Organizations and Society
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Organizations and Society

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Organizations and Society

About this book

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 21st 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Brief Contents
  7. Detailed Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Part I Our Society of Organizations
  11. Chapter 1 Introduction A Society of Formal Organizations
  12. Chapter 2 The Subject Is Organizations. The Issue Is Power
  13. Chapter 3 Organizations and Inequality
  14. Part II Forging the Society of Organizations
  15. Chapter 4 The Rise of Bureaucracy and the Question of Efficiency
  16. Chapter 5 The Rise of Bureaucracy and the Question of Power
  17. Chapter 6 The Fall of Big Business?
  18. Part III Analyzing Organizations
  19. Chapter 7 The Machine Organization
  20. Chapter 8 The Human Organization
  21. Chapter 9 The Open Organization Organizations and Their Environments
  22. Chapter 10 The Prospects for Rationality
  23. Chapter 11 Rationality as Constant and Variable
  24. Chapter 12 Final Reflections Living With Organizations
  25. Index