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21. Organisation and Administration for Business (RLE: Organizations)

    By Geoffrey Whitehead

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to business organisation and administration. Written in a straightforward, readable style this textbook covers all the major aspects of the subject. Starting with the organisational background it goes on to cover the functions of the important...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
22. Organizational Behaviour (RLE: Organizations)

    Politics at Work

    By Robert Lee, Peter Lawrence

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    Organizations do not have goals – only people do. Furthermore, people within the same organizations have different goals. This book takes this as its starting point, recognizing that organizations are a dynamic coalition of individuals and groups competing and co-operating as they each pursue their...

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

    A Critical Annotated Bibliography

    By Parvin Ghorayshi

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This reference volume reflects the changing world of work. It includes research on the various dimensions of work, such as the structure of the labour force, labour market segmentation, technology, employment/unemployment, trade unions, and industrial democracy. This book provides an integrated...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
24. A Sociology of Organisations (RLE: Organizations)

    By J. Eldridge, A. Crombie

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    An understanding of the nature and forms of organisation, particularly with reference to industrial societies, is a key area in sociological analysis. This book discusses and explains what concepts to employ and what analytical procedures to adopt as well as conveying a sense of the theoretical and...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
25. Information Space (RLE: Organizations)

    By Max Boisot

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    In this book the author lays the foundations for a new political economy of information. The information space, or I-Space is the conceptual framework in which organizations, institutions and cultures are being transformed by new information and communication technologies. In the penultimate...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
26. Critical Issues in Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

    Edited by Stewart Clegg, David Dunkerley

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

    This collection highlights a number of directions in which organization theory could develop. It also argues the need for an historical analysis of the sociology of organizations. Other issues discussed are the ideological stance of contemporary organization theory and the limiting framework that...

    Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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