Authors: Jay M. Shafritz, J. Steven Ott, Yong Suk Jang
ISBN-13: 9780495569411, ISBN-10: 0495569410
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Date Published: January 2010
Edition: 7th Edition
Jay M. Shafritz is Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. He is the author, co-author, or editor of over forty textbooks and reference books on business and public administration. He holds a doctorate from Temple University and an MPA from the Baruch College of the City University of New York.
J. Steven Ott is a professor and dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Utah. He has written numerous books on organization theory, organizational behavior, nonprofit organizations, and organizational culture. His recent journal articles have appeared in the International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, Public Organization Review, Public Performance & Management Review, Public Administration Review, and Public Integrity. He teaches organizational behavior, organizational leadership and change, nonprofit organization management, organization theory, administrative theory, and the practice of management. In addition, Ott has also worked as a management consultant for 26 years before joining the faculties at the universities of Maine and Utah. His Ph.D. is from the University of Colorado, and his M.S. from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Yong Suk Jang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah. His principal research interests include organizations, comparative political and economic sociology, globalization, and quantitative methods. Professor Jang has also won numerous honors and awards which includes; MacArthur Consortium Dissertation Fellowship at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford (2000-2001), MacArthur Consortium Affiliate, Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford (1999-2000), Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies Pre-Graduate and Graduate Fellowship (1992-1998), The Highest Honor Prize of the President of Yonsei University (1988-1990), and Yonsei University Undergraduate Scholarship (1987-1989). He also is currently co-directing a project exploring the evolution of business incubation in Korea.
Compiled by three of the most influential authors in the field, CLASSICS OF ORGANIZATION THEORY is a collection of the most enduring works in organization theory. The text helps students grasp important themes, perspectives and theories by describing what organization theory is, how it has developed, and how its development has coincided with events and changes in other fields. This text is not simply a retelling of the history of organization theory; its evolution is told through the words of the distinguished theorists themselves. The readings in this edition have been thoroughly reviewed and updated.
Introduction | 1 | |
A Chronology of Organization Theory | 10 | |
I | Classical Organization Theory | 25 |
1 | Socrates Discovers Generic Management: Xenophon (1869) | 34 |
2 | Of the Division of Labour: Adam Smith (1776) | 36 |
3 | On the Division of Labour: Charles Babbage (1832) | 41 |
4 | Superintendent's Report: Daniel C. McCallum (1856) | 50 |
5 | The Engineer as an Economist: Henry R. Towne (1886) | 52 |
6 | General Principles of Management: Henri Fayol (1916) | 56 |
7 | The Principles of Scientific Management: Frederick Winslow Taylor (1916) | 69 |
8 | Bureaucracy: Max Weber (1946) | 81 |
9 | Notes on the Theory of Organization: Luther Gulick (1937) | 87 |
II | Neoclassical Organization Theory | 97 |
10 | The Proverbs of Administration: Herbert A. Simon (1946) | 101 |
11 | Foundations of the Theory of Organization: Philip Selznick (1948) | 114 |
12 | Theories of Bureaucracy: James G. March and Herbert A. Simon (1958) | 124 |
13 | A Behavioral Theory of Organizational Objectives: Richard M. Cyert and James G. March (1959) | 133 |
III | The Organizational Behavior Perspective, or Human Resource Theory | 143 |
14 | The Giving of Orders: Mary Parker Follett (1926) | 150 |
15 | A Theory of Human Motivation: A. H. Maslow (1943) | 159 |
16 | The Human Side of Enterprise: Douglas Murray McGregor (1957) | 174 |
17 | That Urge to Achieve: David C. McClelland (1966) | 181 |
18 | Intervention Theory and Methods: Chris Argyris (1970) | 188 |
19 | Groupthink: The Desperate Drive for Consensus at Any Cost: Irving L. Janis (1971) | 193 |
IV | "Modern" Structural Organization Theory | 201 |
20 | Mechanistic and Organic Systems: Tom Burns and G. M. Stalker (1961) | 207 |
21 | The Concept of Formal Organization: Peter M. Blau and W. Richard Scott (1962) | 212 |
22 | Organizational Choice: Product versus Function: Arthur H. Walker and Jay W. Lorsch (1968) | 217 |
23 | Organization-Environment Interface: Paul R. Lawrence and Jay W. Lorsch (1969) | 229 |
24 | The Matrix Organization--Who Needs It?: Stanley M. Davis and Paul R. Lawrence (1977) | 234 |
25 | Five Basic Parts of the Organization: Henry Mintzberg (1979) | 243 |
26 | In Praise of Hierarchy: Elliott Jaques (1990) | 255 |
V | Systems, Contingency, and Population Ecology Organization Theory | 263 |
27 | Organizations and the System Concept: Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn (1966) | 270 |
28 | Organizations in Action: James D. Thompson (1967) | 281 |
29 | General Systems Theory: Applications for Organization and Management: Fremont E. Kast and James E. Rosenzweig (1972) | 294 |
30 | Information Processing Model: Jay Galbraith (1973) | 308 |
31 | A Concept of Organizational Ecology: Eric Trist (1977) | 316 |
32 | The Population Ecology of Organizations: Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman (1977) | 329 |
VI | Multiple Constituencies/Market Organization Theory | 343 |
33 | Organizational Effectiveness: A Multiple-Constituency Approach: Terry Connolly, Edward J. Conlon, and Stuart Jay Deutsch (1980) | 351 |
34 | Values in Organizational Theory and Management Education: Michael Keeley (1983) | 358 |
35 | External Influences on Managers: Ian Mitroff (1983) | 370 |
36 | Understanding the Employment Relation: Oliver E. Williamson (1975) | 379 |
VII | Power and Politics Organization Theory | 397 |
37 | Understanding the Role of Power in Decision Making: Jeffrey Pfeffer (1981) | 404 |
38 | Sources of Power of Lower Participants in Complex Organizations: David Mechanic (1962) | 424 |
39 | Leadership in an Organized Anarchy: Michael D. Cohen and James G. March (1974) | 432 |
40 | Power Failure in Management Circuits: Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1979) | 449 |
41 | Organization Development: A Political Perspective: Anthony T. Cobb and Newton Margulies (1981) | 462 |
42 | The Power Game and the Players: Henry Mintzberg (1983) | 473 |
VIII | Organizational Culture and Symbolic Management Organization Theory | 481 |
43 | Defining Organizational Culture: Edgar H. Schein (1985) | 490 |
44 | The Making of an Organizational Saga: Burton R. Clark (1970) | 503 |
45 | Organizations as Culture-Bearing Milieux: Meryl Reis Louis (1983) | 509 |
46 | Organizations As Shared Meanings: Linda Smircich (1983) | 520 |
47 | Cultural and Competing Perspectives in Administrative Theory and Practice: Thomas J. Sergiovanni (1984) | 527 |