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Preface | p. xiii |
Introduction | |
Thinking About Organizations | p. 1 |
Overview | p. 1 |
Why Study Organizations? | p. 1 |
Organizational Impacts | p. 3 |
The Nature of Organizations | p. 14 |
The Plan of the Book | p. 17 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 18 |
Exercises | p. 18 |
Organizational Structure | |
Organizational Structure: Key Dimensions | p. 19 |
Overview | p. 19 |
Defining Organizational Structure | p. 20 |
Studying Organizational Structure: Early Research on the Bureaucratic Form | p. 21 |
Sociological Studies of Formal Structure in Organizations | p. 25 |
Dimensions of Formal Structure | p. 27 |
Relations Between Complexity, Formalization, and Centralization | p. 41 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 43 |
Exercises | p. 43 |
Organizational Structure: Explanations | p. 44 |
Overview | p. 44 |
Effects of Size | p. 46 |
Effects of Technology | p. 50 |
Combined Effects of Size and Technology | p. 53 |
In Practice: Functional, Product, and Matrix Forms of Organization | p. 54 |
Effects of Internal Culture | p. 57 |
Environmental Effects on Structure: External Culture | p. 58 |
Creating Formal Structure: Debates over Process | p. 64 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 66 |
Exercises | p. 67 |
Organizational Processes | |
Power and Power Outcomes | p. 68 |
Overview | p. 68 |
The Nature of Power in Organizations | p. 69 |
Authority and Power | p. 69 |
Other Types of Power | p. 71 |
Shifts in Power | p. 77 |
Power Outcomes: Compliance and Involvement | p. 78 |
Power Outcomes: Conflict | p. 79 |
The Components of Conflict Situations | p. 83 |
The Outcomes of Conflict | p. 85 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 86 |
Exercises | p. 88 |
Leadership | p. 89 |
Overview | p. 89 |
What Is Leadership? | p. 90 |
The Outcomes of Leadership for Organizations | p. 98 |
Leadership in the Voluntary Organization | p. 107 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 108 |
Exercises | p. 109 |
Decision-Making | p. 110 |
Overview | p. 110 |
Organizations as Systems of Decisions | p. 111 |
Strategic Decision-Making | p. 115 |
Strategies of Power and Decision-Making | p. 118 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 120 |
Exercises | p. 120 |
Communication | p. 121 |
Overview | p. 121 |
The Importance of Communication | p. 122 |
Individual Factors | p. 124 |
Organizational Factors | p. 126 |
Vertical Communication | p. 126 |
Horizontal Communication | p. 130 |
Communication Problems | p. 133 |
Communication to and from Outside the Organization | p. 135 |
Possible Solutions | p. 136 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 137 |
Exercises | p. 138 |
Managing Organizational Environments: Conceptions of the Environment | p. 139 |
Overview | p. 139 |
"Discovering" Organizational Environments | p. 140 |
Defining the Environment | p. 142 |
Perceiving the Environment | p. 159 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 160 |
Exercises | p. 160 |
Managing Organizational Environments: General Paradigms | p. 161 |
Overview | p. 161 |
The Contingency Paradigm | p. 162 |
The Resource Dependence Paradigm | p. 163 |
The Transaction Cost Paradigm | p. 171 |
The Institutional Paradigm | p. 176 |
The Population Ecology Paradigm | p. 177 |
Combining Paradigms | p. 183 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 184 |
Exercises | p. 185 |
Outcomes | |
Organizational Performance and Change | p. 186 |
Overview | p. 186 |
Problems of Defining Organizational Goals | p. 187 |
Approaches to Organizational Effectiveness | p. 190 |
Evaluating Organizational Performance: Key Issues | p. 196 |
Organizational Change and Transformation | p. 198 |
Organizational Change: Learning and Transformation | p. 198 |
Transformational Change | p. 204 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 208 |
Exercises | p. 209 |
References | p. 211 |
Name Index | p. 249 |
Subject Index | p. 261 |
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