Managing Through Organization: The Management Process, Forms of Organization and the Work of Managers - Softcover

Hales, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861525702 ISBN 13: 9781861525703

Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA, 2000

Synopsis

This innovative text provides a comprehensive and balanced review of approaches to work organization in one accessible volume. By synthesising a number of theories, Colin Hales concludes that organizations are essentially an attempt to manage on a large scale. He then applies this coherent 'managing through organization' framework to a comprehensive range of topics.

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Review

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: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861525702
• ISBN 13: 9781861525703
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288