Reading Organization Theory
Description
First published in 1994, Reading Organization Theory has established itself as a pre-eminent text in its field.
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Persons
Albert J. Mills is Director of the PhD (Management) program and Professor of Management at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada. His twelve books include (with T. Simmons) Reading Organization Theory: A Critical Approach, third edition (Broadview Press, 2004) and Sex, Strategy and the Stratosphere: The Gendering of Airline Cultures (Palgrave, 2006).
Content
Chapter 1: Developing a Critical Approach to Organizational Study
Alice in Organization Land
Organizational Study and the Neglect of Class, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity
Why Study Organizations? Getting Interested
Outlining a Critical Approach
Chapter 2: Understanding Bureaucracies: The Age of the Organizational Giants
The Dark Side of Bureaucracy
Living in a Bureaucratic Wonderland
What is Bureaucracy?
The Birth of Bureaucracy in Classical Organization Theory
The Bureaucratic Image: The Organization as Machine
Debating the Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of Modern Organization Theory
Standing in the Shadows: Bureaucracies and Minority Groups
Chapter 3: Calling the Shots: How Theories of Organization Relate to Managers
Speedy Taylor and Management Theorizing
The Visible Hand: Big Business and the Managerial Revolution
Reading Between the Lines: Management Theory and Class Struggle
The Periodization of Theory and the Illusion of Progress: The Case of Scientific Management
Management in Practice: What Managers Really Do
Chapter 4: Creating the Psychic Prison
Work and Identity: An Interview With Sharon Webb
Psychic Phenomena and Organizational Behaviour
Images of the Psychic Prison
Summary
Chapter 5: Sex and Organizational Analysis
Sex, Power and Abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison
Sex and Organizational Life
Sex and Academia
Sex and Organizational Research
Issues in Sex and Organizational Research
Women's Advancement and the Struggle for Equity
Chapter 6: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Race, Ethnicity and Organization Theory
October 29th, 2003 Former boxer seeks apology, compensation from Halifax police for discrimination
The Politicalization of Race and Ethnic Relations
Race and Ethnic Relations in Organizational Theory
The Ethnicity Paradigm
What Does the Future Hold?
Chapter 7: Knowledge and Power in Theories of Organization
The Organizational World and the Managerial Paradigm
From Paradigm to Discourse: Understanding the Managerialist Dominance of OT and OB
Inside the Managerialist View of Reality
What is to be Done? The Challenge and Limitation of Radical Theories of Organization
Integrated Case: The Westray Mine Explosion
One Miner's Tale
A Snapshot of Mining in Pictou County
Politics and Big Guns
Rules of the Game
Training at Westray
The Union Drive
A Day in the Life
Disaster and After
The Search for Truth
Epilogue
The Westray Mine Explosion: Teaching Note
Appendix 1: Key Players
Appendix 2: Resource List
Appendix 3: Industry note
Westray: A Critical Approach
For Your Eyes Only
A Career Decision
The Nature of Employment
The Dancers
FYEO Expansion?
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Index