Organizations in Contemporary Society

This excellent book on organizations by Professor Rhoda Lois Blumberg is original in conception and comprehensive in scope. Eleven lively and well-written chapters consider the critical elements in organizational behavior and other topics not usually included in most texts-such as the organization’s publics, organizational roles and the self, the underworld as part of organizational society, and the impact of nonbureaucratic collectivities such as communities, families and ethnic groups on bureaucracies. A his-