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Designing Effective Organizations
Traditional and Transformational Views
- David K. Banner - University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA
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Organization Design and Development
Organization Design and Development
October 1994 | 492 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This book on organization theory adopts a distinctive stance. In contrast to the traditional rational approach, it develops a transformational perspective which focuses on the organizational world as a projection of each organizational member's consciousness. While covering all the basic topics of organization theory, the author's approach reflects today's changing management paradigms.
Samuel A Culbert
Foreword
PART ONE: ORGANIZATION THEORY FROM A TRANSFORMATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Organizations and Organization Theory
Of Paradigms and Paradigm Shifts
The Industrial Era Paradigm
Transformational Thinking
Creating the New-Paradigm Organization
Systems Thinking in Organization Theory
The Metamodel of Organization
Transformation and Organizational Effectiveness
PART TWO: THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATIONS
Macro Structural Variables
The Creation and Evolution of Organizational Structure
Emerging Organizational Designs
PART THREE: THE CONTEXT OF ORGANIZATIONS
The Environment of Organizations
Organizational Technology and Structure
Organizational Size and Structure
Power, Politics and Structure
Strategy and Structure
PART FOUR: THE PROCESSES OF ORGANIZATION
The Organizational Life Cycle
Organizational Culture
Structural Conflict in Organizations
Facilitating the New-Paradigm Organization