1st Edition

Anthropology of Organizations

Edited By Susan Wright Copyright 1994
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

The 1980s and 1990s have been a time of change for organizations, with a preoccupation for changing `organizational culture', a concept attributed to anthropology. These changes have been accompanied by questions about different styles of organizing. In both public and private sector organizations and in the first and third worlds, there is now a concern to understand how organizational change can... Read more
1 Culture in anthropology and organizational studies Part I Indigenous management Introduction 2 Indigenous management and the management of indigenous knowledge 3 ‘Owning’ without owners, managing with few managers: lessons from Third World irrigators 4 Institution building: examining the fit between bureaucracies and indigenous systems Part II Gender and organizational change Introduction 5 Play of power: women, men and equality initiatives in a trade union 6 Office affairs 7 The gendered terrains of paternalism 8 Culture, gender and organizational change in British welfare benefits services Part III Clients and empowerment Introduction 9 Community care as de-institutionalization? Continuity and change in the transition from hospital to community-based care 10 Disempowerment and marginalization of clients in divorce court cases 11 Idioms of bureaucracy and informality in a local Housing Aid Office

Biography

Susan Wright is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex.