Modern approaches to understanding and managing organizations /

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Author / Creator:Bolman, Lee G.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1984.
Description:xx, 325 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Management
Organizational behavior
Management.
Organizational behavior.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/639709
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Other authors / contributors:Deal, Terrence E.
ISBN:0875895921
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 301-325.
Table of Contents:
  • Making Sense of Organization
  • 8. Applying the Political Approach
  • 9. Cultivating Organizational Cultures and Rituals: The Symbolic Approach
  • 10. Applying the Symbolic Approach
  • Explaning Organizational Behavior: Theories and Research
  • 11. Classic Tensions: Structure Versus People
  • 12. Old Realities Rediscovered: Politics and Symbols
  • 13. Integrating Organizational Theories
  • Improving Management Practice.
  • 14. Matching Management Approaches to the Organizational Situation
  • 15. Learning to Use Different Leadership Styles
  • 1. Introduction: Common Views of Organizations
  • 16. Practices of Successful Managers and Organizations
  • 2. New Ways of Seeing Organizations
  • Managing Organizations: Four Approaches.
  • 3. Getting Organized: The Structural Approach
  • 4. Applying the Structural Approach
  • 5. Fitting Organizations to People: The Human Resource Approach
  • 6. Applying the Human Resource Approach
  • 7. Managing Power, Conflict, and Coalitions: The Political Approach