From businesses, public administrations, universities and schools, to hospitals, prisons, political parties, or the military, peoples' lives are inextricably bound up with organizations from cradle to grave. Yet we receive little training in how - as members, customers, voters, or patients - to...

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1. Verfasser:	Kühl, Stefan
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Surrey : Gower Publishing, 2013
Schlagworte:	Organization. Organizational sociology. Sociologie des organisations. Organization Organizational sociology
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	From businesses, public administrations, universities and schools, to hospitals, prisons, political parties, or the military, peoples' lives are inextricably bound up with organizations from cradle to grave. Yet we receive little training in how - as members, customers, voters, or patients - to deal with them. In Organizations Stefan Kuhl asks and answers many questions. What are these entities that wield such strong influence in our society? What makes them tick? What are our options for intervening, either from within or without? This book explains how organizations function by examining their three central features: their purposes or goals, their hierarchies, and their memberships. The author presents the three aspects of organizations - the display, formal, and informal aspects, explaining them in metaphorical terms as facades, machines, and games. Acknowledging that the seminal systems theory developed by sociologist Niklas Luhmann is not easily accessible, Professor Kuhl presents Luhmann's organizational concept in a succinct and user-friendly form that will be readily grasped by a practitioner audience and provides new insights in this ambitious theory.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (195 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	1472413423 9781472413420 1306406285 9781306406284