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Modern Approaches to Understanding and ManagingOrganizations
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Avoid management theory overkill. Bolman and Deal break them all down to four basic approaches any manager can understand. Writing in everyday language, the authors demonstrate when and how each approach should be employed, and what outcomes can be anticipated.
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LEE G. BOLMAN is lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. TERENCE E. DEAL is professor of education at Peabody College of VAnderbilt University. Both management consultants, Bolman and Deal are also codirectors of the National Center for Educational Leadership.
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MAKING SENSE OF ORGANIZATION.

1. Introduction: Common Views of Organizations.

2. New Ways of Seeing Organizations.

MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS: FOUR APPROACHES.

3. Getting Organized: The Structural Approach.

4. Applying the Structural Approach.

5. Fitting Organizations to People: The Human Resource Approach.

6. Applying the Human Resource Approach.

7. Managing Power, Conflict, and Coalitions: The Political Approach.

8. Applying the Political Approach.

9. Cultivating Organizational Cultures and Rituals: The Symbolic Approach.

10. Applying the Symbolic Approach.

EXPLANING ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR: THEORIES AND RESEARCH.

11. Classic Tensions: Structure Versus People.

12. Old Realities Rediscovered: Politics and Symbols.

13. Integrating Organizational Theories.

IMPROVING MANAGEMENT PRACTICE.

14. Matching Management Approaches to the Organizational Situation.

15. Learning to Use Different Leadership Styles.

16. Practices of Successful Managers and Organizations.

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"This is an absolutely remarkable book. The authors have presented, in simple comprehensive language, concepts that others have struggled with for years."(Choice)
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