brings together in a single volume material and issues normally treated separately, such as management studies, organisation theory, personnel management, industrial relations and motivation theory. Traditional topics such as the Hawthorne Experiments, Weber’s ideal type of bureaucracy and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs are put into perspective, along with ideas about organisational cultures, the labour process and the idea of corporate employment strategies.

Company Organization (RLE: Organizations)
Company Organization (RLE: Organizations)

Author: M . Barnes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1135930287

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This summary of theory and practice is inspired by the belief that cut and dried solutions to management problems are inappropriate and that every set of circumstances requires a unique synthesis of experience and relevant theories. In this book the authors have reviewed the main texts and theories of organization and have added the lessons learned from an unrivalled volume of practical experience, garnered from some 900 consultants working in more than twenty countries.

Doing Research in Organizations (RLE: Organizations)
Doing Research in Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

Author: Alan Bryman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1135930848

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This textbook provides first-hand, inside accounts of the process of doing research in organizations. It is intended both for students of research methods in sociology and social psychology, and for students of organization studies, organizational behaviour and management. The contributors tackle such problems as: gaining access to organizations, ‘getting on’ in organizations, quantitative and qualitative styles of investigation, the use of historical materials, the effects of resources on the context of research, the part played by political factors in organizational research, the relevance of grounded theory and conducting research within a cross-cultural framework.

Organisation and Administration for Business (RLE: Organizations)
Organisation and Administration for Business (RLE: Organizations)

Author: Geoffrey Whitehead

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1135947015

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to business organisation and administration. Written in a straightforward, readable style this textbook covers all the major aspects of the subject. Starting with the organisational background it goes on to cover the functions of the important departments within the firm, the role of the administrative officer, and other areas of knowledge vital to the smooth running of a business. There are self-assessment questions at the end of each section, past exam questions, study and exam tips and a full index.

Handbook of Organizations (RLE: Organizations)
Handbook of Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

Author: James March

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-26

Total Pages: 1269

ISBN-13: 1135965420

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This book charts the state of organizational research and theory during the 1960s. A compendium of results, references, concepts ideas and theories, this Handbook will be of interest to both academics in organizational theory and managers facing operating problems of organizations.

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

Author: Roy McLennan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-29

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1135959897

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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.

Power, Rule and Domination (RLE: Organizations)
Power, Rule and Domination (RLE: Organizations)

Author: Stewart Clegg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1135931127

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This volume presents a critical analysis of sociological theorizing and power which enables the reader to grasp fully the nature of power, rule and domination in organizational life. By making use of the discussions he recorded at a construction site, the author brings the reader into contact with the everyday social world in which he locates his analysis of power and authority at both a structural and phenomenological level. This analysis is complemented by the author’s review of the literature on ‘theorizing’ by writers such as Wittgenstein, Blum, McHugh, Phillips and Cicourel; his examination of the ‘community power debate’ between authors such as Bachrach and Baratz and Dahl; and a survey of the literature on power in its organizational aspects by Weber, Simmel and the more contemporary work of Hickson.