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  • 1
    Online Resource
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780765625588
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (337 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Foundations of Organizational Evil
    DDC: 302.3/5
    Keywords: Organizational behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects.. ; Corporate culture -- Moral and ethical aspects.. ; Good and evil.. ; Business ethics.. ; Organizational sociology.. ; Industrial sociology ; Business ethics ; Corporate culture ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Good and evil ; Industrial sociology ; Organizational behavior ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Organizational sociology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Numerous reprehensible corporate, governmental, and nonprofit activities over recent years have highlighted the existence of organizational evil. Unlike other works on the topic, this book fully develops the concept of organizational evil, conceptually weaving the interchange between evil individuals (microlevel) who ultimately create the organizational environment that is evil, and the macrolevel elements of policy, culture, and manipulations of the social environment
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part I. The Nature of Organizational Evil; 1. Evil at Work; 2. The Dynamics of Administrative Evil in Organizations; 3. Machiavellians and Organizational Evil; 4. Evil in Public Administration: A Contrary Perspective; 5. On the Psychology of Evil in Interpersonal and Corporate Contexts; Part II. Understanding Organizational Evil; 6. Power in Organizations: Good vs. Evil; 7. Holy Evil; 8. Imagining and Managing Organizational Evil
    Description / Table of Contents: 9. For "the Greater Good": Exposing the Parody of NecessaryEvil-Exemplars from Organizational Life10. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa:Understanding Roots of and Responses to Societal Evil; 11. Unconsciousness and Organizational Evil; 12. The Four Roots of Organizational Evil; Part III. Faces of Organizational Evil; 13. The Evil of Utopia; 14. Lawyers' Ethics in Decline; 15. The Moral Dimension of Security Outsourcing; 16. Devolution; 17. Organizational Systemic Factors of Evil in an Academic University Culture; About the Editor and Contributors; Index
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  • 2
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    Online Resource
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780415843928
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (320 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Hierarchy in Organization
    DDC: 303.4824009031
    Keywords: Hierarchies ; Organizational behavior ; Organizational sociology ; Social structure ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Most people take the conditions they work and live in as a given, believing it to be normal that societies are stratified and that organisations are hierarchical. Many even think that this is the way it should be - and are neither willing nor able to think that it could be otherwise. This book raises the awareness of hierarchy, its complexity and longevity. It focuses on a single but fundamental problem of social systems such as dyads, groups, organisations and whole societies: Why and how does hierarchical social order persist over time? In order to investigate the question, author
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Longevity of Hierarchy; 2.1 An Extremely Brief History of No Change; 2.2 Good and Not So Good Reasons Why Hierarchy Has Been Around for So Long; 2.2.1 The Origins of Hierarchy; 2.2.2 The System of Hierarchy; 2.2.3 The People in Hierarchies; 2.2.4 Moral Justifications for Hierarchy; 2.3 Why Does Hierarchy Persist?; 3 A General Theory of Hierarchical Social Systems; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Core Structure of All Hierarchical Social Relationships
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 People's Mindsets and Social Actions3.3.1 Identities, Emotions, Interests, and Moral Character; 3.3.2 Determinism, Individual Freedom, Reflexivity, and Responsibility; 3.4 Basic Dynamic Processes; 3.4.1 Routine Behaviour and Boundary Crossing; 3.4.2 Multiple Processes; 3.4.3 The Emergence and Continuation of Abstract Organisational Order; 3.4.4 Individual Freedom, Responsibility, and Accountability; 3.5 Societal Dimensions of Hierarchical Social Order: Institutions and Resources; 3.5.1 Societal Institutions and Resources; 3.5.2 Some Material, Economic, and Legal Institutions and Resources
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5.3 Sociocultural Institutions and Resources3.5.4 The Systemic Nature of Societal Institutions and Resources; 3.6 Systemisation and Its Main Mechanisms; 3.6.1 Socialisation; 3.6.2 Adaptation; 3.6.3 Synchronisation; 3.6.4 Institutionalisation; 3.6.5 Transformation; 3.6.6 Navigation; 3.7 The Functioning and Persistence of Hierarchical Social Order; 3.8 The Relevance of Ethics for Social Science Theories; 3.8.1 Why Ethics is an Integral Part of any Social Reality-and the Analysis of that Reality; 3.8.2 A Moderate Position Concerning the Explicit Inclusion of Value Statements in Theories
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.9 How the Theory Relates to Structuration Theory and Social Dominance Theory3.9.1 Structuration Theory; 3.9.2 Social Dominance Theory; 4 Application of the Theory-How Hierarchy Works; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Routine Behaviour and the Persistence of Hierarchical Social Order; 4.2.1 The Relevance of Routine Social Action for the Persistence of Hierarchy; 4.2.2 Superiors' and Subordinates' Interests Towards Hierarchy; 4.2.3 Hierarchy-Conforming Identities of Superiors and Subordinates; 4.2.4 Superiors' and Subordinates' 'Appropriate' Emotions
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.5 The 'Right' Moral Character for People in Hierarchies4.2.6 Levels of Moral Development and Hierarchy; 4.2.6.1 Preconventional Level of Moral Development; 4.2.6.2 Conventional Level of Moral Development; 4.2.6.3 Postconventional Level of Moral Development; 4.2.6.4 Compatibility of Stages of Moral Development with Hierarchical Social Order; 4.2.7 The Steady Reign and Persistence of Hierarchy; 4.3 Boundary Crossings and Their Operationalisation; 4.4 Subordinates' Boundary Crossings; 4.4.1 Social Action-When Subordinates Don't Behave
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4.2 Interests-Why Subordinates (Sometimes) Do Not Want to Function
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  • 3
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    Online Resource
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780415823081
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1128 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Organizations Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Organization, class and control
    DDC: 302.35
    Keywords: Organizational sociology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this volume the authors develop a systematic and chronologically based critique of the major concepts, figures and schools in organization. Themes discussed include: the development of scientific management and the responses of Gramsci and Lenin to itthe meaning of Mayo and the Human Relations Schoolthe development of typological systems and contingency models of the organizationkey concepts of goals, environment and technology
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Classical Sociology, Organizations and Theory; Auguste Comte; Comte and Saint-Simon; Herbert Spencer; Emile Durkheim; 2 Max Weber, Karl Marx and Rationality in Organizations; Max Weber and Rationality; Karl Marx and Capitalism; The Emergence of 'Rational Organization'; 3 The Emergence of an Organization Theory; Precursors of Organization Ideologies; The Theory of Bureaucracy; Weber and The Theory of Bureaucracy
    Description / Table of Contents: The Emergence of Scientific Management and The Control of the Labour ProcessF. W. Taylor; Scientific Management in Context; From Scientific Management to Formal Theories of Administration; Henri Fayol; Mooney and Reiley; Gulick and Urwick; The General Framework of the Formal Theorists; The Social Context of Formal Theorists of Organization; Antonio Gramsci; Gramsci and Workers' Councils versus Olivetti and Organization Theory; Lenin and The Theory of Organization; Lessons of the Workers' Councils for The Theory of Organizations; Elton Mayo; The Hawthorne Studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Subsequent Development: The Elaboration of Control4 Typologies of Organizations; Weber's Ideal Type of Bureaucracy; Blau and Scott; Etzioni; Blau and Scott and Etzioni Compared; Additional Organizational Models; Alvin Gouldner; Peter Blau; General Problems of Bureaucracy; The Weberians' Response; 5 Organizations as Systems; Talcott Parsons; Parsons' General Systems Theory; Parsons' Theory of the Organization as System; Four Functional Problems of Organizations; Three Levels of Analysis in Organizations; Criticisms: The Analysis of Change and Conflict; Substantive Limitations
    Description / Table of Contents: Robert King MertonPhilip Selznick; Developments in Systems Theory; Closed-System Perspective; The Development of the Open-System Perspective; Interdependent Parts; Needs for Survival; Purposive Needs; Organizations as Open Systems; The System Environment; The Limitations of the Systems Approach; 6 Organizations as Empirically Contingent Structures; Introduction; Personality Structure and Organization Structure; The Aston Studies; The Dimensions of Organization Structure: Variables; Performance Variables; Contextual Variables; The Dimensions of Organization Structure: Initial Data
    Description / Table of Contents: Why do Organization Structures Vary?'Metaphysical Pathos' and 'Strategic Choice' in The Theory of Organizations; Empiricism; 7 Organizations as Structures of Action; Introduction; Structure: Simon, March and Weick; Culture: Silverman and Action; The Action Frame of Reference: Continuities and Discontinuities; Summary; 8 Goals in Organizations; Goals and Definitions of Organizations; The Goal Model; The System Model; Goals and Decision-Making; Charles Perrow and Operative Goals; Organization Goals as Abstractions; Organization Goals and Their Outcomes; The Analytical Usefulness of Goals
    Description / Table of Contents: A Substantive Critique
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9780805838954
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (449 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Ser
    Parallel Title: Print version Communicating and Organizing in Context : The Theory of Structurational Interaction
    DDC: 302.2
    Keywords: Communication ; Communication in organizations ; Organizational sociology ; Communication in organizations ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈P〉〈EM〉Communicating and Organizing in Context 〈/EM〉integrates Giddens' structuration theory with Goffman's interaction order and develops a new theoretical base-the theory of structurational interaction-for the analysis of communicating and organizing. This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars as an orientation to the field of organizational communication. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: COMMUNICATING AND ORGANIZING IN CONTEXT The Theory of Structurational Interaction; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; SECTION I: A Framework for Organizing and Communicating; 1. Framing Communicating and Organizing; 2. A Frame System for Communicating; 3. A Frame System for Organizing; 4. Connecting Communicating and Organizing; SECTION II: Giddens' Structuration Theory; 5. Giddens' Structuration Theory; 6. Giddens: Context, Agency and Interaction; 7. Applying Giddens in Communicating and Organizing; SECTION III: Goffman on Communicating and Organizing
    Description / Table of Contents: 8. Erving Goffman's Interaction Order9. Goffman's Framing of Interaction; 10. Goffman and Larger Social Institutions; SECTION IV: Toward a Theory of Structurational Interaction; 11. Toward a Theory of Structurational Interaction; 12. Applying Structurational Interaction; References; Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Framing communicating and organizingA frame system for communicating -- A frame system for organizing -- Connecting communicating and organizing -- Giddens' structuration theory -- Giddens: context, agency and interaction -- Applying Giddens' in communicating and organizing -- Erving Goffman's interaction order -- Goffman's framing of interaction -- Goffman and larger social institutions -- Toward a theory of structurational interaction -- Applying structurational interaction.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9780415089166
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (220 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Organizing Modernity : New Weberian Perspectives on Work, Organization and Society
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Organizing modernity
    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Weber, Max ; Organizational sociology ; Weber, Max ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Weber, Max 1864-1920 ; Organisationssoziologie ; Organisationswandel
    Abstract: This book provides a re-evaluation of Weber's work on the current debates about the institutional and organizational dynamics of modernity, offering interpretations of his work which emphasize the reality of modernity as a dual process
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Weber, organizations and modernity: an introduction; Bringing the text back in: on ways of reading the iron cage metaphor hi the two editions of The Protestant Ethic; Max Weber and contemporary sociology of organizations; Work and authority: some Weberian perspectives; Accounting for organizational feeling; Max Weber on individualism, bureaucracy and despotism: political authoritarianism and contemporary politics; Commerce, science and the modern university; Max Weber and the dilemmas of modernity
    Description / Table of Contents: Conclusion: autonomy, pluralism and modernityIndex
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