Organization, class and control / / Stewart Clegg and David Dunkerley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810734503321
• Autore: Clegg Stewart R. <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-135-93196-8; 1-135-93189-5; 0-203-54778-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1128 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations: Theory & Behaviour ; ; Volume 9
• Altri autori (Persone): DunkerleyDavid
• Disciplina: 302.3/5
• Soggetti: Organizational sociology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in 1980 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Classical Sociology, Organizations and Theory; Auguste Comte; Comte and Saint-Simon; Herbert Spencer; Emile Durkheim; 2 Max Weber, Karl Marx and Rationality in Organizations; Max Weber and Rationality; Karl Marx and Capitalism; The Emergence of 'Rational Organization'; 3 The Emergence of an Organization Theory; Precursors of Organization Ideologies; The Theory of Bureaucracy; Weber and The Theory of Bureaucracy; The Emergence of Scientific Management and The Control of the Labour ProcessF. W. Taylor; Scientific Management in Context; From Scientific Management to Formal Theories of Administration; Henri Fayol; Mooney and Reiley; Gulick and Urwick; The General Framework of the Formal Theorists; The Social Context of Formal Theorists of Organization; Antonio Gramsci; Gramsci and Workers' Councils versus Olivetti and Organization Theory; Lenin and The Theory of Organization; Lessons of the Workers' Councils for The Theory of Organizations; Elton Mayo; The Hawthorne Studies; Subsequent Development: The Elaboration of Control4 Typologies of Organizations; Weber's Ideal Type of Bureaucracy; Blau and Scott; Etzioni; Blau and Scott and Etzioni Compared; Additional Organizational Models; Alvin Gouldner; Peter Blau; General Problems of Bureaucracy; ; The Weberians' Response; 5 Organizations as Systems; Talcott Parsons; Parsons' General Systems Theory; Parsons' Theory of the Organization as System; Four Functional Problems of Organizations; Three Levels of Analysis in Organizations; Criticisms: The Analysis of Change and Conflict; Substantive Limitations; Robert King MertonPhilip Selznick; Developments in Systems Theory; Closed-System Perspective; The Development of the Open-System Perspective; Interdependent Parts; Needs for Survival; Purposive Needs; Organizations as Open Systems; The System Environment; The Limitations of the Systems Approach; 6 Organizations as Empirically Contingent Structures; Introduction; Personality Structure and Organization Structure; The Aston Studies; The Dimensions of Organization Structure: Variables; Performance Variables; Contextual Variables; The Dimensions of Organization Structure: Initial Data; Why do Organization Structures Vary?'Metaphysical Pathos' and 'Strategic Choice' in The Theory of Organizations; Empiricism; 7 Organizations as Structures of Action; Introduction; Structure: Simon, March and Weick; Culture: Silverman and Action; The Action Frame of Reference: Continuities and Discontinuities; Summary; 8 Goals in Organizations; Goals and Definitions of Organizations; The Goal Model; The System Model; Goals and Decision-Making; Charles Perrow and Operative Goals; Organization Goals as Abstractions; Organization Goals and Their Outcomes; The Analytical Usefulness of Goals; A Substantive Critique
• Sommario/riassunto: In this volume the authors develop a systematic and chronologically based critique of the major concepts, figures and schools in organization. Themes discussed include: the development of scientific management and the responses of Gramsci and Lenin to itthe meaning of Mayo and the Human Relations Schoolthe development of typological systems and contingency models of the organizationkey concepts of goals, environment and technology.