The Bureaucratic Experience: The Post-Modern Challenge: The Post-Modern Challenge
Everyone has trouble with bureaucracy. Citizens and politicians have trouble controlling the runaway bureaucratic machine. Managers have trouble managing it. Employees dislike working in it. Clients can't get the goods from it. Teachers have difficulty getting a grip on it. Optimists argue that soon all of this will be fixed. The new Fifth Edition of Ralph P. Hummel's classic text maintains just the opposite - that despite all the current rhetoric from proponents of total quality management, corporate reengineering, and the new public management, it's still "business as usual" for bureaucracies. The persistent reality of organizational structure remains resilient in the face of feel-good trends and values. For this edition the book has been thoroughly revised and updated, with two key changes: each of the six core chapters has been trimmed and edited to consolidate and streamline the important organizational theory developments since the book's initial publication; and, each chapter contains newly added critiques of the postmodern theory of modern organizations, pursuing the theme that postmodernism covers up the persistent reality of organizational structure.
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The Bureaucratic Experience: The Post-Modern Challenge: The Post-Modern Challenge
Everyone has trouble with bureaucracy. Citizens and politicians have trouble controlling the runaway bureaucratic machine. Managers have trouble managing it. Employees dislike working in it. Clients can't get the goods from it. Teachers have difficulty getting a grip on it. Optimists argue that soon all of this will be fixed. The new Fifth Edition of Ralph P. Hummel's classic text maintains just the opposite - that despite all the current rhetoric from proponents of total quality management, corporate reengineering, and the new public management, it's still "business as usual" for bureaucracies. The persistent reality of organizational structure remains resilient in the face of feel-good trends and values. For this edition the book has been thoroughly revised and updated, with two key changes: each of the six core chapters has been trimmed and edited to consolidate and streamline the important organizational theory developments since the book's initial publication; and, each chapter contains newly added critiques of the postmodern theory of modern organizations, pursuing the theme that postmodernism covers up the persistent reality of organizational structure.
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The Bureaucratic Experience: The Post-Modern Challenge: The Post-Modern Challenge

The Bureaucratic Experience: The Post-Modern Challenge: The Post-Modern Challenge

by Ralph P. Hummel
The Bureaucratic Experience: The Post-Modern Challenge: The Post-Modern Challenge
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The Bureaucratic Experience: The Post-Modern Challenge: The Post-Modern Challenge

The Bureaucratic Experience: The Post-Modern Challenge: The Post-Modern Challenge

by Ralph P. Hummel

Overview

Everyone has trouble with bureaucracy. Citizens and politicians have trouble controlling the runaway bureaucratic machine. Managers have trouble managing it. Employees dislike working in it. Clients can't get the goods from it. Teachers have difficulty getting a grip on it. Optimists argue that soon all of this will be fixed. The new Fifth Edition of Ralph P. Hummel's classic text maintains just the opposite - that despite all the current rhetoric from proponents of total quality management, corporate reengineering, and the new public management, it's still "business as usual" for bureaucracies. The persistent reality of organizational structure remains resilient in the face of feel-good trends and values. For this edition the book has been thoroughly revised and updated, with two key changes: each of the six core chapters has been trimmed and edited to consolidate and streamline the important organizational theory developments since the book's initial publication; and, each chapter contains newly added critiques of the postmodern theory of modern organizations, pursuing the theme that postmodernism covers up the persistent reality of organizational structure.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781317458142
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/18/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 3 MB

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Ralph P. Hummel

Table of Contents

1: Understanding Bureaucracy; 2: Bureaucracy as Society: Loss of the Social; 3: Bureaucracy as the New Culture: “Economics”; 4: The Psychology of Bureaucracy: Organization as Psyche; 5: The Language of Bureaucracy: Virtual Words; 6: The Thought of Bureaucracy: Failure of Imagination; 7: Bureaucracy as Polity: Politics as Administration; Epilogue: Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Post-Modernity
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