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Handbook of Organizations (RLE: Organizations)
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Handbook of Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

by James G. March
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1264 pages
60h 30m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER 27

Applied Organizational Change in Industry: Structural, Technological and Humanistic Approaches

 

HAROLD J. LEAVITT

This chapter is divided into two parts. The first attempts to survey and interrelate several distinct sets of approaches to organizational change. The second part dissects one of these sets—the one here called the people approaches—in much more detail. The people approaches deserve this more intensive analysis because they are currently in wide and increasing use in industry, and because they remain, after 20 or more years of development, highly controversial issues even within the social-scientific community.

APPROACHES TO ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

One can view industrial organizations as complex systems in which ...

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