For the undergraduate or graduate Sociology of Organizations course taught in Sociology or Business departments and Public Administration School of Education.
Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this text forms a sociological analysis of organizations, focusing on the impacts that organizations have upon individuals and society.
IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Thinking About Organizations
Part II: Organizational Structure
Chapter 2: Organization Structure: Key Dimensions
Chapter 3: Organization Structure: Explanations
Part III: Organizational Processes
Chapter 4: Power and Power Outcomes
Chapter 5: Leadership
Chapter 6: Decision Making
Chapter 7: Communication
Chapter 8: Managing Organizational Environments: Conceptualizing the Environment
Chapter 9: Managing Environments: Contemporary Paradigms
Part I: Outcomes
Chapter 10: Organizational Performance and Change
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Thinking about Organizations
Overview
Why Study Organizations?
Organizational Impacts
Organizations and the World
The Nature of Organizations
The Plan of the Book
In Sum
Exercises
PART II: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
Chapter 2 Organization Structure: Key Dimensions
Overview
Defining Organizational Structure
Modern Organizational Structure: The Bureaucratic Form
Sociological Studies of Formal Structure in Organizations
Dimensions of Formal Structure: Complexity
Dimensions of Formal Structure: Formalization
Dimensions of Formal Structure: Centralization
Relations between Complexity, Formalization & Centralization
Summary and Conclusions
Exercises
Chapter 3 Organization Structure: Explanations
Overview
Effects of Size
Effects of Technology
Effects of Internal Culture
Environmental Effects on Structure: External Culture
Creating Formal Structure: Debates over Process
Explaining Organizational Structure: Summary
Exercises
PART III: ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES
Chapter 4 Power and Power Outcomes
Overview
The Nature of Power in Organizations
Authority and Power
Other Types of Power
Shifts in Power
Power Outcomes: Compliance and Involvement
Power Outcomes: Conflict
The Components of Conflict Situations
The Outcomes of Conflict
Summary and Conclusions
Exercises
Chapter 5 Leadership
Overview
What Is Leadership?
The Outcomes of Leadership in Organizations
Leadership in the Voluntary Organization
Summary and Conclusions
Exercises
Chapter 6 Decision Making
Overview
Organizations as Systems of Decisions
Strategies of Power and Decision Making
Summary and Conclusions
Exercises
Chapter 7 Communication
Overview
The Importance of Communication
Individual Factors
Organizational Factors
Vertical Communication
Horizontal Communication
Communication Problems
Communication to and from Outside the Organization
Possible Solutions
Summary and Conclusions
Exercises
Chapter 8 Managing Organizational Environments: Conceptualizing the Environment
Overview
“Discovering” Organizational Environments
Defining the Environment: Core Dimensions
Defining the Environment: Interorganizational Relations
Defining the Environment: Selected Aspects
Perceiving the Environment
Summary and Conclusions
Exercises
Chapter 9 Managing Environments: Contemporary Paradigms
Overview
The Contingency Paradigm
The Resource Dependence Paradigm
The Transaction Costs Paradigm
The Institutional Paradigm
The Population Ecology Paradigm
Combining Paradigms
Summary and Conclusions
Exercises
PART III: OUTCOMES
Chapter 10 Organizational Performance and Change
Overview
Problems of Defining Organizational Goals
Approaches to Assessing Organizational Effectiveness
Evaluating Organizational Performance: Key Issues
Organizational Change and Transformation
Organizational Change: Learning
Transformational Change
Summary and Conclusions
Exercises