Organizations: Management Without Control
- ISBN-10
- 1412942470
- ISBN-13
- 9781412942478
- Series
- Organizations
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 505
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Author
- Howard P. Greenwald
Description
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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