Organizational Theory, Design, and Change - Hardcover

Jones, Gareth R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0136087310 ISBN 13: 9780136087311

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2010

Synopsis

KEY BENEFIT: Business is changing at break-neck speed, so managers must be increasingly active in reorganizing their firms to gain a competitive edge.Organizational Theory, Design, and Change continues to provide students with the most up-to-date and contemporary treatment of the way managers attempt to increase organizational effectiveness. By making organizational change the centerpiece in a discussion of organizational theory and design, this text stands apart from other books on the market. The sixth edition has been updated to reflect the most recent trends in real-world managing techniques. Examples have been updated to provide vivid illustrations of such techniques in action.KEY TOPICS: The Organization and Its Environment; Organizational Design; Organizational Change Business is changing at break-neck speed, so managers must be increasingly active in reorganizing their firms to gain a competitive edge. This text combines theory with application to s

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Features include:

• An integrated flow between chapters that allows students to clearly see how topics relate to each other from the start.
• An in-depth look at organizational culture from the origins of culture to its relationship with organizational effectiveness.
• Coverage of ethics as an explicit theme.
• Detailed coverage of the stakeholder approach to organizations and the implications of this approach for organizational effectiveness.
• Explanations of the most recent developments in organizational structure such as the product team structure, outsourcing, and network organizations.
• Discussion of recent literature on interorganizational linkage mechanisms, and an account of the role of resource dependence theory and transaction cost theory in explaining why organizations choose different types of linkage mechanisms.
• An integrated account of the strategy-structure relationship.
• Comprehensive coverage of international strategy and structure and global organizational design.
• An analysis of new technological developments, including the Internet, integrated with traditional concepts already used in organizational theory. See how technical complexity, task nonroutinism, and task interdependence affect organizational design.
• A detailed discussion of both population ecology theory and institutional theory.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0136087310
• ISBN 13: 9780136087311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 521