Graeme Salaman (ed.)

Understanding Business Organisations

Herausgegeben:Salaman, Graeme

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Organisational theory is vitally relevant to today's student of business. Understanding Business Organisations introduces the student to classic debates and new perspectives on organisations through a wide ranging but approachable selection of readings.
This text:
_ considers why organisations matter to employees and customers
_ discusses theories of the organisation as a mode of empowerment and of control.
Examining these theories in the light of current programmes of organisational change gives the book a case study element that will be invaluable for teaching and learning.

Produktdetails

• Understanding Business
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• 2000.
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780415238557
• ISBN-10: 0415238552
• Artikelnr.: 21542670

Autorenporträt

Graeme Salaman is Professor of Organisation Studies at The Open University, where he is a Director of the Business Studies programme. He has written more than fifty books and articles in the area of organisational analysis, the sociology of work and strategic human resource management.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Organizational aspects of business 2 The communications and
financial revolution and the rise of the multinational corporation 3 Work
in traditional and modern societies 4 Work SECTION 2: UNDERSTANDING
ORGANISATIONS 5 The emergence of new work forms 6 Classic theories of
bureaucracy 7 Work organizations, managerial strategies and control 8
Studying organisations: an introduction 9 Struggle and resistance SECTION
3: CHANGING ORGANISATIONS 10 Re-inventing organisation man? 11
Organizational structuring and restructuring 12 Beyond organizational
structure: the end of classical forms? 13 Hands, hearts and minds: changing
work and workers at the end of the century 14 Failure