ISBN:
9780765610102
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (286 p)
Edition:
5th ed
Parallel Title:
Print version The Bureaucratic Experience: The Post-Modern Challenge
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Everyone has trouble with bureaucracy. Citizens and politicians have trouble controlling the runaway bureaucratic machine. Managers have trouble managing it. Employees dislike working in it. Clients can't get the goods from it. Teachers have difficulty getting a grip on it. Optimists argue that soon all of this will be fixed. The new Fifth Edition of Ralph P. Hummel's classic text maintains just the opposite - that despite all the current rhetoric from proponents of total quality management, corporate reengineering, and the new public management, it's still ""business as usual"" for bureaucrac
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Understanding Bureaucracy; Bureaucratic Experiences; Firefighters; Welfare Managers; Corporate Executives; FBI Agents; The IMF-International Bureaucrats; Computerized Citizens; Bureaucratic Patterns; Modern Self-Critique; Post-Modern Critique; A Brief Survey of Post-Modernism; A Case in Point: Post-Modernism Meets Sewage; The Danger; The Politics of Good and Evil; 2. Bureaucracy as Society: Loss of the Social; How People Act; The Worker in the Bureaucracy
Description / Table of Contents:
The Citizen versus BureaucracyThe Bureaucrat and the Work; The Client as "Case" and the Policy Maker; The Policy Analyst and the Case; The Worker and Management: Control and Visibility; What the Experts Say; Modern Critique: Weber, Schütz, Berger; Weber; Schütz; Berger; Post-Modern Critique: Baudrillard, Lyotard; Society in the American Context; Baudrillard; Lyotard; Bureaucracy as Society; 3. Bureaucracy as the New Culture: "Economics"; What Is Culture?; The Origins of Economic Culture; Bureaucratic Intervention; The Spirit of Culture; What People Value
Description / Table of Contents:
The Coming of Adventure Capitalism: Investors, CEOs, and AccountantsThe Coming of Cultural Imperialism: World Citizens; The Coming of Irrationality; Global War of Values; The Standard Explanation; From the Enlightenment to Globalism; The Culture of Reason; Bureaucratic Culture; What the Experts Say; Three Types of Economic Culture; Bureaucracy's Rationalization of Culture; Weber: The Culture of Private and Public Bureaucracy; The Imperative of Capitalism; The Imperative of Bureaucracy; Characteristics of Modern Bureaucracy; Post-Modern Critique versus Modern Critique; Kant
Description / Table of Contents:
The Political Origins of Modern ReasonThe Enlightenment Project; Kant's Machine: Early Bureaucracy; The Kantian Paradox; Weber; The Rise of Instrumental Reason; Recent Echoes of Reason's Decline; Foucault: Human Reason without Humanism?; Loewith: Bureaucracy as Victim of Reason's Contradictions; The Economic Culture of Bureaucracy; 4. The Psychology of Bureaucracy: Organization as Psyche; Structuring the Psyche; Post-Modern Analysis; A Dis-Ease of the Soul; How People "Feel"; Patrolman Williams; Dialogue in a Courtroom; Modern Analysis; Post-Modern Analysis; Difference between Interpretations
Description / Table of Contents:
What the Experts SayModern Critique: Sigmund Freud; Elevating the Ego; Fragmenting the Ego; Freud Applied: The Work Bond; Modern Consulting: Michael Diamond; Psychoanalytic Organization Theory; A Case of a Psychoanalytic Consultancy; Ritualistic Behavior as a Key to Bureau-Pathology; Toward Post-Modern Critique; Post-Modern Critique: Lacan; A Difference in Foundations; Sisyphus Redux; Psyche as Language; Lacanian Analysis and the Consultant; A Critique or an Echo?; The Psychology of Bureaucracy; The Unanswered Question; Language Therapy?; 5. The Language of Bureaucracy: Virtual Words
Description / Table of Contents:
Speaking the Unspeakable
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
