Research Catalog

Title

Missing organizational linkages : tools for cross-level research / Paul S. Goodman.

Author

Goodman, Paul S.

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

xi, 193 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• "In this book, Paul Goodman presents an innovative approach for analyzing and understanding organizations. He asks the question: How do actions among individuals and groups affect (or not affect) organizations as a whole? He challenges the view that improvement in individual or group performance necessarily "links" to enhanced organizational functioning.
• Clearly written in a conversational style, the book is filled with rich examples chosen to illustrate different views of the linkage concepts within different domains and contexts. A significant contribution to management education, the book is recommended for researchers, graduate students, organizational consultants, practitioners, and research libraries."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Foundations for organizational science

Uniform Title

Foundations for organizational science.

Subject

• Industrial productivity
• Organizational effectiveness

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-186) and index.

Contents

1. Beginning the Conversation -- 2. Framing the Organizational Linkage Problem -- 3. Tools for Linkage Analysis -- 4. Organizational Errors -- 5. Changing Organizations: Limiting Conditions -- 6. Focusing on System-Wide Changes -- 7. Change and Linkages Among a System of Outcomes -- 8. Organizational Learning -- 9. Reflecting Backward and Looking Forward.

ISBN

• 0761916172 (acid-free paper)
• 0761916180 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

00008798

OCLC

• ocm43701573
• SCSB-3927628

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries