Designing Effective Organizations : Traditional & Transformational Views

"Takes a holistic approach that is often lost in more narrow-minded texts. Great for graduate students." --Robert Kramer, Department of Management Science, George Washington University "With its distinctive voice, this is a basic text for all courses on organizational theory." --BUSINESS HORIZONS "This book presents an avant garde approach to an important topic about which, to my way of thinking, no one else has written even a contemporary book. . . . The authors′ perspective readily allows the reader to comprehend and appreciate what is always present--often hidden and almost always controversial--the subjective side of organizational life. . . . The book you are about to read provides the rationalist and the veteran exactly what they each crave the most. It provides synthesis and order within a structure that acknowledges the interaction between an individual′s motivations and needs and the apparent order that individual perceives. . . . The use of cartoons and other ′right-brain′ highlighters allow readers to look down, as opposed to looking up, to understand and critique a phenomenon that a theory purports to explain, and to self-reflect on the importance a theory holds for the field. . . . Certainly, this is a book for the 1990s." --from the Foreword by Samuel A. Culbert, John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles "What the authors are attempting is very difficult. David K. Banner and T. Elaine Gagné are declaring the presence of a new paradigm of the organization before it has actually crystallized and become part of the mainstream of organization theory. As such, the book is an act of leadership." --Peter B. Vaill, Professor of Human Systems, School of Business and Public Management, The George Washington University "A valuable resource to the students and instructors of organizational design and theory courses. The comprehensive coverage of traditional organization theory topics coupled with the authors′ contemporar