People are social creatures, they seek to connect with groups that share their values. There are many types of organizations that form for various reasons. Some organizations are formed to conduct ...

Impersonal controls in formal organizations, such as assembly-line production or evaluation on the basis of performance records, tend to affect the structure of work groups and reverse the flow of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper aims to communicate some of the value commitments that characterize my approach to formal model building in theoretical sociology.

We tend to think that relationships between management and employees in an organization are based on formal contracts and the underlying laws and regulations thereof. However, it is wrong to see ...

All business owners must apply structure to their operations, but it is not always easy to see what type of structure is best for a particular business model. Too little structure creates chaos for ...