Science Organizations

By: Arlene G. Taylor, Daniel N. Joudrey.

This third edition of Taylor's modern classic continues to articulate the theory, principles, standards, and tools behind information organization.

As with previous editions, it begins with strong justification for the continued importance of organizing principles and practice. Following a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor and Joudrey provide a detailed and insightful discussion of such basic retrieval tools as inventories, bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, registers, databases, major bibliographic utilities, and other organizing entities; and subsequently trace the development of the organization of recorded information in Western civilization from 2000 B.C.E. to the present. Standards of codification (MARC, SGML, and various DTDs), controlled vocabularies and ontologies, and Web 2.0 technologies are but a sample of its extensive topical coverage

Still the title of choice for students and professionals eager to embrace the heritage, immediacy, and future of this fascinating field of study.

By: Margaret J Wheatley.

By: Wendell L. French, Cecil H. Bell.

Appropriate for courses in Organization Development, this new edition explores the improvement of organizations through planned, systematic, long-range efforts focused on the organization's culture and its human and social processes. The authors present a concise and comprehensive exposition of the theory, practice, and research related to organization development. The Sixth Edition reflects the most recent developments, advances and expansions, and research in the area of OD. KEY TOPICS: Adds and updates new material to provide the most current information available. Strengthens coverage by adding new interventions and new material. Offers a more lively tone and writing style. Emphasizes the everchanging paradigms in OD theory and describes several new and important interventions in considerable detail. Sets discussions in the rapidly-evolving contexts of globalization, intensified competition and collaboration, Total Quality Management (TQM) and large-scale organizational change. Provides excellent coverage of the organization and its dynamics for managers and professionals.

By: James D. Thompson.

Organiations act, but what determines how and when they will act? There is precedent for believing that the organiation is but an extension of one or a few people, but this is a deceptively simplified approach, and in reality makes any generaliation in organiational theory enormously difficult. Modern-day organiations--manufacturing firms, hospitals, schools, armies, community agencies--are extremely complex in nature, and several strategies, employing a variety of disciplines, are needed to gain a proper understanding of them. Organiations in Action is a classic multidisciplinary study of the behavior of complex organiations as entities. Previous books on the subject focused on the behavior of people in organiational contexts, but this volume considers individual behavior only to the extent that it helps explain the nature of organiations. James D. Thompson offers 95 distinct propositions about the behavior of organiations, all relevant regardless of the culture in which they are found. Thompson classifies organiations according to their technologies and environments. That organiations must meet and handle uncertainty is central to his thesis. Organiations in Action is firmly grounded in concepts and theories in the social and behavioral sciences. While it does not offer an actual theory of administration, the book successfully extends the scientific base upon which any emerging administrative theory must rest. This classic work is of continuing value to organiational and management specialists, behavioral scientists, sociologists, administrators, and policymakers.

By: Gio Wiederhold.

By: Arlene G. Taylor.

The extensively revised and completely updated second edition of this popular textbook provides LIS practitioners and students with a vital guide to the organization of information. After a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor proceeds to a detailed and insightful discussion of such basic retrieval tools as bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, registers, databases, major bibliographic utilities, and other organizing entities. After tracing the development of the organization of recorded information in Western civilization from 2000 B.C.E. to the present, the author addresses topics that include encoding standards (MARC, SGML, and various DTDs), metadata (description, access, and access control), verbal subject analysis including controlled vocabularies and ontologies, classification theory and methodology, arrangement and display, and system design.

By: W. Warner Burke.

By: Lee Roy Beach, Terry Connolly.

By: Karl E. Weick.

By: B. J. Hodge, William P. Anthony, Lawrence M. Gales.

Clearly written and well-organized, this book takes a strategic systems approach that focuses on how managers structure and operate organizations so that they are efficient and effective. With an emphasis on the decision-making processes of managers, the topics covered in this book include a brief history of organization theory; the structure and design of organizations; organizational goals and effectiveness; the global environment of organizations; managing the environment; organizational technology; organizational size, growth, and life cycles; governance and control; culture; decision making; power and politics; innovation, strategic change, and learning; and includes integrative case studies. For organizational managers and executives.