Organizational Theory: McGraw-Hill Sociology

Author: David Jaffee
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Category: Social Sciences, Sociology
Book Format: Paperback

David Jaffee received his B.A. from University of Florida and his M.A. from Washington University in St.Louis, both in Political Science. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Jaffee has published articles on a variety of topics including international development, gender inequality, industrial location, organization theory, and instructional technology. He is the author of Levels of Socio-Economic Development Theory (Praeger, 1998). He is currently an associate professor of sociology at the University of North Florida.

Table Of Contents
ORGANIZATION THEORY: TENSION AND CHANGE

1. INTRODUCTION: DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTIONS

Organization: Elements, A Definition and Images

W. Richard Scott's Elements of Organization

Richard Hall's Definition of Organization

Gareth Morgan's Images of Organization

Classical Social Theory and Organizational Analysis

Karl Marx

Emile Durkheim

Max Weber

Contemporary Social Theory and Organizational Analysis

Structural Functionalism

Conflict Theory

Symbolic Interactionism

Summary2. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF ORGANIZATION THEORY

Levels of Organizational Analysis and Transaction

Tension #1: Controlling The Human Factor

Organizational Behavior and the Human Factor

Marxist Theory and the Unique Nature of Labor

Philosophical Status of the Human Factor

The Human Factor and the Reformulation of Organization

Theory and Management Practice

Tension #2: Differentiation and Integration

The Technical Division of Labor: Intraorganizational Dynamics

The Social Division of Labor: Interorganizational Dynamics

A Note on Organizational Tensions and Ascribed Characteristics

Paradox: The Underlying Source of Organizational Tension

Models of Organizational Paradox

Three Cases of Organizational Paradox

Summary
3. THE RISE OF THE FACTORY SYSTEM

Introduction

The Formal Subordination of Labor: Creating A Human Factor of Production

The Real Subordination of Labor: Disciplining the Human Factor

Traditional Habits and Cultures

Early Strategies and Assumptions

Scientific Management in Theory

Motivation for the Theory

The Principles and Stages

Assessment and Consequences

Scientific Management in Practice: The Hoxie Study

Scientific Management: The Broader Context

Summary
4. THE HUMAN ORGANIZATION

The Hawthorne Revelations and Beyond

The Hawthorne Experiments: The Human Factor Observed

Interpeting the Results

Hawthorne and the Revision of Organization Theory

Roethlisberger and Dickson

Elton Mayo

Chester's World: Barnard's Theory of Organization and Management

The Organization and the Individual

Common Moral Purpose

Humanistic Management Practice

Human Relations and Human Needs

From Human Relations to Human Resources

Leadership

Beyond Legitimate Authority

Four Approaches to Leadership

Does Leadership Matter?

Summary
5. BUREAUCRACY, RATIONALIZATION, AND ORGANIZATION THEORY

Weber and the Rational-Bureaucratic Model

Weber and the Dilemma of Authority

Bureaucratic Dysfunctions and Unintended Consequences Robert Merton: The Bureaucratic Personality

Alvin Gouldner: Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy

Peter Blau: Dynamics of Bureaucracy

Philip Selznick: Bureaucracy as Institution

Robert Jackall: Bureaucracy as a Moral Maze

Operationalizing the Rational Model: Administrative Science

Henri Fayol

James Mooney and Allen Reiley

Herbert Simon

Bureaucratic Rationalization and Domination

Arguments of Classical And Critical Social Theory

Bureaucratic Domination and Marxist Theory

Bureaucracy's Other Face

McDonaldization: Diffusion of the Bureaucratic Ethos

The Principles of McDonaldization

Application to Higher Education

The Charges against Bureaucracy

Summary
6. EMERGING ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS: BEYOND FORDISM

Fordism

Features of the Fordist Model

The Demise of Fordism

The Transition from Fordism to New Forms

Toward Alternative Organizational Models

Toyotaism

Lean Production: "The Machine that Changed the World"

Lean Production in Practice

The Flexibility Paradigm

Flexible Specialization

Lean and Mean, or Fat and Mean?

Forms of Flexibility

Summary
7. EMERGING ORGANIZATIONAL PARADIGMS: POST- BUREAUCRACY, CULTURE, AND KNOWLEDGE

Postbureaucratic Organization

The Postbureaucratic Organization in Theory

Postbureaucratic Organization in Practice

Postbureaucracy and Physical Space

Postbureaucracy in Government

Organizational Culture

Levels of Culture

Is Culture an Emerging Form?

Engineering Strong Culture: The Work of Gideon Kunda

Culture as Paradigm and Managerial Strategy

Culture Integration, Differentiation, and Fragmentation

The Learning Organization

Paul Senge's Five Disciplines

Analyzing Organizations as Systems

What's Happening on the Ground?

Summary
8. TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION

Technology and Organization Theory

Joan Woodward

Robert Blauner

James Thompson

Charles Perrow

Tavistock Institute

Entering the Age of The Smart Machine

Information Technology and Organizational Change

The Organizational Impact of Information Technology

Information Technology and Social Organization

Additional Consequences

The Virtual Organization

Definitions and Characteristics

Further Consequences

Summary
9. THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE ORGANIZATION

Contingency Theory

Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch

Tom Burns and G.M. Stalker

Population Ecology Theory

The Concept of Population

Demographic, Ecological, and Environmental Processes

Structural Inertia

Resource Dependence Theory

Resource Dependence and Organizational Agency

Differentiation, the Task Environment, and Uncertainty

Strategies to Manage Resource Dependence

Money: The Ultimate Resource

Institutional Investors and Resource Dependence

Environmental Influences on Public-Sector Organizations

Institutional Theory

Organizations as Institutions

The Institutional Environmen

t Institutional Isomorphism

Institutional Pillars

Institutional Analyses of U.S.Corporate Strategy

Institutional Stability and Change

The Political-Economic Environment

The Capacity to Produce and the Capacity to Consume

The Social Structure of Accumulation

Geographic and Cross-National Variations in Organizational Environments

Business Systems as Organizational Environments

Summary
10. INTERORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS: MARKETS, HIERARCHIES AND NETWORKS

The Markets and Hierarchies Approach

Markets and Transaction Costs

Hierarchies and Transaction Costs

Problems with the Vertically Integrated Hierarchy

Between Market and Hierarchy: Theoretical Rationales

Socially Embedded Economic Action

Dynamic Transaction Costs

To Vertically Disintegrate or Not to Vertically

Disintegrate: GM and Delphi

Vertical Disintegration and Alternative Arrangements Why Disintegrate?

Embedded Networks

Competitive Advantages of the Network Firm

Alliance Capitalism: The Rise and Demise of the Keiretsu

The Spatial Dimension

Bringing Geography Back

Vertically Integrated and Spatially Concentrated

Vertically Integrated and Spatially Dispersed

Vertically Disintegrated and Spatially Dispersed Vertically Disintegrated and Spatially Concentrated

Recent Developments: Supply Chains and Real Options

Summary
11. THE FUTURE OF ORGANIZATION AND POSTMODERN ANALYSIS

Modernist and Postmodernist Approaches

Postmodern Condition and Identity

Organizational Implications of Postmodernism

BLUR: Postmodernism Popularized

Fragmented Humans and Dedifferentiated Structures
About David Jaffee
David Jaffee received his B.A. from University of Florida and his M.A. from Washington University in St.Louis, both in Political Science. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Jaffee has published articles on a variety of topics including international development, gender inequality, industrial location, organization theory, and instructional technology. He is the author of Levels of Socio-Economic Development Theory (Praeger, 1998). He is currently an associate professor of sociology at the University of North Florida.

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