Research Catalog

Title

Classics of organization theory / [edited by] Jay M. Shafritz, J. Steven Ott.

Publication

Pacific Grove, CA : Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., [1992], ©1992.

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Additional Authors

• Ott, J. Steven.
• Shafritz, Jay M.

Description

ix, 534 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Brooks/Cole series in public administration

Uniform Title

Brooks/Cole series in public administration.

Subjects

• Management
• Organization and Administration
• Management Information Systems
• Organization
• Decision Making

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

A Chronology of Organization Theory -- I. Classical Organization Theory -- 1. Socrates Discovers Generic Management: Xenophon (1869) -- 2. Of the Division of Labour: Adam Smith (1776) -- 3. On the Division of Labour: Charles Babbage (1832) -- 4. Superintendent's Report: Daniel C. McCallum (1856) -- 5. The Engineer as an Economist: Henry R. Towne (1886) -- 6. General Principles of Management: Henri Fayol (1916) -- 7. The Principles of Scientific Management: Frederick Winslow Taylor (1916) -- 8. Bureaucracy: Max Weber (1946) -- 9. Notes on the Theory of Organization: Luther Gulick (1937) -- II. Neoclassical Organization Theory -- 10. The Proverbs of Administration: Herbert A. Simon (1946) -- 11. Foundations of the Theory of Organization: Philip Selznick (1948) -- 12. Theories of Bureaucracy: James G. March and Herbert A. Simon (1958) -- 13. A Behavioral Theory of Organizational Objectives: Richard M. Cyert and James G. March (1959) -- III. The Organizational Behavior Perspective, or Human Resource Theory -- 14. The Giving of Orders: Mary Parker Follett (1926) -- 15. A Theory of Human Motivation: A. H. Maslow (1943) -- 16. The Human Side of Enterprise: Douglas Murray McGregor (1957) -- 17. That Urge to Achieve: David C. McClelland (1966) -- 18. Intervention Theory and Methods: Chris Argyris (1970) -- 19. Groupthink: The Desperate Drive for Consensus at Any Cost: Irving L. Janis (1971) -- IV. "Modern" Structural Organization Theory -- 20. Mechanistic and Organic Systems: Tom Burns and G. M. Stalker (1961) -- 21. The Concept of Formal Organization: Peter M. Blau and W. Richard Scott (1962) -- 22. Organizational Choice: Product versus Function: Arthur H. Walker and Jay W. Lorsch (1968) -- 23. Organization-Environment Interface: Paul R. Lawrence and Jay W. Lorsch (1969) -- 24. The Matrix Organization--Who Needs It?: Stanley M. Davis and Paul R. Lawrence (1977) -- 25. Five Basic Parts of the Organization: Henry Mintzberg (1979) -- 26. In Praise of Hierarchy: Elliott Jaques (1990) -- V. Systems, Contingency, and Population Ecology Organization Theory -- 27. Organizations and the System Concept: Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn (1966) -- 28. Organizations in Action: James D. Thompson (1967) -- 29. General Systems Theory: Applications for Organization and Management: Fremont E. Kast and James E. Rosenzweig (1972) -- 30. Information Processing Model: Jay Galbraith (1973) -- 31. A Concept of Organizational Ecology: Eric Trist (1977) -- 32. The Population Ecology of Organizations: Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman (1977) -- VI. Multiple Constituencies/Market Organization Theory -- 33. Organizational Effectiveness: A Multiple-Constituency Approach: Terry Connolly, Edward J. Conlon, and Stuart Jay Deutsch (1980) -- 34. Values in Organizational Theory and Management Education: Michael Keeley (1983) -- 35. External Influences on Managers: Ian Mitroff (1983) -- 36. Understanding the Employment Relation: Oliver E. Williamson (1975) -- VII. Power and Politics Organization Theory -- 37. Understanding the Role of Power in Decision Making: Jeffrey Pfeffer (1981) -- 38. Sources of Power of Lower Participants in Complex Organizations: David Mechanic (1962) -- 39. Leadership in an Organized Anarchy: Michael D. Cohen and James G. March (1974) -- 40. Power Failure in Management Circuits: Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1979) -- 41. Organization Development: A Political Perspective: Anthony T. Cobb and Newton Margulies (1981) -- 42. The Power Game and the Players: Henry Mintzberg (1983) -- VIII. Organizational Culture and Symbolic Management Organization Theory -- 43. Defining Organizational Culture: Edgar H. Schein (1985) -- 44. The Making of an Organizational Saga: Burton R. Clark (1970) -- 45. Organizations as Culture-Bearing Milieux: Meryl Reis Louis (1983) -- 46. Organizations As Shared Meanings: Linda Smircich (1983) -- 47. Cultural and Competing Perspectives in Administrative Theory and Practice: Thomas J. Sergiovanni (1984).

ISBN

0534173047

LCCN

91032705

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries