Full Description
Given the critical role of organizations in shaping every facet of society, an enquiry into the many dimensions of society involves an examination of its organizations. Covering the civil service, hospitals, schools, cooperatives, business firms, development agencies, and trade unions, this reader seeks to develop a distinct identity for the theme of formal organizations in the field of sociological research. Drawing upon different disciplines, these essays discuss important concepts and models and provide an insight into the dynamics of organizations-how they experience and cope with conflicts of ideology, interests, priorities, and goals; and sustain their identities and maintain their boundaries. The reader also examines the extent to which organizations are culture specific, and the manner in which power and politics exhibit themselves.
It will be useful for scholars and students of sociology, management, and organizational systems; administrators, managers, activists, and those interested in the working of formal organizations.
Contents
INTRODUCTION: THE RATIONALE FOR A SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANZIATIONS (ABHA AND ANIL CHATURVEDI); ; SECTION I: ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS AND SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS; ; 1. Political Context of Policing in India (D.H. Bayley); ; 2. Environmental Change and Organizational Response (S. Manikutty); ; 3. Operation Flood: The Questions of Legitimacy (Shanti George); ; SECTION II: POWER AND POLITICS; ; 4. Dynamics of Stakeholder Management: The Doon Valley Experience (Satyesh C. Chakraborty); ; 6. BHEL: the Shifting Locus of Decision-making Power (Ravi Ramamurthy); ; 7. Co-operatives and Politics (B.S. Baviskar); ; SECTION III: NORMATIVE COHESION AND CONFLICT; ; 8. The Villagers' Organizing Themselves (Ravi J. Mathai); ; 9. Ideology and the Cooperative Movement (Sharit Kumar Bhowmik); ; 10. Rishi Valley: The Conflict of Ideology (Meenakshi Thapan); ; SECTION IV: BUREAUCRACY AND BUREAUCRATIC RESPONSE; ; 11. Charaka: Evolution of a Bureaucratic Environment (C.M. Reddy); ; 12. Inter-Departmental Synamics (Anil Chaturvedi); ; 13. Bureaucratic Systems and Environmental Response (Ravi J. Mathai); ; 14. Collector's Transfer (Vikalpa); ; SECTION V: THE CULTURAL TEXTURE OF ORGANIZATIONS; ; 15. Social Culture and Organizational Culture (William M. Evan and Fariborz Damanpour); ; 16. The Indian Social Milieu (Jai B.P. Sinha); ; 17. Khira Trusteeship Projects Limited (Abha Chaturvedi); ; REFERENCES AND SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX
