Stefan Kühl

Organizations (eBook, ePUB)

A Short Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From companies, public administrations, universities, and schools to hospitals, prisons, political parties, and the military, organizations influence us from the moment we are born to the moment we die. However, we receive no training in how to deal with them, whether as their members, customers, patients, or voters.

Organizations-what are these entities that have such a strong influence on modern society? What makes them tick? What are our options for changing them? This book explains how organizations function by examining three of their central characteristics: membership, goals, and hierarchies.

Describing organizations metaphorically as "façades," "machines," and "games," the author sheds lights on three important sides-their image, formal side, and informal side-and provides a broad set of tools for better understanding them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Metaplan
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781734961935
• Artikelnr.: 61250879

Autorenporträt

Stefan Kÿhl studied sociology, historical science and economics at the University of Bielefeld, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Université Paris-X-Nanterre, and the University of Oxford. He is a professor of organizational sociology at the University of Bielefeld and one of the leading system theorists working in the field of organizational science. He works as an organizational consultant for Metaplan, a consulting firm based in Princeton in the USA, Paris, Hamburg and Zÿrich.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Author
1. Organizations: What Are They
Actually?
2. Membership
Goals
and Hierarchies
3. Machines
Games
and Façades: The Three Aspects of an Organization
4. Beyond the Iceberg Metaphor: The Possibilities and Limitations of Communicating about Organizations
Annex: A Somewhat Longer Justification for a Brief Introduction into the System Approach
References
Index