Organization, class and control

Organization, class and control / Stewart Clegg and David Dunkerley.

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 itthe meaning of Mayo and the Human Relations Sc...

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Main Author: Clegg, Stewart R., 1947-
Other Authors: Dunkerley, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Series:Routledge library editions. Organizations. Theory & behaviour ; v. 9.
Subjects:
Organizational sociology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Negotiating.
Organizational sociology
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Classical Sociology, Organizations and Theory; Auguste Comte; Comte and Saint-Simon; Herbert Spencer; Emile Durkheim; 2 Max Weber, Karl Marx and Rationality in Organizations; Max Weber and Rationality; Karl Marx and Capitalism; The Emergence of 'Rational Organization'; 3 The Emergence of an Organization Theory; Precursors of Organization Ideologies; The Theory of Bureaucracy; Weber and The Theory of Bureaucracy
  • The Emergence of Scientific Management and The Control of the Labour ProcessF. W. Taylor; Scientific Management in Context; From Scientific Management to Formal Theories of Administration; Henri Fayol; Mooney and Reiley; Gulick and Urwick; The General Framework of the Formal Theorists; The Social Context of Formal Theorists of Organization; Antonio Gramsci; Gramsci and Workers' Councils versus Olivetti and Organization Theory; Lenin and The Theory of Organization; Lessons of the Workers' Councils for The Theory of Organizations; Elton Mayo; The Hawthorne Studies
  • Subsequent Development: The Elaboration of Control4 Typologies of Organizations; Weber's Ideal Type of Bureaucracy; Blau and Scott; Etzioni; Blau and Scott and Etzioni Compared; Additional Organizational Models; Alvin Gouldner; Peter Blau; General Problems of Bureaucracy; The Weberians' Response; 5 Organizations as Systems; Talcott Parsons; Parsons' General Systems Theory; Parsons' Theory of the Organization as System; Four Functional Problems of Organizations; Three Levels of Analysis in Organizations; Criticisms: The Analysis of Change and Conflict; Substantive Limitations
  • Robert King MertonPhilip Selznick; Developments in Systems Theory; Closed-System Perspective; The Development of the Open-System Perspective; Interdependent Parts; Needs for Survival; Purposive Needs; Organizations as Open Systems; The System Environment; The Limitations of the Systems Approach; 6 Organizations as Empirically Contingent Structures; Introduction; Personality Structure and Organization Structure; The Aston Studies; The Dimensions of Organization Structure: Variables; Performance Variables; Contextual Variables; The Dimensions of Organization Structure: Initial Data
  • Why do Organization Structures Vary?'Metaphysical Pathos' and 'Strategic Choice' in The Theory of Organizations; Empiricism; 7 Organizations as Structures of Action; Introduction; Structure: Simon, March and Weick; Culture: Silverman and Action; The Action Frame of Reference: Continuities and Discontinuities; Summary; 8 Goals in Organizations; Goals and Definitions of Organizations; The Goal Model; The System Model; Goals and Decision-Making; Charles Perrow and Operative Goals; Organization Goals as Abstractions; Organization Goals and Their Outcomes; The Analytical Usefulness of Goals

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