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31. Business Organization (RLE: Organizations)

    By John O'Shaughnessy

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This book presents an integrated view of the three main approaches to organization – classical, human relations and systems – showing what each has of value to contribute and how they complement each other. The three approaches are introduced, followed by critical analysis. The main classical...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
32. Patterns of Business Organization (RLE: Organizations)

    By John O'Shaughnessy

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This book is a successor to the earlier and widely-used Business Organization. In this book the author helps the student to develop his or her own critical and conceptual understanding of the subject. As the author reviews the various approaches – classical, human relations, behavioural science,...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
33. Organization in Business Management (RLE: Organizations)

    A Guide for Managers and Potential Managers

    By Walter Puckey

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This book is written primarily for junior management and discusses some key issues including: the increasing role of technology in business and management individual and group dynamics communication...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
34. Technology and Organization (RLE: Organizations)

    Power, Meaning and Deisgn

    By Harry Scarbrough, J. Corbett

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    In this important MBA text the authors adopt a highly integrated approach. Using the three conceptual lenses of power, meaning and design they explore fully the many different ways in which technology and organizations interact. They highlight the major debates within these competing perspectives...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
35. Management Organization and Employment Structure (RLE: Organizations)

    New Directions in Theory and Practice

    By Tony Watson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    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...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
36. Organizational Choice (RLE: Organizations)

    Capabilities of Groups at the Coal Face Under Changing Technologies

    By E. Trist, G. Higgin, H. Murray, A. Pollock

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    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....

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
37. Social and Business Enterprises (RLE: Organizations)

    An Introduction to Organisational Economics

    By Jonathan Boswell

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This book shows how economics can be used to clarify and stimulate thinking about organisations and their decision problems. It is mainly designed for university students of economics, management and business studies and of public and social administration. But its clear and lively exposition will...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
38. Social Psychology of the Work Organization (RLE: Organizations)

    By Arnold Tannenbaum

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This book discusses social psychological research in organizations and illustrates the implications of this research for organizational theory and practice. The book focuses on the relationship of man to the organization in which he works; his sense of satisfaction, involvement, feelings of...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
39. Leadership and Organization (RLE: Organizations)

    A Behavioural Science Approach

    By Robert Tannenbaum, Irving Weschler, Fred Massarik

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This book represents a selected collection of the writings, from 1950 to 1960, of members of the Human Relations Research Group (HRRG), from UCLA. The writings are followed by independent comments and appraisal from different viewpoints, prepared by distinguished experts in management theory, group...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
40. Organization and Organizing

    Materiality, Agency and Discourse

    Edited by Daniel Robichaud, Francois Cooren

    This timely collection addresses central issues in organizational communication theory on the nature of organizing and organization. The unique strength of this volume is its contribution to the conception of materiality, agency, and discourse in current theorizing and research on the constitution...

    Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge