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Product Description: Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this book forms a sociological analysis of organizations, focusing on the impacts that organizations have upon individuals and society. Chapter topics include the nature of organizations, organizational structure, power and power outcomes, leadership, decision making, communication, change, organizational environments and interorganizational relationships, organizational theory, and organizational effectiveness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This work on complex organizations contains a range of approaches to management: the management of people; the management of innovation; strategic management; transformational management; the management of uncertainty and so on. The core of the book concerns the management of organizations...read more

Product Description: In a field with a vast, disparate literature, such as Sociology of Work, teaching undergraduate students can be especially difficult. The myriad, often opposing, perspectives and abstract nature of the subject currently force a Hobson's choice or either selecting an expensive, heavily descriptive text from a narrow range of choices or adopting the classic monographs from the field, which students often find difficult to understand and relate to one another...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive textbook examines the nature and significance of work from an original, multidimensional perspective. Hall, an eminent industrial sociologist, also provides an overview of the traditional textbook taxonomy of work and occupations and a review of the major public policy issues raised by his discussion...read more

Product Description: Organizations both make and implement policy, and policy is most often directed at organizations. Yet the complex interaction between policy and organization is not often studied. The essays in this volume apply the insights of organization studies to the study of policy...read more