The bureaucratic experience: the post-modern challenge

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In response to the theories that promise to lead us beyond bureaucracy into an era where products, services, and controls will be perfectly tailored to human needs, this work maintains that it is business as usual. Each chapter contains critiques of the postmodern theory of modern organizations.

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Full title :The bureaucratic experience : the post-modern challenge

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Publication Date:2008
Edition:5. ed

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Publisher(s):M.E. Sharpe
Place of Publication:Armonk, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008

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Description:261 s

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ISBN:9780765610102, 0765610108
oclc:ocn465107876
LC Classification:HD38.4
Dewey Decimal:302.35

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Understanding Bureaucracy; Bureaucratic Experiences; Bureaucratic Patterns; Modern Self-Critique; Post-Modern Critique; A Brief Survey of Post-Modernism; A Case in Point: Post-Modernism Meets Sewage; The Danger; The Politics of Good and Evil; 2. Bureaucracy as Society: Loss of the Social; How People Act; What the Experts Say; Bureaucracy as Society; 3. Bureaucracy as Culture: 'Economics'; What Is Culture?; What People Value; What the Experts Say; Post-Modern vs. Modern Critique; The Economic Culture of Bureaucracy; 4. The Psychology of Bureaucracy: Organization as Psyche; Structuring the Psyche; Post-Modern Analysis; A Dis-Ease of the Soul; How People "Feel": Patrolman Williams; What the Experts Say; The Psychology of Bureaucracy; 5. The Language of Bureaucracy: Virtual Words; Speaking the Unspeakable; How People Speak; What the Experts Say; Bureaucratic Language; 6. The Thought of Bureaucracy: Failure of Imagination; Thinking; How Bureaucrats Think; What the Experts Say; Bureaucratic Thinking; Aesthetics: The Rise of Know-How; 7. Bureaucracy as Polity: Politics as Administration; Unlearning Politics; How People Politick; Bureaucrats as Tran…