ISBN:
019161274X
,
9780191612749
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 309 p)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Organizational change
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Bureaucracy Forecasting
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Public administration
;
Organizational behavior
;
Organizational sociology
;
Organizational sociology
;
Public administration
;
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Negotiating
;
Organizational behavior
;
Organizational change
;
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction: Managing Modernity: Beyond Bureaucracy?; 1. 'Without Regard to Persons': Problems of Involvement and Attachment in 'Post-Bureaucratic' Public Management; 2. Bureaucratic and Post-Bureaucratic Accountability in Britain: Some Sceptical Reflections; 3. New Lock, New Stock, New Barrel, Same Gun: The Accessorized Bureaucracy of Health Care; 4. Applying Soft Bureaucracy to Rhetorics of Choice: The UK NHS 1983-2007
Abstract:
Bureaucracy has long been a cornerstone of advanced industrial societies, and a defining feature of modernity. At the same time, many commentators from all quarters argue that it is on the wane in this post-this or that world; or that if it isn't, it should be dismantled to free up organizations, enterprise, and innovation. But do we live in a more or less bureaucratic world? Do contemporary forms and means of communication undermine or modify bureaucracy, or does technology create new 'iron cages' and forms of control?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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