TY - GEN AU - Mary Jo Hatch TI - Organizations: A Very Short Introduction SN - 9780199584536 U1 - 302.35 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press N1 - Introduction 1: What is organization? 2: What is the best way to organize? 3: What does it mean to be an organization? 4: Who does organizing serve? 5: How does organizing happen? 6: Why do organizational scholars disagree? 7: Where do we go from here? N2 - Written by one of the leading scholars in the area of organization theory Demonstrates the origins of organization with examples of prehistoric humans organizing to hunt food, find shelter, and to protect and raise children, thereby forming the first organizations through families and tribes Uses examples from a variety of different contexts, from prehistory and everyday life to the animal kingdom and nature as well as in business and government ER -