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Organizations: Management Without Control

Autor Howard P. Greenwald
en Limba Engleză Electronic book text – 26 aug 2014
Providing a comprehensive understanding of the functions of formal organizations and the challenges they face, this text emphasizes the importance of forces that organizations or their leaders cannot fully control as a key distinctive theme. It covers basic features of organizations such as roles, structure, reward systems, power and authority, and culture and introduces important theoretical perspectives related to these features.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781452210599
ISBN-10: 1452210594
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Cuprins

Part I: Understanding Organizations
1. Let's Get Organized!
2. The Organizational Milieu
3. Organizational Theories and Perspectives
Part II: Means of Cohesion and Coordination
4. Social Roles in Organization
5. The Rule of Structure
6. Reward and Punishment
7. Imperative Forces
8. Organizational Culture
Part III: Organizational Dynamics
9. Leadership and Followership
10. Communication and Decision Making
11. Politics, Conflict, and Change
Part IV: The Future Organization
12. Bureaucracy
13. Innovations and Experiments
Part V: Organizations, Personal Interests, and Responsibility
14. Organizations and Individual Decisions
15. Organizations and Society
Glossary
Table of Abbreviations
Suggested Readings
About the Author

Notă biografică

Howard P. Greenwald, Ph.D., has research interests in public policy, health services, evaluation research, public opinion, and organizational management. He in a professor at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California (USC). He has served as director of USC¿s Health Services Administration Program, chairman of the Western Network for Education in Health Administration, and commissioner on the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education. Prior to his appointment at USC, he held positions at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Battelle Memorial Institute. He has held the Fulbright Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and has received a similar appointment at the University of Ottawa. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago (B.A.) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., Sociology).

Dr. Greenwald has made major contributions to research on health care delivery and socioeconomic disparities in health status and treatment outcomes. Recent books include The United States Health Care System: Organization, Management, and Policy (Jossey-Bass, 2010 - Second Edition forthcoming, 2021), Organizations: Management Without Control (Sage, 2008), and Health For All: Making Community Collaboration Work (Health Administration Press, 2003). His book, Who Survives Cancer? (University of California Press, 1992), reports the results of a ten-year survival study. Earlier work includes articles in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (J-PART), Public Administration Review, Journal of the American Public Health Association, Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, and a variety of medical journals. He has an extensive consulting practice in program evaluation, policing, and medical/legal issues. Current projects include areas such as food security, interorganizational collaboration, tobacco policy, and organization and management of health services in Canada.

When at leisure, he writes fiction, plays blues (guitar and banjo), runs, and skis.