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

    By Stewart Clegg, David Dunkerley

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    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...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
22. The Foreman (RLE: Organizations)

    Aspects of Task and Structure

    By David Dunkerley

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    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...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
23. The Study of Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

    By David Dunkerley

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    In this introduction for undergraduate students, the author surveys the development of the study of organizations from an historical point of view. He studies organizations within the framework of the main schools of thought, looks into the various levels of analysis involved, and considers the...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
24. Company Organization (RLE: Organizations)

    Theory and Practice

    By M . Barnes, A. Fogg, C. Stephens, L. Titman

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    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...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
25. The International Yearbook of Organization Studies 1981 (RLE: Organizations)

    Edited by David Dunkerley, Graeme Salaman

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    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...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
26. Managing Organizational Change (RLE: Organizations)

    Human Factors and Automation

    By Fred Fallik

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    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...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
27. Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations)

    Lectures in Business Organization

    By Mary Parker Follett

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    A pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and behaviour Mary Parker Follett authored a number of books and numerous essays, articles and speeches on human relations, political philosophy, psychology and management. The first woman invited to address the London School of Economics, this book...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
28. Organizations Alike and Unlike (RLE: Organizations)

    International and Inter-Institutional Studies in the Sociology of Organizations

    Edited by Cornelis Lammers, David Hickson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    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...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
29. Cases in Organisational Behaviour (RLE: Organizations)

    By Roy McLennan

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    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,...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
30. Company Strategy and Organizational Design (RLE: Organizations)

    By Roger Mansfield

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    Getting strategies and structures right for changing market conditions and successfully matching strategies and structures with each other, are crucial. This volume reviews and develops the extensive literature in the areas of business policy and organizational behaviour, taking the subject further...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge