Modern Approaches to Understanding and Managing Organizations

Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1984, 325 pages

ISBN: 0-87589-592-1

Keywords: Management

Last modified: July 25, 2021, 11:51 a.m.

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.

  • Part One: Making Sense of Organizations
    1. Introduction; Common Views of Organizations
    2. New Ways of Seeing Organizations
  • Part Two: Managing Organizations: Four Approaches
    1. Getting Organized; The Structural Approach
    2. Applying the Structural Approach
    3. Fitting Organizations to People: The Human Resource Approach
    4. Applying the Human Resource Approach
    5. Managing Power, Conflict, and Coalitions: The Political Approach
    6. Applying the Political Approach
    7. Cultivating Organizational Cultures and Rituals: The Symbolic Approach
    8. Applying the Symbolic Approach
  • Part Three: Explaining Organizational Behavior: Theories and Research
    1. Classic Tensions: Structure Versus People
    2. Old Realities Rediscovered: Politics and Symbols
    3. Integrating Organizational Theories
  • Part Four: Improving Management Practice
    1. Matching Management Approaches to the Organizational Situation
    2. Learning to Use Different Leadership Styles
    3. Practices of Successful Managers and Organizations
  • Epilogue: Leadership Qualities for Meeting Complex New Challenges

Reviews

Modern Approaches to Understanding and Managing Organizations

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Mediocre **** (4 out of 10)

Last modified: May 21, 2007, 3:16 a.m.

Interesting and worthwhile, but a little dated (1984).

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