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The organizational society : An analysis and a theory / Robert V. Presthus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Presthus, Robert V., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bureaucracy.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- Personality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages)
- Other Title:
- organizational society
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books/Random House, 1962.
- Summary:
- This book is an interdisciplinary analysis of big organizations and their influence upon the individuals who work in them. Conceptually, the analysis operates at three distinct but interrelated levels: society as a whole; the big, rational organization; and the individual. Organizations are defined as "miniature societies" in which the dominant values of society are inculcated and sought in a more structured, spatially restricted context. A major object is to show how individuals work out an accommodation in this milieu, and to develop a theory of organizational behavior that posits three ideal types of accommodation to big organizations: "upward-mobiles," "indifferents," and "ambivalents.
- Notes:
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