Complex Organizations--SOCI 344 --Spg 09

Web Readings Page

 

Intro:

Perrow

 

Overview and Structure:

Weber

Ritzer

Note:   Assignment due Fri: Feb 6, as part of Reading Notes or RDP: 1-2 paragraphs on elements of Bureaucracy in your University experience (characteristics, advantages and/or disadvantages of bureaucracy  -- as per Mills & Simmons Ch.2, Ritzer web rdg., Weber web rdg.)

 

Management & Human Relations Model: 

            Note I added part of a second chapter (3) from Perrow

Perrow, Ch. 2     (12 pages printout, about 23 pages text reading)

Perrow Ch. 3      (10 pages printout, about 15 pages text reading)

 

Power & Change:

Weber

Sjoberg          On Bureaucratic Capitalism