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From businesses, public administrations, universities and schools, to hospitals, prisons, political parties, or the military, peoples' lives are inextricably bound up with organizations from cradle to grave. Yet we receive little training in how - as members, customers, voters, or patients - to deal with them.In Organizations Stefan Kühl asks and answers many questions. What are these entities that wield such strong influence in our society? What makes them tick? What are our options for intervening, either from within or without?This book explains how organizations function by examining their three central features: their purposes or goals, their hierarchies, and their memberships. The author presents the three aspects of organizations - the display, formal, and informal aspects, explaining them in metaphorical terms as façades, machines, and games.Acknowledging that the seminal systems theory developed by sociologist Niklas Luhmann is not easily accessible, Professor Kühl presents Luhmann's organizational concept in a succinct and user-friendly form that will be readily grasped by a practitioner audience and provides new insights in this ambitious theory.Product Identifiers
PublisherVIZ Media
ISBN-101421526107
ISBN-139781421526102
eBay Product ID (ePID)66608623
Product Key Features
GenreComics & Graphic Novels
Publication Year2008
LanguageEnglish
Artist/WriterTite Kubo
Dimensions
Item Height5.5in
Item Length5.5in
Item Width15in
Item Weight166.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Pages4256 Pages
SeriesBleach Box Sets Ser.
Dewey Edition22
Book TitleBleach Box Set 1 : Volumes 1-21 with Premium
Series Volume Number1
Target AudienceTrade
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal741.5952
TopicManga / Fantasy, Manga / Science Fiction, Manga / Media Tie-In