Classic, Contemporary, and Critical Readings
Classic, Contemporary, and Critical Readings
Preface Introduction Organizations as Rational Systems I: Classic Theories of Bureaucracy and Administration - Michael J. Handel A. Early Definitions of Organization and Management Bureaucracy and Legitimate Authority - Max Weber Critique B.
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| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Organizations as Rational Systems I: Classic Theories of Bureaucracy and Administration - Michael J. Handel | |
| A. Early Definitions of Organization and Management | |
| Bureaucracy and Legitimate Authority - Max Weber | |
| Critique | |
| B. Scientific Management and the Treatment of Labor | |
| The Principles of Scientific Management - Frederick W. Taylor | |
| Critique | |
| The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century - Harry Braverman | |
| Organizations as Rational Systems II: Contingency Theory and the Discover of Organizational Variation - Michael J. Handel | |
| The Management of Innovation - Tom Burns / G.M. Stalker | |
| Technology and Organization - Joan Woodward | |
| The Measurement of Organization Structures - D.S. Pugh | |
| Organizations as Human and Social Systems I: The Impulse to Reform Work - Michael J. Handel | |
| A. The Early Human Relations Movement | |
| The Hawthorne Experiments - George C. Homans | |
| Critique | |
| Hawthorne, the Myth of the Docile Worker, and Class Bias in Psychology - Dana Bramel / Ronald Friend | |
| B. Humanistic Management and Contemporary Employee Involvement | |
| The Human Side of Enterprise - Douglas McGregor | |
| From Control to Commitment in the Workplace - Richard E. Walton | |
| A Differnt Kind of Company: From Control to Commitment in Practice - Saul Rubinstein | |
| Critique | |
| Inside a Japanese Transplant: A Critical Perspective - Laurie Graham | |
| Organizations as Human and Social Systems II: Informal Organizations as Shadow Structure - Michael J. Handel | |
| Conflicts Between Staff and Line Managerial Officers - Melville Dalton | |
| The World of Corporate Managers - Robert Jackall | |
| Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Market Capitalism - Michael Burawoy | |
| Rationality and Non-Rationality in Organizational Decision Making - Michael J. Handel | |
| Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis - Graham Allison | |
| Power Inside Organizations - Michael J. Handel | |
| Organizations and Oligarchy - Robert Michaels | |
| Organizations as Open Systems: Organizations and Their Environments - Michael J. Handel | |
| A. Resource Dependency Theory | |
| The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective - Jeffrey Pfeffer / Gerald R. Salancik | |
| B. Institutional Theory | |
| The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields - Paul DiMaggio / Wlater Powell | |
| Organizational Ecology | |
| Density-Dependent Processes - Glenn R. Carroll / Michael T. Hannan | |
| Economic Theories of Organizations - Michael J. Handel | |
| Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs, and Ownership Structure - Michael C. Jensen /William H. Meckling | |
| The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach - Oliver E. Williamson | |
| Critique | |
| Markets, Hierarchies and Hegemony - Charles Perrow | |
| The Evolution of Modern Business Organization: From Big Business to Post-Fordism - Michael J. Handel | |
| A. Alfred Chandler's Account of the Rise of Big Business | |
| The Emergence of Managerial Capitalism - Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. | |
| B. Post-Bureaucratic Alternatives to Big Business | |
| Neither Market Nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization - Walter W. Powell | |
| Critique | |
| Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in an Age of Flexibility - Bennett Harrison | |
| Organizational Culture - Michael J. Handel | |
| Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a Hihg-Tech Corporation - Gideon Kunda | |
| Organizations and Society: Gender, Race, Class, and Politics - Michael J. Handel | |
| Men and Women of the Corporation - Rosabeth Moss Kanter | |
| Black Mobility in Corporations: Up the Corporate Ladder but Out on a Limb - Sharon Collins | |
| Segmented Labor Markets - Richard Edwards | |
| The Access Process: Loopholes as a System - Dan Clawson Alan Neustadtl, and Denise Scott | |
| Organizational Deviance - Michael J. Handel | |
| Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies - Charles Perrow | |
| Rational Choice, Situated Action, and the Social Control of Organizations:; The Challenger Launch Decision - Diane Vaughan | |
| Democratic Alternatives to Capitalist Bureaucracy: Worker Ownerships and Self-Management - Michael J. Handel | |
| The Collectivist Organization: An Alternative to Rational Bureaucratic Models - Joyce Rothschild-Whitt | |
| Worker Ownership, Participation, and Control: Toward a Theoretical Model - William Foote/Joseph R. Blasi/Douglas Lynn Kruse | |
| Government, Nonprofit Agencies, and Voluntary Associations - Michael J. Handel | |
| Street-Level Bureaucracy - Michael Lipsky | |
| References | |
| Index |
