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Managing modernity : the end of bureaucracy? / edited by Stewart R. Clegg, Martin Harris, Harro Hopfl.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bureaucracy--Forecasting.
- Bureaucracy.
- Organizational behavior.
- Organizational change.
- Organizational sociology.
- Public administration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bureaucracy has long been a cornerstone of advanced industrial societies, and a defining feature of modernity. At the same time, many commentators from all quarters argue that it is on the wane in this post-this or that world; or that if it isn't, it should be dismantled to free up organizations, enterprise, and innovation.But do we live in a more or less bureaucratic world? Do contemporary forms and means of communication undermine or modify bureaucracy, or does technology create new 'iron cages' and forms of control? If bureaucratic models of organization are abandoned, do we run risks of or
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction: Managing Modernity: Beyond Bureaucracy?; 1. 'Without Regard to Persons': Problems of Involvement and Attachment in 'Post-Bureaucratic' Public Management; 2. Bureaucratic and Post-Bureaucratic Accountability in Britain: Some Sceptical Reflections; 3. New Lock, New Stock, New Barrel, Same Gun: The Accessorized Bureaucracy of Health Care; 4. Applying Soft Bureaucracy to Rhetorics of Choice: The UK NHS 1983-2007
- 5. Network Governance and the Politics of Organizational Resistance in UK Health Care: The National Programme for Information Technology6. Bureaucracy under Siege: On Information, Collaboration, and Networks; 7. 'Meritocracy' Versus 'Sociocracy': Personnel Concepts and HRM in Two IT/Management Consulting Firms; 8. Post-Bureaucratic Manufacturing? The Post-War Organization of Large British Firms; 9. Under Reconstruction: Modern Bureaucracies; 10. The Post-Bureaucratic Organization and the Control Revolution; 11. Back to the Future: What Does Studying Bureaucracy Tell Us?; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-162481-0
- 1-283-29682-9
- 9786613296825
- 0-19-161274-X
- OCLC:
- 756484794
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