Research Catalog

Title

Organizations : structures, processes, and outcomes / Richard H. Hall.

Author

Hall, Richard H., 1934-

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1987.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

x, 358 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Abstract: A key focus of the 4th Edition is on organization outcomes and their effects on individuals, groups of individuals, communities, and society in general. The initial chapter of the book devoted to organizational outcomes provides a framework for examining the internal structure and function of organizations as well as the environments in which they operate. The author then discusses the nature and types of organizations from a variety of perspectives including a discussion of the ontological debate as to the true existence of organizations. Chapters 3 and 4 discuss the structure issues of complexity, formalization, centralization, context, and design. Chapters 5 through 8 address the processual components of organizational analysis, specifically, power, leadership and decision making, communications, and organizational change.
• Also a key focus of the 4th Edition is an expanded emphasis on the environments in which organizations operate and their impact on organizational decisions and performance. The concept of organizational environments is discussed in Chapters 9 and 10. Chapter 11 deals exclusively with the concept of oganizational effectiveness and begins with an overview of several models for assessing organizational peformance. A contradiction model is presented as a plausible way of analyzing organizational effectiveness across a variety of performance dimensions. The text concludes with a short chapter on organizational theory. The book provides the reader with foundation knowledge necessary to understand and use organizations to achieve meaningful outcomes. The author equally treats all types of organizations and makes specifi mention of volunteer organizations in the text.

Subject

• Organizational sociology
• Organizational change
• Organization
• Organizational Innovation
• Organization and Administration
• Organization
• Organizational change
• Organizational sociology
• Organisationsentwicklung
• Organisationsstruktur
• Organisation
• Changement organisationnel

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 315-339.

ISBN

• 0136420184
• 9780136420187

LCCN

86016988

OCLC

• ocm13859420
• 13859420
• SCSB-8789860

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library