Formal Organizations: A Comparative ApproachUpon its publication in 1962, this book became one of the founding texts of organizational sociology. Bringing together diverse approaches, it presented a new focus of interest: the formal organization. Blau and Scott raised the level of analysis from attention solely on individual participants and work groups to a broader understanding of organizations as collective actors. In the book, the authors reviewed multiple types of studies including case studies, experimental research, and surveys and integrated them to define new central themes. They used their own empirical studies of two social welfare agencies to illustrate the ways in which varying organizational contexts shape work group and participant attitudes and activities. Formal Organizations served to integrate research on both formal and informal systems, authority and leadership, and stressed the importance of links to the wider environment. This reissue, which includes a new introduction by Scott, makes this seminal work accessible to a new generation of scholars and practitioners. |
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Contenido
The Nature and Types of Formal Organizations | 27 |
Typologies of Formal Organizations | 40 |
Types of Formal Organizations | 45 |
Concluding Remarks | 58 |
The Organization and Its Publics | 59 |
Professional and Bureaucratic Orientation | 60 |
The Public | 74 |
Conflicts with Clients | 81 |
Hierarchical and Peer Relations | 159 |
Concluding Remarks | 163 |
Managerial Control | 165 |
The Hierarchy | 167 |
Impersonal Mechanisms of Control | 176 |
Questioning Some Prevailing Assumptions | 183 |
The Social Context of Organizational Life | 194 |
The Social Environment of Organizations | 195 |
Concluding Remarks | 85 |
The Social Structure of Work Groups | 87 |
Informal Organization | 89 |
Effects of Group Structure | 100 |
The Larger Organization and WorkGroup Structure | 108 |
Concluding Remarks | 115 |
Processes of Communication | 116 |
Field Studies of Communication in Formal Organizations | 128 |
Variations in Communication Patterns | 134 |
Concluding Remarks | 139 |
The Role of the Supervisor | 140 |
Styles of Supervision | 141 |
Supervision and Performance | 150 |
Organizational Analysis | 206 |
Interorganizational Processes | 214 |
Concluding Remarks | 221 |
Organizational Dynamics | 222 |
Organizational Development | 223 |
Emergent Patterns | 234 |
Dilemmas of Formal Organization | 242 |
Dialectical Processes of Change | 250 |
Description and Comparison of the Two Welfare Agencies | 254 |
Bibliography | 258 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Formal Organizations: A Comparative Approach Peter Michael Blau,W. Richard Scott Vista de fragmentos - 1962 |
Formal Organizations: A Comparative Approach Peter Michael Blau,W. Richard Scott Vista de fragmentos - 2003 |
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