The Social Organization

The Social Organization
Author: Anthony J. Bradley,Mark P. McDonald
Publsiher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781422142370

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As a leader, it's your job to extract maximum talent, energy, knowledge, and innovation from your customers and employees. But how? In The Social Organization, two of Gartner's lead analysts strongly advocate exploiting social technology. The authors share insights from their study of successes and failures at more than four hundred organizations that have used social technologies to foster—and capitalize on—customers’ and employees’ collective efforts. But the new social technology landscape isn’t about the technology. It’s about building communities, fostering new ways of collaborating, and guiding these efforts to achieve a purpose. To that end, the authors identify the core disciplines managers must master to translate community collaboration into otherwise impossible results: • Vision: defining a compelling vision of progress toward a highly collaborative organization. • Strategy: taking community collaboration from risky and random success to measurable business value. • Purpose: rallying people around a clear purpose, not just providing technology. • Launch: creating a collaborative environment and gaining adoption. • Guide: participating in and influencing communities without stifling collaboration. • Adapt: responding creatively to change in order to better support community collaboration. The Social Organization highlights the benefits and challenges of using social technology to tap the power of people, revealing what managers must do to make collaboration a source of enduring competitive advantage.

Social Organization

Social Organization
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
Publsiher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1929
Genre: Social psychology
ISBN: 9781412834384

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Social Organizations

Social Organizations
Author: Göran Ahrne
Publsiher: SAGE
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1994-07-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781446236666

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In this lively and wide-ranging essay, Göran Ahrne sketches an organizational theory of society. Combining the insights of organization theory with the traditional concerns of social theory, he makes an innovative and creative contribution to both fields. Using a broad definition of organizations, the author shows that what goes on inside, outside and among organizations is central to understanding social relations. Organizations provide people with resources and motives, and they set the frames for human action. Although organizations do not form societies or systems, society is shaped and changed through interaction between organizations. Drawing on various schools of organization theory, including institutional, ecological and contingency theories, the book shows how their synthesis with social theory clarifies the nature and effects of organizational interactions.

On Self and Social Organization

On Self and Social Organization
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1998-10-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0226115089

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This te×t presents a collection of Charles Horton Cooley's work, a contribution to the history of ideas - especially to the origin of modern sociological theory - but also to the late-1990s public debate on civil society, community, and democracy.

The Social Organization of Sexuality

The Social Organization of Sexuality
Author: Edward O. Laumann,John H. Gagnon,Robert T. Michael,Stuart Michaels
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 764
Release: 2000-12-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0226470202

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Reports the complete results of the United States' most comprehensive representative survey of sexual practices in the general adult population.

The Social Organization of Work

The Social Organization of Work
Author: Randy Hodson,Teresa A. Sullivan
Publsiher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2012
Genre: Industrial sociology
ISBN: 1111634793

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THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF WORK, International Edition, takes an analytical approach to the study of work that not only identifies and discusses substantive issues but also allows students the opportunity to better develop their analysis, reasoning, and argumentative skills. The authors achieve this by combining their key areas of expertise--industrial sociology, occupations, and professions--to present a unified view of the sociology of work. Chapter topics are organized around the framework of five key themes: technology, global perspectives, class relations, gender, and race. The world of work, how it is changing, and the implications of these changes for individuals and families are thoroughly explored in this contemporary and relevant text.

The Social Organization of Sports Medicine

The Social Organization of Sports Medicine
Author: Dominic Malcolm,Parissa Safai
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781136286773

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The Social Organization of Sports Medicine is the first book-length overview of the social scientific study of sports medicine, drawing together work from an international cadre of scholars who examine and provide interdisciplinary analysis of the dynamic and multi-faceted relationships between sports and medicine and within sports medicine. The book charts changing perceptions of sport within medical discourse, attempts by sports medicine providers to forge professional identities in response to these processes, the day-to-day experiences of deliverers of sports medicine and the reactions of recipients of that healthcare. The contents are organized in four sections, examining the competing and changing ways in which sports medicine is conceived, the ways in which it is organized, the ways in which it is practiced, and points of contestation between traditional and alternative and emerging forms of (sports) medicine. This collection of essays consolidates recent advances in this area of study and establishes a basis for the future development of the field.

The Social Organization of Mental Illness

The Social Organization of Mental Illness
Author: Lindsay Prior
Publsiher: SAGE Publications Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993-09-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803984995

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This thought-provoking book examines the organization of medical and social services for people with serious psychiatric disorders. It focuses on the current transition from hospital-centred to community-centred services. The first part of the book concentrates on the changes which have occurred in the theory and practice of key groups of professionals, including psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and psychologists. The second part describes how those changes have directly impinged on the everyday lives of people affected by psychiatric disorders. Prior demonstrates how sociological insights can be gained from an examination of the multiple ways in which disorders have been represented in and thr