Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1 Thinking About Organizations -- Overview -- Why Study Organizations? -- Organizational Impacts -- The Nature of Organizations -- The Plan of the Book -- Summary and Conclusions -- Exercises -- Part II Organizational Structure -- Chapter 2 Organizational Structure: Key Dimensions -- Overview -- Defining Organizational Structure -- Studying Organizational Structure: Early Research on the Bureaucratic Form -- Sociological Studies of Formal Structure in Organizations -- Dimensions of Formal Structure -- Relations Between Complexity, Formalization, and Centralization -- Summary and Conclusions -- Exercises -- Chapter 3 Organizational Structure: Explanations -- Overview -- Effects of Size -- Effects of Technology -- Combined Effects of Size and Technology -- In Practice: Functional, Product, and Matrix Forms of Organization -- Effects of Internal Culture -- Environmental Effects on Structure: External Culture -- Creating Formal Structure: Debates over Process -- Summary and Conclusions -- 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 for Organizations -- Leadership in the Voluntary Organization -- Summary and Conclusions -- Exercises -- Chapter 6 Decision-Making -- Overview -- Organizations as Systems of Decisions -- Strategic Decision-Making.

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 8 Managing Organizational Environments: Conceptions of the Environment -- Overview -- "Discovering" Organizational Environments -- Defining the Environment -- Perceiving the Environment -- Summary and Conclusions -- Exercises -- Chapter 9 Managing Organizational Environments: General Paradigms -- Overview -- The Contingency Paradigm -- The Resource Dependence Paradigm -- The Transaction Cost Paradigm -- The Institutional Paradigm -- The Population Ecology Paradigm -- Combining Paradigms -- Summary and Conclusions -- Exercises -- Part IV Outcomes -- Chapter 10 Organizational Performance and Change -- Overview -- Problems of Defining Organizational Goals -- Approaches to Organizational Effectiveness -- Evaluating Organizational Performance: Key Issues -- Organizational Change and Transformation -- Organizational Change: Learning and Transformation -- Transformational Change -- Summary and Conclusions -- Exercises -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

Based upon classical and contemporary theory and empirical research, this text forms a sociological analysis of organizations, focusing on the impacts that organizations have upon individuals and society.

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