Organizations: Management Without Control

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SAGE, 2008 - 505 páginas

Organizations: Management Without Control provides a comprehensive understanding of the functions of formal organizations and the challenges they face. The most effective organizations provide members with opportunities to achieve their personal goals while pursuing the organization’s objectives. Using a practical approach with minimal jargon, author Howard P. Greenwald covers the basic features of organizations such as roles, structure, reward systems, power and authority, and culture and introduces important theoretical perspectives related to these features.

Key Features

Emphasizes the theme of “management without control”: This volume differs from most standard texts by highlighting both the challenges and opportunities that result from the independence of the individuals in the organization’s ranks.Stresses the importance of individual motivation and self-fulfillment: Recognizing the individual’s responsibility for their own success, the book helps readers evaluate clues to whether the organization to which they belong is an adequate opportunity.Offers a critical perspective on current fads and management ideologies: Proposing no formulaic solutions, the book provides the perspectives required to understand each organization’s uniqueness and to develop remedies to issues as they arise.Makes theory accessible through numerous real-life examples: Chapters include examples from life in business organizations, government agencies, non-profits, clubs, friendship groups, and families. Examines multinational corporations: Challenges involved in management on an international scale are explored as the book applies the principle of individual and group independence to global matters.Underscores multidisciplinary interest in organizations: Content is drawn from sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and management science.

Intended Audience

This introductory textbook on formal organizations is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Organizational Behavior, Managing Complex Organizations, Sociology of Organizations, and Government/Non-profit Management in the departments of business, public administration, health administration, social work, sociology, and psychology.

Instructor’s Resources

An Instructor’s Resource CD is available upon request. This CD provides PowerPoint presentations, test questions, additional examples and cases, suggested exercises, and much more!

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Contenido

List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
To the Student
Part I Understanding Organizations
Chapter 1 Lets Get Organized
Chapter 2 The Organizational Milieu
Chapter 3 Organizational Theories and Perspectives
Chapter 9 Leadership and Followership
Chapter 10 Communication and Decision Making
Chapter 11 Conflict Politics and Change
Part IV The Future Organization
Chapter 12 Bureaucracy
Chapter 13 Experiments and Innovations
Part V Organizations Personal Interests and Responsibility
Chapter 14 Organizations and Individual Decisions

Part II Means of Cohesion and Coordination
Chapter 4 Social Roles in Organizations
Chapter 5 The Rule of Structure
Chapter 6 Reward and Punishment
Chapter 7 Imperative Forces
Chapter 8 Organizational Culture
Part III Organizational Dynamics
Chapter 15 Organizations and Society
Glossary
Suggested Readings
Index
About the Author
Derechos de autor

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Howard P. Greenwald
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Acerca del autor (2008)

Howard P. Greenwald, Ph.D., has research interests in public policy, health services, evaluation research, public opinion, and organizational management. He in a professor at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California (USC). He has served as director of USC′s Health Services Administration Program, chairman of the Western Network for Education in Health Administration, and commissioner on the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education. Prior to his appointment at USC, he held positions at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Battelle Memorial Institute. He has held the Fulbright Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and has received a similar appointment at the University of Ottawa. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago (B.A.) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., Sociology). Dr. Greenwald has made major contributions to research on health care delivery and socioeconomic disparities in health status and treatment outcomes. Recent books include The United States Health Care System: Organization, Management, and Policy (Jossey-Bass, 2010 - Second Edition forthcoming, 2021), Organizations: Management Without Control (Sage, 2008), and Health For All: Making Community Collaboration Work (Health Administration Press, 2003). His book, Who Survives Cancer? (University of California Press, 1992), reports the results of a ten-year survival study. Earlier work includes articles in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (J-PART), Public Administration Review, Journal of the American Public Health Association, Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, and a variety of medical journals. He has an extensive consulting practice in program evaluation, policing, and medical/legal issues. Current projects include areas such as food security, interorganizational collaboration, tobacco policy, and organization and management of health services in Canada. When at leisure, he writes fiction, plays blues (guitar and banjo), runs, and skis.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloOrganizations: Management Without Control
AutorHoward P. Greenwald
Ediciónilustrada
EditorSAGE, 2008
ISBN1412942470, 9781412942478
Largo505 páginas
  
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