Organizational rules : a framework for understanding organizational action
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Organizational rules : a framework for understanding organizational action
Open University Press, c1991
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-214) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Oganizational Rules" analyzes the significance of rules within organizational life and explores ways in which rules both reflect and affect the organizational behaviour of individuals and groups. The authors argue for an approach to understanding organizations that adequately and concurrently takes account of both the structure of actions and the understandings of the actors in actions. Examining the notion of rule as a key metaphor, they attempt a synthesis of a number of different organizational approaches. In exploring and forwarding a body of theory, they interweave the argument with case studies which both underpin their theoretical argument and reflect their practical concerns: of helping individuals to survive and prosper within organizations; and of assisting managers to identify possibilities for change, to resolve conflict and to make organizational adjustments.
Table of Contents
- Rules as dimensions of organizational life
- rules, roles and boundaries
- becoming an organizational member
- sex and the single organization - gender rules
- institutionalization and change
- conflict - the rules of the game
- markets, environments, boundaries and the process of adaption
- using rules.
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