Classics of Organizational Theory

by Jay M. Shafritz; J. Steven Ott

• ISBN13: 9780534504175
• ISBN10: 0534504175
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-29
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
A Chronology of Organization Theory	11	(18)
Classical Organization Theory	29	(67)
Socrates Discovers Generic Management	38	(2)
Xenophon
Of the Division of Labour	40	(6)
Adam Smith
Superintendent's Report	46	(2)
Daniel C. McCallum
The Engineer as an Economist	48	(4)
Henry R. Towne
General Principles of Management	52	(14)
Henri Fayol
The Principles of Scientific Management	66	(14)
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Bureaucracy	80	(6)
Max Weber
Notes on the Theory of Organization	86	(10)
Luther Gulick
Neoclassical Organization Theory	96	(53)
The Economy of Incentives	101	(11)
Chester I. Barnard
The Proverbs of Administration	112	(15)
Herbert A. Simon
The Foundations of the Theory of Organization	127	(11)
Philip Selznick
A Behavioral Theory of Organizational Objectives	138	(11)
Richard M. Cyert
James G. March
Human Resource Theory, or the Organizational Behavior Perspective	149	(54)
The Giving of Orders	156	(7)
Mary Parker Follett
A Theory of Human Motivation	163	(13)
Abraham H. Maslow
The Human Side of Enterprise	176	(7)
Douglas M. McGregor
Groupthink: The Desperate Drive for Consensus at Any Cost	183	(9)
Irving L. Janis
Intergroup Conflict	192	(11)
Taylor H. Cox, Jr.
``Modern'' Structural Organization Theory	203	(51)
Mechanistic and Organic Systems	209	(5)
Tom Burns
G. M. Stalker
The Concept of Formal Organization	214	(6)
Peter M. Blau
W. Richard Scott
Organizational Choice: Product versus Function	220	(12)
Arthur H. Walker
Jay W. Lorsch
The Five Basic Parts of the Organization	232	(13)
Henry Mintzberg
In Praise of Hierarchy	245	(9)
Elliott Jaques
Systems Theory, Population Ecology, and, Organizational Economics	254	(98)
Organization Theory: An Overview and an Appraisal	264	(10)
William G. Scott
Organizations and the System Concept	274	(13)
Daniel Katz
Robert L. Kahn
Organizations in Action	287	(15)
James D. Thompson
General Systems Theory: Applications for Organization and Management	302	(14)
Fremont E. Kast
James E. Rosenzweig
The Population Ecology of Organizations	316	(15)
Michael T. Hannan
John Freeman
Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure	331	(9)
Michael C. Jensen
William H. Meckling
The Ethereal Hand: Organizational Economics and Management Theory	340	(12)
Lex Donaldson
Power and Politics Organization Theory	352	(68)
Understanding the Role of Power in Decision Making	359	(16)
Jeffrey Pfeffer
The Bases of Social Power	375	(10)
John R. P. French, Jr.
Bertram Raven
Leadership in an Organized Anarchy	385	(15)
Michael D. Cohen
James G. March
Power Failure in Management Circuits	400	(12)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Power Game and the Players	412	(8)
Henry Mintzberg
Organizational Culture and Sense-making	420	(65)
Defining Organizational Culture	430	(12)
Edgar H. Schein
Surprise and Sense Making: What Newcomers Experience in Entering Unfamiliar Organizational Settings	442	(15)
Meryl Reis Louis
Images of Organization	457	(6)
Gareth Morgan
Gendering Organizational Theory	463	(10)
Joan Acker
Changing Organizational Cultures	473	(12)
Harrison M. Trice
Janice M. Beyer
Organizational Culture Reform Movements	485	(53)
The Z Organization	494	(14)
William G. Ouchi
In Search of Excellence: Simultaneous Loose-Tight Properties	508	(5)
Thomas J. Peters
Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
The Fifth Discipline: A Shift of Mind	513	(10)
Peter M. Senge
Reinventing Government: Introduction	523	(15)
David Osborne & Ted Gaebler
Postmodernism and the Information Age	538	(69)
In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Limits of Hierarchy in an Informated Organization	547	(14)
Shoshana Zuboff
Technology as Equivoque: Sensemaking in New Technologies	561	(17)
Karl E. Weick
Postmodern Thought in a Nutshell: Where Art and Science Come Together	578	(14)
William Bergquist
Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis: Assessing Systems Concepts in a Government Agency	592	(15)
L. Douglas Kiel
Reengineering the Corporation: The Enabling Role of Information Technology	607
Michael Hammer
James Champy