Organizations
eBook - ePub

Organizations

A Short Introduction

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eBook - ePub

Organizations

A Short Introduction

About this book

From companies, public administrations, universities, and schools to hospitals, prisons, political parties, and the military, organizations influence us from the moment we are born to the moment we die. However, we receive no training in how to deal with them, whether as their members, customers, patients, or voters.

Organizations-what are these entities that have such a strong influence on modern society? What makes them tick? What are our options for changing them? This book explains how organizations function by examining three of their central characteristics: membership, goals, and hierarchies.

Describing organizations metaphorically as "façades, " "machines, " and "games, " the author sheds lights on three important sides-their image, formal side, and informal side-and provides a broad set of tools for better understanding them.

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Information

Publisher
Organizational Dialogue Press
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781734961935
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Imprint
  3. Contents
  4. 1. Organizations: What Are They Actually?
  5. 2. Membership, Goals, and Hierarchies
  6. 3. Machines, Games, and Façades: The Three Sides of Organizations
  7. 4. The Organizational Society, the Organized Society, or the Society of Organizations—Why Organizations Are Not Everything
  8. Appendix: A Somewhat Longer Justification for a Short Introduction
  9. Bibliography