ABSTRACT
First published in 1998. This is Volume VIII of the eighteen in the Sociology of Work and Organization series and offers an analysis of modern theories in relation to organisation and bureaucracy. The present study tries to provide some guidance which may help students to orient themselves with greater ease in the labyrinth of organisational writings. More specifically, it tries to identify and examine critically some of the major approaches to the study of organisations, and the ways in which such approaches are linked with each other.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
Introduction
part |71 pages
Part One The Study Of Bureaucracy
chapter |31 pages
Chapter one the Classical Approach to the Study of Bureaucracy
chapter |17 pages
Chapter Two The Ideal Type of Bureaucracy
chapter |21 pages
Chapter Three The Post-Weberian Theories of Bureaucracy
part |66 pages
Part Two The Managerial Tradition
chapter |18 pages
Chapter Four Taylorism and Formal Theories of Administration
chapter |23 pages
Chapter Five The Human Relations Approach to the Organisation
part |23 pages
Part Three Converging Trends