Organizations

IN THIS SECTION:

1.) BRIEF

2.) COMPREHENSIVE





BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:




Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Thinking About Organizations



Part II: Organizational Structure

Chapter 2: Organization Structure: Key Dimensions

Chapter 3: Organization Structure: Explanations



Part III: Organizational Processes

Chapter 4: Power and Power Outcomes

Chapter 5: Leadership

Chapter 6: Decision Making

Chapter 7: Communication

Chapter 8: Managing Organizational Environments: Conceptualizing the Environment

Chapter 9: Managing Environments: Contemporary Paradigms



Part I: Outcomes

Chapter 10: Organizational Performance and Change







COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface




PART I: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 Thinking about Organizations



Overview

Why Study Organizations?

Organizational Impacts

Organizations and the World

The Nature of Organizations

The Plan of the Book

In Sum

Exercises





PART II: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Chapter 2 Organization Structure: Key Dimensions



Overview

Defining Organizational Structure

Modern Organizational Structure: The Bureaucratic Form

Sociological Studies of Formal Structure in Organizations

Dimensions of Formal Structure: Complexity

Dimensions of Formal Structure: Formalization

Dimensions of Formal Structure: Centralization

Relations between Complexity, Formalization & Centralization

Summary and Conclusions

Exercises



Chapter 3Organization Structure: Explanations



Overview

Effects of Size

Effects of Technology

Effects of Internal Culture

Environmental Effects on Structure: External Culture

Creating Formal Structure: Debates over Process

Explaining Organizational Structure: Summary

Exercises





PART III: ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES

Chapter 4 Power and Power Outcomes



Overview

The Nature of Power in Organizations

Authority and Power

Other Types of Power

Shifts in Power

Power Outcomes: Compliance and Involvement

Power Outcomes: Conflict

The Components of Conflict Situations

The Outcomes of Conflict

Summary and Conclusions

Exercises



Chapter 5 Leadership



Overview

What Is Leadership?

The Outcomes of Leadership in Organizations

Leadership in the Voluntary Organization

Summary and Conclusions

Exercises





Chapter 6 Decision Making



Overview

Organizations as Systems of Decisions

Strategies of Power and Decision Making

Summary and Conclusions

Exercises





Chapter 7 Communication




Overview

The Importance of Communication

Individual Factors

Organizational Factors

Vertical Communication

Horizontal Communication

Communication Problems

Communication to and from Outside the Organization

Possible Solutions

Summary and Conclusions

Exercises





Chapter 8Managing Organizational Environments: Conceptualizing the Environment




Overview

"Discovering" Organizational Environments

Defining the Environment: Core Dimensions

Defining the Environment: Interorganizational Relations

Defining the Environment: Selected Aspects

Perceiving the Environment

Summary and Conclusions

Exercises





Chapter 9 Managing Environments: Contemporary Paradigms




Overview

The Contingency Paradigm

The Resource Dependence Paradigm

The Transaction Costs Paradigm

The Institutional Paradigm

The Population Ecology Paradigm

Combining Paradigms

Summary and Conclusions

Exercises





PART III: OUTCOMES

Chapter 10 Organizational Performance and Change




Overview

Problems of Defining Organizational Goals

Approaches to Assessing Organizational Effectiveness

Evaluating Organizational Performance: Key Issues

Organizational Change and Transformation

Organizational Change: Learning

Transformational Change

Summary and Conclusions

Exercises