Organization Theory: Research and Design
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Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the OT literature. Discussions on how computers and management information systems are changing organization design.
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Organization Theory: Structure, Design, And Applications, 3/E
This book is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Organization Theory and Management. The book is complemented by a range of online resources including PowerPoint slides, an Instructor’s Manual and Testbank.
This book provides a new reading of the historical development of organization.
An Online Resource Centre accompanies this text and includes: For students: Multiple Choice Questions For registered adopters: Lecturer's guide PowerPoint slides Figures and tables from the book
This book spans seventy years of theory from Max Weber's seminal writings on bureaucratic organization to the latest management thinking represented by Handy, Peters and Waterman.
The purpose of this text is to examine the basic topics of organization management from the perspective of public governmental organizations.
This collection of papers is edited by renowned business thinker Oliver Williamson, who is currently Transamerica Professor of Corporate Strategy at the School of Business Administration at Berkeley.
This book applies the economic principles of individualist anarchism, as developed in Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, to the study of the large organization.
Foundations of organization theory; The context of organizations; Organization structure and design; Motivation and compliance in organizations; Social influences on organization effectiveness; Organziations effectiveness.
This book is accompanied by a collection of online resources: For students: Multiple-choice questions For lecturers: PowerPoint slides Figures and tables from the book Lecturers' guide Additional case studies
This new text takes a unique practice-based approach, identifying questions, problems and issues that are perceived as pertinent by practitioners, and using these as the starting point to identify the relevant theories.
Clearly written and well-organized, this book takes a strategic systems approach that focuses on how managers structure and operate organizations so that they are efficient and effective....
This book helps readers to extend their understanding of theories and make the connection between them and organizational practice.
The text considers how theory can be applied in these differing contexts of citizen, customer, and client demands.
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