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Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy

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ISBN-10: 0029127408

ISBN-13: 9780029127407

Edition: 1964

Authors: Alvin W. Gouldner

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Alvin W. Gouldner takes readers through a case study of modern factory administrations in order to reveal the relations between workers and management at an industrial plant and in the community outside of it. The process of bureaucratization is found to be composed of three distinct tendencies: the "mock bureaucratization" pattern, characterized by the failure to enforce or obey rules; the "representative" pattern, where rules are both enforced by management and obeyed by works; or the "punishment-centered bureaucracy," where management attempts regular enforcement, but is resisted by workers. Scientific interest in bureaucracy and in the general theory of organization requires the…    
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1964
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 7/1/1964
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.682