Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay, Page 461Scott, Foresman, 1972 - 224 pages Textbook on the business organization and behaviour of complex enterprises - analyses general notions such as scientific management and bureaucracy, management ideologies, from the 'survival of the fittest' to the human relations movement, etc., and discusses the theory of decision making and group dynamics, the efficiency doctrine of the technological school, and the theory of the institutional framework, stressing the relationship of organizations to social structure and the differences between inflexible organization and adaptive innovation. Bibliography. |
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WHY BUREAUCRACY? | 1 |
MANAGERIAL IDEOLOGIES AND THE ORIGINS | 61 |
THE HUMAN RELATIONS MODEL | 97 |
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