Classic readings in organization theory 7th ed

Author

• Ott, J. Steven

Additional Author(s)

• Shafritz, Jay M.
• Yong, Suk Jang

Publisher

Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011

Language

English

ISBN

9780495833253

Series

Subject(s)

• ORGANIZATION
• ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY

Notes

. . Bibliography: p. 542-543

Abstract

Grasp the important themes, perspectives, and theories of the field with CLASSICS OF ORGANIZATION THEORY, International Edition. This collection of the most enduring works in organization theory, written by distinguished theorists, describes what organization theory is, how it has developed, and how its development has coincided with events and changes in other fields.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xvi, 543 p.

Dimension

25 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

On the division of labor / Adam Smith --
The principles of scientific management / Frederick Winslow Taylor --
General principles of management / Henri Fayol --
Bureaucracy / Max Weber --
The giving of orders / Mary Parker Follett --
Notes on the theory of organization / Luther Gulick --
The Scalar principle / James D. Mooney --
The proverbs of administration / Herbert Simon --
Foundations of the theory of organization / Philip Selznick --
Suggestions for a sociological approach to the theory of organizations / Talcott Parsons --
Theories of bureaucracy / James G. March, Herbert A. Simon --
General systems theory : the skeleton of science / Kenneth E. Boulding --
Parkinson's Law of the Rising Pyramid / C. Northcote Parkinson --
Two approaches to organizational analysis : a critique and a suggestion / Amitai Etzioni --
The principle of supportive relationships / Rensis Likert --
Organizations and the system concept / Daniel Katz, Robert L. Kahn --
Organizations in action / James D. Thompson --
Management and technology / Joan Woodward --
Mechanistic and organic systems / Tom Burns, G.M. Stalker --
The concept of formal organization / Peter M. Blau, W. Richard Scott --
The causal texture of organizational environments / F.E. Emery, E.L. Trist --
Organizational choice : product vs. function / Arthur H. Walker, Jay W. Lorsch --
Organization-environment interface / Paul R. Lawrence, Jay W. Lorsch --
Cosmopolitans and locals / Alvin W. Gouldner --
Dramaturgy / Victor A. Thompson --
Patterns of organizational accommodation : upward-mobiles, indifferents and ambivalents / Robert Presthus --
The Peter principle / Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull --
The craftsman, the jungle fighter, the company man, and the gamesman / Michael Jacoby --
Organization theory : an overview and an appraisal / William G. Scott --
Organization theory and political theory / Herbert Kaufman --
Democracy is inevitable / Philip E. Slater, Warren G. Bennis --
The short and glorious history of organizational theory / Charles Perrow.

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