Description
Book SynopsisOrganizational Pathology draws an extended metaphor that the life cycle of an organization is akin to the biological life cycle. Like all living things, organizations will encounter problems that lead to decline and eventual failure. This work discusses the basic problems and life threatening diseases responsible for organizations' failure and death, including organizational politics, organizational corruption, and organizational crime. The book also contains a critical look at crises and fixations; failure and survival; and processes of disbandment and closure of dying organizations.
The consideration of these issues follows a diagnostic model of failure. Yitzhak Samuel argues that if the problems that lead to failure can be predicted or diagnosed early, their severity can be assessed and possible remedies can be implemented to avoid escalating crises. At the very least, an understanding of why and how decline happens can be gained from this analysis. This book offer
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. A Theoretical Framework
2. Organizational Fatality
3. Failure Prediction Models
4. Maladies and Disorders
5. The Spiral of Decline
6. The Perils of Politics
7. Greed and Corruption
8. Corporate Crime
9. Crises and Fixations
10. Failing and Surviving
11. Disbandment and Closure
12. Lessons Learned
References
Index
