LEADER 04576nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910787525803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0375-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203752 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418294 035 $a(OCoLC)859160906 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748606 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001054023 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11674628 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001054023 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11125654 035 $a(PQKB)11466752 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26738 035 $a(DE-B1597)449217 035 $a(OCoLC)979622737 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203752 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442174 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748606 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682406 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442174 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418294 100 $a20130903d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aExposes and excess$b[electronic resource] $emuckraking in America, 1900/2000 /$fCecelia Tichi 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (243 p.) 225 0 $aPersonal Takes 225 0$aPersonal takes 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51124-1 311 $a0-8122-1926-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tChapter 1. From The jungle to Fast Food Nation --$tChapter 2. Bulked Up and Hollowed Out --$tChapter 3. Muckrakers c. 1900 --$tChapter 4. Muckrakers c. 2000 --$tEpilogue. Tipping Point, or the Long Goodbye? --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aFrom robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880's to the mass layoffs of the 1990's, two American Gilded Ages-one in the early 1900's, another in the final years of the twentieth century-mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have ignited the civic passions of investigative writers who have drafted diagnostic blueprints for urgently needed change. The compelling narratives of the muckrakers-Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Ray Stannard Baker among them-became bestsellers and prizewinners a hundred years ago; today, Cecelia Tichi notes, they have found their worthy successors in writers such as Barbara Ehrenreich, Eric Schlosser, and Naomi Klein. In Exposés and Excess Tichi explores the two Gilded Ages through the lens of their muckrakers. Drawing from her considerable and wide-ranging work in American studies, Tichi details how the writers of the first muckraking generation used fact-based narratives in magazines such as McClure's to rouse the U.S. public to civic action in an era of unbridled industrial capitalism and fear of the immigrant "dangerous classes." Offering a damning cultural analysis of the new Gilded Age, Tichi depicts a booming, insecure, fortress America of bulked-up baby strollers, McMansion housing, and an obsession with money-as-lifeline in an era of deregulation, yawning income gaps, and idolatry of the market and its rock-star CEOs. No one has captured this period of corrosive boom more acutely than the group of nonfiction writers who burst on the scene in the late 1990's with their exposés of the fast-food industry, the world of low-wage work, inadequate health care, corporate branding, and the multibillion-dollar prison industry. And nowhere have these authors-Ehrenreich, Schlosser, Klein, Laurie Garrett, and Joseph Hallinan-revealed more about their emergence as writers and the connections between journalism and literary narrative than in the rich and insightful interviews that round out the book. 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Olmstead 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger,$d2002. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (266 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781567205329 311 08$a1567205321 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-260) and indexes. 327 $aCover -- Creating the Functionally Competent Organization -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- RATIONALE -- Essential Human Factors -- THE ORGANIZATION CONCEPT -- CHANGE MANAGEMENT -- THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK -- Part I-Functionally Competent Organizations: Theory -- Part II-Requirements for Performance -- Part III-Functionally Competent Organizations: Application -- Part I Functionally Competent Organizations: Theory -- Chapter 2 Organizations and Their Functions -- INTRODUCTION -- Conditions in the Modern World -- ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS -- Required Capabilities -- ESSENTIAL HUMAN FACTORS -- THE TYPICAL ORGANIZATION -- Organizational Structure -- Leaders -- Command and Control -- Organizational Process -- PROBLEMS IN ORGANIZATIONAL FUNCTIONING -- Some General Pitfalls -- Effects of Operating Pressures -- Coping with Pressures -- CONCEPT OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCE -- Dangers of Overcontrol -- INDIVIDUAL COMPETENCIES -- GROUP COMPETENCIES -- THE COMPETENCE MODEL -- MANAGING CHANGE -- RELEVANCE FOR ORGANIZATIONS -- Rapid-Response Organizations -- Other Organizations -- Chapter 3 Theoretical Background -- STRUCTURAL THEORIES -- GROUP THEORIES -- INDIVIDUAL THEORIES -- Fitting the Person to the Organization -- Fitting the Organization to the Person -- DECISION THEORIES -- THE ISSUES AND A RESOLUTION -- GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY -- ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES -- Chapter 4 Research Results -- ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCE -- The Research Context and Strategy -- THE COMPETENCE MODEL -- Components of Competence -- Organizational Processes -- TESTS OF THE MODEL -- Project FORGE -- Method -- Results -- Conclusions -- Project Cardinal Point -- Method -- Process Performance: Observation and Feedback -- Data -- Results -- Process Performance and Combat Outcomes -- Impact of Feedback -- Conclusions. 327 $aHEW Studies -- Method -- Impact Variables -- Results -- Determinants of Agency Performance -- Organizational Competence -- Determinants of Competence -- Significance of Organizational Competence -- IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 5 Functionally Competent Organizations -- ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES -- COMPONENTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCE -- INDICATORS OF QUALITY -- DETERMINANTS OF COMPETENCE -- The Role of Integration -- Conditions Conducive to Integration -- Factors Affecting Integration -- Roles -- Goals -- Norms -- Group Relations -- IMPLICATIONS -- The Competence Model -- Part II Requirements for Performance -- Chapter 6 Performance of Individuals -- INDIVIDUAL COMPETENCIES -- Competency Defined -- Utility -- Rationale -- Research on Competencies -- Performance of Individuals -- ELEMENTS IN PERFORMANCE -- DETERMINANTS OF PERFORMANCE -- Factors within an Individual -- Factors within the Leaders or Supervisors -- Factors within the Work Situation -- AN IMPACT MODEL OF PERFORMANCE -- UTILITY OF THE IMPACT MODEL -- Some Competencies for Rank-and-File Personnel -- Chapter 7 Performance of Groups -- GROUP: A DEFINITION -- EFFECTS OF COHESIVENESS -- Implications for Training -- CHARACTERISTICS OF AN IDEAL GROUP -- ORGANIZATIONS AS SYSTEMS OF GROUPS -- Determinants of Effectiveness -- Tasks and Organization -- Superordinate Goals -- Similarity of Personnel -- Common Experiences -- Success Experiences -- Organizational Stability -- Communication -- Interpersonal Conflict -- Cooperation and Competition -- Reward System -- Administrative Practices -- Effects of Group Size -- IMPLICATIONS -- Group Competencies -- Part III Functionally Competent Oganizations: Application -- Chapter 8 Integration in Organizations -- BASIC CONCEPTS -- Organizational Effectiveness -- ESSENTIAL ORGANIZATIONAL PROPERTIES -- DEVELOPING ORGANIZATIONS AS SYSTEMS. 327 $aThe Essence of Organizational Management -- Conditions Conducive to Performance -- Developmental Activities -- Organizational Properties -- A Clear Role System -- Common Superordinate Goals -- Shared Norms of Performance and Behavior -- A Stable and Efficient Communications System -- Effective Group Relations -- A Stable and Efficient Organizational System -- Purposes Served by Properties -- REQUIRED MANAGER FUNCTIONS -- Formulating Objectives and Roles -- Developing Core Personnel -- Formulating Ground Rules for Working -- Developing an Effective Communication System -- Developing a High Level of Motivation -- Setting Standards of Performance -- A MODEL FOR ORGANIZATIONAL INTEGRATION -- Assessment of Training and Development Models -- Attributes of a Practical Training and Development Model -- CONCEPT OF INTEGRATION -- THE INTEGRATION MODEL -- Necessary Organizational Properties -- Necessary Developmental Activities -- Assessment Issues -- Manipulability -- Measurability -- Evaluation of the Integration Model -- IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 9 Competence Operationally Defined -- THE NATURE OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCE -- Organizational Attributes -- Concept of Organizational Competence -- IMPLEMENTING ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCE -- Identifying Critical Environments -- Sensing -- Search and Acquisition -- Processing -- Storing -- Interpreting -- Quality Requirements -- Communicating Information -- Quality Requirements -- Decision Making -- Quality Requirements -- Stabilizing -- Quality Requirements -- Communicating Implementation -- Aborted Decisions -- Quality Requirements -- Coping Actions -- Quality Requirements -- Feedback -- Quality Requirements -- CRITERIA OF QUALITY -- IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 10 A Model for Organizational Effectiveness -- AN ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS MODEL -- Organizational Conditions -- Training Activities. 327 $aCognitive Role Training -- Experiential Training -- Operations Training -- Integration -- Role/Process Performance -- Teamwork/Process Performance -- Utility of the Model -- Potential Uses -- IMPROVING COMPETENCE IN EXISTING ORGANIZATIONS -- The Adaptive-Coping Cycle -- Analyzing and Assessing Organizational Performance -- A General Framework for Analysis -- Questions about Organizational Competence -- Define the Organization -- Identifying the Processes -- ASSESSING ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCE -- Qualitative Assessment -- Quantitative Assessment -- Public Comparisons of Scores between Units Are Not Recommended -- An Alternative Procedure -- DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES -- Developing Favorable Conditions -- Importance of Leadership -- TRAINING ACTIVITIES -- Special Role Training -- Experiential Training -- Operations Training -- IMPROVING COMPETENCE -- IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 11 Elements of Organizational Effectiveness -- THE CONTEXT OF WORK -- Components of the Work Context -- Developing Favorable Work Contexts -- Structural Aspects -- Climate -- Conditions Conducive to Performance -- Implementation Requirements -- FACTORS THAT CONTROL PERFORMANCE -- Effective Use of Human Resources -- Effective Management -- Effective Leadership -- Effective Training -- IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 12 Summary and Conclusions -- SOME BASIC CONCEPTS -- Organizational Effectiveness -- Organizations as Open Systems -- Organizational Competence -- Competence as Flexibility -- Integration -- FACTORS AFFECTING INTEGRATION -- Roles -- Goals -- Norms -- Group Relations -- Teamwork -- TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT -- CONCLUSION -- RELEVANCE FOR RAPID-RESPONSE ORGANIZATIONS -- RELEVANCE FOR OTHER ORGANIZATIONS -- Annotated Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- About the Author. 330 8 $aOlmstead writes from an open systems perspective-a viewpoint of organizations that adapt quickly to turbulent, uncertain business environments-offering an integrated, understandable, and highly practical way to analyze, assess, and improve organization performance. He demonstrates how organizations actually function, and shows how they can identify and overcome obstacles by creating organizational competence-the critical elements that give organizations the ability to perform effectively in the modern business world. Upper level students, scholars, and teachers will find Olmstead's book an important addition to their academic reading lists. For practitioners, particularly those in rapid response organizations, this book will be an indispensable aid in the struggle to keep their organizations up to date and abreast of the competition. 606 $aOrganizational effectiveness 606 $aPerformance$xManagement 606 $aPerformance$xEvaluation 615 0$aOrganizational effectiveness. 615 0$aPerformance$xManagement. 615 0$aPerformance$xEvaluation. 676 $a394.26973 700 $aOlmstead$b Joseph A.$f1921-$0909682 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973237003321 996 $aCreating the functionally competent organization$94354027 997 $aUNINA