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Author : George W. England,Anant R. Negandhi,Bernhard Wilpert
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039224329
Author : Howard P. Greenwald
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781544303161
Organizations: Management Without Control provides a comprehensive understanding of the functions of formal organizations and the challenges they face. The most effective organizations provide members with opportunities to achieve their personal goals while pursuing the organization's objectives. Using a practical approach with minimal jargon, author Howard P. Greenwald covers the basic features of organizations such as roles, structure, reward systems, power and authority, and culture and introduces important theoretical perspectives related to these features. Key Features Emphasizes the theme of "management without control": This volume differs from most standard texts by highlighting both the challenges and opportunities that result from the independence of the individuals in the organization's ranks. Stresses the importance of individual motivation and self-fulfillment: Recognizing the individual's responsibility for their own success, the book helps readers evaluate clues to whether the organization to which they belong is an adequate opportunity. Offers a critical perspective on current fads and management ideologies: Proposing no formulaic solutions, the book provides the perspectives required to understand each organization's uniqueness and to develop remedies to issues as they arise. Makes theory accessible through numerous real-life examples: Chapters include examples from life in business organizations, government agencies, non-profits, clubs, friendship groups, and families. Examines multinational corporations: Challenges involved in management on an international scale are explored as the book applies the principle of individual and group independence to global matters. Underscores multidisciplinary interest in organizations: Content is drawn from sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and management science. Intended Audience This introductory textbook on formal organizations is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Organizational Behavior, Managing Complex Organizations, Sociology of Organizations, and Government/Non-profit Management in the departments of business, public administration, health administration, social work, sociology, and psychology. Instructor's Resources An Instructor's Resource CD is available upon request. This CD provides PowerPoint presentations, test questions, additional examples and cases, suggested exercises, and much more!
Author : John Eugene Haas,Thomas E. Drabek
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4355628
Author : Maurice Yolles
Publisher : IAP
Page : 887 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781607528081
Managing the Complex is an ambitious title - and it would be an audacious one if we were not to begin with a frank admission: to date few to none of us have a skill set which includes managing the complex. We try various things, we write about others, and we wonder about still others. When a tool, perspective, or technique comes along which seems to evoke success, we emulate it probe it and recoil at the all too often admission that it was situation and context which afforded success its opportunity, and not some quality intrinsic to the tool perspective or technique. Indeed, if the study of complexity has done anything for managers, and for those who espouse managerial theory, it is in providing a ‘scientific foundation’ for the notion that context matters. Those who preach abstract ideas have then to reconcile themselves to the notion that situation and embodiment matters. Those who believe in strong causality and determinism are left to wrestle with the role of chance, uncertainty, and chaos. Those who prefer to argue that men move history are confronted with the role of environment and affordances, while those who argue the reverse are left to contend with charisma, irrationality of crowds, and the strange qualities we know as emotions. A series on complex systems has less ambitious goals to contend with than this. Such a series can deal with classifications, and categories, and speak of ‘noise’ as if it were not the central focus of the problem. Managing the complex is about managing ‘noise’ or perhaps we should say it is about ‘dealing with’ ‘accepting’ ‘making room for’ and ‘learning from’ ‘noise’. The articles in this volume and in volumes to come will each be considered as ‘noise’ by some and as ‘gems’ by others, but we hope that practicing managers and academics alike will find plenty of fuel to drive their personal explorations into understanding, and perhaps even managing, the complex.
Author : Pei Chin Tang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Brain stem
ISBN : UOM:39015095156702
A study was made on the roles of the Hering-Breuer reflex, the pneumotaxic center, the apneustic center, and the medullary respiratory center in the regulation of rate and depth of respiration in response to changes in blood concentration of CO2 and 02. Integrated phrenic nerve discharge, abdominal respiratory movement, and intra-abdominal and intratracheal pressures were recorded in decerebrate cats as they breathed air, 5% CO2, 7% CO2, 10% 02 and 100% 02. By using decerebrate cats as control, results from vagotomy, pneumotaxic center ablation, and brain stem transection, alone or in combination, indicate: (1) Hering-Breuer reflex controls respiratory rate and in the absence of pneumotaxic center, maintains a constant depth; (2) pneumotaxic center controls respiratory depth and in the absence of Hering-Breuer reflex, maintains a constant rate; (3) apneustic center provides maximum respiratory depth and prolonged inspiratory duration so that rate can be regulated by Hering-Breuer reflex and depth by pneumotaxic center; (4) medullary respiratory center serves as a final pathway and integration center of the impulses from the higher centers. (Author).
Author : Amitai Etzioni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Complex organizations
ISBN : UOM:39015010661430
Author : Charles Perrow
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X002578935
This classic in organizational theory provides a succinct overview of the principal schools of thought as it presents a critical, sociopsychological, and historical orientation to the field of organizational analysis. Vividly written, with theories made concrete by specific, student-oriented examples, it takes a critical view toward organizations, analyzing their impact on individuals, groups, and society as a whole. New chapters on economic theories of organization and the conditional power theory are among the features of this revised edition.
Author : Frank Baker
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4353632
Author : Eduardo Salas,Gerald F. Goodwin,C. Shawn Burke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135596569
Over the past 40 years, there has been a growing trend toward the utilization of teams for accomplishing work in organizations. Project teams, self-managed work teams and top management teams, among others have become a regular element in the corporation or military. This volume is intended to provide an overview of the current state of the art research on team effectiveness.
Author : Rashina Hoda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030301262
This open access book constitutes the research workshops, doctoral symposium and panel summaries presented at the 20th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2019, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in May 2019. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a hybrid forum where agile researchers, academics, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, and trends. Following this history, for both researchers and seasoned practitioners XP 2019 provided an informal environment to network, share, and discover trends in Agile for the next 20 years. Research papers and talks submissions were invited for the three XP 2019 research workshops, namely, agile transformation, autonomous teams, and large scale agile. This book includes 15 related papers. In addition, a summary for each of the four panels at XP 2019 is included. The panels were on security and privacy; the impact of the agile manifesto on culture, education, and software practices; business agility – agile’s next frontier; and Agile – the next 20 years.
Author : Amitai Etzioni
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1975-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780029096208
This important book “classifies organizations on the basis of organizational properties and systemically examines variations amount different types of organization” (American Sociological Review). Bringing light to a neglected field, A Comparative Analysis of Complex Organizations presents models for the analysis of various organizational types and examines how they are constructed. Primarily discussing the relationship between compliance and each variable it introduces, this book works as a cornerstone for the comparative analysis of organizations.
Author : Timothy Ludwig,Ramona Houmanfar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317986942
Organizations are complex entities that must adapt the practices of their employees and management to meet the demands of a dynamic environment. Organizations are behavioral systems that coordinate interactions among its members and environment. Changing practices in one area of an organization can generate a reaction throughout the entire system, thus affecting the behaviors of those working within other areas, the experience of customers, and important organizational results. Behavioral Systems Analysis (BSA) focuses on these complex contingencies from the macro system all the way down to individual behavior. This book contains articles by internationally recognized experts in Behavioral Systems Analysis who discuss the role of organizational practices in their study of performance improvement and cultural change from both practical and conceptual perspectives. Business and non-profit managers will find tools and case studies to help understand and diagnose their organization’s dynamics. Scholars will appreciate articles’ theory and real-world descriptions when considering their own research direction. Finally, all students of management theory, behavior analysis, and human resources will find this collection a thought-provoking tool for their understanding of behavioral systems and their application in organizations. This book was published as a special issue in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management.
Author : George K. Strodtbeck
Publisher : Quality Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781953079565
This book is written for the leader or management team of any complex organization attempting to lead an organization-wide change. Successfully leading change has never been easy. Many realities of life in the 21st century have combined to intensify the challenge. This book captures the lessons learned during more than 43 years of experience working in complex, large-scale organizations, 14 years between West Point and the United States Army and more than 29 years in two large, very different American companies. These lessons learned are shared in the hope that it will help others lead change successfully and avoid at least some of the pitfalls that come with it. The principles and questions in this book also benefit leaders making changes in the small organization or those who desire to transform their small organization into a large one. This book is intended to serve as a leaders’ guide of things to think about and how to plan for successful change. Many books have been written about management and leadership, as well as the dos and must-dos of leading an organization. But few books discuss what it takes to make changes in today’s complex organizations, and those that do are often written by consultants who have not practiced what they propose over any significant period of time. This book, by contrast, draws lessons from a successful long-term change made by leaders who had a personal and financial stake in the organization’s success and saw the change all the way through. hr"In my 40 years at Cummins one of the most successful changes made was our adoption of Six Sigma. When I became CEO it was clear that we needed to improve our product and overall business performance. We chose Six Sigma to help us do that. George's book concisely captures many of the things we had to think about when implementing Six Sigma throughout the company. I believe this is a good guide for any leader contemplating making an organization-wide change." Tim Solso former CEO Cummins, Inc. "As CEO I have discovered that just saying I want something done doesn’t make it happen. Change done well is hard work. George’s book is a practical go-to guide for driving lasting change." Tom Linebarger CEO Cummins, Inc. "In medicine today ever-higher quality has become an expectation. This expectation is causing us increasingly to transition from volume-based to value-based medicine. As an industry we are quickly adapting to this new value-based world. However, organizations don’t transform easily. It requires dedicated and engaged teams to be leaders of change in their industry. I have been waiting for a book like this for years...whether you are a medical student or a senior attending physician...George Strodtbeck’s book on Making Change is a must read!!!" James Grant, M.D. Chair, Department of Anesthesiology Beaumont Health System, Royal Oak, Michigan "George Strodtbeck draws on more than three decades of personal experience in planning and executing change in complex organizations. His incisive, fast-paced writing explains, engages and motivates. His guidance is candid about challenges faced but simultaneously practical and actionable in today’s organizations. This book is for any leader seeking to accelerate the pace of change, improvement and innovation in their organizations." Mohan V. Tatikonda, PhD Professor of Operations Management Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Author : Ron Westrum,Khalil Samaha
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039731349
Author : J.E. van Aken
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461575405
This book is concerned with control issues in complex industrial organizations. The word control is used here in a rather wide sense, including decision making, coordination and planning as well as activities such as the design and implementation of organizational structures or computerized information systems. There are various ways of defining complexity; here we use this term to indicate that the organizations in question consist of many sub organizations which are operationally interdependent but at the same time have a fair degree of independence of control. The control of the interactions between these suborganizations through coordination will be a key issue in this book. The discussion will be confined to industrial organizations; our results are only applicable to a limited extent to other types of organizations such as universities, hospitals or government offices. The main contribution we intend to make in this book is the development of a system oj concepts on control and coordination in industrial organizations which can be used in the design of organizational control structures such as planning systems, information systems or relations between positions or departments. Rather eclectic use has been made of various scientific disCiplines in the development of this conceptual system with some bias towards the use of system theory and cybernetics. The book is intended for professional workers in the field of 'organizational control technology', such as automation and .organization specialists in complex organizations and workers in the related disCiplines at University.