The Organizational Weapon, Etc
Author : Philip SELZNICK
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File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Philip SELZNICK
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File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Philip Selznick
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1610272757
The Organizational Weapon is a classic study of the methods, propaganda, and institutions which create infiltration and eventually cooptation of organizations from within. The study applies its theory to communist techniques but its analysis and insights have, over the years, become extremely useful in perceiving and combating such methods in jihadist cells, terrorist organizations, and political groups of many varieties, not only from the Left. The book's continuing relevance and utility have been exemplified in how it has influenced, and been cited by, many current writers on how extremist and politically astute groups recruit and infiltrate more benign organizations and make them tools of further expansion of power and action. The book is also considered excellent social science and history, analyzing an important moment in U.S. history when trade organizations, community groups, and the like became affected by Soviet encroachment and Marxist influence. Its insights, from one of the country's most recognized social scientists, have stood the test of time. The new digital reprint edition from Quid Pro Books features an extensive and substantive 2014 Foreword by Martin Krygier, a senior professor of law and social theory at the law school of the University of New South Wales, in Australia, and adjunct professor at Australian National University.
Author : Jonathan Mallory House
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Armies
ISBN : 1428915834
Author : Henry Mintzberg
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2009
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Synthesizes the empirical literature on organizationalstructuring to answer the question of how organizations structure themselves --how they resolve needed coordination and division of labor. Organizationalstructuring is defined as the sum total of the ways in which an organizationdivides and coordinates its labor into distinct tasks. Further analysis of theresearch literature is neededin order to builda conceptualframework that will fill in the significant gap left by not connecting adescription of structure to its context: how an organization actuallyfunctions. The results of the synthesis are five basic configurations (the SimpleStructure, the Machine Bureaucracy, the Professional Bureaucracy, theDivisionalized Form, and the Adhocracy) that serve as the fundamental elementsof structure in an organization. Five basic parts of the contemporaryorganization (the operating core, the strategic apex, the middle line, thetechnostructure, and the support staff), and five theories of how it functions(i.e., as a system characterized by formal authority, regulated flows, informalcommunication, work constellations, and ad hoc decision processes) aretheorized. Organizations function in complex and varying ways, due to differing flows -including flows of authority, work material, information, and decisionprocesses. These flows depend on the age, size, and environment of theorganization; additionally, technology plays a key role because of itsimportance in structuring the operating core. Finally, design parameters aredescribed - based on the above five basic parts and five theories - that areused as a means of coordination and division of labor in designingorganizational structures, in order to establish stable patterns of behavior.(CJC).
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Combat
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Author : Mao Tse-tung
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0486119572
The first documented, systematic study of a truly revolutionary subject, this 1937 text remains the definitive guide to guerrilla warfare. It concisely explains unorthodox strategies that transform disadvantages into benefits.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
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Page : 442 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Communism
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Author : United States. Congress
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Page : 2366 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 1958
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Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Government publications
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Cold War
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Focuses on role of private business, educational, and trade union organization in fostering positive U.S. image abroad; Classified material has been deleted.