Managing Through Organisation: The Management Process, Forms of Organisation and the Work of Managers (Organisational Behaviour and Management) - Hardcover

Hales, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415010020 ISBN 13: 9780415010023

Publisher: Routledge

Synopsis

"Managing Through Organizations" offers an analysis of different approaches to work organization. Colin Hales uses an original and coherent theoretical framework, to trace ways in which the management process has become separated, extended, dispersed and institutionalized within large scale organizations. He examines the implications of the idea of managing "through" organizations for managerial work and managerial power, influence and authority. Based on the author's experience of teaching both students of management at undergraduate level and managers on executive programmes, this text combines theory and practice. It brings an innovative perspective to bear on traditional approaches to work organization and offers a useful synthesis of the current literature. The analysis covers the "classical" approaches of bureaucracy and rationalization, scientific management, and the more recent alternatives of decentralization through divisional, professional and "adhocratic" organization. International depth is given to the volume by a discussion of cultural controls on management exercised through Japanese and "clan" forms of organization.

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1. Management, Managing and Managers 2. Power, Influence, Authority and Response: the Means of Management 3. Managing Through Organization: A Theoretical Framework 4. The Classical Approach to Work Organization I: Rationalization and Scientific Management 5. The Classical Approach to Work Organization II: Bureaucracy and Bureaucratization 6. Alternatives to the Rationalization of Work and the Search for Quality of Working Life, Flexibility and Quality: Despecialization through Job Redesign, Group Working and Employee Participation 7. Alternatives to Bureaucracy and the Search for Flexibility: Decentralization through Divisionalized Organization, SBU Organization, Professional Organization and Adhocracy 8. Organizational Culture and the Search for Commitment and Performance: Japanese Management and Clan Organization 9. The Search for Continuous Change and Innovation: The Learning Organization 10. Managing Within Organization: Managerial Work in an Organizational Context 11. Conclusion References Further Reading Index

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415010020
• ISBN 13: 9780415010023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240